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  Everybody Wins - Four Decades of...

  James Wallis

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  Ever wondered when board games got so good? 
   
  The last forty years have seen nothing short of a revolution in the world of tabletop games. No longer synonymous with family arguments over a game of Monopoly or Trivial Pursuit, board games and the once niche hobby of tabletop gaming have moved into the mainstream over the last four decades, with modern  
  classics like CATAN, Ticket to Ride and Carcassonne becoming established household names. 
   
  In this informative and entertaining volume, this revolution in tabletop gaming is revealed and reviewed by one of the most knowledgeable commentators there is.  
   
  James Wallis explores the evolving world of board games through the lens of the Spiel des Jahres, Germany’s prestigious Game of the Year award, looking at a host of past winners catapulted to worldwide popularity, once lauded games now sadly forgotten, and a few popular hits that somehow missed out. Alongside this, Wallis  
  expertly chronicles the increasing sophistication in the design of modern board games and their ever growing variety.  
   
  Everybody Wins is a book for anyone who loves games, wonders what all the fuss is about or just wants to know what to play next—the essential, hugely readable study of the modern board game.

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  Rotten Minerva - Be an Unruly...

  Kelli Kristine Hastings

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  Rotten Minerva lays out a new framework for being “spiritual” while existing in this crazy material reality.  
  In it, author Kelli Hastings sets forth her personal ideology of life with the help of movie quotes, scientific references, and citations to religious scriptures - all interspersed with hilarious stories of her own misadventures on the spiritual path. The book is arranged into four sections. In the first section, Love, Kelli lays out her philosophy and invites the reader to undertake their own personal inward quest. In the second section, Practice, she sets forth the practical means and methods for this personal quest. In the third section, Magic, she gets into some of the strange and magical things that can happen (and have happened) during our personal quests. In the last chapter, Freedom, she talks about how to bring about true freedom; which does not come from external circumstances.  
  So be an unruly warrior and embark on your spiritual quest for freedom and authenticity!

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  Blue Pastures

  Mary Oliver

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  ""A gathering of gorgeous short pieces"" (Library Journal), Blue Pastures collects fifteen of Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning poet Mary Oliver's prose works about nature, writing, and herself. 
  ""This transcendent collection is Oliver's joyful sharing of her love of her craft.""—Library Journal 
  With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: on nature, writing, and herself and those around her. She praises Whitman, denounces cuteness, notes where to find the extraordinary, and extols solitude. Nature speaks to her and she speaks to nature. 
  ""This book is biased, opinionated; also it is also joyful, and probably there is despair here too...But the reader will find the pleasures more certain, and more constant, than the rills of despond. Thus it has turned out in my life thus far, influenced by the sustaining passions: love of the wild world, love of literature, love for and from another person."" –Mary Oliver

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  A Garden A Day

  Ruth Chivers

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  An exploration of gardens through the ages and across the globe in 366 daily entries, from the ancient hanging gardens of Babylon to a vegetable plot on the International Space Station.
  In this fascinating and beautifully illustrated collection, garden writer Ruth Chivers presents a garden for every day of the year. It's a sumptuous journey through garden history, design, horticulture, literary inspiration, folklore and poetry.
  From Sissinghurst to Versailles, from the medieval poem 'The Romance of the Rose' to the latest horticultural details of a rewilded garden, from imaginary gardens in literature to the real gardens that inspired Van Gogh and Orwell, here are absorbing garden stories for the whole year.
  Botanical paintings sit next to historic plans and the very best garden photography. The entries are annotated with intriguing facts and inspiring ideas, telling the stories of gardens past, present and even future.
  A true celebration of gardens, A Garden A Day is a beautiful and essential book for any gardener that brings home the wonder of these spaces to all of us.

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  I Bid You Farewell - The Life of...

  Neil Lanham

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  I Bid You Farewell captures the drama, wit and wisdom of a lifetime in the antiques trade. Set against the backdrop of Suffolk’s market towns and quiet villages, Lanham charts an era of remarkable change in Britain’s auction houses, from the austere post-war years through the booming era of the 1980s.
  This is the story of a young auctioneer, starting at seventeen in a cattle market, qualifying and then buying a rundown rural auction business. Readers will discover how, from a standing start, with no telephone in his hired hall, Lanham achieved over a hundred world-wide record prices of fine art at auction. He explains the complex psychology of dealers and collectors and reveals the stories behind these extraordinary prices. Being on his own, using his personal observation, he was able to speedily change course to rapidly unfolding new markets caused firstly by Harold Wilson devaluing the pound and then Margaret Thatcher selling off ‘the family silver’. It is a true insight into the secrets of the auctioneer’s mind. Written as an amusing whole-life adventure of numerous stories, it shares much knowledge, wisdom and humour.
  Rich in character and incident, with an insider’s eye for detail and a storyteller’s gift for bringing the past to life, Lanham shares the secrets of the trade while documenting a vanishing world of traditional market towns and autonomous local businesses. I Bid You Farewell is not just the story of one man’s career – it’s a love letter to the art of the auction and a valuable historical document of Britain’s antiques trade during a period of unprecedented change.

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  Learn French for Beginners -...

  Language Mastery

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  SPEAK FLUENT FRENCH IN WEEKS – NOT YEARS – EVEN IF YOU’VE NEVER SAID “BONJOUR” BEFORE 
  Imagine sitting at a little Parisian café, ordering your café crème and croissant in perfect French… and the waiter smiles, fires back, and the conversation just flows. You laugh, you chat, you belong. That moment is only weeks away. 
  Learn French for Beginners: Over 300 Conversational Dialogues and Daily Used Phrases to Learn French in no Time. Grow Your Vocabulary with French Short Stories & Language Learning Lessons! 
  This 3+ hour audiobook is the shortcut thousands of English speakers swear by. 
  Here’s exactly what you get: 
  → 300+ real-life dialogues recorded by native French speakers 
  → The everyday phrases you’ll actually hear in Paris, Lyon, or Nice 
  → Short, addictive French stories that make vocabulary stick forever 
  → Word-by-word breakdowns + built-in repetition (you’ll remember 95%+) 
  → Shadowing drills that turn your accent naturally French – fast 
  Just 15–30 minutes a day (commute, workout, cooking) and you’ll: 
  - Go from zero to real conversations in 4 weeks 
  - Order food, ask directions, shop, flirt, and make French friends with total confidence 
  - Speak beautiful, flowing French – no more robot textbook sound 
  Perfect for absolute beginners and anyone who’s tried and quit before. 
  Stop dreaming about French. Start living it. 
  Click “Buy Now” and say OUI to real fluency today!

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