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  Spiritual Life a Journey to...

  Laura Payne

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  Laura's message is of true inspiration, magic and hope. Anything can be overcome when the universe is the limit! Spiritual Life, a Journey to Freedom is a handy, short but powerful, personal development book with a difference, in that all Laura's messages are of her own spiritual experiences. It is a true account of the life of a 1980s born spiritual Medium. A story of a happy, young farm girl, whose life was changed forever by a traumatic event. Her mission: to reach out to the world to bring the important message of self awakening and healing. In this relatable, spiritual book Laura hopes it will help open your mind to the wonder of the spirit world and the magic of your own journey to enlightenment by unlocking doors to your spiritual self. https://www.facebook.com/AuthorMediumLaura/

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  Ugly - Giving Us Back our Beauty...

  Anita Bhagwandas

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  We've all had those moments. The ones where you look in the mirror and nothing feels ok. For Anita Bhagwandas, this started when she was a child and it created an enduring internal torment about her looks.We're all told that this is just part of growing up, but it stays with us, evolving as we age. The internet tells us we should love ourselves, whilst bombarding us with images of airbrushed perfection, upholding centuries-old beauty standards which we can't always see. Our beauty rituals are so often based around things we think we need to fix, grow, and develop—sometimes tipping into dangerous obsession.So, what seismic shift does it take to break free from this mentality? In Ugly, Anita uncovers where these beauty standards started, unpicks why they've been perpetuated, and unmasks the structures that continue to support them. From the ever-growing cosmetic surgery industry, to the hidden pitfalls of "pretty privilege," it is time to finally break free from those limiting beauty standards, because feeling ugly should have nothing to do with how we look, and everything to do with who wants us to feel lacking.

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  Banking on People

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  Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the Grameen Bank, a Bangladeshi microfinance institution providing loans to low-income borrowers.

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  Virginia Giuffre - The...

  Nigel Cawthorne

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  'Forensic' Daily MailVirginia (Roberts) Giuffre had nothing. Her all-American childhood came to an abrupt end by sexual abuse when she was 7. Finally, aged 14, her luck seemed to turn with a summer job as spa attendant at Donald Trump's exclusive Mar-a-Lago in Florida. It was here that the young girl was hunted by  elegant jet-setter Ghislaine Maxwell who said her millionaire partner Jeffrey Epstein would sponsor her to become a professional masseuse... This is the first book to tell Virginia's own extraordinary and inspiring tale as a penniless high-school drop-out forced into sexual servitude and how she was able to outsmart her two rich underage-sex predators and forced an end to their crimes.

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  Jane Austen's Inspiration -...

  Judith Stove

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  An insightful portrait of Austen’s friend and fellow writer Anne Lefroy and the society that surrounded these two literary women. 
   
  In this insightful new biography of Anne Lefroy, Judy Stove investigates the life of a writer who had a direct and undeniable influence on the life and works of Jane Austen. Jane shared some of her earliest writings with Anne, who became a devoted confidant; it is believed that their friendship was an essential component in their creativity. As a published female writer, Anne was an immense source of inspiration to Jane as she developed her own talents. 
   
  Judy Stove, a member of the Jane Austen Society of Australia, brings a wealth of insight to this illuminating history of a literary friendship. She has uncovered fascinating snippets of information relating to Anne Lefroy’s circle, and her book addresses developments across a period of great social and political change. Setting Lefroy’s life in context, she looks at the war against Napoleon and illustrates evolutions in healthcare as well as changes in religious beliefs and practices that shaped the world of these remarkable women.

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  The Untold Journey - The Life of...

  Natalie Robins

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  A biography of a famed 20th century, Jewish New York author and literary and social critic who struggled in the shadow of her husband. Diana Trilling’s life with Columbia University professor and literary critic Lionel Trilling was filled with secrets, struggles, and betrayals, and she endured what she called her “own private hell” as she fought to reconcile competing duties and impulses at home and at work. She was a feminist, yet she insisted that women’s liberation created unnecessary friction with men, asserting that her career ambitions should be on equal footing with caring for her child and supporting her husband. She fearlessly expressed sensitive, controversial, and moral views, and fought publicly with Lillian Hellman, among other celebrated writers and intellectuals, over politics. Diana Trilling was an anticommunist liberal, a position often misunderstood, especially by her literary and university friends. And finally, she was among the “New Journalists” who transformed writing and reporting in the 1960s, making her nonfiction as imaginative in style and scope as a novel. The first biographer to mine Diana Trilling’s extensive archives, Natalie Robins tells a previously undisclosed history of an essential member of New York City culture at a time of dynamic change and intellectual relevance.“Meticulously researched and documented, the biography is a detailed foray into the lives of a generation of writers and into the mind of literary critic, writer and intellectual Diana Trilling.”—Ms.“Robins does a solid job of rehabilitating a significant literary and cultural figure of the 20th century, a woman who spent much of her career in her husband’s shadow.”—Kirkus Reviews

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