KATB's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:59:04 -0700 60 KATB's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution]]> 197122500
Spanning fourteen years and five continents, prostitutes, hitmen, intelligence agents, ladyboys, thieves, junkies and shaman are just a few of the people encountered in places as far and wide as the Rif Mountains, the Amazon Rainforest, South East Asian jungles and the Australian Outback. From Bangkok to Beirut, Medellin to Johannesburg and a hundred other cities in between; from Jamaican strip clubs to South African military bases and gangster villas in Thailand to bus crashes in Panama, this is a story like no other.

It is strong, bold and brutally honest. Will suit those interested in the subjects of gang stalking, targeted individuals, mind control, international travel, backpacking, freelance journalism, sex, drugs and rock n roll, and anyone else who likes to be transported into another world by the pages of a good book.]]> 427 Edward Williams KATB 0 to-read 4.33 Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
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]]> Meditations 30659 Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. While the Meditations were composed to provide personal consolation and encouragement, Marcus Aurelius also created one of the greatest of all works of philosophy: a timeless collection that has been consulted and admired by statesmen, thinkers and readers throughout the centuries.]]> 254 Marcus Aurelius 0140449337 KATB 0 4.29 180 Meditations
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]]> Ego Is the Enemy 27036528
Many of us insist the main impediment to a full, successful life is the outside world. In fact, the most common enemy lies within: our ego. Early in our careers, it impedes learning and the cultivation of talent. With success, it can blind us to our faults and sow future problems. In failure, it magnifies each blow and makes recovery more difficult. At every stage, ego holds us back.

The Ego is the Enemy draws on a vast array of stories and examples, from literature to philosophy to history. We meet fascinating figures like Howard Hughes, Katharine Graham, Bill Belichick, and Eleanor Roosevelt, all of whom reached the highest levels of power and success by conquering their own egos. Their strategies and tactics can be ours as well.

But why should we bother fighting ego in an era that glorifies social media, reality TV, and other forms of shameless self-promotion?  Armed with the lessons in this book, as Holiday writes, “you will be less invested in the story you tell about your own specialness, and as a result, you will be liberated to accomplish the world-changing work you’ve set out to achieve.”]]> 226 Ryan Holiday 1591847818 KATB 0 to-read, perhaps 4.12 2016 Ego Is the Enemy
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]]> <![CDATA[A Handbook for New Stoics: How to Thrive in a World out of Your Control (52 Week-by-Week Lessons)]]> 49699993 A pragmatic philosophy more popular than ever—here are 52 ancient lessons to help you overcome adversity and find tranquility in the modern world

An ancient belief system made new, Stoicism teaches us how to accept the things we cannot change and how to live a good life. It helps us improve our outlook, increase our wellbeing, and thrive in the face of adversity. But how does one live like a Stoic? 

In A Handbook for New Stoics, renowned philosopher Massimo Pigliucci and practitioner Gregory Lopez guide readers through 52 weekly lessons, each based on a common obstacle. Stressing out about a meeting at work? Try listing the things you can control and those you can’t. Epictetus writes: “In our power are thought, impulse, will to get, and will to avoid”—in other words, our own attitudes. Discover what you can control, and quickly achieve peace of mind.

Featuring quotes from philosophers, analysis by the authors, and journaling activities, these lessons enable readers to reframe their perceptions and be happier.]]> Massimo Pigliucci KATB 0 to-read 4.00 2019 A Handbook for New Stoics: How to Thrive in a World out of Your Control (52 Week-by-Week Lessons)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Works of Mark Twain: The Novels, Short Stories, Essays and Satires, Travel Writing, Non-Fiction, the Complete Letters, the Complete Speeches, and the Autobiography of Mark Twain]]> 21461029
This is The Complete Works of America’s favourite storyteller Mark Twain. The eBook contains over 60 novels and shorter texts (short stories, essays, letters, speeches).

Twain began his career writing light, humorous verse, but evolved into a chronicler of the vanities, hypocrisies and murderous acts of mankind. At mid-career, with Huckleberry Finn, he combined rich humor, sturdy narrative and social criticism. Twain was a master at rendering colloquial speech and helped to create and popularize a distinctive American literature built on American themes and language.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 � 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."]]> 9971 Mark Twain 8026807448 KATB 0 to-read 4.44 1910 The Complete Works of Mark Twain: The Novels, Short Stories, Essays and Satires, Travel Writing, Non-Fiction, the Complete Letters, the Complete Speeches, and the Autobiography of Mark Twain
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]]> What is Man? 1597036 116 Mark Twain 1585093009 KATB 0 to-read 4.10 1906 What is Man?
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]]> <![CDATA[The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla]]> 1728707 47 Nikola Tesla KATB 0 to-read 4.12 1935 The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla
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]]> Behold a Pale Horse 95379
Bill is a lucid, rational, and powerful speaker whose intent is to inform and to empower his audience. Standing room only is normal. His presentation and information transcend partisan affiliations as he clearly addresses issues in a way that has a striking impact on listeners of all backgrounds and interests. He has spoken to many groups throughout the United States and has appeared regularly on many radio talk shows and on television.

In 1988 Bill decided to "talk" due to events then taking place worldwide, events that he had seen plans for back in the early 1970s. Bill correctly predicted the lowering of the Iron Curtain, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the invasion of Panama. All Bill's predictions were on record well before the events occurred. Bill is not a psychic. His information comes from top secret documents that he read while with the Intelligence Briefing Team and from over seventeen years of research.]]> 534 Milton William Cooper 0929385225 KATB 0 to-read 3.84 1991 Behold a Pale Horse
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]]> Musical Truth 2 38843855 418 Mark Devlin KATB 0 to-read 4.49 Musical Truth 2
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]]> Musical Truth 3 60262447
This volume focuses on the way the entertainment industry’s owned assets were used to help push the official narrative of the “Covid 19� Scamdemic, (which has been rightly described as “The Greatest Scam Ever Perpetuated Upon Mankind.�) So many beloved musicians showed their true colours in helping to push the lies and bad science which paved the way for the tyranny and human enslavement that was always planned to be applied in its wake.

This dynamic revealed beyond all doubt how the forces that have controlled the music industry for decades are intrinsically linked to those which devised the Scamdemic. There have been only a few honourable exceptions, and these names get a respectful roll call.

These chapters are punctuated by a new feature - Sound Bites - an array of short stories concerning well-known music-makers which further reinforce the assertions made in previous volumes.

