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In 2009 Cristina Nehring's brilliant first book, A Vindication of Love, was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. An important new voice had appeared in American letters. Just as suddenly, Nehring seemed to disappear-only to reemerge like a bolt from the blue. "Now unexpectedly, writes California poet laureate Dana Gioia, "from Paris comes a heartbreaking and tender memoir, The Child Who Never Spoke, that explains her years of silence....
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Get the Summary of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Be Useful in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.
Arnold's stratospheric success...
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Death is hard. It's as inevitable as manipulation and misogyny; as inevitable as love, conflict, insanity, sleep-deprivation, and broken hearts. It's coming. It's here.
On the 28th April 2018, a young poet called Dan "DC" Collins was found dead in the woodlands by his home in Birmingham. He'd taken his own life. This was done, at least in part, because I had made the incredibly selfish decision to stop being his girlfriend. This decision would...
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What impossibly big dream or impossibly big failure is God calling you to take a journey circling around the promise and to fail better?
Sharing inspiring human experiences from her own journey to fail better in prison, Anmy Tran will help you uncover your heart's deepest desires and God-given promises and unbridle them through the kind of audacious communication that God delights to give you the desire of your heart.
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My Stuff And Welcome To It is my attempt at telling a true story of growing up in a big family that lived in a tiny house and some of the universal truths that we all share as members of the human race. I suppose more than anything else it is just time to tell these little stories before they are gone. Forgotten like so many other things in our fast-paced lives. Stories about a time that was much different from today. A time before technology took...
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The inspiration for "Taken From the Cradle" is to convey a story of hope and encouragement, whatever you're going through, especially searching for family. The message is "don't give up!"
There was absolutely nothing to go on, yet through perseverance and sheer determination, the truth prevailed. There were gigantic walls to cause discouragement, many a tear shed, the heart broken countless times, yet through it all, wall after wall, brick after...
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There were many encouragements to Ken during his five-year diary called Ken's Greatest Challenge, many heartfelt and inspirational messages from family, friends, coworkers, students, those who knew Ken, and those who knew about Ken.
This guestbook is a collection of these messages that were all read by Ken. He appreciated these so much. I believe that these are what kept him so very positive and fighting for as long as he did.
I thank you all...
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The book is A Memoir About:
Adventure
Exhilarating journeys where travel and adventure intertwine. Awe-inspiring destinations, daring escapades, and transformative experiences that will leave you yearning for your own extraordinary odyssey.
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The quest for love transcends borders. Follow Bill's serendipitous journey across continents, revealing the remarkable tale of finding love on the other side of the globe.
Family
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After years of holding certain things inside that have happened in my life I have decided that the truth about certain aspects of my life definitely need to be talked about, despite the fact that there are people out there who would feel threatened by the things that I will be talking about. Many will probably find it hard to believe that I have remembered these things since they happened when I was younger and would try to claim that I am lying about...
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Everyone has a story. Probably not quite like this one.Written by an author who has had a more than 'interesting life', this book will pull you into the rollercoaster of Natashas past.Forget what you think you know about a person, this book shows how anyone can have dark, deep secrets that you'd never have guessed they kept hidden from the world ...
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This super short piece briefly describes my experience of transitioning and acclimating to the Big Apple that is New York. It takes a lot to adjust to a big city when you come from a small Midwestern town (I'm from Michigan). The process can be a sluggish and slow one, despite the fact that you launch at full speed and hit the ground running. With so many challenges to face and obstacles to overcome, my adjustment to the big city was definitely not...
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Life Blood, written by a renowned leukaemia physician, tells unforgettable stories of his leukaemia patients' battles to be cured but also uniquely describes the stresses that doctors face when looking after extremely ill young people during an extraordinary time in their lives.
In reflecting on his long and illustrious career, Professor Marks' memoir offers frank descriptions of his own medical family, some personal experiences of ill-health and...
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A Message to the Reader
As I endeavor to share with you, through Reflections of My Life, I am aware of God's love for all His people. It is my wish that, as you read the different selections, you will begin to develop a desire deep in your soul, to trust God as He gives you strength to work and accomplish the things in your life that might seem too different for you at the time.
Remember, God never gives us more than we can handle.
The...
14) 101 Elsie St
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Dominic Albanese is back with something completely different - a surreal road trip veering wildly from psychedelic nightmare to idyllic dream; an utterly new experience. 101 Elsie St is a riveting jaunt through a fading time - the beginning of US involvement in Vietnam, the awakening of the counter-culture of the sixties, and one man's journey through the hell of addiction, prison and self-doubt to the realization of the healing nature of fellowship...
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Nationally syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson, winner of the Ernie Pyle Award for human interest reporting, turns her sharp eye on herself in this frank, exhilarating, wise, poignant, and brave memoir. Her territory ranges from childhood memories of ritual pre-interstate trips in the family station wagon to visit foot-washing Baptist relatives to young-girl fixations on the Barbie dolls of the title, from the simultaneous exuberance and proto-feminist...
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When the author reached the age of eighty, and was no longer able to travel much, he began to put a few words on paper; his motivation was to keep his mind alert as his muscles weakened. Some of these 'musings' attempted to be amusing, without much success. Others were reactions to articles in the Australian newspaper, in the days when he could afford to have it delivered every day. Then he got carried away and began to deliberately wear different...
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As a child, Cynthia René Doss asked her father what he did each day he reported to work as a United States Army soldier. He would reply with quips she felt minimized the importance of his job, intensifying her curiosity.
After receiving a copy of his military service record when he died, she begins researching the 76th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion, the unit he fought with in the Korean War. When her research efforts are unsuccessful, she...
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My book is to help people from day to day after the effect of going through tragic situations, because so much is going on in this world.
This book is about everyday life and its challenges but if you can trust the Lord like I had to do with everyday challenges both good and bad, God will turn them into a triumph.
That is what this book is all about. I lost my son, I missed my husband for two years, but God TURNED them into triumph for me.
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An Earthbound Angel is the inspiring true story of author Graham MacLauren's journey of self-discovery, guided by an extraordinary gift that changed the course of his life. Dedicated to his late brother Garry, An Earthbound Angel unfolds as a testament to the transformative potential within all of us.
Graham MacLauren, a Conan Doyle Award-winning spiritualist medium, practitioner and teacher of Reiki, Shamanism, and reflexology, shares his experience...
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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....