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  A Little Cloud - From their pens...

  James Joyce

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  James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on the 2nd February 1882 in Dublin into a middle-class family, and the eldest of ten surviving siblings 
  Admired as a brilliant student he briefly attended the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell School before excelling at the Jesuit schools of Clongowes and Belvedere.  From there he went on to attend University College Dublin from 1898, studying English, French and Italian 
  In 1902, Joyce was now in his early twenties, and went to Paris to study Medicine but soon abandoned his teachings.  Back in Dublin to attend to his dying Mother he met Nora Barnacle. They bonded immediately into a life-long match. Together they decided to emigrate to Europe.  The couple lived in Trieste, Rome, Paris, and finally Zürich where Joyce pursued a variety of jobs and ventures to supplement his literary pursuits but none of these paid off.  
  After publishing a poetry volume, ‘Chamber Music’, in 1907, his short story collection ‘The Dubliners’, in 1914, helped establish his talent in the rapidly changing world.  
  Although far from home Joyce’s literary heart and works were set in his recollections of Dublin.  Characters are close resemblances of family and friends and indeed enemies.  His landmark work ‘Ulysses’, published in 1922, is set in the streets and alleyways of the city as it parallels Homer’s Odyssey in a variety of styles including its famed stream of consciousness. 
  His pen continued to produce classics of the order of ‘A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man’ and ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ together with several volumes of poetry and a play ‘The Exiles, in 1918.   
  On the 11th January 1941, Joyce underwent surgery in Zürich for a perforated duodenal ulcer. The next day he fell into a coma. On the 13th after a brief period of lucidity in which he called for his wife and son he passed.  He was 58.

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  The Mysterious Disappearance of...

  Omananda

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  A dangerous escape from East Germany and a Mystical Awakening in Indonesia - this book is the beginning of a life-long spiritual journey. 
  The Mysterious Disappearance of the Wondering Mind is part one of Transcendental Journeys - A Visionary Quest for Freedom, a series of books by Omananda. In this first book, the author takes the dangerous road to physical freedom. He escaped from East Germany before the Berlin Wall fell and freed himself from the communist oppression in the socialistic society where he grew up.  
  This book not only covers his travels in parts of the USA, Central America, Asian countries, and India. It also goes into the detail on how the author actively participated in the political underground resistance movement during his former life in the GDR. When Torsten E. Klimmer aka Omananda arrived in the West, he first began to see glimpses of a magical world that eventually culminated in an unexpected spiritual awakening. After this rough wake-up call, he had to integrate this new information.  
  This Omananda audiobook has interludes of shamanic sounds. Character names have been changed to protect the individuals' privacy. Everything else remains authentic to the facts as they were experienced. All books by this author can be found at: www.omananda.com, where you can also get the eBook, watch related videos, read the author’s blog, and subscribe to the podcast.

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  On Our Way Home from the...

  Sonya Bilocerkowycz

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  In 2014 Sonya Bilocerkowycz is a tourist at a deadly revolution. At first she is enamored with the Ukrainians' idealism, which reminds her of her own patriotic family. But when the romantic revolution melts into a war with Russia, she becomes disillusioned, prompting a return home to the US and the diaspora community that raised her. As the daughter of a man who studies Ukrainian dissidents for a living, the granddaughter of war refugees, and the great-granddaughter of a gulag victim, Bilocerkowycz has inherited a legacy of political oppression. But what does it mean when she discovers a missing page from her family's survival story—one that raises questions about her own guilt? 
   
   
   
  In these linked essays, Bilocerkowycz invites listeners to meet a swirling cast of post-Soviet characters, including a Russian intelligence officer who finds Osama bin Laden a few weeks after 9/11; a Ukrainian poet whose nose gets broken by Russian separatists; and a long-lost relative who drives a bus into the heart of Chernobyl. On Our Way Home from the Revolution muddles our easy distinctions between innocence and culpability, agency and fate.

