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  Ásatrú for Beginners

  Melissa Smith

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  What is Ásatrú? What is heathenism?Is paganism what mass media portrays it to be?If any of these questions have ever crossed your mind, or if you’re curious about Ásatrú, you’ve come to the right place.You’ll learn all about ancient Norse paganism and its modern revival through Ásatrú. This audiobook covers everything from Norse mythology and the Norse pantheon, as well as rituals and practices.Most importantly, you’ll learn all about the complete freedom Ásatrú offers its practitioners. At its core, Ásatrú focuses on you and your well-being.Ásatrú is freedom.It releases us from obligation and aims to foster an open and welcoming relationship between us and the gods we honor.Ásatrú is not about service or servitude. It is about honoring yourself and those who came before you.Here is just a tiny fraction of what you’ll discover:The History and Mythology of ÁsatrúKey Characteristics of Paganism and HeathenryThe Ins and Outs of HeathenryThe General Structure of ÁsatrúWhat Does It Mean to Be a Modern-Day Heathen?The Heathen Perspective vs Common PerspectivesThe Virtues of ÁsatrúThe Importance of Rituals in ÁsatrúAnd much more!Would you like to know more? Buy this audiobook now and start this amazing journey

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  Letters from Wales - Memories...

  Sam Adams

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  'Letters from Wales stands alone as an invaluable guide to Welsh writing.' – Sam Young, Wales Arts Review
  'In these columns, as impressive for their depth as they are for their intellectual breadth, Adams analyses the work of acclaimed Welsh writers ... with scholarly panache' – Joshua Rees, Buzz Magazine
  'illuminating and entertaining' – Jon Gower, Nation.Cymru
  Since 1996, Sam Adams's 'Letter from Wales' column has been appearing in PN Review, one of the most highly-regarded UK poetry magazines, offering insight and appreciation of Welsh writing, culture and history. This landmark volume collects these letters – a quarter century of work – and offers one of the most unique, independent and passionate critical voices on the writing and cultural output of Wales during this period.
  Here you will find erudite appreciations of the work of a wide range of recent and contemporary Welsh writers from Gillian Clarke to Roland Mathias, RS Thomas to Rhian Edwards. Alongside this, Adams offers us lyric essays to Welsh history, and clear-eyed examinations of the institutions of Welsh culture. Collected for the first time in this volume, the 'letters' are among the most significant and sustained attempts during this period to present Welsh writing to an audience throughout the UK and beyond.

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  The Twitnam Summer

  Hester Grant

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  'A rollicking, brilliant book' GARETH RUSSELL, author of Queen James 
  'A very fine piece of biographical work, erudite but accessible' JOHN STUBBS, author of Jonathan Swift  
  A rollicking narrative history set during the extraordinary summer of 1726 when Jonathan Swift arrived in London from Dublin, with a draft of Gulliver’s Travels in his bag. 
  Jonathan Swift settled into his great friend Alexander Pope’s new house on the river at Twickenham (or Twitnam as they liked to call it), and joined by John Gay, the trio of Scriblerus Club writers spent a delightful and creative summer, pushing each other to new satirical heights (The Dunciad and The Beggar’s Opera also ensued), exploring the gardens and houses of their aristocratic friends and thinking up ways to torment Robert Walpole’s corrupt Whig administration without going to jail. 
  An unlikely threesome in many ways – Swift was 20 years older, and Gay was as large and indolent as Pope was tiny and restless – “the three Yahoos of Twittenham” were unmarried and took great emotional and intellectual succour from their friendship. 
  The three of them added up to more than the sum of their considerable parts and, as well as being a brilliant evocation of the radical rage, the joy and stench of early eighteenth century life, The Twitnam Summer is also a very moving portrait of male friendship. 
  Rooted in 18th century Britain, this literary work of non-fiction history maps the social networks that sustained these English and Irish figures as they wrote, argued, and plotted their next provocation. Blending biography with criticism, it delivers the best, top-tier portrait of how their modern reputations were forged. 
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  Someone to Love

  Robert Lewis

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  Dennis Childres enjoys his freedom. He has his own house, works his own hours, and stars in taboo gay sex scenes for the company he and his best friend own. From the outside, Dennis has it all. But deep down, he isn’t happy. Even tailored to his personal taste, the porn star's life is missing something ... or maybe someone. He wants a person to love and he's willing to search anywhere to find them. 
  What Dennis doesn't know is that lurking in a strange corner of the internet, there is someone who loves him. Someone who would do anything for him. Even kill. 
  Certain the adult film actor is the only one who can purge the evil from his soul, this stalker is poised to take his strange obsession from behind the computer and straight into Dennis' perfect world. Will the hopeless romantic discover the truth about his super fan in time or will his lustful quest to find the ideal man become a fight for his life? 
  Reader Advisory: Someone to Love is a thrilling, action-packed adventure which contains graphic depictions of sex, abuse, drug use, and simulated incest.

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  Wordslut - A Feminist Guide to...

  Amanda Montell

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  “As funny as it is informative, this book will have you laughing out loud while you contemplate the revolutionary power of words.” —Camille Perri, author of The Assistants and When Katie Met Cassidy 
  A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us. 
  The word bitch conjures many images for many people, but it is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman. Even before its usage to mean a female canine, bitch didn’t refer to gender at all—it originated as a gender-neutral word meaning genitalia. A perfectly innocuous word devolving into a female insult is the case for tons more terms, including hussy—which simply meant housewife—or slut, which meant an untidy person and was also used to describe men. These words are just a few among history’s many English slurs hurled at women. 
  Amanda Montell, reporter and feminist linguist, deconstructs language—from insults and cursing, gossip, and catcalling to grammar and pronunciation patterns—to reveal the ways it has been used for centuries to keep women and other marginalized genders from power. Ever wonder why so many people are annoyed when women talk with vocal fry or use the word like as a filler? Or why certain gender-neutral terms stick and others don’t? Or where stereotypes of how women and men speak come from in the first place? 
  Montell effortlessly moves between history, science, and popular culture to explore these questions and more—and how we can use the answers to effect real social change. Her irresistible humor shines through, making linguistics not only approachable but both downright hilarious and profound, demonstrated in chapters such as:Slutty Skanks and Nasty Dykes: A Comprehensive List of Gendered InsultsHow to Embarrass the Shit Out of People Who Try to Correct Your GrammarFuck it: An Ode to Cursing While FemaleCyclops, Panty Puppet, Bald Headed Bastard and 100+ Other Things to Call Your Genitalia 
  Wordslut gets to the heart of our language, marvels at its elasticity, and sheds much-needed light into the biases that shadow women in our culture and our consciousness. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  Autumn Walk with Deborah

  Aline Kilmer

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  Librivox volunteers bring you eight readings of An Autumn Walk with Deborah by Aline Kilmer. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 12, 2014.

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