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  Love Letters from Henry VIII to...

  Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn

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  Before the crown was broken by scandal… before a queen would lose her head… there were letters. 
  Love Letters from Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn offers a rare and intimate glimpse into one of the most consequential romances in English history. Written in the early sixteenth century, these private letters reveal a side of King Henry VIII rarely seen in official records: ardent, vulnerable, impatient, and deeply infatuated. 
  Across these pages, Henry’s voice shifts between tenderness and urgency. He longs for Anne during her absences from court, worries over her health, and presses for reassurance of her affection. Yet beneath the passion lies tension. His existing marriage to Catherine of Aragon casts a long political shadow, and every declaration of love carries implications for church, crown, and country. 
  Anne Boleyn emerges not merely as the object of royal desire, but as a composed and intelligent woman navigating extraordinary pressure. Her restraint, dignity, and careful responses reflect the precarious position she occupied within the Tudor court—where love, ambition, faith, and survival were inseparably entwined. 
  This collection is more than a romantic correspondence. It is a portrait of power and longing set against the rigid structures of sixteenth-century England. Through these letters, listeners encounter the human pulse beneath monumental history—a king in pursuit, a woman balancing affection with caution, and a relationship that would ultimately alter the course of a nation. 
  Intimate, revealing, and historically significant, these letters illuminate the private emotions behind public upheaval, capturing the fragile space where personal desire meets political destiny.

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  Anubis—Ancient Egypt’s Lord of...

  Charlie Larson

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  “A poignant, powerful, inclusive, and deeply personal journey to meet the Great God Anubis. Filled with solid historical information, as well as practical contemporary rituals, magick, healing practices, and prayers, this book drew me in, opened my heart, and made me love dear Anubis even more.” —Michael Butler Smith, author of Embracing Isis   Anubis is Egypt’s original Lord of the Dead. That title was eventually transferred to Osiris, but even then, Anubis continued to be the most active participant in the after-death process, supervising rituals that determined what would befall the dead soul. He is credited as the inventor of mummification. A shrine to Anubis, one of the most significant gods of ancient Egypt, was discovered within Tutankhamun’s tomb. The image of Anubis has evolved into a veritable symbol of ancient Egypt.   Usually identified as a jackal or as a jackal-headed man, Anubis’s domain extends beyond death—he is a guardian of children and travelers and a finder of lost things. Anubis’s adopted mother, the goddess Isis, became popular outside Egypt, with temples in Rome and as far as the British Isles. As her guardian, Anubis traveled with her. He is as modern as he is ancient, appearing in comic books, video games, and in the book American Gods and its television adaptation. In modern times, Anubis has emerged as a sacred patron of mediums and occultists.   In this practical guide to working with Anubis, author Charlie Larson focuses the spotlight squarely on the jackal-headed god. Steeped in history and mythology, Anubis—Ancient Egypt’s Lord of Death and Protection features devotional practices and modern worship that includes rituals, prayers, invocations, correspondences, altars, and epithets. The book leads the reader on a journey of exploration into all things Anubis, delving into his various facets—death deity, psychopomp, and protector.

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  Pyramid Scheme - How Sport...

  Ken King

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  A child can play a sport through their school for about seventy dollars a year. The same sport, through a club, costs eleven hundred and twenty two. 
  Same child. Same game. Same gym. And the family pays it, because the free door has quietly been closed. 
  Listen to what else is happening at the same time. A dozen cities have refused the Olympics by public vote. Officials are quitting everywhere, and not for the reason you think. Kids leave sport in a wave at thirteen, and we call it dropout, as if the failure were theirs. And on one Saturday morning in April, a free volunteer event moved 438,526 people, more than Canada's national sport registers in a year. 
  Seven committees would call that seven problems. Pyramid Scheme calls it one system, and the system is 160 years old. 
  Ken King spent twenty years inside Canadian sport as a coach and administrator. Then he went looking for the numbers, and none of the explanations survived. What did survive came from an unlikely place: the study of how large, confident hierarchies come apart. Organized sport is younger than the telephone, and it shows every symptom that appears before the end. 
  Two thirds of the book is the diagnosis, told through the people inside it: the boy asleep against the car window on the fourth hour to a tournament. 
  The last third is the rebuild, and none of it needs permission. A clause any board can adopt in one meeting. A thirteen indicator scorecard you can run this season. 
  The game is not dying. It was here first and will be here after. What is dying is the machine we built on top of it. 
  You cannot fix a hundred and sixty years of anything. You can fix one hour on a Tuesday. 
  Narrated in the author's voice. Free companion PDF with all eighteen figures and the toolkit: justkenking.com/toolkit

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  Greenbrier Bunker The: The...

