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  16 Weeks & Everything After - A...

  Paul Whymark

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  Updated 2024 to include significant additional material from 2018 to 2024.
  At the 16 week foetal stage, Paul Whymark's brain development was frozen as a consequence of the drug, Thalidomide. His journey is one of considerable self discovery, but also reveals greater societal insights. "16 Weeks and Everything After..."uncovers the remarkable fact that over the last 50-60 years the establishment has failed to genuinely independently review Thalidomide, and as a consequence, harms on developing life continue to have the potential to occur into the future. Worse is that the insidious nature of many of the unacknowledged harms of Thalidomide are still not related to the drug. Hence such consequences are unrecognised and are at odds with official and textbook accounts even over 50 years on. Therefore, as well as appealing to general readers and other professionals, this book urgently needs to be on every medical personnel's (or trainee personnel's) required reading list.
  "16 Weeks and Everything After…" manages to communicate the minutia of subtle but all-important detail to uncover a quite different picture to that has been reported thus far. It has been written in an uplifting and heart-warming way, with the attitude of turning negatives into positives, but without losing sight of the underlying issues. The author has sought to stand up for his late mother, who like all mothers of children harmed by drugs consumed during pregnancy, carry the resulting additional challenges. This has sustained Paul's drive through the years of both official impasse and life's ups and downs. The book comprises a set of micro-narratives, but join together to reveal a significant personal journey in addition to a much larger and wider untold picture.

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  Æpyornis Island - From their...

  H G Wells

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  Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, Kent. He was the youngest of four siblings and his family affectionately knew him as ‘Bertie’.  
  The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly, and Wells didn’t display much literary interest until, in 1874, he accidentally broke his leg and was left to recover in bed, largely entertained by the library books his father regularly brought him. Through these Wells found he could escape the boredom and misery of his bed and convalescence by exploring the new worlds he encountered in these books.  
  From these humble beginnings began a career that was, after several delays, to be seen as one of the most brilliant of modern English writers.    
  Able to write comfortably in a number of genres he was especially applauded for his science fiction works such as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds but his forays into the social conditions of the times, with classics such as Kipps, were almost as commercially successful.  His short stories are miniature masterpieces many of which bring new and incredible ideas of science fiction to the edge of present day science fact.  Wells also received four nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature 
  Despite a strong and lasting second marriage his affairs with other women also brought the complications of fathering other children.  His writings and work against fascism, as well as the promotion of socialism, brought him into increasing doubts with and opposition to religion.  His writings on what the world could be in works, such as A Modern Utopia, are thought provoking as well as being plausible, especially when viewed from the distressing times they were written in. 
  His diabetic condition pushed him to create what is now the largest Diabetes charity in the United Kingdom.  Wells even found the time to run twice for Parliament. 
  It was a long, distinguished and powerfully successful career by the time he died, aged 79, on August 13th, 1946.

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  Stalkers - True Tales of Deadly...

  Eileen Ormsby

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  Deluded narcissists. Obsessed fans. Sinister internet trolls. Stalkers who turned deadly. 
   
   
   
  A Hollywood starlet on a smash-hit sitcom enjoys rising fame, unaware that her greatest fan is hell-bent on meeting his crush. When she films a love scene, his adoration turns into a quest to see her punished. 
   
   
   
  A gameshow winner turns to writing books. When one is given a scathing review, he tracks down the reviewer with bloody results. 
   
   
   
  A teenage boy enjoys online chatrooms. When he meets a sexy Secret Service operative, she convinces him he has been chosen to be a spy with a license to kill . . . and his first target is his own best friend. 
   
   
   
  Men keep turning up at a newlywed's home convinced that she has placed a Craigslist ad for a rough fantasy roleplay. Things turn violent before police are able to unravel a twisted and diabolical scheme. 
   
   
   
  Stalkers takes you into the twisted world of cyberstalking, catfishing, rejected suitors, jealous exes, and celebrity stalkers, and the devastating impact their obsessions can have on their victims. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Essays: First Series Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Nothing stands still. The moment we grasp an idea, it expands beyond us. The instant we define a boundary, a wider one emerges. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Circles is not about shapes on a page but about the shifting nature of thought, existence, and perception. Each insight is a stepping stone, each conclusion just another starting point. There is no final answer—only an ever-widening ring of understanding.
  Emerson writes with the quiet confidence of someone who has seen the world rearrange itself countless times. He does not dictate; he invites. He does not confine; he liberates. Circles is both a challenge and a comfort: the challenge to let go of fixed truths, the comfort that every ending is merely a new circumference waiting to be drawn. This essay, part of his Essays: First Series, distills the restless energy of transcendentalism into a meditation on the inevitable movement of life.
  To read Circles is to be reminded that no thought, no identity, no moment is static. And that is not a reason for despair, but for wonder.

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  Dream Danger Destiny - A Life's...

  E. Stjerne

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  Hope is a young woman with dreams that are too big for her small town of Kiruna in northern Sweden. She dreams of adventures in faraway places, but many years later she discovers that her life is only full of commitments and limitations. At that moment, she has an epiphany that provokes her to change her life completely.  
  Join Hope on her journey around the world. The unexpected encounters, the hidden places, and the beauty of leaving all plans behind. See how these experiences give you new perspectives.  
  From Sweden to Guatemala, Hope has many ups and downs, but lately these experiences have taught her that it is the most important thing in life, and what our society appreciates is not necessarily what will make us happy. 

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  Divine Journey The: Life of Sri...

  Sweet Audible

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  About Satya Sai Baba: 
  Born in 1926 in Puttaparthi, India, Sri Sathya Sai Baba, originally named Sathyanarayana Raju, was a spiritual leader and philanthropist. At 14, he announced he was the reincarnation of Shirdi Sai Baba. His life's message was "Love All, Serve All," and his teachings focused on five core human values: truth, right conduct, peace, love, and nonviolence. He established a global organization that runs a network of free hospitals, educational institutions, and drinking water projects. His ashram, Prasanthi Nilayam, became a place of pilgrimage for millions of his devotees worldwide. 
  Let us dive into his life journey in details. 
  Title: The Divine Journey - Life of Sri Satya Sai Baba 
  Author: Sweet Audible 
  Genre: Devotional Biography 
  Language: English 
  File Type: MP3 
  Length: 1 Hour 15 Min 
  Audio Book Narrated and Published by: Sweet Audible (2025)

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