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📮 Tomorrow There Will Be Sun by Various (.ePUB) Prize-winning and highly commended stories from the 2024 Hope Prize, with judges including Dame Quentin Bryce, Dr Tony Birch and Julia Gillard. The Hope Prize is one of the world’s leading short story competitions, and this collection of winning and shortlisted stories will delight, move and inspire you. From two lovers in Nigeria navigating uncertain futures; a homeless man in Melbourne holding fast to his dignity against the backdrop of an indifferent city; a former prisoner stepping back into the world; and a mother in Ireland who is unknowingly whisper-close to her long-lost son, these stories grapple with issues that define our time – mental health, poverty, war – in a way that feels both intimate and urgent. InTomorrow There Will Be Sunsome of the world’s most promising literary voices remind us that no matter the challenges we face, through the strength of the human spirit and the power of connection, we can move through darkness and into the light. In a tapestry of unique perspectives, this engrossing and entertaining collection is a balm for the soul. Hope isn't passive. It’s something we create, together. And in these pages, you’ll find hope well and truly alive, waiting for you to carry it forward. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Various Size 5MB Category Fiction > General Fiction/Classics, Short stories File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/YMXustZACACn https://devuploads.com/mw52ffx29pxv

📮 The Scent of Oranges by Kathy George (.ePUB) A retelling of one of literature's great novels, Oliver Twist, from the point of view of Nancy, one of the most sympathetic, most maligned and most tragic of Dickens's characters. For readers of The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks. Nancy has spent her whole life on the vibrant and gritty streets of Victorian London, first as one of Fagin's child pickpockets and now on the arm of violent and mercurial Bill Sikes. Nancy does what she must to get by. She's attuned to the harsh realities of life, but also knows how to find moments of beauty amid the grime, even if it is only the scent and taste of an orange - its miraculous colour and form. When she embarks on a relationship with enigmatic gentleman Mr Rufus, it awakens emotions she's never felt before, and makes a better life feel possible for the first time. But when she takes cherubic orphan Oliver Twist under her wing, something even more elusive and appealing seems to be within reach: redemption. This captivating tale of love, sacrifice, and the battle between good and evil showcases the power of compassion in a world tainted by darkness. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Kathy George Size 606KB Category Fiction > General Fiction/Classics File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/7F7vPy8yz48H https://devuploads.com/1y59j3s6k53e

📮 9 Books by Maggie Alderson (.ePUB) Maggie Alderson was born in London, brought up in Staffordshire and educated at the University of St Andrews. She has worked on nine magazines – editing four of them, including British ELLE – and two newspapers. For many years she covered the international fashion shows. She has published six bestselling novels and four collections of her columns from Good Weekend magazine. She co-edited two books of short stories in aid of the charity War Child, and In Bed With, a collection of erotic short stories by well-known women writers. She is married, and has one daughter and twelve pairs of Prada shoes. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Maggie Alderson Size 17.7MB Category Fiction > Women's Fiction, Chick-Lit File Type ePUB Pants on FirePants on Fire (2000) Mad About the BoyMad About the Boy (2002) Cents and SensibilityCents and Sensibility (2006) How To Break Your Own HeartHow To Break Your Own Heart (2008) Gravity SucksGravity Sucks (2009) Shall We Dance?Shall We Dance? (2011) Everything Changes But YouEverything Changes But You (2012) Secret Keeping for BeginnersSecret Keeping for Beginners (2019) Would You RatherWould You Rather (2024) 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/yDLgqhuISOLw https://devuploads.com/ulg61xcgkeiq

