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  The Invention of Jane Harrison

  Mary Beard

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  Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman—as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in A Room of One's Own, she claims to have glimpsed Harrison's ghost in the college gardens. 
   
   
   
  This lively and innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame. Mary Beard captures Harrison's ability to create her own image. And she contrasts her story with that of Eugénie Sellers Strong, a younger contemporary and onetime intimate, the author of major work on Roman art, and once a glittering figure at the British School in Rome—but who lost the race for renown. The setting for the story of Harrison's career is Classical scholarship in this period—its internal arguments and allegiances and especially the influence of the anthropological strain most strikingly exemplified by Sir James Frazer. Questioning the common criteria for identifying intellectual "influence" and "movements," Beard exposes the mythology that is embedded in the history of Classics. At the same time she provides a vivid picture of a sparkling intellectual scene. The Invention of Jane Harrison offers shrewd history and undiluted fun.

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  The Sultan's Organ - The diary...

  John Mole

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In 1599, English musician and organ builder, Thomas Dallam, traveled to Constantinople to deliver a magnificent self-playing organ and clock to Sultan Mehmed III. The Sultan’s Organ is the diary of his remarkable adventure, put into modern English by John Mole. 
  Follow Dallam’s journey through the Ottoman Empire, as he navigates the Sultan’s harem, political intrigues, and the extraordinary challenge of transporting and installing the Sultan’s mechanical organ. 
  From shipwrecks in the Aegean to perilous adventures across Greece and Turkey, this historical account blends meticulous documentation with vivid storytelling, offering a unique glimpse into early 17th-century diplomacy, craftsmanship, and life at the Ottoman court. 
  An essential audiobook for fans of history, travel narratives, and the fascinating intersection of diplomacy, danger - and  music - in the early modern world.

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  Incidents in the Life of a Slave...

  Harriet Jacobs

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  Born into the brutal reality of the antebellum South, one woman’s battle for bodily autonomy and freedom will echo through the ages.
   
  In this powerful and gripping true story, Harriet Jacobs—writing under the pseudonym Linda Brent—exposes the horrific, unique trials faced by enslaved women. Subjected to the relentless, predatory obsession of her master, Dr. Flint, and the vengeful jealousy of her mistress, Linda realizes she cannot wait for salvation; she must forge her own desperate path. Caught in a nightmarish web of psychological torture and the agonizing threat of losing her children to the auction block, she makes impossible choices that test the very limits of human endurance.
   
  You will be captivated by this seminal Autobiography / Slave Narrative because it does more than document historical trauma—it paints a breathtaking portrait of fierce maternal love and defiant resistance. Fans of essential American history and unforgettable true stories of survival will find themselves breathless as Linda outwits her oppressors, utilizing cunning, secrecy, and unyielding courage to break the chains binding her family.
   
  About the Author: Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) was an African-American writer, abolitionist, and fierce advocate for the formerly enslaved. Her monumental autobiography stands as one of the most significant and detailed firsthand accounts of the unique intersection of racial and gendered oppression in American history.

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  Patmos - A Novel - An Apostle in...

  David Stoeckl

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  Come share in the journey, the adventures, and the hardships of the Apostle John, tried before Emperor Domitian and exiled to the Greek island of Patmos. There, St. John encountered many hardships, but also began a new Christian Church. Christ performed many miracles through John on Patmos - many more than most know about the last living Apostle to walk with Jesus. The story of his exile is far more alive and interactive than you know. 
  We all know John received the Book of Revelation on Patmos - the last book of the New Testament in the Bible. This novel also shared parts of a small biography, written by Prochorus, one of the original seven deacons as listed in Acts 6:5. As St. John's scribe, his account greatly added to his friend's account on Patmos. 
  This is the time of Timothy, Papias, Ignatius of Antioch, and even young Polycarp, all who appear in this book. 
  St. John was challenged, first by Rome, then by the pagan priests on Patmos, and finally by a sorcerer, Kynops the Magician. 
  Come share in these historical adventures of the last living Apostle of Christ. Your journey and Christian faith can be shared, at least a little, with St. John.

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  Indian Boyhood - A Santee Sioux...

  Charles A. Eastman

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  A Santee Sioux boyhood before the reservations: the games, the hunts, the grandmother's teaching, the winter camps, and the flight into Canada after 1862. Charles Eastman was raised as Ohiyesa until fifteen, then educated at Dartmouth and Boston, and wrote this as a physician who had served at Wounded Knee. He is describing a childhood that had already ended for everyone, in the language of the people who ended it. Fifty-five plates by painters including George Catlin and Frederic Remington follow the Great Plains and the rivers of the Eastern woodlands across the nineteenth century, the ground Eastman walked as a boy.

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  North East of Eden

  Gabor Szabo

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  ...these kids were born with a smile on their faces to two loving parents. I thought it was there for good. Then dark clouds started gathering in the Northumbrian sky. They became entangled in a justice system regulated and controlled by a right-wing, feminist cartel that wiped the grin off their faces. This book came about as a testament to the unconditional love between a father and his children; it is nothing less than a solemn promise of a father who vows never to be able to rest until he puts a smile back on their faces.

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