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  Ernest Shackleton and Robert...

  Editors Charles River

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  An earlier wave of explorers led to the opening of the New World, and early polar expeditions saw ancient ships of various nations sail along the coastlines of Greenland and within reach of the Arctic and Antarctic continents. Many 19th century figures approached the polar region with an eye to traversing it. Most notable among them was British explorer Sir James Clark Ross, who took the Erebus and the HMS Terror to the southernmost coastlines of the planet.  
  Some of the explorers who were involved became household names around the world, including British explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Perhaps the one that has become most closely associated with this period is Robert Falcon Scott. Widely referred to as “Scott of the Antarctic,” Captain Scott became an icon of tenacity in the face of incredible adversity, and his final expedition to the South Pole lives on as an example of the nobility of the human spirit, even in the face of utter disaster. A monument to Scott’s persistence still stands at Observation Point, inscribed with the last line of Tennyson’s “Ulysses”: “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” 
  Inevitably, as time passed, modern historians further removed from the romanticization of the expeditions began to more closely (and objectively) scrutinize the explorers and their missions. However, in the case of Scott, that has only furthered his renown, because historians still have wildly different opinions of him, from his personality and leadership to the results of his missions, especially his ill-fated final one. Likewise, Shackleton’s place in history is not the one he set out to make, but his extraordinary deeds have made his contributions to early exploration of Antarctica indelible. Despite the victor’s wreath eventually going to another, Shackleton’s name is essential to any discussion of Antarctic exploration.

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  When God Responded - A Gay...

  Volley Goodman

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  When faith, identity, and mortality collide, one man’s search for truth becomes a life-changing journey. 
  In 1987, at the age of 37, I was confronted with a diagnosis that changed everything: AIDS. Suddenly, the questions I had wrestled with since college—about God, life after death, and my place in the world as a gay man—took on new urgency. 
  This audiobook chronicles my spiritual quest through sacred places and moments of profound honesty. Along the way, I sought proof that God exists and that Heaven is real—and what I found was far more powerful: evidence that divine love reaches even the most uncertain souls. 
  When God Responded: A Gay Man's Search for Affirmation is a deeply personal, brutally honest, and ultimately hopeful exploration of faith and identity. It’s for anyone who has ever doubted, searched, or yearned to believe that God embraces every seeker—no matter how imperfect.

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  Today or Someday? - “One bottle...

  JACEK SEVERSKY

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  One bottle was too many. A thousand was never enough.  
  For years, I told myself I had it handled. That it was just the stress. That I'd stop tomorrow. But tomorrow kept not coming.  
  This is the unvarnished story of the road from looking like a success to becoming someone I didn't recognize — and the longer road back. It's about how alcohol takes a life apart so slowly you don't notice until almost everything is gone. About a fear of therapy that was, somehow, bigger than the fear of drinking myself out of existence. About the single decision that split my life in two.  
  There's no triumph here. No twelve-step sermon. No "zero to hero." Just what actually happened — the lies, the mornings, the day I finally walked into that room, and everything that came after.  
  If you've ever poured one more while promising yourself it was the last… If you've watched someone you love vanish behind a glass… If you're still waiting for "tomorrow" to start —  
  You already know what this book is about.  
  A first-person account of denial, recovery, and the strange, hard truth of admitting you're not in control of the thing you swore you controlled.  
  I wrote it for one reason: so someone else could make the decision faster — without losing the years he lost. If even one listener hears this and decides to help themselves, it was worth writing.

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  Ottoman Empire’s Greatest...

  Editors Charles River

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  In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the 4th century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late 5th century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul.  
  The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople also played a decisive role in fostering the Renaissance in Western Europe. The Byzantine Empire’s influence had helped ensure that it was the custodian of various ancient texts, most notably from the ancient Greeks, and when Constantinople fell, Byzantine refugees flocked west to seek refuge in Europe. Those refugees brought books that helped spark an interest in antiquity that fueled the Italian Renaissance and essentially put an end to the Middle Ages altogether. 
  In the wake of taking Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire would spend the next few centuries expanding its size, power, and influence, bumping up against Eastern Europe and becoming one of the world’s most important geopolitical players. It was a rise that would not truly start to wane until the 19th century, and the Ottomans would maintain their empire until the end of World War I. 

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  White

  Sylvain Tesson

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  When Sylvain Tesson left the colorful yellow houses of the French Riveria for a ski trek across the Alps with his friend Daniel du Lac, a high-altitude mountain guide, he didn't know what exactly would await him. Over the course of four years, from 2018 to 2021, they ascended high into the Alps in winter, following the curve of the mountains from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic, entering into a white world entirely of snow, bitterly cold, and overlooked by an empty sky; only the effort of moving forward, one stride at a time, separated the days from one another. He thought he was venturing into beauty but he was immersing himself in a substance. In the white of the high Alps all is canceled out—hopes, fears, memories, and regrets. What did he stand to gain by inflicting this ordeal on himself? This was no ordinary mountain trek: it was communion with a substance. Perhaps his longtime dream of transforming travel into prayer would come true at last.

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  Re-Visioning Zionism -...

  Rabbi Brian Lurie, Jeff Saperstein

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  In every step of Rabbi Brian Lurie’s atypical journey through various professional paths and objectives, he has personified leadership, social justice, a love of Israel, and an ambitious yet down-to-earth approach to the evolving challenges of Jewish peoplehood in the 21st Century. 
  Throughout our friendship, I have been impressed with Brian’s entrepreneurship and deep integrity. He leads by the power of his example and by the soundness of his judgment. I have seen him fine-tune his social conscience and reach deeper into his moral compass, while remaining firmly rooted in the Jewish community’s organized framework, beloved and respected across the board. I have seen an introspective mensch who practices what he preaches and whose deep intelligence informs his charm; the charm complements his ideals, and the ideals produce his actions - and vice versa. 
  There is much to learn from Brian’s rich experience and fascinating narrative, and I am pleased that his story will now reach even greater audiences. 
  ISAAC HERZOG 
  President of Israel 
  RABBI BRIAN LURIE’S life story can contribute to the essential dialogue about Zionism’s future. The fierce urgency of now means this conversation cannot wait. This book proposes a values-based Zionist ethos that needs to be voiced and heard. 
  “The test of Zionism will be when Israel turns 75. The children born will no longer meet Holocaust survivors, nor will they know the founding generation. Our belief in the righteousness of our cause will require a renewed definition, not based on what was, but rather on what will be.” 
  DAVID BEN GURION

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