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  Light and Legacies - Stories of...

  Janaka Bowman Lewis

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  An engaging examination of Black Girl Magic and its significance in American literature 
   
   
   
  In Light and Legacies, author Janaka Bowman Lewis examines Black girlhood in American literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The representation of Black girlhood in contemporary literature has long remained underexplored. Through this literary history of "Black Girl Magic," Lewis offers one of the first studies in this rapidly growing field of study. Light and Legacies poignantly showcases the activist dimensions of creative literature through work by women writers such as Toni Morrison and Toni Cade. As vectors of protest, these stories reflect historical events while also creating an enduring space of liberation and expression. The book provides didactic and reflective portrayals of the Black experience—an experience that has long been misunderstood. In a work both enlightening and personal, Lewis brilliantly weaves accounts of her own journey together with the liberating stories that shaped her and so many others.

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  Can Adventure Prevent Dementia?...

  Dr Helena Popovic

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  A meticulous doctor's all-consuming search for the cure to her father's Alzheimer's leads to a discovery she did not expect. 
  Dementia need not be a disaster or a dread; instead it can be a doorway to creating a smarter brain, stronger body and more fulfilling life. 
  Moment by moment, our brain is changing in response to everything we do, think, feel and experience. This is known as neuroplasticity. We are not passive victims of our genes, our past or our environment. We play an active role in how our brain develops throughout our life, and it's never too late - or too early - to boost our brain, avert Alzheimer's and defy dementia. 
  Dr Helena is one of the world's leading experts on improving brain function and she draws on three decades of personal and professional experience to offer a new paradigm for enhancing our brain to enrich our life at every age. 
  Filled with groundbreaking scientific insights and laugh-out-loud stories of Dad and daughter's adventure with dementia, Dr Helena reveals that education is more powerful than medication and we can all grow bolder rather than older. 
  This autobiographical page-turner reads like a neuro-thriller and shows how we can age better than we ever imagined. 
  Ageing is inevitable. Mental decline is not. 
  What readers will learn:Why brain health needs to be top of mind for everyoneHow we can change our own brainHow to improve memory, focus and creativityWhat is the best diet and exercise for our brain?What is dementia? What is Alzheimer's?Why is Alzheimer's twice as common in women as in men?How to stay as sharp at age 90 as we were at 30How taking steps NOW will help avoid Alzheimer's

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  Suddenly Single at Sixty

  Jo Peck

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  Dumped by her husband of twenty-five years, Jo Peck—smart, successful and sixty—is totally floored. 
  There’s the complete bombshell of the news, the cliché of a younger woman—a much younger woman—there’s the disappointment of cancelled retirement travel plans, and there’s the foundation-rocking loss of her sense of identity—if she’s no longer Rex’s wife, who the hell is she? 
  She’s lost and angry and hurt and confused. 
  But not for long! 
  There’s the comfort and support of excellent friends and newly forged connections with extended family, there’s therapy. And there’s internet dating. 
  This inspiring, witty and at times hilarious memoir tells the story of the road from shock and despair to an unexpected new life, of friendship, romance and racy sex—proof that being suddenly single at sixty is not the end, it’s an opportunity for a fabulous new beginning.

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  50+ Great Novellas and Short...

  Washington Irving, Charlotte...

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  This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature.
  The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century.
  The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose.
  It features classics of American, British, Irish, French, German, and Russian literature.
  Some of the outstanding authors included in this collection: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Arthur Conan Doyle, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, H. P. Lovecraft,  John Galsworthy , Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie, and many more.
  This book is intended for teachers and true literature enthusiasts.
   
  Washington Irving. Rip van Winkle
  Charlotte Bronte. Napoleon and the Spectre
  Mary Shelley. The Mortal Immortal
   
  Edgar Allan Poe
  The Cask of Amontillado
  The Black Cat
   
  Ivan Turgenev. First Love
  Charles Dickens. Nobody's Story
  Herman Melville. Bartleby, The Scrivener
   
  Mark Twain
  A Complaint about Correspondents, Dated in San Francisco
  Answers to Correspondents
  Among the Fenians
   
  Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The Cold Embrace
  Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Parson's Horse Race
  Joel Chandler Harris. The Wonderful Tar Baby Story
  Guy de Maupassant. The Piece of String
   
  Leo Tolstoy
  The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
  God Sees The Truth, But Waits
   
  Oscar Wilde. The Happy Prince
  Jerome K. Jerome. Three Men in a Boat
  Kate Chopin. The Awakening
  H. G. Wells. The Star
   
