Tag: Tried

Housewife Assassin The Woman Who Tried to Kill President Ford


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English | February 7, 2023 | ISBN: 163576825X | 248 pages | PDF | 5.46 Mb
United States History award-winner from the International Book Awards, Best Nonfiction True Crime award from BookFest, and Five Stars from Reader’s Favorite among other accolades.

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Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed Notes From Periracial America


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English | November 14, 2023 | ISBN: 1632461587 | True EPUB | 216 pages | 0.7 MB
With accumulated wisdom and sharp-eyed clarity, Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me And Has Failed addresses the joys and hardships of being an older Black woman in contemporary, "periracial" America. Award-winning author Kim McLarin utilizes deeply personal experiences to illuminate the pain and power of aging, Blackness and feminism, in the process capturing the endless cycle of progress and backlash that has long shaped race and gender.

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Housewife Assassin The Woman Who Tried to Kill President Ford


Free Download Housewife Assassin: The Woman Who Tried to Kill President Ford by Geri Spieler
English | February 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 163576825X | 248 pages | True EPUB | 4.63 MB
President Gerald Ford suffered two attempts on his life during his term in office: one by a young woman in Charles Manson’s Family, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, and the other by a far more unlikely candidate-an average middle-aged mother of five-Sara Jane Moore. After thirty years in contact with Moore in prison, journalist Geri Spieler deconstructs her life in Housewife Assassin, tracing the path from Moore’s small-town upbringing in West Virginia to that fateful moment when she tried to assassinate the president.

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I’ve Tried Being Nice (Among Other Things) Essays [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CLX3D5GB | 2024 | 5 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Ann Leary
Narrator: Ann Leary

New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from the perspective of a recovering people pleaser. Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying-and often failing-to be nice. With wit and surprising candor, Leary recounts the bedlam of home bat invasions, an obsession with online personality tests, and the mortification of taking ballroom dance lessons with her actor husband. She describes hilarious red-carpet fiascos and other observations from the sidelines of fame, while also touching upon her more poignant struggles with alcoholism, her love for her family, her dogs, and so much more. Prepare to laugh, cry, cringe and revel in the comically relatable chaos of Ann Leary’s life as revealed in this delightful collection of essays.

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TRIED & (Still) TRUE Old Wisdom for a New Generation


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English | 2020 | ISBN: 1710982381 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 0.8 mb
With his characteristic wit and conversational style, the author of The Best Advice So Far introduces a proven, practical and refreshingly personal guide to self-empowerment. Discover what more than five centuries of brilliant minds somehow knew about thriving despite the uncertainty of a modern age. No hype. No jargon. No quick fixes. Just clear and simple strategies that work.

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Fringe-ology How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn’t


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English | June 7, 2011 | ISBN: 0061857718 | 336 pages | EPUB | 0.66 Mb
"Fringe-Ologybrings a poet’s eye to the frayed edges between the known and unknown, beliefand skepticism….A dive into the paranormal even a hardcore skeptic like myselfcan enjoy." -Mat Johnson, author of Pym

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