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  In Their Own Words - Testimony...

  Darren Grimes

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  What is the cost of an education? 
  Is education an additive process or a reductive one? 
  How does one weigh the benefits of tradition against the threat of being at odds with the future? 
  How does one refuse the offer of a better life for their children? 
  What if the offer is compulsory? 
  What happens when the tree of knowledge bares rotten fruit? 
  While the history of Canada's Residential School program is only just beginning 
  to be unearthed, there are already enough first hand accounts to begin asking 
  some of these questions. The words of the individuals included in this book 
  offer just a glimpse of the results of the effort of one group of people to 
  educate people who were in many cases not seeking the knowledge being 
  offered. These are tales of lessons learned, languages lost, traditions 
  replaced, & charity corrupted.

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  Fake News - Falsehood...

  Brian McNair

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  Fake News: Falsehood, fabrication and fantasy in journalism examines the causes and consequences of the ‘fake news’ phenomenon now sweeping the world’s media and political debates. Drawing on three decades of research and writing on journalism and news media, the author engages with the fake news phenomenon in accessible, insightful language designed to bring clarity and context to a complex and fast-moving debate. 
   
  The author presents fake news not as a cultural issue in isolation but rather as arising from, and contributing to, significant political and social trends in twenty-first century societies. Chapters identify the factors which have laid the groundwork for fake news’ explosive appearance at this moment in our globalised public sphere. These include the rise of relativism and the crisis of objectivity, the role of digital media platforms in the production and consumption of news, and the growing drive to produce online content which attracts users and generates revenue.

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  Aliens on the Moon

  Raphael Terra

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  This audiobook has been recorded using Text to speech (TTS). 
   
  We all wonder whether planet Earth has been visited by aliens. Millions of people around the planet have seen them. But very few people can see what is happening on our moon. It is in fact a perfect place for aliens to use as a base for visiting us. Especially because the dark side of the moon cannot be observed by us. 
   
  Could it be that our secretive governments know about them? Has NASA come into contact with them? The fact is astronauts from several countries claim to have seen UFO’s on or near the moon. Even NASA astronauts have claimed in public that there was and is a government cover up. 
   
  So what is the truth? Are there aliens on the moon?

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  Ways of Attending - How our...

  Iain McGilchrist

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  Attention is not just receptive, but actively creative of the world we inhabit. How we attend makes all the difference to the world we experience. And nowadays in the West we generally attend in a rather unusual way: governed by the narrowly focussed, target-driven left hemisphere of the brain.  
  Forget everything you thought you knew about the difference between the hemispheres, because it will be largely wrong. It is not what each hemisphere does – they are both involved in everything – but how it does it, that matters. And the prime difference between the brain hemispheres is the manner in which they attend. For reasons of survival we need one hemisphere (in humans and many animals, the left) to pay narrow attention to detail, to grab hold of things we need, while the other, the right, keeps an eye out for everything else. The result is that one hemisphere is good at utilising the world, the other better at understanding it.  
  Absent, present, detached, engaged, alienated, empathic, broad or narrow, sustained or piecemeal, attention has the power to alter whatever it meets. The play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged. How you attend to something – or don’t attend to it – matters a very great deal. This book helps you to see what it is you may have been trained by our very unusual culture not to see.  
  Ways of Attending is expertly read by Mike Fraser. The cover design has been adapted from a Cajal original drawing, and used with permission of Legado Cajal (Madrid).  
  This audiobook was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. © 2018 Iain McGilchrist (P)

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  Sneak - Lesbian Shapeshifter...

  Giselle Renarde

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  A mouse shifter in a backwoods bordello falls for a cursed lady of the evening in this lesbian erotic romance. 
  Bess was born human in a backwoods brothel, but she's lived there as a mouse long enough to watch generations of girls come and go. Loralee’s the only one remaining to entertain cowboys who leave her with bruises and a fistful of cash. 
  Oh so many years ago, Bess sought Old Gertie's magic to avoid the fate Loralee now lives. Her little heart can't bear the torment those brutes impose on poor Loralee. She's got a plan to revisit her human form, but is Bess willing to come out of retirement in a career she never started?

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  “War Beneath the Waves: The...

  Quentin Drummond Anderson

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  War Beneath the Waves: The Great Submarine Commanders of World War II 
  From the acclaimed author of "Righteous Renegades" and "The Few Against The Many"The Underwater War That Decided Everything 
  In the ocean's depths, a different war determined nations' fates. War Beneath the Waves reveals the extraordinary true stories of submarine commanders who wielded steel sharks with deadly precision and unbreakable courage. 
  Drawing from family archives, international military records, and untold personal accounts, Anderson brings readers into cramped control rooms where split-second decisions meant victory or death in crushing depths.Meet History's Greatest Underwater Warriors 
  OTTO KRETSCHMER - Germany's "Tonnage King," the most successful U-boat commander. 
  DUDLEY "MUSH" MORTON - Revolutionary American submarine commander who led USS Wahoo into Japan's defended waters. 
  MALCOLM WANKLYN - Scottish perfectionist whose Victoria Cross and HMS Upholder made him the Mediterranean's most feared commander. 
  ALEKSANDR MARINESKO - Soviet commander whose Wilhelm Gustloff sinking created history's deadliest maritime disaster. 
  RICHARD O'KANE - America's deadliest submarine ace and most successful commander. 
  GEORGE "SHRIMP" SIMPSON - Mastermind who orchestrated Axis supply destruction from Malta.Four Nations, One Deadly Art 
  From North Atlantic to tropical Pacific, these commanders fought across every ocean. German wolf packs terrorized shipping. American submarines strangled Japanese supply lines. British submarines destroyed Rommel's lifelines.

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