📮 3 Books by Vanessa McCausland (.ePUB) Vanessa studied English and Australian literature at the University of Sydney and dreamed of one day writing fiction. She then went on to immerse herself completely in writing about real people, working as a journalist for twenty years. Vanessa has been a news, medical, entertainment and arts reporter for the Daily Telegraph and her writing has appeared in numerous other publications. She's happy to now, finally, be creating fictional characters. She lives in Sydney with her husband and daughter. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Vanessa Mccausland Size 2.6MB Category Fiction > General Fiction/Classics File Type ePUB The Beautiful WordsThe Beautiful Words (2021) Two best friends, one summer night, and twenty years of silence ... what happened at the lighthouse?The stunning, haunting new novel from the author of The Lost Summers of Driftwood. Two best friends, one summer night, and twenty years of silence ... what happened at the lighthouse? The stunning, haunting new novel from the author of The Lost Summers of Driftwood. Sylvie is a lover of words and a collector of stories, only she has lost her own. She has no words for that night at the lighthouse when their lives changed forever. What happened to cleave her apart from her best friend and soulmate, Kase? Sylvie yearns to rekindle their deep connection, so when Kase invites her to the wild Tasmanian coast to celebrate her 40th birthday, she accepts - despite the ghosts she must face. As Sylvie struggles to find her feet among old friends, she bonds with local taxi boat driver Holden. But he is hiding from the world, too. Through an inscription in an old book, Sylvie and Kase discover their mothers have a history, hidden from their daughters. As they unpick what took place before they were born, they're forced to face the rift in their own friendship, and the question of whether it's ever okay to keep a secret to protect the person you love. Vanessa McCausland's enthralling new novel is about betrayal and forgiveness, the stories we tell, and the healing power of words. Dreaming In FrenchDreaming In French (2023) A remote French island. A crumbling villa. A reclusive film star. And an inheritance Saskia never expected. The stunning new novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Beautiful Words. A remote French island. A crumbling villa. A reclusive film star. And an inheritance Saskia never expected. The stunning new novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Beautiful Words. Saskia Wyle spent one sultry European summer on Île de Re when she was nineteen. The bright salt flats and sun-soaked beaches are now a distant memory, and one she made herself forget after an unspeakable tragedy. But the French heiress she befriended over twenty years ago has left half of her magnificent home to Saskia and the other half to Felix Allard, the now-reclusive film star living on the island. How did Simone Durant die? Was it the family curse that haunted her? And why has she included Saskia in her will after all this time? Saskia returns to the place of dry-stone walls and ancient olive trees to find that Simone has left her another unexpected gift - a manuscript written in French. Like the lyrical language embedded somewhere in Saskia's subconscious, she must find a way to understand what Simone is telling her. As Saskia once again falls under the island's spell, she must reckon with her past to save what is most precious to her. The Last Illusion of Paige WhiteThe Last Illusion of Paige White (2024) The haunting new mystery from the popular author of DREAMING IN FRENCH and THE BEAUTIFUL WORDS, for readers of Hannah Richell, Anita Shreve and Jodi PicoultTwo women. A tragedy on the lake. And secrets beneath the surface ... The lyrical, haunting new novel from the author of The Beautiful WordsFor fans of The Lovely Bones, Before You Knew My Name and Everything I Never Told You The haunting new mystery from the popular author of DREAMING IN FRENCH and THE BEAUTIFUL WORDS, for readers of Hannah Richell, Anita Shreve and Jodi Picoult Two women. A tragedy on the lake. And secrets beneath the surface ... The lyrical, haunting new novel from the author of The Beautiful Words For fans of The Lovely Bones, Before You Knew My Name and Everything I Never Told You Paige White kayaked across the lake each morning at dawn. Someone was watching her. Many someones watched her online. But was anyone with her the day she was found? Paige White's beautiful life is documented closely for her thousands of followers: lakeside picnics with her daughter, sunny afternoons in the family van, and romantic dinners with her husband. So when she posts an ominous image, and her body is shortly after discovered in the lake, everyone immediately wonders - suicide or foul play? Paige finds herself suspended in a strange, idyllic place that resembles her most 'liked' Instagram post, forced to watch as life continues without her. When Paige's death makes national news, Jane Masters, a journalist who was close to Paige in childhood, reluctantly travels home. Struggling with the morality of covering her friend's death, Jane will confront the town she left behind and the dark undercurrents that she's always known run underneath. 📥 Download Links: TLIoPW:[AU] https://uploda.sh/IEG0EV4bXrKZ https://devuploads.com/qnvvk767mls1

📮 Thoroughly Disenchanted by Alexandra Almond (.ePUB) A cosy fantasy mystery from a debut author, for fans of Rebecca Ross, Travis Baldree and Ashley Poston and perfect for TikTok readers of romantasy novelsA weekend away that has lasted a century. True love's kiss can't break this spell... A cosy, romantic fantasy mystery for all fans of Rebecca Ross, Legends and Lattes and Assistant to the Villain. A hundred years ago, Genevieve and Oliver spent an amazing weekend together in Riverswood manor. They wished they could stay there forever... and then their wish come true. Blessed with immortality but trapped for eternity, the two former lovers are now thoroughly tired of one another's company. Then, one dark and stormy night, a stranger called Ella arrives with a cheery disposition and a secret that could be the key to their salvation. With the help of Ella and the return of their best friend, Fionn, Genevieve and Oliver learn more about Riverswood's tangled history. If they can come to terms with their own feelings, and the truth that has kept them locked away, they might stand a chance at breaking this curse. True love certainly hasn't worked. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Alexandra Almond Size 2.5MB Category Fiction > Fantasy, Cozy Mystery File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/TAZWmLQzPo6M https://devuploads.com/rashq38o2hjq

📮 Why So Serious? by Mike Singer (.ePUB) A revealing, intimate biography of basketball savant and enigmatic NBA superstar Nikola Jokic, filled with news-breaking interviews and deep reporting from Mike Singer, the Nuggets’ former beat writer for the Denver Post. Why So Serious? takes readers on Nikola Jokic’s long, strange, and incredibly unlikely journey to becoming the heartbeat of the champion Denver Nuggets and the best basketball player on the planet. As he traces Jokic’s transformation from his humble beginnings in Sombor, Serbia, sports journalist Mike Singer captures the witty irreverence, unparalleled competitiveness, and slight mischievousness of the MVP fondly known as “The Joker.” Behind his veiled public persona, who really is Nikola Jokic? Filled with exclusive, sure-to-be-headline-making interviews, including unique insights from Jokic himself, Why So Serious? delves deep into the soul of the mysterious center and reveals how the big man developed his relentless work ethic, exceptional court vision, and magical playing style that has redefined dominance in the NBA. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Mike Singer Size 20.4MB Category Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/0JJYIYbOxroh https://devuploads.com/raeufw21af26

