Catálogo de libros: Biografía: general

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  • Parties, Pills & Psychosis
    Clare Kenyon
    An overseas trip of a lifetime quickly turned into something terrifying for 22-year-old carefree, party girl Clare Kenyon. Under the influence of a cocktail of drugs, she suffered her second psychotic episode and began lashing out at friends until German police hauled her off to a Berlin psychiatric ward.  What followed in the months after her stay in hospital challenged her fa...
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    15,00 €

  • Hood
    Luke Timmerman
    NAMED A TOP INDIE BOOK IN 2017 BY KIRKUS REVIEWSLee Hood did that rarest of things. He enabled scientists to see things they couldn’t see before and do things they hadn’t dreamed of doing. Scientists can now sequence complete human genomes in a day, setting in motion a revolution that is personalizing medicine.Hood, a son of the American West, was an unlikely candidate to trans...
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    29,03 €

  • From Mascot To Agent And Everything In Between
    Justin Richard Hunt
    Starting out as a high school student who aspired to be a sports agent, Justin Hunt went on to work as a salary cap administrator in an NFL team's front office and serve as a sports agent and attorney for professional athletes and coaches. Justin learned firsthand that sports is a relationships game, and he relied on the lessons he learned while networking with industry exe...
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    23,13 €

  • Unveiling the Silent Cries
    Sherry B Moss
    Unveiling the Silent Cries documents the events suffered by Sherry Bevill Moss at the hands of her husband.  Unthinkable abuse plagued Sherry during a nineteen year period while she endured eleven pregnancies, three of which ended in miscarriages.  The book details the types of abuse she suffered.  Sherry thought she alone suffered sexual abuse but discovered differently from o...
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    7,69 €

  • Her Chronicles
    Jai Stone
    Emotional Nudity is a way of living that starts with one simple act, telling the truth! This book is an anthology of 11 different women who were courageous enough to openly and honestly share their stories of faith, fear and fortitude. This riveting collection of tales chronicles some of the most pivotal situations and decisions that women face in modern times. These stories of...
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    26,17 €

  • The Magnolia Seed
    Emelda Johnson Kennerly
    Anaiah, an African American girl growing up in the deep south, becomes orphaned at the age of 12, independent at the age of 15 and embarks on an odyssey that takes her from her hometown of Bogalusa, Louisiana to an exclusive New England all girls school. The odyssey continues leaving five husbands and two intense relationships in its wake. In the end, she is not only a succes...
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    19,17 €

  • Theological Times
    James Farris
    In Theological Times, James Farris offers a summary introduction to leading elements of nineteenth- and twentieth-century theology, situating Christian thought and ethical reflection in the context of contemporary developments in philosophy, science and world events. He does so from a personal perspective, recalling a lifetime of study and teaching shaped in ecumenical settings...
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    16,09 €

  • I Am with You
    I Am with You is an anthology written by and for amazing cancer patients everywhere. Over 40 women and men who have 'walked the walk' of living with cancer ... be it their own diagnosis or that of someone they love ... share their stories to sustain, support, and give you hope. I Am With You is a book of wisdom, wit, inspiration, compassion, and love. Every story you read speak...
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    14,63 €

  • Ashes of Bluebird
    Sheriff Terry Ashe
    This collection of inspiring, thought-provoking, and sometimes comical stories is from Terry Ashe, the Sheriff who holds a tight rein on the lawless in Wilson County, Tennessee. Awarded three Purple Hearts and the Bronze Star for bravery in Vietnam, he faced a whole different enemy when returned home from the war to clean up the blight 'across the creek' from the scene of his c...
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    22,99 €

  • Coffee on the Rocks
    Resa Milan
    Comedy, romance, and spiritual growth happen when a sexy cook opens a coffee shop in the vortex of Sedona. 3 ...
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    10,87 €

  • Biogragraphical Encyclopedia
    J. Turner Stilson
    This book presents the personalities, doctrines, divisions and events that shaped an American denomination, the Church of God Abrahamic Faith. Yet, it is more than the chronicle of a denomination, it is a compilation of hundreds of detailed biographies, spanning more than 150 years, plus photos, charts, doctrinal discussions, and more. The book honors and records the faithfuls’...
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    34,52 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Narrative of Sojourner Truth (An African American Heritage Book)
    Sojourner Truth
    Sojourner Truth transformed herself from a runaway slave into a well-known campaigner for abolition and women’s rights. Her dedication to her principles and her fiery speaking style electrified the abolition movement and brought her fame. This is an extraordinary story about the triumph of an extraordinary woman. ...
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    20,53 €

