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The Man Who Lived Underground: A Novel

STEPH CURRY'S "UNDERRRATED" BOOK CLUB PICK FOR APRIL 2022NAACP IMAGE AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2021ONE OF OPRAH'S 15 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021ONE OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2021A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel about race and police violence by the legendary author of Native Son and Black BoyFred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city s sewer system.This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a masterpiece that Richard Wright was unable to publish in his lifetime. Written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), at the height of his creative powers, it would eventually see publication only in drastically condensed and truncated form in the posthumous collection Eight Men (1961).Now, for the first time, by special arrangement with the author's estate, the full text of this incendiary novel about race and violence in America, the work that meant more to Wright than any other ( I have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from sheer inspiration ), is published in the form that he intended, complete with his companion essay, Memories of My Grandmother. Malcolm Wright, the author s grandson, contributes an afterword.

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The Girl Who Can Cook: A Novel of Revenge and Ramen Noodles , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 423min

It's been three years since chef Erin shot her boyfriend, John, five times during a domestic dispute; two years since she was found not guilty on murder charges by way of self-defense, and one year since she opened Essen, a German restaurant in San Francisco's East Bay. You can read all about it in her memoir. There's a copy on the front seat of the car parked in front of Essen. The man in the driver's seat was John's best friend, Alex. He’s taken justice into his own hands. What he doesn't know is that soon he'll be inside, using those hands to peel carrots for the girl who can cook. I don't want to trick you into buying this book with the truncated spin of words above. I want you to buy this book because I believe in it. If the cover caught your eye, and you enjoy psychological thrillers, then I urge you to sample it and judge the quality for yourself. As an independent author, I am fighting an uphill battle for both legitimacy and visibility. Rightfully so, anyone can shove a book out into the Internet’s ether. I’ve chosen to put this out myself because I had a publisher tell me that I couldn’t succeed without them or some other machine behind me, no matter how good or bad my book. Help me prove them wrong, and may my punk rock ethos never die. This is my debut novel, and I’m an unknown author. I don't have any quotes from famous friends. The New York Times won't return my calls, but I promise you, this book is worth your time and your money. It’s about all of us. It's about ramen noodles. And impractical love. And loss. And the way we each carry our past in different ways. It’s dark and comic and weird and brutal, and I hope you love it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Wehner, Catherine Wehner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/119149/bk_acx0_119149_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 233min

Vulture Best Books of the Year (So Far)A New York Times Editors Choice SelectionA fierce international best seller that launched Korea’s new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny.Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that person.In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A 30-something-year-old “millennial everywoman”, she has recently left her white-collar desk job - in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time - as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women - alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her discomfited husband sends her to a male psychiatrist.In a chilling, eerily truncated third-person voice, Jiyoung’s entire life is recounted to the psychiatrist - a narrative infused with disparate elements of frustration, perseverance, and submission. Born in 1982 and given the most common name for Korean baby girls, Jiyoung quickly becomes the unfavored sister to her princeling little brother. Always, her behavior is policed by the male figures around her - from the elementary school teachers who enforce strict uniforms for girls, to the coworkers who install a hidden camera in the women’s restroom and post their photos online. In her father’s eyes, it is Jiyoung’s fault that men harass her late at night; in her husband’s eyes, it is Jiyoung’s duty to forsake her career to take care of him and their child - to put them first.Jiyoung’s painfully common life is juxtaposed against a backdrop of an advancing Korea, as it abandons “family planning” birth control policies and passes new legislation against gend ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kathleen Choe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/054930/bk_adbl_054930_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Agnihotra

Can there be comprehensive help for today's global problems?After reading this book, you will surely say, 'Yes, there is help that is simple and can be practiced by everyone.'In the Vedas, one of the oldest scriptures of mankind, it is written that fire techniques can bring extensive help. Agnihotra is the basic fire technique. Through Agnihotra, it is possible to purify earth, air and water; it can improve the health of humans, animals and plants; it can regenerate the psyche, harmonize the weather and much more.Countless people worldwide practice Agnihotra, thus contributing to the regeneration of our planet and benefitting from its positive effects.From the content: The origin of Agnihotra and its revival Everything you need for Agnihotra explained in detail Amazing insights into the geometry of the Agnihotra pot (a truncated pyramid) The Practice: where, how and when Agnihotra is performed Other fire techniques (Homa fires or Yajnas, Yajnyas) The meaning of the mantras The operating principle of Agnihotra The Agnihotra ash and its various application options Practical applications of Agnihotra (Homa Therapy) for plants, animals and humans Experience reports from all over the world Studies by doctors and scientists Agnihotra and the spiritual path of development And much moreFor decades, the authors have been practicing Agnihotra and examining its possible uses in various areas, but especially in agriculture, at the Homa-Hof Heiligenberg in Germany. The author Horst Heigl was the first person in Germany to learn about Agnihotra and the Fivefold Path from Shri Vasant Paranjpe in 1974.PaperbackWith numerous colored, and black and white illustrationsFormat 21 cm x 14.5 cm; 259 pages1st English edition, ISBN 978-3-89316-028-0In connection with this book, a CD was created on which the mantras required for Agnihotra and other fire techniques are slowly and clearly sung by the author - ideal for learning and practicing.

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Blackshirts and Reds (eBook, ePUB)

A bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today.Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about, but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark.Parenti shows how "rational fascism" renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege. He also maps out the external and internal forces that destroyed communism, and the disastrous impact of the "free-market" victory on eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and dealing with the ongoing collision between ecology and global corporatism.Written with lucid and compelling style, this book goes beyond truncated modes of thought, inviting us to entertain iconoclastic views, and to ask why things are as they are."A penetrating and persuasive writer with an astonishing array of documentation to implement his attacks." -The Catholic Journalist"By portraying the struggle between fascism and Communism in this century as a single conflict, and not a series of discrete encounters, between the insatiable need for new capital on the one hand and the survival of a system under siege on the other, Parenti defines fascism as the weapon of capitalism, not simply an extreme form of it. Fascism is not an aberration, he points out, but a 'rational' and integral component of the system."-Stan Goff, author of Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century Michael Parenti, PhD Yale, is an internationally known author and lecturer. He is one of the nation's leading progressive political analysts. Author of over 275 published articles and twenty books, his writings are published in popular periodicals, scholarly journals, and his op-ed pieces have been in leading newspapers such as The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. His informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.

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