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  • The Emancipation of a Buried Man
    Eddy Gilmore
    A child of a hoarder-an outcast growing up amid shocking squalor-finds purpose in this vivid memoir. Broken, alone and buried in a house full of junk and shame, Eddy Gilmore takes the 'normal' route out-institutionalized learning. But when college life fails to offer meaning, the young man reaches a turning point, a point at which he abandons social norms, abandons the status q...
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    13,73 €

  • Injustice
    Gregorio Nosovsky
    Three masked men, an entire team of Police officers, investigators and a throng of newsmen all from major news networks stormed into a plastic surgery clinic to arrest an alleged surgeon who a handful of supposed victims pointed to as responsible for their disfigurement. His controversial case was published all throughout the country and even overseas, sensationalizing what thi...
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    10,11 €

  • My First One Hundred Years
    Janice H Wood / Janice Hagan Wood / Raymond D Hagan
    My First One Hundred Years is a fascinating story of an amazing man. Ray Hagan has demonstrated what courage, determination and absolute trust in God can accomplish in seemingly impossible situations. He is an excellent example of a godly life well lived. 3 ...
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    20,57 €

  • Gringo Lessons
    Bill Whaley
    Gringo Lessons: Twenty Years of Terror in Taos is a tale of modern adventure about a young man, who experienced the local culture from 1966 to 1987. There he met the community: skiers, La Gente, los vato locos, Chicano activists and their Spanish contemporaries, the artists, drug dealers, fellow soldiers, tempting sirens, the occasional movie star, and a host of con artists. Fi...
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    20,16 €

  • 86 Dumplings of Insight into China
    Sally Waters
    MY STORIES FROM CHINA FOR YOUAre you moving or travelling to China? Are you curious about Chinese culture? Peel back the layers and uncover the richness of a Chinese way of life.86 Dumplings Of Insight Into China is an intimate guide to Chinese culture all wrapped up in bite-sized morsels of stories and insight. Come along with Sally as she shares own personal stories and obser...
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    12,18 €

  • Runaway Thoughts
    In 2013 students at Venice High School in Los Angeles formed the first P.O.P.S. (Pain of the Prison System) club, a club for those whose lives have been touched by prison. Many have parents, friends, siblings, uncles and aunts inside; some have had their own brushes with the law. All have stories to tell. Runaway Thoughts offers the stories, artwork and essays of those whose vo...
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    16,35 €

  • The Vineyard We Knew
    Kevin J. Parham
    A poignant memoir about the life of an African-American boy from the city summering on Martha's Vineyard during the rustic 1950s and turbulent 1960s. It's a coming of age story that is very personal, yet universal. It opens up to a reader a world that many will not know, but one they will still recognize. The Vineyard We Knew is almost elegiac in nature in that it creates a se...
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    15,68 €

  • From Consulting to Cutting
    Nicole Barrett
    Nicole Barrett co-founded NiaNicole Salon in October of 2008. She has an extensive amount of training from across the world and has taken various classes in hair cutting techniques, as well as coloring techniques and finishing. With a background in business consulting, she helped Fortune 500 companies regain and maintain market eminence. As a past educator for L’Oreal, Nicole h...
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    17,07 €

  • Good Films, Cheap Wine, Few Friends
    Juan Luis Bunuel
    The memoirs of Juan Luis Buñuel (b. 1934 in Paris) offer a first-hand look at the life of a vibrant man who has been surrounded by important figures of the twentieth century, including his father Luis Buñuel, Alexander Calder, Joan Miró, and Orson Welles, among many others. A filmmaker, sculptor, painter and raconteur in his own right, Juan Luis’s writings reveal a Buñuelian se...
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    36,71 €

  • Ivory Joe Beagle
    Curtis Lee Songster
    Travel back to a time before television, when good times came by way of an occasional coon hunt and the annual county fair, when friends carried out wild pranks on their friends but always had each other's backs. Ivory Joe Beagle, the ever-present canine companion to all, weaves his way in and out of these mostly true 'tails' of Hardin County, Kentucky, during the good ol' day...
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    17,09 €

