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6041) The Longest Road
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In June 2008 Ben Cunningham and five friends set out to cycle from Alaska to Argentina, along the Pan-American Highway, the world's longest land route. It measures 25,000 km and passes through fourteen countries and two continents, from the vast bear country of Alaska and northern Canada to the densely populated cities of Los Angeles and Lima. It moves from hot to cold, from forest to desert, English to Spanish and everything in between. In Ireland,...
6042) Penny the Railway Pup
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Penny's story is the fourth in Brian L. Porter's award-winning rescue dog series and features a tiny terrier, abandoned in a particularly cruel manner, and her subsequent adoption and life with the author and his family. From being attacked and needing emergency surgery, to days out at the coast, chasing seagulls, and stately homes, Penny's life in Brian's pack of rescue dogs has never been anything but interesting and eventful. Read her charming...
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La face cachée du « low cost ».
Tout le monde ne rêve pas d'être htesse de l'air. Mais lui, il y a toujours pensé. Un avion est une salle de spectacle: lubies des passagers, délires des commandants de bord qui se prennent parfois pour les rois du monde, équipages qui tentent de gérer au mieux les rotations de vol, les passagers incontrlables, sans oublier... le nettoyage de l'avion. Oui, David Edelstein est steward sur une compagnie low...
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Deadbeat. Loser. Failure. Criminal. Imagine growing up in a family where those words were meant to be your future. Without loved ones supporting you, would you, too, believe "You'll never amount to anything?” All around you, right now, there are kids who dream to be great but live without the support or circumstances to do so. Whether you were raised with encouraging parents or you bootstrapped your way on your own, you have the option to give a...
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In a revelation of clarity, grace, memory, and unflinching insight, author Deborah Joy Corey examines the bonds of family, lovers, neighbors, and place that forge one's sense of identity. With astonishing skill and delicacy, she weaves a transcendent story of love and loss, of spirit and spirituality, of loyalty and regret, and shows us how-despite a world fraught with despair and disillusion-wonder still prevails.
6046) Red Tail Feathers
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From the actress who starred as "Baby Grace" on the beloved series Little House on the Prairie comes an uplifting memoir about finding the grace of God in every chapter of life.
With candor and insight, Wendi Lou Lee takes us through her early days in show business to life-changing events of adulthood, including her brain surgery in 2015. Starting with a red-tailed bird camouflaged by a shrub, Red Tail Feathers traces Wendi's reflective journey of...
6047) God, Change Me
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From a life filled with abuse and darkness, Tara M. Kingsley emerged into freedom. In her deepest regrets and most heart-wrenching moments of pain, Tara's personal memoir explains her journey to wholeness and joy. While she was crying out to God to change her circumstances and the people around her, she found the truth: a person's life changes when the person changes. God, Change Me will take you through Tara's life and the process of change that...
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The Baby's Cross is a memoir about a tuberculosis survivor named Gale, a young girl who fought many obstacles in her life. She was born prematurely and with the help of a neighbor, she survived. At age two, a fall down the stairs was to take her life in a direction that seemed almost impossible to endure at the time. The losses in her life were many, including her mother, many other family members, and the loss of a normal childhood. C. Gale Perkins...
6049) Big Bad Buck Sheep
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There's a mean buck sheep on the prowl, and Finn gets trapped in no-man's-land between the yard fence and the coal shed. That ram is born to butt and he's after Finn. With his parents in town, city-slicker Uncle Rob is the only adult for miles around. Uncle Rob's initial reaction: "What am I supposed to do about that?" Good clean fun on the farm ain't so much fun with the big bad buck sheep on the prowl.
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A moving and illuminating memoir about a singular woman's relationship with a fascinating and complex country.
A fresh, nuanced perspective on a profoundly perplexing country: this is what Wallis Wilde-Menozzi's unique, captivating narrative promises-and delivers.
The Other Side of the Tiber brings Italy to life in an entirely new way, treating the peninsula as a series of distinct places, subjects, histories, and geographies bound together by a...
