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  Joe Biden - A Biography of an...

  Joseph Green

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  JOE BIDEN 
  Joe Biden has been a well-known political figure for decades. When he won his first bid for the senate, at only age 29, he became the fifth-youngest senator in U.S. history. He went on to be re-elected six times, becoming the state’s longest-serving senator; he represented Delaware in the senate from 1972 until 2009. 
  He would then go on to serve as the Vice President alongside Barack Obama, before he himself was elected as the 46th President of the United States. 
  This book aims to serve as a biography-to-date of Joe Biden, detailing both his life and career up to this point in time. Inside this book, you will learn about Joe’s upbringing, his childhood, education, career, political beliefs, and more. Ultimately, the goal of this book is to provide an unbiased look at the POTUS, void of any political agenda so that the reader may better understand who the President is, and what the future of the United States might look like under his leadership.

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  Cain - From their pens to your...

  Alexander Kuprin

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  Alexander Kuprin was born in Narovchat, Penza in Russia on 7th September 1870. 
  At 3 his Father died and he and mother moved to Moscow. By 10 he was enrolled at the Second Moscow Military High School and there his interest in literature began. The Alexander Military Academy followed and two years later he was a sub-lieutenant and posted to an Infantry Regiment for a further four years. 
  Despite his duties he was a now a keen writer and published his first short story at this time. His military duties also garnered him experiences for his breakthrough work ‘The Duel’.  Leaving the military he left for Kiev to work for local newspapers.  He continued to publish both stories and novels and by 1901 he was in St Petersburg becoming part of a group that included Chekhov, Ivan Bunin, Maxim Gorky and Leonid Andreyev.  
  In the years that followed further controversial works and acclaim followed.  His comments on the regime meant he was also put under secret police surveillance.   
  As World War I erupted, Kuprin opened a military hospital but was then given command of an infantry company in Finland. He was soon discharged on grounds of ill health.  
  The October Revolution saw him praise Lenin, but he warned that the Bolsheviks threatened Russian culture and might cause further widespread suffering to the peasants.  As Civil War raged he took his family to Helsinki and then on to Paris. 
  Exile saw his talents decline further and his succumbing to alcoholism. He became lonely and withdrawn. The family's poverty increased his malaise.   
  In May 1937, the Kuprin’s returned to Moscow.  He now saw his work published but wrote almost nothing new.  In 1938 his health rapidly deteriorated.  Already suffering from a kidney problems and sclerosis, he had now developed cancer of the oesophagus.  
  Alexander Kuprin died on 25th August 1938.

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  Lifeline - An Elegy

  Stephanie Kain

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  What happens when someone you love suddenly cliff-dives into mental illness? And then you discover that there may be no return?
  		 
  This experimental memoir reflects on the author’s intimate and complicated relationship with a woman diagnosed with suicidal depression, and the startling and chaotic new world of locked wards, heavy medications, and electroconvulsive therapy that follows.
  		 
  Interweaving personal essays, fragmented prose, poetry, stream-of-consciousness, and text exchanges, this collage-style book invites the reader into the mysterious world of a treatment-resistant condition and illuminates the urgency and intimacy of caring for someone with an ultimately fatal mental illness. Running through the center of the narrative is the relationship between two people whose fierce love for each other is both the tie that binds and the anchor that drowns.
  		 
  Lifeline is a testament to the importance of hard conversations, humor, and dignity in the face of a courageous battle for sanity; an interrogation of the flaws in the medical system; a debate on when life stops being worth living; and a conversation and reflection on what it means to love someone enough to go on without them.

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  The Twenty - One Woman’s Trek...

  Marianne C. Bohr

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  Marianne Bohr and her husband, about to turn sixty, are restless for adventure. They decide on an extended, desolate trek across the French island of Corsica—the GR20, Europe’s toughest long-distance footpath—to challenge what it means to grow old. Part travelogue, part buddy story, part memoir, The Twenty is a journey across a rugged island of stunning beauty little known outside Europe. 
  From a chubby, non-athletic child, Bohr grew into a fit, athletic person with an “I’ll show them” attitude. But hiking The Twenty forces her to transform a lifetime of hard-won achievements into acceptance of her body and its limitations. The difficult journey across a remote island provides the crucible for exploring what it means to be an aging woman in a youth-focused culture, a physically fit person whose limitations are getting the best of her, and the partner of a husband who is growing old with her. More than a hiking tale, The Twenty is a moving story infused with humor about hiking, aging, accepting life’s finite journey, and the intimacy of a long-term marriage—set against the breathtaking beauty of Corsica’s rugged countryside.

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  The Emerald Tablet of Thoth -...

  Hermes Trismegistus

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  What if you could access a cryptic artifact of alchemical lore believed to hold the secret of creation and personal evolution? 
  Revered through millennia, The Emerald Tablet is a cornerstone of Hermetic philosophy. Adapted for the contemporary seeker, this edition reveals the tablet’s encoded meanings and explores its timeless message of unity, transformation, and the divine interplay of all things—lighting the path toward inner growth and spiritual enlightenment. 
  What You’ll Discover in This Modern Translation:The fundamental principles of Hermetic and alchemical thoughtInsights into the unity of mind, matter, and spiritPractical ways to apply esoteric wisdom for personal evolutionA symbolic guide to understanding the cosmos and your place in it 
  Imagine unraveling centuries of mystic tradition, tapping into an ancient wellspring of wisdom that continues to inspire scientists, philosophers, and spiritual explorers alike. The Emerald Tablet beckons you to awaken your hidden potential. 
  Embrace the knowledge once thought reserved for initiates. Get your copy now and begin your journey toward spiritual transformation.

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  The True Tails of Baker and...

  Lisa Rogak, Jan Louch

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  The memoir of small-town librarian Jan Louch, whose pair of Scottish Fold cats became the mascots of the company Baker & Taylor--and beloved by librarians and readers nationwide. It all started when Jan Louch, assistant librarian at the Douglas County Public Library in Carson Valley, Nevada, and a coworker acquired two Scottish Fold cats to keep mice away from the town's new library. Jan called the cats Baker and Taylor because the names fit the felines' mild temperaments, and because she dealt with the book distribution company on a daily basis. When Jan agreed to let the company photograph the cats for a poster, she couldn't know that they would go on to become the most famous library cats in the world. It was enough for Jan that everyone who visited the library fell in love with the cats. But then the poster became a hit. Children from across the country wrote letters, which Jan answered for Baker and Taylor, and fans traveled from far and wide to see Baker holding court at the circulation desk and Taylor in his unusual sitting-Buddha pose. In this charming memoir, Jan celebrates these wonderful cats and the people--readers, cat-lovers, and many others--that came together around them.

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