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  Count Magnus - From their pens...

  M R James

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  Montague Rhodes James is cited as perhaps the greatest English writer of ghost stories, an opinion few would disagree with. 
  James was born on 1st August 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate but at age 3 the family went to live at Livermere, near Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia.  
  From early childhood he had a passion for mediaeval books and antiques. He was educated initially as a boarder at Temple Grove School in East Sheen, west London, before gaining a scholarship to Eton and thence Cambridge where he gained a double first, becoming a distinguished linguist and mediaevalist.  
  Before the Great War vacations were usually spent touring Europe absorbing cultures and references for his later writing. 
  A man of enormous knowledge it was said he timed his breakfast egg whilst he completed the Times crossword.  
  Many of his elegant yet terrifying tales were created by discarding the prevailing gothic cliches and placing his characters and narrative in a realistic setting.  Thereby the stories gained atmosphere and menace on a grand scale and he was famed as the originator of the antiquarian ghost story. 
  Although story-telling and writing these 30 or so tales was a hobby, when published their effect transformed the genre and still chill the bones in our more modern times. 
  James was also a medievalist scholar and translator whose work remains highly respected. He was also Provost of Eton College between 1918 and 1936. 
  M R James died on 12th June 1936 at Eton in Buckinghamshire.  He was 73.

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  A Somewhat Improbable Story -...

  G K Chesterton

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  G K Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was a poet, novelist, playwright, literary commentator, editor, biographer, journalist, orator and theologian.  He was often dubbed as the “prince of paradox” for his light whimsical style that often addressed serious issues such as politics and religion.  The latter was as a member and defender of the Christian faith and the former was shaped by a distrust of concentrated wealth and power.  He advocated Distributionism and said that every man should be allowed to own "three acres and a cow."  These political views have spread round the world, crediting Chesterton as the father of the “small is beautiful” movement.  It is also said to have influenced Gandhi in seeking a genuine nationalism for India rather than imitating the British state.   
  Chesterton was remarkably prolific but perhaps his most famous creation is Father Brown.  Within this character Chesterton’s clever writing and profound ideas reveal truths, often with humour as the detective priest pursues the answers to his cases.

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  Between Then And Now

  Patrick Anderson McQuoid

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  Patrick was born in Dublin, Ireland. As an infant he spent time in multiple Mother and Baby homes and was illegally moved to Northern Ireland where he was adopted. Patrick was one of the founding activists in getting the Mother and Baby home commission of enquiry founded by the Irish Government. Follow his self-narrated story as he tells of his life growing up in Northern Ireland and then moving to England at an early age where he became a self thought artist and poet.

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  Unboiling the Frog - A Memoir...

  Sabe Anderson, Julia Anderson

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  “Sabe didn’t have a turning point. It wasn’t just one thing. But I do remember him saying that he did not want to pass the baton on to our kids. He wanted to change his life around. He wanted to get help. He didn’t enjoy what he was doing. He wanted things to get better. He wanted to be a good dad. 
  . . . And I believed him. I really did.” 
  Tech executive, business consultant and recording artist Sabe Anderson delivers a no-holds-barred account of his spiral into hell and how he clawed his way out again with the support of family and the women who refused to give up on him. His story dives into bipolar disorder, sexual abuse, and addiction and the financial, mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional hardships that came in their wake. 
  Acknowledging that family traumas rarely affect only one generation, Sabe’s mother’s words weave in and out of his own, showing her struggle to love and help Sabe’s alcoholic father while raising their boys into good men. Together, these two narratives tell an inspiring and heartbreaking story about learning how to control and transform the physical, spiritual, and emotional illnesses of life through specific, incremental changes.

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  True Crime Germany 2 - Real...

  Adrian Langenscheid, Benjamin...

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  "Nothing is crueller than people themselves. A thrilling and shocking look into the abysses of the soul" - No Mercy (Keine Gnade)- The True Crime PodcastIn 2019, Adrian Langenscheid's debut book, True Crime Deutschland, was published and rose from nowhere to the top of the winner's podium in the genre-relevant categories. Almost 2 years and 6 books later, Langenscheid is one of the best-known true crime authors in Germany.For the seventh work in his successful series, the bestselling author once again researched some of the most spectacular German criminal cases of recent decades. The result is a breathtaking and deeply harrowing portrait of human abysses that arouse powerful emotions precisely because of its cool and factually neutral descriptions.This gripping collection of accounts of murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, abuse, theft, and fraud will take you to the limits of what you can bear. They feature "people like you and me"; people whose lives no longer are what they were before due to tragic circumstances.With expertise and excellent mental cinema, the expert on true crime, in collaboration with thriller author Benjamin Rickert, summarizes the most important findings from court hearings, files, psychological reports, interrogations, and investigation protocols in his eventful narratives.Captivated, stunned, amazed, and moved to tears, you will question everything you thought you knew about human nature. True crime cases, true crimes, and thus the full force of reality hits you in ten detailed, familiar, and unfamiliar case histories!Click on "BUY NOW" to discover Germany's dark side."A go-to for every True Crime fan"- True Crime Podcast

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  Some of the Dharma

  Jack Kerouac

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  While his masterpiece On the Road languished on the desks of unresponsive editors, Kerouac turned to Buddhism, and in 1953 began writing reading notes on the subject intended for his friend Allen Ginsberg. As his Buddhist study and meditation practice intensified, what had begun as notes evolved into a vast, all-encompassing work of nonfiction into which he poured his life, incorporating poems, haiku, prayers, journal entries, fragments of letters, ideas about writing, sketches, and more. The final manuscript, completed in 1956, was as visually complex as the writing: each page was unique, typed in patterns and interlocking shapes. The elaborate form that Kerouac so painstakingly gave his books is recreated in this typeset facsimile. 
  Passionate, playful, ecstatic, filled with humor, insight, beautiful language, sorrow, and struggle, Some of the Dharma is a far-ranging and extremely revealing work. 
  "Kerouac's work represents the most extensive experiment in language and literary form undertaken by an American writer of his generation." -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

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