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  Jesse Livermore: The Life and...

  Charles River Editors

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  Over the years, Wall Street has been equally glamorized and demonized for what it represents. To some, this is where lifelong dreams of riches, power, and fast living come to meet. To others, it is the breeding ground of the corrupt and greedy 1%. All the same, its mystique is one that only the most ambitious penetrate.  
  	That said, more people have dipped their toes into the stock and blockchain markets every day, so day trading as both a profession and a hobby is more relevant than ever. In light of the sensational GameStop controversy in early 2021 and the ongoing and still-evolving global crypto renaissance, the once exclusive sphere of day trading, previously limited to mainly the haute monde and those on Wall Street, has truly become anyone's game.  
  	Among all of the day traders, the one who was most praised in his time was Jesse Livermore, who is regularly hailed as the greatest and most influential pioneer to have ever played the game. The illustrious Livermore's impressive career was marked by glittering, unparalleled highs, made possible by his trademark methods, which were listed in a bible that continues to be religiously referenced by day traders to this day. However, as remarkable as his successes were, they were often neutralized by devastating lows, an eerie parallel to his extraordinary, but tragic personal life, which was every bit as volatile as the stock market. 

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  My Life In Music

  Fanny Waterman

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  In 2015, its 50th anniversary year, Faber Music celebrated Dame Fanny Waterman's fundamental and vast contribution to music education with the release of her autobiography, Dame Fanny Waterman: My Life in Music. It tells the extraordinary story of one of the twentieth century's most inspirational British women.
  
  Born into an artistic family in impoverished circumstances, her prodigious musical talent and sheer determination was her passport out of hardship, leading to recognition as one of the most talented young pianists of her generation. Her emergence as a visionary teacher leads to the founding of the Leeds International Piano Competition and relationships with many internationally renowned pianists whose lives she has touched through her work. Interwoven throughout the story, Dame Fanny shares her inspirational philosophies on life, learning and music, and her compelling and utter passion for the piano.

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  The Life of Frederick Douglass:...

  Frederick Douglass

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  Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York.
  Contents:
  Memoirs:
  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
  My Bondage and My Freedom
  Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
  Writings & Speeches:
  The Heroic Slave
  My Escape from Slavery
  What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
  Self-Made Men
  The Church and Prejudice
  The Color Line
  The Future of the Colored Race
  Abolition Fanaticism in New York
  An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage
  Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln
  Reconstruction
  John Brown: An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College
  The Claims of Our Common Cause
  The End of All Compromises with Slavery – Now and Forever
  The Kansas-Nebraska Bill
  The Dred Scott Decision
  Farewell Speech to the British People
  Comments on Gerrit Smith's Address
  Change of Opinion Announced
  Colonization
  Henry Clay and Slavery
  The Free Negro's Place Is In America
  Horace Greeley and Colonization
  The Fugitive Slave Law,
  The Revolution of 1848
  West India Emancipation
  The Chicago Nomination
  The Late Election
  The Union and How to Save It
  Sudden Revolution in Northern Sentiment
  How to End the War
  Cast off the Millstone
  The Reasons for Our Troubles
  The War and How to End It
  What shall be Done with the Slaves if Emancipated
  The President and His Speeches
  Emancipation Proclaimed
  Men of Color, To Arms!
  Why Should a Colored Man Enlist?
  Our Work Is Not Done
  The Work of the Future
  What the Black Man Wants
  Give Us the Freedom Intended for Us
  A Call to Work
  The Word White
  The Hypocrisy of American Slavery
  Introduction to "The Reason Why"
  Reply of the Colored Delegation to the President
  Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe
  Letter to Miss Wells

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  Scottish Traditional Tales

  A.J. Bruford, D.A. MacDonald

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  Stories of heroes, clans, and more in a collection that “savours the Scottish rendering of old folk tales . . . A treasure house of the oral tradition” (The Wee Review).   All over the world, traditional tales were told at the fireside until books, newspapers, radio, and television took their place. This is an entertaining collection from Scotland, recorded and collected by researchers from the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh over the past fifty years. Taken from a variety of sources, from the Hebridean Gaelic tradition to recordings of Lowland cairds (travellers), some are well-known tales which have equivalents in other cultures and languages, whilst others are unique to Scotland. The tales are arranged by theme: tall tales, hero tales, legends of ghosts and evil spirits, tales of fate and religion, fairies and sea-folk, children’s tales, trickster tales, tales of clan feuds, and robber tales. This “fine book which is highly recommended” quickly establishes itself as a classic (Dalriada).

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  The Real Lolita - The Kidnapping...

  Sarah Winman

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  Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner. 
  Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, The Real Lolita tells Sally Horner's full story for the very first time. Drawing upon extensive investigations, legal documents, public records, and interviews with remaining relatives, Sarah Weinman uncovers how much Nabokov knew of the Sally Horner case and the efforts he took to disguise that knowledge during the process of writing and publishing Lolita. 
  Sally Horner's story echoes the stories of countless girls and women who never had the chance to speak for themselves. By diving deeper in the publication history of Lolita and restoring Sally to her rightful place in the lore of the novel's creation, The Real Lolita casts a new light on the dark inspiration for a modern classic.

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  Fairy Tales stories vol: 1

  Hans Christian Andersen

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  This is a collection of a few stories by Hans Christian Andersen includedThe Emperor's New Clothes  The Ugly DucklingThumbellinaThe Brave Little Tin SoldierThere is No Doubt About It

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