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  And So I Run - 15000 miles of...

  Jamie Doward

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  A runner’s high ... and low.
   
  And So I Run is a story about running. Jamie Doward uses running as an escape, as a way to evade life’s most painful realities. As the marathon medals stack up, a new obsession creeps in – beating the clock, needing to run a time, a time that once attained would magically solve all of life’s problems. In a world where some self-medicate with alcohol or drugs, Jamie finds his solace in marathon running, each training run, each race, a desperate attempt to outrun depression, shame and a sense of failure.
   
  But And So I Run is more than just a story of a 26.2-mile obsession – it’s a celebration of life’s absurdities and an uplifting story about how Jamie redefined his relationship with running. Engaging and relatable, with the marathon at its heart, And So I Run speaks to all runners, offering a raw, witty and human exploration of how we cope, heal and sometimes keep on just putting one foot in front of the other.

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  Turn Toward the Storm - How I...

  Bevan Cox

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  He almost pulled the trigger. Not because he wanted to die—but because he couldn’t find a reason to keep surviving. 
  On the outside, Bevan Cox looked like a man who had it all: career success, physical strength, social admiration. But on the inside, he was drowning in a storm of childhood trauma, betrayal, codependent relationships, and a justice system weaponized against him. When the noise became too loud to silence, and his final goodbye was moments away from being uploaded, one divine interruption stopped it. 
  This book is that story. 
  Told with gut-wrenching honesty and zero sugarcoating, Bevan pulls back the curtain on what it means to rebuild your life from rock bottom. Through false arrests, trauma bonds, narcissistic abuse, and suicidal ideation, he doesn’t just survive—he heals. And in doing so, he offers a roadmap for anyone carrying invisible scars they’ve been taught to ignore. 
  You’ll walk with him through jail cells, therapy rooms, fitness competitions, and the quiet moments when he sits with family becomes real. You’ll learn how to set boundaries, rewire beliefs, dismantle the ego, and reclaim the version of yourself that’s too afraid to reach. And most of all, you’ll learn that peace is not a reward for the favored—it’s a decision for the free. 
  If your pain has ever whispered that your story is over, this book is here to tell you: it’s just beginning.

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  Red Card to Racism - The Fight...

  Harry Harris

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  "Highly commendable and will keep the debate raging." - John Barnes 
  The global Black Lives Matter campaign has given greater exposure to the extent and insidious nature of the structural and systemic racism that exists in all strata of our society and has provided renewed impetus to the urgent need to challenge and eradicate racism in all its forms and wherever it is found. 
  Sadly, sport has not been immune from this, especially so in the case of football. For too long, there were attempts to hide and mitigate racist attitudes and actions within the game, but thanks to the growing profile and visibility of black and minority ethnic (BAME) players both past and present – Viv Anderson, Cyrille Regis, Jimmy Carter, Les Ferdinand, Pat Nevin and Ruud Gullit to name just a few – and almost three decades of education and campaigning led by Kick It Out, attitudes have changed. However, now is not the time to be complacent – there’s still a great deal left to do. 
  Throughout his entire journalistic career, leading sportswriter Harry Harris has championed the fight against racism in football. Now, within these pages, he shines a timely spotlight on the Beautiful Game, revealing the forces within football that have both helped expose and challenge racism – and, at times, sadly, hinder more rapid positive change. 
  Over the years, Harris has gathered an impressively large network of contacts within the game – players, managers, media pundits and association personnel among them. Many of them, such as Greg Dyke, Glenn Hoddle, Ivor Baddiel, Mek Stein, and Jermain Defoe, have spoken exclusively to Harris for this book. 
  Red Card to Racism is not only a welcome addition to the ongoing debate surrounding ending prejudice within football but also a timely and necessary addition to the wider discussion of the need within our evermore global multicultural society for all people, whatever their beliefs, gender, identity, sexuality or ethnic background, to be treated with equity, humanity and respect.

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