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  • Saving Beauty
    Harvey A. Kaplan
    Does love have its limits?  Are couples challenged beyond what they can handle when one becomes ill?  How does one cope in the face of a devastating, debilitating disease that has come to steal your loved one from you? Saving Beauty is a deeply personal narrative of a marriage transformed by the emergence of a serious illness.  Dr. Kaplan shares his touching story of loving a ...
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    18,48 €

  • The Widow Wore Pink
    Robyn Dykstra
    In an instant, everything changed…    Robyn Dykstra spent years as a Playboy Bunny, oblivious to God’s master plan for her life. But she escaped a life of drugs, alcohol, and promiscuity for a fresh start with Jesus. Cleaned up and happy, with a handsome husband, a nice house, and two wonderful children, her life seemed perfect. Then, the unthinkable:     In an instant, everyth...
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    24,39 €

  • THE WATERGATE RHYMES
    LEE G. LOVETT
    The Watergate Rhymes aims to educate, reflect and learn from that consumptive scandal, while using satire to see the humor in the human frailties of that maligned administration – and in ourselves, all with the perspective and understanding that only precious time enables. A funny way to explain the Watergate Scandal. Lastly, the book is truly humorous and it refreshes memories...
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    34,48 €

  • Tears for Teddy
    Pat Craig
    This is the true story of a man and his love and devotion for a cute little Pomeranian; so dedicated to taking such loving care of his Teddy Bear through all of his crises, in such extraordinary ways. Dr. Dale Dodd once said, 'A person's spiritual journey in life is not complete until one learns to love a dog and know what love, devotion, and wonderful therapy they provide.' Ev...
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    9,87 €

  • Unconquered
    Elise McIntosh-Levy / Lucie Burian Liebman
    Told from the eyes of Lucie as a child, 'Unconquered' traces her three-year journey from when Nazis took over her home in Vienna to her arrival at Ellis Island and assimilation in New York. Tested again and again, Lucie watched as her grandfather died after being brutally beaten and her cousins shot before her very eyes. But, it was a traumatic incident with two Nazi soldiers t...
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    14,22 €

  • An Inconvenient Posting - An Expat Wife's Memoir of Lost Identity
    Laura J. Stephens
    British psychotherapist, Laura J Stephens, already had the living abroad tee-shirt, and believed that another intercontinental move, this time to a country where they spoke the same language, would be child's play. How wrong she was! This always candid and often humorous memoir demonstrates that things don't always go as expected - particularly with three kids in tow an...
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    12,60 €

  • Cherish
    Shaela Mauger
    Cherish – a book about us is a beautiful hardcover keepsake journal that guides the writer to pen their own story and the story of the one they love.  It is perfect for a parent to gift to a child, grandparent to gift to a grandchild or the ultimate legacy journal to gift to a terminally ill patient for them to leave for their children or grandchildren.   The guided keepsake jo...
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    23,71 €

  • A Life Let Go
    Patricia J Florin
    Closed adoption, heralded as the answer to the problem of unplanned pregnancy, shows its other side in A Life Let Go, A Memoir and Five Birth Mother Stories of Closed Adoption. These women tell how they experienced unplanned pregnancy in the restrictiveness of the last decades of the twentieth century. All gave up a child in closed adoption—the only option—understanding they wo...
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    10,55 €

  • Hands Down
    Logan Crannell
    Adapted from the journal of a falsely imprisoned man,'Hands Down: A Story of Incarceration'is a testament against a society quick to point fingers and cry wolf.It implores us to question the motives of those claiming victimhood,for it may reveal their own lack of integrity.With each public accuser advertising their oppression,and clamoring for sympathy, it's clear w...
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    16,39 €

  • Through Innocent Eyes
    Cynthia A. Sandor
    The National Socialistic upbringing in the League of German Girls uses paramilitary-like disciplinary measures to build their loyalty and moral character. Coupled with pagan rituals, songs, and folklore, 'Through Innocent Eyes' captures the self-actualiation of ten-year-old Gertrude as she progresses from childhood and living in poverty to adolescence and becoming 'one' with he...
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    28,65 €

