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  Your Brain's Not Broken Workbook...

  Tamara Rosier

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  Lose the shame, love your brain, and live better with ADHD 
   
  In her popular book Your Brain's Not Broken, Dr. Tamara Rosier applied her years of coaching others to explain how ADHD affects every aspect of your life so that you could understand why you think, feel, and act the way you do. The result? A book chock-full of practical tools with the power to dramatically improve your life. 
   
  Now this interactive companion workbook helps you personalize all those tools to fit your particular challenges. Designed specifically to work with the way your amazing brain is wired, the workbook includes  
   
  ● guided reflections of each chapter's content 
  ● space to write out your ADHD story 
  ● questions and exercises to apply the information from the book 
  ● prompts to help you work through problems 
  ● visual summaries of key concepts, including the Solve-It Grid 
   
  The minute you start using this practical workbook, you are one step closer to losing the shame, loving your brain, and living better with ADHD.

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  The Searchers - A Quest for...

  Joseph Loconte

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  Never before had they known such hope. 
  In a world drenched in violence and oppression, here was a man armed with a message of peace and freedom. Into lives nearly overwhelmed by grief and sorrow, he brought compassion and healing and the deepest joy. To people who felt like outcasts and aliens, he showed the way home. And then, in one devastating night, all their hopes collapsed. 
  This is where our story begins—in the valley of despair. It is a tale of two friends, a stranger, and a search for truth in a world gone mad with doubt. 
  Historian Joseph Loconte unlocks the meaning of their exchange, set in the chaotic days following the execution of Jesus of Nazareth. Drawing from literature, film, philosophy, history, and politics, Loconte shows how this biblical drama is an integral part of our own story. Sooner or later, we will find ourselves among the searchers.

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  Stolen Fragments - Black Markets...

  Roberta Mazza

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  In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of Hobby Lobby, announced a purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted scholar Roberta Mazza was stunned. When was this piece discovered, and how could Green acquire such a rare item? The answers, which Mazza spent the next ten years uncovering, came as a shock: the fragment had come from a famous collection held at Oxford University, and its rightful owners had no idea it had been sold. 
   
   
   
  The letter to the Romans was not the only extraordinary piece in the Green collection. They soon announced newly recovered fragments from the Gospels and writings of Sappho. Mazza's quest to confirm the provenance of these priceless fragments revealed shadowy global networks that make big business of ancient manuscripts. 
   
   
   
  Mazza's investigation forces us to ask what happens when the supposed custodians of our ancient heritage act in ways that threaten to destroy it. Stolen Fragments illuminates how these recent dealings are not isolated events, but the inevitable result of longstanding colonial practices and the outcome of generations of scholars who have profited from extracting the cultural heritage of places they claim they wish to preserve. Where is the boundary between protection and exploitation?

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  History of Chile - Colonialism...

  Kelly Mass

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  The history of Chile spans thousands of years, with evidence suggesting that the region was inhabited as early as 10,000 years ago. Migrating Native Americans are believed to have settled in the fertile valleys and coastal areas, forming over a dozen distinct Amerindian cultures. These early inhabitants may have arrived via the Pacific coast in a rapid expansion predating the Clovis civilization or through trans-Pacific migration. Archaeological sites such as Monte Verde, Cueva del Milodón, and the Pali Aike Crater provide critical evidence of this early human activity. Monte Verde, in particular, predates the Clovis site by thousands of years, challenging traditional theories of the first human migrations to the Americas. 
  By the time of Spanish exploration in the 16th century, various indigenous groups occupied the land. The Mapuche, who inhabited south-central Chile, were the most significant and resilient, maintaining their independence through centuries of conflict with Spanish colonizers and later the Chilean state. Their resistance was emblematic of the challenges faced by Spanish conquistadors who arrived in 1540 under the leadership of Pedro de Valdivia. Despite fierce resistance, Valdivia founded Santiago in 1541, marking the beginning of Chile's colonial era. 
  Chile was part of the Spanish Empire from 1540 to 1818. During this period, the colony developed an economy centered on agriculture and the extraction of natural resources like saltpeter and, later, copper. While these resources bolstered the economy, they also led to over-reliance on commodity exports and tensions with neighboring countries. The War of the Pacific (1879–1884) exemplified such conflicts, as Chile battled Bolivia and Peru over control of the nitrate-rich Atacama Desert.

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  No Going Home

  Toni Maguire, Daisy Jones

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  From No.1 bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of abuse and survival. 
   
   
   
  'Small children have no say in the direction their lives take. Even before they have learnt to walk and talk, they are trained to obey' 
   
   
   
  Daisy was only four when her parents told her and her older brother that they were moving halfway across the world to Australia for a better life. Leaving everything behind, including her beloved grandparents, she stepped into an unfamiliar world. Daisy's close and unbreakable bond with her disabled brother helped her navigate her new life, until tragedy repeatedly struck the family. 
   
   
   
  After her parents' split and she was introduced to her new stepfather, nothing could have prepared her for what followed. All alone in 300 acres of wilderness, Daisy's only wish was to return home to her grandparents and their love. This is her true story of fear, abuse and, finally, escape. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Talking Cure - An Essay on the...

  Paula Marantz Cohen

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  Talking Cure is a timely and enticing excursion into the art of good conversation. Paula Marantz Cohen reveals how conversation connects us in ways that social media never can and explains why simply talking to each other freely and without guile may be the cure to what ails our troubled society. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on her lifelong immersion in literature and culture and her decades of experience as a teacher and critic, Cohen argues that we learn to converse in our families and then carry that knowledge into a broader world where we encounter diverse opinions and sensibilities. She discusses the role of food in encouraging conversation, the challenges of writing dialogue in fiction, the pros and cons of Zoom, the relationship of conversation to vaudeville acts, and the educational value of a good college seminar where students learn to talk about ideas. Cohen looks at some of the famous groups of writers and artists in history whose conversation fed their creativity, and details some of the habits that can result in bad conversation. 
   
   
   
  Blending the immediacy of a beautifully crafted memoir with the conviviality of an intimate gathering with friends, Talking Cure makes a persuasive case for the civilizing value of conversation and is essential listening for anyone interested in the chatter that fuels culture.

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