Windhoek Book Den

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‘Cynicism is like eating poison and expecting your enemy to die’

On the blog, author James McBride discusses the themes behind our incredible Fiction Book of the Month for October, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: https://exyu.short.gy/SvlmEA

MUSIC AS MEDICINE by DANIEL LEVITIN – N$405

We are only just beginning to appreciate the healing power of music. In recent years, a wave of scientific research has upended everything we once knew about its effects on our brains: not only in reducing stress, but also in enhancing cognitive function, slowing the spread of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, even strengthening our immune systems.

Here, a neuroscientist and celebrated musician introduces a bold new paradigm for medical treatment, rooted in the unexpected influence of music on our minds and bodies. From explaining how ‘rhythmic auditory stimulation’ can fight multiple sclerosis, to examining why Tracy Chapman’s songs might just help cure PTSD, Professor Daniel Levitin offers surprising insights into the science of music as medicine.

Along the way, he explores how each of us can use music to calm our thoughts, repair our memories and heal our deepest psychological wounds. The result is both a suprising tour through the neuroscience of music, and a joyful celebration of humanity’s oldest obsession.

ELEVEN WRITERS AND LEADERS ON DEMOCRACY –N$250

This is an exceptional moment for democracy.

In 2024, nearly half the world will take part in a national election, with billions heading to the polls. It’s a thrilling, unprecedented opportunity for change – yet democracy is also under threat.

Women are at the forefront of the fight for democratic rights, as well as being the most vulnerable when those rights disappear. Here, eleven extraordinary women – leaders, philosophers, historians, writers and activists – explore democracy’s power to uplift our societies. Between its ancient origins and its modern challenges, they share a vision for a better future – one we can build together.

UNBELIEVABLE FOOTBALL by MATT OLDFIELD – N$210

Think you know everything about football?
Have you heard of…
-The heroic white horse who saved the FA Cup final?
-The Red Dragons of Wrexham who came roaring back (with a little help from Hollywood)?
-The cheeky chip that changed penalties forever?

Test yourself with these five-minute stories, packed full of football action from the worst red cards to the best comebacks.

Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. (N$445.00)

What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do elite universities care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena.

Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world's most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis.

Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell's most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of the modern world. It's time we took tipping points seriously.

MIND GAMES by DR TIM BEANLAND – N$405

Boost your brain health and help reduce your risk of dementia.

With regular practice, puzzles may help to improve brain function and prevent age-related cognitive decline. Featuring over 150 puzzles of varying difficulty, Mind Games aims to target different areas of the brain and improve cognition. With puzzles to challenge memory or skills with pictures, words, numbers or logic, Mind Games offers a workout for a wide range of brain functions.

But Mind Games is more than just a collection of puzzles – this book will help you create new habits to keep your grey matter active and healthy. Here, Dr Tim Beanland, Head of Knowledge at Alzheimer’s Society, provides expert insights into the science of brain health and the benefits of regular mental exercise. Also included is a 7-day puzzle programme, plus practical tips and advice to keep your mind active and engaged.

Whether you’re looking to improve your memory, sharpen your focus, or help reduce your risk of dementia, this book is the ultimate resource for anyone keen to boost their brain health and enhance their mental agility.

CHILD OF THE RUINS by KATE FURNIVALL – N$265

1948, Berlin. World War II has ended and there is supposed to be peace; but Russian troops have closed all access to the city. Roads, railway lines and waterways are blocked and two million people are trapped, relying on airlifts of food, water and medicine to survive. The sharp eyes of the Russian state police watch everything; no one can be trusted.

Anna and Ingrid are both searching for answers – and revenge – in the messy aftermath of war. They understand that survival comes only by knowing what to trade: food; medicine; heirlooms; secrets. Both are living in the shadows of a city where the line between right and wrong has become dangerously blurred. But they cannot give up in the search for a lost child…

The Art of Home by Shea McGee. (N$780.00)

Whether it's through her thriving design business, Studio McGee, her popular Netflix series, Dream Home Makeover, or her online community of over five million followers, Shea McGee has shown the world how the principles of high-end design can be applied to any home. As the title of her new book suggests, designing rooms for maximum impact while also remaining approachable to any who enter is an art. But it's also a skill that can be learned because it's inside each one of us.

In The Art of Home, Shea takes us through every room of the house, starting with an explanation of process and then guiding our entryways, living rooms, kitchens, offices, kids' rooms, and even our utility rooms. With step-by-step guides paired with her own design projects and the power of her personal stories, Shea helps us transform the most important parts of our lives and how we live.

What I love about design is the opportunity to dream and then will that vision into existence.

