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  Wired Our Own Way - An Anthology...

  Niamh Garvey

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  Wired Our Own Way is the first anthology of personal essays written by autistic Irish adults.
  2025 figures show that one in twenty Irish schoolchildren are now identified as autistic, and society's understanding of neurodiversity is evolving rapidly. As awareness grows, many adults are also discovering this aspect of themselves, finding greater clarity and self-compassion in the process.
  This bestselling anthology explores the profound impact of receiving a diagnosis and highlights the wide range of experiences within the neurodivergent community in Ireland. Through deeply personal and insightful essays, the contributors reveal the many ways this identity shapes their lives – proving there is no single way of being autistic.
  From meltdowns to mental health, from early diagnoses to late-in-life revelations, and from cultural stereotypes to workplace challenges, this collection offers a rich, multifaceted perspective on life beyond the neurotypical lens. A celebration of individuality, resilience, and self-discovery, it shines a light on voices that deserve to be heard.
  Contributors include: 
  Jen Wallace
  Liam Coulson
  Nuala O'Connor
  Jane Cadman
  Eric Robert Crowley
  James McClean
  Roisin Riley
  Fiacre Ryan
  Justin Bakker
  Naoise Dolan
  Colm Brady
  Freya von Noorden Pierce
  Jennifer Poyntz
  Stefanie Preissner
  Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan
  Emil Eliot Osiński
  Stuart Neilson
  Caoimhe O'Gorman
  Adam Harris
  Priyangee Guha
  Mike McGrath-Bryan
  Aisling Walsh
  Cliona Kelliher
   

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  It's Not Just About Grades; It's...

  Dwight C. Maxwell

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  Introducing a ground-breaking self-help book that redefines the way we view education. It's Not Just About Grades, It's About Culture is a must-read for Black parents and school teachers worldwide eager to unlock Black children's full potential. This book explores the crucial role of cultural identity in motivating and achieving academic success.
  
  Based on one teacher's 30-year journey within the British and American public school system, Maxwell sheds light on why African American and African Caribbean students have consistently been held back in Western education compared to their white and Asian counterparts. Drawing from his personal experiences and insightful ethnographic study, he reveals the profound impact of cultural awareness on children's learning.
  
  This book joins the debate along with such books as The Triple Threat whilst commenting on the intersection of race, socioeconomic status, and systemic bias that significantly affects Black student's educational outcomes. Maxwell advocates for promoting Afrocentric models that have proven to elevate the consciousness of ancient Africans for many millennia.

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  The Real-Life Murder Clubs -...

  Nicola Stow

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  What happens when ordinary people, in real-life murder clubs, set out to investigate crimes, both recent and cold cases? 
  The Netflix hit Don’t F**k with Cats was based on the 2012 Montreal murder of thirty-three-year-old Lin Jun by his porn-star boyfriend, Luka Magnotta. Previously Magnotta had anonymously posted videos of himself killing kittens. This spurred horrified Facebook sleuths into working tirelessly to uncover his identity and location. 
  Other investigations include: A self-taught forensic artist, who uses computer software and coroners’ photographs to help identify victims by showing how they looked when alive. The mother who swore at her murdered daughter’s graveside that she would get the gang who had sprayed her car with bullets. It took fourteen years in the case of one gang member, but she finally entrapped him via the fake profile she had created on MySpace. The retail clerk turned citizen sleuth who helped to match a photo of a missing man to a skull found in a bucket, which resulted in the conviction of the victim’s best friend. Websleuths matched the IP address of a suspicious contributor to a lottery-winning victim’s financial advisor, which led to his body being found beneath a newly poured concrete slab in his advisor’s boyfriend’s garden.  
  Sometimes citizen sleuthing goes wrong, though, with innocent people being targeted, or accused of crimes they haven’t committed, with tragic results.The real-life version of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club is grittier, with intrepid amateur investigators delving into truly gruesome unsolved crimes in pursuit of justice.

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  Galantière - The Lost...

