Keith O'Brien
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Keith O'Brien weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high school dropout who worked for a dry cleaner in Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama housewife; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at the constraints of her blue blood family's expectations; and Louise Thaden, the mother of two young kids who got her start selling coal in Wichita, Kansas....
2) Fly Girls Young Readers' Edition: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
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From NPR correspondent Keith O' Brien comes this thrilling Young Readers' edition of the untold story about pioneering women, including Amelia Earhart, who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s-and won.
In the years between World War I and World War II, airplane racing was one of the most popular sports in America. Thousands of fans flocked to multiday events, and the pilots who competed in these...
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"A reporting tour de force and an utterly gripping account... Outside Shot unmistakably triumphs, with the reader rooting hard for the Cardinals-and delighted that O'Brien has brought his considerable skills to telling their story." -Wayne Coffey, New York Times Book Review
The Cardinals of Scott County High School were beloved once--and with good reason. For years, the boys and their legendary coach gave fans in central Kentucky, deep in the heart...
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[2022]
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"From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America's most devastating environmental disasters. Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny and Barbara Quimby thought they had found a slice of the American dream when they and their families moved onto the quiet streets of Love Canal, a picturesque middle-class hamlet by Niagara Falls in...
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"A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures, baseball immortal Pete Rose; and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He had compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago, which still stands. At the same...
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In Long Term Game, Joakim Achrén, former co-founder of Next Games, draws upon years of experience in gaming startups to provide clear and honest guidance on how to found and build a thriving games company.
Building a games company is usually thought to be by trial and error. But in the real world, this isn't an effective way. It causes lots of misery and needless pain for entrepreneurs, who all go through the same mistakes. They are all suffering...
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It's ridiculous how quickly an entire year can go by! With how busy you can get it can seem like there is never any time to reflect on what has happened and how it has impacted you.
What if there was a way to find inspiration every single day? Not just here and there, but instead, you would create a consistent, safe space for you to cultivate your confidence and build a better you!.
This process is about more than one approach. Here are just a few...
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Donald Jurgens buries his father but is goaded by his irascible Aunt Mildred to find his family's old trunk. It contains family photos, but some very unusual items - a pair of passports, a Luger and a Nazi Iron Cross medal. In addition, the trunk contains notebooks, diaries kept by Don's Mother, Frieda, that detail the years, from 1929 through 1945. At first, the diaries tell of a young couple struggling to get through the Depression, start a business...
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Another plane exists just below ours, just as another plane exists above ours: like paper stacked atop paper. These are the stories of two twins, L-on, and Kai'rah, who transcend these planes. Through them, the ebbs and flows of our lives become waves of consequence. Each represents half of the universe, and each brings to us the soft chaos in our lives.
It often feels as though our days are a series of tests. This framework is not lost in the stories...
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In 2079, two forces vie for control of Arabia. One embraces tradition and advocates equality, while the other seeks to improve the world through technology and insists on the rule of the many by an elite few. Their fight for supremacy will change Arabia forever and determine its future. Prince Abdulaziz is the heir to the House of Saud, leader of the loyalist rebels. He has amassed an army to help him take back his ancestral throne and build a future...
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Life lessons from an investor who forged his own path to success
Through their entertaining conversations, Ken Hersh and his interviewer, best-selling author Steve Fiffer, recount Ken's improbable life journey, both personally and professionally. And what a journey it has been! Knowing nothing about the energy industry, Ken ventured in and ultimately helped pioneer an investment methodology that built one of the country's most successful private...