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  Pillar of Salt - A Daughter's...

  Anna Salton Eisen, Aaron Eisen

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  As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Anna Salton Eisen's memoir, Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust, breaks down the barrier of silence that was intended as a protective shield for her parents and their children. From early childhood, Anna, as a second-hand witness to the Holocaust, felt overwhelmed by the unspoken but ever-present trauma of her parents' past. Her father, born as Lucjan Salzman, survivor of ten different concentration camps, is enveloped in impenetrable grief and his history encased in secrecy. 
   
   
   
  But Anna is determined to look backwards, breaking through her father's reticence to confront the unspoken terrors of the past. The entire Salton family embarks on a journey through Poland unlocking a history sealed in silence and buried by time. By the end of her odyssey, Anna acquires a new understanding of her legacy as a child of Holocaust survivors and how trauma is revisited upon subsequent generations. 
   
   
   
  By revisiting those places of trauma with her father as her guide, Anna Salton Eisen's tour of terrors provide her with a new understanding of how her identity has been shaped under the shadow of the Holocaust. Anna confides that by looking back like Lot's wife, and by taking in the whole story, "I could carry the pain of the Holocaust and find there is more to me than a pillar of salt."

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  A Pagan Polemic - Reflections on...

  Jack Loeffler

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  A Pagan Polemic curates the evolving perspective of Jack Loeffler—itinerant wanderer, environmental warrior, storyteller, and story collector—whose true education began when he was marched into the Nevada desert one day at dawn to play "The Stars and Stripes Forever" during an atomic bomb test a scant few miles away. Since that day in 1957, Jack's mission in life has been to record peoples of the borderlands and to bring "indigenous mindedness" to the forefront of the conversation about our precarious environments and our decaying planet. A Pagan Polemic is a sweeping manifesto of Jack's core beliefs and long experience as a fierce (and funny) advocate for Nature and Nature-mindedness and against poisonous politics and policies.

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  A Life on the Toilet - Tales of...

  Kat Ward

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  Kat Ward is a survivor - and this book is her testimony. 
  Having overcome an abusive childhood - in which she was abused by family members, care staff and even celebrities - you would have thought that karma might have dealt her some kinder hands when it came to her adult life. Well, it didn't. 
  After spending the majority of it simply trying to recover from her childhood, she was eventually forced to confront that monster which apparently awaits 1 in 3 of us at some point in our lives: cancer. 
  After receiving a diagnosis of aggressive bowel cancer at 53, Kat's life was once again set on a trajectory for the worse. Suddenly, she found herself at the foot of a mountain - one that would require a great deal of support and determination merely to scale; let alone descend. 
  These are her memoirs of that very personal journey; from the initial diagnosis, through to the life-changing operations - and beyond. It's not a story for the feint-hearted; nor is it a medical journal. What it is, is an honest, no-holds-barred glimpse into the life of a cancer sufferer, and a book of support for all those in similar situations. It is a light at every stage of the tunnel…

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  Primitive Beauty: Author's...

  J.S. Nathaniel

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  Primitive Beauty: Author's Sketchbook 
  Performed by Avery Sandoval & J.S. Nathaniel  ·  10 hrs 15 min  ·  Dual narration 
  Contemplative · Intimate · Gothic 
   
  His mother kept journals her whole life. 
  She never showed them to anyone. 
  She never finished them. 
  She died. 
  He opened them. 
   
  What J.S. Nathaniel found wasn't a manuscript. It was a life mid-sentence; raw hope written in the dark, dreams deferred like letters with no address, beauty pressed so close to pain you can't tell where one ends and the other begins. He didn't clean it up. He didn't finish what she started. He made something else: a sketchbook. An act of witness. Ten hours of voices moving through what was never meant to be heard. 
   
  Patsy Cline plays on Spotify three times without being summoned. 
  Kitchens flicker. Ottawa shores freeze and groan. 
  The mold wins. The middle child sees everything. 
  The white picket fence yellows at the edges of a suburban dream. 
   
  Performed by Avery Sandoval and J.S. Nathaniel across more than ten uninterrupted hours, this dual-narration recording doesn't perform the work; it inhabits it. Poems spoken without urgency. Gothic fragments left deliberately open. Journal entries delivered in the rhythm of thought, not conclusion. Two voices in the same interior dark, arriving at nothing except presence. There is no plot. There is no resolution. There is only the moment before a feeling gets explained; and the rare company of someone willing to stay there with you. 
   
  For listeners who found themselves in Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Maggie Nelson's Bluets, or Ross Gay's Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude; and wanted it to go on longer than it did.

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  The Complete Novels of Mark Twain

  Mark Twain

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  Discover the Unfiltered Voice of America.
  
  Mark Twain was more than a humorist; he was the "Lincoln of our literature." With a sharp eye for hypocrisy and a heart for the underdog, he captured the growing pains of a young nation with unmatched wit and honesty. This comprehensive collection brings together his complete novels, tracing the journey from the muddy banks of the Mississippi to the royal courts of Europe, all seen through the lens of his signature irreverent spirit.
  
  This collection explores the pillars of Twain's literary legacy:
  
  The Master of the Vernacular: Experience the revolutionary use of authentic American speech, breaking away from stiff European traditions to create a literature that truly belongs to the people.
  
  The Sharp Edge of Satire: Witness Twain's "moral compass" at work as he skewers the absurdities of slavery, class pretension, and the corruption of the Gilded Age.
  
  Picaresque Adventure: Follow his iconic wanderers and rogues on journeys of self-discovery, where the road (or the river) serves as a classroom for life's harshest and most beautiful lessons.
  
  Philosophical Contrast: Explore the duality of his work—the sunny, nostalgic adventures of youth contrasted with his later, more biting critiques of "the damned human race."
  
  Twain's influence is inescapable, defining the rhythm and soul of the American story. Whether you are seeking a hilarious romp or a profound meditation on justice and freedom, this volume is an essential cornerstone for any library of classic literature and cultural history.
  
  Steamboat's a-comin'! Buy "The Complete Novels of Mark Twain" today and own the library of an American legend.

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  Canon Alberic's Scrap Book -...

  M R James

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  Montague Rhodes James is cited as perhaps the greatest English writer of ghost stories, an opinion few would disagree with. 
  James was born on 1st August 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate but at age 3 the family went to live at Livermere, near Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia.  
  From early childhood he had a passion for mediaeval books and antiques. He was educated initially as a boarder at Temple Grove School in East Sheen, west London, before gaining a scholarship to Eton and thence Cambridge where he gained a double first, becoming a distinguished linguist and mediaevalist.  
  Before the Great War vacations were usually spent touring Europe absorbing cultures and references for his later writing. 
  A man of enormous knowledge it was said he timed his breakfast egg whilst he completed the Times crossword.  
  Many of his elegant yet terrifying tales were created by discarding the prevailing gothic cliches and placing his characters and narrative in a realistic setting.  Thereby the stories gained atmosphere and menace on a grand scale and he was famed as the originator of the antiquarian ghost story. 
  Although story-telling and writing these 30 or so tales was a hobby, when published their effect transformed the genre and still chill the bones in our more modern times. 
  James was also a medievalist scholar and translator whose work remains highly respected. He was also Provost of Eton College between 1918 and 1936. 
  M R James died on 12th June 1936 at Eton in Buckinghamshire.  He was 73.

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