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  • The After
    Michael Ramos
    When Michael Ramos enlisted in the Navy and was assigned to serve as a chaplain’s bodyguard thirteen days before 9/11, he had no idea he would soon be sent to Iraq. But he embraced the posting, combat service, and career for a decade, until, at age thirty-four, the military told him his skill set was no longer relevant. Through divorce and remarriage, his son’s choice to enlist...
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    25,55 €

  • La Emancipación de las Almas
    Mary Tere Argüelles
    La vida es un cúmulo de contradicciones, y cuando no te detienes a analizarlo, eres presa de la corriente. Esta audaz recopilación de escritos te llevará a la reflexión y te sumergirá en la obviedad de lo que solemos dar por hecho. Los pensamientos de una niña a lo largo de cinco años se ven inmersos en el despertar de una mente privilegiada por la incapacidad de moverse de man...
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    13,52 €

  • Golden Grace
    Yetunde Longe-Folajimi
    'Golden Grace' unfolds a deeply touching memoir of overcoming adversity through the power of faith, resilience, and grace. In this profoundly moving narrative, the author unfolds her life’s story, revealing the intricate patterns of adversity, faith, and triumph that have defined her existence. From the trials of navigating marriage with a partner whose actions belied his vows ...
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    35,61 €

  • The Real Gatsby George Gordon Moore
    Mickey Rathbun
    When Mickey Rathbun began to investigate a rumor that her grandfather, George Gordon Moore, had been a model for Fitzgerald’s iconic character Jay Gatsby, she discovered closer connections than she had ever imagined. In her remarkable, compelling, and beautifully crafted memoir, The Real Gatsby: George Gordon Moore, she examines the striking parallels between the real person an...
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    19,01 €

  • Come! Come! Where? Where?
    James Seay
    James Seay’s essays reflect a poet’s eye for detail and a seeker’s wrestling with life’s big questions and experiences: what it means to be a parent, losing a child, confronting mental illness, observing and living through the collision of cultures, finding the universal in the particularity of every day. We share moments with Seay that stay with us, dipping in and out of his l...
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    127,29 €

  • Come! Come! Where? Where?
    James Seay
    James Seay’s essays reflect a poet’s eye for detail and a seeker’s wrestling with life’s big questions and experiences: what it means to be a parent, losing a child, confronting mental illness, observing and living through the collision of cultures, finding the universal in the particularity of every day. We share moments with Seay that stay with us, dipping in and out of his l...
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    29,29 €

  • Mosaico De Memórias
    Francisca Do Carmo Estumano Gaia
    Este livro que vos apresento chama-seMosaico de Memórias . Trata-se do relato de Francisca do Carmo Estumano Gaia, escrito por seu primogênito Valter Gaia depois de encontrar e ler as anotações de sua mãe. É uma rica história repleta de sentimentos nobres e de muita sensibilidade da autora. Inicia-se com o nascimento de Silvério e Margarida - ...Em uma família pobre e humilde d...
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    20,21 €

  • Life Lessons
    Nancy Blodgett Klein
    This is an anthology of 34 true stories from a variety of authors sharing their experiences and concluding with what they learned as a result. Each touching story begins with a quote related to the subject, shares the experience or events, and concludes with a moral. This collection of stories is geared towards younger people who may need some guidance about how to successfully...
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    12,18 €

  • A River to Goodbye
    TK Canyon
    A River to Goodbye is the story of a young boy’s yearning to own his own dog. After reading the book and watching the movie Big Red, he decides an Irish Setter is the dog for him. Once he raids his piggybank to purchase his first Irish Setter, it leads to a lifelong relationship with the breed. You will travel with the author along his life’s river from childhood to manhood bei...
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    14,27 €

  • A River to Goodbye
    TK Canyon
    A River to Goodbye is the story of a young boy’s yearning to own his own dog. After reading the book and watching the movie Big Red, he decides an Irish Setter is the dog for him. Once he raids his piggybank to purchase his first Irish Setter, it leads to a lifelong relationship with the breed. You will travel with the author along his life’s river from childhood to manhood bei...
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    24,82 €

