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  The Oak and the Larch - A Forest...

  Sophie Pinkham

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  Russia's forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world's wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first-ever English-language exploration of this vast expanse—a dazzling environmental history of Russia that offers an urgent new understanding of the nature of Russian power, and of Russia's ideas of itself. 
  Award-winning scholar Sophie Pinkham's magisterial account spans centuries, revealing how forests have nourished ancient Siberian indigenous societies, defended medieval Slavic settlements from Mongol invasion, and served as both an essential natural resource and a potent cultural symbol for Russia in all its incarnations. By examining the country from the forest's perspective, Pinkham pushes far beyond the contemporary political environment in Russia. She draws on literature, history, and art to connect the expanse of the Russian wilderness and the nature of Russian culture, with indelible portraits of the diverse figures who have inhabited and celebrated these forests. She confronts the forest's role in Russia's long history of imperial conquest, and in resistance to this conquest. 
  The Oak and the Larch offers a vision of Russia rarely seen in the west, as a land defined by its wilderness, shaped by its encounters with the frontier, and—much like our own—ultimately beholden to nature's whim.

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  Willkie Sprint - A Story of...

  Kerry Hellmuth

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  A Best Book of 2024 by PEZCycling  
  Most Popular Book of 2024 at Reading Group Choices 
  Willkie Sprint is a must-add to your...reading list.... a powerful story about perseverance, unbreakable bonds, and learning who you are. 
  ~Sheryl Sandberg, former COO, Facebook/Meta 
  Former professional cyclist Kerry Hellmuth recounts the groundbreaking collegiate bike race that started her career. 
  ~Outside Magazine Online 
  Title IX's impact on women's participation in sport is undeniable, and ... Kerry Hellmuth's terrific book adds to what we know. 
  ~Dionne Koller, Co-chair of the US Senate Commission on the US Olympics/Paralympics 
  Hellmuth tells her story with light humour and an authentic voice... 
  ~Jackie Tyson, Cyclingnews 
  This entertaining and affectionately written book... "Willkie Sprint" is about young people finding their way in life, about friendships and family, and about team-building and accomplishment. 
  ~Leslie Reissner, Pez Cycling News 
  Hellmuth's inspiring account ...details her young team's journey to victory. 
  ~Adam Perry, Boulder Weekly 
  Prepare yourself for another irresistible underdog story. 
  ~Doug Moe, Madison Magazine 
  This lively memoir invites us along for the ride.  
  ~Scott Russell Sanders, author of Small Marvels 
  Anytime a barrier is broken it is cause for celebration. Somewhere The Cutters are smiling. 
  ~John Roach, author of Way Out Here in the Middle 
  Willkie Sprint is a powerful coming-of-age memoir. 
  ~Dede Demet Barry, Olympic silver medalist 
  Like most glorious triumphs, the work is in the details: months of dreary workouts made into fun with great teammates, miles of training, ...and the unknown lying ahead. 
  ~Andy Hampsten, winner of the Giro d'Italia bike race 
  I found myself cheering... loudly for Willkie Sprint. 
  ~Christian Vande Velde, NBC commentator and former World Tour cyclist 
  [A] bike is a vehicle for self discovery and freedom. Hellmuth beautifully captures her journey... 
  ~Michael Barry, World Tour cyclist and author of Fitness Cycling

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  Learning Happiness - The...

  Osho

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  The Sutra of 42 Chapters is a scripture complied in the first century CE.  Each saying comes from Buddha, but the whole work was a new anthology created especially for introducing Buddhism in a new country. That's why it makes such a good, basic introduction to the world view of Gautam Buddha. It is very simple in its approach, very direct. It is, in essence the whole of Buddha's message, but very simple, not elaborate and very scholarly as other Buddhist scriptures are.
  Osho extracts the kernel of Buddha's profound insight and understanding and presents his everlasting message to the contemporary listener in a manner that is lucid, straightforward and humorous. Far from being just a statue, here Buddha is an amazing human being so far ahead of his time that even now he is only just beginning to be more widely understood.
  In these talks Osho discusses the need for doubt and argument in the spiritual search, the nature of desire and the discipline of non-attachment.
  The talks in this audiobook are a series of original OSHO Talks, titled "The Discipline of Transcendence, Vol.2".
  Vol.03 LEARNING HAPPINESS
  
