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  The Watsons

  Jane Austen

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  Left impoverished upon the death of her aunt, Emma Watson has no option but to be reunited with her estranged father and siblings. Initially delighted with her new life—including the fashionable society balls to which she now has access—Emma soon realizes that her family harbors many ill feelings, not least those springing from the sisters' hopes—and disappointments—in snaring a husband. So when the eligible and suitably rich Tom Musgrove begins to transfer his affections from her sister Margaret to Emma, the result can only be further sibling rivalry and unrest. A delightful, exquisitely drawn portrait of family life, The Watsons is Jane Austen at her storytelling best. Author of the masterpieces Pride and Prejudice and Emma, Jane Austen (1775–1817) is one of the most beloved novelists of all time.

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  A Darker Electricity - The...

  Mark Angelo Harrison

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  At the time, it was unclear why the UK government targeted the Spiral Tribe travelling sound system. Even after arresting many key members and launching one of Britain's biggest court cases against them. 
  Was it really because they were a marauding horde of anarcho-techno-pirates, their outlandish music calling a generation to rise up in rebellion against conservatism, convention, and even consensus reality? 
  Or was it because, as pioneers of the 1990s free party movement, championing the new British breakbeat and European techno sound, they were reclaiming social space in warehouses and out under the stars? 
  Each weekend they pulled ever bigger crowds away from consumer culture. No superstar DJs, no door policy and everyone dancing together as equals. An inspiring, unifying force of creativity. 
  As Spiral Tribe's co-founder and visual artist (or as the Crown Prosecutor described him, 'the criminal ringleader' who'd helped 'mastermind' Britain's 'biggest ever illegal rave' at Castlemorton), Mark Angelo Harrison has a unique perspective to tell their inside story. He vividly charts their nomadic journey and the rapid escalation of their popularity - and notoriety. 
  From small squat-scene parties in London to enormous warehouse raves and free festivals. From one little overloaded van to the mighty convoy of matt-black military vehicles that instigated the teknivals of Europe.

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  1969 & Then Some - On Morality...

  Rober Wintner

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  1969 was pivotal for baby boomers, young, innocent and facing a needless war. On a grand tour, youth united for peace, resisting war, living the parables of high time. Some will remember. Some can’t. All bore witness to a time like none before or ever since, when a few seasons defined the difference between right and wrong. 
  The profit motive gave way to greed. Truth twisted to propaganda. National interest got bent for defense contractors. Democracy buckled on a war of attrition, and a cloud of smoke got toxic: napalm. Other clouds formed phantoms of complacency, security and atrophy. Sustained on smoke and stoned to the gills, we resisted, as no generation has done. 
  Youth is time for development within. Boomers formed lasting values that linger in truth and giving, peace and sharing. 1969 was a benchmark for the future, on a worldview and lyrics echoing down the decades.

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  F Scott Fitzgerald - Six of the...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.

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  Just Transferred - The Untold...

  Namita Kala, Bhavdeep Kang

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  'Ashok Khemka's career is an example of what happens to an officer when he stands up for what he considers to be right.' 
  - Yashwant Sinha, Former Union Minister, Finance and External Affairs, Government of India 
  'There are very few like Ashok Khemka who never compromise on morality, ethics and honesty in the performance of their duties, standing by the values cherished by the Indian nation before Independence.' 
  - Justice G.S. Singhvi, Former Judge, The Supreme Court of India 
  'A perpetual outsider in a system that thrives on old boys' networks, Ashok Khemka's 'career death' over three decades holds up a mirror to the entrenched interests of the ruling elites of India, irrespective of whether they are from Lutyens' Delhi or from Gandhinagar.' 
  - Nirupama Subramanian, Resident Editor, The Indian Express 
   Twenty-seven years in service and fifty-three transfers: that's an average of six months in each posting. Meet the forever-in-transit man of the Indian bureaucracy, Ashok Khemka. The IAS officer shot into the limelight in 2012, when he cancelled the mutation of a land deal between realty major DLF and a company which belonged to Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra. With the Congress party in power, most people called it a suicidal move. But, true to his reputation for being scrupulously honest, Khemka didn't budge. Throughout his career, Khemka has suffered at the hands of his political masters for his refusal to compromise. Be it being stripped of his official car for defying a chief minister, or being charge-sheeted for frivolous reasons, the actions of those with vested interests have not been able to shake his indomitable spirit. Why has the man never given up against a 'system' that always tends to go with the flow? Why do political parties use Khemka's example to score brownie points during elections and conveniently forget the man afterwards? Why are there just admirers and no takers for the officer when it comes to his deputation with the central government? And, most importantly, will honest officers like Ashok Khemka continue to suffer under successive regimes?Offering an insider's view of India's administrative machinery, Just Transferred is the riveting story of a man whose example may well become an inspiration to civil servants across the country.

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  The Other Madisons - The Lost...

  Bettye Kearse

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  In The Other Madisons, Bettye Kearse—a descendant of an enslaved cook 
  and, according to oral tradition, President James Madison—shares her family 
  story and explores the issues of legacy, race, and the powerful consequences of 
  telling the whole truth. 
   
  For thousands of years, West African griots (men) and griottes (women) have 
  recited the stories of their people. Without this tradition Bettye Kearse would not 
  have known that she is a descendant of President James Madison and his slave, and 
  half-sister, Coreen. In 1990, Kearse became the eighth-generation griotte for her 
  family. Its credo—“Always remember, you’re a Madison. You come from African 
  slaves and a president”—was intended to be a source of pride, but for her it echoed 
  with abuses of slavery, including rape and incest. 
   
  Confronting those abuses, Kearse embarked on a journey of discovery—of her 
  ancestors, the nation, and herself. She learned that wherever African slaves walked, 
  recorded history silenced their voices and buried their footsteps: beside a slaveholding 
  fortress in Ghana, below a federal building in New York City, and under a brick 
  walkway at James Madison’s Virginia plantation. When Kearse tried to confirm the 
  information her ancestors had passed down, she encountered obstacles at every turn. 
   
  Part personal quest, part testimony, part historical corrective, The Other 
  Madisons is the saga of an extraordinary American family told by a griotte in search 
  of the whole story.

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