  • My Inventions
    Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla has been called the most important man of the twentieth century. Certainly he contributed more to the field of electricity, radio, and television than any other person living or dead. Ultimately he died alone and impoverished having driven all of his friends away through his neurotic and eccentric behavior. Tesla was never able to fit into the world that he found h...
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    20,52 €

  • Ira's Farm
    Virginia Johnson
    A WWI veteran with a young family, Ira bought a sixty-acre farm in the rural community of Harlan Michigan just ninety days before the October 1929 stock market crash and its ensuing financial crisis. He fashioned a living with a team of horses and a never-give-up work ethic on land his wife often called “sand banks” when a harvest failed. This memoir covers a thirty-year span o...
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    11,19 €

  • Identity Crisis
    Carrie M. Carter
    Have you ever experienced a crisis in your life that left you so numb, in a condition of instability or danger that impacted you socially and emotionally? Have you wondered for years where the pain originated? Have you found yourself asking questions like how did I get here? Why have I been in this same place for years, seeing no progress? What am I afraid of; is it ME?Identity...
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    34,62 €

  • Identity Crisis
    Carrie M. Carter
    Have you ever experienced a crisis in your life that left you so numb, in a condition of instability or danger that impacted you socially and emotionally? Have you wondered for years where the pain originated? Have you found yourself asking questions like how did I get here? Why have I been in this same place for years, seeing no progress? What am I afraid of; is it ME?Identity...
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    17,33 €

  • Tin Can Treason
    Terry Nardone
    Tin Can Treason is a recollection of my combat tour aboard a destroyer, USS Bordelon (DD881), commissioned in 1945. She had a crew of over 350 men on a 30 foot wide and 300 foot long ship. We traveled about 30,000 nautical miles, from Charleston, South Carolina to the Vietnam coast and back. While aboard I wrote in a daily diary and this book is the culmination of many attempts...
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    9,53 €

  • Kissing the Tarmac
    James Hansen
    Kissing The Tarmac is unlike most Vietnam War memoirs. James Hansen’s story is focused on both the development and resolution of Post Traumatic Stress Order. The story is told in a unique manner, describing his war experiences along with passages from his daily journal and the author’s letters he wrote home during his tour of duty. This style creates a window into the author’s ...
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    14,05 €

  • Raised in the Shadow of the Bomb
    Deborah Leah Steinberg
    This story began before I was born, when my father, Ellis P. Steinberg, and uncle Bernard Abraham worked on the secret undertaking that developed the first atomic bombs. These later were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was not only my extended nuclear family that experienced and was affected by growing up at this time in history, but a whole generation of other children...
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    13,46 €

  • Gathering the Fragments of Myself
    Jan Banaszek
    The third of eleven children, Jan Banaszek spends her childhood in the role of fierce protector—striving to shield her younger siblings from the dysfunctional home life created by their father, a volatile man who can snap at any moment. With a loving but subservient mother who looks the other way at her husband’s inappropriate behavior with their daughters, Jan unwittingly seek...
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    11,81 €

  • No Fairy Tale
    D L. Finn
    You are invited into D.L. Finn's life, written through a princess’s viewpoint. While it’s usually assumed in fairy tales that the princess is beloved by all, this is one princess who doesn't feel loved. She dreams of a moment when her father will walk through the castle door, sweep her up in his arms and proclaim how much he misses her. That never happens. Instead, she ...
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    7,45 €

  • My Wonderful Journey Through Life - With God, Family, and Friends
    Jr. Warren C Biebel
    This is one man’s perspective on his own life—the challenges, victories, sorrows, and joys of following Jesus for more than 70 years. You’ll be encouraged by what you read, and you may even hear, as you read, the echoes of that great hymn, “Where He Leads Me, I Will Follow.” Follow the author through his many adventures in the northeast part of the USA, where he served three c...
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    26,00 €

