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Leave the Lights On A Novel


Free Download Leave the Lights On: A Novel by Liv Andersson
English | October 17, 2023 | ISBN: 1639105093 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 1.8 MB
Perfect for fans of Wendy Walker and Samantha Downing, in this thrilling domestic suspense novel, a woman fights to hide her secrets as her life’s idyllic façade begins to fall apart.

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Northern Lights The Arctic Scots


Free Download Northern Lights: The Arctic Scots by Edward J. Cowan
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1780277873 | 569 pages | PDF | 24 Mb
Surprisingly, the remarkable story of the Scottish role in the discovery of the Northwest Passage – a long desired trade route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific – has not received a great deal of attention.

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Tokyo Junkie 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys… and Baseball [Audiobook]


Free Download Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys… and Baseball (Audiobook)
English | June 22, 2021 | ASIN: B094PR8VTT | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 50m | 657 MB
Author: Robert Whiting | Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world.
Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first best-selling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation.

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No Red Lights Reflections on Life, 50 Years in Venture Capital, and Never Driving Alone


Free Download No Red Lights: Reflections on Life, 50 Years in Venture Capital, and Never Driving Alone by Alan J. Patricof, Alan Patricof, Audible Studios
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09VY6SZKR | 8 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@128 kbps pages | PDF | 465 Mb
Extensive media and online coverage of the business arena, news of start-ups, mergers, and deals are familiar headlines these days. But that wasn’t always the case. The early years of venture capital were a far cry from today’s very public dealings. Alan Patricof, one of the pioneers of the venture arena, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the past 50 years of the industry. From buying stock in Apple when its market valuation was only $60 million to founding New York Magazine to investing in AOL, Audible, and more recently, Axios, his discerning approach to finding companies is almost peerless.
All of Patricof’s investments-from Xerox to Venmo-share certain qualities. Each company had sound product with wide appeal, the economics were solid, and the management team was talented and committed to seeing their visions come to fruition.

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Chosen Lights Poets on Poems by John Montague


Free Download Peter Fallon, "Chosen Lights: Poets on Poems by John Montague"
English | 2009 | pages: 149 | ISBN: 1852354712 | EPUB | 1,2 mb
Loughcrew, Oldcastle, Co. Meath, Gallery Press 2009. cloth & dustjacket. 8vo., 149 pp. Twenty-two Irish poets select a favorite Montague poem & offer appreciative commentary on it. The book is thus a combination Festschrift, selected poems, & critical ‘casebook’. Contributors include Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Derek Mahon, Eavan Boland, Eamon Grennan, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, et al. Fine – new in fine dj.

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Northern Lights A History of the Arctic Scots


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by Edward J. Cowan

English | 2023 | ISBN: 1639362703 | 432 pages | True EPUB | 62.36 MB
In the tradition of Arthur Herman’sHow the Scots Invented the Modern Worldcomes a narrative that charts the remarkable-yet often overlooked or misidentified-Scottish contribution to Arctic exploration

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