Join Shea as she teaches us to dream and then shows us how to make it reality. Her new book, The Art of Home, is as functional as it is heart-stoppingly beautiful and it will maintain a presence in your home for years to come.

CLASSIC ADVENTURES OF PADDINGTON BEAR BY MICHAEL BOND. (N$830.00)

The Classic Adventures of Paddington Bear 15 Books Complete Collection Box Set by Michael Bond:

Titles In This Set:
A Bear Called Paddington
More About Paddington
Paddington Helps Out
Paddington Abroad
Paddington at Large
Paddington Marches On
Paddington at Work
Paddington Goes to Town
Paddington Takes the Air
Paddington on Top
Paddington Takes the Test
Paddington Here and Now
Paddington Races Ahead
Love from Paddington
Paddington Finest Hour

PRODUCTIVITY PROJECT BY CHRIS BAILEY. (N$375.00)

Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream—to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and interviews with some of the world’s foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen. Among the experiments that he tackled: Bailey went several weeks with getting by on little to no sleep; he cut out caffeine and sugar; he lived in total isolation for 10 days; he used his smartphone for just an hour a day for three months; he gained ten pounds of muscle mass; he stretched his work week to 90 hours; a late riser, he got up at 5:30 every morning for three months—all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work.

The Productivity Project—and the lessons Chris learned—are the result of that year-long journey. Among the counterintuitive insights Chris Bailey will teach you:


· slowing down to work more deliberately;
· shrinking or eliminating the unimportant;
· the rule of three;
· striving for imperfection;
· scheduling less time for important tasks;
· the 20 second rule to distract yourself from the inevitable distractions;
· and the concept of productive procrastination.

In an eye-opening and thoroughly engaging read, Bailey offers a treasure trove of insights and over 25 best practices that will help you accomplish more.

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YOUR PERSONAL HOROSCOPE 2025 by LARS MELLIS – N$365

Your essential guide to love, life and career success in 2025.

This popular, complete one-volume guide contains all you need to know about your personal horoscope for the year 2025. Be prepared for the forthcoming year with monthly predictions for your own sign, and discover how to maximize your opportunities and potential to make the most of 2025.

This complete astrological guide contains:
- A personality profile for each sign.
- A forecast for the year ahead – what you can expect in terms of your wealth, home, health, social and love life.
- A month-by-month forecast of your best days and worst days – the ideal times to attract love, money or success, or when it’s better to just stay in bed!

Another Can't-Wait-For book!😍

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New book alert! Find out more about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's new novel Dream Count A publishing event 10 years in the making - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's new novel Dream Count has been introduced!

BLITZED by NORMAN OHLER – N$285

The N***s presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping bestseller reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: co***ne, he**in, morphine and, most of all, m**hamphetamines, or crystal m**h, used by everyone from factory workers to housewives, and crucial to troops' resilience - even partly explaining German victory in 1940.

The promiscuous use of drugs at the very highest levels also impaired and confused decision-making, with Hi**er and his entourage taking refuge in potentially lethal cocktails of stimulants administered by the physician Dr Morell as the war turned against Germany. While drugs cannot on their own explain the events of the Second World War or its outcome, Ohler shows, they change our understanding of it. Blitzed forms a crucial missing piece of the story.

CHICEST MOUSE IN PARIS- CLARIS 1 BY MEGAN HESS. (N$280.00)

This is the tale of an adorable mouse who dreams of moving to Paris to follow her fashion dreams. One day, she bravely takes the leap - only to find a mean little girl with a horrible-looking cat standing in the way of her perfect Parisian apartment! Can Claris use all her wit, warmth and of course style to make her dreams come true?

FASHION SHOW FIASCO- CLARIS 2 BY MEGAN HESS. (N$280.00)

But oh no! Claris cried, and her heart gave a tug.
Madame's invitation was still on the rug!
Without it she would be declined at the door.
She'd miss out on Chanel, and perhaps even more ...

When Claris's family leaves behind their invite to Paris Fashion Week, this brave little mouse has only one choice: an exciting dash through the streets of Paris in a race against the clock!

CONQUER WORRY AND ANXIETY by DANIEL G. AMEN – N$200

Many people, mental health professionals included, think therapy needs to be slow, hard, and painful. And while some people need help longer than others, it is often possible for people to start feeling better right away. If you engage in the right behaviours and strategies, you’ll optimize your brain health-and see the benefits in your everyday life.
In Conquer Worry and Anxiety, renowned psychiatrist Dr. Daniel D Amen will guide you to lasting change, teaching you how to make decisions that serve your brain’s health and set you on a path to a happier, healthier life.

