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  Beyond the Ribbon - A Memoir and...

  Felicity Davies

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  "In my eyes, my success is measured on how well my horse and I work together as a team. A ribbon is just a bonus." 
   
  Felicity Davies wrote those words at nineteen. It would take her another decade, a journey halfway across the world, and the unravelling of everything she thought she wanted, to discover what they really meant. 
   
  For years, Felicity measured her success with horses through ribbons, placings and the opinions of others. But as the horses she loved kept showing her, in different ways, that something wasn’t working, she found herself questioning everything she thought she knew. 
   
  Beyond the Ribbon is the story of what happened when she finally learned to listen. 
   
  This book follows Felicity's journey from traditional training and competition toward a more compassionate way of understanding horses, and herself. Through personal stories, the horses who changed her, and lessons drawn from the thousands of equestrians she has supported around the world, she shares the principles that transformed her own relationships: how to look beneath behaviour, understand what your horse is really communicating, build confidence and trust, and create a relationship that feels good for both of you.  
   
  Honest, warm and deeply practical, Beyond the Ribbon is for every horse lover who has ever sensed there might be another way, and feels ready to start trusting that instinct. 
   
  Because the real win was never tied around your horse’s neck. It was standing right beside you the whole time.

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  I Am Herod

  Richard Kelly Kemick

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  On a whim, armchair-atheist Richard Kelly Kemick joins the 100-plus cast of The Canadian Badlands Passion Play, North America's largest production of its kind and one of the main tourist attractions in Alberta. By the time closing night is over, Kemick has a story to tell. From the controversial choice of casting to the bizarre life in rehearsal, this glorious behind-the-scenes look at one of Canada's strangest theatrical spectacles also confronts the role of religion in contemporary life and the void left by its absence for non-believers. 
  "Kemick's book is that delicious cross between Waiting for Guffman and The Studhorse Man, a rousing personal comedy that dances between the sweat of art and the glue of experience. Nothing like it exists in non-fiction, but don't read it for that reason. Read it because it sticks to your fingers and you can't shake it off." — Dave Bidini 
  "Well-observed and poignant, this is a fascinating look into a largely unknown world." — Michael Coren 
  "Richard Kemick spends a summer in Alberta's Bible Belt where it may be easier to find God than a vegetarian meal. There, he confronts age-old questions about belief with near-miraculous freshness, honesty, and humour. A deeply personal investigation of the blurred border between faith and imagination." — Marcello Di Cintio

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  The Discovery of Guiana -...

  Walter Raleigh

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  Raleigh's own account of the 1595 voyage up the Orinoco in search of the golden city, written to answer the accusation that he had never gone. He describes the rivers, the peoples and the tides accurately, and El Dorado on hearsay, and was believed on both counts for a century. Twenty-three years later a second voyage to the same river cost him his head; this is the book that made the second voyage possible. Fifty-five plates, from Turner to Fitz Henry Lane, trace how painters across a century pictured the rivers, coasts and cities that Raleigh's voyage opened to the English imagination.

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  Tryhard - A Cautionary Tale of...

  Laura Mayer

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  "Funny, brutally honest and compulsively readable.” — BookPage, STARRED review 
  "An insightful, funny, and refreshingly personal journey into workaholism and the pathological Type A mind." — Cat Marnell, New York Times bestselling author of How to Murder Your Life 
  A superstar podcast producer delivers a unique, laugh-out-loud, cry quietly invitation to examine our delusional obsessions with work in this eye-opening book—part memoir, part mentoring, part confessional guide—that dissects the emotional ties that bind us . . . to our desks. 
  For any type-A, high achiever out there, this is the book that sees you. And provides a cathartic, funny, emotionally charged insight into what drives the perfection-oriented. 
  Laura Mayer was born a girlboss. As a child in suburban Illinois, she played "V.P. of Sales" in her bedroom, dictating important memos to her twin brother and swapping Judy Blume for the buzzy business books of the day. While other kids dreamed of being pop stars or pro athletes, little Laura had a single-minded focus: the corporate ladder. 
  Some thirty years later, from a dizzying perch on that very ladder—as Executive Producer of Podcasts at ABC News, with such blockbuster shows as Revisionist History, Bad Blood, and Happier with Gretchen Rubin to her credit—and with an identity shaped by annual reviews, performance indicators, and “executive presence” (whatever that means) a disillusioned Laura is calling "bullshit" on the whole work-is-life thing. Sort of. 
  Tryhard is a gonzo memoir for 9-to-5 devotees who have read every business book and C-suite-or-bust instruction manual yet still find we’re burnt out and unhappy. It is also a deeply personal and poignant examination of why we race at all. Laura detangles this delusional mess of priorities we've created, rejects the “boss-at-any-cost” culture, and invites us to laugh at ourselves (and her) along the way. She offers the modern office worker a new path forward through her own revelations, and implores us, for the love of God, to chill out a little bit. 
  This is Laura's messy, somewhat enlightened, possibly transformative, heart-wrenching and always entertaining story—a one-of-a-kind sightseeing trip on the Great American hamster wheel.

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  The Danish Art of Whittling -...

  Frank Egholm

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  A delightfully Danish guide to whittling for the home, crammed with projects for all ages and abilities. 
  Our interest in the simple but satisfying art of whittling has never been higher. Our Danish-inspired book on whittling (snitte in Danish) has a range of wonderful simple whittling projects for the home. The beautiful Scandinavian projects range from simple wooden toys for children, including a bird whistle, ring catcher, animal figures and a wooden sword to practical items like door hooks, butter knives and then to decorative pieces such as a wooden necklace, buttons, delicate carved flowers and a chess set.
  All the projects are amazingly simple, and with the visual step-by-step technique section at the front of the book, even a beginner could take on these projects.
  The art of whittling has never been more accessible and these beautiful but simple projects capture the spirit of the Scandinavian love of craft and nature.
  Author and Danish craftsman Frank Egholm shares not only his considerable knowledge but also his passion for simple wooden carving.

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  Ghosts of the Night: The...

  Chris Sperring

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  No animal better symbolises the desire to get closer and the need to respect distance than the owl. 
  The silent approach of a white angel over a paddock is one of the most alluring images in the British countryside. The t’wit and the answering t’wo is a classic of the night. Both are tiny insights into the amazing lives of the owls that are found around us. Ghosts of the Night is a wonderful insight into every element of our British Owls – Barn and Tawny and their even more enigmatic cousins the Short-eared, Long-eared and Little. How well do they hear, how silently do they fly and how do they live in the ever changing countryside. Ghosts explains everything you have ever wanted to know about these amazing creatures. 
  For lovers of nature and birdwatching, this non-fiction guide opens a window onto the hidden world of birds and animals that share our fields and hedgerows. One of the best, top guides to the latest discoveries about Britain’s owls and their nocturnal lives. 
  HarperCollins 2026

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