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  Russian for Beginners: Learn the...

  Lingo Publishing

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  If you’re a beginner to the Russian language who wants an easy-to-follow guide, pay attention… 
  About 258 million people in the world speak Russian daily. It is the most spoken Slavic language, knowledge of which opens a magic door to the stunning and immense world of Russian art and culture one can fall in love with for the whole life. 
  This audiobook is your reliable conductor to the world of the Russian language. It will prepare you for challenges, help you grow your skills securely, tell you interesting facts and stories, and give you the necessary independence and space for creativity on the path of the future master. 
   Let’s have a glance at the treasures this guide keeps for you:A brief history of Russian with the etymology of the words for curious minds;The 5 main questions that help you to get a new acquaintance;The great vocabulary with a practical incline into everyday life;The easiest method to learn the verbs endings;Clear tables and resume of the main grammar rules for the 1-minutes knowledge refresh when you need it. 
   Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button and begin to learn this interesting language, even if you don’t know any Russian today!

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  How to Be Unmothered - A...

  Camille U. Adams

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  For generations, the women of Camille U. Adams's family have left their daughters. Some follow the siren call of rum, the centuries-old vice which alighted on Trinidad's shores from European ships. Others flee the behind-closed-doors beatings of husbands, fathers, and brothers, rushing into any arms that offer refuge. Some simply disappear, their passage marked by unkept promises and open wounds. 
   
   
   
  As a young girl, Adams finds solace in Trinidad's whispering fever grass, sweet ixora flowers, and the cradling branches of the rose mango tree―all of their roots connecting her to the land's long memory. But where flora gives way to the rank pavement of Covigne Road, gunshots echo and men amass in the doorways of derelict garages, their mouths and hands promising violation. Home offers no safety: just an explosive father, cowed sisters, and a mother whose only reprieve is control. Cloying, suffocating, the maternal embrace threatens to blot out all else. Is it better to be choked, or not to be held at all? 
   
   
   
  Tormented by her mother's presence and haunted by her absence, Camille U. Adams's dazzling debut is a breathtaking account of survival and self-determination, reimagining the meaning of escape, its cost, and what comes after.

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  Why Read - Selected Writings...

  Will Self

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  From the Booker–shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature 
   
  From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, Will Self’s Why Read is a cornucopia of thoughtful and brilliantly witty essays on writing and literature. 
   
  Self takes us with him: from the foibles of his typewriter repairman to the irradiated exclusion zone of Chernobyl, to the Australian outback, and to literary forms past and future. With his characteristic intellectual brio, Self aims his inimitable eye at titans of literature like Woolf, Kafka, Orwell, and Conrad. He  
  writes movingly on W. G. Sebald’s childhood in Germany and provocatively describes the elevation of William S. Burroughs’s Junky from shocking pulp novel to beloved cult classic. Self also expands on his regular column in Literary Hub to ask readers how, what, and ultimately why we should read in an  
  ever-changing world. Whether he is writing on the rise of the bookshelf as an item of furniture in the nineteenth century or on the impossibility of Googling his own name in a world lived online, Self’s trademark intoxicating prose and mordant, energetic humor infuse every piece. 
   
  A book that examines how the human stream of consciousness flows into and out of literature, Why Read will satisfy both old and new readers of this icon of contemporary literature.

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  Pitmatic - Stories and the Talk...

  Bill Griffiths

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  Pitmaticbrings together a wonderful regional pit language – its words, jokes and stories that are fast disappearing from our culture. This book helps attest to the remarkable vitality of the region's dialect and the inventiveness and humour of its speakers.
  The last major mine in the North East region closed in 2005 and with it went a way of life. Through dialect words, humour, stories and songs Pitmatic will help you to understand the everyday lives and work of miners. Miners who provided fuel, helped sustain an economy, consolidated communities and created a unique and rich regional culture. This book is a joyous celebration of the history of the North East bringing together the words spoken by miners and their families and how they related to the wider languages of the world.
  
  The late Bill Griffiths (1948–2007)was an extraordinary writer and poet: radical, experimental and scholarly, but also had a great sense of humour. He was a wonderful champion of the North East, its people and heritage.
  Born in Middlesex, he read history before graduating in 1969. Bill ran his own independent press and published political pamphlets and essays on the arts and poetry. After gaining a PhD in Old English he fled London and settled in Seaham where he embraced the northern way of life.
  'He was also a scholar of Old English and dialect who know how to make his work accessible. Private and uncompetitive, he was at least these things: poet, archivist, scholar, translator, prison-rights campaigner, pianist, historian, curator, performer, editor, short-story writer, essayist, teacher, book-maker and lyricist… The Saturday before he died, Bill discharged himself from hospital to host the Dialect Day at the Morden Tower in Newcastle upon Tyne. He died as he lived: cataloguing, awarding Best Dialect prizes, opera on his radio, the poetry paramount.' Obituary, The Independent, 20 September 2007.

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  Guns Girls and Greed - I Was a...

  Morgan Lerette

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  Guns, Girls, and Greed is an unvarnished, behind-the-scenes, tell-all account of the scathing and dangerous life of mercenaries at war in Iraq. 
   
  Experience the world of private contractors conducting high-threat missions for a nascent Iraqi government in the hopes of rebuilding after the fall of Saddam Hussein. With limited support, the men of Blackwater protected US diplomats as the country descended into sectarian violence. It was a hazardous mission complete with rockets, mortars, improvised explosive devices, and not knowing who or where the enemy was. 
   
  Morgan Lerette’s irreverently honest memoir shows the good and bad of injecting private armies into active combat zones in the name of diplomacy and digs deep into the bonds of brotherhood created by war. With gut-wrenching tragedy, dark humor, and parties that make Animal House seem like a Disney film, this memoir offers a firsthand perspective on how men act and react in war. 
   
  Lerette, a private contractor employed by the notorious Blackwater in the early days of the Iraq War, pulls no punches in calling out the incompetence of both the US military and the Department of State during the collapse of Iraq. You can decide if the insertion of private contractors in Iraq assisted or detracted from the war effort and if the costs in blood and treasure were worth the carnage.

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  Elevating Happiness: Harnessing...

  AHMED MUSA

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  With the use of positive psychology, "Elevating Happiness: Harnessing the Power of Positive Psychology for Life: Practical Techniques to Cultivate Joy, Resilience, and Fulfillment Daily," offers readers a thorough manual that enables them to embrace happiness that lasts a lifetime. The science of well-being is explored in this book, which provides useful tools for creating a resilient, meaningful existence in addition to experiencing happy moments. Readers will discover how to enhance emotional resilience, build stronger, more satisfying relationships, and adopt a positive outlook by concentrating on practical techniques. 
  "Elevating Happiness" investigates the power of appreciation, mindfulness, and purposeful life by drawing on studies in psychology and neuroscience. A more balanced and happy existence can be attained by implementing the essential ideas of "flow" and emotional control, which are also introduced. Readers can make minor but meaningful adjustments that result in long-term fulfillment by using the practical strategies provided in each chapter. 
  This book offers a road map for well-being and personal development, regardless of your goals—be they to conquer pessimism, approach life's obstacles with more optimism, or just improve your everyday happiness. In order to help readers take charge of their mental well-being, "Elevating Happiness" provides them with the means to change their perspective on life and develop enduring happiness, fortitude, and contentment in their daily existence.

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