The book ends on an inspirational note, revealing some spiritual and metaphysical truths that have been hidden from humanity for so long, but which, it turns out, a handful of visionary songwriters seem to have cryptically encoded into their songs.]]> 489 Mark Devlin 1913438554 KATB 0 to-read 4.50 Musical Truth 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History]]> 32191792

Yet the Tudor century was also dominated by powerful and dynamic women in a way that no era had been before. Historian Elizabeth Norton explores the life cycle of the Tudor woman, from childhood to old age, through the diverging examples of women such as Elizabeth Tudor, Henry VIII’s sister; Cecily Burbage, Elizabeth's wet nurse; Mary Howard, widowed but influential at court; Elizabeth Boleyn, mother of a controversial queen; and Elizabeth Barton, a peasant girl who would be lauded as a prophetess. Their stories are interwoven with studies of topics ranging from Tudor toys to contraception to witchcraft, painting a portrait of the lives of queens and serving maids, nuns and harlots, widows and chaperones. Norton brings this vibrant period to colorful life in an evocative and insightful social history.]]> 406 Elizabeth Norton 1681774402 KATB 0 to-read 3.86 2016 The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
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]]> <![CDATA[BOB DYLAN On A Couch & Fifty Cents A Day]]> 58170357 “It’s Eve and Mac McKenzie. And they took me in an� they were beautiful� I lived with them…and they fed me…and I stayed out all hours an� came back in and went to sleep on the couch. An� Peter was there. I was his idol…now he’s 18, 19. He’s in college. He’s a very smart kid…they know me well. Talk to them.�-BOB DYLAN 1965 In mid-May 1961, when Peter McKenzie was a 15-year-old high school sophomore, a disheveled 19-year-old showed up at his family’s apartment in New York City. He was supposed to spend just one night. By the time he left in mid-September, Bob Dylan had become an earnest adult. One the discussions about world history, politics and religion he had with Peter’s parents, Eve and Mac McKenzie.“I want to be as big as Harry Belafonte,� Bob told Eve McKenzie one morning in June 1961, while seated at the family kitchen table. He had just begun eating breakfast. Eve made it for him each morning, or early afternoon, depending how late he was out the night before. That was his dream then. We all know how that turned out.“Bob On A Couch & Fifty Cents a Day� is Peter McKenzie’s retelling of the year when Dylan, hungry for knowledge and experience, was fed at every level by the McKenzie family. It’s an all access pass to an eyewitness account of a magical time and a must read for anyone interested in Bob Dylan.EDITORIAL REVIEWS AND “At a time when Dylan biographers are, almost literally, fighting over newspaper column inches advertising the latest 80th birthday edition of their respective tomes, it’s refreshing to find a new account from someone who was actually there in the early �60s and actually knew Bob Dylan. In Peter McKenzie‘s book we get a sense of the time Bob Dylan developed from being a song catcher to becoming a songwriter, with Peter and his family right there�.This is essential reading for any Dylan fan.�-Isis Magazine“�BOB DYLAN On A Couch & Fifty Cents A Day,� is as important as �CHRONICLES Vol. 1,� and full of wonders.�- Sean Wilentz, author of the best-selling book ‘Bob Dylan In America,� and esteemed historian.�1961 marked the most vulnerable and impressionable year of my adolescence. It’s also the year I encountered Bob Dylan. I’ve cherished a dozen of his later albums, and I am in awe of his genius as a writer and performer, but it’s the first cut is the deepest. Peter’s book is, for me, the best kind of time travel, to a year when I was young and full of dreams and encountering a hero just a few years ahead of me.]]> 280 Peter K. McKenzie KATB 5 The author uses his unique, highly engaging and valid writing style to share memories of the time Dylan spent living with him and his family.
When an unknown Dylan arrived in New York he was 19, broke, and needed a place to stay. Bob met the McKenzies in February of �61, and ended up living with them. The author was 15 at the time, and obviously admired Bob tremendously, yearning to have him as an older brother. One gets a sense of how they learned to navigate life until Bob had to leave.
The stories and the intimate writing style kept my attention throughout, as one tale unfolded smoothly into another.
What I liked above all was the feeling I got of being there, of a young Bob Dylan: hungry, ambitious, and in need of a couch to sleep on and 50 cents a day to get by. It’s almost like coming of age story. I highly recommend this book to anyone and all - those interested in Bob Dylan, those who haven’t heard of him, and it’s suitable for all age groups.
There is nothing I don’t like about this book.]]> 4.32 BOB DYLAN On A Couch & Fifty Cents A Day
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This is a beautifully written book about a vital time in the early life of my favorite poet-musician Bob Dylan. I learned a lot, and for the first time, a feeling of what he was like as a teenager. After reading MANY other books on Dylan, I thought “here we go again with another dry recounting of the minutiae of Bob Dylan’s life� but thankfully not so!
The author uses his unique, highly engaging and valid writing style to share memories of the time Dylan spent living with him and his family.
When an unknown Dylan arrived in New York he was 19, broke, and needed a place to stay. Bob met the McKenzies in February of �61, and ended up living with them. The author was 15 at the time, and obviously admired Bob tremendously, yearning to have him as an older brother. One gets a sense of how they learned to navigate life until Bob had to leave.
The stories and the intimate writing style kept my attention throughout, as one tale unfolded smoothly into another.
What I liked above all was the feeling I got of being there, of a young Bob Dylan: hungry, ambitious, and in need of a couch to sleep on and 50 cents a day to get by. It’s almost like coming of age story. I highly recommend this book to anyone and all - those interested in Bob Dylan, those who haven’t heard of him, and it’s suitable for all age groups.
There is nothing I don’t like about this book.
]]> <![CDATA[The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels]]> 16059371 Global sea levels stabilized about six thousand years ago except for local adjustments that caused often quite significant changes to places like the Nile Delta. So the curve of inexorably rising seas flattened out as urban civilizations developed in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and South Asia. The earth's population boomed, quintupling from the time of Christ to the Industrial Revolution. The threat from the oceans increased with our crowding along shores to live, fish, and trade.
Since 1860, the world has warmed significantly and the ocean's climb has speeded. The sea level changes are cumulative and gradual; no one knows when they will end. The Attacking Ocean , from celebrated author Brian Fagan, tells a tale of the rising complexity of the relationship between humans and the sea at their doorsteps, a complexity created not by the oceans, which have changed but little. What has changed is us, and the number of us on earth.]]> 288 Brian M. Fagan 1608196925 KATB 0 to-read 3.62 2013 The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels
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]]> <![CDATA[cocaine pipeline financed rebels]]> 33509853 Gary Webb KATB 0 to-read 3.00 1996 cocaine pipeline financed rebels
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]]> <![CDATA[Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion]]> 40718249 Major Motion Picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, "Kill the Messenger," to be be released in Fall 2014

In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled “Dark Alliance,� revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. 

Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Drawing from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities. 

Webb’s own stranger-than-fiction experience is also woven into the book. His excoriation by the media—not because of any wrongdoing on his part, but by an insidious process of innuendo and suggestion that in effect blamed Webb for the implications of the story—had been all but predicted. Webb was warned off doing a CIA expose by a former Associated Press journalist who lost his job when, years before, he had stumbled onto the germ of the “Dark Alliance� story. And though Internal investigations by both the CIA and the Justice Department eventually vindicated Webb, he had by then been pushed out of the Mercury News and gone to work for the California State Legislature Task Force on Government Oversight. He died in 2004.]]> 601 Gary Webb 1609802020 KATB 0 to-read 4.32 1998 Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
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]]> <![CDATA[You are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes, and Cultural Myths]]> 51070938 You Are Being Lied To is a massive collection of articles that ruthlessly destroy the distortions, myths, and outright lies that are fed to us by the government, the media, corporations, history books, organized religion, science and medicine, and society in general. No one is spared, and all sacred cows are candidates for the grinder.

