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A loving and literate, honest and insightful look into the heart of that unsung heroine: the good girl. Fans of the strong narrative voices of such writers as Donna Tartt (The Secret History, The Little Friend), Nell Freudenberger (Lucky Girls, The Dissident), and Amy Bloom (Come to Me, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You), as well as books such as The Nanny Diaries, Prep, and The Devil Wears Prada, will love Not That Kind of Girl: Carlene Bauer's...
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Peter von Ziegesar had just moved to New York and was awaiting the birth of his first child when a dark shape stepped from the looking glass of his past on to a Greenwich Village street. The Looking Glass Brother is Peter von Ziegesar's remarkable memoir of a life that began in the exquisite enclaves of Long Island's gilded age families and is now lived, in part, as the keeper of his homeless and schizophrenic stepbrother, Little Peter. The Looking...
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Each of us is destined to have a Damascus Road experience at some point in our lives.
Perhaps none of us will have as dramatic an experience as the apostle Paul detailed in the 9th chapter of the book of Acts in the New Testament. A 180-degree change in direction was required in order to cause Paul to change from one of the persecutors of Christians to become perhaps the greatest spokesman for Christianity and one of the contributors to the proliferation...
64) Destiny's Story
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The story begins with Destiny sitting alone in her prison cell, feeling completely detached. In a solemn reflective state, she mulls over her past actions, bad decisions, and life experiences. Her parents had migrated from Africa to France before she was born, marking the start of a life of movement, spending her childhood living between Africa and France with her family. Despite a visual impairment, Destiny was successful academically. Popular within...
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Suspenseful, darkly funny, and devastating, this is Eli Hastings's true story of his troubled, decade-long relationship with his friend Serala. At family events, Serala wore saris and ate delicately from plates of curry. But elsewhere, she wore a lip ring, designer shades, and a cowboy hat; would regularly drink frat boys under the table; would sleep less than five hours a week; and would place herself in dangerous situations for another bag of heroin....
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In his intimate autobiography, spanning six decades that included war, totalitarianism, censorship, and the fight for democracy, acclaimed Czech writer Ivan Klíma reflects back on his remarkable life and this critical period of twentieth-century history. Klíma's story begins in the 1930s on the outskirts of Prague where he grew up unaware of his concealed Jewish heritage. It came as a surprise when his family was transported to the Terezín concentration...
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'For a story that is so much about being scared, this is writing at its most fearless.' – Matthew Bright, Everybody's Reviewing.
A compelling, heartbreaking story of a teenager, his family, and finding the courage to live with anxiety. It's an everyday story of life, friendship, love, going to school, and terror.
The Fear Talking tells the true story of Chris Westoby, who as a teenager has a life-long anxiety condition, but he doesn't know it...
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With most of her friends married, Sylvia at 23 can find no good reason for turning down her boyfriend's proposal of marriage. In her heart, though, she knows that she longs to be free to see more of the world before settling down to what she feels would be a humdrum life of a domestic city in the early 1960s. Having been dissuaded from accepting a teaching job in the USA, she continues her quest for an overseas posting until one day, she finds exactly...
69) Herida fecunda
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Exilios, migraciones, violencias, pero también abrazos y solidaridades, se cruzan en estos fragmentos en que el dolor que provoca el abandono del propio hogar busca transformarse en «una herida fecunda», como lo quería Clarice Lispector.
La Historia con mayúsculas, la historia colectiva, atraviesa nuestra historia íntima, dejándonos marcas sobre la piel y los recuerdos. Y ahí están acompañándonos nuestros ausentes, nuestros desaparecidos,...
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Hello, I am Bisola. I am a writer, a podcaster, and a story teller. I love to sprinkle some shine around the world through story telling and writing. My stories usually center around Love and Faith.Born with a pen in hand and a love for literature, I discovered the magic of storytelling early in life. When I am not writing, you will find me reading or researching.
