Tag: Heartbreak

Vectors Heroes, Villains, and Heartbreak on the Bridge of the U.S. Navy


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English | April 4, 2023 | ISBN: 1642257036 | 520 pages | EPUB | 12 Mb
Thomas Modly had an eclectic career in the military, academia, business, and government when he answered the call to service in 2017 and returned to the Navy where his career began. His experience, as chronicled in these pages, tells the story of Secretary Modly’s quest to advance the Department of the Navy’s preparedness for the challenges of this century. As Acting Secretary of the Navy he held fast to the mantra of "acting, not pretending," and thus advocated aggressively for the Navy and Marine Corps’ future ― a future he believed would be defined by uncertainty and unpredictability. Every Friday he wrote a personal message to the entire Department regardless of rank. Those messages were called SECNAV Vectors. Each Vector was intended to clearly communicate his priorities and to establish a rapport with all levels of the organization. The subject of each Vector was inspired by real events that occurred in real time. As these events unfolded , the Secretary’s unyielding emphasis on being prepared for unpredictable events are proven to be prescient as the Navy found itself, unintentionally, in the center of COVID-19 crisis.

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The Demon of Unrest A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CDQL7TTB | 2024 | 17 hours and 18 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 476 MB
Author: Erik Larson
Narrator: Erik Larson, Will Patton

The #1 New York Times bestselling author brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War-a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln’s election and the Confederacy’s shelling of Sumter-a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals.

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Finding Your Self at the Heartbreak Hotel Moving Beyond Betrayal [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BSVP8QRD | 2024 | 5 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 279 MB
Author: Alice Haddon, Ruth Field
Narrator: Ruth Field, Alice Haddon, Kristin Atherton, Cornelia Colman, Fern Kay

You can’t seem to get over the breakup. You feel stuck in cycles of rumination and pain. This revelatory guide provides brand-new therapeutic tools to revolutionize the way we overcome loss, as well as seek and welcome love, within and outside of ourselves. Alice Haddon, psychologist with over twenty-five years of clinical experience, and Ruth Field, bestselling self-help author, show us how we can dissect heartbreaks, mine them for strength and live our most empowered life. Bursting with compassion, humor, sass, and courage, this book will take you into the actual exercises conducted at the retreat. Providing you with a clear pathway to recovery, Alice and Ruth draw on their wealth of professional and personal experience to help you Finding Your Self at The Heartbreak Hotel.

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I’m Dying Up Here Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy’s Golden Era


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English | 2010 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 1586488961, 158648317X | EPUB | 1,7 mb
In the mid-1970s, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams, Elayne Boosler, Tom Dreesen, and several hundred other shameless showoffs and incorrigible cutups from all across the country migrated en masse to Los Angeles, the new home of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show. There, in a late-night world of sex, drugs, dreams and laughter, they created an artistic community unlike any before or since. It was Comedy Camelot – but it couldn’t last.

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