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  Fluent in 3 Months - How Anyone...

  Benny Lewis

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  Benny Lewis, who speaks over ten languages—all self-taught—runs the largest language-learning blog in the world, Fluent In 3 Months. Lewis is a full-time "language hacker," someone who devotes all of his time to finding better, faster, and more efficient ways to learn languages. Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World is a new blueprint for fast language learning. Lewis argues that you don't need a great memory or "the language gene" to learn a language quickly, and debunks a number of long-held beliefs, such as adults not being as good of language learners as children.

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  Learn Chinese while you sleep -...

  1000-words.com

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  Learn Chinese anytime, anywhere — while you sleep 😴, drive 🚗, walk 🚶‍♂️, study 📚, or work out 💪.  
  1000 Words helps you learn Chinese using a calm, immersive, audio-focused method. 
   
  Each lesson is designed to help you expand your vocabulary, improve your pronunciation, and understand real Chinese — all stress-free, screen-free, and uninterrupted 🌿. 
  In this audiobook, you’ll hear 1,000 essential Chinese nouns pronounced clearly, along with their English translations. 
   
  It’s ideal for beginners, travelers, and anyone who wants to learn Chinese naturally through repetition. 
  Listen in bed 🛏️, at the gym 🏋️, in the car 🚙, or during your daily routine — every minute helps improve your Chinese effortlessly 🌙. 
   
  Relax. Focus. Learn Chinese anywhere. 
   
  For more content, games 🎮, and exclusive video lessons, visit 👉 1000-words.com 
  Also available as an Android and iPhone app 📱.

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  Buddha’s Map: Wisdom for Today’s...

  Peter Coyote

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  In this 2024 conversation with Justine Willis Toms, actor and Zen priest Peter Coyote tells us that Buddha was a revolutionary who left us with a map of how to effectively live our lives with skillful means. He gave us wise words for effective living through the Four Noble Truths, The Eightfold Path, and the Thirteen Precepts. Coyote expands on the concept of "life is suffering" to mean life's afflictions cannot be avoided. Stuff happens. However, we can contain our response to those afflictions through our meditation practice. He also encourages us to be active in the world and to contribute to the good while being aware of the unintentional negative consequences of our actions. He encourages us to acknowledge the darker side of our nature so that through that awareness we might better contain it. He holds that ultimately Buddhism can help us towards better ways of living together that are sustainable, democratic, and include justice for all. 
  Peter Coyote is a master of many crafts, including being an award-winning actor, improv teacher, author, director, screenwriter, and narrator who has worked with some of the world's most distinguished filmmakers, including Ken Burns. He has won several Emmys for his narration and was ordained as a Zen priest in 2011. His books include:The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Irregular Education (Counterpoint 1998/2015)Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle (Counterpoint 2015)Zen in the Vernacular: Things As It Is (Inner Traditions 2024) 
  Interview Date: 5/3/2024         Tags: Peter Coyote, Gary Snyder, San Francisco Zen Center, David Brazier, David Harris, eight-fold path, 8-fold path, Zen Mates Fuketsu, James Carse, injustice, slavery, Buddhism, Meditation, Personal Transformation, Social Change/Politics

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  The Wounded Spirit - This is Not...