  • Raudi's Story
    Alys Culhane
    Raudi's Story is written from the point of view of a young Icelandic horse growing up in Alaska's Matanuska Valley. As a yearling, she nearly dies from a severe illness. She's wildly willful but good natured. After many training related challenges, Raudi becomes a reliable riding horse. The book is written at a level that adults will appreciate, but children will comprehend. Re...
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    9,69 €

  • The Gospel According to Josh
    Josh Rivedal / Joshua Rivedal
    By the time Josh Rivedal turned twenty-five, he thought he’d have the perfect life-a few years singing on Broadway, followed by a starring role in his own television show. After which, his getaway home in the Hamptons would be featured in Better Homes & Gardens, and his face would grace the cover of the National Enquirer as Bigfoot’s not-so-secret lover. Instead, his resume is ...
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    13,48 €

  • Secret Storms
    Julie Mannix von Zerneck / Kathy Hatfield
    An Indie Reader Discovery Award and National Indie Excellence Book Award Winner.A pregnant, nineteen-year-old Philadelphia Main Line debutante is confined, against her will, to a state mental hospital. She spends her pregnancy surrounded by the mentally challenged and the criminally insane. On April 19, 1964, she gives birth to a child, whom she is forced to give up for adoptio...
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    13,57 €

  • Color
    Kenneth A. McClane / Kenneth AMcClane
    In 1991, acclaimed poet Kenneth A. McClane published Walls: Essays, 1985-1990, a volume of essays dealing with life in Harlem, the death of his alcoholic brother, and the complexities of being black and middle-class in America. Now, in Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History, McClane contributes further to his self-described 'autobiographical sojourn' with a second collectio...
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    28,20 €

  • The Soul of a Doctor
    Gordon Harper / Sachin H. Jain / Sachin HJain / Susan Pories
    By the time most of us meet our doctors, they’ve been in practice for a number of years. Often they seem aloof, uncaring, and hurried. Of course, they’re not all like that, and most didn’t start out that way. Here are voices of third-year students just as they begin to take on clinical responsibilities. Their words focus on the odd transition students face when they must deal...
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    13,66 €

  • Double Dipping
    Rote Writer
    You know that feeling. That feeling you’ve been caught. Caught doing something maybe you shouldn’t have been doing. Well the other day Friendo receives a letter from Social Assistance letting him know just that. He’s been caught double dipping; double dipping into Social Assistance and Employment Insurance at the same time.'Memoir - Suicide' ...
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    14,62 €

  • Luck Favors The Prepared
    Nathaniel Richard Barber
    Nathaniel Barber’s Luck Favors the Prepared is a collection of nonfiction short stories about life, death and customer service. More than just dark comedy, Luck Favors the Prepared allows a peek inside the life observant, where even tragedies can be laid bare by a plain, straightforward narrative and a sharp, unsparing sense of humor. Nathaniel’s perspective is fresh and honest...
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    13,55 €

  • Verdad y Destino
    José Antonio Pérez Zamora
    En Verdad y Destino, una historio para contar, Pérez Zamora abre de par en par las puertas que guardan los pasajes más relevantes de su vida desde que abandonó la isla de Cuba estando en plena Juventud, hasta tocar los días del presente.Lo curioso de su narración en esta obra, es el modo sutil con que nos introduce en un mundo de transformaciones que inducen a la fatiga. ...
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    21,11 €

  • Akemi's Journal 2
    Akemi Tomoda
    Akemi Tomoda is a Japanese-Canadian who came to Canada in 1970. 'Akemi's Journals' was published in 2011 and this is her section volume. Autobiography of a Japanese-Canadian Christian woman. Testimony of God's blessings. Christian community worship and Bible study. Hobbies of gardening and sewing. Reflections of life in a small neighbourhood in Mississauga, Onta...
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    18,54 €

  • My Pain Had Purpose
    Yvette Steele
    Yvette Steele weaves an inspiring tale of survival, faith, revival, and redemption in this recollection of one woman’s life spent emerging from mental, physical, and emotional pain, heartache, and abuse, while struggling to find her identity both personally and spiritually. Building an emotional wall was her way of coping with the trauma of abuse, abandonment, and sexual assaul...
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    17,43 €