  • Married to a Psychiatrist
    Dan Prochoda
    How you choose to perceive the world determines much about the world you live in...In a world filled with selfish and inconsiderate people, Dan was the exception. He was one of the few who cared enough to do the right thing. If a relationship failed, it wasn’t going to be because of him. If his boss needed someone to cover an extra shift, Dan was always there to fill it. Being ...
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    14,33 €

  • Married to a Psychiatrist
    Dan Prochoda
    How you choose to perceive the world determines much about the world you live in...In a world filled with selfish and inconsiderate people, Dan was the exception. He was one of the few who cared enough to do the right thing. If a relationship failed, it wasn’t going to be because of him. If his boss needed someone to cover an extra shift, Dan was always there to fill it. Being ...
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    21,52 €

  • Thursday’s Child
    Penelope Ransby
    Penelope Ransby was born in England and grew up in small mining communities in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Tanzania, interspersed with boarding school in England. She emigrated to Australia in her 20s and now lives in Sydney. ...
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    25,11 €

  • Yankee Stories Untold
    Rich Marazzi
    Rich Marazzi has experienced Yankee history and its culture first-hand as a fan, a writer for Yankees Magazine, a radio talk show host, umpire in the Old Timer’s Day game for 16 years, a writer for Mel Allen, the long-time voice of the Yankees, and currently as a baseball rules consultant who was hired by general manager Brian Cashman in 2004. He was also trained by Bob Sheppa...
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    51,38 €

  • The Memoir The River Of Life
    DR. Sofia Laurden Davis Adams
    The River of Life' by Dr. Sofia Laurden-Davis Adams is an intimate and inspiring journey through the author’s life, spanning from her early childhood to her experiences in the 60s. In this compelling memoir, Adams reflects on the myriad challenges she has faced, viewing them not as obstacles but as tools that have forged her strength and resilience. From a young age, Sofia lear...
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    14,74 €

  • Sex, Drugs & Rock Rose
    Jennifer Gabriel
    Unravel the journey of Rock Rose: from religious chains to the wild world of adult entertainment - all in the embrace of self-love.Step into a world where the electrifying beats of rock music meld with tales of passionate defiance. Sex, Drugs, & Rock Rose is not just a memoir-it’s an anthem for every soul yearning to break free.Meet Rock Rose-a symbol of resilience, audacity, a...
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    37,89 €

  • Sex, Drugs & Rock Rose
    Jennifer Gabriel
    Unravel the journey of Rock Rose: from religious chains to the wild world of adult entertainment - all in the embrace of self-love.Step into a world where the electrifying beats of rock music meld with tales of passionate defiance. Sex, Drugs, & Rock Rose is not just a memoir-it’s an anthem for every soul yearning to break free.Meet Rock Rose-a symbol of resilience, audacity, a...
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    35,78 €

  • My Kaddish
    Thérèse (Terri) Masson
    “Elegant yet shattering… Rendered in plainspoken yet devastating prose, Masson’s historical narrative is intercut with startling present-day moments… This is haunting.” — Publishers Weekly“This heart-wrenching recollection views the traumatic events and close calls that punctuate the author’s memories… A brief, rare, and powerful testimony.” — Library JournalThis short, beautif...
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    186,08 €

  • My Kaddish
    Thérèse (Terri) Masson
    “Elegant yet shattering… Rendered in plainspoken yet devastating prose, Masson’s historical narrative is intercut with startling present-day moments… This is haunting.” — Publishers Weekly“This heart-wrenching recollection views the traumatic events and close calls that punctuate the author’s memories… A brief, rare, and powerful testimony.” — Library JournalThis short, beautif...
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    17,80 €

  • Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons
    Homer B. Sprague
    'This narrative of prison life differs from all others that I have seen, in that it is careful to put the best possible construction upon the treatment of Union prisoners by the Confederates, and to state and emphasize kindnesses and courtesies received by us from them.For the accuracy of the facts stated I am indebted to a diary kept from day to day during the whole of my impr...
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    12,17 €