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Life often evolves differently than we had hoped or expected. Some of life's transitions lead to a love we have only dreamed of, but others can traumatize and overwhelm us completely. As a result, we feel discouraged and disenchanted as we quietly start to wonder about the meaning of life.
John Edwards understands this deeply as he takes us on an elegant, insightful, and profound journey of his personal experiences that are a jumping-off point...
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Ellen wird über eine Freundschaftsseite ihres Fitnesstrainers bei Facebook auf Kiran aufmerksam. An Silvester – ein wenig sentimental – nimmt sie über WhatsApp Kontakt zu ihm auf. Zu ihrer Überraschung meldet er sich sofort bei ihr und sie erfährt seine traurige Geschichte: Von versuchtem Suizid, Drogenproblemen, Spielsucht und Einweisung in eine Entzugsklinik ist die Rede. Seine innere Einsamkeit rührt sie. Hatte sie ursprünglich geplant,...
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Udder Confusion is an Alaska homesteader's true-life adventure. "Alaska!" You mean you're going to farm in Alaska? What are you going to harvest, ice and snow? You must be crazy." With these statements from friends and family ringing in our ears, we pointed the Studebaker north. North to Alaska! We arrived in Alaska light on assets, young, vigorous, in good health, and optimistic about the future. Homesteading was exciting and full of experiences...
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Inconceivable, not pronounced with a lithp "in-con-theeve-able" as in The Princess Bride (nor does it have to do with the immaculate conception), but a story of a man who dared to dream an impossible dream and experience a power beyond his own to see that dream fulfilled. A poignant story of one man's determination, struggles, and triumphs in following God's vision and purpose for his life. It's one of courage in uprooting his family and moving to...
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As a Professor Emeritus of a major university, Norman set out to write his memoirs until he was introduced to a volunteer experience that set him on a course of activism for the next 20 years.
That activism would take him to the United Kingdom where he would engage in an historic African Asian Solidarity Conference, aimed at securing the rights of Ethnic and Religious minorities in the forthcoming European Union.
Alex Norman, having taken an...
76) Chariot of Fate
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Life vanishing in the "rearview mirror" and friends' questions "how did you meet your husband" inspire Sigrun to delve into a colorful past.
Her life was touched by a parade of interesting events and people even before her unexpected rendezvous with fate and James, the man who totally changed her direction and circumstances. She describes her origin and background touched by comfort and horror of war. We see her through a part of the German educational...
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This book is a scream from a person who can't take any more. It began as a self-indulgent cry into cyberspace, and evolved into a personal volume that also attempts to educate and deconstruct the often-oversimplified media image of autism. The contents are raw and unfiltered, written at my absolute lowest point at which I, like thousands of other autistic adults, had been thinking of doing the unthinkable. Autistic adults are struggling, and nobody...
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At a time when her college peers are debating what to major in, going to parties, and working jobs they can quit without threat of prosecution, Rosa is a secret traitor. She is a conscientious objector stuck in a National Guard uniform during the War on Terror. When the call comes to ship out, she faces the biggest quandary of her life: stay in an organization she has lost respect for to fulfill her duties, or follow her moral compass, no matter the...
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When Hard Lilies Cry describes my 26 years journey battling two cancers and preventing two more.Diagnosed with breast cancer. How do you deal with that? How do you wait for weeks not knowing whether you will live or die? How do you inform your children and raise them while going through treatment? How to cope with your family during chemo and radiotherapy? Can you accept the alteration of your figure after mastectomy? Will your husband leave you?...
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Embark on an unforgettable journey through the life of author Hamid Cocker, where every road taken is an adventure waiting to be explored. From his enchanting childhood in Africa to his prestigious career at Bayer, a global pharmaceutical giant, Hamid's life is a tapestry woven with thrilling experiences and unexpected turns. With a voice that echoes the legendary Elvis Presley, Hamid's musical talents have graced stages worldwide, leading him to...
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