Do you believe any of the following?
� Alcoholics Anonymous is effective.
� Hackers pose a grave threat to the nation.
� There's a hidden code in the Bible.
� The Big Bang is an airtight fact.
� Thousands of species have gone extinct because of deforestation.
� Licking certain toads will get you high.
� Most terrorists are Middle Eastern.

Wake up! You're being lied to.

This book acts as a battering ram against the distortions, myths, and outright lies that have been shoved down our throats by the government, the media, corporations, organized religion, the scientific establishment, and others who want to keep the truth from us. An unprecedented group of researchers--investigative reporters, political dissidents, academics, media watchdogs, scientist-philosophers, social critics, and rogue scholars--paints a picture of a world where crucial stories are ignored or actively suppressed and the official version of events has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. A world where real dangers are downplayed and nonexistent dangers are trumpeted. In short, a world where you are being lied to.

Among the revelations inside:

� Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sydney Schanberg on John McCain's efforts to conceal information on POW/MIAs
� Howard Bloom on liars in the media
� Riane Eisler on the realities of human nature
� James Ridgeway on tainted blood and more
� Jim Marrs on missing evidence in important cases
� Greenpeace cofounder Peter Moore on environmental myths
� Michael Parenti on atrocities in Kosovo
� Douglas Rushkoff on the information arms race
� Gary Webb on the gutless corporate media
� Howard Zinn on Columbus]]> 402 Russ Kick KATB 0 to-read 3.85 2001 You are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes, and Cultural Myths
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]]> <![CDATA[The Killing Game: Selected Writings by the author of Dark Alliance]]> 10438278 He was best known for his story Dark Alliance, written for the San Jose Mercury News in 1996. In it Webb linked the CIA to the crack-cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles during the Iran Contra scandal. His only published book, Dark Alliance is still a classic of contemporary journalism. But his life consisted of much more than this one story, and The Killing Game is a collection of his best investigative stories from his beginning at the Kentucky Post to his end at the Sacramento News & Review. It includes Webb's series at the Kentucky Post on organized crime in the coal industry, at the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Ohio State’s negligent medical board, and on the US military’s funding of first-person shooter video games. The Killing Game is a dedication to his life’s work outside of Dark Alliance, and it’s an exhibition of investigative journalism in its truest form.]]> 384 Gary Webb 1583229329 KATB 0 to-read 4.22 2001 The Killing Game: Selected Writings by the author of Dark Alliance
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]]> <![CDATA[The Killing Game: Selected Writings by the Author of Dark Alliance]]> 58294053
He was best known for his story "Dark Alliance," written for the San Jose Mercury News in 1996. In it Webb linked the CIA to the crack-cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles during the Iran Contra scandal. His only published book, Dark Alliance is still a classic of contemporary journalism. But his life consisted of much more than this one story, and The Killing Game is a collection of his best investigative stories from his beginning at the Kentucky Post to his end at the Sacramento News & Review. It includes Webb's series at the Kentucky Post on organized crime in the coal industry, at the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Ohio State's negligent medical board, and on the US military's funding of first-person shooter video games. The Killing Game is a dedication to his life's work outside of Dark Alliance, and it's an exhibition of investigative journalism in its truest form.]]> 0 Gary Webb 1713549174 KATB 0 to-read 0.0 The Killing Game: Selected Writings by the Author of Dark Alliance
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]]> Dark Age Defense 61163125
For starters, this book acts as a compass to help stay ten steps ahead of any catastrophe no matter how bad it appears. Inside, you will discover;

� What to do in the first 30 minutes after the power goes out
� How to use the legal felony system to jumpstart a dead car
� How to create a seven infinity coil generator using the ‘Pencil Squared� method
� How to make an appropriate-sized “Infinity Coil� for powering your home and assuring the safety of your family.
� How the felony system boosts the infinity coil’s efficiency by 261%
� How to make an infinity coil generator out of a Fisher Toy, perfect for those on a budget.
� The step-by-step directions for constructing an amazing “Force Field� around your home.
� Find out about the “Cosmo generator,� which extracts electricity from the atmosphere.]]> Paul Grabowski KATB 0 to-read 4.50 Dark Age Defense
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]]> <![CDATA[Frozen: My Journey into the World of Cryonics, Deception, and Death]]> 6978412
One secret Larry unearthed was the full, tragic, never-before-heard story of what truly happened to the body of baseball icon and American hero Ted Williams.

Compelled by this and other horrific discoveries, Larry began copying documents, taking secret pictures, and ultimately wearing a wire every day at Alcor. He started living two lives—“Alcorian� by day, whistleblower by night.

Beyond the senseless animal experiments, beyond the dumping of toxic chemicals and AIDS-contaminated blood into the public sewage system, these people saw themselves as the elite, the immortal saviors of mankind who would lead us into the future. Inside this cultlike mentality, anything seemed justified. Maybe even murder.

Then Alcor found out. The death threats began.

Fleeing from state to state, Larry was stalked and threatened again and again. They chased him through the streets. They left death threats under his windshield wipers. They terrorized his family. Larry Johnson never wanted to be a whistleblower. But he knows this story must be told.]]> 424 Larry Johnson KATB 3 3.60 2009 Frozen: My Journey into the World of Cryonics, Deception, and Death
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]]> <![CDATA[By Way of Deception: The Making of a Mossad Officer]]> 101332 372 Victor Ostrovsky 0971759502 KATB 0 to-read 3.96 1990 By Way of Deception: The Making of a Mossad Officer
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]]> <![CDATA[The Other Side of Deception: A Rogue Agent Exposes the Mossad's Secret Agenda]]> 860482 315 Victor Ostrovsky 0060176350 KATB 0 to-read 4.00 1994 The Other Side of Deception: A Rogue Agent Exposes the Mossad's Secret Agenda
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]]> Rights of Man 177523 229 Thomas Paine 0543954617 KATB 0 to-read 4.03 1791 Rights of Man
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]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the New World Order: Book Series Update and Urgent Status Report: Vol. 6 (Rise of the New World Order Status Report)]]> 60400487
This is the longest update yet as so much has happened since Update 5, so it’s a double-update with two chapters…there’s a lot going on to cover!

I would love to say that things look like they are turning around for humanity in this newest update but…you know…mandatory jabs and papers, please.

The plannedemic is not going away…ever. They didn’t go through the trouble of Event 201, initiating a ‘pandemic�, setting all of this NWO-police-state up, including ID2020 and the Great Reset we are at the beginning stages of, to just have it all go away.

