Thalia, the Greek Muse of Comedy, has spent three thousand years watching humans mistake themselves for the tragic lead. In this manifesto on hubris and levity, she finally tells you the truth: you're a supporting character in a comedy, and that's the best news you'll get all week.That's the same short blurb already sitting in your launch package doc, so it'll stay consistent with what's on the book page itself. If a given field has a tighter limit, here's a trimmed version, well under 200...

For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth.We all know the great American origin story: It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims thrived in the wilds of New England, where they built their fabled "shining city on a hill." Legend goes that the colony in Jamestown was a false start, offering a ...

What if lasting fulfillment doesn't come from reaching peaks, but from elevating your ordinary days?In a world obsessed with dramatic transformation and constant achievement, Cultivating Contentment offers something revolutionary: the patient art of growing deep satisfaction through conscious daily choices, one moment at a time.Using the timeless wisdom of gardening as your guide, this book reveals how authentic contentment emerges not from acquiring more or achieving highe...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Your sweetness isn’t weakness. It’s your greatest strength waiting to be understood.In this transformative audiobook, mental health research social worker Joseph Kelly reveals how your natural warmth and sensitivity become superpowers when paired with practical self-care and emotional wisdom. Through the evocative metaphor of an orange, protected yet radiant, strong yet sweet, you’ll discover how to honor your t...

James Joyce began his literary career as an Irishman writing to protest the deplorable conditions of his native country. Today, he is an icon in a field known as "Joyce studies." Our Joyce explores this amazing transformation of a literary reputation, offering a frank look into how and for whose benefit literary reputations are constructed. Joseph Kelly looks at five defining moments in Joyce's reputation. Before 1914, when Joyce was most in control of his own reputation, he considered him...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What if the capacity for extraordinary transformation already lives within you, waiting only for the right spark to ignite?Mental health research social worker Joseph Kelly guides you on an unforgettable journey of personal development that blends ancient wisdom with modern psychological research. Through the evocative metaphors of a rising hot air balloon and the mythic phoenix, you’ll discover practical, evidence-based strateg...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What if lasting fulfillment doesn’t come from reaching peaks, but from elevating your ordinary days?In a world obsessed with dramatic transformation and relentless achievement, Cultivating Contentment offers something genuinely rare: the patient art of growing deep satisfaction through conscious daily choices.Using the wisdom of gardening as a guiding framework, this book reveals how authentic contentmen...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Your identity isn’t fixed. It’s fluid, dynamic, and constantly evolving.The question isn’t whether you’ll change but whether that change will be intentional or reactive.“Powerful Shifts: Identity In Motion,” Volume 3 of the Growing Light series, reveals how to take deliberate control of your personal transformation. Mental health research social worker Joseph Kelly provides the ...

Bob Hayward was always interested in racing and speed. He would always tinker with engines; and try to make them run faster and smoother. He and his brother, Keith, started off putting outboard engines into boats, and running them down the Thames River, competing against other boats, and winning trophies. When boat racing became too mundane, Bob graduated to dragsters. He built what has been recognized as the first dragster in Canadian street racing; and then would drive it around his town...

Bill Braden was the nephew of Harry Greening, Canada's first great raceboat driver in the 1920s. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, he lived there for many years before moving to nearby Waterdown, Ontario, near the start of W.W. II. He always had 'a taste for speed', purchasing his first motorcycle, an Ariel, in England at age 19, and going on to motorbike across war-threatened Europe in 1935. For the rest of his life, he kept fast and fancy cars around his house and reveled in their ownership. Du...

An eye-opening work of narrative history tracing the roots of American fascism back to the Antebellum South."Kelly tells this story with vivid immediacy." -ADAM HOCHSCHILD"A sweeping and much needed work of history." -GREG GRANDINWhen American fascists suddenly goosestepped down Main Street in the 1930s, fascism was seen by the rest of the country as a terrifying and radical new European import. It was not. It didn'...

There are doers and there are preachers. The people who were executing orders or abusing people in World War 2 wouldn’t have been able to commit any atrocities if the country hadn’t warmed up to an inhumane narrative. That’s where propaganda came in. Propaganda has long been part of various countries and societies to make the population believe something, and to find culprits, create feelings of animosity, and glorify local leaders or military campaigns. In World War 2, it was obviously us...