  Mark I Lurie

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  Kirkus Reviews 
  A well-written, comprehensively researched account of one man with connections to key players in literature and politics throughout the 1900s. ...Lurie has produced a substantial, thoughtful biography of a man previously known only through his appearances in the papers of more famous individuals, acknowledging his contributions and placing him in historical context... 
  Midwest Book Review 
  Impressively researched, extraordinarily informative, exceptionally well written, organized and presented, " Galantière: The Lost Generation's Forgotten Man" is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to both community and academic library 20th Century American Biography collections. 
    
  Rosanna Warren. Distinguished Service Professor, Univ. of Chicago 
  Galantière could have sprung full-grown from a novel by Saul Bellow: a fantastical creature whose most successful fiction was himself. 
  Publishers Weekly 
  Lurie's dutiful biography of Lewis Galantière (1895-1977), his first cousin once removed, tells a clear-cut tale of a man who crossed paths with Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce, among many other literary notables, helping them in significant ways... …an appealing portrait of a man who made his own way among the literati of his day. 
    
  The Library Journal 
  ...Lurie succeeds in constructing a thorough and well-rounded portrait that should earn its subject wider recognition —especially among readers interested in American history and diplomacy. 
    
  H. R. Stoneback. Distinguished Professor of English. SUNY and Past Pres. of the Hemingway Society 
  Mark Lurie's impeccably researched, and amply documented biography unearths valuable neglected details of the Hemingway- Galantière friendship. This valuable portrait of Galantière is a compelling tale, well-told for the first time.

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  Edward II - The Unconventional King

  Kathryn Warner

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  He is one of the most reviled English kings in history. He drove his kingdom to the brink of civil war a dozen times in less than twenty years. He allowed his male lovers to rule the kingdom. He led a great army to the most ignominious military defeat in English history. His wife took a lover and invaded his kingdom, and he ended his reign wandering around Wales with a handful of followers, pursued by an army. He was the first king of England forced to abdicate his throne. Popular legend has it that he died screaming impaled on a red-hot poker, but in fact the time and place of his death are shrouded in mystery. His life reads like an Elizabethan tragedy, full of passionate doomed love, bloody revenge, jealousy, hatred, vindictiveness, and obsession. He was Edward II, and this book tells his story. Using almost exclusively fourteenth-century sources and Edward's own letters and speeches wherever possible, Kathryn Warner strips away the myths which have been created about him over the centuries, and provides a far more accurate and vivid picture of him than has previously been seen.

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  A Pair of Silk Stockings - From...

  Kate Chopin

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  Katherine O'Flaherty was born on the 8th February 1850 in St Louis, Missouri to parents of French and Irish descent. 
  At age 5, she was sent to the Sacred Heart Academy and, apart from a 2 year period at home when her father died, remained there until graduating in 1868.  Whilst there she began writing and became an avid reader of almost anything that crossed her path.   
  Kate married Oscar Chopin in 1870 and the couple moved to New Orleans, and later to the rural setting of Cloutierville, Louisiana to raise their 6 children.  
  In 1882 her husband died leaving her in a deep trench of debt.  Despite her best efforts to turn the businesses around they were sold, and she moved the family back to St Louis and the financial help of her mother.  Sadly, her mother died within the year.  Kate, now struggling with depression, pushed herself to write and gained a local reputation as a writer of short stories that captured the local color and vibrancy of her surroundings. 
  By the early 1890’s her short stories were published nationally.  With this widespread audience also came negative reviews, controversy, and cries of immorality as themes such as interracial relationships, the rights of women and other burning issues of the day were written about. 
  Despite the criticism, which unnerved her, she continued to write though in the main her works, around 100 short stories and two novels, were not attributed with any literary worth. 
  Kate Chopin died from a brain haemorrhage in St Louis Missouri on the 22nd of August 1904.  She was 54. 
  For much of the 20th Century her work was forgotten and out of print.  It was only in early 1970’s, with the rise of feminism and the call for a more just society that she was given the status her works had long described and shone a literary light at.  She is now safely revered as one of America’s great authors.

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