When the NWO gains power they tend to want to keep it and use that power to gain even more. Welcome to the Fourth Reich…literally, because the same entities who brought Hitler to power are behind the plannedemic and the Great Reset…and the New World Order...all of it.

Did you actually think the jab-passes and the discrimination of the non-jabbed for employment was going to go away when the pandemic goes away? This ‘gain of function� virus is here to stay, an endemic now. There will be a new variant every few months to keep all of this going, or worse, a whole new virus to contend with.

The national death rate in the United States is up 40% since Summer of 2021…and is accelerating. This is causing the life insurance companies to take notice and are sounding the alarm, one of many items we will review in this report.

Humanity’s last gasp of freedom is at our doorstep. We’re on the ropes and the United States in particular is the hope of the world right now so let’s get ready to rumble.

Thanks to all for your support!

Godspeed, patriots. -Sentinel]]> 105 J. Micha-el Thomas Hays KATB 0 to-read 4.59 Rise of the New World Order: Book Series Update and Urgent Status Report: Vol. 6 (Rise of the New World Order Status Report)
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]]> <![CDATA[My Inventions: Nikola Tesla's Autobiography]]> 57972696 My Inventions is a firsthand account not only of the art and science behind the conception, execution, and reception of Tesla's most famous inventions but of his early life and first creative efforts as well.]]> 78 Nikola Tesla KATB 0 to-read 3.90 1935 My Inventions: Nikola Tesla's Autobiography
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]]> <![CDATA[Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey ... Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics]]> 10255 374 Edward T. Haslam 0977795306 KATB 0 to-read 3.91 2007 Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey ... Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics
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]]> <![CDATA[Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla]]> 20553363 352 Nikola Tesla KATB 0 to-read 4.50 2013 Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla
author: Nikola Tesla
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]]> Who Was Nikola Tesla? 39196229
When Nikola Tesla arrived in the United States in 1884, he didn't have much money, but he did have a letter of introduction to renowned inventor Thomas Edison. The working relationship between the two men was short lived, though, and the two scientist-inventors became harsh competitors. One of the most influential scientists of all time, Nikola Tesla is celebrated for his experiments in electricity, X-rays, remote controls, and wireless communications. His invention of the Tesla coil was instrumental in the development of radio technology.]]> 112 Jim Gigliotti 1524788546 KATB 0 to-read 4.14 Who Was Nikola Tesla?
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]]> <![CDATA[A Life Electric: The Story of Nikola Tesla]]> 55825665
An inventor since childhood, Tesla's patents encompassed everything from radar and remote-control technology to wireless communications. But his greatest invention was the AC induction motor, which used alternating currents (AC) to distribute electricity and which remains the standard for electric distribution today. Tesla's love of animals also remained constant throughout his life and led to his anointment as the "Pigeon Charmer of New York" for his devotion to nature's original wireless messengers.

Exploring his groundbreaking inventions against the backdrop of his private life, A Life Electric introduces Nikola Tesla to young readers unlike ever before. Azadeh Westergaard's lyrical debut brings compassion and humanity to the legacy of the brilliant inventor, while the esteemed illustrator Júlia Sardà deftly brings him to life.]]> 40 Azadeh Westergaard 0593114604 KATB 0 to-read 4.27 2021 A Life Electric: The Story of Nikola Tesla
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla: HAARP - Chemtrails and the Secret of Alternative 4]]> 496 168 Tim R. Swartz 1892062135 KATB 0 to-read 4.05 2000 The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla: HAARP - Chemtrails and the Secret of Alternative 4
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]]> <![CDATA[2012 and the Arrival of Planet X]]> 19458450 190 Tim R. Swartz KATB 0 to-read 4.00 2008 2012 and the Arrival of Planet X
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]]> Quotations by Nikola Tesla 20738013
UPDATED!

I added a contact section where you will find email address. I decide it's not fair you haven't an option to communicate with either to complain or ask or whatever you would like to do. I'm open for a conversation.

Thank you for your support!
Urszula Miller]]> 34 Nikola Tesla KATB 0 to-read 4.27 2013 Quotations by Nikola Tesla
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]]> <![CDATA[Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla]]> 810002 Inventions of Nikola Tesla 496 Nikola Tesla 1566198127 KATB 0 to-read 4.23 1970 Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla
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]]> The Nikola Tesla Treasury 1783518 Nikola Tesla 1934451908 KATB 0 to-read 4.61 2007 The Nikola Tesla Treasury
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]]> <![CDATA[Nikola Tesla: A Life From Beginning to End (Biographies of Inventors)]]> 34913925 * * *Download for FREE on Kindle Unlimited + Free BONUS Inside!* * * Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet. Nikola Tesla was a major figure in the world in which he lived. As the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, it was Tesla who would contribute to some of the world's most amazing inventions. It was Tesla's theories, patents, and experiments that would pave the way for the digital, wireless world we are so familiar with today. Tesla didn't enjoy the high honors bestowed on so many of his contemporaries, yet he enjoyed the power of knowing that it was his inventions that were powering the world, literally. Inside you will read about... � Early Life � Alternating Current and the Induction Motor � Patents, Radio and X-rays � Wardenclyffe Years � Personal Life � Later Years � 10 Things You Never Knew About Nikola Tesla And much more! This book will take you through the life of Nikola Tesla. From his humble beginnings in Croatia to all he would accomplish as a citizen of the United States, Tesla shows how his imagination fueled his creativity and brought his inventions to life. See Nikola Tesla for what he truly was; an extraordinary visionary who sparked the world.]]> 46 Hourly History KATB 0 to-read 4.19 2017 Nikola Tesla: A Life From Beginning to End (Biographies of Inventors)
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]]> Nikola Tesla 10528688 552 Nikola Tesla 1162586354 KATB 0 to-read 4.46 1997 Nikola Tesla
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]]> Creatures of Passage 39314725 With echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Yejidé’s novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington, DC, and the ghosts that haunt it.

Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying ill-fated passengers in a haunted car: a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless rides and alcohol help her manage her grief over the death of her twin brother, Osiris, who was murdered and dumped in the Anacostia River.

Unknown to Nephthys when the novel opens in 1977, her estranged great-nephew, ten-year-old Dash, is finding himself drawn to the banks of that very same river. It is there that Dash--reeling from having witnessed an act of molestation at his school, but still questioning what and who he saw--has charmed conversations with a mysterious figure he calls the "River Man," who somehow appears each time he goes there.

When Dash arrives unexpectedly at Nephthys's door one day bearing a cryptic note about his unusual conversations with the River Man, Nephthys must face both the family she abandoned and what frightens her most when she looks in the mirror.

