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  All the Ways Our Dead Still...

  Caleb Wilde

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  What if our dead remain with us? What if closure is not the goal? No matter what you believe about the afterlife, what if the hereafter intersects with the here and now? 
   
   
   
  Caleb Wilde, author of the acclaimed memoir Confessions of a Funeral Director, was a skeptic. The baffling stories people told him—deathbed visions of long-dead parents, visits from the other side—must be hallucinations or wishful thinking, he thought. But the more stories he heard, and the more he learned about non-Western understandings of body and spirit, the less sure he was. 
   
   
   
  All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak takes listeners on a lyrical and tender quest to encounter the hereafter. As Wilde picks up bodies, organizes funerals, and meets with grieving families in a small town in Pennsylvania, those who remain share with him—and us—what they experience in the thin places between life and death. Entwining these stories with his own as a sixth-generation funeral director, and with the findings of neuroscience and the solace of faith, Wilde creates a searching, reverent inquiry into all the ways our dead remain with us. In the process, he takes on prevailing dogmas about death: from a narrow Christian view of heaven and hell, to secular assumptions that death is the end, to pop-psychology maxims that say we all need "closure" after our loved ones die.

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  With Her Own Hands - Women...

  Nicole Nehrig

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  Knitting, sewing, embroidery, quilting―throughout history, these and other forms of textile work have often been dismissed as merely "women's work" and attached to ideas of domesticity and obedience. Yet, as psychologist and avid knitter Nicole Nehrig explores in this captivating book, textile work has often been a way for women to exercise power. When their voices were silenced and other avenues were closed off to them, women used the tools they had―often a needle and thread―to seek freedom. 
   
  With Her Own Hands brings together remarkable stories of women who have used textiles as a means of liberation, from an eighteenth-century Quaker boarding school that used embroidered samplers to teach girls math and geography to the Quechua weavers working to preserve and revive Incan traditions today, and from the Miao women of southern China who, in the absence of a written language, pass down their histories in elaborate "story cloths" to a midcentury British women's postal art exchange. Textiles have been a way for women to explore their intellectual capacities, seek economic independence, create community, process traumas, and convey powerful messages of self-expression and political protest. 
   
  Heartfelt and deeply moving, With Her Own Hands is a celebration of women who have woven their own stories―and a testament to their resilience.

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  Squanto - A Native Odyssey

  Andrew Lipman

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  Taken to Europe as a slave, he found his way home and changed the course of American history 
   
   
    
  American schoolchildren have long learned about Squanto, the welcoming Native who made the First Thanksgiving possible, but his story goes deeper than the holiday legend. Born in the Wampanoag-speaking town of Patuxet in the late 1500s, Squanto was kidnapped in 1614 by an English captain, who took him to Spain. From there, Englishmen brought him to London and Newfoundland before sending him home in 1619, when Squanto discovered that most of Patuxet had died in an epidemic. A year later, the Mayflower colonists arrived at his home and renamed it Plymouth. 
   
   
    
  Prize-winning historian Andrew Lipman explores the mysteries that still surround Squanto: How did he escape bondage and return home? Why did he help the English after an Englishman enslaved him? Why did he threaten Plymouth's fragile peace with its neighbors? Was it true that he converted to Christianity on his deathbed? Drawing from a wide range of evidence and newly uncovered sources, Lipman reconstructs Squanto's upbringing, his transatlantic odyssey, his career as an interpreter, his surprising downfall, and his enigmatic death. The result is a fresh look at an epic life that ended right when many Americans think their story begins.

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  Organize Your Life - Develop...

  360K Pro Publishing

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  Free yourself from the burdens that have slowed down your life. We live in a world of clutter. It’s impossible to move around. It’s hard to breathe. Most of the time, we can’t see through the mess to accomplish even the little things. You see people who have their acts together and seem to know how to live a carefree lifestyle. What’s their secret? Is it something you can achieve? 
  Most of the time, the only thing that gets in your way to get ahead is you! Stop living vicariously through other people’s social media posts. Learn how to organize your life and develop a strong work ethic while mastering the self-discipline needed to make your life as thrilling as your friends. It doesn’t take much. And best of all, it probably costs a lot less than you realize. Most of the time when we remove the obstacles that get in the way of success, we do it without spending any money at all. 
  You’re about to dig into the little parts, the tiny hindrances, and the self-professed barriers that created the disorder and untidiness that makes more walls than windows and doors in your life. You are going to learn a few tricks to stop worrying about other people, stop comparing yourself to your friends and the celebrities that seem to have it all together. These are the table of contents of this book.  
  	Chapter 1: Introduction 
  	Chapter 2: Importance of Organization 
  	Chapter 3: Self Discipline  
  	Chapter 4: Signs of Chaos  
  	Chapter 5: Reasons Why You’re Not Organized or Disciplined 
  	Chapter 6: How to Develop Self Discipline  
  	Chapter 7: How to Curb Emotions  
  	Chapter 8: Break Bad Habits that Destroy Concentration  
  	Chapter 9: Building a Strong Work Ethic  
  	Chapter 10: How to Become Organized  
  	Chapter 11: How to Set Goals 
  	Chapter 12: How to Be Consistent 
  	Chapter 13: Affirmations Section 
  What do you think? Is this the book you looking?  
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  The Babylonians & Their Lost...

  Finley Hill

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  The Babylonians—one of the most advanced civilizations of the ancient world—developed groundbreaking knowledge in astronomy, mathematics, and engineering. But much of their wisdom was lost to time. How did they predict eclipses? What secrets were hidden in their cuneiform tablets? 
  This audiobook explores the achievements, discoveries, and mysteries of the Babylonian civilization. From their sophisticated number system to their influence on modern science, uncover the forgotten knowledge that shaped history. 
  The Babylonians & Their Lost Knowledge is a must-listen for history lovers, archaeology enthusiasts, and those fascinated by ancient intelligence.

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  We Refuse - A Forceful History...

  Kellie Carter Jackson

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  Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women. 
   
   
    
  The dismissal of "Black violence" as an illegitimate form of resistance is itself a manifestation of white supremacy, a distraction from the insidious, unrelenting violence of structural racism. Force—from work stoppages and property destruction to armed revolt—has played a pivotal part in securing freedom and justice for Black people since the days of the American and Haitian Revolutions. But violence is only one tool among many. Carter Jackson examines other, no less vital tactics that have shaped the Black struggle, from the restorative power of finding joy in the face of suffering to the quiet strength of simply walking away. 
   
   
    
  Clear-eyed, impassioned, and ultimately hopeful, We Refuse offers a fundamental corrective to the historical record, a love letter to Black resilience, and a path toward liberation.

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