New Releases for May 2024

1. Not That Fancy

1. My Beloved Monster

1. How to Keep House While Drowning

1. Bourdain

1. Kitchen Confidential

1. Crying in H Mart

1. How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind

1. Your Dog Is Your Mirror

1. Decluttering at the Speed of Life

1. Medium Raw

1. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

1. Be Ready When the Luck Happens

1. All Creatures Great and Small

1. Meat Eater

1. The Forever Dog

1. Oliver

1. Really Very Crunchy

1. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

1. Taste

1. How to Raise the Perfect Dog

1. Enough Already

1. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

1. At Home

1. The Omnivore's Dilemma

1. The Purest Bond

1. Cook, Eat, Repeat

1. All Things Bright and Beautiful

1. Salt

1. The French Ingredient

1. The Botany of Desire

1. Your Table Is Ready

1. Horse Brain, Human Brain

1. Big Macs & Burgundy

1. All Creatures Great and Small

1. The Devil in the Kitchen

1. The Upstairs Delicatessen

1. The Rural Diaries

1. Whiskey in a Teacup

1. Herbal Antibiotics: What BIG Pharma Doesn't Want You to Know

1. The Other End of the Leash

1. Training Your Own Service Dog at Home

1. Organizing for the Rest of Us

1. Second Nature

1. In the Weeds

1. The Last Castle

1. How Dogs Love Us

1. Inside of a Dog

1. All Things Wise and Wonderful

1. Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff

1. Puppy Training in 7 Easy Steps

1. All Things Wise and Wonderful

1. The Lord God Made Them All

1. Outdoor Kids in an Inside World

1. 4 in 1 Bundle Off the Grid Survival Book, Prepper's Survival Bible, How to Survive in the Woods, 10 Essential Tools to Live Off-Grid

1. World Travel

1. Pappyland

1. The Vegetarian Myth

1. Upstream

1. Cork Dork

1. Crate Training for Puppies: How to Crate Train Your Puppy in Just 3 Days

1. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

1. Order from Chaos

1. Tidy the F*ck Up

1. Sacred Spaces

1. The Pet I Can’t Forget

1. The Eighty-Dollar Champion

1. The Ultimate Book of Fun Things to Do in Retirement: Volume 1

1. Spark Joy

1. Nobody Wants Your Sh*t

1. The Minimalist Home

1. Nature's Best Hope

1. The Agent's Edge

1. The Rooted Life

1. French Women Don't Get Fat

1. Wine and War

1. From Scratch

1. Humble Pie

1. The Orchid Thief

1. Eat a Peach

1. Every Living Thing

1. Down and Out in Paradise

1. Food: A Love Story

1. In the Middle Are the Horsemen

1. Old-Fashioned on Purpose

1. Cooked

1. No Ordinary Dog

1. Speaking with Nature

1. The Man Who Listens to Horses

1. The Book Your Dog Wishes You Would Read

1. Finding Freedom

1. Raw Dog

1. Teaming with Microbes

1. The Complete Dr. Sebi Diet Cookbook

1. My Mother's Kitchen

1. Project 333

1. The Power of Awareness

1. Good Clean Fun

1. Losing a Pet: A Book of Grief & Recovery

1. Joyful

1. Folks, This Ain't Normal

By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability and expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, altho' death was levelling my companions on every side.

1. Summary

1.2 Mad Meg

1.3 The Ghost Folks

2. Analysis

2.1 Uncle Knuckle

2.2 In a Family Way

2.3 Is History Hysterical? Is Hermeneutics Heuristic?

2.4 Windows are the eyes to the soul

3. Discussion questions

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• Aliases:
  • Baron/Count Van Kindergarten,
  • Lestan Gregor
  • Clarence Oddbody
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  • All of me, 1984 fantasy comedy movie
  • Jeffrey Burton Russel: The nature of evil
  • Mircea Eliade (Romanian historian)
  • Dixieland
  • The Company of Wolves
  • Beauty and the Beast by Jean Cocteau
  • The Dead by John Huston / James Joyce
  • biography of Dickens by Peter Ackroyd (1990)
  • Milton (poems)
  • Mozart (sonatas)
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Iago (Shakespeare)
  • Hart Crane (Brooklyn Bridge inspiration)
  • Bernard Shaw “Youth Is Wasted on the Young”
  • Diogenes - search for an honest man
  • Picasso
  • De Kooning
  • Jasper Johns
  • Andy Warhol
  • Bible - First Book of Samuel - Witch of Endor & Saul
  • Aristotle

• John Morley's Life of Gladstone
• Narrative of the Voyage of the Nemesis from 1840 to 1843
• Drugging A Nation: The Story Of China And The Opium Curse

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