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  A Mind to Silence and other...

  Anwuli Onjogwu

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  A woman who carries her fate and that of her community in her hair is beguiled by the deceptive designs of Europeans out to colonise her most prized possession. A man finds happiness in the reincarnation of a lost love. A young woman risks her life for freedom through the cultural practice of a human loan scheme.
  Tales of sacrifice, love, freedom, self-discovery and loss fill the pages of this larger-than-life tapestry of stories from across Africa and its diaspora. Forged in a diversity of tempers and forms, these stories range from the epistolary to the experimental, from mysteries, noirs and political thrillers to speculative fiction and futurism, and much more. In prose that moves from visual and lyrical to gritty and visceral, these writers explore fate, memory, the fragility of love and the duplicitous nature of human interactions

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  Forgotten Authors The - Volume 5...

  the Brors Grimm, Beatrice...

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  Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. 
  In literature the ambition is much narrower.  In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published.  And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.  Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be published in any great number. 
  In the 15th Century Gutenberg’s printing press began the revolution to address the second and by the 19th century had gathered pace with startling speed and mass distribution.  Education for the many was brought in to help people understand more of their world and, with new skills, how to have a better place within it.  Now, if the powers that owned the presses and means of distribution agreed an audience would now be able to avail themselves of your ideas, your printed words.  
  Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves.   
  But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age. 
  Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves.    
  But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age. 
  In this volume we offer up a small selection of those talents whose time has now come again.

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  After

  Nikki Gemmell

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  Australia's bravest and most honest writer explores the devastating aftermath of her elderly mother's decision to end her own life. 
   Nikki Gemmell's world changed forever in October 2015 when the body of her elderly mother was found and it became clear she had decided to end her own life. After the immediate shock and devastation came the guilt and the horror, for Nikki, her family, relatives and friends. No note was left, so the questions that Elayn's death raised were endless. Was the decision an act of independence or the very opposite? Was it a desperate act driven by hopelessness and anger, or was her euthanasia a reasoned act of empowerment?After is the story of Elayn Gemmell - and the often difficult, prickly relationship between mothers and daughters, and how that changes over time. As anguished as it truthful, as powerful as it is profound, After is about life, death, elderly parents, mothers and daughters, hurt and healing, and about how little, sometimes, we know the ones we love the most.A deeply intimate, fiercely beautiful, blazingly bold and important book.'A bold work of nonfiction ... a work that will raise questions and start conversations' Bookseller + Publisher'Compassion, humanity and love shines through every page' Caroline Overington

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  Coleridge Poems

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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  Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including "suspension of disbelief". He had a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson and American transcendentalism. (Ack.Wikipedia) This audiobook has the following poems rendered by Dr.N.Ramani, a Professor in English and a well known academician from India. 
  Christabel	Constancy to an Ideal Object	Dejection: An Ode	The Eolian Harp	Fragment 10: The Three Sorts of Friends	Fragment 1: Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud	Fragment 2: I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish	Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind	Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood	Fragment 5: Whom should I choose for my Judge?	Fragment 6: The Moon, how definite its orb!	Fragment 7: When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt	Fragment 8: Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn	Fragment 9: The Netherlands	France: An Ode	Frost at Midnight	Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni	Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath	Kubla Khan	Love	Love's Apparition and	Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance	Lyrical Ballads (1798)	On Donne's Poem "To a Flea"	On Donne's Poetry	Something Childish, but Very Natural	The Good, Great Man	The Knight's Tomb	The Nightingale	The Pains of Sleep	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)	This Lime-tree Bower my Prison	To Asra	Work without Hope	Youth and Age

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  The Stories We Tell - Every...

  Joanna Gaines

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  READ BY THE AUTHOR 
  AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
  Imagine if all the worn-out, untrue, painful chapters of our lives started to quiet, and the beautiful, unique pieces of who we are were to rise. Imagine if the stories we tell brought us back to our true selves, back to one another. Imagine if they spoke of how we loved and lost and tried our best. How we saw it all, even the parts that hurt.Joanna Gaines' new book, The Stories We Tell, invites us on an authentic and deeply vulnerable journey into her story—and helps shine a light on the beauty of our own—guiding us to release the weights that hold us back so we may live and share our story in truth.We've all dropped anchor in places that suited us for a time: a city, a perspective, a lie we mistook as truth. This book is an invitation to a kind of life where you know how to hold what you believe—about yourself and the quiet worlds behind the people you pass—with gracious and open hands. To see your story as greater than any past or future thing, but for all the beauty and joy and hope it holds today.It’s an invitation to take stock of the chapters you’ve lived—the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly—glean what’s gold, and carry only that forward. Let it slow your feet and steady your life-in-motion so you can see where you stand today from a new point of view. No longer through weary or uncertain eyes, but a lens brimming with hope.—————"The only way to break free was to rewrite my story. Because something would happen every time my pen stopped: It was like my soul was coming back to my body. Like the deepest parts of me that got knocked around and drowned out by all the crap I let the world convince me about who I was came back to the surface. And what was left was only what was real and true. I was, finally, standing in the fullness of my story. I felt hopeful. I felt full. Our story may crack us open, but it also pieces us back together.We all have a story to tell. This happens to be mine—every chapter a window into who I am, the journey I’m on, and the season I’m in right now. Because this is my story, maybe you won’t always relate, or maybe it will feel like you’re looking in a mirror. Whatever we have in common and whatever differences lie between us, I only hope my story can help shine a light on the beauty of yours. That my own soul work will stir something of your own. And that by the time you get to the end of my story, you’re also holding the beautiful beginnings of your own.A story only you can tell. And I hope that you will."-Joanna

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  The Guided Author - A leader's...

  Moustafa Hamwi, Dr. Marshall...

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  AUTHOR = AUTHORITY 
  Do you want to:Share your story and leave a legacyAttract clients that you like and scale your businessBecome an authority in your field and build an international personal brand 
  Then becoming an author is the answer! 
  BUT, if you're like most busy leaders, you don't have the time or the writing skills, and you're not even sure how to publish. 
  Those challenges probably kept you saying "tomorrow" for a few years. 
  IF you are serious about spreading your message then The Guided Author System will help you finish the first draft of your book in as little as 30 working hours! 
  This book will guide you step by step on how to:Define your book strategy and get laser-focused on your nicheEasily structure your chapters using the blueprinting systemProduce powerful content by recording just 15 minutes per chapterPublish independently so you do not knock on the doors of traditional publishersLaunch your book and leverage it to dominate your market as a thought leader 
  Moustafa Hamwi is a multiple bestselling author, speaker, executive coach, and the founder of Passionpreneur Publishing - and he doesn't even like writing! 
  He popularized the phrase "Author = Authority" and developed The Guided Author System by distilling expertise from some of the finest bestselling authors. 
  Leaders paid tens of thousands of dollars to get coached on this system, but now it's available for you in this book 
  You have a message to share. The world is waiting for your book.

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