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  • Changing Faces II
    Darrel Dabbs
    Dabbs wasn’t quite a teenager when his vitiligo surfaced.  It showed up as a little patch around his eyes when he was in sixth grade, Dabbs said.  It spread to his lips, mouth, hands and then across his body.            For years, he wore makeup to avoid stares and have a consistent skin tone. He had his lips tattooed so they wouldn’t be pink.  “It made me look so much better,”...
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    23,23 €

  • THE MUSICIAN
    Don Hamilton
    THE MUSICIAN is an autobiography of an 86 year old Jazz  musician who wanted to go to some big city like New York or Chicago to become a 'star',ater he graduated from college, however he decided to become a music teacher, for the security and be a part time professional musician as a sideline. After he tried the professional world for two summers, he realized he had made the ri...
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    7,64 €

  • Walking On Air
    Jethro Shaw
    The true story of a midwestern boy who grew up during the Great Depression. Jethro Shaw as a young child overcame extreme physical infirmities, and his life as an airman and all of his endeavors. In his own words, he tells of how he succeeded and prospered against the odds. ...
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    31,56 €

  • I was born a winner
    Claston A Bernard
     I grew up in Jamaica in the district of Burnt Savannah, St. Elizabeth, between Lacovia and Mountainside. That’s about a twenty-minute drive from Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth. Life was tough for me as a child. While we lived in poverty, my parents did the best they could for my siblings and me. I was often called names and ridiculed. Join me as I journey from the rocky playgrounds...
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    15,54 €

  • TU YOUYOU’S JOURNEY IN THE SEARCH FOR ARTEMISININ
    DAN LI MANYUAN WANG LAN Y ZHIQIANG HU / Wenhu Zhang / Yiran Shao / Junxian Yu
    Tu Youyou's Journey in the Search for Artemisinin is an autobiographical science book chronicling in detail the great experiences of Tu Youyou from her childhood to winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.As Tu Youyou is the first female scientist from China to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, this win created a sudden wave of interest in medicine, r...
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    82,76 €

  • Strong Beauty
    Karen Furneaux
    Strong Beauty: Power Up the Champion Within is an Olympic athlete’s journey to harness the POWER of self-belief and appreciate the beauty in us all.Karen Furneaux, world champion, Sports Hall-of-Famer and international speaker, shares her deepest insights and the golden nuggets that it takes to succeed at your goals.Karen’s actionable P.O.W.E.R. tools help you to find your uniq...
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    14,33 €

  • Beyond East and West
    John C.H. Wu / John C.HWu
    When John C. H. Wu’s spiritual autobiography Beyond East and West was published in 1951, it became an instant Catholic best seller and was compared to Thomas Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain, which had appeared four years earlier. It was also hailed as the new Confession of St. Augustine for its moving description of Wu’s conversion in 1937 and early years as a Catholic. This...
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    106,52 €

  • Wax Poetics Issue 67 (Paperback)
    A. D. Amorosi / Chris Williams / Dan Dodds
    Our new version of the classic Wax Poetics music journal!Wax Poetics Issue 67 contains all-new content featuring interviews and write-ups on a slew of Prince's albums, including 1978's 'For You,' 1986's 'Parade,' 1987's 'Sign O the Times,' 1988's 'Lovesexy,' 1991's 'Diamonds and Pearls,' and 1995's 'The Gol...
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    28,01 €

  • Young Sam Walton
    Brenda Turner
    The road to greatness must have appeared long and uncertain to young Sam Walton, born in rural Oklahoma. In fact, no one likely imagined that Sam would build the largest revenue company in the world, with over 2 million employees. As a boy, Sam was hardworking and enterprising. But, most importantly, Sam had a genuine concernfor others. He worked part-time jobs to help his fami...
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    12,16 €

  • Armor On
    L.K.
    When I saw Satan, I wanted to die. I wanted to be in the arms of Jesus that very moment. At the time, I didnt know I was in a dark spiritual warfare and my home was the battlegrounds. Through my journey, Jesus was showing me my spiritual gifts. He was teaching and training me to trust him completely. The once-dark season feels like a lifetime ago. My new voyage with Jesus is a ...
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    14,22 €

