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  • Suiyue Liusha
    Jianping Liu
    出生于50年代中期，她见证了大饥荒年代，寄养在亲戚家的童年和少年，使她有不同的视角回顾那一段历史。经历了文革，她15岁就被打成“反革命”，19岁下乡当了知青，在文革后第一次恢复高考的那年，考上了大学，却被分到不喜欢的专业……一个普通的留学生，在北美的求学，求职，以及职场和家庭生活。作者以幽默的笔触，描写了第一次在美国考试，就考了38分的惊慌；有摔门而去，愤然辞职的愤怒；有反映家庭矛盾的学车的场景……最后，作者回忆了她与父母之间温馨往事，记录了一对儿女成长过程中的酸甜苦乐……这里有惊恐，有无奈，有欢乐，有悲哀，有奋斗，有成长。这是一本跨越东西文化，交织三代人情感的故事书。 ...
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    17,02 €

  • The Smell of Garlic on Sunday
    Norma Jo Thomas
    A memoir, neither a nostalgic look back, nor a pity party, just some serious self-work getting into those deep-rooted feelings that threatened to sabotage my efforts and derail my dreams, feelings that had shaped my view of myself, my world, and my relationship to it, hell bent on delivering a message from my higher self - their message, packed away in timeless memories, delive...
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    27,14 €

  • Addicted to Lies
    Terrell Patterson
    Author Terrell Patterson bares all—his past and his present, his strengths and his flaws—in this candid and refreshing debut, Addicted to Lies. Part memoir, part life guide, Patterson takes us through the events of his tumultuous childhood spent in inner city Baltimore with a mother who struggled with addiction, his capricious teenage years in which he searched for love and loy...
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    19,05 €

  • Shaking the Family Tree
    Dallas H
    There was a boogie man in the closet and its name was alcoholism. This story is not for the faint at heart. Shaking the Family Tree is an anonymous personal memoir of a recovering alcoholic. It is interlaced with poetic offerings that take the reader to the heart and soul of the ramifications of the disease of alcoholism. Dallas’s story is one of coming to terms with what has b...
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    18,95 €

  • Trapped by a Mouse
    Bob Zumwalt
    Memoir depends on recollection—not only the particulars of experience, but the emotions, reflections, and even the daydreams elicited. Bob Zumwalt uses memory and imagination to tell the poignant, the fanciful, and the humorous moments of his life. From a bashful young lad in small town Central Texas to world-traveling chemical engineer, Zumwalt shares the rich, (and sometimes ...
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    15,77 €

  • A Royal Love Revealed
    Corrine Sharpe
    In 2011, God sent Corrine Sharpe a simple, loving message: Look for the hearts. She had lost her mother to cancer. Her family struggled in the depths of grief. This divine revelation from God healed their hearts. A Royal Love Revealed is Sharpe's memoir of loss, belief, and love. Are we loved? Are we valuable? Our material world has its opinions as to the nature of love. It...
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    22,71 €

  • I Promised Not to Tell
    Cheryl B Evans
    A Readers' Favorite 2017 Bronze Medal Award Winner.  Cheryl Evans and her husband Jim raised their children telling them: 'You can be anything and do anything you want in life.' They just never expected to learn that what their youngest daughter desired most in the world was to be a boy. Experience this powerful, raw and, deeply personal story as one family invites you to b...
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    14,94 €

  • I'm Not An Actor (I Just Play One On TV)
    dave e. keliher
    This is the part of the story of my life. But there is more to it than that. I mean, like, there's things about me as a kid and as a teen and as twenty-year old. And since this description has to be at least 200 characters I just have to keep typing until I can stop. Like now. ...
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    5,65 €

  • Ghetto By The Sea
    Ghetto By the Sea is the second anthology in an annual series produced by the students of P.O.P.S. the Club, a club for those whose lives have been touched by prison. In short memoirs, poems, photographs and drawings, the students tell the stories of their lives--sometimes stories about how their lives have been touched by prison, often by the ways in which all kinds of losses ...
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    14,54 €

