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  Lady of Venice - A breathtaking...

  Siobhan Daiko

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  From international bestselling author Siobhan Daiko comes a story that will transport you to Italy past and present. 
  Heartbroken after the loss of her fiancé, Fern travels to her aunt’s house in Italy to find peace and solace. There, overcome by the beauty of the landscape and consumed by a history she finds fascinating, she is catapulted into the life of the beautiful but reckless Cecilia, a sixteenth century lady of Venice. 
  The closer Fern comes to discovering why Cecilia appears to be pulling her back in time, the more echoes of the past reverberate in the present. 
  When past and present collide, throwing both Fern and Cecilia into deadly danger, can Fern stay safe and come to terms with her own past? 
  A breathtaking historical novel from a bestselling author, perfect for readers of Barbara Erskine, Sarah Dunant and Kate Mosse.Praise for Siobhan Daiko: 
  '...like meeting an old, dear friend after a long absence. What a poignant, emotional, thoroughly enjoyable read this was! ... such beautiful prose and such a brilliant story that completely transported me.' Renita D'Silva 
  'an exciting, impeccably-researched wartime adventure with lots of heart ... the perfect mixture of tragedy and happiness' Reader review 
  'A beautiful story with a compelling historical storyline that you won’t want to put down’ Ann Bennett 
  ’I was completely absorbed by … all the characters and intrigue’ Angela Petch 
  'A poignant and emotionally charged novel that explores the human spirit's resilience in the face of adversity and I was hooked from start to finish' Reader review 
  'So much heartache but alongside this the love of the people who did so much in WWII' Reader review 
  'a powerful historical novel that I just could not put down' Reader review

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  Random Psychology Facts That...

  Lana Preston

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  Drift into deep sleep with soothing psychology facts designed to quiet the mind and ease nighttime anxiety.
   
  Combat insomnia and banish racing thoughts by immersing yourself in a tranquil stream of low-stakes knowledge. This auditory experience is specifically engineered to create a peaceful mood essential for a restorative bedtime routine, allowing you to disconnect from the day's stress.
   
  Experience a scientifically grounded path to rest:
  
  Gentle Neuroscience: Understand why the brain finds profound comfort in routine and repetition.
  Stress-Free Learning: Absorb low-stakes trivia about perception and memory that requires zero retention.
  Rhythmic Relaxation: Listen to long, even sentences structured to slow your heart rate.
  Seamless Transitions: Drift through hazy ideas that mimic the natural onset of dreaming.
  
   
  As the narration progresses, the content shifts from concrete facts to abstract daydreams, mirroring the psychological edge of sleep. Allow these soft, meandering concepts to wash over you, providing a safe mental anchor that guides you effortlessly from waking life into the deep rest you deserve.

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  Damn the Valley - 1st Platoon...

  William Yeske

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  Featured in Task & Purpose and Army Times."A riveting, unsparing, gritty, first-hand account of life in a great airborne unit that engaged in some of the toughest fighting in Afghanistan."—General David Petraeus, former Commander of the Surge in Iraq, US Central Command, former Commander of NATO/US Forces in Afghanistan and former Director of the CIA.
  
  “DAMN THE VALLEY” was a phrase regularly uttered by the men that spent any amount of time in the Arghandab River Valley during the deployment of 2 Fury to Afghanistan in 2009–2010. The valley has claimed bodies from the troops of Alexander the Great, the British Empire, and more recently, the Russian Army. Operating in the valley was like nothing the men could have envisaged, they called it the “meat grinder.”
  
  It was a deployment that the media didn’t talk about, and the government doesn’t acknowledge. Three of the company were KIA, more than a dozen suffered life-changing injuries, and half the company had Purple Hearts—not many modern-day deployments have a 52% casualty rate. At one point, the entire prosthetics ward at Walter Reed was full of the men who patrolled that deadly area of the world. 
  
  Since their return, many of the survivors have struggled to move on with their lives, and the unit has been declared at "extraordinary risk" by the Department of Veteran Affairs. No one who entered that region was left unscathed. This book shares the perspective of the men that were on the ground for that deployment during the fighting season of 2010.