  • My book of Genesis
    Richard Macphail
    FOREWORD BY PETER GABRIEL. School friend, aide-de-camp and tour manager, Richard Macphail was for almost five years the glue that held Genesis together, and in his affectionate memoir My Book of Genesis he tells his own unique story of the group's early years. Richard was the singer in Anon, the Charterhouse school group that included Mike Rutherford and Anthony Phillips, w...
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    29,66 €

  • My Aunt Louisa and Woodrow Wilson
    Margaret Axson Elliott
    In this book, written with brilliance and charm, we see Wilson, in bright, remembered flashes, through the eyes of his young sister-in-law. Here, also, is the Southern background--Illyria, a composite of several small Southern towns slowly reviving after the war, where lived the Axson family and Aunt Louisa, the staunch Puritan.Originally published in 1944.A UNC Press Enduring ...
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    60,83 €

  • Patrick Geddes
    Philip Boardman
    In Edinburgh during the eighties and nineties, Geddes was a truant professor of botany who spent more time cleaning up slums, building cooperative apartment houses, founding student hostels, running summer schools, criticizing universities, and encouraging the arts than he did in the classroom. He became an expert in botany, sociology, city-planning, reclamation, and economics....
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    76,24 €

  • George B. McClellan
    Bryan Conrad / H. J. Eckenrode / HJEckenrode
    In their study, the authors redeem the most ill-judged man in American history' and point out that it was he who took command of the Union forces and probably saved the Union cause. More than the stry of McClellan, it is the story of the nation’s capital fearful of invasion, of a Washington dominated by politicians and partisans, and of military intrigue in high places.'Origina...
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    60,83 €

  • Philip Pendleton Cooke
    John D. Allen / John DAllen
    Philip Pendleton Cooke, a typical Virginia gentleman farmer and lawyer, realized a creditable achievement in lyric poetry, in critical essays marked by vigorous good sense, and in the historical tales to which he returned. His work received recognition from leading literary men of his day, and his writing merits attention in any consideration of Southern literature.Originally p...
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    48,50 €

  • Broken Conditions
    Jo Lena Johnson
    Broken Conditions, Volume 1 of The Clean Colored Girl Chronicles highlights the author’s college years and chronicles key relationships, which lead to drama, adventure, hurt and poor choices into her 30s. See how growing up affects and influences almost every decision, relationship and behavior. When what she learned wasn’t working, she did something about it … sometimes!The Cl...
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    13,82 €

  • Nipples To Kneecaps
    Mandy Brown
    'Nipples to Kneecaps – To Die or Not to Die with Cancer' is the true, inspirational story of Steve, a man who seemed to have it all…until a cancer diagnosis threatened to take it all away.Historians recall that the mid-1980s boasted big hair, loud music, and iconic Hollywood superstars. Mandy recalls, “My dear girl, I have seen many a patient in my time and we cannot he...
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    15,07 €

  • Opportunity
    A JPosner / A. J. Posner / AJPosner
    When life gives us lemons,we must learn to make lemonade. Like lemonade, opportunitycan be bitter or sweet. It’s what we do with it that counts. With hard work and determination,we can learn to make lemon icing. But society still bakes the cake. Only when there is a mutual acceptance and equal OPPORTUNITYcan our sweet icing become an integral part ofthe ENRICHED CAKE OF LIFE fo...
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    10,49 €

  • Our World
    1000 Tales Co-op Ltd
    Our World is the flagship project of 1000 tales Co-op Ltd. It aims to highlight the diversity of both our lands and its peoples. It is a coffee table book featuring up and coming photographers from around the world. Each photograph is accompanied by a short written piece about the world from the perspective of the Photographer. These pieces were written in the photographer’s na...
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    16,63 €

  • I Never Came Home
    Robert L. Scheck
    Are you aware of the hour we are in? This 21st Century has been dubbed the “Age of Information.” Our world today is inundated with a sea of information, yet could we still be lacking wisdom? We claim information and knowledge are power, so, why then do nations still fall into the same critical mistakes, generation after generation, regarding being powerless in preventing wars, ...
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    8,54 €

