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Good Settler

Essays from other people's lands

by Richard Shaw ...

â € ˜ Where once I saw a view as I drove around the Taranaki coast along State Highway 45, I now see confiscated land from an invasion road. The creation story I used to subscribe to, the one in which hard-working people came here and settled the land, now jars. Weirdly, even the lawn looks different. The form of things just wonâ € ™ t settle.â € ™ So writes Richard Shaw in his third book ... Read more

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â € ˜ Where once I saw a view as I drove around the Taranaki coast along State Highway 45, I now see confiscated land from an invasion road. The creation story I used to subscribe to, the one in which hard-working people came here and settled the land, now jars. Weirdly, even the lawn looks different. The form of things just wonâ € ™ t settle.â € ™ So writes Richard Shaw in his third book
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3 Stories - Prostitutes

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Guy de Maupassant, Vincente Blasco Ibanez, Wallace Thurman ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Jamal West ...

Unabridged

1 hour 14 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
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SMOKE IN MY EYES

THE STORY OF MY 39 YEARS AS A SCOUTMASTER

by RICHARD LEA SHAW ...

Richard (Rick) Shaw is an Eagle Scout, a 70-year veteran of the Boy Scouts of America (Scouting America), mostly in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a retired architect who worked for the same engineering firm for 50 years. He was the Scoutmaster of one troop for 39 years. This book describes the adventures and misadventures of the Scouts and adult leaders over those years and the challenges and rewards ... Read more

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Richard (Rick) Shaw is an Eagle Scout, a 70-year veteran of the Boy Scouts of America (Scouting America), mostly in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a retired architect who worked for the same engineering firm for 50 years. He was the Scoutmaster of one troop for 39 years. This book describes the adventures and misadventures of the Scouts and adult leaders over those years and the challenges and rewards
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The Unsettled

Small stories of colonisation

by Richard Shaw ...

Unearthing the Uncomfortable Truths of New Zealand's Past. Richard Shaw's The Unsettled delves into the untold stories of Pakeha families grappling with their ancestors' roles in the colonization of New Zealand. Through personal narratives and historical analysis, this compelling work explores the complex legacy of land confiscation and its enduring impact on cultural identity.Discover how ... Read more

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Unearthing the Uncomfortable Truths of New Zealand's Past. Richard Shaw's The Unsettled delves into the untold stories of Pakeha families grappling with their ancestors' roles in the colonization of New Zealand. Through personal narratives and historical analysis, this compelling work explores the complex legacy of land confiscation and its enduring impact on cultural identity.Discover how
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3 Stories About - Dead Women Returning as Ghosts

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Rudyard Kipling, H Rider Haggard, The Vision of the Dead Creole ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

1 hour 24 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
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Short Stories About Mental Illness

A collection of stories about characters struggling with their mental health

by Nikolai Gogol, Amy Levy, Catherine Wells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Sologub, Leo Tolstoy, Leonid Andreyev, Radclyffe Hall, Vsevolod Garshin, Willa Cather ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

11 hours 47 min

For many of us illness refers solely to the physical. Accidents and disease wear us down, hiccup our life from childhood to old age. But everyone empathises, understands and helps us on the road to recovery.Mental illness though can still carry a stigma. A case of ‘you’re not trying hard enough’, ‘or knuckling down and getting on with it’. But in more recent decades mental issues have come to be ... Read more

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For many of us illness refers solely to the physical. Accidents and disease wear us down, hiccup our life from childhood to old age. But everyone empathises, understands and helps us on the road to recovery.Mental illness though can still carry a stigma. A case of ‘you’re not trying hard enough’, ‘or knuckling down and getting on with it’. But in more recent decades mental issues have come to be
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Restoration Poets, The

by John Milton, John Bunyan, John Dryden ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe ...

