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  Daughter of Spies

  Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop

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  As a child, Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop, along with her five brothers, was raised to revere the tribal legends of the Alsop and Roosevelt families. Her parents’ marriage, lived in the spotlight of 1950s Washington where the author’s father, journalist Stewart Alsop, grew increasingly famous, was not what either of her parents had imagined it would be. Her mother’s strict Catholicism and her father’s restless ambition collided to create a strangely muted and ominous world, one that mirrored the whispered conversations in the living room as the power brokers of Washington came and went through their side door. Through it all, her mother, trained to keep secrets as a decoding agent with MI5, said very little. In this brave memoir, the author explores who her mother was, why alcohol played such an important role in her mother’s life, and why her mother held herself apart from all her children, especially her only daughter. In the author’s journey to understand her parents, particularly her mother, she comes to realize that the secrets parents keep are the ones that reverberate most powerfully in the lives of their children.

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  Lost Books of the Bible The:...

  Hellenistic Jewish scribes

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  What if the Bible you know isn’t the complete story? 
  For centuries, sacred texts were removed, suppressed, or lost. The Lost Books of the Bible uncovers these ancient writings—once revered but later excluded from the biblical canon. These texts reveal missing pieces of biblical history, alternative perspectives on key figures, and powerful prayers left out of traditional scripture. 
  📜 Included Texts:Additions to Esther – Lost passages expanding Esther’s story with prayers and divine interventions.Prayer of Azariah & Song of the Three Young Men – A hymn sung from the fiery furnace in Daniel.Susanna (Daniel 13) – A tale of virtue, false accusations, and divine justice.Bel and the Dragon – A story exposing the deception behind idol worship.The Letter of Jeremiah – A prophetic warning against idolatry.Psalm 151 – A lost psalm of David, rediscovered in the Dead Sea Scrolls. 
  🔍 What You’ll Discover:Suppressed Biblical Narratives – Explore missing passages once part of sacred scripture.Lost Prayers and Hymns – Experience powerful prayers and songs hidden for centuries.Ancient Wisdom and Prophecy – Gain insights into biblical figures and events nearly forgotten.Why These Books Were Removed – Uncover the historical and theological reasons for their exclusion. 
  For scholars, theologians, and seekers of lost knowledge, The Lost Books of the Bible offers a gateway to hidden biblical history. This modern translation ensures these texts remain accessible while preserving their deep spiritual significance. 
  📖 Unlock the lost scriptures history tried to erase—get your copy today.

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  Foreordained - From their pens...

  Anthony Hope

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  Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was born on 9th February 1863 in Clapton, London.  
  He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford.  Hope trained as a lawyer and barrister and was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1887. Despite what was thought to be a promising legal career he had literary ambitions and wrote in his spare time. 
  His early works appeared in various periodicals of the day but for his first book ‘A Man of Mark’ (1890), with no publisher interested, he published with his own resources.  
  More novels and short stories followed, including the mildly successful ‘Mr Witt's Widow’ in 1892. Hope even found time to run as the Liberal candidate for Wycombe in the election that same year but was unsuccessful. 
  His first major literary success came with ‘The Dolly Dialogues’, a collection of previously published magazine pieces followed very quickly by his instant classic, ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’. He now gave up the vestiges of his legal career to pursue writing full-time. 
  Despite never again reaching the same pinnacle of success he was popular and wrote prolifically across novels, plays and of course, short stories though his writing output rapidly diminished after the war. 
  In 1918 he was knighted for his contribution to propaganda efforts during World War I.  
  His short stories are delicate, mannered and often surprising with their wit, humour and interplay of characters who say one thing and usually mean another.  He was very definitely a writer of escapist rather than serious fare but they are no less enjoyable for that. 
  Anthony Hope died of throat cancer on 8th July 1933 at his country home, Heath Farm at Walton-on-the-Hill in Surrey. He was 70.

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  June bugs and Summer Nights -...

  Donnis Slusser Crane

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  In this rollicking telling, Donnis Crane relates many short stories of her growing-up years, full of humor and poignant historical detail. Donnis grew up following World War II in the Midwest United States into a family of 6 children. Her family exhibits a hardy Midwestern spirit that was necessary to survive many lean years. Together, her parents Max and June raised six children in his hometown of Cheney, Kansas. Crane describes both her parents as responsible but strict, and adds that her daddy was fun and childlike and enjoyed playing with his kiddos; and her momma as a loving and teaching parent. In vivid detail, Crane describes a family’s everyday life with all its adversities and joys.

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  Pleasure of Thinking - Essays

  Wang Xiaob

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  An essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s. 
   
    
   
  Wang Xiaobo's Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East and West and serious musings on the intellectual situations at home and abroad, Xiaobo examines modern life with the levity missing from so much of today's politico-cultural discourse. 
   
   
    
  In "The Maverick Pig," he considers the existential differences between humans and livestock. In "Tales From Abroad: Food," he recounts the culture shock of discovering American diets while studying at Carnegie Mellon. Several pieces focus on literature, with notable essays devoted to Italo Calvino, Bertrand Russell, and Ernest Hemingway, whom Xiaobo admired greatly. Others are more personal in nature, ranging from a meditation on getting mugged, to the consideration of the question: why do I write? 
   
   
    
  Controversial, hilarious, and inimitable, Pleasure of Thinking is a delightful celebration of Wang Xiaobo's unique critical perspective.

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  Unravelled - A Family Lost and...

  Fanny Mills

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  In Unravelled the author unpicks the threads of her comically nuclear family with its deep silences to find what lay hidden, never to be spoken of.
  Beneath the carefully woven fabric of her family life, she finds clash of cultures – on one side Jews fleeing the pogroms of Eastern Europe, and on the other the highest levels of the British aristocracy, from the Earl of Erroll of White Mischief fame to the Twenties socialite Mimi Wimborne. The writer and thinker John Berger mysteriously links both worlds. She finds two grandmothers whose bids to find freedom and fulfilment ended in utter disaster. Her parents, shiny young communists of the 1950s airbrushed both women out of history. But what happens when you deny the past? How do you negotiate your sense of identity?

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