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  • When Fathers Don’t Hug
    James Kirkwood
    Growing up, I never thought about if my father loved me. Of all the examples I have thought about to suggest that he did or did not love me, it came out that he did love me and cared about my well-being. ...
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    9,70 €

  • Aag Aur Paani in Bengali (আগুন ও জল)
    Raghuveer Sharan ‘Mitra’
    People also know ’Chanakya’ by the names of Kautilya and Vishnugupta. In the history of India, he established the Maurya dynasty with his intelligence and later became the teacher of Bindusara and Emperor Ashoka. His creation of economics and Chanakya policy are relevant even today.Chanakya gave birth to an excellent intellectual tradition of keeping India’s economic, political...
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    19,67 €

  • Vagabond Memoirs
    Phil Karber
    Vagabond Memoirs combines travel and memoir-the linear, horizontal travels to another geographic space and the vertical one of Karber’s coming of age interior life. The book begins with a road trip to his ancestral home in the piney woods of Arkansas, pauses to take account of the world of baby boomers and the Jim Crow South in the ’50s, and takes off in the mid-60s with his te...
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    18,14 €

  • La luz de la memoria
    Fernando Noguera
    Las páginas de La luz de la memoria os narrarán esos primeros años de la vida que marcan para siempre.De mi vida, claro, aunque también he querido dejar constancia de una época que he intentado rescatar y, ¿por qué no?, añorar en su justo punto al rememorar sus calles, sus casas, sus costumbres, sus hombres y mujeres con las vicisitudes que los acompañaron. Y así dejar testimon...
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    19,99 €

  • Route 66
    Nigel M. Sainsbury
    Nigel, a Kiwi on a three-year assignment at the New Zealand Embassy in Washington, DC, is hell bent on riding a motorcycle along the iconic Route 66. Nigel willingly shares his intent with a few close friends, which generates multiple ideas and personal agendas. Without a real idea of how, when, or who is going to do it with, Nigel decides to simply make things up as he goes al...
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    26,42 €

  • Practically Still a Virgin
    Monica Hall
    Practically Still a Virgin is the riveting memoir of a fifteen-year-old adoptee’s rape -and the pregnancy that changed her life. During Alaska’s rough-and-tumble 1970s oil boom, a time when prostitution, violence, and lawlessness reigned, Monica Hall rebels against her strict Catholic parents in a downward spiral of delinquency. Overwhelmed by guilt and shame when the unthinkab...
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    19,30 €

  • Postcards from Cookie
    Caroline Clarke
    Award-winning journalist and host of Black Enterprise Business Report Caroline Clarke’s moving memoir of her surprise discovery of her birthmother--Cookie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole--and the relationship that blossomed between them through the heartfelt messages they exchanged on hundreds of postcards.Caroline Clarke was born in an era when adoptions were shameful and ...
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    15,27 €

  • Echidna in a Suitcase
    Kathleen Frances
    Echidna in a Suitcase is Kathleen Frances’ memoir in which she reveals what life was like after being taken as an infant and placed into institutional care. Through it all, she continued to look up, and through moth-eaten blankets, she was able to see the stars.Her tangled ancestral twine eventually leads her to a man she had been searching for all her life.A remarkable journey...
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    19,66 €

  • Making a Difference
    Chesley B Sullenberger / Chesley B. Sullenberger / Chesley BSullenberger
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    13,42 €

  • THE GABARDINE GANG
    Kevin B. DiBacco
    THE GABARDINE GANG: Power and Betrayal in Hartford’s Mob Scene by Kevin B. DiBacco is a riveting tale of crime, family, and redemption in the gritty underworld of the 1950s and 1960s Hartford, Connecticut.  Geno DiBacco led the notorious Gabardine Gang, a small-time mob that ruled the city. Geno’s son, Kevin, takes you on a visceral journey through his childhood and adolescence...
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    12,19 €

  • THE GABARDINE GANG
    Kevin B. DiBacco
    THE GABARDINE GANG: Power and Betrayal in Hartford’s Mob Scene by Kevin B. DiBacco is a riveting tale of crime, family, and redemption in the gritty underworld of the 1950s and 1960s Hartford, Connecticut.  Geno DiBacco led the notorious Gabardine Gang, a small-time mob that ruled the city. Geno’s son, Kevin, takes you on a visceral journey through his childhood and adolescence...
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    17,85 €

  • Mildred’s Mindset
    Gayle Kirschenbaum / Mildred Kirschenbaum
    When Mildred Kirschenbaum celebrated her 99th birthday, her daughter Gayle shared a video of her on Instagram, setting off a viral sensation. Gayle, initially using her account for photography, redirected the spotlight to showcase her mother’s wisdom and the unique bond they share. The attention grew as Maria Shriver and other major media outlets, including NBC Today’s Jenna & ...
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    38,30 €

  • Blackout Punch
    Chris Hunter
    What’s it like to rise from Youngstown, Ohio, to flying in private jets, then lose it all? What’s it like to be an alpha male who gets what you want, then realize you have put everything that matters to you at risk? What does it mean to know exactly who you are, then understand that you don’t know yourself at all? A born hustler, Chris Hunter co-created Four Loko, the world’s m...
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    18,43 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €


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