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Random & Rare: Lock & Key Series, Book 2

I am that gash in her soul. Once I loved her, really loved her. And she loved me, and it was so f–king beautiful. Once. That pendulum swings to and fro. We’re here, and then we’re – no. How can that rare beauty be rendered irrelevant, intangible, when I still feel so damn much? Does all that energy, that glory, that significance simply dissolve? Turn to smoke? To nothing? It can’t. It just can’t. Are the moments that shape us absolutely random? Is time not fluid? I made promises to them, to her. Especially to her. Promises I still burn to keep.

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An Inspiration to All Who Enter: Fifty Works from Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Yale University’s Beinecke Library, one of the world’s great bibliographic treasure houses, comes this sumptuously illustrated volume of fifty of the Library’s most prized rare books and manuscripts. Selected by the Library’s curators and accompanied by insightful and accessible texts, the featured works range from recently acquired items from living authors and poets to some of the most famous, rare, and notorious books in history. Among these works are the original map of the Lewis and Clark expedition, James Joyce’s proof sheets to Anna Livia Plurabelle, a song printed on papyrus from the second-century Roman Empire, the Voynich manuscript, a poem-painting by Susan Howe, Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred in original manuscript form, and many others.


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Rare Confidence: Strategies & Inspiration To Strengthen Your Belief That You Can Achieve Anything!

DREAM BIG & MAKE IT HAPPEN In this easy to read confidence-building book by David Shirey you’ll learn: * Exact words to say to get the job and then how to excel at it * How to treat the janitor like the CEO and vice versa * What the sports world can teach us about confidence * The Essence of Cool & How to be S.M.O.O.T.H. * Confidence Blasts and Killers * And much, much more… In RARE CONFIDENCE, David Shirey gives you a simple 4 Step Foundational Belief System to become the most confident you possible. With stories of inspiration and interviews with some of the most unique and confident people you’ll ever meet this book will have you believing you can accomplish anything. You’ll meet: *Adel Anwar – Guinness Record Holder for Human Memory *Heidi Krupp-Lisiten – New York City Publicist Extraordinaire *Steve “Yo Cuz” Martorano – The Italian-American Cook from South Philly *Tristan Truscott – Black Belt Martial Arts Instructor & Founder of The Satori Method “David Shirey’s book RARE CONFIDENCE is a rare treasure! Finally a self-help read written in a simple, relaxed and yet informative way. If you want to take your confidence, and success for that matter, to the next level…READ THIS BOOK!” -RJ Lowery, Founder & CIO of Your Expert Image & creator of Dress to Attract Success “Layoffs and crashing economies have hurt the confidence of a lot of people at a time they need it the most. David Shirey’s RARE CONFIDENCE is the cure. From inspirational interviews to specific action plans for building your own RARE CONFIDENCE, it’s all here. I like to say that “confidence is a habit.” This book will show you how to build and nurture that habit…for life.” -Jennifer Gresham, Founder of the No Regrets Career Academy and the blog Everyday Bright “His own confident and caring personality shine through his words brilliantly; enabling readers to trust and learn from him. What he has given us is rare indeed. A must read.” -Pamela Paxman, Author of Flight Plans For The Heart