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  The Great Turning - From Empire...

  David C. Korten

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  The international bestselling author shares “a compelling, devastating, and ultimately profoundly hopeful” guide to navigating our global future (Van Jones, Executive Director, The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights). 
   
  David Korten argues that corporate consolidation of power is merely a contemporary manifestation of what he calls Empire: the organization of society by hierarchies of domination. Increasingly destructive on every level, the way of Empire is leading to environmental and social collapse. We now face a mounting perfect storm of climate change, peak oil, and the financial instability inherent in an unbalanced global trading system. In The Great Turning, Korten makes the case that we must change course and choose a new future as a conscious collective act. 
   
  We cannot avoid the unraveling. We can, however, turn a potentially terminal crisis into an epic opportunity to bring forth a new era of Earth Community grounded in the life-affirming values of ecological integrity, economic justice, community, and democracy. The Great Turning is an essential resource for those who understand this need and are prepared to engage what Thomas Berry calls the Great Work.

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  Triumphant Ride! - By Permit Only

  Herman Cajigas Jr.

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  In 1974, a nineteen-year-young kid was involved in an accident that would forever alter the course of his life and the lives of his immediate family and friends. But partly due to his upbringing, the makeup of his character, and his outlook on life, he shares with us how, after over four decades, he continues to weather the storm and has become a successful entrepreneur, an admirable human being, and an asset to his community. 
  Reading his autobiography, one will discover his life’s path and what thoughts, people, and opportunities have helped him make the best out of his challenge, as well as what insight we can gain and apply from his journey that will help us bring more wisdom, peace, prosperity, and love to our path in life.

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  Chelkash by Maxim Gorky - A...

  Maxim Gorky

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  Alexei Maximovich Peshkov was born on 28th March 1868, in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. 
   
  Better known as Maxim Gorky he was orphaned at 11 and ran away from home at 12.  At 19 he had already attempted suicide and thereafter travelled, by foot, across the Russian Empire for 5 years. 
   
  His first book ‘Essays & Stories’ in 1898 was a sensation and so began a long career as an author of short stories, novels and plays.  Gorky saw writing as a moral and political act that would help to change the unjust world around him.  He was an ardent early advocate of the emerging Marxist movement and publicly opposed the Tsarist regime leading several times to his arrest.  
   
  In 1904 he began his own theatre but the censor banned every play and Gorky was forced to abandon the project. 
   
  But Gorky was a financially successful author, editor, and playwright and gave monies to political parties as well as for civil rights and social reform.  The brutal shooting of workers, which set in motion the Revolution of 1905, pushed Gorky more decisively toward radical solutions.  
   
  In 1906 he went to the United States to raise funds for the Bolsheviks. Those experiences including a scandal over travelling with his lover and not his wife deepened his contempt for the ‘bourgeois soul.’ 
   
  Gorky now moved to Capri in Italy, both for health reasons and to escape the increasingly repressive times in Russia.  
   
  An amnesty for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty saw him return to Russia in 1914. His politics remained close to the Bolshevik cause.  But soon, after the 1918 revolution, his essays referred to Lenin as a tyrant for his senseless arrests and repression.  He was soon appealing to the outside world for food aid after the catastrophic crop failure. 
   
  In October 1921 Gorky returned to Italy, now in Fascist hands, and settled in Sorrento until 1932.  His health worsened with the onset of tuberculosis. 
   
  He wrote several successful books there but now decided to find an understanding with the communist regime. Stalin invited him home and his return was hailed as a major propaganda victory.  He was decorated with the Order of Lenin, and a province, a park, and various streets re-named in his honour. 
   
  But he had his faults too.  In 1933, Gorky co-edited a book on the White Sea-Baltic Canal and denied even a single prisoner died during its construction, but thousands had. As well, knowing that some Nazis were homosexual, a phrase was attributed to him that said ‘exterminate all homosexuals and fascism will vanish’.  Although he was himself was quoting another he was decidedly homophobic. 
   