Creatures of Passage beautifully threads together the stories of Nephthys, Dash, and others both living and dead. Morowa Yejidé's deeply captivating novel shows us an unseen Washington filled with otherworldly landscapes, flawed super-humans, and reluctant ghosts, and brings together a community intent on saving one young boy in order to reclaim themselves.]]> 304 Morowa Yejide 1617758760 KATB 4 I would love to see another work by the author that would with a more clearly defined message or storyline, because she is that good of a writer with immense potential. ]]> 3.93 2021 Creatures of Passage
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As another reviewer mentioned, there are moments of absolute beauty in the words of this book. It was difficult at times to figure out exactly what was happening, it’s a book you would read no order to experience a certain mood, or to appreciate that the author is a brilliant wordsmith. It’s not for everyone due to the blurred lines between fantasy and reality, but I do highly recommend this for anyone who’s not looking for a concrete plot line to guide them.
I would love to see another work by the author that would with a more clearly defined message or storyline, because she is that good of a writer with immense potential.
]]> <![CDATA[The Tattooist of Auschwitz / Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1-2)]]> 52708975 Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:

Heather Morris Collection 2 Books Set:

Cilka's Journey:
In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator by the Russians and sent to a desolate, brutal prison camp in Siberia known as Vorkuta, inside the Arctic Circle.

The Tattooist of Auschwitz:
In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust. Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl. For Lale - a dandy, a jack-the-lad, a bit of a chancer - it was love at first sight. And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did, too.]]> 0 Heather Morris 9123905603 KATB 0 to-read 4.61 The Tattooist of Auschwitz / Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1-2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Reversing Dermatomyositis: As God Intended The Raw Vegan Plant-Based Detoxification & Regeneration Workbook for Healing Patients. Volume 1]]> 43675040 106 Health Central 1395192022 KATB 0 to-read 0.0 Reversing Dermatomyositis: As God Intended The Raw Vegan Plant-Based Detoxification & Regeneration Workbook for Healing Patients. Volume 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power]]> 41021344 American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.

Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understanding of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshal ideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail. Passionate about many things—women, his family, books, science, architecture, gardens, friends, Monticello, and Paris—Jefferson loved America most, and he strove over and over again, despite fierce opposition, to realize his vision: the creation, survival, and success of popular government in America. Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson’s world as Jefferson himself saw it, and to appreciate how Jefferson found the means to endure and win in the face of rife partisan division, economic uncertainty, and external threat. Drawing on archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished Jefferson presidential papers, Meacham presents Jefferson as the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history.

The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of the West, Jefferson recognized that the genius of humanity—and the genius of the new nation—lay in the possibility of progress, of discovering the undiscovered and seeking the unknown. From the writing of the Declaration of Independence to elegant dinners in Paris and in the President’s House; from political maneuverings in the boardinghouses and legislative halls of Philadelphia and New York to the infant capital on the Potomac; from his complicated life at Monticello, his breathtaking house and plantation in Virginia, to the creation of the University of Virginia, Jefferson was central to the age. Here too is the personal Jefferson, a man of appetite, sensuality, and passion.

The Jefferson story resonates today not least because he led his nation through ferocious partisanship and cultural warfare amid economic change and external threats, and also because he embodies an eternal drama, the struggle of the leadership of a nation to achieve greatness in a difficult and confounding world.

]]> 802 Jon Meacham KATB 0 to-read 4.13 2012 Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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]]> <![CDATA[The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed]]> 226449
Between 1954 and 1963, close to 98 million Americans received polio vaccinations contaminated with a carcinogenic monkey virus, now known as SV40. A concerted government effort downplayed the incident, and it was generally accepted that although oncogenic to laboratory animals, SV40 was harmless to humans.

But now SV40 in showing up in human cancers, and prominent researchers are demanding a serious public health response to this forgotten polio vaccine contaminant. A gripping medical detective story, The Virus and the Vaccine raises major questions about vaccine policy.]]> 400 Debbie Bookchin 0312278721 KATB 0 to-read 4.22 2004 The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed
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]]> <![CDATA[Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened]]> 17571564
Pictures
Words
Stories about things that happened to me
Stories about things that happened to other people because of me
Eight billion dollars*
Stories about dogs
The secret to eternal happiness*

*These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!]]> 371 Allie Brosh 1451666179 KATB 0 to-read 4.16 2013 Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
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]]> Solutions and Other Problems 51323365
Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh’s childhood; the adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of her own character flaws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and powerlessness; as well as reflections on the absurdity of modern life.

This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features all-new material with more than 1,600 pieces of art.]]> 519 Allie Brosh 1982156945 KATB 0 to-read 4.21 2020 Solutions and Other Problems
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]]> <![CDATA[This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor]]> 35510008 Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know � and more than a few things you didn't � about life on and off the hospital ward.

As seen on ITV's Zoe Ball Book Club

This edition includes extra diary entries and a new afterword by the author.

]]> 285 Adam Kay KATB 0 to-read 4.40 2017 This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt]]> 40929
Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic," The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time. The publication of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt on September 14th, 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt becoming president.]]> 816 Edmund Morris 0375756787 KATB 0 to-read 4.22 1979 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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]]> The Canterbury Tales 2696 The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was the standard literary language across western Europe, the magnitude of his achievement is even more remarkable. But Chaucer's genius needs no historical introduction; it bursts forth from every page of The Canterbury Tales.

If we trust the General Prologue, Chaucer intended that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two tales on the way back. He never finished his enormous project and even the completed tales were not finally revised. Scholars are uncertain about the order of the tales. As the printing press had yet to be invented when Chaucer wrote his works, The Canterbury Tales has been passed down in several handwritten manuscripts.

]]> 504 Geoffrey Chaucer 0140424385 KATB 0 to-read 3.51 1400 The Canterbury Tales
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]]> The Jew of Malta 27803 Both tragedy and farce, this masterpiece of Elizabethan theater reflects the social and political complexities of its age. Christopher Marlowe's dramatic hybrid resonates with racial tension, religious conflict, and political intrigue � all of which abounded in 16th-century England. The playwright, who infused each one of his plays with cynical humor and a dark world view, draws upon stereotypes of Muslim and Christian as well as Jewish characters to cast an ironic perspective on all religious beliefs.
The immediate success of The Jew of Malta on the Elizabethan stage is presumed to have influenced Marlowe's colleague, William Shakespeare, to draw upon the same source material for The Merchant of Venice . The character of Barabas is the prototype for the well-known Shylock, and this drama of his villainy remains a satirical gem in its own right.]]> 80 Christopher Marlowe 0486431843 KATB 0 to-read 3.59 1589 The Jew of Malta
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]]> Cleopatra: A Life 7968243 The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.

Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator.

Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well; incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men. They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and–after his murder–three more with his protégé. Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean; the relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most influential woman of the age. The two would together attempt to forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled their ends. Cleopatra has lodged herself in our imaginations ever since.

Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way, Cleopatra’s supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff ‘s is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.]]> 369 Stacy Schiff 0316001929 KATB 0 to-read 3.73 2010 Cleopatra: A Life
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]]> <![CDATA[The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts]]> 23878688 Over 20 million copies sold!

A perennial New York Times bestseller for over a decade!

Falling in love is easy. Staying in love—that’s the challenge. How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands, conflicts, and just plain boredom of everyday life?

