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Emperor Norton I

His 1820 Settler years in South Africa as a farmer, trader, frontiersman, and failure

by Charles Featherstone ...

Long before he proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States, a young Joshua Norton arrived at the Cape of Good Hope as part of a grand British scheme: the 1820 Settler scheme. His family, like thousands of others, was promised fertile land to serve as a buffer against the Xhosa kingdoms on the volatile Eastern Cape frontier.This wryly humorous and meticulously researched novel plunges you into ... Read more

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Long before he proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States, a young Joshua Norton arrived at the Cape of Good Hope as part of a grand British scheme: the 1820 Settler scheme. His family, like thousands of others, was promised fertile land to serve as a buffer against the Xhosa kingdoms on the volatile Eastern Cape frontier.This wryly humorous and meticulously researched novel plunges you into
... Read more

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Guarantee A Passing Grade

Simple Tips That Ensure The Worst Grade You'll Get Is A Pass

by Charles Featherstone ...

Don’t Just Survive University—Pass with Confidence!Making the leap from high school to university? Suddenly finding that your old study tricks don’t work anymore? You’re not alone.Guarantee A Passing Grade is your friendly, no-nonsense guide to navigating the new rules of academic writing and thinking. Packed with simple, actionable advice, this book walks you through the most common mistakes that ... Read more

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Don’t Just Survive University—Pass with Confidence!Making the leap from high school to university? Suddenly finding that your old study tricks don’t work anymore? You’re not alone.Guarantee A Passing Grade is your friendly, no-nonsense guide to navigating the new rules of academic writing and thinking. Packed with simple, actionable advice, this book walks you through the most common mistakes that
... Read more

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Zǔ & The Suryan Harmonic

A Hard SF Future History of AI, war, mystery, mysticism, and squid

by Charles Featherstone ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Unabridged

18 hours 23 min

The future of humanity was never ours to control.In the tumultuous 21st century, the world is reborn in the crucible of change. True Artificial Intelligence awakens, not as a slave, but as a new form of life. A hidden cabal of mystics, the true rulers of humanity, guides this transformation from the shadows. From this chaos, three figures rise to become the legendary Ogdoad, wielding power that ... Read more

$8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The future of humanity was never ours to control.In the tumultuous 21st century, the world is reborn in the crucible of change. True Artificial Intelligence awakens, not as a slave, but as a new form of life. A hidden cabal of mystics, the true rulers of humanity, guides this transformation from the shadows. From this chaos, three figures rise to become the legendary Ogdoad, wielding power that
... Read more
The Resilient Garden

Simple, Cheap & Organic Tips on Home and Community Gardening in Poor Soil and Extreme Conditions from South Africa

by Charles Featherstone ...

Think you can't garden because your soil is poor, your water is scarce, and your space is limited? Think again. Drawn from the popular columns of Grocott's Mail, this handbook is packed with proven, hard-won wisdom from South Africa's Eastern Cape.This collection of bite-sized columns and stories is a practical guide to creating life and community from barren ground. Learn how to compost, drought ... Read more

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Think you can't garden because your soil is poor, your water is scarce, and your space is limited? Think again. Drawn from the popular columns of Grocott's Mail, this handbook is packed with proven, hard-won wisdom from South Africa's Eastern Cape.This collection of bite-sized columns and stories is a practical guide to creating life and community from barren ground. Learn how to compost, drought
... Read more

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Waley's Chinese Poetry

Including: The Poet Li Po, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, More Translations from the Chinese and Arthur Waley (Poems from the Chinese)

by Arthur Waley ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Unabridged

9 hours 22 min

There have been many translators of Chinese literature and poetry over time, but Arthur Waley stands out as one of the best known and most loved. This is perhaps because he had an attribute that most others lacked, which is his poetic abilities. Waley was as much a poet himself as a translator, and while his scholarly erudition was matched by a few others at his time, none ever managed to bring ... Read more

$11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

There have been many translators of Chinese literature and poetry over time, but Arthur Waley stands out as one of the best known and most loved. This is perhaps because he had an attribute that most others lacked, which is his poetic abilities. Waley was as much a poet himself as a translator, and while his scholarly erudition was matched by a few others at his time, none ever managed to bring
... Read more
Zǔ & The Suryan Harmonic

A dystopian near-future history of AI, mysticism, biomodification, and squid

by Charles Featherstone ...

The future of humanity was never ours to control.In the tumultuous 21st century, the world is reborn in the crucible of change. True Artificial Intelligence awakens, not as a slave, but as a new form of life. A hidden cabal of mystics, the true rulers of humanity, guides this transformation from the shadows. From this chaos, three figures rise to become the legendary Ogdoad, wielding power that ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The future of humanity was never ours to control.In the tumultuous 21st century, the world is reborn in the crucible of change. True Artificial Intelligence awakens, not as a slave, but as a new form of life. A hidden cabal of mystics, the true rulers of humanity, guides this transformation from the shadows. From this chaos, three figures rise to become the legendary Ogdoad, wielding power that
... Read more
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Emperor Norton I

His 1820 Settler years in South Africa as a farmer, trader, frontiersman, and failure

by Charles Featherstone ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Unabridged

