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  I Hope We Choose Love - A Trans...

  Kai Cheng Thom

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  What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? 
   
   
   
  In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author's characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness. Taking its cues from contemporary thought leaders in the transformative justice movement such as adrienne maree brown and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, this provocative book is a call for nuance in a time of political polarization, for healing in a time of justice, and for love in an apocalypse.

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  The Second Half - Forty Women...

  Ellen Warner, Sarah Lamb, Erica...

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  A frank, honest, and insightful look into the lives of women over fifty. 
   
   
   
  The Second Half explores how the second half of life is experienced by women from many different cultures. From a French actress to a British novelist, from an Algerian nomad to a Saudi Arabian doctor, and an American politician, Ellen Warner traveled all over the world to interview women about their lives. She asked them what they learned in the first half that was helpful in the second, and what advice they would give to younger women. Their revealing and inspiring stories are enlightening for all listeners.

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  Between Light and Infinity -...

  Ylia Callan

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  What if reality is not objects in empty space, but a living architecture built from reflection, information and infinite possibility? 
  Between Light and Infinity offers a revolution in perspective. It proposes that everything in existence - from particles and planets to life and consciousness emerges from an underlying network of spherical reflections. Light is constantly absorbed, reshaped, and re-emitted by matter, water, air and even the atoms within us. This endless circulation of information creates a cosmic mirror system in which nothing is isolated and every interaction matters. 
  Drawing from modern physics, cosmology, systems theory, and the introspective depth of lived experience, this book presents a unified understanding of how the universe evolves, learns, and organises itself across all scales. Instead of approaching a “theory of everything” through equations alone, it approaches it through patterns - the universal feedback loops that generate structure, complexity, and consciousness. 
  You will discover: 
  • How light acts as the connective tissue of reality 
  • How information forms the hidden architecture beneath matter 
  • How life and mind emerge from cosmic reflection 
  • Why the universe continually evolves toward complexity 
  • How consciousness fits naturally into the fabric of existence 
  • And why you are an active reflector in this infinite system 
  Both expansive and deeply personal, Between Light and Infinity invites the reader to step into a new relationship with reality - one in which every moment is part of an infinite conversation between energy, matter, and awareness. It is a book for seekers, thinkers, scientists, creators and anyone who has ever felt that the universe is both mysterious and meaningful. 
  This is not merely a theory - it’s a new way of seeing everything.

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  Chinese Civil War - Nationalists...

  Daniel Wrinn

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  The Chinese Civil War was a decades-long battle between the Nationalists and Communists that not only reshaped China but also sent shockwaves across the world. 
  In this compelling audiobook, you'll be guided through the war’s pivotal early battles, the devastating impact of the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the final confrontation that forced Chiang Kai-shek to retreat to Taiwan. Through concise yet thorough narration, you'll explore the ideologies, strategies, and global consequences of this monumental conflict, which became a defining moment in Cold War history. 
  In this audiobook, you will discover:The political and social upheaval that led to the fall of the Qing Dynasty.The rise of the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party.The Long March and Mao Zedong’s rise to power.The impact of foreign intervention from Japan, the Soviet Union, and the United States.The decisive battles and the founding of the People’s Republic of China.The enduring impact on global politics, particularly the tension between China and Taiwan. 
  Whether you're a history enthusiast or curious about the complex forces that shaped modern China, this audiobook provides an insightful journey through a conflict that continues to shape global relations today.

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  The American Transportation...

  Aaron W. Marrs

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  In the first half of the nineteenth century, transportation in the United States underwent an extraordinary transformation. In The American Transportation Revolution, Aaron W. Marrs explores the cultural influence of steamboats and railroads, which fascinated Americans across the country. 
   
   
   
  Demonstrating the wide cultural reach of steam transit, Marrs draws from an eclectic set of sources, including children's books, comic almanacs, musical works, sermons, etiquette guides, cartoons, and employee rulebooks. This rich tapestry of cultural production helped "naturalize" steam technology for Americans before they ever encountered steam transit in person. Before ever seeing a railroad, Americans could read a novel that took place on a railroad, see an image of a train on currency, or purchase piano music imitating a train. These cultural artifacts made these new forms of transport feel familiar and natural. 
   
   
   
  Marrs examines how cultural norms about travel emerged through the prescriptions of etiquette authors and the actions of travelers themselves, how enslaved people made innovative use of transportation networks to escape from slavery, and much more. Marrs convincingly demonstrates steam transportation's broad cultural impact on the United States, and how Americans, in turn, imprinted their own meaning on this new technology.

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  Flower of Battle by Fiore dei...

  Guy Windsor, Fiore dei Liberi

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  Il Fior di Battaglia, the Flower of Battle, was written by the great Italian master at arms Fiore dei Liberi around the year 1400. It covers knightly combat on foot and on horseback, in armour and without, in great depth and detail. The sections of the manuscript include an introduction, then plays of wrestling, the dagger, the sword in one hand, the sword in two hands, the sword in armour, the pollax, the spear, the lance on horseback, the sword on horseback, and wrestling on horseback.  
  This audiobook is the translation into English by Dr. Guy Windsor.

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