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  A Place Like Mississippi - A...

  Anonyme

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  “This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir The South has produced some of America’s most celebrated authors, and no state more so than Mississippi. Names as diverse as Faulkner, Welty, and Ward have created a literary legacy spanning decades and stretching across lines of class, gender, and race. One thing binds together these wide- ranging perspectives—the land itself. In A Place Like Mississippi, W. Ralph Eubanks explores those ties and the ways in which the Magnolia State has fostered such a bounty of expression. The stories haven’t always been easy to tell; even beautiful landscapes can’t obscure a complicated history. The state’s African American writers have long recounted the fight for equality, forming a lineage of powerful Black voices that continue to speak with urgency in our tumultuous times. Yet underlying those truths is also a deep affection for Mississippi’s places. With the love of a native son, Eubanks pays tribute to the inspiration that can come from the lay of the land, proving that a journey through one state’s literary terrain can help us better understand America as a whole.

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  The Unreachable Riches -...

  John Harpoon

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  Throughout history, the allure of hidden treasure has captured the human imagination like few other pursuits. Tales of vast riches buried beneath shifting sands, concealed within uncharted jungles, or locked away in remote mountain fortresses have been passed down through generations. These stories, often shrouded in mystery, promise more than mere material wealth; they offer the thrill of discovery, the romance of adventure, and the tantalizing possibility of rewriting history. 
  What makes the pursuit of treasure so compelling is its intersection of myth and reality. While some caches are purely the stuff of legend—stories crafted to entertain or to warn—others are firmly rooted in historical fact. The line between these two realms is often blurred, with legends growing over time as details are exaggerated, misunderstood, or simply lost to the passage of years. Yet, the faint possibility that a hoard of gold, jewels, or ancient artifacts could be lying undiscovered somewhere in the world continues to ignite the spark of curiosity in countless individuals. 
  The search for hidden riches is not just a quest for monetary gain. It is an expression of humanity's enduring desire to explore the unknown, to solve mysteries, and to leave a mark on history. Treasure hunters are often driven by a profound sense of purpose, believing that their discoveries might unveil truths about the past or provide new insights into forgotten cultures. Some searches span decades, even lifetimes, as these seekers devote themselves wholly to their pursuits, undeterred by failure or skepticism.

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  Butts tails and rumps

  Mikolaj Golachowski

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  Discover the fascinated mysteries of animals’ butts! Is a hippopotamus hiding a helicopter on its rear side? Or a penguin – a cannon? Why is baboon’s ass red, and why does a tapeworm have no ass at all? Why do dogs keep sniffing one another, and why wouldn’t cats ever stop licking their fur? And why does the roe flash its white rump? This book contains thirty exciting and funny stories of butts, tails and rumps narrated by a science promoter and a biologist in one. 
  Mikołaj Golachowski – PhD in Animal Ecology and Zoology, traveller, translator and polar explorer. When he’s not busy in the midst of Antarctic snow and ice, he lives in Warsaw and writes about animals and protecting the environment. Author of educational and popular science books. 
  Maria Mroux Bulikowska – illustrator working with children’s and adult books and magazines. Author of two books on Warsaw dialect. 
  Table of contents: 
  01 INTRODUCTION 
  02 THE BOMBARDIER BEETLE 
  03 THE HIPPO 
  04 THE HERRING 
  05 THE POLAR BEAR 
  06 THE PENGUIN 
  07 THE WOMBAT 
  08 THE DOG 
  09 THE CAT 
  10 THE PARAMECIUM 
  11 THE WEAVER 
  12 THE MAYFLY 
  13 THE DUCK 
  14 THE PEACOCK 
  15 THE ORCA 
  16 THE LIZARD 
  17 THE KANGAROO 
  18 THE WASP 
  19 THE SPIDER 
  20 THE SEAHORSE 
  21 THE FROG 
  22 THE ROE 
  23 THE LYNX 
  24 THE SCORPION 
  25 THE EARWIG 
  26 THE TAPEWORM 
  27 THE SNAKE 
  28 THE SKUNK 
  29 THE BABOON 
  30 THE SPIDER MONKEY 
  31 THE FIREFLY 
  Mikołaj Golachowski - Butts, tails and rumps 
  translated by Jarek Westermark 
  narrated by Sean Palmer 
  illustrations by Maria Mroux Bulikowska 
  Wydawnictwo Babaryba 
  www.babaryba.pl

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  Clara's Kitchen - Wisdom...

  Clara Cannucciari, Christopher...

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  Clara Cannucciari became an internet sensation late in life, making cooking videos until her 96th birthday. Her YouTube® Great Depression Cooking channel garnered an army of devoted followers. Now, in Clara's Kitchen, she gives listeners words of wisdom to buck up America's spirits, recipes to keep the wolf from the door, and tells her story of growing up during the Great Depression with a tight-knit family and a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" philosophy of living. 
   
   
   
  In between recipes for pasta with peas, eggplant parmesan, chocolate covered biscotti, and other treats Clara gives listeners practical advice on cooking nourishing meals for less. Using lessons learned during the Great Depression, she writes, for instance, about how to conserve electricity when cooking and how you can stretch a pot of pasta with a handful of lentils. She reminisces about her youth and writes with love about her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. 
   
   
   
  Clara's Kitchen takes listeners back to a simpler, if not more difficult time, and gives everyone what they need right now: hope for the future and a nice dish of warm pasta from everyone's favorite grandmother, Clara Cannuciari, a woman who knows what's really important in life.

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  Best Wishes (And Other Things I...

  Becky Beasley

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  In the world of Gertrude Charmaine Beasley, exists the soft spoken black sheep daughter in law, Becky Beasley, married to the not-quite celebrated son Matthew. In order to shape Becky into the daughter-in-law she favors- Denise, Gertrude imparts her wisdom, suggestions, and thinly veiled insults through the passive-aggressive art form of letter writing.

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  A Journey With Orvis

  Mose Tuzik Mosley

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  In the late summer of 2022, the author finds his next traveling companion in the hot and dusty backyard of an antique shop on the backroads of Fossil, Oregon. The companion, Orvis, is an imaginary dog. True soulmates, they inspire one another to take a journey that neither could take alone, a journey of humor and forbearance, personal discovery, and egregious self-sacrifice. Together they break new ground in the annals of travel writing, finding the best and the worst of the places they visit, but always maintaining their strong opinions and sense of humor. 
  A Journey With Orvis is not really about the places they travel (from Mexico City to Istanbul, Zagreb to Paris, London to Dublin), but is more about the ‘who’ and ‘why’ of traveling itself. It helps that they travel lightly with only a small carry-on and open minds. It helps even more that one of them is imaginary.  
  By the end of the journey, it could be either one.

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