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  Let's Go Exploring: Calvin and...

  Michael Hingston

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  A fascinating investigation of a beloved comic strip The internet is home to impassioned debates on just about everything, but there’s one thing that’s universally beloved: Bill Watterson’s comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Until its retirement in 1995 after a ten-year run, the strip won numerous awards and drew tens of millions of readers from all around the world.  
   
  The story of a boy and his best friend ― a stuffed tiger ― was a pitch-perfect distillation of the joys and horrors of childhood, and a celebration of imagination in its purest form. In Let’s Go Exploring, Michael Hingston mines the strip and traces the story of Calvin’s reclusive creator to demonstrate how imagination ― its possibilities, its opportunities, and ultimately its limitations ― helped make Calvin and Hobbes North America’s last great comic strip.

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  Herman Melville - A Very Short...

  Maurice S. Lee

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  Best known as the author of Moby-Dick (1851), Herman Melville is one of America's greatest writers. His achievements range from popular novels and experimental fiction to powerful poetry. His works are tragic and funny, impassioned and ironic, obsessed with philosophical seeking and attuned to the details of everyday life. Melville engaged the pressing issues of his day, from economic inequality and the American slavery crisis to the rise of science and the fragility of democracy. He dwelled on timeless questions about loneliness and intimacy, moral and political responsibility, the limits of our knowledge and agency, and the place of human beings within nature and the cosmos.Melville's life was dramatic, and his career improbable. He was born into privilege, fell into poverty as an adolescent, hunted whales and lived with the Tai Pi people of Polynesia, served in the United States Navy, skyrocketed to fame as a novelist, ruined his career by challenging religious, political, sexual, and artistic conventions, reinvented himself as a poet, and died in relative obscurity just as readers began to appreciate his genius. The scope and diversity of Melville's literature reflects an artist of restless ambition. Herman Melville: A Very Short Introduction helps listeners explore the richness of his work.

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  On Distant Service - The Life of...

  Susan M. Stein

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  On July 18, 1924, a mob in Tehran killed U.S. foreign service officer Robert Whitney Imbrie. His violent death, the first political murder in the history of the service, outraged the American people. Though Imbrie’s loss briefly made him a cause célèbre, subsequent events quickly obscured his extraordinary life and career. 
  Susan M. Stein tells the story of a figure steeped in adventure and history. Imbrie rejected a legal career to volunteer as an ambulance driver during World War I and joined the State Department when the United States entered the war. Assigned to Russia, he witnessed the October Revolution, fled ahead of a Bolshevik arrest order, and continued to track communist activity in Turkey even as the country’s war of independence unfolded around him. His fateful assignment to Persia led to his death at age forty-one and set off political repercussions that cloud relations between the United States and Iran to this day. Drawing on a wealth of untapped materials, On Distant Service returns readers to an era when dash and diplomacy went hand-in-hand.

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  Fractured but Fearless -...

  S. Irfan Ali

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  A life worth living is one full of risks, and where there are risks, failure is inevitable … but what if we could learn to fail “forward,” to grow from our mistakes, perhaps even celebrate them, as the means to keep us humble, hungry, and human? Written with warmth, honesty, rare insight, and authentic compassion for others, Fractured but Fearless is a tribute to the power concealed within our falls, stumbles, and heartbreaks—even within our shattered dreams.

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  "Elliot Page: A Journey of...

  Elias Montreau

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  Discover the extraordinary life of Elliot Page in Elliot Page: A Journey of Identity and Courage, a deeply engaging biography that explores his rise to Hollywood fame, personal struggles, and fearless advocacy for LGBTQ+ rights.
   
  From his early days in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to his breakthrough role in Juno and his powerful performances in Inception and The Umbrella Academy, this audiobook traces the milestones that shaped his career. But beyond the screen, Page’s journey of self-discovery and public coming out as transgender became an inspiration to millions.
   
  With insight, emotion, and resilience at its core, this biography captures Page’s impact on the entertainment industry and his unwavering fight for authenticity and inclusivity. A must-listen for fans, activists, and anyone moved by stories of courage and transformation.

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  On the Trail of Mary Queen of Scots

  J Keith Cheetham

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  Life dealt Mary Queen of Scots love, intensity, betrayal and tragedy in generous measure. On the Trail of Mary Queen of Scots traces the major events in the turbulent life of the beautiful, enigmatic queen whose romantic reign and tragic destiny exerts an undimmed fascination.
  Places of interest to visit –
  99 in Scotland, 35 in England and 29 in France
  One general map and 6 location maps
  Line drawings and illustrations
  Simplified family tree of the royal houses of Tudor and Stuart
  Key sites include:
  Linlithgow Palace – Mary's birthplace
  Stirling Castle – where, only nine months old, Mary was crowned Queen of Scotland
  Notre Dame Cathedral – where, aged 15, she married the future King of France
  Palace of Holyroodhouse – where Rizzio, one of Mary's closest advisers, was murdered
  Sheffield Castle – where Mary was imprisoned for 14 years at the hands of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I
  Fotheringhay – where Mary was executed
  This book is for everyone interested in the life of perhaps the most romantic figure in Scotland's history; a thorough guide to places connected with Mary, it is also a guide to the complexities of her personal and public life.

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