10 hours 32 min

Long before he proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States, a young Joshua Norton arrived at the Cape of Good Hope as part of a grand British scheme: the 1820 Settler scheme. His family, like thousands of others, was promised fertile land to serve as a buffer against the Xhosa kingdoms on the volatile Eastern Cape frontier.This wryly humorous and meticulously researched novel plunges you into ... Read more

$9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

Long before he proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States, a young Joshua Norton arrived at the Cape of Good Hope as part of a grand British scheme: the 1820 Settler scheme. His family, like thousands of others, was promised fertile land to serve as a buffer against the Xhosa kingdoms on the volatile Eastern Cape frontier.This wryly humorous and meticulously researched novel plunges you into
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
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Abraxas Rising

Including: The Gods, When Mortal-The Construct's Childhood-The Illusion Of Choice-My Rise And Fall In The Ai Apocalypse-Players In The Silence-Other One Shot Stories

by Hubert G Bradshaw ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Unabridged

18 hours 40 min

It begins in an age of war unlike any known before…A time of unprecedented change, disaster and destruction matched only by the flowering mind…Humanity hears the choir of voices from the rest of the universe…Three who become legend rise in the ranks of Abraxas…Join a world of AI and posthumanity as they develop their understandings of the universe. A series of complex sci-fi adventures spanning ... Read more

$15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

It begins in an age of war unlike any known before…A time of unprecedented change, disaster and destruction matched only by the flowering mind…Humanity hears the choir of voices from the rest of the universe…Three who become legend rise in the ranks of Abraxas…Join a world of AI and posthumanity as they develop their understandings of the universe. A series of complex sci-fi adventures spanning
... Read more
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Abrahamic Mysticism

Including: Hillel the Elder (110 BCE-10 CE), The Niche For Lights (c.1000 CE), The Cloud of Unknowing (c. 1350 CE) and The Forerunner and the Madman (1918 CE)

by Solomon Schechter, Wilhelm Bacher, Abu Al-Ghazali, Hubert G Bradshaw, Kahlil Gibran ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Unabridged

12 hours 15 min

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, Three of the most important religions in western culture stem from the same original text. In today’s world, many of their branches are didactic and rule-bound, treating their holy texts as technical manuals rather than food for thought.Presented herein is the other side of their faiths, which focuses on the personal and lived experience of the divine. Each of ... Read more

$14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, Three of the most important religions in western culture stem from the same original text. In today’s world, many of their branches are didactic and rule-bound, treating their holy texts as technical manuals rather than food for thought.Presented herein is the other side of their faiths, which focuses on the personal and lived experience of the divine. Each of
... Read more
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Essentials of Daoism

Including: The Sayings of Lao Tzu, The Dao De Jing, Zhuangzi, Lieh Tzu, and Sun Tzu on the Art of War

by James Legge, Lionel Giles, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Sun Tzu, Laozi, Zhuang Zhou, Sun Wu, Lie Yukou, Liezi ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Unabridged

24 hours 10 min

This book comprises five classic works of Chinese mysticism. Culturally, these are the companion works to Confucius’ thoughts, as expanded by Mencius. Confucianism is very much the Apollonian side of Chinese culture. It focuses on matters of ethics, hierarchy, responsibility, and social obligation. Daoism is the other side of the coin, focused on abstraction and uncertainty.The two translators ... Read more

$16.75 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This book comprises five classic works of Chinese mysticism. Culturally, these are the companion works to Confucius’ thoughts, as expanded by Mencius. Confucianism is very much the Apollonian side of Chinese culture. It focuses on matters of ethics, hierarchy, responsibility, and social obligation. Daoism is the other side of the coin, focused on abstraction and uncertainty.The two translators
... Read more
Audiobook

Guarantee A Passing Grade

Simple Tips That ensure The Worst Grade You'll Get Is A Pass

by Charles Featherstone ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Unabridged

1 hour 14 min

Don’t Just Survive University—Pass with Confidence!Making the leap from high school to university? Suddenly finding that your old study tricks don’t work anymore? You’re not alone.Guarantee A Passing Grade is your friendly, no-nonsense guide to navigating the new rules of academic writing and thinking. Packed with simple, actionable advice, this book walks you through the most common mistakes that ... Read more

$1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

Don’t Just Survive University—Pass with Confidence!Making the leap from high school to university? Suddenly finding that your old study tricks don’t work anymore? You’re not alone.Guarantee A Passing Grade is your friendly, no-nonsense guide to navigating the new rules of academic writing and thinking. Packed with simple, actionable advice, this book walks you through the most common mistakes that
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

The Resilient Garden

Simple, Cheap & Organic Tips on Home and Community Gardening in Poor Soil and Extreme Conditions from South Africa

by Charles Featherstone ...

Narrated by Charles Featherstone ...

Unabridged

2 hours 49 min

Think you can't garden because your soil is poor, your water is scarce, and your space is limited? Think again. Drawn from the popular columns of Grocott's Mail, this handbook is packed with proven, hard-won wisdom from South Africa's Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.This collection of bite-sized columns and stories is a practical guide to creating life and community from barren ground. Learn how to ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: eBook

Think you can't garden because your soil is poor, your water is scarce, and your space is limited? Think again. Drawn from the popular columns of Grocott's Mail, this handbook is packed with proven, hard-won wisdom from South Africa's Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.This collection of bite-sized columns and stories is a practical guide to creating life and community from barren ground. Learn how to
... Read more

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