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  Whispers of the Gods - Tales...

  Peter Golenbock, John Thorne

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  In Whispers of the Gods, bestselling author Peter Golenbock brings to life baseball greats from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s through timeless stories told straight from the players themselves. 
   
   
   
  Like the enduring classic The Glory of Their Times, this book features the reminiscences of baseball legends, pulled from hundreds of hours of taped interviews with the author. Roy Campanella talks about life in the Negro Leagues before coming up to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Ted Williams recounts why he believes Shoeless Joe Jackson belongs in the Hall of Fame. Tom Sturdivant provides vivid memories of Casey Stengel, Mickey Mantle, and other Yankee icons. Other voices include Phil Rizzuto, Jim Bouton, Monte Irvin, Stan Musial, Ron Santo, Rex Barney, Ellis Clary, Roger Maris, Ed Froelich, Marty Marion, Jim Brosnan, Gene Conley, and Kirby Higbe. 
   
   
   
  The players interviewed were All-Stars, Hall of Famers, and heroes to many, and their impact on the national pastime is still seen to this day. Baseball history comes alive through the stories shared in Whispers of the Gods, offering a fascinating account of the golden age of baseball.

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  Tracking the Chilling Minds of...

  Blaise Hemsley

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  Tracking the Chilling Minds of America’s Most Notorious Killers 
  ⭐⭐ A Simplified Guide with In-Depth Explanations ⭐⭐ 
  Are you eager to enhance your understanding of the psychology behind America's most notorious killers?  
  Looking for a thorough guide that encompasses everything you need to explore the chilling minds that shape criminal behavior? 
  Your search ends here! 
  This audiobook is your ultimate companion for deepening your knowledge, honing your analytical skills, and engaging with real-world case studies. With this resource, you’re on the path to discovery. 
  Updated to reflect the latest insights and trends in criminal psychology. 
  Key features of this comprehensive guide: 
  - In-depth insights into the psychology behind chilling criminal minds 
  - Detailed discussions on the motivations, behaviors, and backgrounds of notorious killers 
  - Effective strategies for analyzing and interpreting criminal behavior 
  Our audiobook stands out due to its thorough exploration of key concepts, ensuring you gain a complete understanding rather than just a surface-level view. 
  Crafted with clarity and straightforward language, our guide ensures smooth transitions between topics. Say goodbye to complicated jargon and embrace content that is clear, precise, and highly informative. 
  So, why wait? Click the BUY NOW button, secure your audiobook, and embark on your journey to uncover the chilling depths of criminal minds today! 
  Dive deep into the minds that have captivated and terrified the nation!

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  David Swan - From their pens to...

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4th July 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, a town synonymous with the earlier Salem Witch Trials. It was instrumental in Hawthorne’s later use of American Gothic and dark romanticism in his writing. 
  He was a mere four years old when his father died and his mother took him and his two sisters to live with her family and then on to their own home in Raymond, Maine. The young Hawthorne had a passion for fiction and poetry and voraciously read the works of Ann Radcliffe, Henry Fielding and Lord Byron.  
  He was sent to college at his maternal uncle’s insistence. During these years he met and befriended Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and future U S president Franklin Pierce. These friendships were lifelong and to have a crucial impact on his writings and career.  
  At college Hawthorne had made attempts at writing short stories and essays but without opportunities to publish. It was only in 1828 that he finally published his novel ‘Franshawe’ to little success and so he began work as editor for the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge.  
  Hawthorne’s short stories were first published in magazines but in 1837 were collected and published as ‘Twice-Told Tales’. A steady literary career still did not come his way and so he worked in a good position at Salem’s port and married the love of his life Sophia Peabody. They moved to live in ‘The Old Manse’ at Concord, Massachusetts.   
  Finally. in 1850 came spectacular literary and commercial success with ‘The Scarlet Letter’ followed by ‘The House of the Seven Gables’ the following year.  
  In 1852, Hawthorne published a biography of presidential candidate Franklin Pierce. After Pierce’s victory he was appointed consul in Liverpool, a position that offered prestige, money and fame. At the end of this appointment he returned several times to Europe before settling in Massachusetts and resuming writing and publication. 
  During the early 1860’s his health declined and on 19th May 1864 during a trip to Plymouth, New Hampshire. He was 59 and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts.

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  Sir Where's 'Toilet?

  John Meadows

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  A further collection of entertaining short stories to complete the author’s trilogy of world-wide adventures. His intriguing tales are spiced with lively encounters and astute observations, full of humor and wit. His fascinating historical facts are particularly enlightening, and will have you saying, "Really? I didn’t know that." Each story will leave you wanting more: Teachers' ghostly prank with a bizarre twist. Sampling local whiskey at a village distillery on the fabled Mekong river in Laos. Two cultures collide when Russian rugby league players invade Wigan, and to complete his experiences, he was proclaimed Emperor of China.

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  The Joy Document - Creating a...

  Jennifer McGaha

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  When Jennifer McGaha's grandmother was in her late eighties, Jennifer asked her what her favorite age so far had been. "Fifty-five," her grandmother answered, as though there were something magical about this stage of life. So, in her own fifty-fifth year, Jennifer began to take note. She jotted down her impressions of simple, everyday things that struck her as beautiful or humorous or intriguing and kept a list of all the accomplishments, large and small, that actually mattered to her. 
   
   
   
  These observations became Jennifer's Joy Document, a radical act of reclaiming joy and an exercise in paying attention. When you are determined to find joy, almost anything can become revelatory—an Earth Day Whole Foods errand, Claire Saffitz's fruitcake recipe, a harrowing ride in Twinkly Taxi, an evening picnic at Dvorák's Symphony No. 8, or cartwheels in the driveway. While many of us at midlife have found all the things we've strived for (the career, the better life, the organization tools), those things only go so far. And the search for something greater, something truer, begins. Life after fifty becomes not the end or even the middle of life, but a new beginning, another grand adventure with endless opportunities to find joy. The Joy Document includes fifty rollicking and often humorous essays exploring the art of joy and inspiring the rest of us to do the same.

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  Writers As The Protagonists –...

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nathaniel...

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  The short story in Literature is a few pages of beginning, middle and end peopled by characters who quickly draw themselves into its arc from the minds of their authors.   
   
  How these authors, including Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, M R James and Violet Hunt imagine their characters journeys is, of course, illuminating, thought-provoking and classic literature. 
   
  1 - Stories with The Writer as Protagonist - An Introduction 
  2 - Bobok by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  3 - The Devil In Manuscript by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  4 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy 
  5 - The Art of BookMaking by Washington Irving 
  6 - The Fiddler by Herman Melville 
  7 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton 
  8 - Count Magnus by M R James 
  9 - His Wife's Deceased Sister by Frank R Stockton 
  10 - The House of Cobwebs by George Gissing 
  11 - Room For One by Frederick Cowles 
  12 - Couching at the Door by D K Broster 
  13 - The Vampire Maid by Hume Nisbet 
  14 - Truth is Not Sober by Winifred Holtby 
  15 - The Plutonian Fire by O Henry 
  16 - A Sucessful Rehearsal by Anthony Hope 
  17 - The Memoir by Violet Hunt 
  18 - Warning Whispers by A M Burrage

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