  • Hallelujah Anyway
    Jean Johnson
    Hallelujah Anyway is the biography of David Johnson: beloved husband, father, and pastor. Hallelujah Anyway traces the Christian conversion of an Englishman who became an evangelist, American citizen, and eventually a pastor in Virginia (USA). Written from the perspective of his lovely wife, Jean Johnson. ...
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    20,73 €

  • ISSUE
    Jan-Willem Dikkers
    Conversations unfold between cover star My Friend Dahmer’s Ross Lynch and Derf Backderf, as well as Brandi Carlile and TORRES’ Mackenzie Scott. Director Jessica M. Thompson discusses her new film The Light of The Moon with lead actor Stephanie Beatriz. Winfried Bullinger details his photobook At The Edges of Power. Collaborators Alex Cameron and Roy Malloy answer questions from...
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    26,62 €

  • Killing Time
    Emmanuel De Silva II
    Aged 38, Emmanuel found himself facing a 23-year sentence in a AA Category prison. He started his journey as an illiterate and dangerous criminal, but has used his time to gain knowledge and wisdom. Whilst serving his sentence, he has completed Open University degrees in Social Science and Religion, and he is currently working towards a BA Honours degree in Arts and Humanities....
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    14,34 €

  • Son of a Bitch
    Jason B. Sheffield / Jason BSheffield
    Immaturity, simmering anger, and years of therapy - budding defense attorney, Benjamin Scales owes it all to his mother.She dragged him through hell while clawing her way to the top of the sexist, male-dominated legal profession, sacrificing everything to build a life for herself and her son - a bizarre and broken life, but a life. Under her ferocious veneer, Carter Scales is a...
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    11,37 €

  • PATRICK SWAYZE
    Sue Tabashnik
    Patrick Swayze, the beloved dancer, actor, singer, songwriter, producer, choreographer, family man, athlete, horseman, and more, had a diversified career in the arts world for over thirty-five years. He often played hero roles in his work and spoke about traditional values such as honor, integrity, morality, passion, faith, and love. He was always searching for meaning in his l...
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    19,13 €

  • A Grandmother’s Legacy
    Jenny Mallin
    “I read your manuscript with real interest – there is a true warmth and charm to the book, and the stories behind the recipe names and the dishes themselves are fascinating and full of life. I can see that these recipes are authentic and they sound delicious.”     Natalie BellosBloomsbury Books    "It was fascinating, and you’re clearly in possession of a real family treasure –...
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    69,56 €

  • Minstrel Magic
    Eleanor Pritchard
    The Black and White Minstrel Show was one of the greatest shows the BBC ever produced, bringing the BBC international plaudits and awards. Sweeping the board at the first-ever Golden Rose of Montreux, it was snapped up by nearly fifty countries worldwide. It became the first television show in the world to invade and conquer the live theatre, running for an amazing eleven years...
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    11,50 €

  • Never Give Up
    Judy Cline
    The story of a genuine Canadian heroine. “I remember Eleanor Mills as a determined woman with osteoporosis who wanted to make a difference… This inspirational woman demonstrated to others that osteoporosis need not be a crippling condition that prevents a person from doing what they want to do. For me, as a physician, Eleanor Mills provides a concrete story of what can be accom...
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    19,40 €

  • More Than a Manicure
    Carly Bennett Stenmark
    Carly Bennett Stenmark is a working nail technician, business owner, and first-time author. Are you biting your nails yet? You should be because you are about to read some high-spirited, adventurous and sometimes delicate stories about life in and out of the sacred nail room.Although she would never “clip, file and tell” she does communicate stories and feelings that connect an...
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    13,23 €

  • Sex Crimes
    Alice Vachss
    'NOBODY KNOWS RAPISTS BETTER'  After being fired from her post as Chief of the Special Victims Unit for refusing to 'go along to get along,' Alice Vachss published the incendiary Sex Crimes, described as 'a stark, passionate closing argument in [her] broader case against the criminal justice system' by the NY Times, which named it as a Notable Book of the Year. Nick (Goodfellas...
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    11,59 €


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