  • Stuck in the Passing Lane
    Jed Ringel
    What happens when a newly divorced, monogamous, family-oriented Baby Boomer gets trapped on the Internet dating superhighway?From Spanish Harlem to Singapore, in relationships with Muscovite intellectuals and streetwise Chinatown massage parlor queens, Jed Ringel takes you on this hilarious, heartrending, self-revelatory, and sometimes even cringe-worthy journey.With the unspar...
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    12,21 €

  • How To Grow Up Like Me
    Ballou High School Writers
    "Your Story Is Your Strength." This is the mantra that emerged from a six-month writing project at Ballou High School in Washington, DC, in which eleven dedicated freshmen and six determined seniors told their stories of ambition and struggle in what came to be known as The Ballou Story Project. The freshmen were students in AVID, a college-preparedness program, who gathered vo...
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    10,50 €

  • What You’re Hiding Is Hindering Your Blessings
    Tina Bailey
    'One of the most liberating things is to realize that you don’t have to be perfect in this imperfect world. All you have to do is strive to be better than you were yesterday. This book will help you avoid the pitfalls of low self-esteem, learn to look for the best within yourself, stop hiding who you are, and embrace your identity. Life is a precious gift given to us by God an...
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    9,68 €

  • Keep This Quiet! III
    Margaret A. Harrell
    'Keep This Quiet! III-Initiations' begins in the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich, where Margaret was enrolled in 1984. She is headed for a big initiation there, which she narrates for us - showing how initiations are life-transforming. Notably, she also dives into the debate between physicist Wolfgang Pauli and psychiatrist Carl Jung about how science/matter and psyche/spirit/synch...
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    18,12 €

  • Crossing the Borders of Time
    Leslie Maitland
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    26,14 €

  • Don’t Laugh
    Sacha Jones
    As a white haired, green-eyed, ’black sheep’ growing up in a fire zone, Sacha (then Sally) feels from a young age she doesn’t fit in with her family or general environment and struggles, literally, to breathe. But when a doctor recommends ballet as a cure for her ills, though her Russian teacher tells her she is ’not built for ballet’, she finds a way to bend her build to balle...
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    16,87 €

  • Wisdom From the Back of a Bike
    JB Owen
    Are you looking for something to inspire, uplift, and transform your thinking? Do you get excited about the idea of seeing the world through a different lens? Perhaps you prefer to find a more enjoyable way to reach your dreams and desires. If you like unique, out-of-the-box inspirational ideas, buckle up and experience wisdom principles, and life lessons, all from the back of ...
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    15,41 €

  • J’st to Live
    A.C. Mueller-Rowry
    In the 1970s, Angie’s sheltered, middle-class outlook is turned upside down when she falls in love with Robert, an incredibly handsome Black guitarist and brilliant, street-savvy school dropout. The pair lose touch when Angie leaves St. Louis’s Northside and returns home to Germany.Twenty-five years after their turbulent romance, Angie, worldly-wise and aware of her own emotion...
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    38,99 €

  • Sipping Sunlight
    Bernard Ross
    Embark on a mesmerizing journey into the wild and transformative landscape of the 60s, a time of free love and psychedelic exploration. The memoir begins with a prediction by a spiritual Black woman, which leads Ross to become an acidhead on the Lower East Side of New York. Fueled by profound LSD experiences, he initiates a spiritual quest to find the meaning of life. Woven wit...
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    14,61 €

  • Novos Rumos
    Geraldo Souza Pinto
    Novos Rumos, uma continuação de A Trajetória de um Piloto, aborda ciclos de vida numa aviação em constante evolução, abrangendo empresas aéreas, aviões e tripulações. Além de relatos cronológicos das diversas fases que compõem o desenvolvimento de empresas iniciantes, como Webjet, Lynx e Whitejets, seus desafios e tensões, o leitor encontrará reflexões sobre o desaparecimento d...
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    11,60 €

