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Conversations With Myself, Nelson Mandela, Forward by President Barack Obama

Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has opened his personal archive, which offers unprecedented insight into his remarkable life.

From letters written in the darkest hours of his twenty seven years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to Long Walk to Freedom, Conversations With Myself gives readers access to the private man behind the public figure. Here he is making notes and even doodling during meetings, or transcribing troubled dreams on the desk calendar in his cell on Robben Island; writing journals while on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle in the early 1960s, or conversing with friends in almost seventy hours of recorded conversations. Here he's neither an icon nor a saint.

An intimate journey from the first stirrings of his political conscience to his galvanizing role on the world stage; Conversations With Myself is a rare chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man, in his own voice; direct, clear, private.

"In real life we deal not with gods, but with ordinary humans like ourselves: men and women who are full of contradictions, who are stable and fickle, strong and weak, famous and infamous."

Nelson Mandela

Konniger's Woman

Keith Konniger enjoys his quiet, solitary life as a hunter. But when he rescues a woman and a child his world is turned upside down, and then twisted a little bit more. Little could he know that his good deed would most certainly not go unpunished, as he finds himself with a war chief after his scalp, hired killers hot on his trail, and the worst fate he can imagine, being stuck with two female companions until the spring thaw!

Konn soon learns that even more devastating than the punishment he's facing for coming to the aid of his two companions is the pain of loving someone who will never return his love in return. His misery is eased only by the continued threat on his life, so when death comes looking for Konn, he welcomes the chance to meet it head on!

Healing Spices

Want to know the real secret to beating disease?

It's a diet rich in whole foods such as fruits and vegetables, and rich in spices. In fact, world wide scientific research has linked spices to the prevention and treatment of more than 150 health problems, including heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, and Alzheimer's. Spices are so powerful because they're super rich sources of plant compounds that fight oxidation and inflammation, the two processes underlying most chronic disease.

Now the world's foremost expert on the therapeutic use of culinary spices explains how to harness their healing power. You'll learn how to make 50 effective spices an incredibly tasty addition to a healthy life-style.

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