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  Be The Dawn In The Darkness

  J.H. Parker

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  Pay attention to the people you meet by chance.Often they are messengers sent to help you along your way.John Parker never had to look far for an advocate and mentor to help him overcome his greatest challenges, from his father's abuse to the tragic loss of his son. His great-aunt Gladys, or "Glad," was always there, telling him he was destined for extraordinary things and inspiring him to become the person he was meant to be.In Be the Dawn in the Darkness, John invites you on his journey from heartbreak to happiness, fear to resolution in this inspirational account of a boy and his harbinger. A compelling testament of transformation, John's story demonstrates how to turn struggles into hope, no matter what you’ve been through. Shocking, relatable, tragic, and captivating, Be the Dawn in the Darkness is one man's story and everyone's incentive for growth, redemption, and lifelong fulfillment.

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  Shadows of Love Shadows of...

  William T. Vollmann

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  In this landmark collection, William T. Vollmann offers a kaleidoscopic retrospective of the visual artwork he has produced over four decades, with new commentary from Vollmann on his process, inspiration, and the many intersections with his writing. 
   
   
   
  The celebrated author of over twenty-five books (among them the National Book Award–winning novel Europe Central; the seven-volume Rising Up and Rising Down, based on Vollmann's career as a war correspondent; and the two-volume climate change investigation Carbon Ideologies), Vollmann's equally ambitious and prolific career as a photographer, printmaker, and painter reflects the artist’s deep interest in people existing on the margins, a profound empathy for his subjects, and the humility and generosity to meet them on their terms. 
   
   
   
  In Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness, a series of essays  commissioned especially for this book lays out Vollmann's views on what photographs can and should say, how he chooses what to represent (beauty, suffering, compassion, love, desire, ideology), thoughts on photographic consensuality, and any number of technical descriptions. Particularly useful for Vollmann fans and scholars are the cross-references between these artistic and photographic projects and his books.

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  Under the Rose

  Anatole France, Michael Corday...

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   THE greater part of the unpublished remains of Anatole France consists of Dialogues which he intended to entitle Under the Rose. 
  He liked that old-fashioned expression. In the course of an essay on the Emperor Julian in Life and Letters, he says : 
  “ One evening I heard Monsieur Renan say under the rose, ‘ Julian ! Why, the man was a reactionary.’ ” 
  But nowadays the phrase is seldom used, and its real significance is almost forgotten. The big dictionaries of the day know it not. 
  He had, as a matter of fact, begun to write these Dialogues just after the war, and he had, no doubt, been prompted to enroll them beneath the emblem of Peace. The reader will observe in due course how one of his characters alludes to this auspicious date. “ Let us celebrate tog'ether,” so the words run, “ in these days of peace and repose, here beneath the sacred olive, the serene orgies of metaphysics. Let us drink our fill of wisdom.”

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  Women Code Breakers: The Best...

  Elise Baker

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  Embedded within military intelligence and communications, wartime cryptography was a man’s world filled with engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, military tacticians, political scientists, and linguists. But women working top-secret desk jobs played an integral role. They helped shorten the length of the war, saving countless lives in the process. 
  Bringing to light the quiet heroism of female code breakers of WWII, learn about these exceptional women who saved lives and changed the tide of the greatest war in human history. 
  Even as they applied themselves to complicated counterintelligence work and labored daily alongside their male colleagues, they fought an uphill battle on many different fronts, inside and outside the office. 
  Their stories and accomplishments have remained firmly under the radar—often missing from official documentation, history books, public lore, and public awareness. 
  The British feat of breaking the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park has been celebrated in popular culture in various books and movies, but the stories of many women who worked to break codes in the complex world of cryptography remain relatively untold. 
  Learn the true stories of female code breakers whose top-secret work helped win World War II, including: 
  ●      Elizebeth Friedman, Joan Clarke, Violet MacKenzie and other great minds working for the Allied forces from the US, UK and Australia—all trailblazers in the field of cryptography 
  ●      a simple rundown on cryptography as a science, the history of its use, and what it took to break wartime codes 
  ●      the legacy of these exceptional women, and the impact of their work. 
  Despite the constant need to prove themselves, these brilliant women never thought of themselves as heroes.

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  Was It Love Or Abandonment...

  KennyaNelson

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  My Story! My Truth!

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  Rudyard Kipling - Chapter &...

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.    
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - Rudyard Kipling - An Introduction 
  2 - Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling 
  3 - If by Rudyard Kipling 
  4 - My Father's Chair by Rudyard Kipling 
  5 - My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling 
  6 - Mother O' Mine by Rudyard Kipling 
  7 - A Death Bed by Rudyard Kipling 
  8 - The English Flag by Rudyard Kipling 
  9 - Tommy by Rudyard Kipling 
  10 - Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling 
  11 - In Springtime by Rudyard Kipling 
  12 - To the City of Bombay by Rudyard Kipling 
  13 - Cities and Thrones and Powers by Rudyard Kipling 
  14 - The Prairie by Rudyard Kipling 
  15 - The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling 
  16 - Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling

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