  Frank E. Peretti

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  This book is the haunting true story of pain Frank Peretti never forgot but never, until recently, shared with the world. It's the story of growing up with a medical condition that left him disfigured. A series of surgeries and the slow miracle of answered prayer took care of the deformity, but not the underdeveloped frame or the excruciating reality of being different. And it was for these petty "crimes" that Peretti was prosecuted every day at school-especially in gym class, but also in the halls, on the school grounds, even in his own neighborhood. No wonder he found himself relating to movie monsters who were hated but also feared-and who eventually exacted a bloody revenge on their tormentors! 
  In Peretti's case, deliverance eventually came-through time, through prayer, through a teacher's caring intervention, and his own willingness to seek help. But he has never forgotten what life was like at the bottom of the junior high food chain. And from the reservoir of those agonizing memories he sends a compelling message to victims, to bullies, and to authorities who have the power to intervene-that it's never OK for the strong to abuse the weak. And that we allow such abuse at the expense of our souls … and our very civilization. 
  Especially in the wake of the massacre at Columbine High School-perpetuated by two troubled but also tormented outsiders--this message takes on haunting resonance. Frank Peretti believes we cannot afford to overlook the continuing reality of wounded spirits, not only in our schools, but in our homes, churches, and workplaces. His approach is both tender and tough as he issues a ringing call for a change in attitude. 
  It's a call for all of us to stop thinking of abuse as "normal," even among kids. 
  It's a call for the strong to stand up and protect the weak, not prey upon them. 
  It's a call for those in authority to pay attention to the violence being done to the vulnerable in the midst of our everyday lives and to take action to help. 
  Most of all, it's a call for bullies and victims alike (many of us are both) to seek the healing and forgiveness offered in Jesus Christ. For that healing is really the heart of this book-the only reality that can break the natural cycle of victimization and abuse. 
  Only in Christ, Peretti reminds, is there hope for the wounded spirits-but that hope is powerful enough to change everything.

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  Lily of the Valley

  by Vilma Di Nardo

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  Lily of the Valley is a suspenseful and addictive #1 Amazon Bestseller 
  Step into a world of sex, violence, murder and deception... 
  In 1941 Germany, seventeen- year-old Anna Goldberg finds herself confined to her home as the Nazi regime tightens its grip on her homeland. 
  When her father, Josef, learns of his impending arrest by the Gestapo, he fakes Anna's death and entrusts her to a mysterious friend who conceals her in the unlikeliest of places- right under the Nazis' noses. 
  As Anna navigates this perilous game of hide and seek, she must summon unparalleled courage to confront her enemies, armed only with the delicate yet potent Lily of the Valley. 
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  Vilma Di Nardo's 'Lily of the Valley' is a gripping historical fiction novel that delves into themes of resilience, identity, and the extraordinary lengths one will go to survive. 
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  A hauntingly powerful tale of resilience and vengeance. 
  (Amazon)

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  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: The Boom in...

  Mike Ripley, Lee Child

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  WINNER OF THE HRF KEATING AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK 2018 
  An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an empire, her thrillers helped save the world. With a foreword by Lee Child. 
  When Ian Fleming dismissed his books in a 1956 letter to Raymond Chandler as ‘straight pillow fantasies of the bang-bang, kiss-kiss variety’ he was being typically immodest. In three short years, his James Bond novels were already spearheading a boom in thriller fiction that would dominate the bestseller lists, not just in Britain, but internationally. 
  The decade following World War II had seen Britain lose an Empire, demoted in terms of global power and status and economically crippled by debt; yet its fictional spies, secret agents, soldiers, sailors and even (occasionally) journalists were now saving the world on a regular basis. 
  From Ian Fleming and Alistair MacLean in the 1950s through Desmond Bagley, Dick Francis, Len Deighton and John Le Carré in the 1960s, to Frederick Forsyth and Jack Higgins in the 1970s. 
  Many have been labelled ‘boys’ books’ written by men who probably never grew up but, as award-winning writer and critic Mike Ripley recounts, the thrillers of this period provided the reader with thrills, adventure and escapism, usually in exotic settings, or as today’s leading thriller writer Lee Child puts it in his Foreword: ‘the thrill of immersion in a fast and gaudy world.’ 
  In Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Ripley examines the rise of the thriller from the austere 1950s through the boom time of the Swinging Sixties and early 1970s, examining some 150 British authors (plus a few notable South Africans). Drawing upon conversations with many of the authors mentioned in the book, he shows how British writers, working very much in the shadow of World War II, came to dominate the field of adventure thrillers and the two types of spy story – spy fantasy (as epitomised by Ian Fleming’s James Bond) and the more realistic spy fiction created by Deighton, Le Carré and Ted Allbeury, plus the many variations (and imitators) in between. 
  Ripley's autobiography-like approach to the subject brings a personal touch to the literary criticism. His analysis of the top figures in the genre, from Fleming to Le Carré, provides a comprehensive reference for anyone interested in detective and mystery literature. 
  For fans of Richard Coles (Bringing in the Sheaves), and Donna Leon (Backstage).

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