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  S Theodore Baskaran: Tamil...

  Ranjan Kamath

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  Sunderaraj Theodore Baskaran is a man of many parts, watchful guardian, memory-keeper and nature messenger, As a prolific author in Tamil, he brings cinema and conservation to people in their own language. He retired as Chief Postmaster General of Tamil Nadu 
  After graduating in history from Madras Christian College, followed by a job as researcher in Tamil Nadu State Archives for two years he joined the Indian Postal Service in 1964 
  During his career in the IPS in 1974 took study leave to research Tamil film history in 1976 he presented his first research article titled Film Censorship as an Instrument of Political Control in British India at the Indian History Congress at the Aligarh. 
  This and other articles formed the core of his first book The Message Bearers published in 1981. His second book The Eye of the Serpent (1996) won the Golden Lotus (Best Book on Cinema) Award in 1997. 
  In addition to his scholarly work on cinema, Baskaran is a keen bird watcher and a naturalist. He is a former honorary wild life warden, the South India Representative of the International Primate Protection League and served as a trustee of WWF-India. His collection of essays on nature and wild life conservation has been published as The Dance of the Saras (Oxford University Press) in 1999. He edited a book of articles on nature titled "The Sprint of The Black Buck" ; Penguin (2009) 
  In 2020 he was honoured by Sanctuary Foundation as a conservation hero with Sanctuary Lifetime Service Award 2020 for his role in wildlife conservation and his continuing legacy of writings in Tamil and English to the conservation discourse

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  Lessons From The Stressors - How...

  Lady Lay

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  Lady Lay begins Lessons From The Stressors by recounting her upbringing in Washington, DC in the early 90s. From an early age, she exhibited subtle signs of anxiety and depression that would follow her into adulthood. She concealed this inner turmoil under the guise of people pleasing, shrinking, and collecting accolades. However, when her anxious tendencies and depressive episodes were intensified through trauma, she struggled to keep her condition concealed behind the facade of kindness and academic success. As she matured, her conditions intensified. 
  Gradually, Lady learned coping strategies to better manage her physical, emotional, and mental states. Through perseverance and self-care, she learned tools to alleviate her suffering just enough to start building herself back up. Those tools would ultimately assist with anticipating triggers, redirecting obsessive thoughts, and nurturing her overall mental health. 
  In her memoir, Lessons from the Stressors, Lady traces her journey from childhood into adulthood as she learns to understand, accept, and overcome the challenges of anxious and depressive episodes. The lessons from those stressors are shared in hopes that readers find their own light when dealing with darkness.

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  Solo Passage - 13 Quests 13...

  Glenda Goodrich

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  In her search to find healing and meaning in midlife, Glenda Goodrich undertakes a series of wilderness quests into the backcountry of Oregon, Washington, and California to discover what the natural world has to teach her about life, death, happiness, spirituality, and forgiveness. 
  This book chronicles the sacred ceremonies that connected Goodrich to the land, wove her into nature’s web, and transformed her from a woman who worked to please others into a woman who forged her own path. It is a brilliant collection of adventures—the touch of coyote fur, a snake’s kiss, a ceremonial blood offering—and a profound reflection on the healing and restorative power of nature. 
  "Glenda Goodrich’s mesmerizing memoir of her over twenty years of solo wilderness quests is an exhilarating and tender read. In moving and penetrating prose, she faces her fears, grief, regrets, even transgressions with the trees, rocks and creatures as her companions. Supported by the wisdom of the Medicine Wheel traditions and able guides, she stunningly recreates her sacred ceremonies as she more fully embraces her artist, wise woman self." 
  —Wendy Judith Cutler, co-author of Writing Alone Together: Journalling in a Circle of Women for Creativity, Compassion and Connection and co-editor of Finding Home Within: Sanctuary and Solace During Tumultuous Times 
  About the Author 
  As an artist, art doula, SoulCollage® facilitator, writer, and convener of ceremony, Glenda Goodrich brings together earth-based rituals, community gatherings, and creative expression in a search for new ways to show love for the Earth. She feels most alive exploring wild places and spending time with her two children, three grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Glenda lives in a cottage in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. 

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  Best British Short Stories 2022

  Nicholas Royle

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  The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its twelfth year.
  Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the best of the bunch to reprint all in one volume.

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  Murder on the Mississippi - The...

  Saladin Ambar

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  Murder, mob rule, and the making of Abraham Lincoln—the story of three racially motivated murders in Mississippi River towns from 1835 to 1838 that inspired the speech that put Lincoln on the national map—the Lyceum Address.Lynched: Five white gamblers suspected of aiding a slave insurrection in Vicksburg, Mississippi. 
  Burned Alive: A Black man implicated in the death of a constable in St. Louis, Missouri. 
  Gunned Down: A white abolitionist in Alton, Illinois.These weren't just acts of mob violence—they were warnings of a nation on the edge of collapse. 
  In Murder on the Mississippi, award-winning historian Saladin Ambar unearths the horrors that shaped a young Abraham Lincoln's worldview, pushing him to find his political voice in one of the earliest and most pivotal speeches of his career. Confronted by lawlessness, racial terror, and his own inner demons, Lincoln's battle was political and deeply personal. 
  From the flames of mob violence rose a young Lincoln, forged in fire and soon to contend with a nation at war with itself.

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  Brian and Arthur's Modern Family...

  Brian Dowling-Gourounlian,...

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  When Brian Dowling and Arthur Gourounlian announced they were expecting their first child, with Brian's sister Aoife acting as their surrogate, it felt like their family dream was finally coming true. Their daughter, Blake, was born in September 2022, but their happily-ever-after has not been without its troubles.
  Now Brian and Arthur detail their crazy journeys and the sliding-doors moments that brought them together to create a family of their own. Following Arthur's journey to escape war-torn Armenia and Brian's path to self-acceptance after being catapulted into the spotlight as a young gay man in the early noughties, and the sudden death of his mother, this is a story of the pain that life can sometimes bring, but ultimately it is a story about love in all its many magical forms.
  From births to marriages to deaths, and everything in between, this heartfelt memoir brings Arthur and Brian's positive and inspiring attitude to the page.

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