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  I Strongly Believe in Incredible...

  Rob Auton

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  A selection of the world’s most incredible things according to award-winning writer, comedian, artist and podcaster Rob Auton 
  I Strongly Believe In Incredible Things is a book of poetic prose, musings, short stories and biro drawings detailing a selection of the Earth’s incredible things by award-winning writer, comedian, artist and podcaster Rob Auton. 
  Unique, enchanting and utterly life affirming, this is a collection of pages that come together to create the opposite of the news, becoming the tonic for the complicated gin that is the world we find ourselves in today: a humorous and heartfelt book that is the ying to the yang that is politics ;a book of breathing space that gives oxygen to rediscovering the beauty of living on earth with the aim of fuelling people to return to the coal-face of everyday life with optimism and wonder in their pockets. Inhaling all we have in common, exhaling all we don’t. 
  From bubble wrap to Killer Whales; frog spawn to empathy, hand-dryers to parents, I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things wants to take you on a journey back to the incredible planet we live on. 
  Auton's collection of essays and musings, a literary form he has mastered, takes us on a journey through the best and most popular subjects of our culture. From the simplicity of bubble wrap to the majesty of Killer Whales, he explores themes of nature and empathy, making us appreciate the incredible things we often overlook. 
  For fans of Armando Iannucci (Hear Me Out), Danny Wallace (F*** You Very Much), James Acaster (Perfect Sound Whatever), Bill Bailey (My Animals, and Other Animals), and Peter Meehan (How I Learned To Cook).

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  The Faith of Elvis

  Ken Sanders Billy Standlee

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  Elvis Presley was a brother to Billy Standlee and a devout Christian. 
  One thing never changed from the day Billy Standlee arrived at Graceland and was given a bear hug by the King of Rock and Roll and their final conversation: Elvis's desire to reach as many people as he could with the love of God. 
  Billy sheds light on Elvis's Christian path in The Faith of Elvis, detailing everything from the notes he made in his treasured Bible to his problems with sin as his reputation grew to his extraordinary charity toward both fans and Hollywood stars.

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  Piano Scales FOR KIDS -...

  Jessica Gilbert

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  The piano is a longstanding, classical, and revered instrument. Invented in the 1700s by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731) of Padua, Italy, with plenty of hammers and planters to boot, the piano came to be quite popular in the homes of many a Western brood by the end of the nineteenth century. When someone thinks of a classical composer, it wouldn’t be unusual to go to Bach, Beethoven, and the like and easily associate them with piano. Many believe that piano sets the standard for musicians, laying the foundation for instrumental affinity. What does that mean, exactly? The piano is awesome. But you knew that already. Yet, what makes a good pianist great? What are the tools used to get you from here to there? While playing is, of course, supposed to be fun, sometimes a bit of direction is what we need to get to the next level. 
  The basic keyboard, housing case, lid, pedals, keys, hammers, and strings still make up the majority of the modern piano’s design and componentry. This piano has withstood the test of time and largely remained intact, with the exception of electric keyboards and some piano types. 
  How exactly does a piano work? How does it create such lovely tunes and tones? Let’s see how all piano parts work to create one of the most enduring and identifiable instruments in contemporary music.

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  432 Hz Beach Relaxation: 8 Hours...

  8 Hour Sleep Music

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  🏖️ This sleep music audiobook contains 8 hours of sleep music with relaxing ocean wave sounds to help you fall asleep fast and stay asleep all night.
   
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  Drift into the tranquil depths with Deep Sea Relax. This calming audio experience blends gentle ambient sleep music with soft underwater textures to create a serene, weightless atmosphere. Subtle ocean currents, distant echoes, and flowing tones surround you in a peaceful environment designed to quiet the mind and ease the body into deep relaxation.
   
  Perfect for sleep, meditation, or stress relief, this extended soundscape invites you to let go of the surface world and sink into stillness.
   
  Close your eyes, breathe slowly, and allow the deep ocean to carry you into a state of calm, comfort, and restorative rest.

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  Our Vampires Ourselves

  Nina Auerbach

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  Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of our national experience and uses them as a lens for viewing the last two hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history.“[Auerbach] has seen more Hammer movies than I (or the monsters) have had steaming hot diners, encountered more bloodsuckers than you could shake a stick at, even a pair of crossed sticks, such as might deter a very sophisticated ogre, a hick from the Moldavian boonies....Auerbach has dissected and deconstructed them with the tender ruthlessness of a hungry chef, with cogency and wit.”—Eric Korn, Times Literary Supplement”This seductive work offers profound insights into many of the urgent concerns of our time and forces us to confront the serious meanings that we invest, and seek, in even the shadiest manifestations of the eroticism of death.”—Wendy Doniger, The Nation”A vigorous, witty look at the undead as cultural icons.”—Kirkus Review”In case anyone should think this book is merely a boring lit-crit exposition...Auerbach sets matters straight in her very first paragraph. ’What vampires are in any given generation,’ she writes, ’is a part of what I am and what my times have become. This book is a history of Anglo-American culture through its mutating vampires.’...Her book really takes off.”—Maureen Duffy, New York Times Book Review

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  Your Worshipfulness Princess...

  Jeff Ryan

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  Your Worshipfulness is the story of how a teenage Carrie Fisher created Star Wars's greatest character, Princess Leia. Leia began as little more than a damsel in distress, albeit one with cinema's most iconic hairstyle. Over three films, Carrie made her a complicated character, beloved the world over. Then Darth Vader died, the Ewoks danced, the credits rolled, and that was that. Carrie now had the rest of her life to live, stuck in Leia's shadow. What do you after the whole world has seen you duct-taped into a metal bikini? Worse, what can you do when the secrets you've tried to hide about your inner life won't stay hidden? When you can't control the thoughts in your head? Your Worshipfulness has everything: money, sex, love, power, and romance. It's a story of addiction and mental illness, of recovery and fame, of friendship and motherhood, trying to be your best when you can only remember the worst.

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