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BREATHLESS 2022 (Paperback)
Cathy Donald; Edited by Europe Books
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R300
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Thoughts from a Damaged Mind is a poetic collection that narrates
existentialism through the eyes of a unique and personal
experience. With a familiar and relatable language, the poet
describes a deep feeling of isolation and estrangement towards the
societal norms through which people are bound to be considered
sane, whole, and normal. As the poet interrogates himself on many
questions - how should we live our lives? What is the meaning of
happiness? - an inner dark and unwelcomed guest seems to take over
every positive emotion. The unwelcomed guest is depression, an
illness that is too often stigmatized and misunderstood to the
point of being compared to lack of determination rather than
accepted as a problem afflicting one's mental health. The poet
accepts it and comes to terms with his condition, and thanks to
family, friends, and doctors he can begin to demolish the walls of
loneliness that surround him and start a path towards recovery.
This is an account of a father's attempts to discover what has
happened to his son, who disappeared in the Darien Gap Jungle in
Panama, in Central America. Just how do you go about finding out
what has happened to someone six thousand miles away in a
Spanish-speaking country? At the start the father did not know for
definite where how his son had disappeared, if he had had a
companion or who that companion was, or if he had had a guide. The
significant thing is that the search became a family affair
(without divorce!), but then other people became involved - some
complete strangers very generous and helpful, a genuine crook, and
two largely incompetent detective agencies. After 9 months, it was
resolved, free of any ransom demand, probably by direct contact
with the guerrilla group, FARC, itself. When the two adventurers
were released, the parents, Brian and Anne Winder, heard of ransom
demands of $2.000,000 each which never reached them, and many
situations where the two adventurers could easily have died, and
their fate never be known.
Nature every day offers us gifts that we often do not know how to
appreciate as we should, while half the planet was suspended this
year nature gave us the opportunity to admire one of the most
beautiful springs ever and this period of stop has given the full
demonstration that man, after all, is not indispensable to nature,
is simply a guest but it remains unthinkable to imagine the Earth
without the human being.
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I Am 2020 (Paperback)
Harpreet K Kang; Edited by Europe Books
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R307
R217
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Among the unsolved mysteries on Earth, there is the building of the
Great Pyramid. Decoding its role and context has always been a big
debate among scholars of different disciplines. Such an elaborate
monument, according to tradition, was built by simple people.
Nonetheless, with no other means but copper chisels and hammers,
these simple people were able to quarry millions of blocks of rock,
up to 70 tons in weight, and transport them for hundred of
kilometers to be lifted for the desired design, with a maximum
degree of accuracy. That's where the debate starts. The method of
building the pyramid of Khufu remained unrecorded. Similarly, many
other ancient cultures left behind works which prove to have been
realized by making use of advanced technology. What happened to
that technology is a big question. The author develops a deep
analysis based upon measurements and mathematics, giving us the
possibility to recollect modern data, comparing current knowledge
to something that seems to be very accurate and more scientifical
than official archaeology has lead us to believe.
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OUTSIDERS 2021 (Paperback)
Sheila Gutknecht; Edited by Europe Books
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A young Syrian refugee feels the urge to enter a church in Germany,
overwhelmed by the notes of Handel's Messiah. An elderly German
woman and her neighbour whom she barely knows, an Arab mother of
four, hug each other when they discover they have more in common
than they thought. A retired teacher reflects on her roots when she
meets a Spanish student in the Bavarian countryside. A tour guide
recalls the civil war that tore her beloved Ireland apart only a
few decades earlier. What do these stories have in common? They are
stories of everyday people who, for one reason or another, feel
displaced, outsiders, strangers to their surroundings. But
sometimes a chance encounter, a shared experience, or maybe the
notes of a song, are all it takes to feel at home again, and then,
the other does not seem so different from us anymore. With her
delicate writing, Sheila Gutknecht explores the concepts of
identity, belonging, and otherness.
A middle-aged man believes he is suffering from a mental health
condition. Gilbert Martin can "see" things that others don't and
predict the future with disturbing dreams and visions. Whilst on a
school holiday to France during his teens, he meets a girl called
Margaux on Chatelaillon-Plage. Somehow, she manages to leave the
beach with him and since then, she has inhabited his life: he talks
to her, he chats with her and she answers back. Seeking a
resolution, one way or the other, he decides to write a book about
his experiences and uses the interest in his novel to garner the
sympathy of the public and to make it easy for him to travel to
France where it all began. Will he able to resolve the mystery and
to discover if Margaux is real and who is she? A suspense-mystery
novel of love, courage and perseverance that will make the reader
dwell on how, no matter how extreme the situation someone is going
through, life can be a surprising journey.
