Catálogo de libros: Memorias

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  • Clearing Debris
    Rafael Polo Rodríguez
    In 2011, Rafael Polo, an officer in the Venezuelan Military Aviation, was appointed to fulfill a state mission in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Upon completion of the mission, he chose to visit the city of Guaratinguetá in the interior of São Paulo, where he had been trained at the School of Aeronautics Specialists twenty-one years earlier. He contacted Renata, his former girl...
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    21,46 €

  • Removiendo Escombros
    Rafael Polo Rodríguez
    En el 2011, Rafael Polo, siendo oficial de la Aviación Militar Venezolana, fue designado a cumplir una misión de Estado en la ciudad de São Paulo, Brasil. Después de concluir la misión, decidió visitar la ciudad de Guaratinguetá en el interior de São Paulo, donde veintiún años atrás se había formado en la Escuela de Especialistas de Aeronáutica. Se puso en contacto con Renata, ...
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    21,44 €

  • Da Cana Aos Barris: A História Da Cachaça Em Pirassununga
    Israel Foguel
    Com 500 anos de história e podendo ser considerada a primeira bebida destilada das Américas, a origem da Cachaça pode ser evidenciada por meio de duas vertentes históricas que convergem para uma mesma época: a do início da colonização efetiva do Brasil pelos portugueses.Também há evidências de produção de destilados de cana-de-açúcar que remetem a 500 a.C. em Taxila, um sítio a...
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    12,54 €

  • Me, My Father and I
    Calum Meadows
    In June 1940, my father joined the 9th Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment; he was 17. Trooper 7952180 hit the Normandy beaches on June 9th 1944 - my mission: to live his war again.The plan was simple. On my return from a road trip to France, I would write a book about his exploits, not for grand publication but for anyone in my family who cared. To retrace his journey thro...
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    10,46 €

  • Defying Adversity as I Race to Achieve My Dreams
    Jennifer Wood
    The world sometimes asks what we’re made of. It sometimes dishes out problems that put our characters and strengths on display.I was a white female who grew up in a small California town, with a brilliant and popular college professor father and a brilliant and nurturing mother. My paternal grandfather made his mark in several impressive businesses, and Mom’s father was a Harva...
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    11,33 €

  • Living Life in Color Again
    Christopher / Kimberly Christopher
    What happens when you experience the loss of a loved one by traumatic means? Do you lean on your faith? Do you surround yourself with a supportive community of people with similar lived experiences? Do you recognize how generational patterns and toxic family dynamics affect your grieving process?  Living Life in Color Again: Notes from a Homicide Survivor describes my grief jou...
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    25,21 €

  • A GOOD DAY TO DIE
    Carina Bergfeldt
    He is the last person to touch them before they die.His face is the last they see before they are executed.He stands there with one last goal: to get them to heaven.  276 TIMES CHAPLAIN Jim Brazzil has sat in death’s waiting room. He has listened to confessions in the eleventh hour. The last moment of the condemned is when everything bubbles up to the surface, and they have to ...
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    22,81 €

  • A GOOD DAY TO DIE
    Carina Bergfeldt
    He is the last person to touch them before they die.His face is the last they see before they are executed.He stands there with one last goal: to get them to heaven.  276 TIMES CHAPLAIN Jim Brazzil has sat in death’s waiting room. He has listened to confessions in the eleventh hour. The last moment of the condemned, when everything bubbles up to the surface and they have to sha...
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    24,66 €

  • La pesadilla de Ana Caramelo
    Ana Caramelo
    Los pecados de Ana es un relato cautivador que nos sumerge en el oscuro y complejo mundo de una mujer llamada Ana, cuya vida está marcada por los abusos, la desesperación y la búsqueda de un camino hacia la redención.La historia comienza relatando una infancia plagada de abusos y sufrimientos por parte de su hermano, la falta de amor de su padre y, más tarde, una relación abusi...
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    16,49 €