  • Tundra Tales
    Michael A Rossi
    Following, rooting, dedicating oneself to the Packers is unlike any other endeavor, either within sports or in life. They are a team that has never had an owner and operates in a tiny market competing against teams from the biggest markets in the world. For those of us born at a time when our formative years saw the end of a dynasty and ushered in over two decades of agonizing ...
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    14,68 €

  • Garden of Marvels, A
    Ruth Kassinger
    Combing the curiosity of The Botany of Desire and the playful spirit of Wicked Plants, a witty and engaging history of botany and gardening memoir from the author of Paradise Under Glass--an easy-to-follow, anecdotal tutorial on the fascinating science of plants.In Paradise Under Glass, Ruth Kassinger-- a self-described 'wanton killer of plants'--recounted with grace, humor, an...
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    17,94 €

  • The Voyages of Seadog
    Bruce Walther / Roger Moore
    The author is not a famous author. However, he has a few friends who know his knack for smuggling. They suggested that he should write a book. It has taken many years and notes to accomplish this. This time period is from 1969 to 1972.During this time, he worked for the airlines. There were a lot of slow periods, and he was allowed to take off to continue his sailing days. This...
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    12,17 €

  • One Woman’s Testimony of a Transformed Life
    Darlene Lorraine Gibson
    This book exemplifies the many things that God used to transform her own life. Darlene went back to school in 2006 at the age of forty-two during some of the most difficult times in her life. In her younger years, she was quiet, shy, an average student, a slow learner, and not very enthusiastic about school. However, God blessed her with the opportunity and desire to participat...
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    13,85 €

  • A Man of Many Faces
    William A. Cantoni
    My name is William Cantoni, I started writing this book when I was fifty-seven years old while I was doing time for the last time at Four-Mile-High prison in Colorado. I am now seventy-eight years old and have completed my life’s story that will take you on a journey throughout my life and how God repeatedly forgives a man like me, time and time again, who made just about every...
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    22,19 €

  • A Man of Many Faces
    William A. Cantoni
    My name is William Cantoni, I started writing this book when I was fifty-seven years old while I was doing time for the last time at Four-Mile-High prison in Colorado. I am now seventy-eight years old and have completed my life’s story that will take you on a journey throughout my life and how God repeatedly forgives a man like me, time and time again, who made just about every...
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    30,37 €

  • Golden Scars
    Emily (Barry) Zarecki
    I. Am. The. Storm.When Emily was diagnosed with breast cancer, it immediately brought back memories of helping her mother navigate late-stage ovarian cancer. Scared and freshly grieving the loss of her mom, Emily had to search deep inside herself to find the courage she knew she would need to defeat cancer. And she’d been through enough storms in her past that had prepared her ...
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    13,69 €

  • You’ll See
    Suzanne Groves
    'In You’ll See, Suzanne Groves explores, without excuses, the challenging relationship she had with her father. Her recollections of the minute details and reactions to her interactions with him are vivid and evocative of the deep desire she had to gain his approval. An approval she never got, no matter how hard she tried.' -Katharine O’Connor, Ph.D., LPCMy fifty-six years wit...
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    30,96 €

  • Development of Next Generations of Army Aviation Systems
    Daniel P. Schrage
    The memoir 'As Usual, the Guardian was Perfect in All Respects' is the first book, Book 1, in the trilogy, A Full Lifetime Career of Seeking Perfection Driven by Family and Mentors. The trilogy is a tale of three careers of the author’s military achievement, engineering accomplishment, and academic leadership. It strives for perfection through athletic and career advancement wh...
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    12,73 €

  • Lands of Lost Borders
    Kate Harris
    'Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven’t felt for years. It’s a modern classic.'--Pico IyerA brilliant, fierce writer, and winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize, makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road--an illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in Betw...
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    18,25 €

  • Playground
    Jennifer Saginor
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    14,52 €


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