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  The Arab Spring - A History from...

  Hourly History

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  The Arab Spring began unexpectedly on December 17, 2010, when Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old fruit seller in the city of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia, committed suicide in a horrifying and public way. He doused himself in flammable liquid and then set himself on fire. Bouazizi had been driven to this act of despair, it was said, by constant harassment from local representatives of the regime of President Ben Ali, who had been the autocratic ruler of Tunisia for more than twenty years. This tragic event led directly to a spontaneous revolution within Tunisia, and less than one month after Bouazizi's death, President Ben Ali was removed from power. 
  The protests that began in Tunisia proved contagious. By early 2011, the wave of insurrection had spread across the Middle East and North Africa. In Egypt, millions filled Tahrir Square and forced President Mubarak from power. In Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, protests escalated into violent and bloody civil wars that would last for years. Large-scale demonstrations erupted in virtually every nation in the region. 
  How did the death of one ordinary man in Tunisia lead to fundamental change in so many nations? How were the uprisings able to spread, first in Tunisia, and then across the region? What lasting change did these protests and insurrections bring? This is the complex and often tragic story of the Arab Spring.

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  Unspoken - The Silent Truth...

  Liz Harvie, Eve Hatton

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  “I was two when the woman I called Mummy told me, ‘You came out of another mummy’s tummy.’ I grew up thinking that my birth mother didn’t want me. I assumed there must’ve been something inherently wrong with me – why else would a mother give up her baby?” 
  In 1974, Liz Harvie – born Claire Elaine Watts – was given up for adoption by her birth mother Yvonne. Claire was just eight weeks old when her adoptive parents took her in – and renamed her Elizabeth. 
  Although brought up in a ‘perfect’ household, the emotional – and physical – trauma of being taken from her biological mother would never leave Liz. She constantly wondered: what does my real mum look like? Will she come back for me? Why did she abandon me? But whenever Liz voiced such questions, she invariably received the same response: “Your birth parents were not married. They couldn’t look after you.” 
  Years later, aged twenty-eight, Liz reconnected with her birth mother – and finally learned the shocking truth surrounding her adoption. Yvonne had not abandoned her daughter. A social worker had snatched her ten-day-old baby from her arms. “I didn’t even get a final cuddle. She just took her away from me,” says Yvonne. 
  Liz became one of 185,000 victims of forced adoption between 1949 and 1976 in England and Wales. As a young unmarried mum, Yvonne was deemed unfit as a parent by the government, churches, adoption agencies and her father – and made to give up her child against her will. 
  Although reunited, Liz and Yvonne are still struggling to cope with the agony resulting from their devastating separation. As Liz says, “We can’t just skip hand in hand into the sunset. The trauma of being a forced adoptee is lifelong.”

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  Hypochondria

  Will Rees

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  "Everyone must read this book." – Lucia Osborne-Crowley 
  "Extraordinary and utterly compelling." – Adam Phillips  
  "An almost impossible balancing act." – Merve Emre 
  “Part philosophical treatise, part memoir, part history, Rees’s genre-bending meditation on hypochondria references everyone from Freud to Kafka to Seinfeld in a provocative search to find out why, exactly, we believe we’re sick.” – The New York Times 
  A free-wheeling philosophical essay, Hypochondria combines incisive contemporary cultural critique, colourful literary history, and the author’s own experience of chronic health anxiety to ask what we might learn from the hypochondriac’s discomforting experience of their body. Hypochondria is expansive in its range of references, from the writings of Franz Kafka to original yet accessible readings of theorists like Lauren Berlant. Whether he is discussing Seinfeld, John Donne, or his own past, Rees reveals himself to be a wry and perceptive critic, exploring the causes – and the costs – of our desire for certainty. 
  With wit and erudition, Hypochondria demonstrates both the rewards and the perils of reading (too) closely the common but typically overlooked aspects of our everyday lives.

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  A Pirate's Life For Me - A...

  Noah Pollack

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  Have you ever wondered what life was like on a pirate ship? What were the everyday lives of pirates like, and what led them to such a perilous and difficult existence? "A Pirates Life For Me" gives a detailed and engaging look at all things pirates in the days of roaring cannons, deadly scurvy, raging storms at sea and unbridled passion!

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  Jane Austen - A Life

  Claire Tomalin

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  At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English—but her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept any diaries, they did not survive her. Now acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, has filled the gaps in the record, creating a remarkably fresh and convincing portrait of the woman and the writer.While most Austen biographers have accepted the assertion of Jane's brother Henry that "My dear Sister's life was not a life of events," Tomalin shows that, on the contrary, Austen's brief life was fraught with upheaval. Tomalin provides detailed and absorbing accounts of Austen's ill-fated love for a young Irishman, her frequent travels and extended visits to London, her close friendship with a worldly cousin whose French husband met his death on the guillotine, her brothers' naval service in the Napoleonic wars and in the colonies, and thus shatters the myth of Jane Austen as a sheltered and homebound spinster whose knowledge of the world was limited to the view from a Hampshire village.This audiobook is expertly read by Danielle Cohen, with audio engineering by Katie Jackson. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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  Chilling Secrets Behind...

  Sullivan Hartwick

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