The exact origin of Sacred is difficult to trace because life and
its myriad of lessons mould one from within in the subtlest of
ways, unbeknownst even to the individual himself. The creative
impulse presented itself at a juncture in the poet's life in the
form of a deep loss, which is the reason for this contemplative and
spiritual journey, a reason that continues to inspire and connect
the poet's mind with the essence that is present in each
individual. These poems aim to encourage the reader towards an
inner journey, a path leading to something that resides within
every soul. Whether we call that, God, Source, and Universe are,
according to the poet's vision, hinting towards the same entity.
The language in Sacred is simple yet imaginative and presented as a
series of poetic expressions that are contemplative in nature and
strike an instant connection with the divine in the form of
questions, debates, pleas and supplications. Sacred offers a sense
of open-mindedness in its expressions and allows each reader to
contemplate and connect with each poem on a personal level, to
create an inner dialogue to acknowledge and explore the sacredness
that lies within each one of us.
The world is changing. The world we live in has always changed.
Changes can be dynamic or smooth. Immersed in our daily lives, we
rarely think about the reasons why the world is changing. If we
still have time to think, it will not be difficult to realize that
we are these reasons. If we are able to realize this, we are not
far from the logic that we can control change. Not individually,
but as a conscious society. The changes we have registered so far
are summarized as the history of mankind. [...] Everyone wants a
better life. This is only possible if we make the world we live in
better. And we are constantly trying to do just that. [...]
Although provided in different ways according to the respective
society and the respective epoch, the teaching has always been the
same in its essence. This teaching is so universal that it cannot
be changed. Change can only exist in the way we realize it. In
order to be properly aware, we only need to update the way we pass
on the teachings to the generations to come. Mankind today, as a
whole, has realized that unification is needed to continue our
proper development. At the same time, there is a division by
different criteria and to different degrees. One of these divisions
is faith in God. Most of those who deny it believe that we were
created by chance by nature. This is also an interesting version,
but it does not help much for proper upbringing. Very often people
interpret this option as follows. Man is the greatest creation of
nature. So great that it is greater than its creator. And little by
little, without realizing it, people begin to boast. Once we
succumb to selfishness, the worst of all human vices, we take the
wrong path that can inevitably lead all of humanity to
self-destruction. The second group in this division are people who
believe in God. If the faith of those who claim to have it is true,
they follow the teachings on which the claim of God, creator of the
world and men, is based. If these teachings are the same, it would
lead to the unification of humanity. If the result is the opposite,
then we have not fulfilled the basic testament of the doctrine.
This means that we have changed it and passed it on in the wrong
way to the next generations. There is a third group in the same
division. These are the people who realize that God and nature is
one and the same thing. These people are trying to modernize the
teaching and make it understandable to everyone. This would help
people realize the need for unification as a prerequisite for
achieving change in the world for the better. In personal aspect,
if everyone tries to become a better person then the world will
simply become better. If one believes the world can be better,
there is no difference from believe in God. It's just a different
manifest of faith. Without faith, we can easily 'sell our souls'.
The book "Who is God and why did they lie us" is an attempt to
explain this in a simple way.
This book addresses the misinformation and the cover up that has
ruled man for ages. It reveals the deception and the lies the
society has told us, the influence, effect and damage these lies
have done to the human race. A mental/emotional revolution and a
new order described in this book is necessary to bring man to the
realization of the truth to become awaken to who they are created
to be. This book shows how the world leadership is driven by the
ego, which is proven to be dangerous to man by its expression and
the reason for the overwhelming confusion engulfing the world. The
ego has been the mirror for the changes in the society, fashion,
politics, technology and ideas that have swept the world from time
immemorial.
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HUTT STORIES 2020 (Paperback)
Riccardo De Col; Edited by Europe Books
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R429
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KNOWING THEM 2020 (Paperback)
Lorna Stevenson; Edited by Europe Books
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R432
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Sometimes you need a little help, even if you don't want to ask for
it. Will is...enduring. With a sick sister at home and university
to get through, he still spends most of his time smiling as if
everything is fine. Until he meets 'the others'. Suddenly,
everything Will knows is thrown out of the window, and he has to
start all over. But maybe that leaves room for some hope. Rules
don't apply to Will's new friends. Does that mean they can save his
little sister? If she can be helped, maybe Will can be helped too.
The author offers a detailed and realistic, sometimes enchanted,
description of the current world situation. An eclectic tormented
world full of problems, inequalities, injustices, degradation...
What the author tries to do through his intricately crafted words
is not only to identify the problems that afflict all the people of
the world but to try to offer solutions to challenges that we face
every day globally. His words are harsh but at the same time true,
objective testimony, of a world that seems to have forgotten
harmony, peace, and equality. He successfully stirs the reader to
reflect upon the world we live in.
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