  • 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 €

  • God-Sized Dreams
    Debra Williamson
    God-Sized Dreams: The Story Of A Little Black Girl From The South Side Of Chicago, tells the story of a highly sensitive little black girl who from a young age, felt insecure in her own skin and struggled with low self-esteem and low self-worth for most of her life. With a front row seat, she witnessed the crumbling and eventual demise of her parents' marriage and loss of t...
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    11,66 €

  • A House Without Meatballs
    Vincent Herr-Romano
    Switched at birth. Raised in a dysfunctional family. Constantly searching for meatballs. 71 years of searching for the answer to life's ultimate questions: Where did we come from? Where are we going? What is this life all about? In the end, DNA holds the answer. ...
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    14,65 €

  • Whippoorwill Calls
    Gabrielle Songe
    Alternating between prose and poetry the author weaves her journey of awakening from agnosticism to belief. The story travels along paths of loves and loves lost at times metaphorically and other times supernaturally. Does 'More Is Expected' signal a sequel? Old Testament Prophet Jeremiah and King David provide sign posts along the way. ...
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    8,53 €

  • Yishar Koach
    Susan Sloan
    We live in an era of unpredictable and ubiquitous change and challenge. Each one of us will be confronted with difficult circumstances and some will be called on to make heroic choices. Forward With Strength is the story of a man who shone brightly in response to his own personal challenges.   From refusing to give up his education as a youth to sacrificing his future for the...
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    14,42 €

  • The Good, The Bad and Jesus Christ
    James McConnell
    As an orphan, life was not easy for James McConnell. He also battled with fear for many years but soon ‘learned to whistle’ as he would say. But it would be that fear that would lead him down a dark entry with two half-bricks in his hands. He would have to combat the fear and defeat it completely to be the man of God that he was called to be. Read how he went from having a con...
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    14,01 €

  • The Other Side of the Moon
    Sheridan Morley
    ‘A highly readable work … Niven emerges as gallant and gracious.’ Chicago TribuneSheridan Morley wrote this biography of the consummate on-screen English gentleman after speaking to over 150 of Niven’s friends and colleagues (only Rex Harrison refused). The result is a picture which both supports and contradicts the charming vagabond persona depicted in Niven’s own bestselling ...
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    14,61 €

  • The Wayward Traveler
    Robert Louis DeMayo
    A young man searches the pre-internet world for meaning while traveling on an extreme budget in this real-life, coming-of-age story. The Wayward Traveler follows the adventures of Louis, an American who, in 1985, is determined to travel the world. The story takes place in forty countries and spans ten years: from the deck of a felucca on the Nile to the scorched dunes of India’...
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    22,07 €

  • 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 €

  • The Lonely House
    Paul Brody
    During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson did not seek out recognition or attempt to change the world around her, even in the smallest way. A private but not antisocial person, she kept her life’s work, and her innermost feelings, almost entirely to herself. Her life was rich in intellectual pursuits, and she had many friends with whom she exchanged witty and brilliant letters, but ...
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    6,16 €

  • 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 €

  • Lunch With A Leadership Coach
    Simon K Milne
    When Matt Wilson replaced his father as CEO at Wilson Industries he expected a smooth leadership transition. His Executive Team, however, all resigned from the business and set up in competition to him. Matt quickly discovered that leadership often involves difficult (and sometime unexpected) choices, and he engaged Simon K Milne to help him with the challenge. By following Ma...
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    13,53 €

  • Only If
    Linda Lee Pope
    Linda Lee Pope dealt with more than her fair share of tragedy in life. From losing her mother at a youngage to seeing her own daughter die in a car accident, Linda was beginning to wonder if life was even worth living. In fact, she even contemplated suicide at the depth of her depression.However, the presence of a singular goal, created shortly after her mother’s death through ...
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    12,80 €

  • 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 €

  • Getting Hosed
    Dave Nassaney
    David Nassaney has been the owner of 6 gas stations in Californiasince 1976. Before that, he had worked at or managed several gasstations for many different family members since 1966. Prior tothat, his father had owned, and managed gas stations and garagessince 1945 in New York City and California. They have seen a lotof changes in the gas station business over the years. This ...
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    10,34 €


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