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  Dickensland - The Curious...

  Lee Jackson

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  The intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years 
   
   
    
  Tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Charles Dickens's London ever since the death of the world-renowned author. Late Victorians and Edwardians were obsessed with tracking down the locations—dubbed "Dickensland"—that famously featured in his novels. But his fans were faced with a city that was undergoing rapid redevelopment, where literary shrines were far from sacred. Over the following century, sites connected with Dickens were demolished, relocated, and reimagined. 
   
   
    
  Lee Jackson traces the fascinating history of Dickensian tourism, exploring both real Victorian London and a fictional city shaped by fandom, tourism, and heritage entrepreneurs. Beginning with the late nineteenth century, Jackson investigates key sites of literary pilgrimage and their relationship with Dickens and his work, revealing hidden, reinvented, and even faked locations. From vanishing coaching inns to submerged riverside stairs, hidden burial grounds to apocryphal shops, Dickensland charts the curious history of an imaginary world.

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  We Are What We Read - A Life...

  Vybarr Cregan-Reid

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  Vybarr Cregan-Reid is an unlikely academic. Someone who knows what it's like to be written off, who left school with no qualifications, who desperately needed a second chance. He also understands better than anyone the power of literature to change a life.
  From a turbulent start, through a disastrous education, truancy and petty crime, to a distinguished career as an English professor, We Are What We Read weaves Vybarr's own unexpected life in books with a spirited history of the war on the humanities, uncovering the profound impact that books have in shaping our reality at a time when their value is under attack from governments around the world.
  Part memoir, part manifesto, part history, We Are What We Read is not just about how education can place you back on the right side of the tracks. It is also a rallying cry for the importance of literature in a world where the arts are being squeezed out at every level and where book bans in schools and libraries have surged to record highs. It's about the joys and the transformational power of reading and how our brains are rewired by books, exploring how literature offers a vital means of connection in a fractured world. Reading is not merely an escape – it's an essential part of who we are.

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  Winter Solstice

  Diana Howard

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  We take our memory for granted. Dementia will steal it in ways most of us could never imagine. 
  Winter Solstice by Diana Howard burrows deep into the heart-rending poetic journey of a daughter trying to love and help her mother who is slowly losing her memory. 
  Through poems and vignettes written over a period of 15 years, the reader will enter a world of denial, confusion, shame, fear, humor, sacrifice, patience and love - finding solace and empathy with an experience many of us go through, yet struggle to find words to describe.

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  The Death of My Father the Pope...

  Obed Silva

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  A man mourning his alcoholic father faces a choice: whether to pay tribute, lay scorn upon him, or pour a drink. A wrenching, dazzling, revelatory debut. 
  Weaving between preparations for his father’s funeral and memories of life on both sides of the U.S.–Mexico border, Obed Silva chronicles his father’s alcoholism—a lifelong love that ended only at his death at the age of forty-eight, having poisoned himself one Carta Blanca at a time. Addiction respects no borders; the havoc Silva’s father wreaked on his family not only followed them north, where mother and son moved to escape his violent drunken rages, but would make itself felt even from the grave. 
   
  With a wry cynicism; a profane, profound anger; an antic, brutally honest voice; and a hard-won classical frame of reference, Silva channels the heartbreak of mourning while wrestling with the resentment and frustration resulting from addiction. The Death of My Father the Pope is a fluid and dynamic combination of memoir and examination of the power of language—and the introduction of a unique and powerful literary voice.

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  A Trip to the Other World - From...

  Kálmán Mikszáth

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  The bookshelves of World literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From their countries and continents their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Kálmán Mikszáth.

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  Bunnie Xo Stripped Down - The...

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  This comprehensive biography dives deeper into the story behind her highly anticipated memoir, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, offering an expanded look at the woman who transformed from abandoned baby to podcasting powerhouse. With seven arrests, years as a call girl, and a childhood marked by abuse and homelessness, Bunnie's journey is cold, clear evidence that no one is irredeemable—and that redemption can't be handed to you. 
  Alisa DeFord, known to her millions of fans as Bunnie Xo, started at the bottom and spent the first part of her life falling even deeper. Through detailed research of public records, interviews, podcast episodes, and social media revelations, this biography chronicles how she became one of today's most successful podcasters, building Dumb Blonde Productions into an empire. From her strategic use of OnlyFans to become a millionaire and escape "the game" on her terms, to becoming "Mama Bear" to Jelly Roll's children, to her ongoing IVF journey and recent legal troubles—every chapter reveals the ongoing work of transformation that her upcoming memoir will explore. 
  This book examines how Bunnie used her own wiles to reach her goals, how she knew redemption was up to her alone, and how she became the "Trailer Park Barbara Walters"—creating space for vulnerability that draws confessions from guests like Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Elle King. Her unconventional love story with Grammy-nominated artist Jelly Roll, their renewed vows seven years after a spontaneous Vegas courthouse wedding, and their journey from van and penthouse to red carpets and award shows proves that two broken people can build something whole. 
  With heavy doses of humor and refreshing self-awareness, Bunnie's story offers homespun wisdom to those who need a little saving themselves—along with the hard truth that you must save yourself, because no one else can do it for you.

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