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  Life in the Raws - Memories of a...

  Jock Findlay

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  This book is the life story of John 'Jock' Findlay, rediscovered by his grandson Neil Findlay MSP after finding Jock's writing on the back of a plywood bath panel.
  
  Pumpherston village in Scotland, built by Pumpherston Oil Company in 1884, was home to the brave shale oil workers who faced life threatening conditions. In Life in the Raws the life of 'a proud, good, clever working class man' is revealed from 1919 to 1994 spanning almost a whole century of Scottish history.
  
  It presents the story of one man's life as well as the history of a unique Scottish village and its community and culture.

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  True Crime Canada - Real...

  Adrian Langenscheid

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  » Morbid, whimsical, tragic ... Goosebumps! « – Leonie-Rachel Soyel (Podcast "Couchgeflüster")» Langenscheid's books are exciting, from the first page to the last! « – True Crime Podcast "Darf's ein bisserl Mord sein?"In the ninth volume of his True Crime series, Germany's bestselling True Crime author Adrian Langenscheid once again unleashes heart-pounding, addictive reading. It offers a breathtaking, deeply harrowing portrait of human abysses that arouses powerful emotions precisely because of its cool, factually neutral depiction.Free of any sensationalism, thirteen True Crime short stories retell some of the most spectacular Canadian criminal cases of recent decades. A gripping collection of accounts of murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, abuse, fraud, betrayal, and theft that take the reader to the limits of the bearable. These are crimes involving "people like you and me"; people whose lives, due to tragic circumstances, are no longer what they were before.With expertise and excellent head-spinning narration, the true crime expert, in collaboration with the well-known true crime podcasts "Eyes in the Dark," "Murder Whispers," and "Crime Overdose," summarizes the most important findings from court hearings, case files, psychological reports, interrogations, and investigative protocols in his eventful tales.Captivated, stunned, amazed, and moved to tears, you will question everything you thought you knew about human nature. True crime cases, true crimes, and thus the full force of reality will strike you in thirteen detailed case histories, both well-known and undiscovered!Click "BUY NOW" and discover Canada's darker side.» Langenscheid writes matter-of-factly, focused and detailed stories reflecting on the darkest aspects of our existence. Relentless entertainment that makes your blood run cold. « – Dave Grunewald (Musician / Influencer)

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  The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street...

  John Saumarez Smith

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  Collected mid-twentieth–century correspondence between the author of The Pursuit of Love and her former employer, the celebrated London bookseller. 
   
  Nancy Mitford was a brilliant personality, a remarkable novelist and a legendary letter writer. It is not widely known that she was also a bookseller. From 1942 to 1946 she worked in Heywood Hill’s famous shop in Curzon Street, and effectively ran it when the male staff were called up for war service. After the war she left to live in France, but she maintained an abiding interest in the shop, its stock, and the many and varied customers who themselves form a cavalcade of the literary stars of post-war Britain. Her letters to Heywood Hill advise on recent French titles that might appeal to him and his customers, gossip engagingly about life in Paris, and enquire anxiously about the reception of her own books, while seeking advice about new titles to read. In return Heywood kept her up to date with customers and their foibles, and with aspects of literary and bookish life in London. Charming, witty, utterly irresistible, the correspondence gives brilliant insights into a world that has almost disappeared. 
   
  Praise for The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street 
   
  “This volume of letters between [Nancy Mitford], then living in Paris, and G. Heywood Hill (1907–1986) is like a glass of champagne, from a good year, at a quiet garden party. It’s a beautiful day, one is among friends—but not too many—and laughter reigns.” —The New Criterion

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  Rogue Rabbi - A Spiritual...

  Jerry Steinberg

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  This memoir of an adventurous quest for inner peace is complete with explorations of the rational and the mystical, and the many ways of faith.   Revealing an understanding of God that goes beyond the conventional, Rogue Rabbi tells the story of a seeker. After traveling to India and investigating the Christian faith, Jerry Steinberg went to medical school and narrowed his focus to psychotherapy—working with past-life regression, dreams, and psychogenic illness. He also became a rabbi—but never ceases to explore all aspects of faith, taking up a specialization in Kabbalah, a discipline of Jewish mysticism.   As the author seeks the essence of spirituality through the interface between rationalism and mysticism, and between religion and sexuality, the story of this real-life spiritual explorer both inspires and instructs on the paths to peace and acceptance.

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  Unruly Saint - Dorothy Day's...

  D.L. Mayfield

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  In 1933, in the shadow of the Great Depression, Dorothy Day started the most prominent Catholic radical movement in United States history, the Catholic Worker Movement, a storied organization with a lasting legacy of truth and justice. 
   
   
   
  Day's newspaper, houses of hospitality, and ministry of paying attention to the inequality of her world would eventually become world famous, just as she would become a figure of promise for the poor. The ways in which Day and her fellow workers both found the love of God in and expressed it for their neighbors during a time of great social, political, economic, and spiritual upheaval would become a model of activism for decades to come. 
   
   
   
  In Unruly Saint, activist, writer, and neighbor D. L. Mayfield brings a personal lens to Day's story. In exploring the founding of the Catholic Worker movement and newspaper by revisiting the early years of Day's life, Mayfield turns her attention to what it means to be a good neighbor today. Through a combination of biography, observations on the current American landscape, and theological reflection, this is at once an achingly relevant account and an encouraging blueprint for people of faith in tumultuous times. It will resonate with today's activists, social justice warriors, and those seeking to live in the service of others.

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  Not Alone - 11 Inspiring Stories...

  Miriam Neff

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  The powerful testimonies of 11 widows of the Bible are brought to narrative life in lyrical, visceral prose that brings readers deep inside the women's grief, strength, and faith. Full of both haunting and hope, Not Alone connects Biblical widows' voices in a chorus of commiseration that reminds us what it means to love—and what it means to live with God.

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