📮 The Consultant by Jay Malkoun (.ePUB) Jay Malkoun isn’t the type of man who lets a little thing like being blown up slow him down. In March 2019 after his morning gym session, a car bomb detonated the Mercedes Jay was sat in. It was an explosion heard around the world, as global media, law enforcement agencies and underworld cartels speculated on who had moved to assassinate the former gangster and retired leader of one of the world’s most feared and powerful underworld organisations. There were a hundred possible suspects. Jay has some ideas about it too. Just because death might come for you at any minute is no excuse not to live your life. Jay's gripping autobiography is a must-read for every true-crime fan. Jay's story is that of one of the most fascinating and complex figures that Australia has ever given the world. He is the streetfighter from Melbourne's roughest suburb who rubs shoulders with movie stars and opera singers. Convicted drug trafficker and champion horse breeder. Survivor of the Melbourne underworld wars, and ten years in Australia’s most brutal prison. Nightclub enforcer and peacemaker. Strip-club mogul and incurable romantic. A family man of deep religious faith who is capable of extreme violence when pushed. A loving father and a loyal son. A negotiator of multi-million-dollar deals in both the boardroom and the backroom. The one-time leader of one of the most influential and powerful outlaw motorcycle clubs the world has ever seen – whose power extends across the globe. Confronting, confounding, hard to the core and laugh-out-loud funny, this is Jay Malkoun in his own words – a compelling narrative of violence, contradiction and redemption. The Consultant is both an unprecedented tour of the underworld,and a compelling exploration of a man who has lived a hundred lifetimes in one and is now ready to tell his story. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Jay Malkoun Size 9.0MB Category Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/eFYIARB7yTn1 https://devuploads.com/jo54lui10ted

📮 Practical Guide to Machine Learning, NLP by T. Mariprasath (.ePUB)+ This is an essential resource for beginners and experienced practitioners in Machine Learning. This comprehensive guide covers a broad spectrum of machine learning topics, starting with an in-depth exploration of popular machine learning libraries. Readers will gain a thorough understanding of Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, and other pivotal libraries like XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost, which are integral for efficient model development and deployment. The book delves into various neural network architectures, providing readers with a solid foundation in understanding and applying these models. Beginning with the basics of the Perceptron and its application in digit classification, it progresses to more complex structures such as multilayer perceptrons for financial forecasting, radial basis function networks for air quality prediction, and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image classification. Additionally, the book covers recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and their variants like long short-term memory (LSTM) and gated recurrent units (GRUs), which are crucial for time-series analysis and sequential data applications. ♻️ Book's Info: Author T. Mariprasath Size 11.6MB Category Non-Fiction > Tech & Devices File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/2KKn4HaUvMKL https://devuploads.com/ig534efb885k

📮 Dropping the Mask by Noni Hazlehurst (.ePUB) An icon. A household name. One of our best-loved actors. Noni Hazlehurst is finally telling a story of her own. A fourth-generation performer, Noni Hazlehurst has storytelling in her blood. She has graced our screens, stages and airwaves for fifty years - and won our hearts and respect in the process. She's had a remarkably diverse career. From presenting Play School for more than two decades, acting in films such as June Again, Ladies in Black, Candy, Little Fish and Monkey Grip, and ten years hosting and writing for Better Homes and Gardens to playing lead roles in series like A Place to Call Home, Nancy Wake and The Shiralee, recently presenting the SBS documentary series Every Family Has a Secret, and of course her numerous theatre roles, including her award-winning one-woman play Mother, Noni continues to display her incredible versatility, range and incisive ability to get to the core of a character and script. Noni is more than an actor, though. She is also a director, writer, teacher and public speaker, and her time on Play School has led to decades of committed advocacy for children. Offscreen, she has served on several film and television industry boards and acted as a patron and ambassador for numerous children's welfare organisations. Brave, open and unafraid to be vulnerable, Noni is in many ways an ordinary woman - a single mother of two boys, and a freelance worker, she knows about the challenges of constant juggling and being stretched to the limit. Yet she is also an extraordinary woman and a trailblazer - she was only the second woman to be inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame in thirty-two years. And despite opportunities to live and work overseas, she ultimately chose to pursue her career in Australia. This is no ordinary memoir. Noni Hazlehurst is funny, fierce, thoughtful and clear-eyed about the world. Her story is full, rich, lively, opinionated - and a testament to her grit, willpower and talent. She has always been committed to telling Australian stories - and this memoir is an impressive addition to her remarkable opus. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Noni Hazlehurst Size 35.9MB Category Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/qMb8swHcDI2x https://devuploads.com/ztysxtm8u4wr

📮 How Not to Lose $1 Million by John Addis (.ePUB) John Addis believes that most people probably shouldn’t be managing their own money. However, if you do, or want to, this book will help you to get better at it by avoiding the traps. The key lesson in the book is that successful investors don’ t concentrate on picking winners; instead they work on minimising risk and learning from losses. John shares some of the mistakes he has made over his three decades of investing and, with the benefit of hindsight, the reasons why he made them. These include falling in love with a stock or a charismatic CEO, selling too soon as a stock continues to soar, misunderstanding the business model and not responding to obvious red flags. How not to lose $1 million is neatly structured into four categories: • stocks he bought but shouldn’ t have • stocks he bought but sold too soon • stocks he bought but sold too late • stocks he should have bought but didn’ t. John’ s engaging storytelling makes his review of the stocks he invested in entertaining and enlightening. The value of this book is in the lessons investors can learn for their future investing success. ♻️ Book's Info: Author John Addis Size 0.7MB Category Non-Fiction > General File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/BB5MShKLqgAG https://devuploads.com/c2ju0thyjdp0

