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  Secret Voices - A Year of...

  Sarah Gristwood

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  'Totally addictive.'
  – Alice Loxton, The Daily Telegraph
  'An intriguing, highly snackable guide to women's experiences.'
  
  – Independent
  'A modern classic.'
  
  – Alison Weir, author and historian
  'The sort of book you return to again and again.'
  
  – Tracy Borman, author and historian
   A captivating collection of daily extracts from women's diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women's experience – of men and children, sex and shopping, work and the natural world – has changed down the years. And, of course, how it hasn't. 
   Organised around the calendar year, in this engaging anthology you'll find Lady Anne Clifford in the seventeenth century and Loran Hurnscot in the twentieth both stoically recording the demands of an unreasonable husband; Joan Wyndham and Anne Frank, at much the same time, but in wildly different settings, describing their first experiences with sex; and Anne Lister (TV's Gentleman Jack) in eighteenth-century Yorkshire exploring her love affairs with women alongside Alice Walker in twentieth-century California. 
   With several selections for each day, from the 1st January to the 31st December, this book is a fascinating record of how women were thinking, feeling and reacting to historical events. From Virginia Woolf relishing her new haircut and Oprah Winfrey meditating on her career to Emilie Davis chronicling the death of Abraham Lincoln and teenage Ma Yan yearning for education in poverty-stricken China, Secret Voices contains a rich mix of well-known diarists and less familiar ones, and often the voices echoing down the centuries sound eerily familiar today. 

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  The Dundas Chronicles - Memoir...

  Allan Duffin

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  Discover the Heartwarming Journey in "The Dundas Chronicles: Memoir of a Young Boy Growing Up in the Valley Town" by Allan Duffin 
  Step back into the nostalgic era of the 1950s and 1960s with "The Dundas Chronicles," a poignant memoir by Allan Duffin, vividly narrated by Gary Middleton. This touching story captures the essence of growing up in a small town, the challenges faced by single parents, and the unyielding strength of a mother’s love. Published by AMZ Book Publishing Services. 
  Why You'll Be Captivated by "The Dundas Chronicles": 
  Inspiring Story: Follow the journey of a young boy raised by a single parent in a time of great societal change. 
  Historical Insights: Gain a deeper understanding of life in the 50s and 60s, with rich descriptions of the era’s culture and hardships. 
  Tribute to Single Parents: Celebrate the dedication and sacrifices of single parents everywhere, as exemplified by the author’s mother, Minnie Marguerite Duffin. 
  What You’ll Experience: 
  Family Resilience: Witness the unwavering determination of Minnie Duffin, who raised her three children alone after being widowed at 41. 
  Historical Challenges: Explore the struggles of a family living through the Great Depression, World War I, and the early years of Ontario's municipal police force. 
  Heartfelt Memories: Relive humorous and touching moments that showcase the love, discipline, and resilience that defined Allan Duffin’s upbringing. 
  Join countless listeners who have been moved by "The Dundas Chronicles: Memoir of a Young Boy Growing Up in the Valley Town." Let the expertly narrated audiobook by Gary Middleton, published by AMZ Book Publishing Services, transport you to a time of heartfelt memories and enduring family bonds. Discover the strength, love, and determination that shaped Allan Duffin’s life and success.

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  Look What You Made Me Do -...

  Megan Norris

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  One Australian woman is hospitalised every three hours and two more lose their lives each week as a result of family violence. But for some women there is a punishment far more enduring than injury or their own death. 
   
  Look What You Made Me Do is a timely exploration of the evil inflicted by vengeful fathers who have killed their own children simply to punish partners for ending unrewarding, often abusive relationships. 
   
  Drawing on her own experience as a court reporter, award-winning crime writer Megan Norris examines the revenge murders of eighteen children to shine a light on the ultimate act of family violence and the shattering legacy of grief such crimes have on surviving mothers. 
   
  From the 2018 execution-style shooting murders of Sydney teenagers, Jack and Jennifer Edwards whose angry dad was granted a licence to kill despite his long-standing history of domestic violence – to the premeditated murders of Brisbane mum, Hannah Clarke and her three children whose car was torched by her vengeful ex – this book shows it is not only women who are at risk when family violence turns deadly. 
   
   
  ‘Megan Norris has been a trailblazer. The events so accurately described in this book provide powerful insights into widespread patterns of power and control, and the profound harms that can result.’ DR DEBBIE KIRKWOOD, Author of Just Say Goodbye 
   
  ‘It’s through sharing these stories that we can lift the sense of shame that clouds victim-survivors, and debunk the myths around intimacy, power and control... We must continue to create change and push for law reform.’ MARK WOOLLEY, Small Steps 4 Hannah

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  Sri Ramakrishna: A Biography

  Swami Nikhilananda

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  The biography of Sri Ramakrishna is the story of an intense search for God. Sri Ramakrishna was not satisfied until he realized God to be real with every fiber of his being. He ultimately saw God more intensely than he saw the world. Sri Ramakrishna talked with God as a young child speaks to the mother throughout the day. In him, there was only the thought of God, and he saw God everywhere and in everything. The Nobel Laureate Romain Rolland described Sri Ramakrishna’s life as the fulfillment of the spiritual aspirations of three hundred million Hindus for the last two thousand years. Mahatma Gandhi said, “No one can read the story of his life without being convinced that God alone is real and all else is illusion.” 
  Swami Nikhilananda was a disciple of Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, the wife and spiritual companion of Sri Ramakrishna. He was a senior monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India, and founder in 1933 of the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of New York. As a gifted speaker, he taught classes and spoke on spiritual life and the harmony of religions in New York until his passing away in 1973. He was a beloved teacher to many spiritual aspirants, and also to students of philosophy, history, and religion. Nikhilananda had the rare privilege of intimately associating with many of the direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna. His translations of the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, and his biographies of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother, and Swami Vivekananda, are considered modern classics of spiritual literature.

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  Diego's Story - Thrown Away...

  Louise Allen

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  Diego's Story is the thirteenth instalment in the popular Thrown Away Children series. 
   
  Diego and his siblings live in desperate poverty, but nobody seems to notice or care as they come close to starving, scouring food banks to survive. But he’s wrong – someone has noticed him. County Lines gang members can see his vulnerability. With an absent father, alcoholic mother and dependent young siblings, Diego is the perfect mark. 
   
  Entrapped, used, abused and witness to terrible crimes, young Diego escapes a murder scene and runs. 
   
  Experienced foster carer Louise Allen steps in when 14-year-old Diego is placed with her. Can she help him overcome his disturbing past and finally feel safe again? And what will happen if the County Lines gang finds him – with Louise and her family?

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  The Autobiography of Benjamin...

  Benjamin Franklin

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  An American professor, lecturer and writer Dale Carnegie wrote: "If you want to have an excellent advice how to treat people, control yourself and improve your own qualities, you should read The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, one of the most fascinating stories of the life." According to what Franklin wrote in The Autobiography, he developed and tried to implement into the life a plan of the moral perfection achievement and extermination of bad habits, based on developing skills in 13, described by him, goodnesses.

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