'A compelling memoir. Absorbing and graced with a deceptive lightness of touch, [Hanging with the Elephant] is clever and brilliantly pieced together. Harding writes like an angel' Sunday TimesFrom the No.1 bestselling author of Staring at Lakes, Talking to S**trangers and On Tuesdays I'm A Buddhist**'In public or on stage, it's different. I'm fine. I have no bother talking to three hundred peopl...

On frosty nights, as he sits by a flickering fire, Michael Harding withdraws into the stillness of winter and begins to reckon with age and death.As stories emerge from the shadows, we meet a young boy whose arrival brings hope, but whose journey will know winter's path. November is a rainstorm, December a bleak twilight, but as January dawns and the icethaws, the fragile light of love penetrates the dark, bringing beauty to the earth and making new beginnings possible....

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history. He became a leading philanthropist in the United States and in the British Empire. During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away $350 million to charities, foundations, and universities – almost 90 percent of his fortune. His 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" (incl...

The Master Key System is a personal development book by Charles F. Haanel. The ideas it describes and explains come mostly from New Thought philosophy.The audio book describes many New Thought beliefs such as the law of attraction, creative visualization and man's unity with God, and teaches the importance of truth, harmonious thinking and the ability to concentrate. Each of the 24 chapters contains an introduction, followed by a sequentially numbered sect...

'In these strange days Michael Harding's route taking and wise words gently nudge us towards the future, steadying us as we navigate the great unknowns ahead' Joe DuffyThe bestselling new book from acclaimed writer and Irish Times columnist.It's dawn and in the early morning light, Michael Harding is walking in his garden in the hills above Lough Allen in Leitrim, dreaming of the new beginning in Donegal he had planned before the w...

Throughout his life, Michael Harding has lived with a sense of emptiness - through faith, marriage, fatherhood and his career as a writer, a pervading sense of darkness and unease remained.When he was fifty-eight, he became physically ill and found himself in the grip of a deep melancholy. Here, in this beautifully written memoir, he talks with openness and honesty about his journey: leaving the priesthood when he was in his thirties, settling in Leitrim with his artist wife, the d...

Stagecraft Rewired explores how artificial intelligence and intelligent systems can be seamlessly integrated into contemporary theatre while preserving artistic agency, ethical responsibility, and historical awareness.The book offers a comprehensive journey from conceptual foundations to real-world applications. It includes critical analysis, case studies, production workflows, and pedagogical models, providing readers with clear frameworks for ethical tool use and practic...

The story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (historical Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen known as Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow is renowned for its ghosts and the haunting atmosphere that pervades the imaginations of its inhabitants and visitors. Some residents say this town was bewitched during the early days of the Dutch settlement, while others claim that the mysterious atmosphere was caused by an old Native American chief, the "wizard of...

We longed. We lost. We loved. Desperately.I thought I had my life all figured out. But after a college football accident leaves me deaf, I was learning how to live all over again.I expected the anger, the frustration, and the struggle to readjust, but what I didn’t expect to happen amongst the chaos, was to fall in love.Especially not with two men.Rough-edged puzzle pieces, Rhys, Samuel, and I were nothing but aching memories, painf...

The Canterville Ghost is a humorous short story by Oscar Wilde.The story is about an American family who move to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead English nobleman, who killed his wife and was then walled in and starved to death by his wife's brothers. It has been adapted for the stage and screen several times.Download your copy!

The Ghostly Rites Crew is back again with another collection of spooky short stories and perfectly haunting poems that will tickle your senses and send shivers down your spineMake yourself comfortable and get ready to dive into the mysterious unearthly tales that fill our pages, written by authors from all over the world that will leave you filled with chills.

This audio book contains the autobiographies of the four most influential men in America: Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Carnegie, Nikola Tesla, and John D. RockefellerThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a record of his Franklin's own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790. Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote them. Franklin and his autobiography can been seen as "the mo...