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  Raising Wild - Dispatches from a...

  Michael P. Branch

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  Combining natural history, humor, and personal narrative, Raising Wild is an intimate exploration of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert, the wild and extreme land of high desert caliche and juniper, of pronghorn antelope and mountain lions, where wildfires and snowstorms threaten in equal measure. 
  Michael Branch “earned his whiskers” in the Great Basin Desert of northwestern Nevada, in the wild and extreme landscape where he lives off the grid with his wife and two curious little girls. Shifting between pastoral passages on the beauty found in the desert and humorous tales of the humility of being a father, Raising Wild offers an intimate portrait of a landscape where mountain lions and ground squirrels can threaten in equal measure. With Branch’s distinct lyricism and wit, this exceedingly barren landscape becomes a place resonant with the rattle of snakes, the plod of pronghorn antelope, and the rustle of juniper trees, a place that is teeming with energy, surprise, and an endless web of connections. Part memoir, part homage to an environment all-to-often brushed aside as inhospitable, Raising Wild offers an intergenerational approach to nature, family, and the forgotten language of wildness.

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  Luz - From their pens to your...

  Elinor Mordaunt

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  Evelyn May Clowes was born on 7th May 1872 in Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire.  
  Growing up in genteel circumstances, her early childhood was spent at Charlton Down House near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and her teenage years near Heythrop in the Cotswolds.  
  She was educated at home by governesses, excelling at German, Latin, Greek, shorthand, landscape painting, and fabric and wallpaper design. 
  In 1897 she went to Mauritius as companion to her cousin Caroline and in 1898 married Maurice Wilhemn Wiehe, the owner of a sugar plantation. She gave birth to two stillborn children. After a few years of marriage, she found life difficult and returned to England. Shortly afterwards she went by herself to Australia, arriving in June 1902 and gave birth to a son a few months later.   
  She lived in Melbourne for about eight years.  To earn a living she took on a wide and varied range of jobs; she edited a woman's fashion paper, wrote short stories and articles, made blouses, designed embroideries, tilled gardens, acted as a housekeeper, and did other artistic work. Her health was not strong, but she undertook any kind of work which would provide a living for herself and her infant son. This gained her an experience of life which was readily put to use in her literary works. 
  Her first book, ‘The Garden of Contentment’, was published in 1902 under her pen-name Elinor Mordaunt. It was the first of many works that covered fiction, short stories, travel and autobiography. 
  She changed her name by deed poll to Evelyn May Mordaunt on 1st July 1915 and gained a further reputation as a writer of short stories for magazines which display both her humour and sense of tragedy. Travel was always high on her priority and the experiences used not only for pleasure but in her writings and, as travel books, ideas in themselves.  
  On 27th January 1933 at Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, she married a retired barrister from Gloucestershire. In her own words, the marriage ‘ended in tragedy.’ 
  Elinor Mordaunt died on 25th June 1942 at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. She was 70.

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  Chinese Sketches

  Herbert Allen Giles

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  Herbert Giles was in the diplomatic service in China from 1867 to 1893.  His frank observations on Chinese culture and people form the basis of these short essays, published in 1876.  On his retirement, he returned to England and served as the Chair of Chinese at Cambridge for 35 years.

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  There Came a Day - A Child’s...

  Patricia L. Cardy

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  In 1981, just nine years old, Jennifer Cardy was abducted and murdered, her bicycle found standing where she had left it. 
   
   
   
  There followed dark days for the Cardy family, days of searching for their missing daughter, grieving her death, wrestling with the questions. It would be thirty years before they would find any answers; thirty years before her killer, Robert Black, would face any kind of justice. 
   
   
   
  Yet, incredibly, through it all the Cardy family found comfort in God. They discovered that God's love is greater than even the worst tragedy that can befall us and can be our strength through even the darkest of days.

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  Vô ngã trọn vẹn

  Ho Trung Le

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  Chúng ta đến với cuộc đời này như những vị khách tạm trú trong một "Airbnb vũ trụ" — sống, yêu, đau khổ, tìm kiếm ý nghĩa rồi lại ra đi. Nhưng nếu cái "tôi" mà ta luôn bám víu không thật sự cố định, thì điều gì mới là bản chất thật của sự sống? 
  Vô Ngã, Trọn Vẹn là một hành trình khám phá sâu sắc về vô ngã, ý thức, bản ngã, khổ đau, tình yêu, cái chết và sự tỉnh thức. Cuốn sách không chỉ tiếp cận từ góc nhìn Phật học mà còn mở rộng sang triết học, tâm lý học và trải nghiệm đời sống hiện đại, giúp người đọc nhìn lại chính mình bằng một ánh sáng mới. 
  Từ những mối quan hệ thường ngày, áp lực thành công, nỗi sợ mất mát cho đến câu hỏi lớn nhất: "Tôi là ai?" — cuốn sách mời bạn bước ra khỏi chiếc lồng vô hình của bản ngã để sống nhẹ hơn, sâu hơn và tự do hơn. 
  Đây không phải là một cuốn sách dạy bạn trở thành ai khác. 
  Đây là lời mời để bạn buông bỏ những gì chưa từng thật sự là mình. 
  Khi không còn cố chấp vào cái tôi, ta không mất đi chính mình — ta finally bắt đầu sống trọn vẹn.

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  Hunting Shadows: Peter Tobin -...

  Jane Hamilton

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  Hunting Shadows is a gripping true crime memoir by Jane Hamilton, one of Scotland’s most experienced and well-known crime journalists. The book chronicles her decades-long career reporting on some of the country’s most harrowing and high-profile criminal cases - with a central focus on the chilling investigation into serial killer Peter Tobin. 
   
  Following Tobin’s arrest, she was one of the first journalists to question whether his crimes were more extensive than publicly known. Her reporting uncovered early warning signs and disturbing patterns that would later help prompt Operation Anagram - the nationwide police operation that sought to uncover the full extent of Tobin’s crimes. 
   
  She gained unprecedented access to Tobin’s personal world through exclusive interviews with his estranged wife and son - interviews no other journalist secured. Their revelations offered rare insight into Tobin’s double life and helped reveal how a serial killer hid in plain sight. 
   
  Hunting Shadows takes readers behind the scenes of major investigations, crime scenes, courtrooms, and newsrooms. It offers a rare inside look at the world of crime journalism, the pressures of reporting under scrutiny, and the responsibility of telling the stories of victims and survivors with truth and integrity. 
   
  This book will appeal to readers of high-calibre true crime such as The Five by Hallie Rubenhold, The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm, and I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara.

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