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  Little Boy Lost

  Marghanita Laski

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  Marghanita Laski’s novel Little Boy Lost is as enthralling as it is heart-wrenching. A man grapples with questions of emotional responsibility, fatherhood, and memory. Laski describes a much-changed France, struggling to rebuild its morale after the ruin caused by wartime bombing and occupation.English writer Hilary Wainwright lost all trace of his young son when Lisa, his wife, was killed by the Gestapo in Paris. Several years later, an acquaintance travels to England with news that Hilary’s son may be alive in France. Doubting whether five-year-old Jean is indeed his, and determined not to feel vulnerable to love and tenderness again, Hilary travels to France to find the boy. Amidst a war-torn Northern French town, he gets to know young Jean, as well as the town’s inhabitants. In a matter of days Hilary must decide if this charming and intelligent child could be his own . . . and if he is prepared to take Jean home.Little Boy Lost is part of the Persephone Audiobook Collection, a series of forgotten classics including neglected fiction and non-fiction by women writers. First published in 1949, this edition includes a new afterword by Anne Sebba.

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  ACT with Love Second Edition -...

  Russ Harris

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  Picture-perfect storybook romances don't exist in real life. Couples fight. Feelings of love wax and wane through the years. And the stress and tedium of everyday life and work can often drive a wedge between even the most devoted couples. So, how can you reignite passion and intimacy in your relationship, cultivate greater understanding and compassion between yourself and your partner, and bring the joy back to your love life? 
   
   
   
  In this fully revised edition of ACT with Love, therapist and world-renowned ACT expert Russ Harris shows how developing psychological flexibility—the ability to be in the present moment with openness, awareness, and focus, and to take effective action in line with one's values—can help you and your partner strengthen your relationship. Also included is new information on attachment theory, mindfulness and self-compassion techniques, and assertiveness and boundary-setting skills. 
   
   
   
  You'll learn how to: let go of conflict, open up, and live fully in the present; use mindfulness to increase intimacy, connection, and understanding; resolve painful conflicts and reconcile long-standing differences; and act on your values to build a meaningful relationship. If you're looking to increase feelings of intimacy, love, and connection with your partner, this book has everything you need to get started—together.

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  The Shadow of Evil - The Ethical...

  Davis Truman

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  The Nazi regime of Germany during World War II is known for its atrocities, including the systematic persecution and extermination of millions of Jews and other minorities. However, the unethical medical experiments conducted by Nazi doctors on prisoners are less widely known, which were rooted in the ideology of Darwinism and racial purification. These experiments involved subjecting prisoners to brutal and often deadly procedures in the name of scientific advancement and the supposed improvement of the Aryan race. The ethical implications of these experiments and how pseudoscientific theories of racial superiority justified them continue to raise important questions about the role of science and medicine in society and the need for ethical guidelines and oversight in research. This paper explores the ethical dilemmas presented by the Nazi medical experiments, the relationship between Darwinism and racial purification, and the ongoing implications of these issues for contemporary society.

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  The Myths That Created the...

  Rachel Thornfield

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Explore the foundational stories, beliefs, and cultural myths that shaped Western civilization and continue influencing how you think without your awareness. This illuminating audiobook examines how ancient narratives about gods, heroes, and cosmic order established frameworks still governing modern concepts of justice, gender, authority, and human nature. Learn why certain ideas feel instinctively true not because they reflect reality but because they were embedded in culture through myth before critical thinking developed. The narrator traces how Greek philosophy, Roman law, and religious mythology combined to create the mental furniture you inherited along with language itself. Discover how creation myths, heroic archetypes, and apocalyptic narratives continue shaping political ideologies, economic theories, and social expectations in disguised forms. Understand why questioning these inherited frameworks triggers defensive reactions since myths function as psychological foundations supporting entire worldviews. This audiobook reveals the arbitrary origins of beliefs you consider universal truths and shows how different civilizations developed alternative frameworks proving other ways of thinking remain possible. Learn to identify mythological thinking operating in modern contexts from national identities to technological utopianism. Perfect for curious minds questioning cultural assumptions and seeking to understand the invisible stories structuring consciousness, society, and the possibilities you can imagine for yourself and humanity.

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  9 True Pirate Stories from the...

  Pages of the Past

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  You have seen the films, and somewhere under the rum jokes and the parrots you suspect there was a stranger, harder, more interesting truth. You want to know what actually happened on those decks, and where the records stop and the legend begins.
  
  This is the real Golden Age of Piracy told as nine self-contained true stories, one per chapter, each built scene by scene from the surviving evidence. You stand on deck as Blackbeard lights slow-match in his beard and stages his own terror, read the ship articles that gave ordinary crews a vote and compensation for a lost hand, watch Anne Bonny and Mary Read face the court in Jamaica, and follow Henry Every as he vanishes from history entirely.
  
  By the end you can taste the salt pork, name the men who hanged, and separate what happened from what Hollywood invented. Press play, and meet the pirates as they really were.

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  The Unraveling - Reflections on...

  Bob Bauer, Jon Meacham

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  Essential for anyone interested in modern American politics, get the book that former President Barack Obama on X calls "a deeply thoughtful book" and says, "couldn't be a more timely read." 
   
   
   
  Part memoir, part rumination on the declining moral compass of the American political class, The Unraveling is the first book to place restoring political ethics at the center of the renewal of American democracy. Politics is a brutal game, but Bauer asks where does the line fall between the "hardball" of politics and attacks on the very foundation of democracy? Looking back on foryt-six years in the political arena, Bauer tries to better grasp what has gone wrong and to understand what shaped his own decisions and actions. He offers anecdotes, perspectives, and insights that are vitally relevant in our world today, including efforts in 2020 (and 2024) to defend our democratic system of elections from attack and distrust, and the struggles with social media, such as Meta, to combat disinformation in a post-truth politics. He writes about the various personal experiences along the way—the highs, the lows, and the absurd. Bauer presents a smart and serious look at our political culture and the role that he has played in shaping it. The Unraveling will be essential for anyone interested in American politics of the last fifty years—and the next.

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