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  Vagabonds - Life on the Streets...

  Oskar Jensen

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  Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens—shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023 
   
   
   
  London, 1857: A pair of teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where national newspapers pick up their story. Are the girls truly escaped slaves from Kentucky? Or will the city's dystopian Mendicity Society catch them in a lie, exposing them as born-and-raised Londoners and endangering their safety? 
   
   
   
  With its many accounts of people like these who lived and made their living on the streets, Vagabonds forms a moving picture of London's most compelling period (1780–1870). Piecing together contemporary sources such as newspaper articles, letters, and journal entries, historian Oskar Jensen follows the harrowing, hopeful journeys of the city's poor: children, immigrants, street performers, thieves, and sex workers, all diverse in gender, ethnicity, ability, and origin. For the first time, their own voices give us a radical new perspective on this moment in history, with its deep inequality that bears an astonishing resemblance to our own era's divides.

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  Accelerated Learning: Learn...

  Amelia Ivy Scott

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  Accelerated Learning: Learn Faster, Remember More, Think Smarter 
  Discover practical strategies to improve your learning speed, strengthen your memory, increase your focus, and develop new skills with greater efficiency. 
  This audiobook is designed for students, professionals, and lifelong learners who want to improve the way they absorb information and transform their study habits. 
  Inside this audiobook, you will learn how to:Improve your ability to retain important informationBuild stronger memory habits with proven techniquesIncrease focus and reduce distractionsLearn new skills with a structured approachStudy smarter and make better use of your timeDevelop effective learning strategies for personal and professional growth 
  Whether you are preparing for exams, advancing your career, learning something new, or improving your daily productivity, this audiobook gives you practical tools to support your learning journey. 
  Your brain has the ability to adapt, improve, and build new connections. By understanding how effective learning works, you can develop better habits and achieve stronger results. 
  Start your journey toward faster learning, better memory, and smarter thinking with Accelerated Learning: Learn Faster, Remember More, Think Smarter.

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  Boyne and Culloden: The History...

  Editors Charles River

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  The striking saga of the Glorious Revolution is one that continues to fascinate historians around the world today. Some chroniclers have referred to these events as the “Bloodless Revolution,” but other historians say otherwise. The ruthless game of politics that William of Orange and England’s King James II played may have been somewhat bloodless in comparison to history's greatest rebellions, but the rebels, soldiers, and other pawns who lost their lives along the way must not be forgotten. The revolution would also pave the path for a series of bloody wars between England and Scotland, the result of which has left quite a legacy of its own.  
  	Furthermore, it’s important to remember that James did try to return to England, and there would be two more years of war before James II gave up the quest to regain the throne. On July 1, 1690, the famous Battle of the Boyne was fought near the town of Drogheda, about five miles west of Baltray. The combatants were the supporters of King James II and King William III, both claiming to be the lawful sovereigns of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The conflict was part of a broader struggle for the destiny of the British Isles, and though it was not the decisive battle of the war, it is the most famous, the commemoration of which still fans tensions between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. In its aftermath, James II would again leave the British Isles, this time for good.  
  	The Jacobites conjure up many images to 21st century Britons, including romantic heroism, the Outlander series, and Bonnie Prince Charlie as the doomed hero of the cause, but Jacobitism was a cause that had far reaching consequences across 18th century Europe. The Jacobites were not only supporters of the exiled Stuart monarchy, but also against the political and religious settlements agreed to across the British Isles.

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  The Path of the Luminous - A...

  Tracy Mohr

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  Awaken and Illuminate. 
  There is a light within you that has never dimmed—only waited to be remembered. 
  In The Path of the Luminous, mystic and spiritualist Tracy Mohr offers a radiant guide for Lightworkers, empaths, and seekers ready to embody their divine origin and walk as conscious beings of light. 
  Blending Hermetic wisdom, Celtic mysticism, Taoism, Egyptian and Rosicrucian teachings with modern vibrational energy practices, this book is both a map and a transmission—an invitation to awaken your sacred remembrance and live in harmony with the Source Flame within. 
  Through rituals, meditations, and vibrational tools, you'll learn how to: 
  • Activate your aura and energy field 
  • Align with the elemental trinity 
  • Commune with your Spirit Guides and the Council of Light 
  • Work with sound, scent, color, light language, hand gestures, and light codes to raise vibration 
  • Integrate ancient wisdom into daily sacred practice 
  This is not a book of doctrine, but of remembrance—a living initiation into your own luminous nature. 
  If you've ever felt the quiet call to serve the light, this book is your confirmation. 
  The time to remember your divine essence has come. The world is awaiting your light.

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  Wake the Others - A Biography of...

  Willy Palomo

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  Half-memoir, half-biography, Wake The Others wrestles with the legacy of the Salvadoran Civil War. Blending lyric and narrative, Palomo traces his mother’s childhood, war experiences, family separation, migration, and its aftermath. Political without sacrificing craft, confessional without navel-gazing, this debut collection of poetry guides readers through the quagmire of family secrets to a place where healing is possible. 
  "Willy Palomo’s outstanding debut takes a scalpel to the heart of biography as a genre, cuts through to the arteries of inherited nostalgia for a motherland, and opens the capillaries of a mama, abuela, and bisabuela’s traumas. This book is a gut wrenching family narrative of the history of violence in El Salvador and a family’s journey north in hope of stability and the possibility of joy. Palomo’s poems are an important and unique addition to the growing voice of Central American writers in the United States.”  
  —Natalie Scenters-Zapico, author of The Verging Cities and Lima :: Limón

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  Imbalanced

  Sheri Thomas

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  "Two-Pound Baby Wins Life Fight" 
  Imbalanced traces Sheri Thomas' remarkable journey from a front-page headline in 1962 to her current role as an advocate fighting to remove the stigmas surrounding physical disabilities and mental health. 
  Unflinching, poignant and humorous, Imbalanced is her personal account of juggling lifelong challenges-including cerebral palsy, migraines and brain surgery-with a successful career before unexpectedly facing serious mental health crises in her fifties.

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