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  Herman Melville - Chapter &...

  Herman Melville

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.    
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - Herman Melville - An Introduction 
  2 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 1 by Herman Melville 
  3 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 2 by Herman Melville 
  4 - Billy in the Darbies by Herman Melville 
  5 - The Eagle of the Blue by Herman Melville 
  6 - John Marr and Other Sailors by Herman Melville 
  7 - A Dirge for McPherson by Herman Melville 
  8 - Gettysburg by Herman Melville 
  9 - The March into Virginia by Herman Melville 
  10 - The Released Rebel Prisoner by Herman Melville 
  11 - The Martyr by Herman Melville 
  12 - Monody by Herman Melville 
  13 - Immolated by Herman Melville 
  14 - The Fiddler by Herman Melville

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  Unholy silence the - a true...

  DOUG OWEN, J.M. HARLOW (FOREWORD)

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  The Unholy Silence is a harrowing true account of one family’s descent into spiritual warfare after moving into a seemingly ordinary home in Idaho. What began as a fresh start quickly spiraled into a nightmare of ghostly apparitions, shattered mirrors, demonic voices, and eerie manipulations that targeted their children, faith, and sanity. 
  Told with raw honesty and emotional depth, this memoir follows the author—a devoted husband, father, and Catholic—as he battles unseen forces that twist reality, test his beliefs, and slowly dismantle the life he built. From a terrifying mockery of his daughter to unholy rituals discovered in the shadows, every chapter peels back another layer of haunting. 
  But perhaps the most chilling aspect of all is the silence—the silence of the Church, of friends, of reason—and the silence that falls when the attacks stop… after he gives up fighting. 
  This is not a tale of victory. This is a reckoning. 
  Perfect for readers of real-life paranormal encounters, spiritual memoirs, and psychological horror grounded in truth, The Unholy Silence will stay with you long after the final page.

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  In addition to Dale Carnegie´s...

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  The Audiobook Beyond the Method of Dale Carnegie is a work that presents advanced techniques of communication and persuasion, capable of transforming the personal and professional lives of listeners. With practical examples and inspiring stories, the author shows how to apply these strategies in different situations, from a conversation with friends to a business negotiation. But are these techniques really effective in all situations? What happens when ethics and morals come into play? Discover the answers to these questions and more by listening Beyond Dale Carnegie's method.In this audiobook, you will learn how to build meaningful, empathetic relationships through advanced techniques that go beyond Dale Carnegie's method. Discover how to truly connect with people around you and develop powerful communication skills. But be careful: what you will discover can completely change the way you relate to the world around you.

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  All the Women in My Brain - And...

  Betty Gilpin

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  This program is read by the author.A lightning-strike dispatch of hilarious, intimate, luminous essays from the brain (and voice!) of Emmy Award-nominated actress and writer Betty Gilpin.Oh. Hi. *takes six long gulps of water during which you’re like, may I help you?*My name is Betty. I have depression. I have passion. I have tits the size of printers. And also: I have a brain full of women.There’s Blanche VonFuckery, Ingrid St. Rash, and a host of others—some cowering in sweatpants, some howling plans for revolution, and one, oh God, and one . . . slowly vomiting up a crow? Worried for her. These women take turns at the wheel. That’s why I feel like a million selves. With a raised eyebrow and a soul-scalpel, I’d like to tell you how I got this way. Because maybe you feel this way too.Let’s hop from wild dissections of modern womanhood to boarding school musings to the glossy cringe of Hollywood. Let’s laugh at my failures and then quietly hope with me for the dream. Whether that dream is love or liberation or enough IMDB credits to taze the demon snapping at my ankles, we won’t know until the shit-fanning end.As a dear friend said after listening to this audiobook, it’s “either a masterpiece, or it’s…completely…” and then she glazed over into a haunted stare. Listener? This audiobook is my opus and it is chaos.If you’ve ever felt like you were more, or at least weirder, than the world expected—welcome to All the Women in My Brain.A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

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  The Brave New World Collection -...

  Aldous Huxley

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  Aldous Huxley’s dystopian classic about a perfectly engineered society, and his book of essays reflecting on it almost three decades later, in one volume.   This book includes:  Brave New World: Half a millennium from now, no matter what class of human you are bred to be—from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide manual labor—you are a part of the efficient, well-oiled whole, nourished, secure, and blissfully serene thanks to the freely distributed drug soma. But when a man and woman journey beyond the confines of their ordered life to where the “savages” reside, and bring back two outsiders, the cracks begin to show…Named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library, Brave New World is one of the first truly dystopian novels, a remarkable depiction of the conflict between progress and the human spirit as relevant, if not more so, today than when it was written.  Brave New World Revisited: Nearly thirty years after the publication of his groundbreaking novel, Huxley composed this collection of essays comparing the “future” of 1958 with his vision of it from the early 1930s. Touching on subjects as diverse as world population, drugs, subliminal suggestion, and totalitarianism, it provides a fascinating look at ideas of early science fiction in the context of the real world.   “Aldous Huxley is the greatest twentieth-century writer in English.” —Chicago Tribune   “A genius. . . . a writer who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine.” —The New Yorker

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  Founding Fathers The: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  Before the United States of America even existed, the first American celebrity was Benjamin Franklin. In his career, Franklin was an author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. After having his hand in all kinds of community service in Philadelphia, and inventing important devices like lightning rods, Franklin used his unique status as an international celebrity to become the colonies’ best diplomat, first as an ambassador to Britain and then as an ambassador to France during the American Revolution. Franklin was particularly revered in Enlightened France. 
  	Every American is taught a pristine narrative of the life and legacy of George Washington and can easily recite the highlights of the “Father of Our Country”. The remarkable Virginian led an under-resourced rag-tag army to ultimate victory in the American Revolution before becoming the nation’s first president, setting it on its path toward superpower status. He may not have actually chopped down a cherry tree or tossed a silver dollar across the Potomac, but his contemporaries considered his character above reproach. When Washington voluntary resigned as commander of the armies, he stunned the world. Everyone in the colonies and the world realized that Washington, at the head of the last army standing in the colonies, could have made himself king of the new United States on the spot, and it would have been a move supported by his rank and file soldiers. 
  	Nobody spent more time in the thick of these debates than Thomas Jefferson, one of the most famous and revered Americans. Jefferson was instrumental in all of the aforementioned debates, authoring the Declaration of Independence, laying out the ideological groundwork of the notion of states’ rights, leading one of the first political parties, and overseeing the expansion of the United States during his presidency.

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