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Date added:
Mar 11, 2024
Coming Home

 
How to win an information war - the propagandist who outwitted Hitler

"From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer confronts hard questions about the nature of information war: what if you can't fight lies with truth? Can a propaganda war ever be won? In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Britain was struggling to combat his powerful propaganda machine, crowing victory and smearing his enemies as liars and manipulators over his frequent radi

 
Tumblehome - one woman's canoeing adventures in the divine near wilderness

"On a warm summer evening, Brenda Missen, a 37-year-old single, unattached writer, pitches her tent beside a lake in Canada's vast Algonquin Provincial Park. She's on a four-night "reconnaissance mission," an hour's paddle from the parking lot, to find out if she has the capability - and nerve - to one day go on a real canoe trip in the park interior by herself. Paddling and portaging from her campsite by day and surviving imaginary bear attacks by night, she decides she's ready. Then a ranger a

 
Street Zen - the life and work of Issan Dorsey

"A fascinating account of one Zen teacher's journey to Buddhism-from a drug-addicted drag queen to beloved spiritual teacher and abbot. Drag queen, junkie, alcoholic, commune leader-and, finally, Buddhist teacher: these words describe the unlikely persona of Issan Dorsey, one of the most beloved teachers to emerge in American Zen. From his days as a gorgeous female impersonator in the 1950s to the LSD experiences that set him on the spiritual path, Issan's life was never conventional. In 1989, a

 
The girl who touched the stars
Date added:
Mar 7, 2024
The girl who touched the stars

It took an ocean to learn it's not how fast you paddle but how deep inside you dig. 254 days, 12,700 kilometres, sea sickness, sharks, crocodiles and ocean. Bonnie Hancock broke numerous records on her fastest ever circumnavigation by paddle around Australia but that wasn't the achievement she is most proud of. Testing the limits of her mental and physical toughness, she learned what it means to overcome adversity and how important teamwork and perspective truly are. What looks distressing from

 
Chasing beauty - the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Chronicles the life of the creator of one of America's most stunning museums-an American original whose own life was remade by art; includes archival photos of her world, museum and the art she collected.

 
Never leave the dogs behind - a memoir

"The author of the New York Times bestseller Nowhere for Very Long continues her story with this deeply honest, moving account of a woman walking the line between independence and isolation when she moves to the Southwest desert with nothing and no one but her four dogs"--

 
Pieces of a girl
Date added:
Feb 29, 2024
Pieces of a girl

"Pieces of a Girl is a memoir about abuse and addiction and the power of storytelling and community that helped zine creator and novelist Stephanie Kuehnert survive and thrive. Told in journal entries, original illustrations, and pages torn from her actual diaries and zines, this is the story of Stephanie's life as a struggling outsider who survived substance and relationship abuse to beocme a strong young woman after years trapped in a cycle that sometimes seemed to have no escape." --

 
"The only unavoidable subject of regret" - George Washington, slavery, and the enslaved community at Mount Vernon

"American historians began producing in-depth studies of slavery and slave life shortly after World War II, but it was not until the early 1980s that the country's museums took the first tentative steps to interpret those same controversial topics. Perhaps because of the tremendous amount of primary material related to George Washington, almost no one looked into the lives of Mount Vernon's enslaved population. Incorporating the results of detailed digging, of both the archaeological and archiva

 
 

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