  - Desire Cannot Be Fulfilled
  - Aloneness Is Your Reality
  - The Passion for Truth
  - A Rich Man Is Very Poor
  - Godhood Is Your Nature
  - I Am Not a Perfectionist
  - Sex Is the Basic Problem
  - The Forbidden Path
  - The World Has Never Lacked Buddhas
  - Religion Is the Ultimate Luxury
  An abridged edition of this series of talks was published as an audiobook under the title "The Buddha Said", which included only the chapters in which Osho comments on the original sutras by Buddha. This series is the full experience.
  ©1976 Osho International Foundation ℗ 2024 Osho International Foundation

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  Pumpkinflowers - A Soldier's...

  Matti Friedman

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  “A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last.” —The Wall Street Journal “Friedman’s sober and striking new memoir . . . [is] on a par with Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried -- its Israeli analog.” —The New York Times Book Review It was just one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt worldwide today. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; flowers was the military code word for “casualties.” Award-winning writer Matti Friedman re-creates the harrowing experience of a band of young Israeli soldiers charged with holding this remote outpost, a task that would change them forever, wound the country in ways large and small, and foreshadow the unwinnable conflicts the United States would soon confront in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.Pumpkinflowers is a reckoning by one of those young soldiers now grown into a remarkable writer. Part memoir, part reportage, part history, Friedman’s powerful narrative captures the birth of today’s chaotic Middle East and the rise of a twenty-first-century type of war in which there is never a clear victor and media images can be as important as the battle itself. Raw and beautifully rendered, Pumpkinflowers will take its place among classic war narratives by George Orwell, Philip Caputo, and Tim O’Brien. It is an unflinching look at the way we conduct war today.

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  From Where I Sit - Anything and...

  Zully JF Alvarado

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  What if the very place life placed you…
was the exact place from which you were meant to see the world differently? 
  Born in a small village in Ecuador and brought to the United States as a child for life-changing medical care, Zully JF Alvarado grew up navigating two cultures, physical challenges, and a future that many assumed would be limited. 
  But Zully never accepted that story. 
  From designing award-winning footwear for people with hard-to-fit feet, to leading international humanitarian missions, to mentoring others in building independent lives through entrepreneurship and technology, her life became proof of a simple truth: 
  Possibility does not come from perfect circumstances.
It comes from perspective. 
  In From Where I Sit: Anything and Everything Is Possible, Zully shares the experiences, lessons, and quiet moments that shaped her understanding of resilience, purpose, and courage. 
  Through personal stories and reflections, readers will discover: 
  • How perspective can transform obstacles into opportunities 
  • Why the way we see ourselves shapes what we believe is possible 
  • How adversity can become a powerful teacher 
  • Why independence begins with a decision to think differently 
  This book is an invitation. 
  An invitation to pause.
To reconsider the limits you have accepted.
And to see your life through a new lens. 
  Because sometimes the greatest change begins with a simple shift in perspective. 
  From where you sit… what becomes possible?

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  Germany and the World Wars: The...

  Charles River Editors

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  Not surprisingly, German unity in 1871 caused geopolitical ripples that reverberated for decades. Other larger European powers, such as Britain, France, and Russia, came to feel threatened by the rise of Germany. These tensions were still prevalent at the outbreak of World War I in 1914, and it became even more important in World War II. In part this was because Germany also became an economic powerhouse, fundamentally altering the global economy. Alongside the rapid expansion of the United States, trade went through a transformation that still has ramifications today. 
  Germany's defeat in World War I brought about the Weimar Republic, but Weimar has since become a byword for a failed, tragic, political experiment. The official period of its existence, 1919-1933, marked the interwar years in Germany and their related uncertainty, chaos, and the state’s ultimate collapse. Historians have found the roots of Nazism embedded in the Weimar years and that in the final analysis, Weimar politicians voluntarily handed over power to the man who wrought destruction on an epic scale, Adolf Hitler. This set the German nation irrevocably on the path towards World War II. That war would plunge much of the planet into an existential battle that ultimately cost an estimated 60 million lives.

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