THE INSTRUMENTALIST by HARRIET CONSTABLE – N$365

Anna Maria may have no name, no fortune, no family. But she has her ambition, and her talent.
Her best hope lies in her teacher, Antonio Vivaldi. Soon she is his star pupil.
But as Anna Maria’s star rises, not everyone is happy. Because Anna Maria’s shinning light threatens to eclipse that of her mentor.
She will leave her mark, whatever it takes. Her story will be heard.

REBEL OF THE SANDS 1 BY ALWYN HAMILTON (250.00)

Dustwalk is an unforgiving, dead-end town. It's not the place to be poor or orphaned or female. And yet Amani Al-Hiza must call it home.

Amani wants to escape and see the world she's heard about in campfire stories.

Then a foreigner with no name turns up, and with him she has the chance to run.

But the desert plains are full of dangerous magic. The Sultan's army is on the rise and Amani is soon caught at the heart of a fearless rebellion.

TRAITOR TO THE THRONE BY ALWYN HAMILTON. (N$250.00)

Amani has always been more gunpowder than girl, But as the Blue-Eyed Bandit, her powers have gone from strength to strength- as has the rebellion she risks her life for.
Then a brutal kidnapping leads her straight to the suktan's palace, and she is forced to return to her desert-girl instincts for survival. Betrayed , cunning and espionage are a way of life here.

But with the ghosts of her past swirling all around her. Amani's greatest fight may be to keep her own secret heart and desires under control.

HERO AT THE FALL BY ALWYN HAMILTON. (N$245.00)

The rebels are crushed: most are captured, burned out or dead. Except Amani, and it's up to her to save the whole rebellion.

Then foreign armies advance and the Sultan hunts the rebels through the streets.

Amani must prove that she's not just a desert girl anymore, that she's learned a few tricks since then...

THE PREY by YRSA SIGURDARDOTTIR – N$265

The first phone call shocks a family
A man is horrified when the nursing home where his mother lives rings to tell him that she has suffered a heart attack: and please could he let his sister, Salvör, know? Their mother has been asking for her. But he doesn’t have a sister.

The second pinpoints two missing couples
Jóhanna is a member of a highland search and rescue team, looking for two missing couples from Reykjavik. More troubling, her team is being tracked by som**hing else in the snow.

A third from beyond the grave?
Whilst at work at the radio station in the highlands, Hjörvar receives a call from the gate. He picks up the phone but can hear only interference and what sounds like a child’s voice asking for her mother.

How are these events connected? And what may be searching for its prey out on the ice?

WHAT NELSON MANDELA TAUGHT ME by ZELDA LA GRANGE – N$345

For almost two decades, Zelda la Grange stood beside Nelson Mandela as his closest assistant. With his death, she had to face hard questions about herself and her life’s purpose. Her mourning for Madiba was compounded by the loss of the South Africa he had envisaged, as possibility and dreams died during the Zuma years. Tired and angry, La Grange set off a barrage of extremely hurtful tweets, sparking a public outcry.
‘Have you learnt nothing from Mr Mandela?’ critics asked. Deeply ashamed, La Grange set out to distil the lessons from her nineteen years of first-hand experience at Madiba’s side, observing his interactions with people both ordinary and famous, like Hansie Cronjé and Bill Clinton.
In this memoir, she shares Madiba’s teachings about humility, respect, honesty, and the biases and blind spots we all have. It is only by truly listening – trying to understand, not listening only to respond – that we can overcome the distrust among us. La Grange also explores the toxicity of social media and how Nelson Mandela’s lessons are equally relevant in the digital age.

DR. SUESS'S READING LADDER: 20 BOOK COLLECTION (N$1200.00)

Learn to read with Dr. Seuss’s Reading Ladder, featuring twenty classic Dr. Seuss books!

Start at the bottom and climb up each rung, soon you’ll find Dr. Seuss makes reading fun! Let the colours be your guide on the ladder of learning as you move from blue to green to yellow with twenty of Dr. Seuss’s best known and loved books.

Titles include:

Blue books:
Dr. Seuss’s ABC
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
Hop on Pop
The Foot Book
There’s a Wocket in my Pocket
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
The Shape Of Me and Other Stuff

Green books:
The Cat in the Hat
Green Eggs and Ham
Fox in Socks
The Cat in The Hat Comes Back
I Can Read With My Eyes Shut
Marvin K Mooney, Will You Please Go Now?

Yellow books:
Oh The Places You’ll Go
The Lorax
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Horton Hears a Who
If I Ran the Circus
Dr Seuss’s Sleep Book
Daisy-Head Mayzie

Please take note!!

The competitions end date remains the 31st October.