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  Ordinary Wonder Tales

  Emily Urquhart

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  A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine—and reveals the magic in the everyday. 
  “I’ve always felt that the term fairy tale doesn’t quite capture the essence of these stories,” writes Emily Urquhart. “I prefer the term wonder tale, which is Irish in origin, for its suggestion of awe coupled with narrative. In a way, this is most of our stories.” In this startlingly original essay collection, Urquhart reveals the truths that underlie our imaginings: what we see in our heads when we read, how the sight of a ghost can heal, how the entrance to the underworld can be glimpsed in an oil painting or a winter storm—or the onset of a loved one’s dementia. In essays on death and dying, pregnancy and prenatal genetics, radioactivity, chimeras, cottagers, and plague, Ordinary Wonder Tales reveals the essential truth: if you let yourself look closely, there is magic in the everyday.

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  Running Out of Saturdays -...

  Peter Brewer

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  Running out of Saturdays is a warm, witty and unapologetically honest memoir from Peter Brewer – 
  a big-hearted larrikin with a whiteboard full of wisdom and a yarn (or 50) to tell. 
  Now in his mid-60s, Peter reflects on a life jam-packed with colourful characters, career moves (some undeniably 
  questionable), boisterous family gatherings and boardroom lessons. From his humble beginnings to becoming 
  a respected leader in the real estate industry, PB’s learned – often the hard way – what really matters in business, 
  family and life. 
  Every chapter is delivered with humour, heart and a healthy dose of hindsight. Along the way, you’ll meet 
  a host of unforgettable personalities and pick up powerful leadership and life lessons tucked between the laughs. 
  This isn’t just a memoir. It’s a timely reminder that we’re all running out of Saturdays. That life moves fast. That success 
  without heart isn’t worth much. And that the best stories are often the ones we’re brave enough to tell, warts and all. 
  So take a seat, pour yourself a drink, and let Peter Brewer remind you how to live, laugh and leave a legacy – 
  one unforgettable Saturday at a time.

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  The Story of My Misfortune - The...

  Peter Abelard

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  In this poignant medieval autobiography, 12th-century philosopher and theologian Peter Abelard recounts his life of intellectual ambition, personal turmoil, and spiritual reflection. Rising as a leading scholar in Paris, Abelard gained fame through his bold teachings in logic and theology, but his career was marked by controversy and conflict with powerful figures, including Bernard of Clairvaux. His passionate love affair and secret marriage to Héloïse, along with the vengeful castration inflicted by her uncle, led to a life of monastic exile and inner suffering. Written as a letter to a friend, The Story of My Misfortune is both a defense of Abelard’s ideas and a meditation on divine justice, human frailty, and redemption through faith. Combining philosophical depth with emotional candor, the work offers a rare glimpse into the mind and soul of one of the Middle Ages’ most influential thinkers, revealing how personal tragedy and scholarly pursuit shaped his enduring legacy.

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  Why Marianne Faithfull Matters

  Tanya Pearson

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  First as a doe-eyed ingénue with “As Tears Go By,” then as a gravel-voiced phoenix rising from the ashes of the 1960s with a landmark punk album, Broken English, and finally as a genre-less icon, Marianne Faithfull carved her name into the history of rock ’n’ roll to chart a career spanning five decades and multiple detours. In Why Marianne Faithfull Matters, Tanya Pearson crafts a feminist account that explains the musician’s absence from the male-dominated history of the British Invasion and champions the eclectic late career that confirmed her redemption. 
   
  Putting memoir on equal footing with biographical history, Pearson writes about Faithfull as an avid fan, recovered addict, and queer musician at a crossroads. She’s also a professional historian unafraid to break from the expectations of the discipline if a “titty-centered analysis” or astrology can illuminate the work of her subject. Whether exploring Faithfull’s rise to celebrity, her drug addiction and fall from grace as spurned “muse,” or her reinvention as a sober, soulful chanteuse subverting all expectations for an aging woman in music, Pearson affirms the deep connections between listeners and creators and reveals, in her own particular way, why Marianne Faithfull matters.

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  Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere -...

  Robert Lopez

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  Robert Lopez's grandfather Sixto was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, in 1904, immigrating to the United States in the 1920s, where he lived in a racially proportioned apartment complex in East New York, Brooklyn, until his death in 1987. The family's efforts to assimilate within their new homeland led to the near complete erasure of their heritage, culture, and language within two generations. 
   
   
   
  Little is known of Sixto—he may have been a longshoreman, a painter, or a boxer, but was most likely a longshoreman—or why he originally decided to leave Puerto Rico, other than that he was a meticulously slow eater who played the standup keyboard and guitar, and enjoyed watching baseball. Through family recollection, the constant banter volleyed across nets within Brooklyn's diverse tennis community, as well as an imagined fabulist history drawn from Sixto's remembered traits, in Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure, Robert Lopez paints a compassionate portrait of family that attempts to bridge the past to the present, and reclaim a heritage threatened by assimilation and erasure.

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  Autobiography of Samuel S...

  Samuel S. Hildebrand

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  Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders, politicians, nurses and civilians amidst the war. 
  Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand is a fascinating account of guerrilla warfare in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas during the Civil War. Hildebrand was a Southern partisan who claimed he only took to the field after several relatives were murdered by Federals.Hildebrand's account is a unique record of bloody deeds, dare-devil exploits and thrilling adventures.

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