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  Diary of an American Exorcist -...

  Stephen J. Rossetti

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  Exorcist Msgr. Stephen Rossetti has a very active caseload of demonic possessions, and in each case two vivid lessons consistently emerge: demons possess or harass people in a myriad of ways (even when they do not enter a body), and they are defeated decisively by the power of Christ and His Church—and especially by invocations to the Blessed Mother. 
  In these pages, Msgr. Rossetti gives us an inside look at the intense experiences of an exorcist. He shares, without hype or varnish, what it is like, on a daily basis, to face demons who revile, threaten, and sometimes spiritually “wound” him. He describes the healing power of Christ for the possessed and for the exorcist, and reveals amazing moments when Christ and His Church visibly triumph over Satan. The reader is afforded a unique glimpse into the world of angels and demons, and the struggles of the possessed and those who minister to them. In this stunning, edifying, true diary of an American exorcist, you'll learn:What demonic possession is, and is notCommon tactics of Satan and his typical liesHow God protects exorcistsThe difference between strong and weak possessionsThe hierarchy of demons (not all are equal)What it's like for an exorcist to face Lucifer himselfWhy demons choke peopleHow demons fear and hate one another too

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  The Garden at the End of Time -...

  John Hanson Mitchell

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  John Hanson Mitchell has long written about his garden outside of Boston, and about the plants and animals with whom he shares this land. In 2022, the United Nations and others started reporting the true severity of the climate crisis as the Earth passed a point of no return. All across the globe it was the worst year on record for climate-related disasters. Mitchell, like so many, felt overwhelmed. He looked to the story of Voltaire's Candide, and settled on the famous aphorism from that book: "We must cultivate our garden."The Garden at the End of Time features Mitchell's trademark blend of science, literature, and anecdote as he processes both the information he is reading from various sources and what it prompts him to do in his own small corner of the world. The story that unfolds is one of Mitchell diversifying his plantings; fighting what he sees as unnecessary local development; walking through and observing changes in the wild lands nearby; continuing to read the news from around the world; and meditating on other moments, real and imagined, when people sought refuge even as they did their part to improve a personally and collectively stressful situation. 
   
  With gravitas, kindness, and wit, Mitchell offers a model for maintaining a connection to nature even as it reels from manmade threats.

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  Fatal Lunch - The Death Cap...

  Cheryl Warren

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  EXHAUSTIVELY RESEARCHED. COMPELLINGLY TOLD. IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN. 
  A family lunch. Beef Wellington. Four guests. Three dead within a week. 
  You may have followed the Erin Patterson death cap murder case through the headlines. You may have watched the documentaries, scrolled the theories, formed your own opinion. But ask yourself this: can you actually explain how the prosecution proved it? Can you explain why the defence arguments failed? Most people who followed this case closely cannot — because the evidence emerged in fragments, out of sequence, often contradicting what was reported the day before. By the time the verdict came down, the people at the centre of the story had been flattened into a plot. 
  On 29 July 2023, Erin Patterson served individually plated beef Wellington to four members of her estranged husband's family at her home in Leongatha, a quiet town in rural Victoria, Australia. Hidden inside each pastry parcel was Amanita phalloides — the death cap mushroom.  Within a week, three of the lunch guests were dead. The fourth survived after fifty-four days in hospital.  
  No motive was ever proven. The evidence was entirely circumstantial. The verdict was unanimous: guilty on three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. 
  Fatal Lunch strips the case back to what was actually established. Twelve months of meticulous research, drawn from court documents, trial testimony, forensic records and verified reporting — written after the trial concluded. The complex forensic evidence — mushroom toxicology, liver pathology, cell tower data, phones that were wiped and the one that was never found — is explained in plain language throughout. Author Cheryl Warren draws on a Masters in Information Technology to untangle the digital evidence the prosecution relied on, making it accessible without losing its weight. 
  Whether this case is new to you or you think you already know it, this book will change what you understand about what happened in that dining room.

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  Middleton's Model - From their...

  Anthony Hope

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  Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was born on 9th February 1863 in Clapton, London.  
  He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford.  Hope trained as a lawyer and barrister and was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1887. Despite what was thought to be a promising legal career he had literary ambitions and wrote in his spare time. 
  His early works appeared in various periodicals of the day but for his first book ‘A Man of Mark’ (1890), with no publisher interested, he published with his own resources.  
  More novels and short stories followed, including the mildly successful ‘Mr Witt's Widow’ in 1892. Hope even found time to run as the Liberal candidate for Wycombe in the election that same year but was unsuccessful. 
  His first major literary success came with ‘The Dolly Dialogues’, a collection of previously published magazine pieces followed very quickly by his instant classic, ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’. He now gave up the vestiges of his legal career to pursue writing full-time. 
  Despite never again reaching the same pinnacle of success he was popular and wrote prolifically across novels, plays and of course, short stories though his writing output rapidly diminished after the war. 
  In 1918 he was knighted for his contribution to propaganda efforts during World War I.  
  His short stories are delicate, mannered and often surprising with their wit, humour and interplay of characters who say one thing and usually mean another.  He was very definitely a writer of escapist rather than serious fare but they are no less enjoyable for that. 
  Anthony Hope died of throat cancer on 8th July 1933 at his country home, Heath Farm at Walton-on-the-Hill in Surrey. He was 70.

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  Stone Breaker - The Poet James...

  Kathleen L. Housley

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  Stone Breaker is an in-depth, accessible biography of a true American polymath, James Gates Percival. A poet, linguist, and unstable savant Percival was also a brilliant geologist who walked thousands of miles crisscrossing first Connecticut and then Wisconsin to lay the foundation for the work of generations of Earth scientists. Exploring the confluences of literature, art, and geology, Kathleen L. Housley reveals how one of most famous poets of the 1820's became a renowned geologist with his groundbreaking 1843 work Report on the Geology of the State of Connecticut. The book includes historic photographs and paintings of the Connecticut landscape.Publication of this book is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

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  Crypto Confidential - An...

  Jake Donoghue

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  "A lively and dramatic account of greed, corruption, and scandal that will captivate you from start to finish." —FRANK W. ABAGNALE, subject of Catch Me If You Can 
   
   
   
  "Everything you feared was true about crypto and much worse are laid bare in this gripping and infuriating insider account . . . Funny, illuminating and beautifully written." —LIAM VAUGHAN, author of Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History 
   
   
   
  Crypto Confidential tells the salacious story of the industry everyone is talking about right now. In doing so, it sheds light on some of the most scandalous financial crimes of the twenty-first century. From billion-dollar fraud cases to international money laundering cartels, political bribery, and even faked deaths, it lifts the lid on the intricate and immense web of malpractice that crypto founders spin to trap ordinary investors. 
   
   
   
  Written by a prominent and well-connected insider, Crypto Confidential provides a first-hand account of how the industry truly operates, and how every aspect is engineered for one purpose: to make vast amounts of fast money for those on the inside, by any means necessary.

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