📮 Murriyang: Song of Time by Stan Grant (.ePUB) Stan Grant is talking to his country in a new way. In his most poetic and inspiring work yet, the Wiradjuri writer offers us a means of moving beyond the binaries and embracing a path to peace and forgiveness rooted in the Wiradjuri spiritual practice of Yindyamarra–deep silence and respect. Murriyang: Song of Time, in part Grant’s response to the Voice referendum, eschews politics for love. In this gorgeous, grace-filled book, he zooms out to reflect on the biggest questions, ranging across the history, literature, theology, music and art that has shaped him, setting aside anger for kindness, reaching past the secular to the sacred and transcendent. Inspired by spiritual thinkers and sages from around the world, Grant finds connections with Plato, Saint Augustine, Isaac Newton, jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, Saint Teresa of Avila, Simone Weil, among others. Murriyang is a Wiradjuri prayer in one long uninterrupted breath, challenging Western notions of linear, historical time in favour of Indigenous concepts of deep, circular time–the Dreaming. Murriyang is also very personal, each meditation interleaved with a memory of Grant’s father–a Wiradjuri cultural leader–and asking how any of us can say goodbye to those we love. It is a book for our current moment, and something for the ages. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Stan Grant Size 1.8MB Category Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/SxuKwY2KJ1aM https://devuploads.com/w1bfdv09cdsm

📮 Degenerative Realism by Christy Wampole (.ePUB) A new strain of realism has arisen in France. Novels that contain it represent diverse fears—immigration and demographic change, radical Islam, feminism, new technologies, globalization, American capitalism, and the European Union—but these books, often best-sellers, share crucial affinities. In their dystopian visions, the collapse of France, Europe, and Western civilization is portrayed as all but certain and the literary mode of realism begins to break down. Above all, they depict a degenerative force whose effects on the nation and on reality itself can be felt. Examining key novels by Michel Houellebecq, Frédéric Beigbeder, Aurélien Bellanger, Yann Moix, and other French writers, Christy Wampole identifies and critiques this emergent tendency toward "degenerative realism." She considers the ways these writers draw on social science, the New Journalism of the 1960s, political pamphlets, reportage, and social media to construct an atmosphere of disintegration and decline. Wampole maps how degenerative realist novels explore a world contaminated by conspiracy theories, mysticism, and misinformation, responding to the internet age's confusion between fact and fiction with a lament for the loss of the real and an unrelenting emphasis on the role of the media in crafting reality. In a time of widespread populist anxieties over the perceived decline of the French nation, this book diagnoses the literary symptoms of today's reactionary revival. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Christy Wampole Size 1.4MB Category Non-Fiction > General File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/ttSZQ77agUzX https://devuploads.com/y3fncw6hqi7f

📮 Nuked by Andrew Fowler (.ePUB) The spectacular fallout from Australia’s duplicitous AUKUS deal. Like all military acquisition programs worth billions of dollars, Australia’s decision to buy a new submarine fleet was expected to be a torturous process. But no one could have predicted the trail of wreckage it left behind, from the boulevards of Paris to the dockyards of Adelaide, as deep inside the Australian Government a secret group conspired to overthrow the winning French bid. In this tale of treachery and intrigue, Andrew Fowler exposes the lies and deception that so outraged the President of France. Interviewing many of the main people involved and talking to sources in Paris, London, Washington and Canberra, Fowler pieces together the plot to sink the French and switch to a nuclear-powered US submarine - a botched operation that severely compromised Australia’s ability to defend itself. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Andrew Fowler Size 0.6MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/sE8zBHyqYjlC https://devuploads.com/0l4zv64zw01h

📮 Stories My Grandmothers Didn't Tell Me by Andra Putnis (.ePUB) When she breaks an unspoken family code not to dig too deep into the past, Andra is plunged into the bleak world of the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Latvia in World War II, and secret lives of her grandmothers. As children, we'd sneak into Grandma's bedroom on secret missions. Her cupboard was filled with old fur coats, strange woven folk costumes and small mountains of glowing amber. We were half-scared, made breathless by our discoveries, but knew we hadn't seen it all, hadn't understood what was really hidden there. Teenage Aline is separated from her parents and sent to serve in Germany's war-time labor force. With the much-feared Soviet army on her doorstep, pregnant Milda embarks on a desperate winter escape with her young son. They face heart-wrenching decisions and endure years of hardship before finally voyaging to Australia. Among the tight-knit Latvian migrant community, Aline and Milda forge new lives. But even there, reminders of wartime scandal and grief threaten to drag them under. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Andra Putnis Size 5.1MB Category Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/5K43xo5VyIgS https://devuploads.com/yx8h9mc6zgm1

📮 Failed Führers by Graham Macklin (.ePUB) This book provides a comprehensive history of the ideas and ideologues associated with the racial fascist tradition in Britain. It charts the evolution of the British extreme right from its post-war genesis after 1918 to its present-day incarnations, and details the ideological and strategic evolution of British fascism through the prism of its principal leaders and the movements with which they were associated. Taking a collective biographical approach, the book focuses on the political careers of six principal ideologues and leaders, Arnold Leese (1878–1956); Sir Oswald Mosley (1896–1980); A.K. Chesterton (1899–1973); Colin Jordan (1923–2009); John Tyndall (1934–2005); and Nick Griffin (1959–), in order to study the evolution of the racial ideology of British fascism, from overtly biological conceptions of ‘white supremacy’ through ‘racial nationalism’ and latterly to ‘cultural’ arguments regarding ‘ethno-nationalism’. Drawing on extensive archival research and often obscure primary texts and propaganda as well as the official records of the British government and its security services, this is the definitive historical account of Britain’s extreme right and will be essential reading for all students and scholars of race relations, extremism and fascism. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Graham Macklin Size 2.0MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/ZiyjdVz9hGcA https://devuploads.com/q4lfwt4otfwv