  • Reaching the Perishing
    Dr. Johnny Woodard ~ DD / DrJohnny Woodard ~ DD
    From the little community of Morgan’s Bluff, located on the very banks of the Sabine River near Orange, Texas, to Israel, the land where our Lord Jesus Christ came into this world to redeem fallen mankind from their sinful condition. This is an amazing story of how God can use anyone He chooses to spread His Word. This book will bring laughter at the funny stories that took pla...
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    22,66 €

  • The Vision Of An Unknown Indian
    Jamal Khwaja
    In this book I have recounted important facets of the story of my inner intellectual and spiritual growth. It is the story of how, a relatively, dogmatic model of Islam developed into the paradigm that I now accept. In one sentence my journey has taken me from an honest acceptance that Muslims alone will win salvation to an equally honest acceptance of the beauty and validity o...
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    14,28 €

  • Scattered
    Jana Panarites
    In November 2009 Jana Panarites was scrambling to make ends meet in LA, despite a lifetime of working hard and having recently earned a master’s degree from the University of Southern California. Her career spiraling out of control, she didn’t think life could get any worse until she learned of her father’s sudden death two days before Thanksgiving.She flew east for the funeral...
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    12,36 €

  • Back in two Weeks
    JG Debs
    Striving for independence after her father kicks her out of the house, Jennifer feels she has no choice but to join the military to get out of New Hampshire and out of her friend's basement. Quickly, she realizes she has bitten off more than she can chew but cannot reverse the decision. To stay in might mean death from an asthma attack, but going back home to the basement wou...
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    17,44 €

  • And Then I Peed My Pants...
    Meagan Phillipson
    Staring down at her screaming son after giving birth, Meagan freaks out. What now? And where was the warning that she would feel like a beaten-up bag of postnatal hormones?...And then I Peed my Pants is an honest and funny tale of life, love and motherhood from hospital to first birthday, with every shade of shitty nappy in between. It is a welcome read for any woman who has be...
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    23,56 €

  • Passage to Persia - Writings of an American Doctor During Her Life in Iran, 1929-1957
    In 1929 Adelaide Kibbe was a 27-year-old missionary physician who set out from New York, on the steamer SS American Banker, headed for Iran. Her route to Persia took her through England, Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland and Egypt. It would be 28 years before she returned home, and during the ensuing decades she would see huge changes in her adopted country: the development of ...
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    17,13 €

  • Sex! Drugs!...And Ronald Reagan?
    Michael Jay
    This book is a tell-all, no-holds-barred, in-depth exploration of my experiences in the hotel and restaurant industry. Some stories detail the lack of scruples while others with the lack of morals, not all bad though. You will read about some celebrities at their best and others at their worst. When you are finished with this book, you will never look at your waiter/waitress th...
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    15,55 €

  • Bad Choices Make Good Stories
    Oliver Markus Malloy
    A shocking glimpse into the crazy lives of drug addicted prostitutes. You'll never look at heroin addicts the same way again. Oliver moves from New York to Florida. Battling with depression, he gets sucked into the seedy underworld of Fort Myers, where he encounters a number of female drug addicts. He empathizes with them because of his own traumatic past. Oliver feels com...
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    10,56 €

  • OUT OF THE MANSION OF THE MOTOYASU
    Junko Chodos
    This is an autobiography, in which the author’s life story is told not only from deep within her soul, but also from a place outside the narrator and hovering above her. It is a historical novel, telling the story of Japan’s encounter with the West at the end of the 19th century, and through the years a er World War II.      This is a book of personal mythology and spirituality...
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    32,44 €

  • Life After America
    Joseph Mark Glazner
    What would you do if your country was on the wrong side of history? Would you leave if you had the chance—even if leaving might ruin the rest of your life?In 1967, Joseph Mark Glazner, a twenty-two-year-old American writer, left Los Angeles behind forever and became one of the first war resisters to go to Canada during the extremely divisive Vietnam War.Life After America is Gl...
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    15,91 €


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