In the #1 New York Times international bestseller The 5 Love Languages®, you’ll discover the secret that has transformed millions of relationships worldwide. Whether your relationship is flourishing or failing, Dr. Gary Chapman’s proven approach to showing and receiving love will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your partner—starting today.

The 5 Love Languages® is as practical as it is insightful. Updated to reflect the complexities of relationships today, this new edition reveals intrinsic truths and applies relevant, actionable wisdom in ways that work.

Includes the Love Language assessment so you can discover your love language and that of your loved one.]]> 232 Gary Chapman 0802492401 KATB 0 to-read 4.32 1990 The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
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]]> A Warning 48557815 An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.]]> 259 Anonymous KATB 0 to-read 3.92 2019 A Warning
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]]> <![CDATA[Highly Confident: The Crime and Punishment of Michael Milken]]> 160281 384 Jesse Kornbluth 0688109373 KATB 0 to-read 3.66 1992 Highly Confident: The Crime and Punishment of Michael Milken
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]]> & Until The Dreams Come 26792038
This book tries to explain how hero and villain can easily be one person; it tries to illustrate how a fragile thing becomes weapon when it breaks. It spins stories of how the ghosts and monsters that we're most afraid of are the ones that live inside of us and it is not afraid to tell you explicitly of its daydreams at high noon and its nightmares on moonless midnights.

"There is no gentle here", but oh how it longs to be tender, and oh how it yearns to be soft. It is a book that means nothing, until it means something, and suddenly it's everything; a book that has wandered far and wide for miles and years.

This is a book that has loved and has survived to tell the tale.]]> 106 Danabelle Gutierrez 1516821769 KATB 0 to-read 3.87 2015 & Until The Dreams Come
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]]> Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) 238958 The Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's é (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov--the émigré author of Lolita; Pale Fire; and Speak, Memory--wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, é, and third for no one at all.

"Without my wife," he once noted, "I wouldn't have written a single novel." Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the century, the story of the Nabokovs' fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. é, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine--a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's é is a triumph of the biographical form.]]> 480 Stacy Schiff 0330346733 KATB 0 to-read 3.88 1999 Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
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]]> City of Thieves 1971304
By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, City of Thieves is a gripping, cinematic World War II adventure and an intimate coming-of-age story with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men.]]> 258 David Benioff 0670018708 KATB 0 to-read 4.28 2008 City of Thieves
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]]> <![CDATA[Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl]]> 319681
Two of Riefenstahl’s films, Olympia and Triumph of the Will, are universally regarded as the greatest and most innovative documentaries ever made, but they are also insidious glorifications of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Now, in this masterful new biography, Steven Bach reveals the truths and lies behind this gifted woman’s lifelong self-vindication as an apolitical artist who claimed she knew nothing of the Holocaust and denied her complicity with the criminal regime she both used and sanctified.

The facts and her actions, many unknown until now, bear chilling witness: her passionate enthusiasm for Hitler from her first reading of Mein Kampf; her involvements with Nazi leaders Joseph Goebbels, Martin Bormann, Albert Speer, and Julius Streicher, who advanced her career, and with Hitler, who personally helped finance it. We see her after the war trying to sell footage to Hollywood under an alias. Bach gives us an exceptional work of historical investigation that untangles the past and is also an appraisal of a woman of spectacular gifts.]]> 400 Steven Bach 0375404007 KATB 0 to-read 3.79 2007 Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
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]]> <![CDATA[Marlene Dietrich: Life And Legend]]> 1394712 672 Steven Bach 0306809346 KATB 0 to-read 4.00 1993 Marlene Dietrich: Life And Legend
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]]> <![CDATA[Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.]]> 16121         Born the son of a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world's richest man by creating America's most powerful and feared monopoly, Standard Oil. Branded "the Octopus" by legions of muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in America.
        Rockefeller was likely the most controversial businessman in our nation's history. Critics charged that his empire was built on unscrupulous tactics: grand-scale collusion with the railroads, predatory pricing, industrial espionage, and wholesale bribery of political officials. The titan spent more than thirty years dodging investigations until Teddy Roosevelt and his trustbusters embarked on a marathon crusade to bring Standard Oil to bay.
        While providing abundant new evidence of Rockefeller's misdeeds, Chernow discards the stereotype of the cold-blooded monster to sketch an unforgettably human portrait of a quirky, eccentric original. A devout Baptist and temperance advocate, Rockefeller gave money more generously--his chosen philanthropies included the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Chicago, and what is today Rockefeller University--than anyone before him. Titan presents a finely nuanced portrait of a fascinating, complex man, synthesizing his public and private lives and disclosing numerous family scandals, tragedies, and misfortunes that have never before come to light.
        John D. Rockefeller's story captures a pivotal moment in American history, documenting the dramatic post-Civil War shift from small business to the rise of giant corporations that irrevocably transformed the nation. With cameos by Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, Jay Gould, William Vanderbilt, Ida Tarbell, Andrew Carnegie, Carl Jung, J. Pierpont Morgan, William James, Henry Clay Frick, Mark Twain, and Will Rogers, Titan turns Rockefeller's life into a vivid tapestry of American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is Ron Chernow's signal triumph that he narrates this monumental saga with all the sweep, drama, and insight that this giant subject deserves.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 832 Ron Chernow 1400077303 KATB 0 to-read 4.15 1998 Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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]]> <![CDATA[The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)]]> 11127 Librarian note: An alternate cover for this edition can be found here: 2005.

Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil—what more could any reader ask for in one book? The book that has it all is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written in 1949 by Clive Staples Lewis. But Lewis did not stop there. Six more books followed, and together they became known as The Chronicles of Narnia.

For the past fifty years, The Chronicles of Narnia have transcended the fantasy genre to become part of the canon of classic literature. Each of the seven books is a masterpiece, drawing the reader into a land where magic meets reality, and the result is a fictional world whose scope has fascinated generations.

This edition presents all seven books—unabridged—in one impressive volume. The books are presented here in chronlogical order, each chapter graced with an illustration by the original artist, Pauline Baynes. Deceptively simple and direct, The Chronicles of Narnia continue to captivate fans with adventures, characters, and truths that speak to readers of all ages, even fifty years after they were first published.]]> 767 C.S. Lewis 0066238501 KATB 0 to-read 4.27 1956 The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
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]]> The Republic 30289 416 Plato 0140449140 KATB 0 to-read 3.97 -400 The Republic
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]]> <![CDATA[The Autobiography of Malcolm X]]> 92057
Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here, the man who called himself "the angriest Black man in America" relates how his conversion to true Islam helped him confront his rage and recognize the brotherhood of all mankind.

