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  Power of Kindness The: A Book to...

  Frank Millstone

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  Looking for your toddler to have good manners? 
  Well, teach them this funny story. 
  There is nothing better than a child with good manners. Teach them the incredible power of saying please, thank you, good morning, sorry, and much more. Together with Kevin and his teacher Milagros, discover the funniest way to learn good manners.

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  Voices Within - Family Chronicles

  Lana Stasek

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  Some stories begin before you arrive. This one begins with a death that no one was allowed to name. 
  Lana Stasek was that arrival — born five years later, into the space her unborn brother left behind. He was erased before she arrived. His presence stayed — in the weight she carried without explanation, in the guilt of simply being here, in the sense that she was living for two. 
  She grew up in Lisichansk, Eastern Ukraine, in a family where trauma didn't have a name — it had a belt, a slammed door, and a grandfather who hid cash in pots while his wife slowly lost her mind. Where women faded quietly, and no one called it what it was. 
  She eventually made her way to America with no language and no safety net, carrying all that inherited silence in luggage she never agreed to pack. 
  But this is not only her story. It's a portrait of everyone who left a mark — the grandfather who was cruel and kind with the same hands, the friend she was "allowed" to have, the husband who existed mostly on paper, the boy nobody protected and found again thirty-five years later. People who shaped her, broke something in her, or quietly put it back together. She doesn't just remember them — she takes them apart, with psychological precision, dark humor, and the kind of honesty that makes you recognize someone from your own life on every other page. 
  Each chapter is its own world — a person, a scar, a truth that waited too long to be said. You don't have to go in order. Neither did she. 
  This is the kind of book that makes you pause mid-listen and think — I know exactly what that feels like. And then immediately want to call someone. Or never speak to them again. 
  This is not comfort listening. It's the kind of honesty that makes you set down whatever you're doing and just... sit with it. 
  Narrated by Megan Tusing (Law & Order, Blue Bloods, Person of Interest) — an actress who knows how to hold darkness without flinching and brings every layer of this story to life.

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  Learn Afrikaans With Music

  Innovative Language Learning, ...

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  Can learning Afrikaans be as simple as listening to music?
   
  
   
  And as easy as remembering song lyrics?
   
  
   
  Just think. You remember song lyrics because lyrics are catchy, repeated throughout the song, and go with the music, right? Now, if you stuck in Afrikaans, you'd easily learn Afrikaans words and phrases the same way!
   
  
   
  So, yes, learning Afrikaans is as easy as listening to music' with the Learn Afrikaans With Music Audiobook.
   
  
   
  Just press play, and you'll hear Afrikaans words and phrases repeated to the beat of upbeat and cheerful music. And' follow along!
   
  
   
  You'll learn 180+ most common Afrikaans words and phrases' while relaxing at home, or while driving to work.
   
  
   
  Learn Afrikaans With Music is the easiest way to start learning Afrikaans.. without getting overwhelmed by complicated explanations. Perfect for new learners with little to no language learning experience.
   
  
   
  What will you learn?
   
  180+ Words & Phrases Including...
   
  - Basic Greetings
   
  - Numbers
   
  - Common Questions and Answers
   
  - Parts of the Body & Talking About Your Wellbeing
   
  - Common Hobbies
   
  - And much more
   
  
   
  Learn Afrikaans With Music includes...
   
  - 15 Songs/Lessons Inside (Each is about 7 minutes long)
   
  - Fast-Paced Review Section at the End of Each Lesson
   
  - 1 Hour 50 Minutes in Total
   
  - Accompanying PDF eBook with the Words, Phrases and Translations
   
  
   
  Download the PDF and read along

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  Light in the Dark - The Last...

  Robert Marshall

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  An extraordinary true story of survival and courage through the Holocaust. 
   
   
   
  Poland, 1943. It was the last refuge of the desperate, a warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, as the Nazis destroyed the ghetto of the city of Lvov, a small band of Jews escaped into a grim network of tunnels, living for fourteen months with the city's waste, the sudden floods, the fumes and the damp, the rats, the darkness, and the despair. 
   
   
   
  Their only support was a lone sewer worker, an ex-criminal who constantly threatened to leave them. Many died; some falling into the rushing waters of the river, some simply of exhaustion. At one point the survivors found themselves trapped in a chamber, filling to the roof with storm-water. 
   
   
   
  Yet survive they did, even infiltrating the camps above to find their missing relatives. When the Russians liberated Lvov, they emerged from the sewers filthy, bent double, emaciated, unrecognizable . . . but alive. 
   
   
   
  This powerful story based on a long series of interviews, and a hitherto private diary, creates a blazing testimony to human faith and endurance.

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  Buffalo Soldiers: The History...

  Charles River Editors

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  During the Civil War, over 180,000 black men fought in volunteer units as part of the United States Colored Troop (USCT), but it was only after the end of it that they were allowed to enlist in the Regular Army. They did so in four segregated regiments, and they colloquially became known as Buffalo Soldiers. The evolution of these black units followed the course of the organization of the peacetime Regular Army. With the end of the Civil War came the demobilization of the millions of men who had volunteered to fight on behalf of the Union, including the USCT, which disbanded in late 1865. The first draft of a bill setting the organization of the Army sent to the House on March 7, 1866 called for the establishment of eight infantry regiments to be staffed by veterans of the USCT, but the legislation lacked similar provisions for black cavalry units. When the bill got to the Senate for approval, Senator Benjamin Wade succeeded in having a provision added that authorized black cavalry units. 
  Of course, these units are now known for the nickname attached to them, but exactly where the nickname Buffalo Soldiers came from is a subject of some dispute. Dr. Walter Hill wrote, “According to Benjamin H. Grierson, Colonel, 10th Cavalry, 1867 to 1890, the 10th acquired the name ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ during the 1871 campaign against the Comanches in the Indian Territory. Grierson said that the Comanches respected the soldiers' tireless marching and dogged trail skills. They had earned the name of the rugged and revered buffalo. The 10th made the ‘Buffalo’ its regimental coat of arms years later, but the term ‘Buffalo Soldiers,’ became synonymous with both the 9th and 10th units.” The term appeared in public for the first time in 1873, in reference to the 10th Cavalry, in a letter from Mrs. Frances M.A. Roe to a popular magazine.

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  Common Sense

  Thomas Paine

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  In Common Sense, Thomas Paine cites the evils of hereditary monarchy, exposing its flaws and the injustices it inflicted upon the American colonies. Paine argued that an island nation like Britain could never truly understand the needs of a vast continent, showing the absurdity of such a colonial relationship. 
  Credited by George Washington with swaying public opinion, Common Sense became an instant sensation, selling over half a million copies within months. Its clear and passionate prose, crafted to resonate with the common man, served as a powerful tool against tyranny.

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