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NPR SciFri Book Club Pick Next Big Idea Club's "Top 21 Psychology Books of 2022" Behavioral Scientist Notable Books of 2022 A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love...

The follow-up to celebrated grief expert, neuroscientist, and psychologist Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor’s The Grieving Brain focuses on the impact of grief—and life’s other major stressors—on the human body. Coping with death and grief is one of the most painful human experiences. While...

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights." She was born in Yorkshire, northern England, where her father was an Anglican curate. When Brontë was three years old her mother died of cancer. At the age of six she joined her three sisters briefly at the Clergy Daughters' School, where privations and abuse contributed to the deaths of two of them. Her elder sister, Charlotte, immortalized this terrible place in "Jane Eyre." In 1846 Emily Brontë, under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, published a selection of her poetry. In 1847 appeared her dark, gothic novel, "...

Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre (Marguerite de Navarre), (1492-1549), was the sister of Francis I, King of France. She was highly-educated and was courted by the future Henry VIII of England. However, at the age of seventeen, she was married by royal decree to the untutored dolt, Charles IV of Alençon. After his death she wed Henry II of Navarre by whom she had a daughter (the mother of the future Henry IV of France) and a son, who died in infancy. The author takes us with Margaret on her perilous journey over the Pyrenees to Spain to attempt to free her brother, Francis, held ...

Bunny Rabbit was given a blank book to record his adventures with his brothers and his friends. Hear what happens when they try to go sledding, try to learn to swim, and try to fly, and keep away from Jip, the farmer's dog. Listen to these and other exciting stories about Bunny, Bobtail, and Billy Rabbit, Sammy Red Squirrel, Bobby Gray Squirrel, and others. (Summary by mleigh)

This book contains the following works: 1. Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum 2. William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream 3. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden 4. Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man 5. Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island 6. H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness 7. Jack London: The Call of the Wild 8. Mary W. Shelley: Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus 9. Osamu Dazai: No Longer Human (Confessions of a Faulty Man) 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

For the busy person who only has a few minutes (6ish) for meditation. And for everyone who wants to start their day with positive spiritual uplift and affirmation. Think of me as the Mr. Rogers of meditation. Guided by Mary-Frances Makichen on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

This is the first book to define and explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the physical and psychological health of Black people - and explain why and how society needs to collectively do more to combat its pernicious effects.

Sex trafficking. We hear about it on the nightly news and in special interest stories from around the world, but it occurs daily in communities all around us. Every year, thousands of young women are forced into sexual exploitation. Most are under the age of 18. The damage this causes to their emotions and souls is immeasurable. But they are not without hope.

A glittering collection of classic stories for children, which have delighted generations and continue to appeal.

Historian and civil rights activist proves how progressive movements can flourish even in conservative times. Despair and mourning after the election of an antagonistic or polarizing president, such as Donald Trump, is part of the push-pull of American politics. But in this incisive book...

To be a woman is to be half the world’s population but, in many countries, unfortunately still now and for most of history, women were decidedly second class, normally no more than chattels and the bearers and nurturers of children. As society involved into a complex and overlapping system where education and equality begin to seek space things began to change. In this volume our authors describe and reveal how life actually felt for almost all women before the recent past.

Explore the extraordinary life of Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre (Marguerite de Navarre), who lived from 1492 to 1549. As the sister of Francis I, King of France, Margaret was a woman of remarkable intellect, once pursued by the future Henry VIII of England. Yet, at just seventeen, she found herself wed to the unrefined Charles IV of Alençon by royal decree. After his untimely death, she married Henry II of Navarre, with whom she had a daughter—who would become the mother of the future Henry IV of France—and a son who tragically passed away in infancy. Journey ...

In the wake of the Roman conquest, the Celtic Gauls embraced Roman culture and language, setting the stage for a transformative era. Mary Duclauxs engaging narrative explores the evolution of France into a Catholic feudal society amid Germanic invasions. Journey through time as we witness the rise of towns, the ascent of the French monarchy, and the tumultuous events of the Hundred Years War and the Wars of Religion. Meet iconic figures like Joan of Arc, Charles VII, the valiant Henry IV, and the Sun King, Louis XIV, whose reign pushed France to the edge of financial ruin. The second half ...

In this second edition of We Can't Talk about That at Work!, bestselling author Mary-Frances Winters and new coauthor Mareisha N. Reese of The Winters Group, Inc., provide fresh examples, updated research, and compelling insights. Featuring a new chapter on how two organizations have actualized the model for Bold, Inclusive Conversations as well as a discussion guide, this modern classic offers step-by-step guidance for conducting structured conversations around polarizing topics.

Immerse yourself in the poignant life story of Emily Brontë, the revered author of Wuthering Heights. Born in 1818 in Yorkshire, England, Brontës life was marred by tragedy from a young age, with the loss of her mother to cancer when she was just three years old. Her experience at the Clergy Daughters School, where she faced harsh conditions and witnessed the death of two of her sisters, deeply affected her, an experience that her sister Charlotte echoed in Jane Eyre. Emilys artistic prowess emerged in 1846 when she published her poetry under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, shortly followed ...

Mysterious happenings to a small handicapped boy in a little Somerset village, way back in the 1930s, suddenly repeat themselves in the 21st Century. At the first event the villagers kept quiet about what they thought was either hallucination, witchcraft or a little boy’s mischief. They suspected, quite rightly, that they wouldn’t be believed. However, silence turns out to be impossible in the present media and online culture, with the result that the lives of two families are disrupted and changed forever.

In this groundbreaking biography, Mary Frances Phillips immerses listeners in the life and legacy of Ericka Huggins, a revered Black Panther Party member, as well as a mother, widow, educator, poet, and former political prisoner. In 1969, the police arrested Ericka Huggins along with Bobby Seale and fellow Black Panther Party members, who were accused of murdering Alex Rackley. This marked the beginning of her ordeal, as she became the subject of political persecution and a well-planned FBI COINTELPRO plot.

An acclaimed historian narrates the stories of newly emancipated children who were re-enslaved by white masters through apprenticeships and their parents fights to free them While the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, white southerners established a system of apprenticeship after the Civil...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of American women authors whose time has now come again.