An established classic of modern America, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" was hailed by the New York Times as "Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, important book." Still extraordinary, still important, this electrifying story has transformed Malcolm X's life into his legacy. The strength of his words, and the power of his ideas continue to resonate more than a generation after they first appeared.]]> 466 Malcolm X KATB 0 to-read 4.35 1965 The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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]]> <![CDATA[The Power of Meditation and Prayer]]> 846030 256 Jon Kabat-Zinn 1561704237 KATB 0 to-read 4.50 1997 The Power of Meditation and Prayer
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]]> <![CDATA[Space, Time, and Medicine: Foreword by Fritjof Capra]]> 478403 264 Larry Dossey 0394710916 KATB 0 to-read 4.13 1982 Space, Time, and Medicine: Foreword by Fritjof Capra
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]]> <![CDATA[Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Approach]]> 478408
As a physician, Dossey has often confronted events and miraculous cures in his patients that cannot be explained by conventional science. Drawing from the latest research, Dr. Dossey synthesizes the ideas of eminent scientists such as Schrödinger, Einstein, Gödel, and Margenau, with the time-honored knowledge of visionaries and mystics to present convincing evidence for a nonlocal, holistic view of mind and reality that can explain transcendental experiences. In short, he provides new proof of the existence of the soul.

Embroidered with thoughts from Lao Tzu and Jung, Meister Eckhart and Rilke, as well as from ancient texts such as the Upanishads, Recovering the Soul beautifully interweaves Western and Eastern wisdom into a rich tapestry of intellectual depth and spiritual power. Here is a penetrating exploration of the nexus of mysticism and healing, religion and physics that helps us to understand our deepest and most elemental selves—a book that triumphantly affirms our interconnectedness with the universe . . . and to each other.

Praise for Recovering the Soul

“A truly luminous book . . . exciting, challenging, and ultimately inspiring, it is bound to become a classic in the convergence of science, medicine, and religion.� —Joan Borysenko, author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

“A bold, insightful, and enlightening journey that bridges the gap between science and religion.� —Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier, author of Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer]]> 336 Larry Dossey 055334790X KATB 0 to-read 4.18 1989 Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Approach
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]]> <![CDATA[Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing]]> 1108785 271 Larry Dossey 0062516442 KATB 0 to-read 3.93 1999 Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing
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]]> <![CDATA[One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters]]> 17381613 339 Larry Dossey 1401943152 KATB 0 to-read 4.10 2013 One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters
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]]> Healing Words 354729 432 Larry Dossey 0061043834 KATB 0 to-read 4.13 1993 Healing Words
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]]> <![CDATA[The Energy of Prayer: How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice]]> 95749
Life’s fast pace leaves little room for reflection and attention to the present moment. To seek relief from stress and pain, we often turn to consuming in order to forget our suffering, but we soon find that material wealth is not enough to bring true happiness, and always leaves us searching for something more. shows how prayer and meditation can offer a beneficial way to reconnect with ourselves while satisfying the basic human need to make a connection with something larger than our everyday self. Whether used as a daily practice, during times of crisis, or to express gratitude prayer serves many functions, and does not need to be tied to a particular religious or spiritual affiliation to be effective.

Prayer has played an increasing role in the practice that Thich Nhat Hanh offers to his students. Rather than viewing it as dogmatic obligation, Buddhism views prayer as a form of energy, a way of communicating with one's higher self, one's ancestors, or one's God. Prayer is redefined not as being about asking some external force for what we need but about creating an internal environment in which it is easier to manifest positive outcomes in our lives. 

includes visualization and breathing exercises and concludes with a rich sampling of a broad range of prayers, chants and invocations from the Buddhist tradition.]]> 120 Thich Nhat Hanh 1888375558 KATB 0 to-read 3.99 The Energy of Prayer: How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice
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]]> <![CDATA[Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves]]> 40180060 New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.

Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which investigated animal intelligence, Mama’s Last Hug delivers a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals.

Mama’s Last Hug begins with the death of Mama, a chimpanzee matriarch who formed a deep bond with biologist Jan van Hooff. When Mama was dying, van Hooff took the unusual step of visiting her in her night cage for a last hug. Their goodbyes were filmed and went viral. Millions of people were deeply moved by the way Mama embraced the professor, welcoming him with a big smile while reassuring him by patting his neck, in a gesture often considered typically human but that is in fact common to all primates. This story and others like it form the core of de Waal’s argument, showing that humans are not the only species with the capacity for love, hate, fear, shame, guilt, joy, disgust, and empathy.

De Waal discusses facial expressions, the emotions behind human politics, the illusion of free will, animal sentience, and, of course, Mama’s life and death. The message is one of continuity between us and other species, such as the radical proposal that emotions are like organs: we don’t have a single organ that other animals don’t have, and the same is true for our emotions. Mama’s Last Hug opens our hearts and minds to the many ways in which humans and other animals are connected, transforming how we view the living world around us.]]> 336 Frans de Waal 0393635066 KATB 0 to-read 4.14 2019 Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
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]]> <![CDATA[The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field]]> 6046457
� Provides important evidence for the authenticity of nonmaterial contact that human beings have with each other and with the cosmos

� Demonstrates that the increasing frequency and intensity of these experiences is evidence of a widespread spiritual resurgence

� Includes contributions by Alex Grey, Stanislav Grof, Stanley Krippner, Swami Kriyananda, Edgar Mitchell, and others

Knowing or feeling that we are all connected to each other and to the cosmos by more than our eyes and ears is not a new notion but one as old as humanity. Traditional indigenous societies were fully aware of nonmaterial connections and incorporated them into their daily life. The modern world, however, continues to dismiss and even deny these intangible links--taking as real only that which is physically manifest or proved “scientifically.� Consequently our mainstream culture is spiritually impoverished, and the world we live in has become disenchanted.

In The Akashic Experience , 20 leading authorities in fields such as psychiatry, physics, philosophy, anthropology, natural healing, near death experience, and spirituality offer firsthand accounts of interactions with a cosmic memory field that can transmit information to people without having to go through the senses. Their experiences with the Akashic field are now validated and supported by evidence from cutting-edge sciences that shows that there is a cosmic memory field that contains all information--past, present, and future. The increasing frequency and intensity of these Akashic experiences are an integral part of a large-scale spiritual resurgence and evolution of human consciousness that is under way today.]]> 288 Ervin Laszlo 1594772983 KATB 0 to-read 3.95 2004 The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field
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]]> <![CDATA[The Immortal Mind: Science and the Continuity of Consciousness beyond the Brain]]> 20736615
� Examines findings on the survival of consciousness beyond life, including near-death experiences, after-death communication, and reincarnation

� Explains how this correlates precisely with cutting-edge physics theories on superstrings, information fields, and energy matrices

� Reveals how consciousness manifests in living beings to continue its evolution

Evidence now points to consciousness existing beyond the brain, such as when the brain is temporarily incapacitated, as well as to the survival of consciousness after death. Conventional science prefers to dismiss these findings because they cannot be accommodated by a materialist view of reality. Spirituality and religion embrace the continuity of consciousness and ascribe it to a nonmaterial spirit or soul that is immortal. As such, spirituality/religion and science continually find conflict in their views. But what if there truly is no conflict?

