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A book anyone can read especially if they wonder how their dream may be fulfilled.
"Father Mike Ortiz is now retired from the Army Chaplaincy and the active Priesthood. After several attempts to become a military chaplain he finally was accepted and volunteered for the Green Berets and served with the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th and the 10th Groups. He underwent SCUBA and HALO training and is a graduate of the Command & General Staff College as well...
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A book anyone can read especially if they wonder how their dream may be fulfilled.
"Father Mike Ortiz is now retired from the Army Chaplaincy and the active Priesthood. After several attempts to become a military chaplain he finally was accepted and volunteered for the Green Berets and served with the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th and the 10th Groups. He underwent SCUBA and HALO training and is a graduate of the Command & General Staff College as well...
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During the Summer of Love in 1969, Alan Hodgkingson was drafted. After basic training, he was sent to serve his tour of duty in Viet-Nam. THE FOREST OF DARKNESS is a gut wrenching account of how a nineteen year old managed to cope with the horrors he witnessed in order to survive during his stay in that war-ravaged country. But besides being a first-hand account of a military conflict, it is also a question about a moral dilemma that an unwilling...
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Take Dave Barry, Jack Welch, Homer Simpson, and Ray Romano, mix in a family, a little weight gain, failure, introspection, and redemption, and you have Nigel Marsh's international best-selling autobiography.
As a stressed husband and father of four small children under the age of eight, Nigel Marsh was enslaved to his mortgage, recuperating from an embarrassing surgery, and suddenly fired from his corporate career. Deciding to venture "off the treadmill"...
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A Gay professional recounts his life before and after HIV positive diagnosis.
Dr. Marty is a second generation chiropractor. He first wrote Living Beyond Rainbows in 2011. He worked in the HIV arena since the 1980's. A different perspective of growing up in America.
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The first, and only, inside story of one of the greatest bands in rock history-Dire Straits-as told by founding member and bassist John Illsley One of the most successful music acts of all time, Dire Straits filled stadiums around the world. Their albums sold hundreds of millions of copies and their music-classics like "Sultans of Swing," "Romeo and Juliet," "Money for Nothing," and "Brothers in Arms"-is still played on every continent today. There...
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Patrick Henry was a brilliant orator whose devotion to the pursuit of liberty fueled the fire of the American Revolution. As a lawyer and a member of the Virginia House of Burgess, Henry spoke eloquently of the inalienable rights all men are born with. His philosophy inspired the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and, most significantly, the Bill of Rights. Famous for the line "Give me liberty or give me death!" Patrick Henry was a man...
8) Barack Obama
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In the incredibly giftable little book Barack Obama, readers get an inside look at the remarkable 44th president of the United States. Barack Obama is the first African American U.S. president and the first politician to bring 21st-century technology to an election and the presidency. He brought change to a nation and changed history. From local community reformer to Oval Office tenant, Barack Obama has lived the American dream. This is his story...
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A literary master looks ahead to her eighties As her eightieth birthday approaches, Doris Grumbach does not feel melancholy or saddened by the upcoming event, despite the loss of friends such as Kay Boyle and Dorothy Day-instead she takes it as an opportunity both to look backward and to grow. In this, her summer of unexpected content, Grumbach weaves the elegiac and the practical into a delightful tapestry of experience. She looks deep into her...
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A stunning biography of the magisterial author behind The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors Henry James is an absorbing portrait of one of the most complex and influential nineteenth-century American writers. Fred Kaplan examines James's brilliant and troubled family-from his brother, a famous psychologist, to his sister, who fought with mental illness-and charts its influence on the development of the artist and his work. The biography includes...
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The first book by distinguished novelist, journalist, and literary critic Rebecca West: a biography of Henry James. Setting the standard for a century's worth of criticism, Rebecca West diagnosed Henry James as an American who "could never feel at home until he was in exile" in this slim, readable biography, published just a few months after his death in 1916. West boldly assesses Roderick Hudson as "not a good book," and displays remarkable foresight...
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Rosie was born loving horses and has pursued many disciplines in the horse world-breeding, showing, teaching, endurance racing, driving, camping, and trail riding wherever she can. Any ride on a horse is an adventure, and most folks can only dream about the places she has seen from the back of her horse. As an ICU nurse, getting away on her horse is a great escape.
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Personal recollections from André Gide on a man who profoundly influenced his work-Oscar Wilde André Gide, a towering figure in French letters, draws upon his friendship with Oscar Wilde to sketch a compelling portrait of the tragic, doomed author, both celebrated and shunned in his time. Rather than compile a complete biography, Gide invites us to discover Wilde as he did-from their first meeting in 1891 to their final parting just two years...
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Tony Nott retired from the Dorset Police in 2002 at the rank of superintendent. He had spent most of his service as a detective, and had been involved in the investigation of a number of murder cases and other serious crimes.
In 2000 he led the British forensic team on exhumations in Kosovo and describes the horror and brutality carried out by Serb paramilitaries. He then worked in Bosnia for the UN, where he was the commander of the eighty-strong...
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Catching Up provides the reader with an amazing number and variety of the author's personal adventures in the outdoors. These include such experiences as encountering mountain lions in the wild, being treed by a moose in the Grand Tetons, encountering a fierce javelina boar in Big Bend, studying ferruginous pygmy-owls on the King Ranch, restoring Ridley sea turtles to Padre Island, being face-to-face with a number of wild bears, censusing birds on...
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The #1 New York Times–bestselling author and child abuse survivor reveals the challenges that he still faces as an adult, as a husband, and as a father. In the blockbuster autobiography A Child Called "It", Dave Pelzer shared the story of his childhood-one of the most dramatic and extreme stories of child abuse ever prosecuted in the state of California. As a child, Pelzer was beaten, starved, and abused both emotionally and physically by his alcoholic...
17) Siege
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This is a true story that has it all: killer cops, and whores, and mafia connections. There is even a hanging. It's all about their relationship to a ten-year old boy. He lives, sometimes, with Jesus followers, and sometimes with hard-core atheist. You've probably seen this kid walking down the street by your house. he's a quiet loner, nothing to say, head down, eyes inspecting the sidewalk as he goes. You ask yourself how did he get this withdrawn...
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Mary Cassatt knew from a young age that she wanted to make her living as an artist. She persuaded her parents to send her to the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at age fifteen, and by age twenty, she had moved abroad to begin her painting career. After several years of study and success, she found her rightful place among the Impressionists, becoming their first and only female American member.
Illustrated with Cassatt's own work...
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The legendary Boss Tweed effectively controlled New York City from after the Civil War until his downfall in November 1871. A huge man, he and his Ring of Thieves appeared to be invincible as they stole an estimated $2 billion in today's dollars. In addition to the New York city and state governments, the Tweed Ring controlled the press except for Harper's Weekly. Short and slight Thomas Nast was the most dominant American political cartoonist of...
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A collection of new-in-print comics from legendary creator Leela Corman. Motherhood, music, trauma, and heritage whirl together in powerful and unexpected ways. Praise for You Are Not A Guest:"In You Are Not A Guest, Leela Corman is in a no holds barred wrestling match against Trauma set to the tune of an antifascist punk band. She leads us into the heart of her personal tragedies: the death of her daughter, and her family's history in the Holocaust,...
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