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  The Murder of Laci Peterson -...

  Declan Cross

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  Hear the case that shook a nation—brought to life in gripping audio. 
  Christmas Eve, 2002: eight-months-pregnant Laci Peterson vanishes from her Modesto home, and America can’t look away. The Murder of Laci Peterson audiobook hurls you into the frantic 911 call, the exhaustive searches along San Francisco Bay, and the courtroom battle that turned Scott Peterson into a household name. 
  Through measured, cinematic narration, court transcripts and forensic evidence unfold like scenes in a thriller. You’ll relive the instant a simple holiday morning became a statewide manhunt, trace the investigative leaps that stitched together a web of circumstantial clues, and feel the suffocating media glare that blurred facts, fear, and public opinion. As each witness takes the stand, the narrator ratchets up the tension until the verdict—still fiercely debated—drops with gut-punching finality. 
  Yet this is more than a timeline. The story restores Laci’s humanity beyond the headlines, probes the psychology of domestic betrayal, and challenges you to weigh the evidence for yourself—all while keeping you riveted on your commute, during a workout, or in a late-night listening binge. 
  Press play, follow the clues, and decide where the truth really lies.

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  KNOW ABOUT "SUSHRUTA" - The...

  Saurabh Singh Chauhan

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  This is small part of the introduction of the book: Welcome to the fascinating journey into the life and legacy of Sushruta, a name that resonates through the annals of history as the "Father of Surgery." In this remarkable voyage, we will uncover the story of a visionary who, though born in the mists of antiquity, left an indelible mark on the world of medicine and surgery. Our narrative will unfold with the clarity of a seasoned historian, drawing upon decades of expertise in the realms of ancient, medieval, and modern history. 
  Sushruta's saga begins in ancient India, around 600 BCE, in the city of Varanasi. While the specifics of his early life and family remain shrouded in the sands of time, his journey as a healer and scholar took him far beyond the confines of his birthplace. 
  The crux of this narrative lies in Sushruta's monumental contribution: the "Sushruta Samhita." This ancient text, comprising over 1,100 chapters, stands as a testament to his genius. Its pages unveil the intricacies of surgical procedures, the mysteries of human anatomy, and a profound understanding of medicinal herbs. 

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  Returning العودة

  Mais Amad

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  The journey of a woman who was raised and developed between West & East. Through reality's pitfalls and joyful bursts, she begins a path to experience the Divine within, or so she thinks until the years and experiences around her have shown her that she, along with many others, are in fact returning to their spiritual essence. Returning is subtle, it looks like sleeping habits, physical activity, eating well, embracing community, and enriching the mind & soul. The dramatic outcome, yet also subtle, is ego shifting, pride lifting, inward sincerity deepening, and the limitless and weightless way of living.

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  Casting the Runes - From their...

  M R James

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  Montague Rhodes James is cited as perhaps the greatest English writer of ghost stories, an opinion few would disagree with. 
  James was born on 1st August 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate but at age 3 the family went to live at Livermere, near Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia.  
  From early childhood he had a passion for mediaeval books and antiques. He was educated initially as a boarder at Temple Grove School in East Sheen, west London, before gaining a scholarship to Eton and thence Cambridge where he gained a double first, becoming a distinguished linguist and mediaevalist.  
  Before the Great War vacations were usually spent touring Europe absorbing cultures and references for his later writing. 
  A man of enormous knowledge it was said he timed his breakfast egg whilst he completed the Times crossword.  
  Many of his elegant yet terrifying tales were created by discarding the prevailing gothic cliches and placing his characters and narrative in a realistic setting.  Thereby the stories gained atmosphere and menace on a grand scale and he was famed as the originator of the antiquarian ghost story. 
  Although story-telling and writing these 30 or so tales was a hobby, when published their effect transformed the genre and still chill the bones in our more modern times. 
  James was also a medievalist scholar and translator whose work remains highly respected. He was also Provost of Eton College between 1918 and 1936. 
  M R James died on 12th June 1936 at Eton in Buckinghamshire.  He was 73.

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  The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth...

  Frances Wilson

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  A “sensitive and elegantly written” biography of Dorothy Wordsworth, sister and muse of the Romantic English poet William Wordsworth (Publishers Weekly).“[A] highly charged and forthright biography. . . . A ‘perpetual third party,’ Dorothy Wordsworth finally steps out of the shadows in this assured and involving reclamation of an intriguing, literary figure.” —Booklist (starred review)Described by the writer and opium addict Thomas De Quincey as “the very wildest . . . person I have ever known,” Dorothy Wordsworth was neither the self-effacing spinster nor the sacrificial saint of common telling. A brilliant stylist in her own right, Dorothy was at the center of the Romantic movement of the early nineteenth century. She was her brother William Wordsworth's inspiration, aide, and most valued reader, and a friend to Coleridge; both borrowed from her observations of the world for their own poems. William wrote of her, “She gave me eyes, she gave me ears.”In order to remain at her brother’s side, Dorothy sacrificed both marriage and comfort, jealously guarding their close-knit domesticity—one marked by a startling freedom from social convention. In the famed Grasmere Journals, Dorothy kept a record of this idyllic life together. The tale that unfolds through her brief, electric entries reveals an intense bond between brother and sister, culminating in Dorothy’s dramatic collapse on the day of William’s wedding to their childhood friend Mary Hutchinson. Dorothy lived out the rest of her years with her brother and Mary. The woman who strode the hills in all hours and all weathers would eventually retreat into the house for the last three decades of her life.In this succinct, arresting biography, Frances Wilson reveals Dorothy in all her complexity. From the coiled tension of Dorothy’s journals, she unleashes the rich emotional life of a woman determined to live on her own terms, and honors her impact on the key figures of Romanticism.“In The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, Ms. Wilson strides purposefully through Wordsworth’s intoxicating life. . . . One chapter begins with a quotation from the political-punk band Gang of Four: ‘This heaven gives me migraine.’ This book, its own kind of heaven, gave me quite the opposite.” —The New York Times“Entertaining and sometimes ingenious. . . . Wilson . . . makes a strong case for taking a fresh look at Dorothy Wordsworth.” —Los Angeles Times

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  Love Sex and Murder? - The...

  Jens Söring

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  The Netflix series "Till murder do us part: Soering vs. Haysom" deals with the Haysom murders in detail, but the love affair between Elizabeth Haysom and Jens Soering comes up a little short. What was their relationship really like back then? How could Jens have fallen  so deeply in love with Elizabeth that he was willing to get involved in a double-murder?Jens wrote about this years ago in A far, far better thing (Lantern Books 2017). While the focus of that book is on the murders, seven chapters have almost nothing to do with the crime. Instead, they describe the passionate early months of Elizabeth's and Jens's affair, as well as the five months they spent together on the run in south-eastern Europe, Asia and Great Britain.In this audiobook, Jens reads these seven chapters from A far, far better thing himself. This material is  perfectly capable of standing on its own; listeners don't need to know anything about the murder case in order to be drawn into the romantic spell of the story.Was Elizabeth's and Jens's affair really just a nightmare of manipulation and deception? Or was it  perhaps also, at least for a time, something beautiful?

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