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  The United States of English -...

  Rosemarie Ostler

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  The story of how English became American—and how it became Southern, Bostonian, Californian, African American, Chicano, elite, working-class, urban, rural, and everything in between 
   
   
   
  By the time of the Revolution, the English that Americans spoke was recognizably different from the British variety. Americans added dozens of new words to the language, either borrowed from Native Americans (raccoon, persimmon, caucus) or created from repurposed English (backwoods, cane brake, salt lick). Americans had their own pronunciations (bath rhymed with hat, not hot) and their own spelling (honor, not honour), not to mention a host of new expressions that grew out of the American landscape and culture (blaze a trail, back track, pull up stakes). Americans even invented their own slang, like stiff as a ringbolt to mean drunk. American English has continued to grow and change ever since. 
   
   
   
  The United States of English tells the engrossing tale of how the American language evolved over four hundred years, explaining both how and why it changed and which parts of the "mother tongue" it preserved (I guess was heard in the British countryside long before it became a typical Americanism). Plentiful examples of the American vernacular, past and present, bring the language to life and make for an engaging as well as enlightening listen.

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  Ottoman Dress and Design in the...

  Charlotte Jirousek, Sara Catterall

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  “This amply illustrated, attractive book is valuable for dress history scholars . . . [an] ideal textbook for courses on clothing and cultural history.” —The Journal of Dress History Ottoman Dress and Design in the West is a richly illustrated exploration of the relationship between West and Near East through the visual culture of dress. Charlotte Jirousek examines the history of dress and fashion in the broader context of western relationships with the Mediterranean world from the dawn of Islam through the end of the twentieth century. The significance of dress is made apparent by the author’s careful attention to its political, economic, and cultural context. The reader comes to understand that dress reflects not simply the self and one’s relation to community but also that community’s relation to a wider world through trade, colonization, religion, and technology. The chapters provide broad historical background on Ottoman influence and European exoticization of that influence, while the captions and illustrations provide detailed studies of illuminations, paintings, and sculptures to show how these influences were absorbed into everyday living. Through the medium of dress, Jirousek details a continually shifting Ottoman frontier that is closely tied to European and American history. In doing so, she explores and celebrates an essential source of influence that for too long has been relegated to the periphery.

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  The Self-Worth Algorithm -...

  Michael Smith

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  Are you tired of success feeling like a frantic, unending chase? Most people are running a flawed Legacy Code - an outdated program rooted in fear and scarcity that keeps their financial ceiling low, steals their inner peace and emotional freedom. This code helps you to seek approval, sabotaging your best efforts even as you achieve more. 
  This is the Operating Manual to finally override those instructions. I present you a meticulous process to Recode Your Self-Worth Algorithm and unlock the Freedom Equation: the powerful synthesis of Unshakeable Worth, Sustainable Wealth, and Unburdened Peace. 
  Inside This Essential Blueprint, You Will Discover How To: 
  1. Eliminate Emotional Chaos: Implement the Reality Audit Protocol to neutralize fear, transforming future uncertainty into clear, strategic action. 
  2. Engineer Effortless Wealth: Discover your Signature Value and apply the Alchemy of Contribution to generate exponential wealth as the natural result of your unique genius. 
  3. Command The Ultimate Asset: Master the Sovereignty of Time and Attention and enforce the Boundary Protocol, Amplified to protect your focus and guarantee your peace. 
  4. Master Influence: Leverage Non-Contingent Worth to activate the Alchemy of Influence, attracting high-caliber opportunities and trust without self-promotion. 
  5. Secure Perpetual Freedom: Install the Final Code—the set of daily disciplines that ensures your system is Anti-Fragile, making your life a self-sustaining engine of Sovereignty and abundance. 
  The Self-Worth Algorithm provides the technical framework to stop begging the world for validation and start living as the Conscious Architect of your own success. Your ultimate independence is an internal system waiting for activation. 
  Stop striving. Start engineering. Download this indispensable blueprint and begin the final, most  positive impactful project of your life.

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