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This is a serious, yet humorous, chronological account of Jim Diehl's search for his true family, and the many turns along that path he encountered.
Growing up, there were no baby books or relatives to answer his questions about who he was. His earliest memory is growing up with his brother, Steve, on a small farm in Milton, West Virginia, in the foster care of the Lewis family. During those years, he was known as Jimmy Ying.
At the beginning of 1956,...
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Karina Jean Robertson was a creative, fun-loving young woman walking by faith and living in hope. From a very young age, her parents anchored her in a strong faith, preparing her for all she would face in life. She was only fourteen years old when first diagnosed with leukemia. Anchored is the true story, told by her mother, Katie, of how faith and hope carried their family through one of the most severe storms in life. A wonderful mix of memories,...
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L'autobiographie d'une chanteuse d'opéra qui défraya la chronique en raison de ses mœurs dissolues.
POUR UN PUBLIC AVERTI. De la découverte de la sexualité en surprenant ses parents pas le trou de la serrure à une scène finale qui pourra laisser rêveur plus d'un libertin, la chanteuse allemande conte en détails ses aventures les plus libertines et les plus osées, au gré des parties fines à travers l'Europe.
Lors d'un voyage à Strasbourg,...
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Richard Ray's “Walking Gratefully: A Camino Story” takes readers on a pilgrimage journey of gratitude to the shrine of St. James along the ancient Camino de Santiago. Join him as he discovers, step by painful step, the many ways this sacred journey to a sacred place takes on a sacred purpose.
6055) The Battered Generation
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Physical punishment at schools in Iran continued until being banned by the Ministry of Education in September 1960.
The author spent four years at "Safa" school in the north area of Tehran, in Iran from 1953 to 1957. In this book he recalls the social and educational conditions of those years, the morale and status of students and the teachers' way of thinking. He also discusses the prevailing culture of physical punishments and the hardships the...
6056) Victory
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“Victory, Part 1” The first part of my autobiography.
I will take you to my native Bosnia.
Where I was born and lived.
Until the war started.
Then we moved a number of times, and finally fled to the Netherlands.
A piece from the book :The war had started between Bosnia and Serbia.
We had moved because the enemies came too close.
We have moved a number of times.
My father had to fight for Bosnia, in the battlefield.
And was not always...
6057) Big Reader: Essays
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A book about memory, loss, and a love of books from one of Canada's finest essayists
Ever since childhood, Susan Olding has been a big reader, never without a book on the go. Not surprising, then, that she turns to the library to read her own life. From the dissolution of her marriage to the forging of a tentative relationship with her new partner's daughter, from discovering Toronto as a young undergrad to, years later, watching her mother slowly...
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As one of Canada's pre-eminent newspaper and magazine journalists, Allan Fotheringham has met everybody from Bobby Kennedy and Pierre Trudeau to The Beatles and Nelson Mandela. Born in Hearne, Saskatchewan, in 1932, Allan Fotheringham has had a distinguished career. Dubbed "Dr. Foth," Fotheringham graduated from the University of British Columbia and has worked for numerous news organizations, including the Vancouver Sun, Southam News, The Financial...
6059) Happiness Is Door Shaped
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Prisons, a community within a community. Violence is everywhere, the smell of fear is around every corner, you need, no must have eyes in the back of your head.
No time to relax, no time to sit back with a brew and put your feet up, the Prison won't let you.
Ever wondered what goes on behind those Prison walls? What really goes on behind those big unforgiving gates?
Ray Deveroux worked within the Prison walls for nearly 25 years, the violence, self-harm,...
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Vera Caspary, the celebrated author of Laura, tells her own story in this captivating autobiography. With a career that spanned from the 1920s through 1970s, one that produced over twenty novels, in addition to her many credits for film and theater, Caspary centered her life around a passion for writing. From her early experiences at an advertisement agency-where she developed a correspondence school and invented its "famed" instructor-to the struggles...
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