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  From Where I Sit - Anything and...

  Zully JF Alvarado

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  What if the very place life placed you…
was the exact place from which you were meant to see the world differently? 
  Born in a small village in Ecuador and brought to the United States as a child for life-changing medical care, Zully JF Alvarado grew up navigating two cultures, physical challenges, and a future that many assumed would be limited. 
  But Zully never accepted that story. 
  From designing award-winning footwear for people with hard-to-fit feet, to leading international humanitarian missions, to mentoring others in building independent lives through entrepreneurship and technology, her life became proof of a simple truth: 
  Possibility does not come from perfect circumstances.
It comes from perspective. 
  In From Where I Sit: Anything and Everything Is Possible, Zully shares the experiences, lessons, and quiet moments that shaped her understanding of resilience, purpose, and courage. 
  Through personal stories and reflections, readers will discover: 
  • How perspective can transform obstacles into opportunities 
  • Why the way we see ourselves shapes what we believe is possible 
  • How adversity can become a powerful teacher 
  • Why independence begins with a decision to think differently 
  This book is an invitation. 
  An invitation to pause.
To reconsider the limits you have accepted.
And to see your life through a new lens. 
  Because sometimes the greatest change begins with a simple shift in perspective. 
  From where you sit… what becomes possible?

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  Bly vs Bisland - Beating Phileas...

  Nellie Bly, Elizabeth Bisland

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  Following the publication of Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days in 1873, Americans had an increasing interest in travel. World travel was becoming even easier with the faster steamships of the day.  
  In 1888, Nellie Bly, a feisty, investigative reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World newspaper, pitched a story idea of traveling around the world in 75 days to beat the record achieved by Phileas Fogg, the character in Verne's book. While the editor thought it a great idea, he naturally thought the trip should be made by a man. The idea was shelved for over a year.  
  One day in November 1889, Bly's editor told her the trip against Fogg's time would occur, and she would be the reporter to go - in just two days! She sailed east toward England on 14 November, 1889.  
  The Cosmopolitan was a rival magazine in New York. Not to be outdone by Pulitizer, the Cosmopolitan editors suddenly decided - seemingly within minutes of Bly's departure - to send their own female reporter, Elizabeth Bisland, on a world trip with the intent to return to New York before Bly. Bisland left that evening on a train going west to San Francisco.  
  Both reporters wrote detailed accounts of their journeys. For the first time, their writings have been combined in this book so that a consistent timeline is maintained between both women. The listener can feel the urgency and uniqueness of their travels while fully enjoying the similarities and differences in the authors' styles and their experiences.  
  Who will win the race?  
  Elizabeth Cochrane adopted the name of the Stephen Foster song Nelly Bly as her pen name. This famous song is performed in the credits by noted musicians Vivian and Phil Williams and is used with their gracious permission. You can hear more of their music at VoyagerRecords.com.

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  Discourse on the Method of...

  René Descartes

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  The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation “cogito ergo sum”, “I think, therefore I am.” …. It is a method which gives a solid platform from which all modern natural sciences could evolve. With this work, the idea of skepticism was revived from the ancients such as Sextus Empiricus and modified to account for a truth that Descartes found to be incontrovertible. Descartes started his line of reasoning by doubting everything, so as to assess the world from a fresh perspective, clear of any preconceived notions.(Summary by Wikipedia)

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  The Last Days of Us - An...

  Caroline Finnerty

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  An unforgettable, heartbreaking story of strength and forgiveness by TOP 100 BESTSELLER Caroline Finnerty 
  They say if you love someone, you have to let them go. But what if they are your child? 
  All Sarah McIntyre has ever wanted was a loving, happy family. So when her husband JP announces on Christmas Day that he is leaving her and their two children, nine-year-old Harry and four-year-old Robyn, Sarah is left reeling. 
  But things are set to get worse when Robyn is diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour. 
  Can JP and Sarah unite to fight their biggest battle yet? Or will they be on opposing sides once again? 
  With the couple at loggerheads and with Robyn's condition deteriorating day by day, precious time is running out and JP is getting desperate… 
  The Last Days of Us is a heart-rending story of hope and forgiveness that asks the question: how far would you go to save your child? Perfect for fans of Clare Mackintosh's After the End and Sinead Moriarty's The Good Mother. 
  What readers are saying about The Last Days of Us: 
  'Beautiful. It's a book that will break your heart and then piece it slowly back together. A story of unconditional love, loss and compassion that will pull at your heartstrings' Sinead Moriarty 
  'Heartbreaking and heart-warming. I fell head-over-heels for this family and I wanted to hug them all. A story that will stay with you long after the last page' Brooke Harris 
  'A moving and sensitively told account of a family's worst nightmare, and how our biggest challenges can bring about the most profound change' Roisin Meaney 
  'The story was so emotional and I know it will be hard to get it out of my head' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 
  'What an emotional read, I think I lived through it all with them' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 
  'This is a tear jerker. Reminds me to appreciate even more each day I have with my daughter' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review

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  Disgrace - Global Reflections on...

  Joanna Bourke

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  Looking across time and the globe, a critical history of sexual violence—what causes it and how we overcome it. 
   
   
    
  Disgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. The book explores how sexual violence varies widely across time and place, from nineteenth-century peasant women in Ireland who were abducted as a way of forcing marriage, to date-raped high-school students in twentieth-century America, and from girls and women violated by Russian soldiers in 1945 to Dalit women raped by men of higher castes today. It delves into the factors that facilitate violence—including institutions, ideologies, and practices—but also gives voice to survivors and activists, drawing inspiration from their struggles. Ultimately, Joanna Bourke intends to forge a transnational feminism that will promote a more harmonious, equal, and rape—and violence-free world.

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  The Rage of Replacement - Far...

  Michael Feola

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  The "Great Replacement" narrative, which imagines that historic white majorities are being intentionally replaced through immigration policies crafted by global elites, has effectively mobilized racist, nationalist, and nativist movements in the United States and Europe. The Rage of Replacement tracks how this narrative has shaped the politics and worldview of the far right, binding its various camps into a community of rage obsessed with nostalgia for a white-supremacist past. 
   
   
   
  Showing how the replacement narrative has found significant purchase in recent mainstream discourse, Michael Feola diagnoses the dangers this racist theory poses as it shapes the far-right imagination, expands through civil society, and deforms political culture. In particular, he tracks how the replacement narrative has given rise to malignant political strategies designed to "take back" the nation from its perceived enemies—by force if deemed necessary. 
   
   
   
  Feola shows how it has motivated a variety of dangerous political projects in pursuit of illiberal, antidemocratic futures. From calls for the creation of segregated white ethnostates to extremist violence such as the mass shootings in Christchurch, El Paso, and Buffalo, The Rage of Replacement makes clear that replacement theory poses a dire threat to democracy and safety.

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