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  Addicted to hope

  Jo Anne Mitchum, Nancy Duci Denofio

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  Anyone who loves somebody suffering from addiction should pick up Mitchum and Denofio's 2022 biography, Addicted to Hope: a chronicle of Michelle Mulledy's life as the wife of an addict. 
  A journey into self-discovery and self-confidence, Michelle's story gives real hope to families supporting loved ones battling addiction. 
  Watching her husband build a million-dollar business and then sink to the depths of living homeless on the streets of Boston, Michelle finds her faith and herself. 
  While supporting her loved one through recovery and coping with his relapses, Michelle learns the importance of caring for oneself. 
  Often in unexpected and wondrous ways, Michelle leaves behind the isolation of addiction to experience the warmth of her spiritual community embracing her. 
  About the Authors: 
  Jo Anne Mitchum 
  Jo Anne Mitchum, a Marriage and Family Therapist, began working in the mental health field as a crisis counselor helping clients with drug and alcohol addiction. Jo Anne now spends her time writing and helping couples achieve a deeper sense of understanding, empathy, and connectedness within their relationships. Jo Anne lives in Upstate, New York with her husband, mother and two dogs. When she's not working, she enjoys spending time with her son, daughter-in-law, and 3 grandchildren. 
  Nancy Duci Denofio 
  A writer most of her life, Nancy Duci Denofio's work is published in numerous publications in the United States and abroad such as University of Hull in England, New Hampshire Poetry Society, Hudson Valley Writer's and more. Her previous books, What Brought You Here and Grandmother's Bleeding Hearts are collections of her poetry. Nancy has worked with writers around the world on presentation and how to read their work in public. Nancy and her husband have two daughters and five grandchildren.

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  Daughter of the Dragon - Anna...

  Yunte Huang

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  A trenchant reclamation of the Chinese American movie star, whose battles against cinematic exploitation and endemic racism are set against the currents of twentieth-century history. 
   
   
   
  Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905–1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood's most famous Chinese American actress, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her publicity photos—with a touch of defiance—"Orientally yours." Now, more than a century after her birth, Yunte Huang narrates Wong's tragic life story, retracing her journey from Chinatown to silent-era Hollywood, and from Weimar Berlin to decadent, prewar Shanghai, and capturing American television in its infancy. As Huang shows, Wong's rendezvous with history features a remarkable parade of characters, including a smitten Walter Benjamin and (an equally smitten) Marlene Dietrich. Challenging the parodically racist perceptions of Wong as a "Dragon Lady," "Madame Butterfly," or "China Doll," Huang's biography becomes a truly resonant work of history that reflects the raging anti-Chinese xenophobia, unabashed sexism, and ageism toward women that defined both Hollywood and America in Wong's all-too-brief fifty-six years on earth.

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  It Worked For Me - My Life...

  Jeff Burgess

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  What if one conversation could change your entire life? 
  In 1979, Jeff Burgess was a 22-year-old college dropout drifting through life in a haze of beer, weed, and dead-end jobs. He was the "town clown" with an undeniable work ethic but no clear direction. Then, on a lazy Sunday afternoon, his father called him home for a talk that would shake him to his core: "You have a gift, and I cannot allow you to waste it anymore. It’s time to get your shit together." 
  From that moment, everything changed. Armed with a relentless drive, a knack for problem-solving, and a newfound determination to make something of himself, Jeff set out to prove his father right. Within two years, he skyrocketed from warehouse worker to Vice President of Sales at a booming tech company. By the time he retired, he had built a global business supplying surveillance video recording appliances to both the most iconic and the secure sites in the world. 
  It Worked for Me is the inspiring, no-nonsense story of how an underachiever transformed into an industry leader—one who thrived not by playing it safe, but by embracing risk, trusting his gut, and always finding a way forward. 
  If you've ever felt stuck, uncertain, or like success was just out of reach, this book will show you how to seize your own turning point. 
  Are you ready to take charge of your future? Pick up a copy today! 
  ALL proceeds for It Worked for Me will go directly to the Wounded Warrior Project. 
  About Jeff Burgess 
  From outhouse to penthouse.... He’s that guy who started in the embryonic stages of the computer industry way back in 1979 as a non-college graduate warehouse manager, selling his way to the top as the CEO of his own $100M company. 
  His story is about the lessons learned honing his uncanny ability to turn opportunities into successes.

