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  Truth Telling - Seven...

  Michelle Good

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  #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER 
  WINNER High Plains Book Award 
  FINALIST for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy 
  FINALIST for the Indigenous Voices Award 
  Longlisted for the First Nation Communities READ 
  A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. 
  With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide range of Indigenous issues framed by Michelle Good’s personal experience and knowledge. 
  From racism, broken treaties, and cultural pillaging, to the value of Indigenous lives and the importance of Indigenous literature, this collection reveals facts about Indigenous life in Canada that are both devastating and enlightening. Truth Telling also demonstrates the myths underlying Canadian history and the human cost of colonialism, showing how it continues to underpin modern social institutions in Canada. 
  Passionate and uncompromising, Michelle Good affirms that meaningful and substantive reconciliation hinges on recognition of Indigenous self-determination, the return of lands, and a just redistribution of the wealth that has been taken from those lands without regard for Indigenous peoples. 
  Truth Telling is essential reading for those looking to acknowledge the past and understand the way forward.

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  The Power of Choice - How to...

  Kelly Weekers

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  In The Power of Choice, her most personal book to date, the bestselling Dutch author and psychologist invites readers into her private life and shares her thoughts on friendship, ambition, motherhood, love, loss, self-esteem and more. The book, full of simple yet effective expert advice, feels like a nice chat with a good friend. Without telling you what to do, Kelly helps you explore how to make your own right choices - by asking yourself better questions - and take back control of different aspects in your life. 
  Her characteristic, no-nonsense way of writing has resulted in a book brimming with joie de vivre, humor and a healthy sense of perspective.

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  The Center of the World - A...

  Allen James Fromherz

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  This sweeping history reorients our understanding of the Middle East, placing the Gulf at the heart of globalized trade and cross-cultural encounters. 
   
   
    
  World history began in the Persian Gulf. The ancient port cities that dotted its coastlines created the first global seaboard, a place from where faiths and cultures from around the world set sail and made contact. More than a history, The Center of the World shows us that contradictions that define our modern age have always been present. 
   
   
    
  For over four thousand years, the Gulf—sometimes called the Persian Gulf, sometimes the Arabian Gulf—has been a global crossroads while managing to avoid control by the world's greatest empires. In its history, we see a world of rapid change, fluctuating centers of trade, a dependency on uncertain global markets, and intense cross-cultural encounters that hold a mirror to the contemporary world. Focusing each chapter on a different port around the Gulf, The Center of the World shows how the people of the Gulf adapted to larger changes in world history, creating a system of free trade, merchant rule, and commerce that continues to define the region today.

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  Don Quixote

  Miguel Cervantes

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  What happens when an ordinary man decides to become a legendary knight?
  
  In Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes presents one of the most influential novels in world literature. The story follows Alonso Quixano, a man so absorbed in tales of chivalry that he adopts the identity of Don Quixote, a wandering knight determined to revive the age of heroic adventures.
  
  Accompanied by his practical and good-natured companion Sancho Panza, Don Quixote sets out across the Spanish countryside in search of quests, glory, and opportunities to defend the helpless. His imagination, however, often transforms ordinary people and objects into the extraordinary figures of his imagined world.
  
  Cervantes combines adventure, comedy, satire, romance, friendship, imagination, and social commentary to create a story that is both entertaining and deeply reflective. The contrast between Don Quixote's idealistic vision and Sancho's practical outlook creates some of the novel's most memorable moments.
  
  The novel explores timeless questions about reality and illusion, idealism and practicality, courage, identity, freedom, friendship, and the power of imagination. Its playful treatment of traditional chivalric romances also helped establish new possibilities for the modern novel.
  
  First published in the early seventeenth century, Don Quixote has influenced generations of writers and remains one of the most celebrated works of Spanish and world literature.
  
  Join the unforgettable knight and his loyal squire on a journey where windmills become giants and imagination challenges reality. Read Don Quixote today and experience Cervantes' timeless masterpiece of adventure, satire, comedy, and human imagination.

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  Edward I King of England

  J. M. Gardner

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  This collection of audiobooks will help you understand a crucial part of the history of French monarchy. For each King, you will find a detailed description of the style of his reign and his political achievements, narrated in a lively way.

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  A History of the Undead -...

  Charlotte Booth

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  A history of Western culture’s fascination with undead creatures in film and television. 
   
  Are you a fan of the undead? Watch lots of mummy, zombie and vampire movies and TV shows? Have you ever wondered if they could be “real?” 
   
  This book, A History of the Undead, unravels the truth behind these popular reanimated corpses. 
   
  Starting with the common representations in Western media through the decades, we go back in time to find the origins of the myths. Using a combination of folklore, religion and archaeological studies we find out the reality behind the walking dead. You may be surprised at what you find . . .

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