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  This One Wild Life - A...

  Angie Abdou

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  From the author of Canada Reads finalist The Bone Cage.
  		 
  Includes research on the shy child, parent-child bonding, social media issues, and the benefits of outdoor activity and nature immersion.
  		 
  Disillusioned with overly competitive organized sports and concerned about her lively daughter’s growing shyness, author Angie Abdou sets herself a challenge: to hike a peak a week over the summer holidays with Katie. They will bond in nature and discover the glories of outdoor activity. What could go wrong? Well, among other things, it turns out that Angie loves hiking but Katie doesn’t.
  		 
  Hilarious, poignant, and deeply felt, This One Wild Life explores parenting and marriage in a summer of unexpected outcomes and growth for both mother and daughter.

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  84 Charing Cross Road

  Helene Hanff

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  When Helene Hanff makes an innocent inquiry about the possibility of purchasing hard-to-find books through Marks and Co., Booksellers, she begins a twenty-year love affair with Frank Doel, the proper English bookseller who answers her letter and sends along her first order in the fall of 1949.  
  They are two very unlikely correspondents: she a cranky Jewish New Yorker who writes TV scripts and lives in a messy apartment on East 95th Street; he a determinedly courteous middle-class Englishman who sends her beautifully bound and often obscure antiquarian books from the shop he manages on Charing Cross Road in London.  
  The letters, written between 1949 and 1969, capture the period and pay tribute to the special kind of reader who treasures a well-worn classic.

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  Reporting War - How Foreign...

  Ray Moseley

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  This “excellent, wonderfully-researched” chronicle of WWII journalism explores the lives and work of embedded reporters across every theater of war (Chris Ogden, former Time magazine bureau chief in London).   Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II’s daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In Reporting War, fellow foreign correspondent Ray Moseley mines their writings to create an exhilarating parallel narrative of the war effort in Europe, Pearl Harbor, North Africa, and Japan. This vivid history also explores the lives, methods, and motivations of the courageous journalists who doggedly followed the action and the story, often while embedded in the Allied armies. Moseley’s sweeping yet intimate history draws on newly unearthed material to offer a comprehensive account of the war. Reporting War sheds much-needed light on an abundance of individual stories and overlooked experiences, including those of women and African-American journalists, which capture the drama as it was lived by reporters on the front lines of history.

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  Morning and Evening Thoughts

  James Allen

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  One of the first great modern writers of motivational and inspirational books, James Allen has influenced millions around the world through his classic work "As a Man Thinketh". In the same way, "As a Man Does: Morning and Evening Thoughts" presents beautiful and insightful meditations to feed the mind and soul.
   
  In each of the sixty-two meditations - one for each morning and evening of the month - Allen offers both the force of truth and the blessing of comfort. The meditations presented in "Morning and Evening Thoughts" are spiritual jewels of wisdom, reflecting the deepest experiences of the heart. As an audio book, its mission is simple: To lift the soul of its reader "in the hours of work and leisure, in the days of joy and sorrow, in the sunshine and in the cloud".
   
  Whether you are familiar with the writings of James Allen or you have yet to read any of his stirring books, this beautiful work is sure to move you, console you, and inspire you - every morning and every evening of your life.

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  Vincent van Gogh - His Life His...

  Kelly Mass

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  Vincent van Gogh is undoubtedly one of the most influential painters of the end of the 19th century. His style was unique in that he used all types of colors in a painting that didn’t show those colors in reality and somehow, he still made it work and look like an actual shape. Different from other impressionistic artists, he developed his still lifes, his portraits, and other beautiful paintings. 
  An entire museum in Amsterdam is dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh. And even though his name is famous now, his life was tough, and he faced many fears, worries, and inner demons. Van Gogh was depressed. According to the narrative, he cut off his own ear, and eventually, he committed suicide at the age of 37. The sad reality that this artist’s success wasn’t evident during his life but only after his death, doesn’t change the fact that he is, nevertheless, a grand success. If only he were alive to see it. 
  Let’s discuss the circumstances under which this Dutch painter lived, and what moved him to go into the direction in which he did.

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  Revolting Tales - Volume One

  Todd A Curry

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  These are a few of the author's favorite chapters from the dark humor thriller by Todd Curry and Christopher Abbott. The voice-over characters in this audio version were actually performed by the authors themselves. During a recent podcast in Miami, author Todd Curry was asked to give an analogy of their recent work.
  
  "I can compare these stories to - well, picture the little skeleton guy from the TV series ales from the Crypt and he meets Rod Serling from The Twilight Zone and they eat Stephen King."
  An Author's Republic audio production.

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