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  Buried Treasure Volume 2 -...

  Dan Hagerty

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  Buried Treasure is a colorful smorgasboard of music. Revered musicians, actors, and pop culture icons each contribute their favourite albums to create a fantastically eclectic collection.

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  The Power of Poetry in Uncertain...

  Jane Hirshfield

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  In this time of global uncertainty good poems can soften the heart and help us face another day with curiosity, wonder and hope. It gives us another lens to view the world and helps bring what is often unseen into view. Poetry opens us to feel our connection to one another and to nature. It gives us the opportunity to recalibrate our perspective on our place in the world.

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  Owning Our Dreams is an Ultimate...

  Jonas Koffler

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  It’s absurd that we’d prioritize owning the hottest new device, a cool car, or a trendy toy over owning a dream that makes us feel most alive and most engaged. Our dream may be waking up in the morning to do some kind of work that excites us, a calling we must do. Or, it might be having the ability to work remotely and choose the working hours that align with our natural schedule. It could be to publish a book or start a new endeavor in the field we’ve always been curious about. How might we rapidly accelerate our creativity and contributions to the world? 
  Jonas Koffler says it is never too late to explore our innate talents and unearth hidden opportunities, and tells us that the first thing to do is to break free of self-inflicted friction that is fear-based, lacks courage, and has a sense that we’re not worthy. He says, "We lock ourselves into a narrow, learned blindness path, where we are renting our realities from someone else. It's the script that they give us: come to work every day, do these tasks, go home and repeat for the next 50 years and call it a life." He advises us to pay attention to the "arc of learning," to participate in the opportunity of community in what he calls "the collisions of conversations," and finally he has advice for the "project layer” of our endeavors. Be inspired to hustle your way to recharging your life and creativity with this Inspiring dialogue. (hosted by Justine Willis Toms)

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  Irony and Outrage - The...

  Dannagal Goldthwaite Young

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  For almost a decade, journalists and pundits have been asking why we don't see successful examples of political satire from conservatives or of opinion talk radio from liberals. This book turns that question on its head to argue that opinion talk is the political satire of the right and political satire is the opinion programming of the left.In Irony and Outrage, political and media psychologist Dannagal Goldthwaite Young explores the aesthetics, underlying logics, and histories of these two seemingly distinct genres, making the case that they should be thought of as the logical extensions of the psychology of the left and right, respectively. While the audiences for Sean Hannity and John Oliver come from opposing political ideologies, both are high in political interest, knowledge, and engagement, and both lack faith in many of our core democratic institutions. Young argues that the roles that these two genres play for their viewers are strikingly similar: galvanizing the opinion of the left or the right, mobilizing citizens around certain causes, and expressing a frustration with traditional news coverage while offering alternative sources of information and meaning. One key way in which they differ, however, concludes Young, is in their capacity to be exploited by special interests and political elites.

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  Haunted Roads of Western...

  Thomas White, Tony Lavorgne

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  The twisty roads—and twisted tales—of the Appalachian Mountains make for distracted driving in western Pennsylvania.    Ghostly travelers are said to wander the lonely roads of western Pennsylvania. A creeping fog rises from Blue Mist Road, and stories of car crashes, lynchings and even strange beasts haunt this isolated stretch outside Pittsburgh. Is it the angry spirit of a jealous husband or a gypsy king who stalks Erie County’s Axe Murder Hollow? Shades of Death Road in Washington County may be host to phantom coal miners killed during a deadly labor dispute. With firsthand accounts and historical research, authors Thomas White and Tony Lavorgne travel the backcountry roads and byways of western Pennsylvania to discover their ghost tales and mysterious legends.   Includes photos!   “The authors include a history of each road along with the supernatural legends and other unexplained activity. Surprisingly, they are able to provide possible explanations for most of the alleged hauntings, but admit that they cannot account for every one, which allows the roads in question to keep their allure and spooky possibilities.” —PopCultureGuy

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  Dancing at D'Avencourt

  Iris lloyd

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  This fascinating painting, entitled ‘After Midnight Mass, Fifteenth Century’, was exhibited by George Henry Boughton at the Royal Academy in 1897 and is now hidden away in a private collection. Did her creator know who she was, this lady of high birth emerging from the cathedral in the snow with her companion at her elbow? And who was the young man with yellow hair who is stepping forward from the crowd, hoping to attract her attention?Within the covers of this book, the reader will discover her story, the story of a little serf with chestnut curls and violet eyes...

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