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  Shirley - The Life of a...

  Shirley Sherwood

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  Shirley, The Life of a Botanical Adventurer is the remarkable story of Dr Shirley Sherwood, scientist, author, travel writer, gardener as well as mother and grandmother. Following the tragic death of her brilliant scientist husband, Michael Cross, in a freak air crash in 1964, she was left as a 30-year-old widow with two young boys aged four and three. For the next twelve years she worked as a key member of the Nobel Prize-winning team which developed Tagamet, the first block-buster drug (sales of over $1 billion a year). After her marriage to Jim Sherwood in 1977, she left science to concentrate full-time on the huge task of restoring the fabled Orient-Express train, probably the most luxurious and exotic form of travel ever devised. The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, running between London and Venice, was relaunched in 1982, ninety-nine years after its first journey. Sherwood's history of the project sold more than 400,000 copies. The Orient-Express train was just the beginning. The Sherwoods went on to create the five-star Orient-Express Hotels company (now Belmond), which owned some of the finest hotels in the world, including the Cipriani in Venice, the Mount Nelson in Cape Town and the Copacabana Palace in Rio. They pioneered new train routes across the Alps, started the Eastern & Oriental Express running between Singapore and Bangkok- crossing over the Bridge on the River Kwai- opened up tourism in Myanmar with the first cruise ship to operate on the Irrawaddy, and took over the railways of Peru, which run all the way to Machu Picchu and Lake Titicaca. Her most lasting achievement, the one of which she is proudest, is the Shirley Sherwood Collection of contemporary botanical art, which she started in 1990 and now includes over 1,000 paintings and drawings representing the work of more than 300 contemporary botanical artists from 36 countries. She has mounted exhibitions in many prestigious locations including the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Kirstenbosch in Cape Town and the Real Jardin Botanico, Madrid. The Shirley Sherwood Gallery in Kew Gardens is the first museum to be dedicated to modern botanical art and her books, which often accompanied her exhibitions, have been largely responsible for re-establishing botanical art in its rightful place as an important art form. These are just some of the many achievements in a long and rich life, vividly described in this book.

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  Ernest Hemingway: Three Stories...

  Ernest Hemingway

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  Ernest Hemingway's first book - "Three Stories and Ten Poems" - announced the arrival of one of the 20th Century's most revered and admired writers.   In this brief collection, published in 1923, Hemingway introduces two styles of writing: his unique, famously austere and unadorned prose style as well as his early attempts at verse. The three stories are "Up in Michigan," "Out of Season" and "My Old Man," each of which takes place in locales that regular readers of Hemingway will find familiar: the great outdoors, the Italian countryside and the bull-ring. Hemingway also offers some early, experimental poetry to round off this fascinating and brilliant early work by one of the seminal authors of his generation.   "Thee Stories and Ten Poems" is offered here in its original and unabridged format.

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  The Translator

  Harriet Crawley

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  Sunday Times Best Thriller Books of 2023: 'Enthralling'
  The Times Thriller Book of the Month: 'Wonderfully realised'
  Financial Times Best Summer Thrillers of 2023: 'Engaging spy story…in a Moscow full of menace'
  A passionate love story, centred on a devastating Russian plot to sabotage the undersea communication cables linking the US to the UK. Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is summoned unexpectedly to Moscow to act as translator for the British Prime Minister. His life is upended when he discovers that his former lover, Marina Volina, is the interpreter to the Russian President. Together they will try to stop the attack that could paralyse communications and collapse the Western economy.

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