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  The Last Princess - The Devoted...

  Matthew Dennison

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  This “beautifully written . . . disarmingly impressive” biography sheds light on the peculiar life of Queen Victoria's youngest daughter (Daily Telegraph, UK).Born on April 14th, 1857, Princess Beatrice was the last child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. After her father died when she was four, Beatrice became the queen's source of comfort and consolation, a role which required her complete submission. Her mother's obsessive love was so all-consuming that by her late teens, Beatrice would become her constant companion. Although Victoria tried to prevent Beatrice from even thinking of love, her guard slipped when Beatrice met Prince Henry of Battenberg. But even her marriage to the German prince would not take Beatrice away from her mother. While their lifelong closeness gave her proximity to power, yet it cost her own flourishing. In The Last Princess, Matthew Dennison restores her to her proper prominence―as Queen Victoria's second consort.

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  What We Inherit - A Secret War...

  Jessica Pearce Rotondi

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  In the wake of her mother's death, Jessica Pearce Rotondi uncovers boxes of letters, declassified CIA reports, and newspaper clippings that bring to light a family ghost: her uncle Jack, who disappeared during the CIA-led "Secret War" in Laos in 1972. The letters lead her across Southeast Asia in search of the truth that has eluded her family for decades. 
   
   
   
  On the night of March 29, 1972, Jack's plane vanishes over the mountains bordering Vietnam. The crash eerily echoes the one Jack's father, Ed Pearce, survived over Germany in World War II, when Ed parachuted out of a burning plane before being captured and sent to Stalag 17 prison camp. 
   
   
   
  Years later, Ed will become convinced that his son is still alive and that the US government he fought for is lying to him. What We Inherit is Rotondi's story of her own hunt for answers as she retraces her grandfather's journey to Laos in search of his son. 
   
   
   
  An excavation of intergenerational trauma on a personal and national scale, What We Inherit reveals the power of a father's refusal to be silenced and a daughter's quest to rediscover her voice in the wake of loss.

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  KNOW ABOUT "RUMI" - A Persian...

  Saurabh Singh Chauhan

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  This is a small part of introduction of the book : Welcome to a journey through the life and legacy of a remarkable soul whose words have traversed time and touched hearts across the globe. In the following chapters, we will delve into the captivating tale of Rumi, a name that resonates with wisdom, love, and mysticism. 
  Rumi, whose full name is “Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī”, was not just a poet or a scholar; he was a beacon of light in the realm of human understanding. His story, spanning the 13th century, stretches far beyond the borders of his birthplace, leaving a trail of inspiration that remains as vibrant today as it was centuries ago. 
  Born on September 30, 1207, in Balkh, a city in what is now Afghanistan, Rumi's journey began in a land rich with cultural heritage and spiritual traditions. His early years were marked by a thirst for knowledge and a heart open to the mysteries of existence. Little did he know that his path would lead him to become one of the most celebrated poets and thinkers in history.

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  The Little Mermaid

  Hans Christian Andersen

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  The Little Mermaid lives in an underwater kingdom with her father, the sea king; her grandmother and her five elder sisters. When a mermaid turns 15, she is allowed to swim to the surface to watch the world above, and as the sisters become old enough, one of them visits the surface every year. When the Little Mermaid's turn comes, she ventures to the surface, sees a ship with a handsome prince, and falls in love with him from a distance…

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  Unleash Different - Achieving...

  Rich Donovan

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  If you discovered a new market comprising 53% of the world’s population, would you act to invest in it?
   
  There are 1.3 billion people around the world who identify as having a disability. When you include friends and family, the disability market touches 53% of all consumers. It is the world’s largest emerging market.
   
  Unleash Different illustrates how companies like Google, PepsiCo, and Nordstrom are attracting people with disabilities as customers and as employees. Replacing “nice to do” with “return on investment” allows market forces to take over and the world’s leading brands to do what they do best: serve a market segment — in this case, the disability market.
   
  Business managers will come to understand
  
  how taking a charity-oriented approach to people with disabilities has failed,
  what action is required to capitalize on the world’s biggest emerging market, and
  how their organizations can grow revenue and cut costs by attracting people with disabilities as customers and talent.
  
   
  Rich gives the reader a peek into how he rose from a Canadian school for “crippled children” to manage $6 billion for one of Wall Street’s leading firms. He makes it easy to relate to the business goal of serving disability — because he has actually done it.

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  Pandemic! The Unseen Enemy - A...

  Edgar Allan Poe, H G Wells, Fred...

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  Nature is always on the move.  Evolution over untold generations moves, streamlines, sometimes mutates. 
   
  Since the dawn of life there is little doubt that at any given time disease can strike, slowly growing over time or with a sudden instant ferocity that catches any given species in a consuming catastrophe. 
   
  The human race has been on the receiving end of many viral and bacterial diseases from the Black Death, to smallpox, polio and a myriad of others that have slaughtered millions in their trail.  And as medicine brings them to heel, eradicates their power, so Nature and Evolution brings others to the fore in a ceaseless march to weaken some, to strengthen others. 
   
  And, as our race understands their mysteries so we begin to weaponize them for our own malevolent use as biological weapons.  
   
  The movement of the Global Pandemic in the modern age is overwhelmingly quick both in reach and transmission.  Covid merely the front runner in the early years of this Century. 
   
  Authors have always been drawn to this global scale and individual human response.  In this collection virus and plague are given their head and the responses must see cure or capitulation within a few short pages. 
   
  Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Fred M White and H G Wells unleash words and thoughts in four startling tales of war with an unseen enemy. 
  1 - Pandemic! The Unseen Enemy - An Introduction 
  2 - The Unparallelled Invasion by Jack London 
  3 - The Stolen Bacillus by H G Wells 
  4 - The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe 
  5 - The Dust of Death by Fred M White

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