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  The Last Wilderness

  Murray Morgan, Tim McNulty

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  Murray Morgan's classic history of the Olympic Peninsula, originally published in 1955, evokes a remote American wilderness "as large as the state of Massachusetts, more rugged than the Rockies, its lowlands blanketed by a cool jungle of fir and pine and cedar, its peaks bearing hundreds of miles of living ice that gave rise to swift rivers alive with giant salmon." 
   
   
   
  Drawing on historical research and personal tales collected from docks, forest trails, and waterways, Morgan recounts vivid adventures of the area's settlers—loggers, hunters, prospectors, homesteaders, utopianists, murderers, profit-seekers, conservationists, Wobblies, and bureaucrats—alongside stories of coastal first peoples and striking descriptions of the peninsula's wildlife and land. 
   
   
   
  Freshly redesigned and with a new introduction by poet and environmentalist Tim McNulty, this humor-filled saga and landmark love story of one of the most formidably beautiful regions of the Pacific Northwest will inform and engage a new generation of listeners.

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  The Village on the Edge of the...

  Herta Müller

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  A Nobel laureate presents a brilliant, discomfiting reflection on literary life defined by the brutality of Ceausescu’s Romania. 
  From her childhood in Romania, in a village “as small as a thimble on the edge of the world,” through to life in exile in Germany, Herta Müller's story unspools against the tumultuous history of Romania in the latter half of the twentieth century. Here, the Nobel Prize laureate reflects on cultural history, memory, and trauma, and on what it was to live and write under Ceausescu's regime. She revisits the friendships that buckled under the weight of fear and paranoia; the experience of being surveilled and interrogated; and on the unique blend of fear and tedium borne through life under totalitarianism. 
  The Village on the Edge of the World is a book that chronicles the minutiae of life under both fascism and the Soviet Union, while charting the existential questions posed by these regimes of the twentieth century—and how they remain with us in the twenty–first. This is a powerful and evocative reflection on life behind the Iron Curtain.

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  A Rare Recording of JRR Tolkien

  J. R. R. Tolkien

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  J. R. R. Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor best known as the author of fantasy works like The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. 
  Listen as Tolkien reads "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", "The Hoard", "Perry-The-Winkle", and "The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon". 
  Also included is a reading of A Elbereth Gilthoniel in Elvish and "The Road Goes Ever on," sung by William Elvin with music by Donald Swann.

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  Executive Functions for Adults...

  Sandy R. Ross

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  Improve Your Executive Functions for Lasting Change 
  Waking up to a day filled with tasks, deadlines, and responsibilities can feel overwhelming. Getting lost in distractions is frustrating. But what if you had the tools to improve your executive functions and bring lasting clarity to that chaos? 
  Introducing Executive Functions for Adults With ADHD, a guide designed for adults with ADHD. With an easy-to-follow structure, you'll find actionable insights and strategies to boost focus, master organization, and improve self-management. 
  Here's what awaits you inside:An introduction to executive functions: what they are, how they impact your life, and how they relate to ADHD.Identify challenges - use strengths to overcome weaknesses and focus on key areas for lasting progress.Strategies for gaining control over impulses, building self-discipline, and regulating emotions.Tips for tackling time management issues, building routines, and avoiding distractions.An optional bonus Executive Function Toolkit from our website: a printable resource to support your journey. 
  Life with ADHD can be overwhelming, but it can also be transformed into something you can improve and thrive with. The simple strategies in this book will help you reclaim your time, focus, and emotional balance for enduring success. 
  After listening to this, you'll understand your executive functions better and gain lasting control over them, turning them into a lifelong asset for your success.It's time to transform chaos into a system that helps you succeed. Get Executive Functions for Adults With ADHD now.

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  Coming to You Wherever You Are -...

  Kip Pegley

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  MTV Networks is the undisputed international music video gatekeeper, with stations from Australia to India, Russia to Brazil. Canada is one of the few countries to resist its global reach. Although the network has launched "MTV Canada" with an affiliate, that station limits its offerings primarily to talk shows and lifestyle programming. Many Canadians regard the Toronto-based MuchMusic as the nation's important domestic source of music videos—substantially different from, and superior to, American-based MTV. In her new study of the two music channels and their different cultures, Kip Pegley compares the musical and extra-musical content of MuchMusic and MTV, and examines how the stations construct their two distinct identities. Moving beyond analysis of individual videos, Pegley looks at the overall programming of each station, uncovers the well-hidden matrixes of power that dictate both which performers appear and what genres get the most airtime, and delves into how ideas of gender and race serve to "naturalize" distinct and complex nationalist ideologies. In so doing, she discovers why Canadians feel so protective of their music video station, and why they successfully have withstood the MTV invasion.

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  READING LIFE BACKWARD FORWARD -...

  Christopher Graham PhD CCHT

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  Reading Life Backward, Forward explores the hidden structure of human experience—how illness, memory, coincidence, and fragmentation reshape our understanding of meaning and identity. In this reflective collection of essays, Christopher Graham examines moments when life stops moving in a straight line and begins revealing patterns only visible in retrospect. 
  Drawing on personal experience and philosophical insight, the book challenges the modern tendency to treat disruption as failure. Illness becomes a threshold rather than a malfunction. Memory behaves less like storage and more like a living system that reorganizes meaning over time. Synchronicity, often dismissed as coincidence, becomes part of a deeper symbolic literacy many people sense but struggle to articulate. 
  These essays are not instructions or belief systems. Instead, they trace how understanding often arrives long after the experience itself—through repetition, reflection, and integration. Graham explores why many transformative moments initially feel disorienting, why fragmentation is often mistaken for brokenness, and how meaning matures when grounded in lived experience rather than immediate interpretation. 
  For listeners interested in philosophy, psychology, spirituality, and the complexities of personal transformation, Reading Life Backward, Forward offers a thoughtful exploration of how people make sense of experiences that arrive before language is ready to explain them.

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