Series series Restoration Poets
Unabridged

1 hour 7 min

In the years between 1660 and 1700 much upheaval took place in English politics. To mirror this rising on the artistic scene were the Restoration Poets – Dryden, Milton, Bunyan, Marvell, D’Avennat, Cowley …. are but a select few from this momentous movement in our Poetical History. Poets of courage, ambition and vigour. With the strength of words and vision to record for history this tumultuous ... Read more

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In the years between 1660 and 1700 much upheaval took place in English politics. To mirror this rising on the artistic scene were the Restoration Poets – Dryden, Milton, Bunyan, Marvell, D’Avennat, Cowley …. are but a select few from this momentous movement in our Poetical History. Poets of courage, ambition and vigour. With the strength of words and vision to record for history this tumultuous
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The Forgotten Coast

by Richard Shaw ...

'You approach family stories with caution and care, especially when a thing long forgotten is uncovered in the telling.'In this deft memoir, Richard Shaw unpacks a generations-old family story he was never told: that his ancestors once farmed land in Taranaki which had been confiscated from its owners and sold to his great-grandfather, who had been with the Armed Constabulary when it invaded ... Read more

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'You approach family stories with caution and care, especially when a thing long forgotten is uncovered in the telling.'In this deft memoir, Richard Shaw unpacks a generations-old family story he was never told: that his ancestors once farmed land in Taranaki which had been confiscated from its owners and sold to his great-grandfather, who had been with the Armed Constabulary when it invaded
... Read more
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Anatole France - A Short Story Collection

Nobel prize winning mutli talented French author

by Anatole France ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

2 hours 3 min

François-Anatole Thibault was born on the 16th April 1844 in Paris, France, the son of a bookseller and bibliophile.He studied at the Collège Stanislas, a private Catholic school, and after graduating joined his father in the bookstore, which specialised in works on the French Revolution. Several years later he secured a position as cataloguer at Bacheline-Deflorenne and at Lemerre before being ... Read more

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François-Anatole Thibault was born on the 16th April 1844 in Paris, France, the son of a bookseller and bibliophile.He studied at the Collège Stanislas, a private Catholic school, and after graduating joined his father in the bookstore, which specialised in works on the French Revolution. Several years later he secured a position as cataloguer at Bacheline-Deflorenne and at Lemerre before being
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Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy, The

Epic collection of stories from the grandmaster of literature

by Leo Tolstoy ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

2 hours 9 min

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Russian province of Tula to a wealthy noble family. As a child, he had private tutors but he showed little interest in any formal education. When he went to the University of Kazan in 1843 to study oriental languages and law, he left without completing his courses. Life now was relaxed and idle but with some writing also taking place. Gambling debts forced an ... Read more

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Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Russian province of Tula to a wealthy noble family. As a child, he had private tutors but he showed little interest in any formal education. When he went to the University of Kazan in 1843 to study oriental languages and law, he left without completing his courses. Life now was relaxed and idle but with some writing also taking place. Gambling debts forced an
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Leap into the Waterfall

by Richard Shaw ...

Different spiritual traditions throughout history speak of spirit incarnating into what becomes a human life. But what of the mind arriving? How it—like a spring flower—opens into awareness. How the awakening of the very first thought leads to the fascination of the mind itself as it moves like a river through each of our lives.In Leap into the Waterfall, Richard Shaw explores these ideas through ... Read more

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Different spiritual traditions throughout history speak of spirit incarnating into what becomes a human life. But what of the mind arriving? How it—like a spring flower—opens into awareness. How the awakening of the very first thought leads to the fascination of the mind itself as it moves like a river through each of our lives.In Leap into the Waterfall, Richard Shaw explores these ideas through
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Folktales of Norway

Edited by Reidar Christiansen ...

Often lacking the clear episodic structure of folktales about talking animals and magic objects, legends grow from retellings of personal experiences. Christiansen isolated some seventy-seven legend types, and many of these are represented here in absorbing stories of St. Olaf, hidden treasures, witches, and spirits of the air, water, and earth. The ugly, massively strong, but slow-witted trolls ... Read more

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Often lacking the clear episodic structure of folktales about talking animals and magic objects, legends grow from retellings of personal experiences. Christiansen isolated some seventy-seven legend types, and many of these are represented here in absorbing stories of St. Olaf, hidden treasures, witches, and spirits of the air, water, and earth. The ugly, massively strong, but slow-witted trolls
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