  Charles River Editors

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  In October 1962, American spy planes discovered the Soviets were building nuclear missile sites in Cuba, and intelligence officials informed President John F. Kennedy of this on October 16th. It went without saying that nuclear missile sites located just miles off the coast of the American mainland posed a grave threat to the country, especially because missiles launched from Cuba would reach their targets in mere minutes. That would throw off important military balances in nuclear arms and locations that had previously ensured the Cold War stayed cold. Almost all senior American political figures agreed that the sites were offensive and needed to be removed, but how? Ultimately, Kennedy's administration crafted an eventual plan that sought to avoid all-out war: a blockade of Cuba. 
  In the weeks and months following the crisis, Kennedy sought to ease nuclear tensions. By 1963, the first agreement was signed to limit the testing of nuclear devices, and the habit of secretly taping all meetings, phone calls, and other communications continued, due to the great assistance the practice had provided throughout the crisis.  
  As it turned out, October 1962 was probably the closest the Soviet Union and United States came to formally engaging in a war against each other, but of course, the possibility of a destructive nuclear war had been contemplated years before the Cuban Missile Crisis. That doomsday scenario is precisely why the federal government was working on a secret nuclear fallout bunker underneath the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia in the years preceding the crisis. Its existence would remain a secret for decades until being declassified shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and to this day the bunker remains both a source of curiosity and mystery. 

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  Plantagenets: A Captivating...

  Captivating History

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  Travel Back in Time to Meet Some of England’s Boldest Kings and Queens 
  Two manuscripts in one audiobook:The Plantagenets: A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of the House of PlantagenetEdward I: A Captivating Guide to the Life and Death of the Hammer of the Scots and His Impact on the History of England 
  In the first part of this audiobook, you will discover:How It All Began: Learn how the Plantagenets started as a small family and became rulers of England. The Lives of Kings and Queens: Meet rulers like King John, who was such a weak ruler that his people forced him to agree to the Magna Carta, and Richard the Lionheart, who fought bravely but met a tragic end. Legendary Battles: Explore the famous Wars of the Roses, where family members fought against each other for the throne. Secrets and Scandals: The Plantagenets didn’t just fight on the battlefield; they also had to deal with backstabbing and secret plots in their own courts. The Fall of a Dynasty: What caused the end of this powerful family’s rule? See how the Plantagenets went from ruling England to losing it all. 
  In the second part of this audiobook, you will learn about:Edward’s early days as prince and the impact of his childhoodThe Welsh revolts and Edward’s eventual conquest of WalesEdward’s Holy Land CrusadeScotland’s crisis of succession and Edward’s long war with the ScotsThe rise of William Wallace and Robert the BruceEdward’s final days as king 
  Curious about the fierce kings and queens who ruled England? Click "Add to Cart" and start your journey into the past today!

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  Capturing News Capturing...

  Mel Bunce, Martin Scott, Kate...

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  The Voice of America (VOA) is the oldest and largest US government-funded international media organization. In 2020, Donald Trump nominated Michael Pack, a right-wing documentarian and close friend of Steve Bannon, to lead the US Agency for Global Media—the independent federal agency overseeing US-funded international media. During Pack's seven month tenure, more than thirty whistleblowers filed complaints against him, and a judge ruled that he had infringed journalists' constitutional right to freedom of speech. 
   
   
   
  How did such a major international public service media network become intensely politicized by government allies in such a short time, despite having its editorial independence protected by law? 
   
   
   
  Capturing News, Capturing Democracy puts these events in historical and international context—and develops a new analytical framework for understanding government capture and its connection to broader processes of democratic backsliding. Drawing from in-depth interviews with network managers and journalists, and analysis of private correspondence and internal documents, Kate Wright, Martin Scott, and Mel Bunce analyze how political appointees, White House officials, and right-wing media influenced VOA—changing its reporting of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the 2020 presidential election.

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