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  Purga - a true story-freedom and...

  OLGA PAVLOVA

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  PURGA A TRUE STORY 
  Freedom and danger often wear the same face. 
  A purga is not an ordinary snowstorm. Born from the Arctic winds, it arrives without warning — blinding, disorientating, changing the landscape overnight. You do not conquer a purga. You endure it. You adapt. You learn to walk through it. 
  Some storms happen outside. Others become part of who you are. 
  From Olga Pavlova, bestselling author of Ice, Lies and Old Advice, comes an unforgettable memoir of childhood, survival and the final years of a vanished world. 
  Born in Leningrad in 1983 and raised above the Arctic Circle in Murmansk, Olga belonged to the last generation of Soviet children — born into a superpower that vanished before they were old enough to understand what was disappearing. 
  Her childhood existed between extremes: Arctic winters and endless summer light, frozen lakes and wild forests, Soviet courtyards where neighbours became family and an entire building helped raise a child. It was chaotic. It was dangerous. And it was freedom. 
  But beyond the courtyard, history was moving. The Soviet Union collapsed, and with it the rules that had governed millions of lives. Collective security gave way to uncertainty. Trust gave way to fear. Childhood games unfolded beside crime, poverty and a society rebuilding itself from the ruins of an empire. 
  From Murmansk to St Petersburg, from innocence to teenage survival, Olga's journey captures a lost world seen not through presidents or politics, but through the eyes of a girl growing up inside the storm. 
  This is the story of a mother and daughter who lost almost everything except their determination to continue. Of finding beauty among hardship. Of discovering that home is not always somewhere you can return to — sometimes it is something you carry. 
  Eventually, Olga's journey would take her to London and a new life. But the Arctic never truly leaves those who grow up inside it. 
  The purga remains. 
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  Our Georgia - The devastating...

  Lynette Williams, Robin Eveleigh

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  Georgia Williams’ murder at the hands of college pal Jamie Reynolds was a crime that shocked the nation: chillingly executed and horrific in its sexual depravity. 
  But when Georgia’s devastated mother, Lynnette, and father, Steve, questioned the events leading to their daughter’s death, they discovered it was also entirely preventable. 
  At the time of Georgia’s disappearance, Steve was – ironically – a highly-commended murder squad detective serving with West Mercia Police. 
  The same force, Steve and Lynnette discovered, had had Reynolds in its sights for years before Georgia’s murder, but let him slip their net. 
  Drawing on Steve’s inside police knowledge, the couple exposed the litany of failures that let Reynolds infiltrate their daughter’s life, and allowed him to kill. 
  Now, in her powerful and moving memoir, Lynnette tries to get beyond the platitudes of ‘mistakes made and lessons learned’ to effect real change, and also details the heartbreaking aftermath of a crime that should never have happened.

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  The Bogs of Tipperary

  Grant J Riley

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Bogs of Tipperary 
   
  A short story from a winter on the Loony Line, Ireland, 1990 — buses, caravans, bender tents, and horses holding their ground against the rain, the mud, and the cold. The Bogs of Tipperary follows a community of Travellers and idealists determined to keep an alternative, marginal way of life alive through the hardest months, building toward a desperate horse rescue when a foal is trapped in the bog. Drawn straight from real life on the road, it's a story about endurance, community, and what it takes to survive — together — outside the system. 
   
   It's one of twelve true stories collected in Calling Crows, Grant J. Riley's account of Britain and Ireland's 1990s free festival and direct-action scene. 
  Available as Paperback and Ebook - @Lulu.com and elsewhere 
   
  Calling Crows 
   
  Calling Crows is a collection of twelve true stories from Britain and Ireland's free festival and direct-action scene of the 1990s — a world of squatters, road protests, and activists fighting back against Thatcher-era Britain's "no alternative." From the front lines of anti-roads campaigns and J18 to the squats, the bender tents, and the Travellers' sites, these are first-hand accounts of life inside the counter-culture: communities built in rebellion, criminalised by the mainstream, and bound together by something the establishment never understood. Funny, brutal, and unflinching, it's a document of a generation that chose to become outsiders — and never quite regretted it.

