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  The World As We Knew It -...

  Tajja Isen, Amy Brady

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  Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives 
   
   
   
  In this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting consequences of this global threat. 
   
   
    
  In the opening essay, National Book Award finalist Lydia Millet mourns the end of the Saguaro cacti in her Arizona backyard due to drought. Later, Omar El Akkad contemplates how the rise of temperatures in the Middle East is destroying his home and the wellspring of his art. Gabrielle Bellot reflects on how a bizarre lionfish invasion devastated the coral reef near her home in the Caribbean—a precursor to even stranger events to come. Traveling through Nebraska, Terese Svoboda witnesses cougars running across highways and showing up in kindergartens. 
   
   
    
  As the stories unfold—from Antarctica to Australia, New Hampshire to New York—an intimate portrait of a climate-changed world emerges, captured by writers whose lives jostle against incongruous memories of familiar places that have been transformed in startling ways.

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  Unsolved Murders True Crime:...

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Explore the darkest unsolved murders in true crime history with this gripping audiobook featuring cold cases, forensic evidence analysis, and DNA breakthroughs that changed criminal investigations forever. Each case examines murders that shocked communities and left investigators searching for answers for years or decades. Discover how forensic evidence including DNA analysis, fingerprints, and crime scene reconstruction helps solve seemingly impossible cases. These disturbing true crime stories reveal the methodical work of homicide detectives and forensic scientists pursuing justice for victims. From domestic murders to stranger killings, each case presents the evidence and theories that continue to drive investigations today. Perfect for true crime enthusiasts who want detailed examinations of real murder cases and the forensic science used to solve them. Learn about criminal profiling, witness testimony, and the investigative techniques that crack cold cases wide open. These compelling murder mysteries showcase the relentless pursuit of justice in Americas most baffling homicide investigations.

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  Ashes - a story about cigarettes...

  Mala Mukherji

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  Ashes is a memoir by the firstborn child of Bengali immigrants from Calcutta, India, that brings forth universal life lessons that transcend ethnicity. With raw honesty and simple prose, Ms. Mukherji depicts her childhood of cultural confusion, schoolyard bullies, and the demands of her brilliant, abusive alcoholic father. She offers her mother's stoic wisdom and love for all to share.
  
  By her early 20s, Ms. Mukherji seeks clarity instead of pity and details her search for herself through psychotherapy and spiritual studies. The result of that search costs her everything. The suicide of her mother leaves Ms. Mukherji in the thick darkness of grief and sorrow. Both propel her into destructive yet illuminating choices.
  
  In time, she gathers her experiences and uses them to transform her life into the one she wants and the one she may claim in her mother's absence.
  
  Ashes shows the listener they are not alone in their struggles and that they can look within themselves to survive and grow from life's precious and painful surprises.

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  Walpole

  John Morley

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  Robert Walpole, 1st Duke of Orford (1676-1745), is generally regarded as the first prime minister of Great Britain. This is a short biography of this important and controversial  statesman by the British historian and anti-imperialist, John Morley (1838-1923). Summary by Pamela Nagami.

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  Serious Pleasures: The Life of...

  Philip Hoare

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  A new reissue of Philip Hoare's singular biography of Stephen Tennant. 
  ‘Witty and amazing … both scholarly and hilarious at the same time’ John Waters, New York Times 
  Philip Hoare’s fascinating profile of Britain’s most legendary and flamboyant aristocratic aesthete. With unparalleled insight into Tennant’s bizarre and outrageously eccentric life, Hoare presents a superb biography that reflects an age of intellect, indolence, narcissism and pure style. 
  For fans of Julia Rothman (How We Got By), Seán Hewitt (All Down Darkness Wide), Oliver Soden (Jeoffry), Robert Macfarlane (Underland), and Matthew Green (The Wizard Of The Nile).

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  Greatest Conquerors of the...

  Editors Charles River

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  The most famous man of the Middle Ages was probably Charlemagne, and few would argue that he was also the most important man during those centuries. Upon the death of his father, Pepin the Short, in 768, Charlemagne became King of the Franks, and he proceeded to create one of the largest European empires since the collapse of Rome. Through his conquests across Western Europe and Italy, Charlemagne became the first Holy Roman Emperor after a famous imperial coronation by Pope Leo III. In becoming the first Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne essentially established the new order on the European continent. 
  In a world fascinated by men like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan is one of history’s greatest and most famous conquerors. No man, before or since, has ever started with so little and gone on to achieve so much. From a noble family but raised in poverty that drove him to the brink of starvation, Genghis Khan rose to control the second-largest empire the world has ever known (the largest being, arguably, the British Empire of the 18th and 19th centuries), and easily the largest empire conquered by a single man.  
  Saladin is widely considered one of the greatest generals in history and one of the most famous leaders of the Middle Ages, but he remains a paradox, both in personal and in historical terms. A military genius, he first served other generals and was overshadowed, late in life, by his greatest rival, Richard I of England. He was far more admired by his Christian enemies, who extolled his chivalry, than some of his Muslim rivals, who fought him for control of Egypt and Syria in the 12th century. His Christian enemies continued his name long after it was forgotten in the Middle East, only to spark a revival of his reputation in Arab culture in the 20th century. 

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