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  Charmides or Temperance

  Plato

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  The Charmides is a dialogue of Plato, in which Socrates engages a handsome and popular boy named Charmides in a conversation about the meaning of sophrosyne, a Greek word usually translated into English as "temperance," "self-control," or "restraint." When the boy is unable to satisfy him with an answer, he next turns to the boy's mentor Critias. In the dialogue, Charmides and then later Critias champion that Temperance is "doing one's own work" but Socrates derides this as vague. The definition given next of "knowing oneself" seems promising but the question is then raised if something can even have the knowledge of itself as a base. As is typical with Platonic early dialogues, the two never arrive at a completely satisfactory definition, but the discussion nevertheless raises many important points.

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  Fir Tree The (Story Time Episode...

  Hans Christian Andersen

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  "The Fir-Tree" is a literary fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). The tale is about a fir tree so anxious to grow up, so anxious for greater things, that he cannot appreciate living in the moment. The tale was first published 21 December 1844 with "The Snow Queen", in New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Second Collection, in Copenhagen, Denmark, by C.A. Reitzel. One scholar (Andersen biographer Jackie Wullschlager) indicates that "The Fir-Tree" was the first of Andersen's fairy tales to express a deep pessimism.

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  Aurora: EV-01

  Ryk Brown

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  A new ship . . .  
   
   
   
  A new crew . . .  
   
   
   
  A new crisis . . .  
   
   
   
  A friend at risk . . .  
   
   
   
  The Confederated Systems Alliance has spread to dozens of systems, creating the first true interstellar alliance dedicated to bringing peace and prosperity to all inhabited worlds. Unfortunately, some see this new alliance as a threat to their own seats of power, and would do anything to stop it. 
   
   
   
  After a well deserved rest, Captain Nathan Scott is once again called into action. This time, it is not the fate of the galaxy that is on his shoulders, but the life of one of his dearest friends. 
   
   
   
  But not all is as it appears.

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  A Room With a View

  E. M. Forster

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  "A Room With a View" is a novel penned by E.M. Forster, first published in 1908. Set both in England and Italy, the narrative centers on the young Lucy Honeychurch and her development from a repressed and naive woman into a more self-assured and liberated individual. The story commences with Lucy's travels in Italy, where she meets George Emerson, a man who challenges her traditional Victorian values. After returning to England, Lucy finds herself torn between her attraction to George and her engagement to the conventional Cecil Vyse. Throughout the narrative, Forster delves into themes of love, societal conventions, self-realization, and the contrast between the repressive English society and the liberating effect of the Italian landscape.

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  The Motor Rangers on Blue Water...

  John Henry Goldfrap

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  In The Motor Rangers on Blue Water: The Secret of the Derelict by John Henry Goldfrap, Nat Trevor and his companions plan to transport valuable sapphires by motorboat, unaware they are being watched by outlaws. As they sail aboard the Nomad, danger mounts with pursuit, storms, and a mysterious derelict vessel. Courage and teamwork guide them through intrigue and peril at sea.

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  The Final Season - Planet...

  Andrew Gillsmith

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  For fans of Douglas Adams, PG Wodehouse, Monty Python, and Dennis Taylor. 
  It’s one thing to know that the End is coming, quite another to know the exact date and time right down to the nanosecond. 
  Such is the unhappy fate of the inhabitants of Rexos-4, a once-thriving planet that has lived under the doom of an inevitable apocalypse for millenia. Their entire philosophy of life may be summed up by the phrase “Mxtlpicam’ bnak ooligapn,” which in most languages translates to something along the lines of “What’s the bloody point?” 
  Unbeknownst to the poor Rexans, their predicament has also been the subject of the longest-running and most successful reality television series in galactic history, now translated into over 200 million languages, with closed captioning. With the end of the world just around the corner, the show is entering its all-important final season. Everyone knows how difficult it is to pull off a satisfying finale–such stakes fill even the most hard-boiled Gallywood executives with fear and trembling. 
  Join Gumpilos Tfliximop, Elvie Renfro, Rufus Camford and a cast of colorful characters as they battle the notorious showrunner (and subverter of expectations) Betty Neezquaff, all while tackling the big questions of life’s meaning and purpose with wit, warmth, and–dare I say–optimism. 
  The Final Season is The Truman Show meets the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, with just a dash of PG Wodehouse.

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