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  • The Stolen Whistle and Flute
    George Major
    George Major’s story is a remarkable testament of resilience and determination. Abandoned by his mother in the 1940s, he embarked on a relentless quest to find her, fuelled by his deep connection to the vibrant pearly king tradition, which he knew was rooted in her family. Despite facing an abusive father and the chilling presence of his maiden Auntie Hilda, young George was se...
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    39,19 €

  • This ... Or Something Better
    Linda Jones Hope Jenkins
    The youngest of six children in a close-knit family, Linda Jones was born and raised in the 1940s and 50s on Maryland’s lower Eastern Shore. From an early age, she was given freedom to explore the countryside and developed a keen curiosity about the world and her place in it. Just as her father moved the family from farm to farm with his work, she continued the pattern even aft...
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    24,99 €

  • Tragedy to Triumph; The True Story of Four Generations of Women Whose Lives of Tragedy Were Turned into Triumph by the Power of God’s Love
    Susan M. Gerhart
    This is a riveting, yet inspirational book that will touch the hearts of all those who venture into the lives of these four generations of women. Despite the generations of tragedies, Susan’s life has completely changed, and she no longer lives under the cloud of despair. Her own hope and happiness were reborn through the faith and prayers of those around her. All the tragic ev...
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    11,62 €

  • 14 Days in the Niger Delta
    Richard D. Tarpey / Stephanie A. Tarpey
    It’s a good thing that people don’t know the future--they wouldn’t want to go past today if they did. Everyone has ups and downs, times when everything seems to be running smoothly, and times when nothing seems to go right. Events we have no control over churn us up and spit us out into the void. For Stephanie Tarpey, the fourteen days her husband, Captain Richard Tarpey, spent...
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    13,29 €

  • La inundación y otras crónicas
    Luis Alfonso Otálora Bonilla
    Me complace ofrecer a los lectores esta tercera edición del libro de Luis Alfonso Otálora, La inundación y otras crónicas, que trae como novedad una versión aumentada con dos crónicas. Una, El cine del pueblo, donde el autor continúa mostrando las pequeñas cosas que suceden en la vida de las gentes de su pueblo, que puede ser cualquier otro de nuestro extenso país, esta vez alr...
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    8,32 €

  • 14 Days in the Niger Delta
    Richard D. Tarpey / Stephanie A. Tarpey
    It’s a good thing that people don’t know the future--they wouldn’t want to go past today if they did. Everyone has ups and downs, times when everything seems to be running smoothly, and times when nothing seems to go right. Events we have no control over churn us up and spit us out into the void. For Stephanie Tarpey, the fourteen days her husband, Captain Richard Tarpey, spent...
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    25,77 €

  • Homeless I Have Known
    Ph.D. Muriel D. Ryan
    Who are the homeless? These are nameless, faceless people who live in shame, frustration, and regret which is reflected in their daily lives. Often society sees them as drug addicts, alcoholics, mentally ill, and unmotivated. Those factors can be found in those without shelter, yet that alone will not reflect the total sum of challenges which they have faced.This book shares re...
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    7,80 €

  • Amar Rashtranayak
    Himanshu Joshi
    श्री हिमांशु जोशी देश-विदेश में बहुचर्चित साहित्यकार पत्रकार हैं। उन्होंने साहित्य और इलेक्ट्रानिक मीडिया की विभिन्न विधाओं में अनेक पुस्तकें लिखी हैं। उपन्यास, कहानी, कविता, यात्रा वृत्तांत, जीवनी, नाटक, साक्षात्कार आदि प्रकाशित पुस्तकों के अनेक विदेशी और भारतीय भाषाओं में अनुवाद भी प्रकाशित हुए हैं। जो लेखक की प्रतिभा और लोकप्रियता के परिचायक हैं।ये रेडियो रूपक साहित्य की उस ...
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    12,22 €

  • The In-Between
    Christian Espinosa
    I was living in a bubble, and on May 9, 2022, it burst. It was the middle of the afternoon. As my partner Vanessa and I approached a major intersection, a blue car accelerated, ran the red light, and T-boned a black truck directly in front of us. BOOM! The blue car’s hood crumpled like an accordion to absorb the impact. Within seconds, its front end was completely smashed, and ...
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    15,24 €

