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  I Kept Walking - The Unlikely...

  Minou Soumekh Michlin, Gali...

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  I Kept Walking opens in 1940s Tehran when a misguided prank leaves three- year-old Minou frozen in fear. Days later, a doctor breaks the news to her mother: "Your daughter has polio." 
  To understand why nothing is as it seems-the cause of her polio or why her dutiful Jewish mother, who was married off at 13, thwarted her dream of marriage, Minou must flee Iran and confront the psychological toll of her polio. 
  I Kept Walking is the audacious account of a bold young woman who was unwilling to be crushed by polio or the prohibitions of a conservative society. 
  From the labyrinth of narrow alleys in Tehran's Grand Bazaar to a Jerusalem hospital room, this unforgettable memoir depicts a young woman's struggle to embrace her culture while defying its taboos. 
  This immigrant story will resonate with mothers and daughters, Jews and Persians, as well as anyone who has braved the unknown and kept on walking.

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  Hollywood on the Veld - When...

  Ted Botha

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  In 1913, a secretive American millionaire, who lived on the top fl oor of the famous Carlton Hotel, had a crazy idea: to make movies in Johannesburg. And not just any movies but the biggest in the world, huge spectacles with elaborate sets, thousands of extras and epic story lines.
  Isidore Schlesinger – better known as 'IW' – built a studio on a farm called Killarney, where he set out to challenge a place in America that was in its infancy: Hollywood.
  The glamour, gossip and high drama of IW's studio fitted perfectly into a city experiencing an intoxicating golden age. There was as much action on the movie sets as there was on screen: from political intrigue and the clashing of massive egos to public outbursts, fiery judicial inquiries, disaster and death.
  Behind this mad enterprise was a maverick, a tycoon, a recluse, a friend of the famed and the connected. Schlesinger could have held his own in California but he chose as his base the City of Gold, and his indomitable ambition saw his 'Hollywood on the Veld' soar. This is the untold story of the rise and fall of the strangest and most unique movie empire ever.

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  Pursued - God's relentless...

  Michael J. Heil

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  We had lit a forest on fire... 
  We were stoned out of our senses... 
  My sister was calling 9-1-1... 
  As I watched the flames dance across the twilight sky, consuming everything in their path, I realized they represented my life. In my pursuit of pleasure and partying, I had ignited an addiction worse than any forest fire. After five arrests, a dozen allegations, a v-squad of cop cars chasing me down center street, and years of worshipping all the wrong things led me to the brink of death, I finally found hope in life. This is a story of how the initially enthralling and sometimes humorous pursuits of drugs, sex, and success cannot satisfy in the way that they promise, but there is One who can. 
  About the Author: 
  Saved from the clutches of addiction and from near-death, Michael has traveled to and shared his remarkable story in over 35 countries. With an unquenchable passion to support anyone facing addiction, homelessness, helplessness, depression, suicide or lack of purpose he has volunteered in jails, rehabs, detention centers, churches, and schools. Michael received his Master's degree in Intercultural Studies and Community Development from Wheaton College.

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  3 Stories About - Mothers - A...

  Guy de Maupassant, Fyodor...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears. 
   
  01 - 3 Stories - Mothers 
  02 - Mother Sauvage (La Mere Sauvage) by Guy de Maupassant 
  03 - Hide and Seek or Pliatki by Fyodor Sologub 
  04 - A Dreamer by Barbara Baynton

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  The Language of Passion -...

  Mario Vargas Llosa

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  Internationally acclaimed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a  biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, El País, since 1977. In this  collection of columns from the 1990s, Vargas Llosa weighs in on the  burning questions of the last decade, including the travails of Latin  American democracy, the role of religion in civic life, and the future  of globalization. But Vargas Llosa's influence is hardly limited to  politics. In some of the liveliest critical writing of his career, he  makes a pilgrimage to Bob Marley's shrine in Jamaica, celebrates the  sexual abandon of Carnaval in Rio, and examines the legacies of Vermeer,  Bertolt Brecht, Frida Kahlo, and Octavio Paz, among others.

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  Blind Without Barriers

  David Hume, Peter R Murray

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  Sent blind soon after birth David Hume stubbornly refused to live the limited life well-meaning elders and social norms expected. 'I do not wake in the morning and regret I'm blind. No, I wake and look to another win in a busy life.' To date, that encompasses years in a blind institute, two marriages, grieving for two outstanding wives, founding recruiting firms, devising marketing techniques, facing business collapse, sailing ocean races and through much of it, being the lead singer in popular bands. If you enjoy a short biography that inspires, saddens, cheers and sticks in your memory, then don't put aside Blind Without Barriers.

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