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  White Magic - From their pens to...

  Ella D'Arcy

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  Ella D'Arcy was born on 23rd August 1857 in London, one of nine children.  
  Her education spanned London, Germany, France and the Channel Islands. A student of fine art, her poor eyesight meant a switch to literature was needed and with this she had hopes to be an author. 
  She worked as a contributor and unofficial editor, alongside Henry Harland, to The Yellow Book, Aubrey Beardsley’s sensational quarterly magazine that combined art, stories, poetry, essays and much else besides.  D'Arcy wrote several stories for the magazine and her stories have an undeniable psychological and realist style through her engagement with various themes from marriage, the family, imitation through to deception.  
  Recognition of her talents grew after the publication of ‘Irremediable’, in the Yellow Book, where it received much praise from critics.   
  She also wrote and published in the Argosy, Blackwood's Magazine, and Temple Bar.  
  However, D’Arcy’s canon was small and, apart from her magazine stories, her book publishing was limited to ‘Monochromes’ (1895), ‘Modern Instances’ and ‘The Bishop’s Dilemma’ (1898). She also translated André Maurois's biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley entitled ‘Ariel’ (1924). 
  Her diligence with work aside she was notorious for her inability to maintain relationships with friends.  When she did appear to them it was often unannounced.  This earned her the sobriquet 'Goblin Ella.' 
  D'Arcy spent much of her life living alone, though she had a constant urge to travel, but usually she resided on the edge of poverty. Her writing was often motivated by this need. 
  Much of her later life was spent in Paris before returning to London in 1937, where she died, in hospital, on 5th September 1937.

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  Cow Hug Therapy - How the...

  Ellie Laks

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  The inspirational story of the compassionate and wise animals of the Gentle Barn and how they became a therapeutic salve for countless guests—and mentors for all of us in how to live and die 
   
  In Cow Hug Therapy, Ellie Laks recounts the extraordinary journey that started with her first teacher, Buddha—not the religious figure, but a rescued miniature Hereford cow. One evening Buddha wrapped her neck around an exhausted and upset Ellie and transferred a singular form of healing and comfort with an incredible impact. Understanding that this was something to be shared with others, Ellie developed Cow Hug Therapy, a groundbreaking approach to emotional healing that has proved effective for trauma, illness, disabilities, addiction, grief, and stress. 
   
  This colorful and compelling narrative introduces the healing mavens of the barnyard, each with a unique story of being rescued from trauma and treated with love and respect. In their new role at Ellie’s Gentle Barn sanctuaries, these animals have transformed lives and ignited breakthroughs and newfound purpose for visitors including a young mother who lost her baby, a suicidal teenager, a wounded serviceman, an open-heart-surgery patient, and many more. A testament to empathy and the mission to heal animals, people, and the planet, Cow Hug Therapy serves as a beacon of hope for all seeking healing and connection. 
   
  “This book shows not only the power of Cow Hug Therapy with these wonderful creatures, but also their beautiful, individual personalities.”—Christina Applegate

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  The Unindexed Mind Footnotes...

  Tory Handcock

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  The Unindexed Mind: Footnotes from the Storm is the follow-up to the original chaos—part journal, part philosophy, part stand-up set written in the eye of a hurricane. This isn't self-help. It's self-interrogation. These are rants, reflections, and stories collected from the trenches of working-class America and the cluttered corners of a mind that refuses to be simplified. From conspiracy logic to retail breakdowns, from profound loneliness to sudden laughter in the face of it—this is not a polished manifesto. It's a footnote collection from a storm you didn't know you were in. If you're tired of curated wisdom and sanitized thinking, step inside. This book won't save you. But it might help you feel a little less insane.

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