📮 The Dopamine Brain by Anastasia Hronis (.ePUB) Have you ever felt like you're lacking control over certain habits? Are you curious about the neuroscience behind addictive behaviours? What if you could understand how the brain works, and use that knowledge to regain control over your habits and lead a more fulfilling life? Sex, shopping, eating, social media, drugs and gambling are just some of the things that can trigger a release of dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the brain that is involved in the brain’s reward system. The overindulgence of certain pursuits can disrupt the level of dopamine in our brain, which can steer us towards habits that do not align with our core values. Fortunately, The Dopamine Brain offers a clear and practical way to help people find balance and harmony in their lives. The book is divided into three parts that weaves in the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, case studies and reflective questions. The first part delves into the inner workings of the brain, helping you understand how dopamine works and identify activities that dopamine might have you hooked on. This next part encourages you to explore and reflect on your core values and building a life that is meaningful, enduring and satisfying. The last part will help you to make the change with the help of sound psychological techniques. By the end of this guide, Dr Hronis will help you feel empowered to make both pleasurable and purposeful choices, leading to a full, rich and meaningful life. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Anastasia Hronis Size 0.7MB Category Non-Fiction > Educational File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/smdUw2GaIr4C https://devuploads.com/7srxar1qsn0m

📮 Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919 by Cal Winslow (.ePUB) A historical analysis of the General Strike of 1919 in Seattle On a grey winter morning in Seattle, in February 1919, 110 local unions shut down the entire city. Shut it down and took it over, rendering the authorities helpless. For five days, workers from all trades and sectors – streetcar drivers, telephone operators, musicians, miners, loggers, shipyard workers – fed the people, ensured that babies had milk, that the sick were cared for. They did this with without police – and they kept the peace themselves. This had never happened before in the United States and has not happened since. Those five days became known as the General Strike of Seattle. Chances are you’ve never heard of it. In Radical Seattle, Cal Winslow explains why. Winslow describes how Seattle’s General Strike was actually the high point in a long process of early twentieth century socialist and working-class organization, when everyday people built a viable political infrastructure that seemed, to governments and corporate bosses, radical – even “Bolshevik.” Drawing from original research, Winslow depicts a process that, in struggle, fused the celebrated itinerants of the West with the workers of a modern industrial city. But this book is not only an account of the heady days of February 1919; it is also about the making of a class capable of launching one of America’s most gripping strikes – what E.P. Thompson once referred to as "the long tenacious revolutionary tradition of the common people." Reading this book might increase the chance that something like this could happen again – possibly in the place where you live. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Cal Winslow Size 3.1MB Category Non-Fiction > History File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/5ohK8KXrY9Th https://devuploads.com/tz66zpssdo68

📮 Uses for Obsession: A Chef's Memoir by Ben Shewry (.ePUB) Chef and restaurateur Ben Shewry knows obsession well. Whether it's crispy-edged lasagne, saltwater crocodile ribs or the perfect potato, obsession is what motivates him and what makes him tick. It's also what has propelled his restaurant Attica into the league of the most innovative, acclaimed dining experiences in the world, and arguably the most vital in Australian history. In this absorbing and wide-ranging memoir meets manifesto, Shewry applies his sometimes searing, sometimes comic eye to creative freedom in the kitchen, food journalism, sexism in hospitality, the fraud of the farm-to-table sustainability ethos, the cult of the chef and the legendary Family Bolognese. Raised on a farm in a close-knit rural New Zealand family, he shares how a childhood surrounded by nature and a reverence for First People's cultures has influenced his work, the values he lives by, and the meticulous, inventive multi-course menu that is synonymous with Attica. Uses for Obsession also tells the intimate, desperate story of how his Melbourne restaurant survived 262 days with an empty dining room. How, during a time of epic hospitality transformation, it morphed into a takeaway food business, a merch shop and a summer camp. He was told it couldn't be done and that doubt both tortured and drove him. At its heart, this is a positive story, an antidote to the macho chef culture that thrives on old ideas about leadership and success. Shewry prosecutes the compelling case for a new way forward. A bold blueprint for the restaurant - and workplace - of the future. One built on kindness, community, truth and a commitment to never give up. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Ben Shewry Size 0.6MB Category Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/eIel0Hul0v19 https://devuploads.com/ak0k22yf447q

