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  • A Year Without a Man
    Barbara DeHart / Gayle Long
    Sometimes the darkest secrets need the power of friendship to set things right.As friends who had lost touch over the years, Barb and Gayle’s fateful reacquaintance one Halloween night revealed they had a lot more in common than either expected-including their deepest-kept secrets. The truth was, they each held romantic obsessions with married men alongside the damaging belief ...
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    15,94 €

  • The Kite That Couldn’t Fly
    Michael Menard
    In 'The Kite That Couldn’t Fly: And Other May Avenue Stories,' Michael Menard crafts a captivating memoir, weaving a narrative of resilience and hope from the threads of his challenging childhood. Raised amidst poverty and complex trauma, Menard was one of 14 siblings, each uniquely shaped by their shared experiences. His memoir transcends mere storytelling; it’s a journey thro...
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    21,60 €

  • The Kite That Couldn’t Fly
    Michael Menard
    In 'The Kite That Couldn’t Fly: And Other May Avenue Stories,' Michael Menard crafts a captivating memoir, weaving a narrative of resilience and hope from the threads of his challenging childhood. Raised amidst poverty and complex trauma, Menard was one of 14 siblings, each uniquely shaped by their shared experiences. His memoir transcends mere storytelling; it’s a journey thro...
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    25,94 €

  • Frozen Voices
    Kit Roberts Johnson
    Don’t take speech for granted. Kit Roberts knows what it is like to have a frozen voice. She knows what it is like for others to have their voices silenced, like children with Down Syndrome, or adults with stuttering. She became a speech therapist to help people with communication disorders and discovered over the span of her career that we have all been silenced in some way. W...
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    15,91 €

  • The Branch and the Vine
    Stephen D. Edwards
    Author Stephen D. Edwards became depressed as a young adult. He suffered insomnia. He lost interest in many pleasures. He was constantly tired and restless. He felt worthless and had many suicidal thoughts. There were many moments when he thought depression had gone away, but that was all circumstantial. With little hope of finding healing or freedom, he reached a crossroads. T...
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    10,14 €

  • I Knew I’d Done Nothing Wrong
    Stan Blacklock
    Stan Blacklock is one of those rare people who doesn’t ask what others can do for him but what he can do for others. He’s made mistakes and experienced tragedy but his optimism and determination, his faith and his gift for friendship, have helped him get the best out of life, even in the darkest times. Growing up as a farmer’s son in the Caldbeck fells, Stan always knew he was ...
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    16,39 €

  • The Optimistics
    Richie Frieman
    The Optimistics is an inspiring true story of three strangers, Dennis, Mike, and Jim, all battling Young-Onset Dementia, who became brothers through their incurable illness. Forming a bond of optimism with one another, they dubbed themselves 'The Optimistics' as a way to share positivity through the Alzheimer’s community. Their heartwarming mantra towards dementia created an ec...
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    12,72 €

  • Tendrel
    Anne Waldman
    Tendrel: A Meeting of Minds is an examination and recollection that ventures into the heart of a unique cultural and intellectual crossroads. Anne Waldman’s profound exploration of the fusion of poetics and Tibetan Buddhist wisdom, set against the backdrop of the compelling and provocative figures of Chögyam Trungpa and the celebrated writers of the Beat literary movement, shin...
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    20,35 €

  • Live And Die For Hip Hop
    Tyler Idleburg
    'A true story of Love & Hip Hop.' - Keandra Clay'Such a thought-provoking story.' - Jerrod Williams'... displays a vivid image into the mind of a child, growing up without a father figure. With no proper guidance throughout his life, he resorted to the one thing that gave him comfort: Hip Hop--In following the culture, he was able to find great insight, a sense of direction, an...
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    24,35 €

  • 2020 Visions
    Alan Sasala
    AS I RIDE OFF into the sunset I would like to leave you with these thoughts. I have had the pleasure and opportunity in my life to have worked in both the public and private business sectors for over fifty years. However, my greatest pleasure has been to have met and shared those same years with my wonderful wife, Karenann. Together with our four children, we made a great middl...
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    21,24 €

  • Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
    Christopher Lee Bowen
    A picaresque story beginning 1938 in the Philippines and General MacArthur, 1942 Guadalcanal, 1941-43 FDR White House, China Mao and Revolution 1948, California dreaming 1952, Georgetown 1954, Army 1961-62, I Have a Dream and Jack and Jackie 1963, Washington riots and mayhem 1965-68, California dreaming 1977, Russia and China romance 2007-12, celebrating a score of characters a...
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    34,73 €

  • Traveling through Grief
    Cyndi Francois
    'My husband was dead. I’d lost my job and then my home-all within six vicious months. Life crumbled before my eyes. All I wanted to do was drive.'Cyndi Francois was only twenty-eight and newly married when her husband’s sudden death changed her life. Nine months after discovering his lifeless body, she tucked his ashes safely in her glovebox, bought a tent, and began her unplan...
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    22,35 €

  • 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 €

  • Ringo’s Rainbow Journey
    Kathy Bolte
    Kathy’s husband, George, yearned for a Border Collie. This is the story of the birth and life of their beloved Ringo, the transition out of his body and rebirth as little Nina, a female Border Collie. As Ringo, and their matriarchal cat, Solo, faced health challenges and moved toward their end-of-life, Kathy and George were referred to Amanda Reister, a gifted pet communicator,...
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    26,96 €

  • Hollow Bone
    Gretchen Ward Warren
    Dance, Culture & Self-Discovery: A Journey Through Indigenous WorldsWhen the world of classical ballet collides with the rhythmic heartbeat of indigenous dance, a transformative journey emerges. In Hollow Bone, Gretchen Ward Warren delves deep into a voyage of self-discovery, cultural exploration, and artistic creation. Stepping onto Australia’s red terrain, Warren, a celebrate...
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    64,93 €

  • You Have a Kind Face
    Joel Simmons
    You Have a Kind Face is a collection of true, firsthand accounts of what a career in firefighting can be like. Over the course of twenty-six years in the fire service, Joel has seen more than a few strange situations and difficult calls. From fighting fires in houses and apartments, to the extrication of a victim under a train, to struggling to save lives alone in the back of a...
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    20,79 €

  • Transformed
    Carrie Wright-Christopher
    This personal collection of poems, prose, and photographs taken by the author expresses reflections and transformative experiences that open a window into the heart, mind, and soul of the author. Her viewpoints on nature; home; artistry; love; motherhood (trigger alert - abortion); childhood; humanity; pain, self-awareness; spirituality, and the experience of awakening are reve...
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    30,73 €

  • Transformed
    Carrie Wright-Christopher
    This personal collection of poems, prose, and photographs taken by the author expresses reflections and transformative experiences that open a window into the heart, mind, and soul of the author. Her viewpoints on nature; home; artistry; love; motherhood (trigger alert - abortion); childhood; humanity; pain, self-awareness; spirituality, and the experience of awakening are reve...
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    20,28 €

  • All Who Believed
    Tamara Mathieu
    'Come for a day or to stay!' beckons the maroon double-decker bus called The Peacemaker. One couple, searching for peace and a better life, did just that. In August of 2000, Tamara Mathieu and her husband gave up everything they had and joined the Twelve Tribes, a worldwide religious organization, with their 17-month-old son. They were just 23 years old. Fourteen years and thre...
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    15,79 €

  • Death Trip
    Seth Lorinczi
    When a midlife crisis threatens his marriage and an open-minded therapist offers him MDMA, the author learns just how trippy a search for meaning can get.Like many children of immigrants, Seth Lorinczi knew only the major plot points of his Hungarian family’s backstory. But when he stumbles upon his father’s long-forgotten memoirs, he realizes the antisemitic violence and traum...
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    13,36 €