Based on a new scientific paradigm in sync with experience-based spirituality, Ervin Laszlo and Anthony Peake explore how consciousness is continually present in the cosmos and can exist without connection to a living organism. They examine the rapidly growing body of scientific evidence supporting the continuity of consciousness, including near-death experiences, after-death communication, reincarnation, and neurosensory information received in altered states. They explain how the persistence of consciousness beyond the demise of the body means that, in essence, we are not mortal--we continue to exist even when our physical existence has come to an end. This correlates precisely with cutting-edge physics, which posits that things in our plane of time and space are not intrinsically real but are manifestations of a hidden dimension where they exist in the form of superstrings, information fields, and energy matrices.

With proof that consciousness is basic to the cosmos and immortal in its deeper, nonmanifest realm, Laszlo and Peake reveal the purpose of consciousness is to manifest in living beings in order to continuously evolve.]]> 176 Ervin Laszlo 1620553031 KATB 0 to-read 3.96 2014 The Immortal Mind: Science and the Continuity of Consciousness beyond the Brain
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]]> <![CDATA[Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3]]> 18591195 400 Robert Matzen 0988502518 KATB 0 to-read 3.97 2014 Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska]]> 567746 Omaha World-Herald newspaper, a special Franklin committee of the Nebraska Legislature launched its own probe. What looked like a financial swindle, soon exploded into a hideous tale of drugs, Iran-Contra money-laundering, a nationwide child abuse ring, and ritual murder. Nineteen months later, the legislative committee's chief investigator died—suddenly, and violently, like more than a dozen other people linked to the Franklin case. Author John DeCamp knows the Franklin scandal from the inside. In 1990, his "DeCamp memo" first publicly named the alleged high-ranking abusers. Today, he is attorney for two of the abuse victims. Using documentation never before made public, DeCamp lays bare not only the crimes, but the cover-up—a textbook case of how dangerous the corruption of institutions of government, and the press, can be. In its sweep and in what it portends for the nation, the Franklin cover-up followed the ugly precedent of the Warren Commission.]]> 288 John W. DeCamp 0963215809 KATB 0 to-read 4.15 1992 The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska
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]]> <![CDATA[Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder]]> 919537 404 David McGowan 0595326404 KATB 0 to-read 3.94 2004 Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder
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]]> <![CDATA[Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy]]> 7501962
In the first major biography of Bonhoeffer in forty years, "New York Times" best-selling author Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer's life―the theologian and the spy―to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil. In a deeply moving narrative, Metaxas uses previously unavailable documents―including personal letters, detailed journal entries, and firsthand personal accounts―to reveal dimensions of Bonhoeffer's life and theology never before seen.

In "Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy"�"A Righteous Gentile vs the Third Reich," Metaxas presents the fullest accounting of Bonhoeffer's heart-wrenching 1939 decision to leave the safe haven of America for Hitler's Germany, and using extended excerpts from love letters and coded messages written to and from Bonhoeffer's Cell 92, Metaxas tells for the first time the full story of Bonhoeffer's passionate and tragic romance.

Readers will discover fresh insights and revelations about his life-changing months at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem and about his radical position on why Christians are obliged to stand up for the Jews. Metaxas also sheds new light on Bonhoeffer's reaction to Kristallnacht, his involvement in the famous Valkyrie plot and in "Operation 7," the effort to smuggle Jews into neutral Switzerland.

"Bonhoeffer" gives witness to one man's extraordinary faith and to the tortured fate of the nation he sought to deliver from the curse of Nazism. It brings the reader face to face with a man determined to do the will of God radically, courageously, and joyfully―even to the point of death. "Bonhoeffer" is the story of a life framed by a passion for truth and a commitment to justice on behalf of those who face implacable evil.]]> 608 Eric Metaxas 1595551387 KATB 0 to-read 4.20 2010 Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
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]]> <![CDATA[Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction]]> 39999461 From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, an authoritative and accessible guide to understanding drug addiction: clearly explained brain science and vivid personal stories reveal how addiction happens, show why specific drugs--from opioids to alcohol to coke and more--are so hard to kick, and illuminate the path to recovery for addicts, loved ones, caregivers, and crafters of public policy.

Addiction is epidemic and catastrophic. With more than one in every five people over the age of fourteen addicted, drug abuse has been called the most formidable health problem worldwide. If we are not victims ourselves, we all know someone struggling with the merciless compulsion to alter their experience by changing how their brain functions.

Drawing on years of research--as well as personal experience as a recovered addict--researcher and professor Judy Grisel has reached a fundamental conclusion: for the addict, there will never be enough drugs. The brain's capacity to learn and adapt is seemingly infinite, allowing it to counteract any regular disruption, including that caused by drugs. What begins as a normal state punctuated by periods of being high transforms over time into a state of desperate craving that is only temporarily subdued by a fix, explaining why addicts are unable to live either with or without their drug. One by one, Grisel shows how different drugs act on the brain, the kind of experiential effects they generate, and the specific reasons why each is so hard to kick.

Grisel's insights lead to a better understanding of the brain's critical contributions to addictive behavior, and will help inform a more rational, coherent, and compassionate response to the epidemic in our homes and communities.]]> 243 Judith Grisel 0385542844 KATB 0 to-read 4.11 2019 Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
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]]> Alexander Hamilton 16130 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.

In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all.�

Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today’s America is the result of Hamilton’s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. “To repudiate his legacy,� Chernow writes, “is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world.� Chernow here recounts Hamilton’s turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington’s aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.Historians have long told the story of America’s birth as the triumph of Jefferson’s democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human than we’ve encountered before—from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton’s famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804.

Chernow’s biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America’s birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots, Alexander Hamilton will remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans.]]> 818 Ron Chernow KATB 0 to-read 4.19 2004 Alexander Hamilton
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]]> <![CDATA[Einstein: His Life and Universe]]> 10884 675 Walter Isaacson 0743264738 KATB 0 to-read 4.16 2007 Einstein: His Life and Universe
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]]> <![CDATA[Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption]]> 40545966 204 Vanessa McGrady 1503903699 KATB 0 to-read 3.28 2019 Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption
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]]> <![CDATA[The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks]]> 6493208
Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.

Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored� ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia � a land of wooden quarters for enslaved people, faith healings, and voodoo � to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.

Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality� until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family � past and present � is inextricably connected to the history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.

Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother’s cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance?

Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.]]> 370 Rebecca Skloot 1400052173 KATB 0 to-read 4.12 2010 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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]]> <![CDATA[Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption]]> 8664353
The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he'd been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.

Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.]]> 475 Laura Hillenbrand 1400064163 KATB 0 to-read 4.38 2010 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)]]> 38359036 äٴǷɾ (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners.

Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism—but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive.

One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her.

A vivid, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful re-creation of Lale Sokolov's experiences as the man who tattooed the arms of thousands of prisoners with what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is also a testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions.]]> 272 Heather Morris 006287067X KATB 0 to-read 4.32 2018 The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
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