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  Krishna Das

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  Krishna Das occupies a unique place in modern spiritual music. Often credited with introducing millions of Western listeners to the ancient practice of kirtan, or devotional chanting, he helped transform a traditional form of sacred music into a global phenomenon. Through his recordings, concerts, and teachings, he became one of the most recognized voices in contemporary spiritual culture. 
   
  Born Jeffrey Kagel in New York, Krishna Das came of age during the social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s. Like many seekers of his generation, he traveled to India in search of deeper meaning. There he met the renowned spiritual teacher Neem Karoli Baba, an encounter that profoundly shaped the course of his life. Under the influence of his teacher and the devotional traditions of bhakti yoga, he embraced a path centered on chanting, service, and spiritual practice. Returning to the United States, Krishna Das spent years sharing these teachings through music. 
   
  This biography traces Krishna Das's journey from ordinary American youth to internationally respected spiritual musician. Drawing upon historical records, interviews, memoirs, and contemporary accounts, it explores his life, influences, challenges, and enduring contribution to modern devotional culture. 

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  The Signalman - From their pens...

  Charles Dickens

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  Charles Dickens is a name that dominates the landscape of English literature.  From his early years of hardship he rose to become one of the great novelists of any age.  But amongst his other talents were that of short story writer, turning his pen to many subjects and genres as well as travel articles, speaking tours and as an advocate for social justice.  He was also amongst the first to commercialise Christmas and a publisher of various periodical magazines for which he also contributed and encouraged the talents of very many others. 
  Dickens died at only 58 leaving an incredible legacy that is still admired to this day.

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  Howls from the Scene of the...

  Jessica Peter, Timaeus Bloom

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  A death row cell that recounts the dark stories of its inmates. An informant who consumes shards of crystallized skulls to see the past. A world where to speak of the dead is a violation of an unjust society's rules. Heists, drugs, cults, detectives, murder, monsters, revenge. 
    
  Commit yourself to Howls from the Scene of the Crime, an anthology of crime horror laced with blood, secrets, and occult compulsions from some of the best established and emerging horror authors writing today. Featuring a foreword by Bram Stoker Award® winning crime horror author, Cynthia Pelayo. 
  Edited by Jessica Peter and Timaeus Bloom with a foreword by Cynthia Pelayo 
  Stories by Joseph Andre Thomas, R.H. Newfield, C.B. Jones, Ashe Olivier Deng, Michelle Tang, Nathan Schuetz, Christopher O’Halloran, Steve Neal, L.T. Williams, TJ Price, Carson Winter, Christopher Buehlman, Mary Sanche, Donyae Coles, J.W. Donley, Peter Ong Cook, Gwendolyn Kiste, Jennifer L. Collins, RSL, Dustin Mendel, Lindsey Ragsdale, and M. Halstead

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  Nicky Winmar - My Story

  Nicky Winmar

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  Thirty years after creating one of the most memorable moments in sporting history, Indigenous AFL legend Nicky Winmar tells his story in a moving and compelling memoir. 
  Sport is made up of moments that thrill us at the time and quickly disappear. Very few endure for decades. Even fewer transcend sport and speak to an entire nation. 
   
  April 17, 2023, marked the 30th anniversary of St Kilda legend Nicky Winmar's proud and defining stand against racism – one of those moments that hasn't diminished over time and regrettably is still just as relevant today. 
   
  It is a stand that has become iconic, and so has Winmar, not just for his courage as he declared to a hostile, jeering crowd 'I'm black and I'm proud to be black' – but also because he is one of the game's great and most celebrated players. 
   
  Born a Noongar man from the WA wheatbelt 200 kilometres from Perth, Neil Elvis 'Nicky' Winmar quickly displayed an ability to overcome adversity. He would need to. He had a hard upbringing but loved to play footy every day with his younger brother among the livestock on the sheep farm where their father worked as a shearer. 
   
  The skinny teenager soon began playing football amongst hardened men for the local team and was signed to a senior team as a promising fifteen-year-old. Winmar would go on to become one of the most decorated players in AFL history. Recently inducted into the illustrious AFL Hall Of Fame, a member of the Indigenous Team of the Century, the St Kilda Team of the Century, a winner of Best and Fairest and Mark of the Year awards, Winmar became the first Indigenous footballer to play 200 games. 
   
  This long-awaited autobiography tells the story of Winmar's brilliant career in colourful detail, as well as giving moving insight into his life. Amidst the pain, the turbulence and the triumph, his heart and abiding sense of humour shine through. 
   
  'One of the truly great players . . . an amazing talent . . . If actions speak louder than words then Nicky Winmar's actions were better than anyone's.' Tony 'Plugger' Lockett

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  A Ghost Story - From their pens...

  Mark Twain

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  Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri on the 30th November 1835 and is far better known by his pen name of Mark Twain.  An American writer and humorist of the first order he is perhaps best known for his novels ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and its sequel ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ which are often described with that mythic line The Great American Novel. 
  Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri which would later provide the backdrop to these great novels.  Apprenticed to a printer he also became a typesetter and then a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi.  Later, heading west with his brother Orion to make his fortune, he failed at gold mining and instead turned to journalism and thence his true calling as a writer of humorous stories where his wit and humor sparkled from every paragraph, his craft evident with every page and punctured target. 
  A staunch supporter of copyright protections this helped him keep much of the wealth his writing created, though much money was also lost on investments that he pursued in his love for science and technology as well as investing in his own inventions. 
  Twain was born during a visit by Halley’s comet, and he predicted that he would go out with it as well.  He died the day after its subsequent return on 21st April 1910, at his house, Stormfield, located in Redding, Connecticut.

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  Head Above Water - Reflections...

  Shahd Alshammari

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  This lyrical hybrid memoir revisits a lifetime's worth of personal journals to slowly piece together a narrative of chronic illness—a moving account of survival, memory, loss, and hope. 
   
   
   
  Shahd Alshammari is just eighteen when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and told by her neurologist that she would not make it past age thirty. Despite what she is told, by thirty, she has become a professor of literature, and has managed to navigate education systems in both Kuwait and the United Kingdom and inspire generations of students. 
   
   
   
  Head above Water is the intimate, philosophical memoir of Shahd Alshammari's life of triumph and resistance, as a woman marked "ill" by society and as a lifelong reader, student, and teacher. Charting her journey with raw honesty, Alshammari explores disability, displacement, and belonging—not only of the body, but of culture, gender, and race, and imparts wisdom of profound philosophical value throughout. It is people, human connections, that keep us afloat, she argues—"and in storytelling we have the power to gain a sense of agency over our lives."

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