  • 10,000 Hours of Fear
    Elaine Hartrick
    It is only through fear that we become fearlessYoung love and a whirlwind romance slowly curdles into a life of shocking abuse, manipulation, and control, made all the more harrowing for the innocent children at its center. This is a tale of a woman trapped on all sides, and her inspiring journey, step-by-painful-step, to freedom, family, and a life finally lived on her own ter...
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    32,29 €

  • 10,000 Hours of Fear
    Elaine Hartrick
    It is only through fear that we become fearlessYoung love and a whirlwind romance slowly curdles into a life of shocking abuse, manipulation, and control, made all the more harrowing for the innocent children at its center. This is a tale of a woman trapped on all sides, and her inspiring journey, step-by-painful-step, to freedom, family, and a life finally lived on her own ter...
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    22,96 €

  • Finding Glocca Mora
    Teresa Solomos
    Finding Glocca Mora takes readers on the compelling journey of author Teresa Solomos’s self-discovery and reconnection with her Irish heritage. The book begins with Solomos reflecting on her Irish Catholic immigrant upbringing and the challenges her  parents faced as Irish immigrants in the United States. A chance encounter with a psychic, who connects Solomos with her deceased...
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    21,39 €

  • Memoir of My Navy Career
    John Seymour
    This book is a memoir of my Navy career from June 1961 to August 1981.  It contains 13 chapters which are briefly described here.  Three more books will follow: Memoirs of the Seymours and My Boyhood Memories, Memoirs of My Professional Career and Memoirs of My Retirement.Chapter 1  Pre-Flight 1961After four months of training, I was commissioned at Naval Air Station Pensacola,...
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    43,59 €

  • Cows Ain’t Hard
    William J. Wright
    All farmers want to be doctors, and all doctors want to be farmers. Bill Wright got caught up in the back half of that statement after buying the pasture next door to prevent someone from converting it into a pig farm or salvage yard. He had several friends who ran cows who offered advice, but mainly he was making it up as he went along.What happened next is how campfire storie...
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    9,27 €

  • Embracing the Sunset Years and Looking Ahead
    David H. Rosen
    Love is the very best analgesic for pain.White rosesin memory ofa lost loved oneWildflowers in bloomthe work ofan earth angelGentle rain . . .star magnoliaglistensMy life dependson a blue walkermoving slowlyThrough the gatearound the ponda cougar watches ...
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    8,34 €

  • Seventy-Nine Times Across the Atlantic
    Suren Rao Ph.D
    In the last few years, a considerable amount of invectives have been heaped upon this blessed nation by our own citizens that the USA is a nation with built-in systemic and institutionalized racism. According to the author, nothing could be further from the truth. He came from India, legally, pursued higher education, worked in industry, government and academia and, except for ...
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    15,25 €

  • Cows Ain’t Hard
    William J. Wright
    All farmers want to be doctors, and all doctors want to be farmers. Bill Wright got caught up in the back half of that statement after buying the pasture next door to prevent someone from converting it into a pig farm or salvage yard. He had several friends who ran cows who offered advice, but mainly he was making it up as he went along.What happened next is how campfire storie...
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    22,30 €

  • Embracing the Sunset Years and Looking Ahead
    David H. Rosen
    Love is the very best analgesic for pain.White rosesin memory ofa lost loved oneWildflowers in bloomthe work ofan earth angelGentle rain . . .star magnoliaglistensMy life dependson a blue walkermoving slowlyThrough the gatearound the ponda cougar watches ...
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    21,38 €

  • The Stolen Whistle and Flute
    George Major
    George Major’s story is a remarkable testament of resilience and determination. Abandoned by his mother in the 1940s, he embarked on a relentless quest to find her, fuelled by his deep connection to the vibrant pearly king tradition, which he knew was rooted in her family. Despite facing an abusive father and the chilling presence of his maiden Auntie Hilda, young George was se...
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    35,32 €

  • A Grandad’s Story of His 30 years in the Kent County Constabulary
    Tim Clements
    'UNUSUAL AND POSSIBLY UNIQUE' - The comments of a retired Metropolitan Police Dog Sergeant who had proofread a book written by Tim Clements.Discover the extraordinary life of a dedicated police officer in this captivating memoir. Unveiling experiences never encountered by senior officers, the author’s manuscript has finally been published. For thirty years, the author served as...
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    12,43 €