  With the increase of Stalinist repression in 1935 Gorky was placed under unannounced house arrest. 
   
  Maxim Gorky died on the 18th June 1936 from pneumonia.  He was 68. 
   
  Stalin and Molotov were among those who carried Gorky's urn of ashes at his funeral.  
   
  In Gorky’s story, a thief, Chelkash, ensnares a young man into his scheme to steal silk from a ship.  When he then sells the stolen goods he is set upon by the young accomplice.  What happens then is as unexpected as it is remarkable.

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  Holy Cunt - the Alchemy of...

  Aya Coham

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  Relationships, sex, tantra, plant medicine, and a fake guru in India; Holy C*nt takes you on a journey of transformation, finding beauty, courage and love. Join Aya in her rituals, initiations, deaths of ego and rebirths, and you will experience the divine feminine that is awakening within all of us. It’s calling us to settle at home within ourselves, to be whole. 
  "I bought your book and I read it in two days, so basically ate it. I wanted to personally thank you for sharing your story. It definitely cleared up some stuff for me and I could resonate with sooo much of what has been written. Also it encouraged me to believe more in myself even if everything is so confusing in my head still. So thank you!” 
  Giedre S 
  “I recommend this to any woman on her path of self discovery” 
  Kiera M 
  "So clear, open and raw. The courage to keep opening the heart into fear, darkness, ego traps, loving another... Learning, growing, stretching. Wow! It is a story needing to be told." 
  Shona M 
  "I feel such a strong connection to this story. I think we all live through similar experiences and milestones. I feel like you telling your story is taking me closer to my true self." 
  Karoline F 
  Paperback copy available on Amazon, just search for Aya Coham. 
  This audiobook has been beautifully crafted indeed. When you welcome the soundscapes of this creation, you have a chance to embark on a truly remarkable journey within where stories you hear resonate with your own stories. The boundaries slowly disappear and you find yourself unearthing layers of self acceptance and self love you didn't know existed. All you need to do is allow; to soften your ears, soften your listening, hear the words, music and the silence between. Surrender to all sensations, as if you were wrapped in the softest duvets, cushions and pillows, gently held by the sounds.

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  The Boy in the Woods - A True...

  Maxwell Smart

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  The astonishing true story of a boy who survived the war by hiding in the Polish forest  
  Maxwell Smart was eleven years old when his entire family was killed before his eyes. He might have died along with them, but his mother selflessly ordered him to save himself. Alone in the forest, he dug a hole in the ground for shelter and foraged for food in farmers’ fields. His clothes in rags and close to starvation, he repeatedly escaped death at the hands of Nazis and Ukrainian thugs. 
  After months alone, Maxwell encountered a boy wandering in the forest looking for food. Janek was also alone; like Maxwell he had just become an orphan, and the two quickly became friends. They built a bunker in the ground to survive through the winter. One day, after a massacre took place nearby, the boys discovered a baby girl, still alive, lying in the arms of her dead mother. Maxwell and Janek rescued the baby, but this act came at a great cost.  
  Max’s epic tale of heroism will inspire with its proof of the enduring human spirit. From the brutality of war emerges a man who would become a celebrated artist, offering the world, in contrast to the horrors of his suffering, beautiful works of art. The Boy in the Woods is a remarkable historical document about a time that should never be forgotten. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  The Alphabet and Simplified...

  Mark Twain

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  Mark Twain gave this speech at an event honoring Andrew Carnegie, who helped found the Simplified Spelling Board. Twain mentions how uncomfortable it is to only receive compliments when one is the guest of honor, so he critiques Carnegie’s “pestiferous” ideas about spelling reform. In doing so, he provides his own suggestions for fixing “this present silly alphabet, which I fancy was invented by a drunken thief.” This speech is a fine example of the brazen humor that made Twain himself famous.  

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