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  Confessionum Libri Tredecim

  Saint Augustine

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  Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written between AD 397 and AD 398. Modern English translations of it are sometimes published under the title The Confessions of St. Augustine in order to distinguish the book from other books with similar titles. Its original title was "Confessions in Thirteen Books", and it was composed to be read out loud with each book being a complete unit.

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  In Sight of Yellow Mountain - A...

  Philip Judge

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  'This is The Good Life meets A Year in Provence'. Sue Collins, The Nualas
  'A luminous, funny and profound reading experience.' Sebastian Barry
  First, a dream of escaping the city… and then a century-old cottage to match the dream. Moving to a small village in the heart of the countryside was the beginning of a new life for Philip Judge and his Beloved – the beginning of life In Sight of Yellow Mountain.
  Judge describes the season-by-season charms and frustrations that he, his Beloved, and eventually, his two growing boys experience as they adapt to life in the countryside.
  There are highs and lows. Wellies and tweeds are bought. Vegetable patches cultivated. Lambs are born, calves die. There is weather: good and bad; health and happiness; illness and sadness. The city slicker fails miserably at Name That Grain! and makes many faux pas along the way, but ultimately, this is the story of one man, and his growing family, experiencing the pleasure that is finding home.

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  The Burma Campaign - Disaster...

  Frank McLynn

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  This history reveals the failures and fortunes of leadership during the WWII campaign into Japanese-occupied Burma: “a thoroughly satisfying experience” (Kirkus).   Acclaimed historian Frank McLynn tells the story of four larger-than-life Allied commanders whose lives collided in the Burma campaign, one of the most punishing and protracted military adventures of World War II. This vivid account ranges from Britain’s defeat in 1942 through the crucial battles of Imphal and Kohima—known as "the Stalingrad of the East"—and on to ultimate victory in 1945. Frank McLynn narrative focuses on the interactions and antagonisms of its principal players: William Slim, the brilliant general; Orde Wingate, the idiosyncratic commander of a British force of irregulars; Louis Mountbatten, one of Churchill's favorites, overpromoted to the position of Supreme Commander, S.E. Asia; and Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, a hard-line—and openly anlgophobic—U.S. general. With lively portraits of each of these men, McLynn shows how the plans and strategies of generals and politicians were translated into a hideous reality for soldiers on the ground.

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  Frank Whittle (Icon Science) -...

  Andrew Nahum

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  The story of the jet engine has everything: genius, tragedy, heroism, a world war, the individual vs. the state, and an idea that would change the world.
  Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943 when his invention was unveiled to the world, his company, Power Jets, was forcibly nationalised.
  Yet Whittle's brilliance, charm and charisma helped him recruit major support from the British government and the RAF, who gave him the green light to build a jet engine at a time when to do so made little sense. Here is a story of what pushing technology to its limits can achieve - and the effect that such achievement can have on those involved.

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  Brady Street Pharmacy - Stories...

  Tea Krulos

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  Amongst sacred institutions lost to time, the drug store lunch counter remains one of the most lamented and revered pieces of true americana. The community and chaos generated within the walls of these one-stop mom & pops is legendary. Tea Krulos recounts tales from the last days of one of Milwaukee’s finest.

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  Sects and narcissists - From the...

  Fabian Nowakowski

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  The new audiobook from Fabian Nowakowski's first work published in 2018. The author describes his encounter with a narcissist who integrated him into a sect. After a brainwashing and the isolation of his environment, a desperate fight for survival began. The reader witnesses a transformation that is unlike any other. "Break the rules before they break you" "Fight for your life" are the messages of the first book of the Setted Mind Trilogy, which is revealed to the reader page by page. The author describes in detail how far the personality disorder of narcissism is widespread in our society and makes attentive, after dangerous Behavioural patterns that these "dirty animals" exhibit. This work does not only serve the people affected by narcissistic violence, but also concerns the protection against manipulation to which we are exposed every day. Non-fiction? Biography? Or help for self-help? This book cannot and should not be pigeonholed. The author himself sees this work as a monument to our Narcissistic Plural Society. Where norms and rules decide about human life.  Fabian Nowakowski

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