📮 5 books by Charles L. Grant (.MOBI) (.ePUB) Charles Lewis Grant was a novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called "dark fantasy" and "quiet horror." He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Felicia Andrews, and Deborah Lewis. Grant won a World Fantasy Award for his novella collection Nightmare Seasons, a Nebula Award in 1976 for his short story "A Crowd of Shadows", and another Nebula Award in 1978 for his novella "A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye," the latter telling of an actor's dilemma in a post-literate future. Grant also edited the award winning Shadows anthology, running eleven volumes from 1978-1991. Contributors include Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, R.A. Lafferty, Avram Davidson, and Steve Rasnic and Melanie Tem. Grant was a former Executive Secretary and Eastern Regional Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and president of the Horror Writers Association. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Charles L. Grant Size 2.4MB Category Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy > Horror File Type ePUB The Grave: An Oxrun Station NovelThe Grave: An Oxrun Station Novel Josh Miller has a talent for finding things. So far, the things people have asked him to find - antique tables, old movie posters - have been innocuous enough. And Andrea Montague, the daughter of a local writer, may be his most interesting find so far. But no one's asked Josh to find the missing fifth victim of an unexplained auto accident - the one who vanished from the scene of the crash without leaving a trail of blood, though he must have been badly hurt. No one's asked Josh to look for the other missing people - residents of Oxrun Station who mysteriously and inexplicably vanished on their birthdays. Someone very definitely doesn't want him to find the clearing full of century-old gravestones, the clearing that feels so evil. This time whatever Josh is hunting is hunting him, too...and it's hungry.. The Pet The Pet Teenagers are being slaughtered by the Howler, a serial killer who stops in small towns just long enough to kill, just long enough to tear apart a family and a community. When he strikes in Ashford, the town reacts-setting limits on teens' activities, monitoring who goes where-and parents become paranoid. Seventeen-year-old Don Boyd doesn't need the grief. He's already under siege-he's got family trouble, girl trouble, trouble with his high school classes and trouble with the jocks who rule the school. Surely the Howler will kill someone else, somewhere else, and then Don can go back to trying to escape notice. But the Howler likes Ashford. And one frosty autumn night, the Howler chooses Don as his next victim. The attack is swift-but it doesn't go as planned. Suddenly the killer and the boy are surrounded by an unnatural mist, by green fire, by the sound of iron striking iron. And then the real horror begins. In a Dark DreamIn a Dark Dream It's an ordinary summer. Until the dreams began. Cheryl Erskine awakens screaming every night; she whispers in her father's ear: "Something bad, Daddy." Glenn Erskine's worried about his daughter, but as police chief, he's got the whole town to worry about—especially with Jimmy Hale on the loose. The murderer had been too crazy to stand trial—he'd been institutionalized instead. Now he's "cured". And coming home. Dreams are hard to predict, and harder to control. Cheryl and her family are trapped ... in a dark dream. RavenRaven Maclaren's tiny motel and restaurant is an oasis in the frigid silence of a deep-winter blizzard. When the night begins, there are nine souls trapped behind the snowdrifts--an ex-cop, a lady bartender, a cook, a pair of star-crossed lovers, an old guy and the host of a talk-radio show and his two female companions. Before long, they will be eight. Then seven. Then six. Night SongsNight Songs Somewhere in the night they are singing songs of death... Colin Ross, twice thwarted in love, once abandoned, quit the mainland for Haven's End, a wounded soul on an idyllic island, seeking to heal his life. But instead of peace, he is hurled into chaos. Some dark and ancient hatred, some evil force, is unleashed, wreaking vengeance on the islanders, mangling the living and mutilating the dead. And, as the piercing songs rise to met the roaring wind, Colin Ross, against his will, is sucked into the raging storm. 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/MYOiM6HgU5xr https://devuploads.com/lmnb1xcyi6i9

📮 The Blind Storyteller by Iris Berent (.PDF) Do newborns think? Do they know that three is greater than two? Do they prefer right to wrong? What about emotions--can newborns recognize happiness or anger? If the answer to these questions is yes, then how are our inborn thoughts and feelings encoded in our bodies? Could they persist after we die? Going all the way back to ancient Greece, human nature and the mind-body problem have been the topics of fierce scholarly debates. But laypeople also have strong opinions about such matters. Most people believe, for example, that newborn babies don't know the difference between right and wrong--such knowledge, they insist, can only be learned. For emotions, they presume the opposite--that our capacity to feel fear, for example, is both inborn and embodied. These beliefs are stories we tell ourselves about what we know and who we are. They reflect and influence our understanding of ourselves and others and they guide every aspect of our lives. In The Blind Storyteller, the cognitive psychologist Iris Berent exposes a chasm between our intuitive understanding of human nature and the conclusions emerging from science. Her conclusions show that many of our stories are misguided. Just like Homer, we, the storyteller, are blind. How could we get it so wrong? In a twist that could have come out of a Greek tragedy, Berent proposes that our errors are our fate. These mistakes emanate from the very principles that make our minds tick: Our blindness to human nature is rooted in human nature itself. An intellectual journey that draws on philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, cognitive science, and Berent's own cutting-edge research, The Blind Storyteller grapples with a host of provocative questions, from why we are so afraid of zombies, to whether dyslexia is just in our heads, from what happens to us when we die, to why we are so infatuated with our brains. The end result is a startling new perspective on the age-old nature/nurture debate--and on what it means to be human. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Iris Berent Size 13.6MB Category Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy File Type PDF 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/2ZxNvcARKChW https://devuploads.com/ljuwxilg049k

