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  Marie Antoinette - The True...

  Liam Dale

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  Women in history, often queens born or married into power, have diverse narratives. Marie Antoinette, the renowned Queen of France, is a prominent figure who faced both admiration and criticism. 
   
  Marie Antoinette is typically associated with luxury at Versailles while her subjects endured hardship, epitomized by the phrase "Let them eat cake." However, a deeper look reveals a complex story. 
   
  In today's world, public figures, including royalty and politicians, endure media scrutiny and varying public opinions. Similarly, Marie Antoinette faced challenges in her time, which ultimately marred her historical reputation. 
   
  Yet, contemporary historians are reevaluating her legacy, offering alternative perspectives. 
   
  Discover: 
  - Her life from beginning to end 
  - Insights into her royal lineage 
  - Factors influencing the French Revolution 
  - The grandeur of Versailles 
  - The intriguing diamond necklace affair 
  - Marie Antoinette's final words before the guillotine 
  - Her resting place

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  Living with Jane Austen

  Janet Todd

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  Fanny Price, in Mansfield Park, tells her persistent suitor that 'we have all a better guide in ourselves...than any other person can be'. Sometimes, however, we crave external guidance: and when this happens we could do worse than seek it in Jane Austen's own subtle novels. Written to coincide with Austen's 250th birthday, this approachable and intimate work shows why and how - for over half a century - Austen has inspired and challenged its author through different phases of her life. Part personal memoir, part expert interaction with all the letters, manuscripts and published novels, Janet Todd's book reveals what living with Jane Austen has meant to her and what it might also mean to others. Todd celebrates the undimmable power of Austen's work to help us understand our own bodies and our environment, and teach us about patience, humour, beauty and the meaning of home.

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  crushed - the boys that never...

  Kiersten Lyons

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  While tying the bows on her wedding invitations, Kiersten's fiancé walked in and told her he didn't think he loved her, and maybe never had . . . Oh, and he'd cheated. At a place called The Magic Castle. But don't worry, because six months later, while Kiersten was struggling to pay rent, he won $100,000 on a reality show. Yes, you read that right . . . 
   
   
   
  A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. 
   
   
   
  Why is it that the minute you get your heart broken, whether by a boy or a dream, you look around to see everyone else is doing amazing! Because everyone else is stupid . . . 
   
   
   
  Oh, and why are they always telling you "everything happens for a reason"?! Leave me alone, Cheryl! 
   
   
   
  But also, don't. Because when you're alone, you're hit with the reality that you can't wake up from this bad dream. Why are you the only one heartbroken? The only one struggling? The only one . . . Crushed? But what if that's the stupid part? The lie that you are the only one. 
   
   
   
  In this nostalgic memoir equally cut with anguish and humor, Lyons invites listeners along on a lifetime of Crushed moments and the hope of being left in awe of the pivots she never wanted in the first place. 
   
   
   
  And what if realizing you aren't alone is the first step to one day knowing you'll be in awe too?

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  Two Pilgrims Meet: In Search of...

  Basil Scott, Minoru Kasai

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  The authors tell how they grew up in China, met in India and were reunited in England and Japan. They share their discovery of the key to reconciliation between China and Japan. 
  Digging deep into their personal histories and borrowing freely from their understanding of the world, the authors offer a reflection that seeks to absorb the still-resounding messages, meant for humanity as a whole, of Hiroshima and Nanjing. Rajmohan Gandhi, historian and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Mumbai 
  I am in Hong Kong as I write this, where China-Japan relations are central to regional stability. This book addresses some very key issues on that front, I highly recommend it. Andrew White, President of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East 
  A unique tribute to the search for harmony and reconciliation between China and Japan seen from two different viewpoints. Liu Cheng, Professor of History and Peace Studies, Nanjing University 
  This fascinating book is a resilient testimony to the reconciliation, hope, freedom and creative coexistence, of which human beings are capable. Shin Chiba, Professor of Political Thought, ICU, Tokyo.

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  Mr Mulligan - The Life of...

  Tom McAuliffe

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  He captured the world’s attention through golf… 
  …and through humor and grit, inspired millions. 
  Do you know the story of Tommy McAuliffe? 
  Born in 1893, he was destined to make an impact, and not just from the tee box. A magnetic personality that made the greatest golfers who ever lived want to join him for a round. He played with Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, and Arnold Palmer. What made him unique? 
  On his good days, he could shoot even par… 
  …and by the way he lost both his arms at age 9! 
  When his adoring fans would come to watch, Tommy would give them quite a show, and something to think about. His motto was “There is no handicap in life except a mental one.” 
  Golf wasn’t his only passion. 
  He promoted laws and testified before Congress on rehabilitation and the physically disabled. Tommy McAuliffe was a published author, on-air radio host, actor, public speaker, newspaper reporter, magazine publisher, and farmer. 
  Could you type a book with a pencil in your mouth? 
  You’ll adore this inspirational and award winning biography, because it’s loving written by the grandson as a lasting tribute to a man who set out to change the world. 
  Get it now.

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  A Dead Secret - From their pens...

  Lafcadio Hearn

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  Lafcadio Hearn was born on the 27th June 1850 on the Ionian isle of Levkás in Greece to a British Army officer and a Greek Mother. 
  His father, fearing for his career prospects at being married to a Greek Orthodox wife, sent them to Dublin whilst he continued to advance his career with further postings.  Life there was difficult for mother and son.  His father returned, wounded and traumatised, when Lafcadio was three.  He annulled the marriage and she remarried but had to give up care of Lafcadio to her sister-in law.   
  After brief periods for Catholic education in England and France he emigrated to Ohio in the United States when he was 19, taking on a series of casual jobs before embarking on a career as a journalist, publishing poems and essays in Cincinnati.  It was whilst here that he began a side-line in translating, starting with Gautier and Flaubert.  He married in 1874 to a 20 year old African-American woman in violation of Ohio's anti-miscegenation law.  The marriage soon failed. 
  In 1877 he relocated to New Orleans to write on a variety of themes before picking up a two year assignment from Harper’s to write in the West Indies, where he also wrote his first novel. 
  In 1890 Harper’s sent him to Japan.  Here he left journalism and took the remarkable decision to become a schoolteacher in the north of Japan.   Enraptured by the culture he was driven to explain it in various Western publications to those who had little, if any, knowledge of its culture.  Within the year he had fallen in love with, and married, a high-born Japanese lady, together they would have four children.   
  In 1895 he became a Japanese national and took the name Koizumi Yakumo, Koizumi being his wife’s family name. 
  The following few years, whilst a professor of Literature at the Imperial University of Japan, were his most creative and admired period.   
  Lafcadio Hearn died of heart failure on the 26th of September 1904, in Tokyo, Japan shortly before leaving to deliver a series of lectures at Cornell University in New York State.  He was 54.

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