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Every word Oscar Wilde published — the novel, the plays, the poems, the essays, the fairy tales, and the two masterpieces he wrote in disgrace — in a single authoritative edition. Oscar Wilde lived two lives simultaneously: the most celebrated wit in Victorian London, and a man whose inner life was at war with everything the society around him demanded. He understood, better than almost anyone before or since, that style is not decoration but argument — that how you say something is inseparable from what you are saying. He paid for that understanding with two years in Reading Gaol and...

Florence Scovel Shinn told people exactly what to say to change their lives. And it worked. Men and women came to her broke, sick, and stuck. She gave them words to speak. They spoke them. Their circumstances changed. She understood that the subconscious mind has no sense of humor — it simply manifests what we tell it is true. So she gave people better things to tell it. This definitive collection includes all four of her works, unabridged and complete: The Game of Life and How to Play It — The foundational guide on how thought, word, and belief create your reality.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The acclaimed author of The Other Wes Moore and governor of Maryland continues his inspirational quest for a meaningful life and shares the powerful lessons—about self-discovery, service, and risk-taking—that led him to a new definition of success for our times...

Kristin Battista-Frazee was only four years old in 1974 when her father, Anthony Battista, was indicted by the federal government for distributing the now famous porn film Deep Throat. As her father unexpectedly became an early pioneer in the emerging porn industry and transformed himself from Philadelphia stockbroker to porn broker, this indictment threatened his family's stability.

For nearly fifty years after his death, his family kept his strangest book locked in a bank vault. Inside it: visions, painted mandalas, conversations with a winged figure he called Philemon — the private record of the crisis Carl Jung turned into a psychology. When the Red Book was finally published in 2009, it settled an old argument in an uncomfortable way: the theories had been lived first, at real cost, by the man himself. Much of the language we now use about ourselves is his. Introvert and extravert. The persona we wear at work. The shadow side. Becoming whole rather than merely ...

The Jungle Book does not end in the jungle. It ends in the mud of an artillery park the night before a military review, where a young mule, frightened by shapes he cannot name, asks the only question a children's book about animals rarely bothers to ask: why do we have to fight at all? Three species answer him in the same words. He asks who gives the orders, and the answer runs link by link — driver to sergeant, sergeant to officer, officer up through the whole structure of the army and out the top of it, to the Viceroy and the throne behind him. The one animal on the field who is afraid ...

The perfect touchdown for young football fans: Bring to life the thrills, challenges, and triumphs of football, even if they are a beginner or a rising star in the game! Have you been on the hunt for a book that encourages your child's love for football and merges it with valuable life skills such as perseverance, teamwork, and dedication? Your quest ends here. Filled with gripping tales of triumph, teamwork, and heart, "The Most Amazing Football Stories for Kids" aims to ignite a lifelong passion in young readers for football while teaching crucial values. Perfect for 8 to 12-year-old ...

In its early years, Duluth was a gold mine for lumber barons. Men were employed as lumberjacks and worked like beasts, only to be tossed aside like used equipment when no longer needed. The grand forests were raped for their prime timber, the balance burned wastefully. The men were coarse and hard, but they had to be to survive. More than any other people that ever lived in our land, these old-time lumberjacks could truthfully say, "No man cared for my soul." That is, until God sent three men to the great Northwoods of our country - Frank Higgins, John Sornberger, and Al Channer.

NARRATED BY THE AUTHOR From beloved actress and New York Times bestselling author Valerie Bertinelli, her most vulnerable book yet offering wisdom hard-won through divorce, menopause, and generational pain, with a powerful message of self-acceptance and embracing the past with compassion. With...

The complete fiction of one of the greatest novelists in the English language — all eight novels, both novellas, and the late prose of George Eliot, gathered in a single annotated volume with original critical essays for every work. Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880), writing as George Eliot, created the most intellectually ambitious fiction of the Victorian age. Virginia Woolf called Middlemarch "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people." This Erato Press edition brings together the whole of her fiction, complete and unabridged, and surrounds it with a critical apparatus ...

This annotated edition includes: Indiana, Mauprat, The Devil's Pool, François the Waif, The Bagpipers, She and He, and six more — twelve works complete, arranged in order of publication from 1832 to 1859 The classic English translations of George Burnham Ives, Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Jane Minot Sedgwick, and Stanley Young A critical afterword proposing a single question running beneath all twelve books: who is authorized to claim a place in the world, and can love confer what law and birth refuse? A biographical portrait, chronology, and Note on the Texts, naming every translator ...

The creator of Deadwood and NYPD Blue reflects on his tumultuous life, driven by a nearly insatiable creative energy and a matching penchant for self-destruction. Life’s Work is a profound memoir from a brilliant mind taking stock as Alzheimer’s loosens his hold on his own past. “This is...

New York Times Bestseller In this humorous memoir, listen to New York Times bestselling author and podcast host of The Spiritual Life, Father James Martin as he shares the story of his life as a busboy, dishwasher, caddy, usher, factory worker, bank teller, and corporate tool and, finally, a...

New York Times Bestselling Author Colin Powell, one of America’s most admired public figures, reveals the unique lessons that shaped his life and career It Worked for Me is a collection of lessons and personal anecdotes that shaped four star-general and former Secretary of State Colin...

In 2016, Rob Delaney’s one-year-old son, Henry, was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The family had moved from Los Angeles to London with their two young boys when Rob’s wife was pregnant with Henry, their third. The move was an adventure that would bind them even more tightly together as they navigated the novelty of London, the culture clashes, and the funhouse experience of Rob’s fame—thanks to his role as co-creator and co-star of the hit series Catastrophe. Henry’s illness was a cataclysm that changed everything about their lives.

In this short introduction to the life and works of MacDonald written exclusively for Hovel Audio, renowned scholar Rolland Hein is your guide through MacDonald's Fairyland.

This inspiring, raw memoir traces the path Devon Rodriguez took from an abusive childhood to becoming the most followed artist on social media worldwide, as he discovered the transformative power of seeing and being seen—featuring new graphite illustrations of the people and places that shaped...

A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands “This is a deep exploration of craftsmanship by someone with real, hands-on knowledge. The book is also quirky, surprising, and sometimes quite moving.” —Richard Sennett...

The first ever, first-person story of America's private, paramilitary contractors at work around the world-from a man who performed these missions himself and has decades of stories to tell. This is a fascinating tale-and potentially the first-to describe the work of American contractors, men...

Imagine a company where people love coming to work and are highly productive on a daily basis. Imagine a company whose top executives, in a quest to create the most "fun" workplace ever, obliterate labor-management divisions and push decision-making responsibility down to the plant floor. Could such a company compete in today's bottom-line corporate world? Could it even turn a profit?