  • Bloodlines
    Tracey Yokas
    Against the backdrop of author Tracey Yokas’s struggles to break free of limiting familial patterns, depression strikes her teenage daughter, Faith. After many dark moments, she finally confronts the truth of Faith’s illness-she can’t cure it—and discovers that the key to helping her daughter is hidden inside her own transformation. ...
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    13,95 €

  • Passage through Turbulent Times
    Andrzej Derkowski
    This is the story of the long life of someone who became a seven-year-old war refugee when the Nazis invaded Poland in September 1939. His father managed to escape with him just ahead of the invaders and their Soviet partners-in-crime, but he lost his mother and his country. A ten-year-long odyssey followed, involving eight countries on three continents; several schools, langua...
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    21,67 €

  • Y’ALL (NOT) GON’ MAKE ME LOSE MY MIND
    Emilia A Ottoo
    Embark on a transformative journey with Emma Lee M.C. as she weaves a narrative rich in challenges, triumphs, intelligent analysis, and profound introspection. Set against the striking backdrops of Uganda and Harlem, New York City, Emilia’s tale unfolds as one of unyielding tenacity. From her early days as a high school dropout to standing proud as a college graduate, her path ...
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    27,28 €

  • Detroit White Girl
    Constance McMurray
    Constance McMurray’s family was one of the few that didn’t join in the infamous 'white flight' from Detroit - leading to a shift of the neighborhood before her eyes. Discover Constance’s memoir of mourning losses and moving friendships.Detroit, 1967: The 1967 Detroit Riot becomes one of the bloodiest of the urban uprisings in America, and it erupts within a short distance from ...
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    22,09 €

  • Detroit White Girl
    Constance McMurray
    Constance McMurray’s family was one of the few that didn’t join in the infamous 'white flight' from Detroit - leading to a shift of the neighborhood before her eyes. Discover Constance’s memoir of mourning losses and moving friendships.Detroit, 1967: The 1967 Detroit Riot becomes one of the bloodiest of the urban uprisings in America, and it erupts within a short distance from ...
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    14,56 €

  • My Life Story
    Marcia Nicks
     This book is an autobiography that depicts my life as a child that lost her mother at a tender age of three. It will show the good and bad of how I did or did not cope with many situations. I had many insecurities that captivated my progress in becoming the true successful individual that! should and could have become. But for the grace of God, I am who I am today. ...
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    11,25 €

  • THE CHRONICLES OF MANIA
    Brian W. Walker
    This book is not about bipolar disorder but, rather, what the severe mania and delusions associated with the illness can do to someone when it is unknown, unchecked, and unbridled for more than fifty years! Brian Walker’s entire life has been ruled and governed by the mania that results from being bipolar. This mania has driven him to do things so far and beyond the grade that,...
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    18,79 €

  • Encountering Divine Presence
    Beth. H. Wilson PhD / C. Brady Wilson
    Encountering Divine Presence: One Couple’s Memoir of Pain, Death, and Joy details the illness journeys of a married couple, Drs. Brady and Beth Wilson.Brady Wilson, PhD, was diagnosed with a five-pound leiomyosarcoma--a deadly cancer--in 2008 and was treated at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Through a harrowing sixteen-hour 'mother of all surgeries' with a team of...
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    17,32 €

  • Don’t Laugh
    Sacha Jones
    As a white haired, green-eyed, ’black sheep’ growing up in a fire zone, Sacha (then Sally) feels from a young age she doesn’t fit in with her family or general environment and struggles, literally, to breathe. But when a doctor recommends ballet as a cure for her ills, though her Russian teacher tells her she is ’not built for ballet’, she finds a way to bend her build to balle...
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    16,87 €

  • From Baghdad to Toronto
    Yahya Abbas
    In our increasingly globalized, interconnected, and therefore volatile world, how can we expect to find success in business? Faced with the precarity of our current economic situation, what can we fall back on in our pursuit of a meaningful and rewarding business career?From Baghdad to Toronto goes a long way to answering these omnipresent yet increasingly urgent questions, det...
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    12,00 €

