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  A Stranger's Pose

  Emmanuel Iduma

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  A unique blend of travelogue, musings and poetry, A Stranger's Pose draws the reader into a world of encounters haunted by the absence of home, estrangement from a lover and family tragedies. The author's recollections and reflections of fragments of his journeys to African cities, from Dakar to Douala, Bamako to Benin, and Khartoum to Casablanca, offer a compelling and very personal meditation on the meaning of home and the generosity of strangers to a lone traveller. Alongside accounts of the author's own travels are other narratives about movement, intimacy, the power of language and translation.
  Whilst echoing the writings of Anne Michaels and John Berger, this remarkable book charts a path of its own that will redefine travel writing.
  Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019

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  Fifty Frightening Horror Movies

  David Miller

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  From the earliest days of cinema, audiences have loved being scared. The appeal of the macabre and the bizarre never goes out of fashion, and the great horror films are often amongst people's most vivid movie going memories.
  <p<In Hollywood in the 1930s, characters such as Dracula and Frankenstein's monsters made stars of actors lsuch as Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff then, in 1950s' Britain, the mantle was taken up by Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
  The 1970s took films into ever-darker territory, with William Friedkin's The Exorcist often cited as the greatest horror film of all time, while others preferred the breathless excitement of the stalk-and-slash in John Carpenters Halloween.
  Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street became the cinema's most popular bogeyman in the 1980s, and more recently hordes of zombies have returned for the bloodthirsty rampage through several big-budget blockbusters. More than 100 years after the first horror film, the parade of screen terrors shows no sign of stopping.
  In this new hardback book you will find 50 acknowledged classic horrors, from FW Murnau's cobwebby vampire story Nosferatu via the Universal movies, the Hammer Horrors and the Night of the Living Dead, to The Wicker Man and The Omen, up to more recent box-office hits such as Paranormal Activity and A Quiet Place.

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  Your Thought

  Mitansh

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  “Believe you can and you're halfway there. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” “Opportunities don't happen

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  Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes...

  William Irwin

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  "This is the Way." In Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back, the Way wends through entirely new adventures in the Star Wars galaxy far, far away: not only the films of the Skywalker saga, but also Rebels, The Bad Batch, Rogue One, Solo, and The Mandalorian. Like the creators of these films and television series, the authors in this book harness the magical mix of humor, action, empathy, characterization, adventure, and fan service that constitutes Star Wars.In addition to thorny metaphysical questions about the nature of time and free will, this volume highlights the staggering cultural impact of George Lucas's universe. The newest Star Wars narratives tackle ethnicity on alien worlds and how love and sex with a droid like L3-37 would work ("It works"). The connections between the Separatist Freedom Movement and the struggle for social justice in the USA in the twenty-first century are brought to light. And philosophical second looks at Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi prove there is much more to this controversial entry in the Skywalker saga.Thirty-six philosophers, both sages and scoundrels among them, examine the full range of deep questions throughout the Star Wars chronology—from The Phantom Menace to The Rise of Skywalker and beyond. "They have spoken."

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  The little-known story of the...

  PBS NewsHour

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  In a new book, NPR’s Steve Inskeep has chronicled the little-known story of how the illegitimate son of an immigrant rose to become the Republican Party’s first presidential nominee in 1856 -- with a lot of help from his wife. Lisa Desjardins sits down with Inskeep to discuss “Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War.”

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  The Magical Pear Tree

  Julie Sormark

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  Art Classic Stories is a special series of English fairy tales that combines the paintings of great painters with classic fairy tales.

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