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  1939: the world catches fire -...

  Quentin Drummond Anderson

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  1939: The World Catches Fire The Second World War: A Seven-Volume Series, Volume One Quentin Drummond Anderson 
  The last summer ended on a September morning. By nightfall, the world had changed beyond retrieval. 
  In the opening volume of his landmark seven-volume narrative history of the Second World War, Quentin Drummond Anderson — author of War Beneath the Waves, The Fearless Fifteen, and Warriors of the First Nations — brings the year that started everything to devastating life. From the final, luminous weeks of an uneasy European peace to the closing days of a winter in which Finland was holding back the Red Army against all probability, 1939: The World Catches Fire tells the full story of how the world stumbled into the most destructive conflict in human history. 
  Poland is destroyed in thirty-five days. The Atlantic opens as a killing ground. A pocket battleship hunts the South Atlantic and meets its end with a grace that the war it belongs to does not deserve. A garrison of 182 men holds a peninsula for seven days against everything Germany can throw at them. Codebreakers take their posts in a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire. Refugees run for borders that are closing faster than they can reach them. And in the chancelleries and the war rooms and the ordinary streets of a dozen nations, men and women try to understand what has happened to the world they were living in last summer. 
  1939: The World Catches Fire is history written at the pace of events — immediate, authoritative, and deeply human. Drawing on the full range of primary sources, from the diaries of Churchill and Guderian to the testimony of Polish survivors and Finnish ski troops, Drummond Anderson delivers military history at its highest: the grand strategic sweep and the individual life, held in the same hand, illuminating each other.

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  Louis XIV -

  Santiago Machain

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This book offers a complete and profoundly human portrait of Louis XIV of France, the celebrated Sun King, from his childhood marked by the Fronde to his final days dominated by illness, mourning, and concern for the future of his kingdom. Through this second installment, the reader traverses the construction of absolute power, the birth of Versailles as a political stage, the wars that led France to glory and exhaustion, the intimate life of the monarch with his family and his lovers, the cultural brilliance of the seventeenth century, and the religious decisions that left a legacy of intolerance and exile.

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  The Tragedy of White Injustice

  Marcus Garvey

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  Marcus Garvey's The Tragedy of White Injustice is a powerful indictment of white racism and colonialism.Garvey argues that the white race has a long history of oppressing and exploiting non-white people all over the world, and that white racism is not simply a matter of individual prejudice, but rather a deeply ingrained system of oppression that is maintained by white institutions and social structures.Garvey also discusses the impact of white racism on Black people, arguing that it has caused them to suffer physical, psychological, and spiritual damage, and has prevented them from reaching their full potential.Garvey's book is a call to action for Black people to unite and resist oppression, and to build their own institutions and economies so that they can achieve self-determination.

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  Brave and Bold: 100 Years of the...

  Nell Frizzell, The Kenwood...

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  A hundred years. Thousands of women. One extraordinary pond. 
  I have learned about peacocks and terrapins, giant cobras and booming widgeons; I have heard about celebrity spottings and al-fresco lovemaking and digestive biscuits. These things make up the history of the Ladies’ Pond, but they also give us an insight into a hundred years of women’s lives. 
  From code breakers to cake bakers, I have learned that there is no such thing as a ‘normal woman’; and over the last hundred years the Pond has played host to thousands of remarkable people. 
  For a century, the Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead Heath has welcomed women from every walk of life: artists and activists, swimmers and sunbathers, friends and free spirits. As Britain’s most famous female open-air swimming spot, a pocket of wildness tucked away in the middle of the city, it has long attracted adventurous swimmers from all over the UK and the wider world. 
  Brave and Bold celebrates one hundred years of this beloved London landmark through the rhythm of a single swimming year, from frozen Januarys to sun-drenched midsummers; through friendships, feminist activism and the exhilaration of open water. 
  Created in collaboration with the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association and rich with previously unseen archive material and new interviews – from Dolly Alderton and Amy Liptrot to lifelong swimmers of every era – this is far more than the story of one pond. It’s a story of community, women and wild water across a century of social and political change, from suffragettes to soap stars, war to liberation, and shared flasks of tea to acts of quiet rebellion. 
  Brave and Bold is both a love letter to Hampstead Heath and to every woman who has ever felt most at home bobbing about in open water. 
  Brave and Bold is non-fiction with the warmth of autobiography, attentive to nature and to the ponds, habitats and ecosystems that make the Ladies’ Pond feel like a world apart. Through that lens, feminism becomes a daily practice—held in friendships, rituals, and the simple bravery of stepping into open water. 
  For fans of Dolly Alderton (Everything I Know About Love), Sara Pascoe (Animal), and Daisy Buchanan (How to Be a Grown-Up). 
  HarperCollins 2026

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  The Lie Behind Follow Your Passion

  Owen Blackwood

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Is following your passion actually the worst career advice ever given? Owen Blackwood dissects the passion myth in this essential audiobook for anyone making career decisions or feeling lost professionally. Discover why most successful people developed passion through mastery rather than discovering it through soul-searching. Through case studies and research on career satisfaction, Blackwood reveals how the passion hypothesis misleads millions into poor choices and chronic dissatisfaction. Learn why introspection about what you love rarely predicts what will actually fulfill you long-term in the working world. This guide examines how passion culture benefits certain industries while leaving followers frustrated, broke, and confused. Understand the alternative approach of building rare and valuable skills that create career capital and genuine engagement. Blackwood provides practical frameworks for making career decisions based on evidence rather than feelings that change constantly. Whether you are choosing a career path, considering a major change, or wondering why dream jobs disappoint, this audiobook offers clarity. Stop waiting to discover your calling and start building capabilities that generate both income and satisfaction. Perfect for pragmatic individuals tired of vague advice about pursuing dreams and ready for strategic thinking about creating meaningful work regardless of initial passion.

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  Tarot and the Psychology of the...

  Mariana Louis

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  Tarot and the Psychology of the Soul is part classic guidebook, part provoking how-to, with a dash of stirring tarot philosophy. With a focus on inspiration and inclusivity for all tarot levels, it begins by establishing how we can view the cards as reflections of the psyche and walks readers through how to use the cards for inner work and shadow work.Though we turn to it for answers and solutions, the true power of the tarot is as a mirror. With the right approach, it reflects the tapestry of our psyches, illuminating both conscious will and unconscious longing. It teaches us to befriend our shadows, evoke our imaginations, and attune to the soul’s quiet directive: How am I meant to live?With a tone that is both scholarly and soulful, Mariana Louis guides tarotists—whether beginners or seasoned practitioners—through the archetypal approach. Alongside archetypal interpretations of the cards, she grounds readers in the foundations of depth psychology, inner work techniques, and methods of reading. The following topics are also covered:Psycho-spiritual meanings and approaches to the Major and Minor ArcanaA breakdown of how to apply all that the reader has learnedGuidance on how to prepare for readings and how the cards communicateMore than a manual for reading the cards, it is an initiation into their archetypal depth. Tarot and the Psychology of the Soul invites you to use the tarot as a living language of the psyche, helping you listen to your intuitive wisdom, embrace your wholeness, and awaken the answers waiting within.

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