  • Where Life Is Found
    Ruthie Burrell
    Discover a place where everyone is welcome and everyone belongs. Tucked into a little-traveled corner of southwest Missouri is a Christian summer camp that has offered a safe, accessible environment for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses since 1994. Over the past thirty years, Camp Barnabas has provided encouragement, purpose, community, and a new way of life for mo...
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    31,15 €

  • First to Finish; Last to Win
    Clarence CJ Jones
    The first of many books to come is sure to take you on the journey of being an everyday black man in America striving to be better and chasing an unattainable ghost of success while battling life, physically and mentally, with family, friends, relationships, and self. This book takes you on a journey of the life of CJ and his obsession with being successful. Continue to win wit...
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    20,62 €

  • First to Finish; Last to Win
    Clarence CJ Jones
    The first of many books to come is sure to take you on the journey of being an everyday black man in America striving to be better and chasing an unattainable ghost of success while battling life, physically and mentally, with family, friends, relationships, and self. This book takes you on a journey of the life of CJ and his obsession with being successful. Continue to win wit...
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    31,02 €

  • Cuentan una historia
    Yolimi Gómez Herrera
    Los Hijos de la Nada es una historia donde se conjuga la realidad y la ficción, sedesenvuelve en Colombia, entre los tórridos días en el Valle del Cauca y las olas tranquilas en la Costa Pacífica de la zona occidental de este país.Cada uno de sus personajes cuenta una historia marcada por sucesos dramáticos, lamentables, únicos, irrepetibles, en una sociedad desigual, mísera, c...
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    16,98 €

  • A Sunday Walk
    Carl Toro
    Are you religious, formerly religious, raised religious, or know someone who is? Or perhaps wondering how someone could believe in a religion other than yours?Have you ever found yourself wondering how and why an otherwise intelligent person, seemingly guided by reason, could accept and live by religious beliefs? Or other sets of strongly held irrational beliefs? Or convictions...
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    55,03 €

  • From Ocean to Ocean
    Jerome J. Murif
    A captivating account of the first South to North crossing of the Australian continent on a bicycle, in 1897. 'Then the bicycle, loaded now for the expedition, was lifted downstairs; I shook hands with the landlady, told her I might not be back for tea and not to keep it waiting, and quietly pedalled away...' This is how, without any sponsor, and almost no one knowing about his...
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    13,42 €

  • Namaste 2.0
    Dane A. / Dane A. Vemb
    Lifelong athlete and sport enthusiast Dane Vemb loves nothing better than finding the back of the net with a puck or pounding over hills on his mountain bike, but one day, he wanders into a Bikram yoga studio. By the time he leaves the hot room, sweat soaked and inspired, he’s completely hooked and determined to master this new 'sport.' Unlike most aspiring yogis, though, Dane’...
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    29,12 €

  • A Question of Value
    Robert Brunk
    In the late 1970s, Robert Brunk discovered the world of auctioneering. Drawn to the unique mountain culture and the history of fine art in and around Asheville, North Carolina, Bob started a business, Brunk Auctions, that became part of a bustling network of commerce. America’s passion for collecting, buying, and selling reached remarkable heights in the following decades. Auct...
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    26,66 €

  • Everywhere the Undrowned
    Stephanie Clare Smith
    This is what it is to survive. You find what floats and you hold on. Even if it is smaller than you. Holding on is all fourteen-year-old Stephanie Clare Smith can do when she’s left home alone in New Orleans during the summer of 1973. As she seeks to ease her solitude through her summer school algebra class, her wandering in the city, and her friendship with a streetcar opera...
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    25,60 €

  • All I Ever Wanted to Be Was An Ad Man
    Anthony Eglin
    From a childhood growing up dodging doodlebugs and bombs in wartime Britain, to an award-winning career in advertising and marketing (more madcap than Mad Men), to a panoply of fascinating passions and pursuits, Anthony Eglin’s continent-spanning story is a heart-warming romp through the second half of the twentieth century and a captivating portrait of a life well lived. ...
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    16,57 €