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  The Co-Captain's Log

  Katherine Gonzalez, Andre Gonzalez

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  From the Graveyard of the Pacific to the paradise of the Polynesian Islands…This is the true story of a journey with real people, real places, and the adventures that inevitably follow. 
  Katherine and Andrés leave lucrative jobs and a stable life to accomplish his dream of sailing the world. 
  She worries what awaits them beyond the horizon: Failure? Pirates? Poverty? Will they make it to the South Pacific, and will they survive the voyage? (Better yet, will their marriage?) 
  The epic expedition puts them face-to-face with waves that threaten to take their lives, whales that take their breath away, and strangers who show serendipitous hospitality. 
  Katherine, a natural storyteller, invites you aboard to experience first-hand an immersive, multimedia journey that places you on deck as they cross the world’s largest ocean.The Co-Captain's Log features:An ensemble cast with stories read by the authorsA multimedia Pacific Crossing experience with photos, videos, and audioAn accompanying PDF with recipes, maps and full-color photos so you can get your bearings as you travel through the bookA discussion guide and other book club resources to make your next book club meeting lively and memorableResources so you can use the book to supplement your child's curriculumYou'll travel vicariously to:Washington State & the San Juan IslandsWest Coast of the USA: Oregon coast, California coast, Channel Islands National Park, Catalina IslandBaja California and the Sea of Cortez in MexicoPacific OceanFrench Polynesia: Marquesas, Tuamotu, Tahiti, Moorea, and Bora BoraAmerican SamoaTonga

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  South America’s Economy - Booms...

  Anya Solace

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  South America’s Economy delves into the dramatic rises, falls, and reinventions of four major economies: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. This 4-in-1 collection offers a sweeping view of a continent shaped by political upheaval, resource wealth, policy experiments, and the constant push-pull between growth and crisis. From hyperinflation to privatization, oil booms to currency collapses, this volume captures the complexity and volatility of the region’s economic story. 
  Argentina’s economic crises highlight the consequences of policy missteps and external shocks, revealing how a once-thriving nation became a case study in recurring collapse. Brazil’s economic evolution shows a journey through industrialization, reform, and global integration, alongside persistent inequality and corruption. Colombia’s transformation tells a story of resilience—rising from the shadows of conflict to emerge as a growing economy with expanding global ties. Finally, Venezuela presents perhaps the most extreme example of economic meltdown in recent memory, offering crucial lessons about dependency, mismanagement, and populism. 
  Whether you’re a student, global observer, or simply curious about South America’s economic puzzle, this book provides both historical depth and modern relevance to help you understand the region's shifting fortunes.

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  The Grey Soul of London - An...

  Robert Kingham

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  ‘He who cannot find wonder, mystery, awe, the sense of a new world and an undiscovered realm in the places by the Gray’s Inn Road will never find those secrets elsewhere.’ – Arthur Machen 
  The Grey Soul of London is an audio guided tour. Robert Kingham takes a walk across the worn and hollowed stones of the Angel and Clerkenwell districts of London in search of places that inspired the writer Arthur Machen (1863-1947). This was originally a historical guided tour commissioned for the Museum of London’s Urban Myths season in 2011. 
  The Grey Soul of London has now been rewritten and expanded for 2023, with incidental music by Rich Cochrane. Everything you need in terms of directions and instructions is contained within the audio narrative, so you can just listen and walk. If you want, you can also find a map of the walk online at minimumlabyrinth.org, plus a picture gallery illustrating some of the people, places and events mentioned. 
  ‘It is a district both devious and obscure, and I suppose that its twisting streets and unexpected squares of dusty trees will all come to ruin before they are intelligently explored.’ – Arthur Machen

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  Himalaya Teacher of Life -...