  • Where Shadows Hide the Sun, The First Years
    D. G. H. Delgado
    ''I’ll do anything--I’ll even preach!''As a boy, Dave cut a deal with God to save his life. Decades later, Dave and his friends are on his final street-preaching trip. ''Jesus came for all, so we should go to all!'' With that attitude, Dave fights spiritual resistance as he and his young family endeavor to leave the life they’ve known and join a team of missionaries stationed i...
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    25,34 €

  • Where Shadows Hide the Sun, The First Years
    D. G. H. Delgado
    ''I’ll do anything--I’ll even preach!''As a boy, Dave cut a deal with God to save his life. Decades later, Dave and his friends are on his final street-preaching trip. ''Jesus came for all, so we should go to all!'' With that attitude, Dave fights spiritual resistance as he and his young family endeavor to leave the life they’ve known and join a team of missionaries stationed i...
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    33,22 €

  • Birth of a Tribe
    Paul Puri Nii
    In this Memoir, Mr Nii shares his grandmother’s, and his uncles’ stories, and in doing so shares his own and the history of PNG. Shape shifting from fantasy and myths of creation of this new tribe; the intellectual strengths that underpinned the cultural resilience to sustain it; and the assimilation (mostly) with the first colonisers when they arrived. The full arc of life is ...
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    17,86 €

  • An Alert, Well-Hydrated Artist in No Acute Distress
    Catherine Armsden
    Two Artists, a Singular Friendship, and a Six-State Quest for a DiagnosisHadley Ferguson and Catherine Armsden, a painter and a writer, have each spent years seeking a diagnosis for their troubling symptoms. When they are finally diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, they meet in an online support group and quickly become long-distance friends. But for Hadley, the shared diagnosi...
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    25,10 €

  • No Margin for Error
    Warren Snodgrass
    'A Fascinating Account of Hypospadias Surgery.' - a hypospadias motherEvery 90 seconds a boy is born somewhere in the world with hypospadias. That is more often than cleft lip or Down’s syndrome or spina bifida, yet neither the parents nor grandparents have likely ever heard of hypospadias before - because it affects the penis. Most of these boys will have surgery to make the p...
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    16,23 €

  • No Margin for Error
    Warren Snodgrass
    'A Fascinating Account of Hypospadias Surgery.' - a hypospadias motherEvery 90 seconds a boy is born somewhere in the world with hypospadias. That is more often than cleft lip or Down’s syndrome or spina bifida, yet neither the parents nor grandparents have likely ever heard of hypospadias before - because it affects the penis. Most of these boys will have surgery to make the p...
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    29,87 €

  • 90-Day Fiancée
    Thi Diem Nguyen
    This autobiography tells of a tragic life in Nha Trang, Viet Nam, belief in Buddhism, Vietnamese traditions and superstitions, harsh COVID quarantine, and the long journey to becoming a 90-day fiancée in America. ...
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    17,56 €

  • NINETY-DAY WONDER
    Stephen Davenport
    Grab your life preservers, sailors! Ensign Davenport is on the bridge.Ensign Stephen Davenport was the most severely underqualified of the Ninety-Day Wonders, the derisive term for commissioned officers in the Naval Reserve with only ninety days of training, all of which were on dry land. For his final navigation exam, he actually plotted a course that landed a fictional destro...
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    11,95 €

  • Una chilena en Hollywood
    Anne Marie Dubois
    Si las puertas no se abren para ti, entonces: ¡crea tu propia puerta!Anne Marie Dubois es la autora del Amazon bestseller The Power of Color y fundadora del canal de YouTube «Una Chilena en Hollywood», donde la vemos entrevistando a las más grandes superestrellas del mundo, desde Brad Pitt hasta Tom Cruise y Dakota Johnson.Escritora, actriz y entrevistadora (de espíritu) e inge...
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    25,00 €

  • Saving Sophia
    Caro Feely
    A page-turning account of first-time parenting that will leave you filled with wonder at the miracle of life.'The paediatrician came back without our baby.’I’m afraid we have a problem.’Stars bounced around my vision of the doctor’s talking head, his voice far away, like a dream. I felt like I was sinking into a void and leant back to steady myself on the bed. We had experience...
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    15,94 €


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