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  awfully hilarious - stories we...

  Heather Hendrie

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  AWFULLY HILARIOUS STORIES WE NEVER TELL Ever had a moment so embarrassing, so outrageously awkward, that you swore you’d take it to the grave? Well, we didn’t (take it to the grave, that is!). Here, for the benefit of all, we bare our souls (and other body parts we'd rather not mention). AWFULLY HILARIOUS STORIES WE NEVER TELL is a laugh-out-loud collection of hilarious personal essays and true-life confessions from bold, shameless, and beautifully imperfect humans. These funny, relatable stories dive into the wild, weird, and wonderfully cringe-worthy moments we usually keep locked away—from dating disasters and social mishaps to bathroom blunders and other faux pas. If you've ever sent a text to the wrong person, had a date go epically wrong, or wanted the earth to swallow you whole after an awkward encounter, this book is for you. Curated by award-winning storytellers, this humorous nonfiction anthology blends comedy, heart, and a healthy dose of “OMG, same!” Whether you're in need of a mood boost, a relatable read, or just proof that you're not the most awkward person alive, this book delivers. If you love David Sedaris, Samantha Irby, or The Moth, you’ll devour this collection of too-true-to-be-fiction stories. Perfect for fans of humorous memoirs, funny books about real life, and essays that make you laugh until you cry. Warning: May cause uncontrollable snort-laughing in public places. Humorous nonfiction Embarrassing stories Funny personal essays Dating disasters True life confessions Relatable comedy Women’s humour writing Quirky, awkward, and hilarious books Grab your copy today and join our community @awfullyhilarious www.awfullyhilarious.com

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  American Indian Symbolism

  Manly Palmer Hall

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  The North American Indian is by nature a symbolist, a mystic, and a philosopher. Like most: aboriginal peoples, his soul was en rapport with the cosmic agencies manifesting about him. Not only did his Manidos control creation from their exalted seats above the clouds, but they also descended into the world of men and mingled with their red children. The gray clouds hanging over the horizon were the smoke from the calumets of the gods, who could build fires of petrified wood and use a comet for a flame. The American Indian peopled the forests, rivers, and sky with myriads of superphysical and invisible beings. There are legends of entire tribes of Indians who lived in lake bottoms; of races who were never seen in the daytime but who, coming forth from their hidden caves, roamed the earth at night and waylaid unwary travelers; also of Bat Indians, with human bodies and batlike wings, who lived in gloomy forests and inaccessible cliffs and who slept hanging head downward from great branches and outcroppings of rock. The red man's philosophy of elemental creatures is apparently the outcome of his intimate contact with Nature, whose inexplicable wonders become the generating cause of such metaphysical speculations.

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  Cheek by Jowl - Talks & Essays...

  Ursula K. Le Guin

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  Winner of a 2009 Locus Award 
    
  "The monstrous homogenization of our world has now almost destroyed the map, any map, by making every place on it exactly like every other place, and leaving no blanks. … As in the Mandelbrot fractal set, the enormously large and the infinitesimally small are exactly the same, and the same leads always to the same again; there is no other; there is no escape, because there is nowhere else. 
    
  In reinventing the world of intense, unreproducible, local knowledge, seemingly by a denial or evasion of current reality, fantasists are perhaps trying to assert and explore a larger reality than we now allow ourselves. They are trying to restore the sense—to regain the knowledge—that there is somewhere else, anywhere else, where other people may live another kind of life. 
    
  The literature of imagination, even when tragic, is reassuring, not necessarily in the sense of offering nostalgic comfort, but because it offers a world large enough to contain alternatives and therefore offers hope."—from Cheek by Jowl 
    
  In these essays, Le Guin argues passionately that the homogenization of our world makes the work of fantasy essential for helping us break through what she calls "the reality trap." Le Guin writes not only of the pleasures of her own childhood reading, but also about what fantasy means for all of us living in the global twenty-first century.  
    
  "This compact collection will stoke readers' affection and appreciation for fantasy by highlighting important but overlooked qualities in many familiar tales (such as the duplicity at work in Lewis Carroll) that prove its lasting value as literature."—Publishers Weekly

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  Alternative History of Britain...

  Timothy Venning

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  Continuing his exploration of the alternative paths that British history might so easily have taken, Timothy Venning turns his attention to the Hundred Years War between England and France. Could the English have won in the long term, or, conversely, have been decisively defeated sooner? 
   
   
   
  Among the many scenarios discussed are what would have happened if the Black Prince had not died prematurely of the Black Death, leaving the ten-year-old Richard to inherit Edward IIIs crown. What would have been the consequences if France's Scottish allies had been victorious at Neville's Cross in 1346, while most English forces were occupied in France? What if Henry V had recovered from the dysentery that killed him at 35, giving time for his son Henry VI to inherit the combined crowns of France and England as a mature (and half-French) man rather than an infant controlled by others? And what if Joan of Arc had not emerged to galvanize French resistance at Orleans? 
   
   
   
  While necessarily speculative, all the scenarios are discussed within the framework of a deep understanding of the major driving forces, tensions, and trends that shaped British history and help to shed light upon them.

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  LSAT Hacks: Transform Your Score...

  Raymond Lockwood

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  Hospital Sketches - An Army...

  Louisa May Alcott

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  In the novel Little Women, Mr. March goes off to war. But in real life, it was Jo March (Louisa May Alcott herself, an avowed abolitionist) who traveled to Washington to nurse Northern soldiers. This is Alcott’s memoir but she chose to use the pseudonym “Tribulation Periwinkle” to tell her story. 
  Despite the subject matter, her account is full of amusing anecdotes as she makes her way alone from Concord, Massachusetts to DC, trying to finagle a free ticket and convinced she will drown during the journey. Profiles of the soldiers she tended are full of compassion, pathos, and even a bit of humor. The book was hugely popular among those at home eager for war news. Its publication introduced Alcott’s unique voice to the public and launched the career of a great American writer. Sharp-eared listeners will discover that the names and personalities of three soldiers were inspirations for characters in Little Women.

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