📮 The Value of Science in Space Exploration by James S J Schwartz (.PDF) Space exploration, especially the recent push for the commercialization and militarization of space, is attracting increased attention not only from the wider public and the private sector but also from scholars in a wide range of disciplines. At this moment of uncertainty about the future direction of national spaceflight programs, The Value of Science in Space Exploration defends the idea, often overlooked, that the scientific understanding of the Solar System is both intrinsically and instrumentally valuable. Drawing on research from the physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities, James S.J. Schwartz argues further that there is truly a compelling obligation to improve upon our scientific understanding-including our understanding of space environments-and that there exists a corresponding duty to engage in the scientific exploration of the Solar System. After outlining the underpinning epistemological debates, Schwartz tackles how this obligation affects the way we should approach some of the major questions of contemporary space science and Is there a need for environmental preservation in space? Should humans try to establish settlements on the Moon, Mars, or elsewhere in the Solar System, and if so, how? In answering these questions, Schwartz parleys with recent work in science policy and social philosophy of science to characterize the instrumental value of scientific research, identifying space research as a particularly effective generator of new knowledge. Additionally, whereas planetary protection policies are currently employed to prevent biological contamination only of sites of interest in the search for extraterrestrial life, Schwartz contends that all sites of interest to space science ought to be protected. Meanwhile, both space resource exploitation, such as lunar or asteroid mining, and human space settlement would result in extensive disruption or destruction of pristine space environments. The overall ethical value of these environments in the production of new knowledge and understanding is greater than their value as commercial or real commodities, and thus confirms that the exploitation and settlement of space should be avoided until the scientific community develops an adequate understanding of these environments. At a time when it is particularly pertinent to consider the ways in which space exploration might help solve some of the world's ethical and resource-driven concerns, The Value of Science in Space Exploration is a thought-provoking and much-needed examination into the world of space. ♻️ Book's Info: Author James S J Schwartz Size 6.3MB Category Non-Fiction > Educational File Type PDF 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/cWU3vsGfCXGt https://devuploads.com/hhrhgdwwxo67

📮 Alastair Stone Chronicles by R.L. King (.ePUB) R. L. King is the author of the Amazon-bestselling urban fantasy series The Alastair Stone Chronicles. When not doing her best to make life difficult for her characters, she works as a software technical writer for a large Silicon Valley database company. When not writing or working, she enjoys hanging out with her very understanding spouse and her small herd of cats, and watching way too much Doctor Who. ♻️ Book's Info: Author R.L. King Size 1.8MB Category Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy File Type ePUB Awakening (#28)Awakening (#28) A Whole New World When Alastair Stone chooses to remain in captivity to save his son, he has no idea how much his life is about to change. While he does manage to break free from his bizarre prison, his newfound freedom doesn’t come without a price. Everything around him is different—the world, his friends, what he thinks he knows about what he left behind. And despite all the power he commands, he can’t do a thing to fix any of it. Worse, he’s still bound by an oath he made to his captor—and that contract is now coming due. Still adjusting to the upheaval that is his life, Stone heads to a pair of tiny, remote towns that share a deadly secret. If he can’t figure out what his captor wants from the towns and find a way around it, hundreds of people could die. And that isn’t even the worst part. Welcome to your new world, Dr. Stone. You’d better get up to speed fast. Blood Ties (#29)Blood Ties (#29) Most families can be a pain. Some can be deadly. Alastair Stone has successfully finished the first of the three tasks he’s oath-bound to complete for his powerful dragon ancestor. To his shock and surprise, the second turns out to be something he already wants to do: kill an old enemy who shouldn’t even be alive. The only problems are, Stone has no idea how to find his target, and the deadline he’s been given makes success by no means certain. Complicating matters, a new ally has a consulting job for him: figure out why somebody in the Changeling community is kidnapping young and seemingly unconnected children all over California. Stone will need to rely on all his friends to deal with these challenges—especially when both take unexpected, deadly, and decidedly personal turns. When family is involved, none of the usual rules apply. And the penalty for failure is unthinkable. The Lost Scion (#31)The Lost Scion (#31) Be Careful What You Ask For… Alastair Stone has already paid off two of the three favors he owes his ancestor Aldwyn. He expects the third to be big, but he has no idea how big. Aldwyn reveals he has another scion—a man the dragon has sensed, but never been able to locate. He wants Stone to find him. The shocks don’t end there, though. Stone soon discovers the mysterious scion is a lot more familiar than he expected—which leaves him with a dilemma. Does he obey the oath he swore to Aldwyn and deliver the scion to him? Or does he take a chance and join forces with the only man he knows who has a chance to help him take the dragon down once and for all? Before he can make that choice, though, he has to find the scion. That’s hard enough—but when he succeeds, he’s thrown into a horrific series of events the two of them must survive before they can even think about Aldwyn. And meanwhile, Aldwyn has plans of his own… Conflict of Interest (#35)Conflict of Interest (#35) The Lesser of Two Evils Alastair Stone has some rare free time, so he agrees to help Jason with a case—a missing college student with a wealthy father who’s desperate to bring her home safely. As often happens when Stone is involved, though, the girl’s disappearance soon proves to be only the tip of a much larger and more dangerous iceberg, ultimately leading them to a malevolent megachurch with a lot more than salvation on its agenda. Even worse, they soon discover that another organization—one Stone is all too familiar with—already has the corrupt church in its crosshairs. To get to the bottom of the church’s infernal machinations, Stone and his friends might have no choice but to join forces with them. But can mortal enemies Alastair Stone and Portas Justitiae manage to put aside their hatred for each other long enough to take down an evil bigger than either side can handle alone? If they can’t, thousands of innocent people could lose their lives—and that’s only the beginning. Trial By Fire (#37)Trial By Fire (#37) Danger is in the Cards... Wracked with guilt and rage following the death of an ally he felt he should have prevented, Alastair Stone wants nothing more than to track down the murderer and exact violent revenge. The Universe, however, has other plans. For one, the dragons want to put him on trial for revealing sensitive information to his friends, with the penalty for losing the case potentially worse than death. And if that isn’t urgent enough, as the time draws near for Thalassa to give birth, something has gone horribly wrong with her pregnancy—something so wrong that it threatens not only the child’s life, but Thalassa’s. Something directly related to Stone’s convoluted and magically fraught past. Stone is not without his allies, but ultimately it must fall to him to discover and deal with the threat to Thalassa and the child before it’s too late—even if it could cost him his life. Hidden Agendas (#38)Hidden Agendas (#38) DANGEROUS LIAISONS AND HIDDEN SECRETS It’s been a rough and harrowing few months for Alastair Stone and his closest friends—but despite all the mayhem they get up to together, they still have separate lives that sometimes take them in very different directions. Stone, still acclimating to both a new family member and the shocking developments he’s recently learned about Calanar, turns his attention back to a situation he’s avoided far too long: exacting his revenge on the murderer of a friend. Unfortunately for him, the path isn’t as smooth as he’d hoped it would be. Meanwhile, Verity has feelings for someone new in her life—but as she makes her first tentative steps toward exploring them, she becomes more convinced that something—or someone—is interfering with their budding relationship. And Jason and Amber have a new case for their agency: visitors to a remote, exclusive corporate retreat are reporting sightings of a large and terrifying cat—one that leaves no traces or any way to track its passage. When someone is murdered at the retreat, they must discover if the elusive creature is the culprit, or if an even more dangerous foe stalks the area. 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/dRbDBlfVt6xw https://devuploads.com/yoz9nel7nmp3

