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  What We Remember Will Be Saved -...

  Stephanie Saldaña

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  In an era of mass migration in which more than 100 million people are displaced comes this lyrical portrait of Syrian and Iraqi refugees and the belongings they carry. What We Remember Will Be Saved is a book of hope, home, and the stories we hold within us when everything else has been lost. 
   
   
   
  Journalist and scholar Stephanie Saldaña, who lived in Syria before the war, sets out on a journey across nine countries to meet refugees and learn what they salvaged from the ruins when they escaped. Now, in the narratives of six extraordinary women and men, from Mt. Sinjar to Aleppo to Lesvos to Amsterdam, we discover that the little things matter a great deal. Saldaña introduces us to a woman who saved her city in a dress, a musician who saved his stories in songs, and a couple who rebuilt their destroyed pharmacy even as the city around them fell apart. Together they provide a window into a religiously diverse corner of the Middle East on the edge of unraveling, and the people keeping it alive with their stories. 
   
   
   
  Born of years of friendship and reporting, What We Remember Will Be Saved is a breathtaking, elegiac odyssey into the heart of the largest refugee crisis in modern history.

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  Literature and the New Culture...

  Deborah Appleman

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  Can educators continue to teach troubling but worthwhile texts? 
   
   
   
  Our current "culture wars" have reshaped the politics of secondary literature instruction. Due to a variety of challenges from both the left and the right—to language or subject matter, to potentially triggering content, or to authors who have been canceled—school reading lists are rapidly shrinking. For many teachers, choosing which books to include in their curriculum has become an agonizing task with political, professional, and ethical dimensions. 
   
   
   
  In Literature and the New Culture Wars, Deborah Appleman calls for a reacknowledgment of the intellectual and affective work that literature can do, and offers ways to continue to teach troubling texts without doing harm. Rather than banishing challenged texts from our classrooms, she writes, we should be confronting and teaching the controversies they invoke. Her book is a timely and eloquent argument for a reasoned approach to determining what literature still deserves to be read and taught and discussed.

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  Finding Karen Black - Roots...

  Diane Bay

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  A bittersweet story that begins with the delightful discovery of a famous birth mother. 
  Before film star Karen Black became an icon, she gave up a newborn daughter to adoption. While Karen's career led her to Hollywood fame, her daughter Diane grew up near Chicago. For five decades they knew nothing about each other. Then Illinois opened their sealed adoption records, and Diane sent for her original birth certificate. She was amazed to discover that her birth mother was an iconic actress in the '70s and a cult horror star in the '80s and beyond. Karen starred in prominent films such as Easy Rider, The Great Gatsby, Airport 1975, Burnt Offerings and the TV movie Trilogy of Terror. 
  This heartfelt memoir takes the listener into Diane's adopted life without her birth mother, and follows Karen and Diane through their one year together as Karen bravely battles cancer. This remarkable story is a testament to the power of the mother-child bond, the importance of our roots, and the belief that love lasts forever. 
  Award-winning Christina Delaine's exceptional narration captures Karen's vivacious spirit and the story's emotional moments with authenticity. 
  "This book took me by surprise with emotional timbre, honest emotions, and depth of feeling. Through immersive writing, descriptive narration, and stark imagery, Finding Karen Black expertly weaves a mother-daughter story, unlike anything I've read before." --N. N. Light

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  The Eternal Empire - A History...

  P Agrawal

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  The Eternal Empire: A History of Ancient China is a comprehensive exploration of one of the world’s most enduring and influential civilizations. Spanning millennia, this book delves into the rich history of ancient China, from its earliest beginnings along the Yellow River to its enduring legacies that shaped East Asia and the world. It examines the rise and fall of dynasties, from the mythical Xia and Shang to the philosophical and political heights of the Tang, exploring how China’s governance, philosophy, and technological innovations laid the foundation for the modern world. 
  Through detailed chapters on the major dynasties, cultural achievements, and philosophical schools, this book provides a vivid portrait of ancient Chinese society. It offers an in-depth look at how Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism shaped the region's thought, while highlighting the technological marvels of paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing. 
  "The Eternal Empire" also highlights the profound influence of ancient China on neighboring civilizations in Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and beyond, tracing the far-reaching impact of Chinese culture, politics, and ideas. Whether exploring the intellectual blossoming of the Tang Dynasty or the enduring philosophical principles that guided Chinese governance, this book illuminates the ways in which ancient China’s innovations and values reverberate across time and borders, shaping not only East Asia but the entire course of human history. 
  Richly researched and beautifully written, The Eternal Empire is an essential work for anyone seeking to understand the complexities and enduring legacies of one of the world’s greatest civilizations.

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  Liquid Modernity

  Zygmunt Bauman

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  In this book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immediate setting of life-politics and human togetherness, call for the rethinking of the concepts and cognitive frames used to narrate human individual experience and their joint history. 
   
  This book is dedicated to this task. Bauman selects five of the basic concepts which have served to make sense of shared human life—emancipation, individuality, time/space, work and community—and traces their successive incarnations and changes of meaning. 
   
  Liquid Modernity concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books Globalization: The Human Consequences and In Search of Politics. Together these volumes form a brilliant analysis of the changing conditions of social and political life by one of the most original thinkers writing today. 
   
  This audiobook is expertly read by David Pickering, with audio engineering by Logan Nyman. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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  A collection of 50 poelyrics...

  Steve Dafoe

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  Volume 2 of 50 Song Poems or Poe-Lyrics. The first 90 were released in 2011. They are the lyrics from Vocal songs that the author has penned over time.Details

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