  Tereza Namituche

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  🌿 A Journey Beyond the Classroom – Lessons from the Himalaya 🏔️ 
  What if the greatest teacher isn’t found in books, but in the towering mountains, the whispering winds, and the depths of your own soul? 
  In Himalaya Teacher of Life, Tereza Namituche takes you on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery, resilience, and wisdom, inspired by real experiences in the breathtaking landscapes of the Himalaya. Through profound lessons and reflections, this book explores how nature, silence, and adventure can be our most powerful guides. 
  ✨ Whether you’re a traveler, a seeker, or simply someone looking for deep insights into life, this audiobook will inspire you to embrace new perspectives and reconnect with what truly matters. 
  Support a Cause with Your Purchase! 
  By purchasing this audiobook, you are directly supporting Hi52Life NGO, an organization dedicated to helping children and youth on their life journey through education, crowdfunding projects, and digital safety initiatives. 
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  Your feedback helps us grow, improve, and create even better content for future listeners. 
  We kindly encourage fair and constructive reviews. Sharing your genuine experience—what you loved, what resonated, and even thoughtful suggestions—helps us and the listening community. Let’s inspire open discussions, learn from each other, and build a space where creativity thrives. 
  📖 Listen. Reflect. Grow.

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  Saudade - The Possibilities of...

  Anik See

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  Beside me, on the stone steps of this quiet courtyard, there is a lame man – the sweeper. He is so thin that the end of his belt comes back around to its buckle. He’s trying to feed a puppy the rest of his lunch. He reminds me that we all need something to need us, and that maybe that’s why we Westerners, who are so independent, mostly fail to understand family in this way, and need to come up with things like ‘quality time’ to justify such a base need. Everyone here asks if my family is in Sri Lanka, if that’s why I’ve come here. When I say no, they’re back in Canada, this confuses them. It’s a black mark against me. Why would I leave them? I am a selfish person. (I am.)
     
  The Portuguese word saudade has no direct English translation. In its simplest sense, it describes a feeling of longing for something that is now gone, and may yet return, but in all likelihood can never be recaptured. In Saudade, traveller Anik See traces her attempts to reclaim this loss in a series of informal essays that take us from the salt plains of Wood Buffalo National Park and the mountains of British Columbia to the fishing ports of Sri Lanka and the rough roads of Tbilisi, Georgia.
     
  Whether at a fishfry in the Northwest Territories, at the post-9/11 Canada-US border, on the ultimate road trip through Australia or at a summer carnival in Santiago de Cuba, See is on a continual quest for simplicity, interrogating the perceived distance between privilege and want. Quietly, insistently, these thoughtful essays ask what we might accomplish if we said no to entitlement; if, instead, we used our privilege to help us better understand human nature. Throughout this psychogeographic diary, crowded with rituals of faith, death and renewal, See asks, again and again, 'How much will be enough?'
     
  Praise for Saudade:
     
  'Anik See's Saudade is often disturbingly brilliant. It reassures me that much of our experience of the world is still undescribed. Saudade is fresh and utterly original.' – Jim Harrison
     
  'See's meditations on loss, technology, design, and borders are like long-exposure photographs: richly textured, dreamy, observant of even the slightest movement.'
     
  – GLOSS Magazine

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  New York Sketches

  E. B. White, Martha White

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  E. B. White's greatest stories, asides, essays, jokes, and tall tales about the city he arguably saw clearest, loved best, and skewered most mercilessly. 
   
  Over more than fifty years at the New Yorker, E. B. White came to define a kind of ideal American prose: clear, casual, democratic, and urbane. He also did more than any writer to define his favorite city. His classic Here Is New York captured a moment in the life of Manhattan with precision and love—but his was no fleeting infatuation. In New York Sketches, the first collection of his casual pieces about the city, White ranges at whim from the nesting habits of pigeons to the aisles of a calculator trade-show on Eighth Avenue, from the behavior of snails in aquariums to the ghosts of old romance that haunt a flower shop or a fire escape or an old hotel. These sketches, some less than a page long, many written for a laugh, or in response to the news of the day, show us White at his most playful and inventive. 
   
  New York Sketches is a welcome diversion for every New Yorker—native, adoptive, or far from home—and a perfect introduction, not only to what White called "the inscrutable and lovely town," but to the everyday enchantments of one of her fondest reporters.

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