📮 Seer Wars Season Two: A New Enemy by JC Andrijeski (.ePUB) For the first time in weeks, months… longer than I could remember, really… I knew exactly where I was. I knew exactly who I was. I knew who I’d been. River starts to remember her old self and her old life. She recognizes Valek––sort of, although she has no memory of their marriage. She remembers enough to know her house in Pacific Palisades isn’t right, and the story her friends told her about what happened to her isn’t right, either. She comes back to herself entirely in the end, but definitely not the same. She’s more changed than her half-bonded and emotionally volatile husband, Valek, can deal with at first. The details of how she came back, and what she did the night before, definitely don’t help. In an attempt to learn more about her past, and what The Eye did to her as a child, Valek travels to Eureka, California, with Dante, the young organics expert. The two of them question people from River’s past, and run into trouble along the way. Meanwhile Jon and Wreg come to grips with this “new” River face to face… only to find she increasingly thinks and acts disturbingly like the person they knew during the last apocalyptic war. The problem is, that person’s technically been dead for over two thousand years. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Jc Andrijeski Size 3.1MB Category Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/0pNBZhdbGOOf https://devuploads.com/0ouxscoxchbp

📮 Merciless Attraction by Celeste Riley (.ePUB) Falling for my mobster brother’s best friend was never in the plan, but neither was a fake engagement to protect our lives. I escaped New York to leave my deadly secrets behind, only to find myself tangled in San Francisco’s underworld. A night out spirals into chaos when I’m drugged and dragged into danger, saved only by Antonio Calisi—my brother's best friend, the man I swore I’d forget. Antonio is a doctor, a protector, and the one person who might break my heart. Desperate to stave off a mafia war, I lie, calling Antonio my fiancé. But as our charade blurs with heated passion, my past starts closing in, dragging us deeper into the shadows of betrayal and blood. In Antonio’s arms, I’m safe, but every brush of his lips fuels a love I never thought possible—and a danger I can’t escape. Now, with a life I never expected growing inside me, I must hope our love can survive both my enemies and the truth lurking in the darkness. Because when love and loyalty collide, someone always pays the price. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Celeste Riley Size 2.2MB Category Fiction > Romance File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/UXclGfAH2i7m https://devuploads.com/huuvncfp0pyi

📮 Wyatt by Asia Monique (.ePUB) Wyatt Barlowe There was power in having alliances. And as the new head of my family, it was my business to make the Barlowe mafia one of the strongest on the east coast. The first step? Arranging a truce with one of our enemies. I hadn’t expected Ace to agree without a little convincing, but he came ready with a counter offer of his own: Marry a high ranking member of his family to solidify our new arrangement or no deal. Agreeing came with ease, until he introduced me to my future wife, Analia Callahan. Nothing could have prepared me for her. Analia Callahan The day my father took his last breath, I assumed his position in the family. He’d prepared me for the challenges that came with keeping track of the family’s money, and I took it seriously. Just as I was settling into my newfound role, the head of the Callahan mafia, my cousin Ace, called upon me for something else entirely: Marry one of his enemies to help strengthen our ties. Because I’d do anything for my family, agreeing came with ease, until he introduced me to my future husband, Wyatt Barlowe. Nothing could have prepared me for him. ♻️ Book's Info: Author Asia Monique Size 1.4MB Category Fiction > Romance File Type ePUB 📥 Download Links: https://uploda.sh/tDpuiOxPMM8v https://devuploads.com/4xrnfvcxoiqs