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  Perfectly Imperfect - Embrace...

  Liadán Hynes, Ellen Keane

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  Learn to love your imperfect, messy self just as you are.
  Ellen Keane spent most of her teens extremely uncomfortable with her limb difference and battling to hide her insecurities. It was only when she embraced her difference that she found her superpower. She started to believe in her unique abilities and gradually find the success that she had never dreamed possible.
  Perfectly Imperfect is for anyone struggling to accept who they are. With anecdotes from her own life, practical advice and good-natured humour, Ellen challenges you to let go of waiting until everything is perfect and instead embrace your imperfections and accept who you are, flaws and all. It might just change your life.

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  Sad Papaw's Heritage

  Kenny Harmon, Charlotte Hopkins

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  When Kelsey Harmon posted a tweet of her Papaw at a family barbecue, she had no idea that this innocent message, meant to poke fun at her cousins, would start a wave of emotion to be felt around the world. Kenny Harmon, who was now labeled Sad Papaw, quickly gained thousands of followers who felt a twinge of pain from seeing his image in Kelsey’s tweet. His new friends and “adopted grandchildren” recognized a need in their own lives to reconnect with their grandparents, and indeed they did. The reaction from the tweet started a movement reminding people to hold our loved ones close and remember to make time for one another. This was a lesson that Kenny learned from his own grandparents. In the pages of the Sad Papaw: The Early Years, he shares his life experiences with readers. We travel back to the early days of Oklahoma and grown alongside Kenny and learn all about the man behind the tweet. www.sadpapawbooks.net

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant, ...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  The City of Lights may be one of the glories of the world but for those whose three score and ten have passed it is the final resting place for some of the very finest of literary talents. 
   
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - Buried in Paris - An Introduction 
  2 - Claude Gueux by Victor Hugo 
  3 - The Maison Tellier by Guy de Maupassant 
  4 - Plato's Dream by Voltaire 
  5 - The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac 
  6 - The Spectral Hand by Jean Lorrain 
  7 - The Secret of the Scaffold by Auguste Villiers de I'Ísle-Adam 
  8 - The Siege of Berlin by Alphonse Daudet 
  9 - Rooms by Gertrude Stein 
  10 - The Opium Gates by Marcel Schwob 
  11 - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde 
  12 - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde

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  Anguish The double secret

  Max Dorra

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  The words of others, as an unpleasant remark ("You’re not hardworking") or a medical diagnosis ("You’re bipolar"), have the power to plunge us into anguish whenever they show an image of ourselves that we do not recognize: "In a world where words become viruses, certain sentences can kill." 
  The reductive identity that is thus assigned to us creates the illusion that our life can be summed up by these few words, allowing others to exercise the tyrannical power of anxiety over us. 
  Max Dorra explains how this illusion, created temporarily by the gaze of others, is just a montage-effect of our memory—as in a movie—and that it is enough to understand the mechanisms of this illusion in order to free ourselves from it: "To become aware of the fact that one is held captive by a montage is to be freed from a false confinement."
  In virtuosic and sensitive language ("The affects—shapeless and promising, wonderful clouds"), the author journeys through music, painting and cinema, appealing to sociology, psychoanalysis and philosophy, while remaining firmly rooted in reality: "There are more things in a hospital elevator than in all of philosophy." 
  He shows us that trusting our imagination allows us to tame anxiety without fearing it, and understanding that "another montage is possible" allows us to go towards the other without losing ourselves.

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  Amy Lowell Anew - A Biography

  Carl Rollyson

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  The controversial American poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925), a founding member of the Imagist group that included D. H. Lawrence and H. D., excelled as the impresario for the “new poetry” that became news across the U. S. in the years after World War I.  Maligned by T. S. Eliot as the “demon saleswoman” of poetry, and ridiculed by Ezra Pound, Lowell has been treated by previous biographers as an obese, sex-starved, inferior poet who smoked cigars and made a spectacle of herself, canvassing the country on lecture tours that drew crowds in the hundreds for her electrifying performances.   In fact, Lowell wrote some of the finest love lyrics of the 20th century and led a full and loving life with her constant companion, the retired actress Ada Russell.  She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize posthumously in 1926. This provocative new biography, the first in forty years, restores Amy Lowell to her full humanity in an era that, at last, is beginning to appreciate the contributions of gays and lesbians to American’s cultu

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  A Beginner's Guide to Learning...

  Jackson Miller

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  Embark on a thrilling language-learning journey with "Spanish Mastery," 
  "Spanish Mastery" adopts a carefully structured approach, starting with fundamental concepts for beginners and gradually progressing to more complex topics for intermediate learners. Each chapter builds upon the previous one, ensuring a smooth transition through the language-learning process. 
  Interactive Exercises and Activities: 
  Reinforce your understanding of Spanish through a variety of interactive exercises and activities. From vocabulary-building games to real-life scenarios, these hands-on tasks make learning enjoyable and effective, allowing you to apply your knowledge in practical situations. 
  Cultural Insights: 
  Immerse yourself in the Spanish-speaking world by exploring the cultural nuances embedded in the language. Discover the customs, traditions, and idioms that deepen your understanding, making your language skills more authentic and culturally aware. 
  Grammar Made Simple: 
  Tackle the often intimidating realm of grammar with user-friendly explanations and examples. From verb conjugations to sentence structure, "Spanish Mastery" breaks down complex grammar rules into manageable segments, empowering learners to grasp these essential elements quickly. 
  Comprehensive Vocabulary Lists: 
  Build a strong foundation in Spanish vocabulary with extensive word lists categorized by themes and difficulty levels. Whether you're a beginner looking to expand your basic vocabulary or an intermediate learner aiming for fluency, these lists are invaluable resources.: 
  Dive into authentic dialogues and conversations that mirror real-life scenarios. This approach helps you develop practical communication skills, enabling you to converse confidently with native speakers.

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