  • The Faithful Sextant
    Robert Devereux McEliece
    A moving and chilling story of childhood bonds in the 1950s where young men lived on a dare and were restricted only by their imaginations. This is a gripping tale of what the Vietnam War did to these boys and their families.The Faithful Sextant tells of Captain Robert D. McEliece as he passes through boyhood in Alexandria, Virginia to find manhood in the world of seafarers and...
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    11,13 €

  • To the Ends of the Earth
    Sr. Maria Barbagallo MSC / Glenn Alan Cheney / Michael L. Bates
    Sr. Maria Barbagallo, MSC,  lived through some of the most turbulent times of the 20th century. Born in Italy during World War II and the reign of Mussolini, she became a Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart of Jesus shortly before the Vatican II Council changed the focus of the Church and the orientation of its religious orders. Sr. Maria spent the 1970s in Central America. I...
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    25,19 €

  • Off the Beaten Trail
    Jake Heilbrunn
    An extraordinary journey that began with one simple question: What if the life I’m living isn’t for me at all? At 18, Jake set out on the path that had been prescribed for him and countless other teenagers around the country: college. But a health issue and an internal conflict surfaced the profound questions that would radically change his life: Why am I here? What is my purp...
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    11,26 €

  • GOODBYE TO Italia
    Marisa Parker
    A pretty little Italian girl skips outside to peer up at the unexpected drone of aeroplanes, unaware of the danger as her neighbour, an eccentric opera singer, fervently prays for her teenage son. It is the start of WWII. An age difference of thirteen years separates the little girl Mariolina Martore and the army officer Eugenio Piergiovanni, but their lives are destined to int...
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    16,99 €

  • The Raffle Gods
    Dan Holliday
    When Beastly nearly kills a friend, he knows it is time to take a rest from his job, as a Kings Cross night club bouncer, and get out of town for a while. Travel with Beastly as he heads out bush to find his sense of self again. In a sense, a 'coming of age' story, with a difference, set in Australia in the 70s or 80s, you will find yourself drawn in from the first page...
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    20,12 €

  • In Light of the Truth
    Leanda Michelle
    Leanda’s physical and spiritual journey continues… In Light of the Truth is the sequel to Write to Heal.Have you ever felt you don’t belong?Have you sought love and it still eludes you?Some life experiences leave an indelible scar. They permeate every cell of your being and shape your existence. Only when we seek our belonging in the world and commit to align to our Soul's ...
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    25,32 €

  • Dearest Umeno
    Nancy Tamura Shikashio / Rose Tsunekawa
    Born January 8, 1895, and the third son of Katsusada and Yoshiko Ishii Tamura, Katsuchika was born into a samurai family whose ancestors were vassals of the Kujo family, Imperial court nobles. He traveled to the United States in 1920 to study. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in English Literature. This book details his life and times,which i...
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    24,79 €

  • Fabricating Evidence II
    James Fancher / Sr. Britton Mosley
    The purpose of Fabricating Evidence II: Office of the Attorney General/ Mississippi Department of Corrections Integrity Meltdown is to expose the corruption inside the Mississippi Department of Corrections and the Office of the Attorney General. Former Correctional Warden John “Jimmy” Fancher and former Correctional Captain Britton Mosley, Sr. became targets after Fancher refu...
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    18,38 €

  • Still Innocent Abroad
    David M. Addison / David MAddison
    In this sequel to his award-winning An Innocent Abroad, Scot David M. Addison continues his account of a year spent as an exchange teacher in Missoula, Montana in the western United States.When he embarked on the exchange, the author vowed he would embrace every experience (within reason) that came his way and mostly they were reasonable, though there were some he would not car...
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    16,13 €

  • Because of Love
    Janice Grow Hanson
    The touching true story of how a mother’s love, faith, and determination saved the lives of her two physically challenged children.  Tonya and Cody are the only two known in the entire world diagnosed with their rare and unique syndrome. Janice’s story showcases the incredible love of a mother who rose above all odds to ensure that her children reached their full potential, no ...
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    14,81 €


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