  Anton Chekhov
  Gooseberries
  A Malefactor
   
  Arthur Conan Doyle
  Lot No. 249
  The Crime Of The Brigadier
   
  Rudyard Kipling. The Cat That Walked By Himself
  Jack London. To Build A Fire
  H. H. Munro, or Saki. Gabriel-Ernest
  O. Henry. The Caballero's Way
  Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Cottagette
  James Joyce. The Dead
  Franz Kafka. In the Penal Colony
  Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Christmas Tree And The Wedding
  John Galsworthy. The Broken Boot
  F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Offshore Pirate
  G. K. Chesterton. The Blue Cross
   
  Ivan Bunin
  The Grammar Of Love
  Gentle Breathing
   
  Aleksandr Kuprin. The Outrage - A True Story
   
  Ernest Hemingway
  Up in Michigan
  Out of Season
  My Old Man
   
  Ray Bradbury
  A Little Journey
  Zero Hour
   
  H. P. Lovecraft. The Shadow over Innsmouth
   
  Mikhail Bulgakov
  The Cup Of Life
  The Beer Story
  Moonshine Springs
   
  Agatha Christie
  The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge
  The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
  The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb

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  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow -...

  Washington Irving

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  Washington Irving was born on 3rd April, 1783, the youngest of 11, in New York. 
    
  Irving found his real interests away from school in literature and the theatre.  An outbreak of yellow fever at 15 moved him away from Manhattan and into the surrounding countryside providing valuable settings for later works such as ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’. 
   
  By 19 Irving was writing regularly to the New York Morning Chronicle, commenting on the theatrical and social scenes.  When his health began to fail, he was sent on the Grand Tour of Europe.  Bizarrely he ignored most of the great sights on offer to concentrate on developing his social and conversational powers.  His health, though, did improve.  
   
  In 1806, back in New York to study law, he scraped a pass at the bar and then founded with several others the literary magazine Salmagundi. Irving nicknamed the city ‘Gotham City’, a name still in use today.  Moderately successful, the magazine spread Irving’s reputation beyond New York. 
   
  In 1809 while mourning the death of his teenage fiancée Irving finished his first significant book, ‘A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynsasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker’.  It satirised local history, local historians and politics.  It received great critical acclaim. 
   
  Unfortunately his family’s established trading company was now facing great upheavals and Irving was dispatched to England to try to sort it out.  After two years he could see no way out but bankruptcy.  This left him in England with no real employment prospects, and so he returned to writing.  
   
  He sent some short stories back to New York to be published as ‘The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent’.  The first part included ‘Rip Van Winkle’ and was extremely successful.  The sixth part contained ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’.  
   
  Beset by literary piracy, with no copyright law at the time, he set about publishing legitimate copies in England to outwit the bootleggers.  From now on Irving published concurrently in America and England in order to render piracy obsolete.  
   
  In August 1824, he published ‘Tales of a Traveller’, which included the famed ‘The Devil and Tom Walker’.  
   
  In 1826, the American Minister to Spain, invited him to Madrid where he could examine the many historical documents that he had access to.  Irving reveled in both the size of the libraries he was granted access to and their rich quality.  Historical works flowed from his pen further enhancing his reputation and fortune.   
   
  Following the completion of ‘Tales of the Alhambra’ in 1832, Irving returned to America after 17 years abroad. He was now a figurehead of American literature and dispensed advice to Edgar Allan Poe amongst others.  Irving also became an advocate for American copyright legislation.  
   
  A later appointment as Minister to Spain in 1842 left him disheartened at the antics of the various political factions he encountered.  It also afforded him no time to write as he had hoped.  
   
  On his return home he began an ‘Author’s Revised Edition’ of his works agreeing an unprecedented deal for 12 per cent of the retail profits.  
   
  Washington Irving died of a heart attack at his ‘Sunnyside’ home on the 28th November 1859 at the age of 76, a few months after completing his five volume George Washington biography, in whose honour he had been named.  
   
  ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ is a story almost everyone has encountered.  An enormous success at the time it is now an undeniable American Spooky classic.

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  Lies My Mother Told Me - Tall...

  Melissa Rivers

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  If you think Joan Rivers said funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things ONSTAGE, wait ’til you read the funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things she said OFFSTAGE … things that will make you laugh out loud … and keep Melissa in therapy for the foreseeable future. 
   
  The only thing my mother loved more than making people laugh was lying … or as she’d say, “embellishing.” Her motto was: “Why let the truth ruin a good story?” 
   
  This book contains some of those stories.

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