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  After You Were Gone - An...

  Vikki Wakefield

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  DISCOVER AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR VIKKI WAKEFIELD'S GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
  What happens to a family when a child goes missing?
  In a busy street market, Abbie lets go of six-year-old Sarah's hand.
  She isn't a bad mother, just exhausted.
  But when she turns around, her daughter is gone.
  READERS LOVE AFTER YOU WERE GONE
  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Instantly gets your heart beating'
  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Will have you gripped from the beginning'
  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The three different storylines were perfection to me . . . I had a knot in my stomach'
  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A twist few will predict'
  Six years on, Abbie is in love and getting married. But her fragile peace is constantly threatened: not knowing what happened to Sarah.
  Then she receives a phone call from a man claiming to know what happened, but if Abbie tells anyone she'll never find out the truth.
  After You Were Gone is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that poses the question: How far would you go to find your child?
  PRAISE FOR AFTER YOU WERE GONE
  'Gripping, propulsive, and unbearably tense – the best psychological thriller I've read in years.' — Mark Brandi, author of The Others
  'An original thriller full of empathy.' — Sarah Bailey, author of The Housemate
  'An elegant, powerful and utterly compelling thriller. The best book I have read all year.' — Lucy Christopher, author of Release
  'The very best kind of thriller: tender and wise as well as pulse-poundingly tense.' — Anna Downes, author of The Safe Place
  An exciting new voice.' — J.P. Pomare, author of The Last Guests
  'Elegantly written and utterly chilling. A dark and twisting novel of psychological suspense.' — Emma Viskic, author of Those Who Perish

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  Democratic Delusions - How the...

  Natalie Fenton

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  A free media is inextricably linked to a healthy democracy, but in many parts of the world liberal democracies are deemed to be dying or on the demise—a demise that many forms of media have enabled while heralding themselves as democracy's savior. The hollowing out of democracy in these ways has left many people questioning the value of (neo)liberal democratic societies. What can we do about it? 
   
      
    
  Democratic Delusions explores the potential of our media and tech systems to be democratic and contribute to a just and transformative democracy. This is only possible, Natalie Fenton argues, by first situating our political systems and mediated worlds within global capitalism. By interrogating different media and their relationship to seven key elements of democracy—power, participation, freedom, equality, public good, trust, and hope—the book asks: What is the response of society when the ability of news media to speak truth to power has been restricted by corporate logic? And, how do we tackle a deep-rooted market logic that shifts public debate towards private interest and marginalizes progressive perspectives? The book explores how these elements can be reimagined through newly conceived media and tech landscapes and, ultimately, what democracy might be in a future mediated world that places more power in the hands of more people.

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  Timeless Learning - How...

  Ira Socol, Chad Ratliff, Pam Moran

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  Our homes, communities, and the world itself need the natural assets our children bring with them as learners, and which they often lose over time on the assembly line that pervades most of the public education system today. We see no actions as more important in school than developing, supporting, and reinforcing children's sense of agency, the value of their voices, and their potential to influence their own communities. 
   
   
   
  In Timeless Learning, an award-winning team of leaders, Chief Technology Officer Ira Socol, Superintendent Pam Moran, and Lab Schools Principal Chad Ratliff demonstrate how you can implement innovative practices that have shown remarkable success. The authors use progressive design principles to inform pathways to disrupt traditions of education today and show you how to make real innovations that will have a timeless and meaningful impact on students, keeping alive the natural curiosity and passion for learning with which children enter school. 
   
   
   
  ● Discover the power of project-based and student-designed learning 
   
   
   
  ● Find out what "maker learning" entails 
   
   
   
  ● Launch connected and interactive digital learning 
   
   
   
  ● Benefit from the authors' "opening up learning" space and time

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  The Life Of The Buddha - The...

  Radha Krsna Das

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  The Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, was a philosopher, mendicant, meditator, spiritual teacher, and religious leader who lived in Ancient India. He is revered as the founder of Buddhism. He taught for around forty five years and built a large following, both monastic and lay. His teaching is based on his insight into suffering and the end of such – the state called Nirvana. 
   
  Prince Gautama was born into an aristocratic family but eventually joined the renounced order of life. After several years of mendicancy, meditation, and asceticism, he awakened to understand the workings of the cycle of rebirth and how it can be escaped. The Buddha then traveled widely teaching. He taught the middle way between sensual indulgence and severe asceticism. He taught a training of the mind that included self-restraint, and meditative practices such as mindfulness. The Buddha also critiqued the practices of Brahmin priests, such as animal sacrifice. 
   
  Here is the illumined heart of his divine timeless teachings.

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  Ride the High Country

  Robert Nott

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  Director Sam Peckinpah was just starting out when MGM released Ride the High Country in 1962. He was a new kind of director: young, brash, and in a hurry to help the Western "grow up" by treating it with adult themes. Ride the High Country was something new and different, a changing Western to match a changing West. Stars Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea were old hands at this sort of thing. Ride the High Country gave the two veteran actors one last job to do and a chance to go out with some dignity. 
   
   
   
  Ride the High Country helped the genre mature and adapt to turbulent, changing times. It launched Peckinpah's career by invoking the themes of honor, loyalty, and compromised ideals, the destruction of the West and its heroes, and the difficulty of doing right in an unjust world—themes developed to their pinnacle in Peckinpah's later masterpiece, The Wild Bunch.

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  Polzunkov - Dignity in Disgrace...

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Tim Zengerink

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  Everyone laughed at him—but he may have been the only one who truly understood. 
  In Polzunkov, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of a man scorned by society, humiliated by his peers, and laughed at by all. He laughs along with them—until a moment of moral clarity reveals the truth about who he really is. 
  This modern audiobook adaptation brings Dostoevsky’s satirical and deeply moving tale to life with accessible language and heartfelt narration. 
  What You’ll Hear in This Modern Translation: 
  •	A vivid character study of a man masking pain with humor 
  •	A story that examines class, cruelty, and the longing for dignity 
  •	An emotional arc that builds to an unexpected and powerful conclusion 
  Included in This Edition: 
  Faithfully adapted for modern listeners, this audiobook offers a fresh, emotionally resonant take on one of Dostoevsky’s lesser-known gems. 
  Listen today—and discover the quiet strength behind a face everyone thought was just a joke.

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