  • Ingrate, Treacherous, & Criminal British King George VI, Jewish-British PM Winston Churchill, And Scheming Jewish Race Conspired Assassination of Their Savior American President Franklin D. Roosevelt/
    Ranjan Kishore Narayan
    Ingrate Illegal British-Empire Power Hungry Criminal King George VI; Jealous, Inferiority Complex OCD Suffering Envious Jewish-British Criminal PM Winston Churchill; And Devious Jewish Race Criminals Conspired FDR’s/My Murder'The God Almighty Lord Shiva Re-incarnated, Inspired, and Intuition Blessed' All Time Greatest American President, the erstwhile ethnic Dutch American Pres...
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    75,54 €

  • Twenty Years & Six Months
    Erika L. Orriss
    From happy, hardworking wife and mother to non-responsive quadriplegic almost overnight, and her journey back.This is the story of one woman’s fight, moving past exceptional obstacles, and finding the strength to push forward despite all odds. Erika Orriss tells of how she fought a battle against a rare neurological illness, Guillain Barre Syndrome, which she had never even hea...
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    14,48 €

  • How to Write Every Day
    David Macpherson
    How do you write every day? For David Macpherson, he has not missed a day of writing in five years. Every day in those years, he has written at least 200 words a day. It is not a lot of words, but when looked at for an entire year, it becomes a good amount of writing. David goes through his small journey into being a more prolific and consistent writer. He offers some advice, b...
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    9,34 €

  • Rosaries, Reading, Secrets
    Anita Mathias
    Rosaries, Reading, Secrets: A Catholic Childhood in India is a lyrical account of Anita Mathias’s turbulent Roman Catholic childhood in India.Mathias grew up in Jamshedpur, 'The Steel City,' a company town benevolently run by the Zoroastrians of Tata Steel. The Catholic church, run by American Jesuits, provided an all-encompassing world. In a pre-TV world, visiting friends was ...
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    16,83 €

  • Trigger Warning
    Brooks Eason
    The Law Is No Laughing Matter . . . Except When It Is.Brooks Eason practiced law in Jackson, Mississippi, for forty years. Then, one day in the spring of 2023, he decided he might be retired. But he wasn’t sure. How, one might ask, could a man with a lifetime of experience and a post-graduate degree not know whether he’s retired?Well, it’s complicated.Though Brooks maintained b...
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    30,71 €

  • Wolves In The Kitchen
    Scott & Nyla Wolf
    This candid memoir details the epic story of Scott and Nyla Wolf, founders of the wildly successful Wolfpack Restaurant Group. Two lone wolf kids who started with nothing and defied all odds, now celebrate 35 years in business and 40 years of marriage with the release of Wolves in the Kitchen. Their never-before-told story details the losses, challenges, mistakes, and make-or-b...
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    26,82 €

  • The Smallest Wave
    Dolores Reynals
    'This book is about one of those children that parents dread having. She came into the world under stressed circumstances and spent the rest of her life living up to that potential. It is frank and unassuming autobiography, from an author who is still working through the events of her own life, allowing us the privilege of looking over her shoulder as she does so.'Gordon Long, ...
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    12,77 €

  • Killing Justice
    Kelly Giles
    Killing Justice is a profound exploration of a life marred by injustice and a betrayal of trust by a friend of twenty years, transformed into a testament of strength. At the center of this riveting memoir is Kelly Giles’s harrowing experience of wrongful arrest and a 10-month imprisonment. On his way to becoming a disbarred double-felon, he must grapple with the unforgiving int...
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    18,01 €

  • Mission to Malawi
    John E. Fleming
    Unlike the vast majority of Peace Corps volunteers in the 1960s, John Fleming was a young Black man who was assigned to an all-white agricultural project in Malawi, an emerging African country surrounded by White-ruled Southern Rhodesia, Mozambique, and South Africa. John wanted to be a missionary in Africa, but was put off by his encounters with self-serving White missionar...
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    42,86 €

  • Suicide India
    Bill Lindsay
    Journey to the depths of the Vietnam War and the impact it had on the lives of American servicemembers in the poignant, powerful memoir from a true American hero. For history buffs, veterans, and anyone with a passion for the stories that shaped the modern American landscape comes a riveting memoir on the Vietnam War. Suicide India traces the experiences of William Lindsay, a s...
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    22,85 €


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