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  To the Ghosts Who Are Still Living

  Ami Weintraub

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  The stories of our ancestors call to us all from across time, asking to be remembered. In retelling our ancestors’ experiences of love, tradition, loss, and sorrow, we not only honor their lives, but we come to better understand our own. 
  In this collection of remarkable essays, Ami Lev Weintraub guides us on a journey to meet the ghosts of his Jewish ancestors—a people whose struggles and stories sometimes whisper and sometimes scream to be shared. Ami examines challenging questions of heartbreak, memory, restitution, and self-discovery. From Eastern Europe to the Tree of Life shooting, these stories illuminate the historical and contemporary impact of facism on Jewish communities while honoring the ongoing legacy of Jewish resistance. We explore how listening to the earth can restore relationships to lands that carry pain, how the struggles of our people can coexist with their joys, and how we can build lives of deep remembering.

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  Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

  Elizabeth Robins Pennell

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  A Dusty Tomes Audio Book 
  In Cooperation with Spoken RealmsMary Wollstonecraft Godwin by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. Eminent Women Series (Famous Women Series in the US) Edited by John H. Ingram. W. H. Allen & Co. 1885. 
  Note: This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1884. It is in the public domain. 
  Mary Wollstonecraft is the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. She has been called Britain’s first feminist. Her daughter Mary Shelley is the author of the novel Frankenstein (1818).  
  This biography was written by Elizabeth Robin Pennell. It was her first book, written before she was thirty. She was married that year to illustrator/artist Joseph Pennell. She wrote many other books: including cycling travels in Europe, art and food criticism, biographies of painter/friend: James Whistler (painter of Whistler’s Mother), folklorist/uncle: Charles Godfrey Leland, and memoirs of her London salon. 
  CONTENTS IntroductionCHAPTER I.— Childhood and Early Youth. 1759–1778CHAPTER II.— First Years of Work. 1778–1785CHAPTER III.— Life as Governess. 1786–1788CHAPTER IV.— Literary Life. 1788–1791CHAPTER V.— Literary Work. 1788–1791 CHAPTER VI. — “Vindication of the Rights of Women"CHAPTER VII.— Visit to Paris. 1792–1793CHAPTER VIII.— Life with Imlay. 1793–1794 CHAPTER IX.— Imlay’s Desertion. 1794–1795CHAPTER X.— Literary Work. 1793–1796CHAPTER XL— Retrospective. 1794–1796CHAPTER XII.— William GodwinCHAPTER XIII.— Life with Godwin: Marriage. 1796–1797CHAPTER XIV.— Last Months: Death 
  Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time; Available as never before, as audio books, for your edification, pleasure, and consideration.

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  The Twitnam Summer

  Hester Grant

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  'A rollicking, brilliant book' GARETH RUSSELL 
  'Hugely enjoyable' SUNDAY TIMES 
  'Meticulous … warm and engaging' FINANCIAL TIMES 
  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. 
  In this literary non-fiction history, Hester Grant offers a modern biography of three towering 18th-century figures at the heart of English culture in Britain and Europe. Threaded with criticism and social insight, it shows how Irish Swift and his companions turned friendship into a weapon against power. 
  HarperCollins 2026

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  Stammering Against Truth -...

  Wen Gibson

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  This intimate and unflinching memoir explores Wen's struggle to survive, and confronts the belief that people don't change. Through appalling abuse and neglect, Wen finds a way to a very different kind of life, embodying resilience, healing and transformation. 
  The story is woven through with the intriguing themes of Wen's life. With humility, understanding and beauty, she delves into the plight of a stammerer, the unbreakable bonds of twinship, and her body's need to dissociate. 
  Wen's evocative imagery transports the reader from the red dirt of Broome, to the streets of India and the mists of Scotland. She crosses the continents, often by bicycle, committing to radical political action and spiritual exploration. These pursuits help forge her growing character. 
  After settling in Scotland, she uncovers buried memories of a terrifying Queensland childhood shrouded in threats and lies, and of her father's links to a Brisbane paedophile gang. 
  'To the outside world, we were the picture-perfect family. No one would have believed me, even if I could have found the words.' 
  She doesn't recoil from facing the truth of her childhood or the unconscionable harm her parents perpetuated. 
  Wen tells how she found her way to her heart and her true gender self. In doing so, she celebrates the power of kindness. Stammering Against Truth is a powerful and empowering book that proves past traumas need not define our futures.

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  A Life of Magic - Bill Hunter's...

  Bill Hunter, Emma Lovell

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  Do you like magic? 
  Pick a card, any card. 
  Maybe you’re not much for tricks. But maybe you’ve never met a magician like Bill Hunter. At 102 years old, this World War II Navy veteran and magician has lived a truly magical life: travelling to 19 countries, visiting 42 U.S. states, and performing everywhere from the hospital ward in Sydney where he picked up his first deck of cards, to bringing magic to banquets with astronauts, golf courses, stage shows and even for airline pilots in first class at 100 years old. 
  Known to many as The Indy 500 Magician after performing in the suites at the Indianapolis 500 for 50 years, Bill has spent eight decades bringing wonder and laughter to audiences around the world. 
  Told through Bill’s own words and stories, lovingly compiled by his cousin Emma Lovell, A Life of Magic is a celebration of the  
  extraordinary power of human connection. 
  Because real magic isn’t about the tricks.  
  It’s about the person who brings them to life, and the joy they spark in everyone they meet.

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  I am Here

  Janine aka Neflah

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  I Am Here is a courageous memoir that traces one woman’s journey through displacement, betrayal, silence, and survival. Spanning continents and generations, the book moves from childhood migrations to Liberia and Israel into the deeply personal terrain of family fracture, abuse, and unspoken pain. Written with honesty and restraint, this story does not seek to accuse or sensationalize; it seeks to tell the truth. At its core, I Am Here is about generational trauma: how it is inherited, how it harms, and how it can finally be confronted. Through lived experience, the author explores faith, identity, resilience, and the cost of silence, offering a narrative that is as difficult as it is necessary. This book stands as a declaration: survival is not the end of the story; healing is possible.

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