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  Brutus - The Noble Conspirator

  Kathryn Tempest

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  This award-winning biography delves beyond the myths about Ancient Rome’s most famous assassin: “A beautifully written and thought-provoking book” (Christopher Pelling, author of Plutarch and History). Conspirator and assassin, philosopher and statesman, promoter of peace and commander in war, Marcus Brutus was a controversial and enigmatic man even to those who knew him. His leading role in the murder of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, 44 BC, immortalized his name, but no final verdict has ever been made about his fateful act. Was Brutus wrong to kill his friend and benefactor or was he right to place his duty to country ahead of personal obligations?   In this comprehensive biography, Kathryn Tempest examines historical sources to bring to light the personal and political struggles Brutus faced. As the details are revealed—from his own correspondence with Cicero, the perceptions of his peers, and the Roman aristocratic values and concepts that held sway in his time—Brutus emerges from legend, revealed as the complex man he was.  A Choice Outstanding Academic Title Winner

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  Speaker Jim Wright - Power...

  J. Brooks Flippen

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  The rise and fall of a Texas Democrat: “A definitive, richly detailed biography [and] an engrossing history that sheds light on our own fractious times.” ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)   A former Golden Gloves boxer and WWII bombardier, Jim Wright entered Congress to fight a different kind of battle, making his mark on virtually every major policy issue of the later twentieth century: energy, education, taxes, transportation, environmental protection, civil rights, criminal justice, and foreign relations among them. He played a significant role in peace initiatives in Central America and in the Camp David Accords, and was the first American politician to speak live on Soviet television. A Democrat representing Texas’s twelfth district (Fort Worth), he served in the US House of Representatives from the Eisenhower administration to the presidency of George H.W. Bush, including twelve years as majority leader and speaker—and his long congressional ascension and sudden fall in a highly partisan ethics scandal spearheaded by Newt Gingrich mirrored the evolution of Congress as an institution.  Speaker Jim Wright traces the congressman’s long life and career in a highly readable narrative grounded in extensive interviews with Wright and access to his personal diaries. A skilled connector who bridged the conservative and liberal wings of the Democratic Party while forging alliances with Republicans to pass legislation, Wright ultimately fell victim to a new era of political infighting, as well as to his own hubris and mistakes. J. Brooks Flippen shows how Wright’s career shaped the political culture of Congress, from its internal rules and power structure to its growing partisanship, even as those new dynamics eventually contributed to his political demise. To understand Jim Wright in all his complexity is to understand the story of modern American politics.

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  A Woman's Journey Round the World

  Ida Laura Pfeiffer

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  Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author, one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated into several languages. "The Woman's Journey Around the World, from Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, and Asia Minor" is the travel diary of the first of her two trips "around the world", following her successful trips to the Holy Land and to Iceland. (Summary by Leni)

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  Without a Map - A Caregiver’s...

  Lisa Steele-Maley

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  When Lisa Steele-Maley began helping her father navigate the details of a life interrupted by dementia, she was in unfamiliar territory. As a wilderness traveler, she was accustomed to adapting to ever-changing situations, but as her father’s health declined, the idea of finding stability seemed impossible. Only one thing was sure: her father was losing perspective—losing track of time, the slippers at his feet, and his ability to find his way home. Lisa wasn’t sure she had the skills, experience, or patience to competently travel this path with him, but taking one step at a time, she found it was as simple—and as profound—as life in the wilderness: Be prepared, be present. Trust the process, stay close.  Without a Map weaves together Lisa’s experience of caregiving with lessons gleaned from decades of wilderness travel, rural living, and parenting. Revealing the uncertainty, wisdom, love and reciprocity of a caregiving relationship, this memoir contributes a deeply personal perspective to the subjects of dementia and aging.

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  The Jean Sheehan Story: A...

  Jean Sheehan

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  Are you ready for the new millennium?  
   
  "Help! Am I going crazy? I am seeing aliens, hearing animals talk, and my husband is trying to lock me up in a psychiatric unit. What the hell is going on?"  
   
  Jean Sheehan looked like the average wife, mom, and nurse. She was efficient, logical, and grounded. As a nurse who worked in general nursing, pathology, and autopsies. She loved anything to do with health, but her hobby was learning about the spiritual realm. She loved crystals, aromatherapy, healing modalities, and yummy organic food. But nothing could prepare her for what was about to happen. She was being prepared for her awakening and new journey in consciousness for the new millennium. 
   
  Come on this expedition with Jean as she journeys through consciousness to remember ancient laws from Atlantis, Lemuria, and Ancient Egypt about the soul evolution, laws of attraction, sacred geometry, and how to live the life you were born to live. 
   
  In this book, Jean shares her deepest secrets of what occurred, that not even her husband knows! She tells to empower, and help, all those out there who may be going through similar experiences. Her mission through her courses, audiobooks, and programs, is to support you to absolutely love, and to live, the life you were born to live.

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  Chocolate Wings: Writings 1976-2018

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  Giuliano's near lifelong journal of prose, poetry, and drawings started while still in university in the mid-1970s. A moving collection of the evocative dreams of a young man searching for his life in the shadow of the American dream, which ultimately over took him.

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