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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 €

The Defining Moments

Kees Van Der Graaf

'Defining Moments is a deeply honest, personal and at times moving account of one man’s voyage of self-discovery. Through a series of 'defining moments', Kees shows how personal crises and professional challenges can not only be overcome but can also be used to help give greater purpose and meaning to life - to help make the individual stronger, the family more cohesive and the...

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27,99 €

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 / Cynthia A. Sandor / Cynthia ASandor

Enter a world brimming with pagan rituals, stirring songs, and enchanting folklore that shapes Austria born Gertrude’s remarkable journey during her time in the League of German Girls. As a thirteen-year-old chosen girl of the Third Reich, Gertrude embarks on a monumental adventure into Poland (formerly Niederschlesien). Amidst the turbulent times in 1941 and one-hundred thousa...

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34,34 €

Kamal's Lieder

I. B. Fandèr / Lars Peter Kruse

Wie Neale Donald Walsch in „Gespräche mit Gott', gibt uns Kamal, in seinem poetischen Stil, eine seltene Gelegenheit, um einen Blick in die Erlebnisse eines Suchenden im Dialog mit Dem Einen, zu bekommen. Wir werden Zeugen seiner tiefen Liebe und seinem Mitgefühl für die Menschheit und seiner Ehrlichkeit und Hingabe zum Göttlichen. Kamal ist ein Meister darin, das Göttliche in ...

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32,33 €

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. And a shocking discovery and suprise. ...

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15,93 €

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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23,72 €

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 €

El conquistador aleman Pedro Lisperguer Wittemberg

Daniel Piedrabuena Ruiz-Tagle

Cuando Pedro Lísperguer Wittemberg llegaba a América lo hacía con feudo imperial: 'no embargante que es alemán y cualquier provisión que haya en contrario', siguiendo las propias palabras del emperador Carlos V. Comenzaba así un poderoso linaje, especialmente en Chile y Perú, que tuvo notable protagonismo en los siglos XVI y XVII, enlazándose con varios títulos nobiliarios. De ...

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26,55 €

Alfred the Great

Jacob Abbott

Jacob Abbott was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. Check out the following list of books to take and exciting, informative, and easy to understand stroll through history Alexander the Great, Alfred the Great, Charles I, Charles II, Cleopatra, Cyrus ...

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20,32 €

Cyrus the Great

Jacob Abbott

Jacob Abbott was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. Check out the following list of books to take and exciting, informative, and easy to understand stroll through history Alexander the Great, Alfred the Great, Charles I, Charles II, Cleopatra, Cyrus...

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20,26 €

Fighting Clowns of Hollywood

David Ossman

David Ossman’s memoir of The Firesign Theatre’s rapid response to the on-coming Reagan Era recounts the quartet’s uneasy transformation from writer-performer-producers of in-studio comic audio masterpieces to theatrical hopefuls and Movieland script-writers. Firesign goes Hollywood with a million $$ MGM movie deal and a string of big stage shows, featuring all-new hot comedy m...

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29,21 €

Is It Okay With You?

Janine Maxwell

Janine Maxwell is back again with a book that tells more of Heart for Africa's amazing work on one of the worlds neediest continents. It takes up where her first book, It's Not Okay With Me, left off. Raw in style and truth, this book digs deeper into the who, what, why, and how of the AIDS pandemic and the plight of millions of orphans left in its wake. Is It Okay W...

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13,50 €

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