  • Uncharted
    Barbara A. Busenbark
    Uncharted is the captivating story of a woman who is suddenly widowed after thirty years of happy marriage. As she struggles to make sense of the unexpected loss, she moves two hours away from the small New Hampshire town she called home, and its sad memories. Her dream of opening an art gallery is complicated by the condition of the house she wants to buy. The location is perf...
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    11,72 €

  • From Baghdad to Toronto
    Yahya Abbas
    In our increasingly globalized, interconnected, and therefore volatile world, how can we expect to find success in business? Faced with the precarity of our current economic situation, what can we fall back on in our pursuit of a meaningful and rewarding business career?From Baghdad to Toronto goes a long way to answering these omnipresent yet increasingly urgent questions, det...
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    24,53 €

  • We Come from Good Stock
    Kay Oakes Oring
    West Central Wisconsin, 1853. As soon as the ice goes out on the St. Croix River, Mildred Potter’s boarding house fills with lumberjacks bringing logs down river to the mill. In the spring, one lumberjack, Levi Jefferson Oakes, notices Mildred’s sister Mary and lingers after supper to talk to her. So begins We Come from Good Stock, Kay Oakes Oring’s history of family, frontier,...
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    20,24 €

  • They Can Rip The Flesh From Your Bones
    Margaret Campbell
    'THEY CAN RIP THE FLESH FROM YOUR BONES, BUT DON’T EVER LET THEM BREAK YOUR SPIRIT' Rose Mary Bree - My Grandmother The horrors of Neerkol, an Allegedly safe place and refuge for young children, are almost too difficult to comprehend. Margaret Campbell’s shocking true experience of church-sanctioned cruelty, sexual abuse and deprived behaviour by people charged with protecting ...
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    13,68 €

  • Eternidade
    J.v.escobar.caldas
    Tantos poemas sobre o amor, a existência humana, a realidade ao nosso redor, a aventura, o passado, o presente , o futuro, a vida e o que lhe faz grandiosa, a coragem, a saudade, amizade, já foram feitos e quantos ainda serão.Todos eles fazem parte daquilo que realmente importa na vida do Cosmos como um todo e do Universo dentro de nós mesmos e em cada ser vivo, a Eternidade, c...
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    18,46 €

  • The Military Effect
    Scott Manthorne
    The Military Effect shares authentic stories of fifty amazing veterans, each providing unique insight into the challenges of transition and business success after service to our country. ...
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    22,30 €

  • Bug Pilot
    By Cindy Utter Author / LTC Lewis Hudspeth U.S. Army Retired
    The Vietnam War comes alive in this real-life story of a young, small-town American boy who quickly became a man with a purpose as a helicopter pilot who survived the ravages of war, made instant life-and-death decisions, earned a Purple Heart for combat wounds, and changed his life forever.Life was different in the 1960s for teenage boys facing life decisions as a youth. Young...
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    20,85 €

  • Telling Silence
    Charles E. Scott
    Aims to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening. ...
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    43,77 €

  • Invisible Wounds
    Alexis Faere
    Alexis Faere’s book gives an inside look into the author’s personal journey, recounting a harrowing kidnap and rape experience and the subsequent evolution from victim to survivor. Her words explore the process of integrating this traumatic event into her identity. When asked about the intended impact of the story, Alexis expresses a desire to reach out to victims of sexual abu...
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    21,91 €

  • UNIFORMS
    David G. Duchesneau
    You’re born and your parents and siblings are what you have, and that’s it. God stuck you with them and them with you. You try and make the best of what God gave you. That’s how simple life really is.Who named these nuns anyway? They were far from being saints so why did they get to be named Sister Saint anything?A drum and bugle corps is not a band. As a matter of fact, it’s f...
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    26,78 €

  • UNIFORMS
    David G. Duchesneau
    You’re born and your parents and siblings are what you have, and that’s it. God stuck you with them and them with you. You try and make the best of what God gave you. That’s how simple life really is.Who named these nuns anyway? They were far from being saints so why did they get to be named Sister Saint anything?A drum and bugle corps is not a band. As a matter of fact, it’s f...
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    38,49 €