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  Our Common Life - The story of a...

  Graham Leo

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  Experience a novel unlike any other. Graham Leo's Our Common Life weaves together the genres of biography, memoir, and novel, delving into the complexities of family, identity, and reconciliation of memories. 
  Set against the cultural backdrop of 1920s to 1970s Queensland, this biographical novel is a poignant exploration of one man's tumultuous life and its profound impact on those around him – but especially on his youngest son. 
  Graham Leo masterfully intertwines the lives of father and son, navigating themes of religion, war, family turmoil, in the timeless quest for finding out the writer's own personal identity. Our Common Life spans three generations, offering readers a glimpse into the struggles and triumphs of a family shaped by love, conflict, loss, and resilience. 
  Leo's prose captivates with a literary flair reminiscent of classical novels, drawing on a wide range of literary references from the ancient classics to modern writers. Through vivid storytelling and intimate reflection, he invites readers to embark on a journey of their own self-discovery, both through laughter and tears. 
  This is not just a story—it's an invitation to explore the complexities of human relationships, to confront the ghosts of the past, and eventually to find peace in the bonds of family that sometimes constrict as much as they are essential. Our Common Life is a testament to the power of personal storytelling. It is in our shared human experiences that we find the essence of what it means to be truly human. 
  Join hundreds of other readers on this journey into the mind and the past of a father and a son. Listen on digital audible or read in print Our Common Life and experience your own personal connection to a story that will stay with you long after the final page.

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  The Pattern in the Carpet - A...

  Drabble Margaret

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  This unique blend of memoir and history takes “a multi-layered look at jigsaw puzzles . . . charming [and] fascinating” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Award-winning author Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression. Alongside curious facts and discoveries—for example, that the 1929 stock market crash was followed by a boom in puzzle sales—Drabble introduces us to her beloved Auntie Phyl, and describes childhood visits to the house in Long Bennington on the Great North Road, their first trip to London together, the books they read, and the jigsaws they completed.   With penetrating sketches of her parents, siblings, and children, Drabble shares her thoughts on the importance of childhood play, art and writing, aging and memory. And she does so with her customary intelligence, energy, and wit.   

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  Over Our Dead Bodies -...

  Kenneth McKenzie, Todd Harra

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  With humor and heart, Over Our Dead Bodies does for the undertaking profession what Mary Roach's Stiff did for cadavers, and, like Caitlin Doughty's Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? gives us permission to embrace our morbid curiosity. From the authors of Mortuary Confidential. 
   
   
    
  Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to cry . . . 
   
   
    
  I HAD LOST THE HEARSE! 
   
   
    
  From a dysfunctional family who turn their mother's wake into a full-blown riot, to funeral crashers looking for free meals, to a horse-drawn hearse taking the dearly departed for the ride of their afterlife, these accounts from actual undertakers will have you laughing, thinking, and gasping in disbelief. A literal graveyard of wild coincidences, slapstick humor, and touching moments, Over Our Dead Bodies explores the lighter side of the dead, the living, and the lone undertaker who has to make it all go as planned—even if it doesn't.

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  Inventing Chemistry - Herman...

  John C. Powers

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  The story of this little-known Dutch physician “will interest students and practitioners of history, chemistry, and philosophy of science” (Choice).   In Inventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth century.   The primary focus of this study is Boerhaave’s educational philosophy, and Powers traces its development from Boerhaave’s early days as a student in Leiden through his publication of the Elementa chemiae in 1732. Powers reveals how Boerhaave restructured and reinterpreted various practices from diverse chemical traditions (including craft chemistry, Paracelsian medical chemistry, and alchemy), shaping them into a chemical course that conformed to the pedagogical and philosophical norms of Leiden University’s medical faculty. In doing so, Boerhaave gave his chemistry a coherent organizational structure and philosophical foundation, and thus transformed an artisanal practice into an academic discipline. Inventing Chemistry is essential reading for historians of chemistry, medicine, and academic life.

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  Her Brilliant Career

  Rachel Cooke

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  In her apron and rubber gloves, the woman of the Fifties has become a cultural symbol of all that we are most grateful to have sloughed off. But what if there was another side to the story? 
  In Her Brilliant Career, Rachel Cooke tells the story of ten extraordinary women whose pioneering professional lives - and complicated private lives - paved the way for future generations. Muriel Box, film director. Betty Box, film producer. Margery Fish, plantswoman. Patience Gray, cook. Alison Smithson, architect. Sheila van Damm, rally car driver and theatre owner. Nancy Spain, journalist and radio personality. Joan Werner Laurie, editor. Jacquetta Hawkes, archaeologist. Rose Heilbron, QC. 
  Plucky and ambitious, these women left the house, discovered the bliss of work, and ushered in the era of the working woman. 
  This is the Fifties, retold: vivid, surprising and, most of all, modern. 
  ‘There is warmth and lightness of spirit to this book: it is witty, intelligent, kind and poignant… leaves you wanting more’ THE TIMES 
   
  ‘Vastly entertaining, cannily researched and sharply perceptive‘ TELEGRAPH

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  Anne Sexton - A Self-Portrait in...

  Anne Sexton

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  A revealing collection of letters from Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Anne Sexton While confessional poet Anne Sexton included details of her life and battle with mental illness in her published work, her letters to family, friends, and fellow poets provide an even more intimate glimpse into her private world. Selected from thousands of letters and edited by Linda Gray Sexton, the poet’s daughter, and Lois Ames, one of her closest friends, this collection exposes Sexton’s inner life from her boarding school days through her years of growing fame and ultimately to the months leading up to her suicide.   Correspondence with writers like W. D. Snodgrass, Robert Lowell, and May Swenson reveals Sexton’s growing confidence in her identity as a poet as she discusses her craft, publications, and teaching appointments. Her private letters chart her marriage to Alfred “Kayo” Sexton, from the giddy excitement following their elopement to their eventual divorce; her grief over the death of her parents; her great love for her daughters balanced with her frustration with the endless tasks of being a housewife; and her persistent struggle with depression. Going beyond the angst and neuroses of her poetry, these letters portray the full complexities of the woman behind the art: passionate, anguished, ambitious, and yearning for connection.

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