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  Starting from present and going back 30 years to 1990, the book about African-American jazz musician Ron Westray’s life journey is written in reverse. The writing is rigorous—flanked by hip-hop, Southern, and ebonic dialects—and includes jazz lingo, texting-shorthand and use of emojis. 

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  The Impossible Dream

  Steph Carse

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  What you are about to read is not only the story of an accomplished man, but a true guide to succeeding in everything you set out to do.Steph has received from God one of the greatest vocal gifts of our time. But possessing an exceptional voice is not enough without the perseverance and strength of character needed to move forward—even in the face of the hardest trials.Steph has learned to adapt, to grow quickly, and to let his faith become the guiding thread of his life: to never give up and always seek to reach out to as many people as possible.What makes his journey even more remarkable is that he taught himself how to write, sing, play, produce, direct, and edit his own films and visual projects. A complete artist—a true sixfold talent.– Ted Skorman

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  Return to Eden: The Wilderness...

  Elegy

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  England in the time of his boyhood was a cold and colourless country. They had seen to that, the Autumn Men. They who had been lifted high, the old men of his country and other countries, who in the autumn of their years, reflecting on the unfulfilled promise of their youth, and their failures as yet unredeemed, feeling as any old man adrift alone on a small boat, sails broken, oars lost, swept hopelessly onward towards the deafening roar of the approaching weir, might feel, decided that too few had sweetly and honourably been called. So call out the young men, wide-eyed and brave of heart, to don uniform, bid sweethearts farewell and forfeit their future. And murder in the name of God. Until they too are harvested 'neath the Autumn Men's sickle. And the lark song is stilled as passing bells are heard anew. ------------ No longer could the innocent look to the heavens for salvation, only look on in horror as the devil poured the contents of hell over them. And so it was and so it remained until Satan, who had found refuge in the hearts of too many, was cast out and the women had cried.."enough!!" ---------- And on countless memorials in towns and villages across the cold and colourless country, new names were added to the old and memorials once again were baptised with tears of the innocent for the innocent. And in the great city as the weak winter sunshine filters through the mists of an early November morning, the Autumn Men in their black coats and polished shoes still stand, shameless, in solemn line to bow their heads and lay poppy-lit wreaths, mankind's apology to its youth. ---------- This then was the wasteland of his boyhood. One from which he would spend the rest of his life trying to escape.

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  Winter Notes on Summer Impressions

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  In June 1862, Dostoevsky left St. Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia.
  
  Over the course of his journey he visited a number of major cities, including Berlin, Paris, London, Florence, Milan, and Vienna. His impressions on what he saw, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, were first published in the February 1863 issue of "Vremya" (Time), the periodical he edited, and are collected here.
  
  Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer who had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction. He is commonly regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived, penning classics that include: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov. His ideas profoundly shaped literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism.

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  KNOW ABOUT "Voltaire" - A French...

  Saurabh Singh Chauhan

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  This is small introduction of the book: In the annals of intellectual history, the name "Voltaire" stands as a beacon of enlightenment, a multifaceted figure whose life and ideas continue to shape our understanding of the world. François-Marie Arouet, better known by his pen name Voltaire, emerged as a pivotal force in 18th-century France, leaving an indelible mark as a writer, historian, and philosopher. 
  Born on November 21, 1694, in the heart of Paris, Voltaire's journey traversed the corridors of power, the confines of prison walls, and the intellectual salons of Europe. His story unfolds against the backdrop of a time marked by profound social and philosophical transformations—the Enlightenment. 
  As we embark on this exploration of Voltaire's life, we delve into the tumultuous yet captivating events that shaped his character and fueled his intellectual pursuits. From his early years at the Jesuit College Louis-le-Grand to the transformative sojourn in England, where he imbibed the spirit of liberty and reason, each chapter in Voltaire's life reads like a riveting narrative. 
  In Chapter 2, "Birth and Early Life - 1694," we delve into the origins of this influential thinker, exploring the circumstances of his birth and the early influences that set the stage for his intellectual curiosity. Chapter 3, "His Education," uncovers the formative years of Voltaire's learning, providing insights into the foundations that would support his later literary and philosophical endeavors.

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  Home Movies

  Michael Wheaton

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  Home Movies is an essay about the day-to-day realities and unrealities of its author’s hypermediated consumer life as a teacher and parent in Orlando, Florida. In each of the essay’s seven sections, Wheaton explores his relationships to new media and old tech, and the people around him, with thoughtful ambivalence and humor. Altogether, the various threads of Home Movies—image, tangibility, fame, nostalgia, simulation, marijuana, and cinema history—pull together into a moving attempt to accept the tensions between watching/being watched and life/art.

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