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  The Young H G Wells - Changing...

  Claire Tomalin

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  From acclaimed literary biographer Claire Tomalin, a complex and fascinating exploration of the early life of the influential writer and public figure H. G. Wells 
   
   
   
  How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells's life shape the father of science fiction? 
   
   
   
  From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family and determination to educate himself at any cost to his complicated marriages, love affair with socialism, and the serious ill health that dominated his twenties and thirties, H. G. Wells's extraordinary early life would set him on a path to become one of the world's most influential writers. The sudden success of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds transformed his life and catapulted him to international fame; he became the writer who most inspired Orwell and countless others and predicted men walking on the moon seventy years before it happened. 
   
   
   
  In this remarkable, empathetic biography, Claire Tomalin paints a fascinating portrait of a man like no other, driven by curiosity and desiring reform, a socialist and a futurist whose new and imaginative worlds continue to inspire today.

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  Exits

  Stephen Pollock

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  "Pollock's poetry is brilliant" 
  — Kristiana Reed, editor-in-chief, Free Verse Revolution 
  Stephen C. Pollock's poetry collection Exits explores the beauty and frailty of life, the cycles of nature, and the promise of renewal. Musical and multilayered, the poems in Exits have drawn comparisons to the poetry of Seamus Heaney and the sonnets of William Shakespeare. Exits has been honored with the Gold Medal for poetry in the 2023 Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards and the Silver Medal for poetry in the 2024 Feathered Quill Book Awards. Echoing these accolades, Midwest Book Review declares: “Exits is a book that has profoundly impacted the literary world.” 
  "Exits . . . is a magnificent work" 
  — Readers' Favorite Reviews, 5.0 stars 
  "Exits exemplifies the musicality of language" 
  — Foreword-Clarion Reviews 
  "Full of wit, insight and provocative imagery, Exits is a masterful collection" 
  — IndieReader, 5.0 stars 
  "Exits is a book that has profoundly impacted the literary world" 
  — Midwest Book Review 
  The poems in Exits comprise a meditation on life’s transience. Many of the images are drawn from nature. In addition, each poem is paired with a piece of artwork intended to resonate with the writing and enhance the reader’s experience.

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  Bridging Our Political Divide -...

  Kenneth Barish

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  Bridging Our Political Divide: How Liberals and Conservatives Can Understand Each Other and Find Common Ground is an essential contribution to a better national conversation. 
   
   
   
  Psychologist Kenneth Barish explains the sources and consistency of our political beliefs and why we continue to disagree about fundamental issues in American life. He offers antidotes to the angry, repetitive, and unproductive arguments that now dominate our political culture. Barish teaches us how to listen, think, and speak about our political opinions in a way that allows us to understand each other's concerns, resist false dichotomies and ideological certainty, see new perspectives and possibilities, and find common ground. The concluding chapter shows how we can move beyond partisan divisions toward pragmatic solutions and a better future for America's children. 
   
   
   
  This fundamentally hopeful book is an essential listen for students in all areas of study, for professionals in the fields of conflict resolution, communication, political science, and social psychology, and for anyone seeking to improve the quality of their conversations with people who may disagree with them, in both politics and in their personal relationships.

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  Inside the Dyslexic Mind - A...

  Laughton King

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  Laughton King shares his understanding of the dyslexic mind from his own lived experience as a dyslexic child, an angry adolescent, a therapist and eventually an author. When describing what it is like to be dyslexic, he is includes himself. ‘We think in pictures, we chase words around the pages of books, and we have trouble finding any sensible connection between squiggles on paper and real things they are meant to refer to. And this all happens in perpetual reverse gear. You guessed it, for us, school is not cool, and for most of us this makes life tough’ 
  At the heart of this book is a ground-breaking concept — the diesel/petrol analogy. As Laughton describes it, a dyslexic person is like a diesel vehicle. They run perfectly if you give them the right fuel, but if you put petrol in the tank (i.e. expect them to learn like every ’normal’ child in our current education system) they break down. This book helps dyslexic (diesel) thinkers make sense of their lives, and provides valuable guidance for parents and teachers. 
  There is nothing wrong with the dyslexic child’s brain. They do not need medication and do not need to be ‘rewired’ nor ‘recalibrated’. Laughton’s message to parents and educators is that once they accept this processing difference and understand the dyslexic style of thinking they can readily work with these children and help them achieve their own success.

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  The Art of Starting Over - A...

  Kobe Campbell

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  If you're stuck in the painful middle of healing--aware of your trauma but unsure how to move forward--you'll find here a clear, compassionate blueprint for using your story as building material for a beautiful future. 
  Trying to heal from trauma can feel like sorting through the ruins of a once-familiar life. Award-winning licensed trauma therapist and mental health educator Kobe Campbell wants to show you how the ashes you stand on can become fertile ground. 
  Bringing the same clinically informed, real-world wisdom that made Kobe's first book so popular, The Art of Starting Over introduces principles of Post-Traumatic Growth to help you navigate the journey from revelation to reconstruction. As you follow Kobe's transformative guidance, you'll discover how to:Move from feeling helpless to becoming empowered as the architect of a new life aheadImplement five key "schema shifts" that help you see your painful past as the foundation for a resilient new identityEngage in practical, evidence-based activities that foster holistic healingDeepen your faith as you let go of myths you've held about God, prayer, and controlTrade a posture of fear-based performance and avoidance for a posture defined by love, acceptance, and hope 
    
  You are not broken--and it's not too late to start over. Join Kobe on this journey of reconstruction and discover that the future you long for is not beyond reach. It's just waiting to be built as you rediscover what's possible when truth, compassion, and faith work together.

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  Detransition - Beyond Before and...

  Max Robinson

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  I experienced my transition as a form of resistance, but in reality it only affirmed the same stereotypes that had done me harm to begin with. Trying to prevent myself from committing suicide by becoming less recognizably female was an attempt at resistance that, politically, functioned in many ways as a form of capitulation.
  Many feminists are concerned about the way transgender ideology naturalizes patriarchal views of sex stereotypes, and encourages transition as a way of attempting to escape misogyny.
  In this brave and thoughtful book, Max Robinson goes beyond the ' before' and ' after' of the transition she underwent and takes us through the processes that led her, first, to transition in an attempt to get relief from her distress, and then to detransition as she discovered feminist thought and community.
  The author makes a case for a world in which all medical interventions for the purpose of assimilation are open to criticism. This book is a far-reaching discussion of women' s struggles to survive under patriarchy, which draws upon a legacy of radical and lesbian feminist ideas to arrive at conclusions. Robinson' s bold discussion of both transition and detransition is meant to provoke a much-needed conversation about who benefits from transgender medicine and who has to bear the hidden cost of these interventions.
  Transition is not an unconstrained choice when we are fast-tracked to medical intervention as if being female was a tumor that required immediate removal to save our lives.

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