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21) The Snail
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Award-winning illustrator Emily Hughes offers a luminous picture book about the life of renowned Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi. Isamu Noguchi is one of the most important sculptors of all time. His Akari lamps changed the way modern buildings light their space. But before he was important, he was a kid. This is his story. Noguchi was a Japanese American artist who gave the world light. The world, however, was not always so giving in return....
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Flavius Claudius Julianus, or Julian the Apostate, ruled Rome as sole emperor for just a year and a half, from 361 to 363, but during that time he turned the world upside down. Although a nephew of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome, Julian fought to return Rome to the old gods who had led his ancestors to build their vast empire.
As emperor, Julian set about reforming the administration, conquering new territories, and reviving...
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This biography, based on firsthand knowledge and interviews with Mrs. Astor's friends and the heads of New York's great cultural institutions, gives us back the woman so loved and admired. At the age of fifty-one, Brooke Astor wedded the notoriously ill-tempered Vincent Astor, who died in 1959. In a highly publicized courtroom battle, she fought off an attempt to break Vincent's will, which left $67 million to the Vincent Astor Foundation. As the...
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Following the birth of their daughter, Jack McClure and his wife Alana had every intention of continuing their life of adventure. After an extensive hiking trip in the desert southwest, they found that having a baby with them was no excuse to stay home and dream of adventures that could've been. With lofty ambitions, they set their sights on thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Canada to Mexico as a family, beginning when their daughter was 9...
25) Pride
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Imelda Staunton (HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX), Bill Nighy (LOVE ACTUALLY), and Dominic West (THE AFFAIR) star in this powerful story of identity and union through standing together.
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A groundbreaking, freshly-researched examination of one of the most dramatic and consequential marriages in history: Henry VIII's long courtship, short union, and brutal execution of Anne Boleyn.
“Hunting the Falcon” is the story of how Henry VIII's obsessive desire for Anne Boleyn changed him and his country forever. John Guy and Julia Fox, two of the most acclaimed and distinguished historians of this period, have joined forces to present Anne...
27) De Ses Lèvres
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Le Professeur Z.T. Fomum était un homme de spiritualité et un génie spirituel qui a influencé le monde entier. Professeur d'Université, scientifique, enseignant de renommée mondiale sur la prière et la vie spirituelle, il était exceptionnel dans plusieurs domaines.En plus de tout cela, il était un homme d'expériences spirituelles inhabituelles. Dirigeant d'une équipe, aptre d'un mouvement et d'une œuvre missionnaire à succès, il a été...
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Though about me and woven from painful episodes from my childhood, the intent is not to elicit pity. The objective of the narrative is to evoke in reader's mind the memory of those brief moments that had seemed negligible and almost trivial when first experienced but had eventually became life changing and had a lasting effect on reader's conscious and subconscious behavior.Set the price to $0 before downloading.This book may be copied, distributed,...
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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"...
30) Alyosha
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Alyosha lived a short life, which he lived to the fullest following his convictions, with utter honesty and showing compassion to his fellow beings. His simplicity and positivity of outlook endeared him to those who came in touch with him whilst his brutal forthrightness quite often brought him into conflict with those in authority. Ever since his birth, it was apparent that Alyosha was a special and exceptionally gifted child. He excelled in sports...
31) La soldada
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Paulina Tuchschneider presta su voz a la tragicómica (anti)heroína de esta novela para dar cuenta –con una franqueza pasmosa en la que se entreveran la ironía, el humor, lo escatológico y lo sórdido– de su traumático paso por el Ejército de Israel mientras cumplía el servicio militar, obligatorio para mujeres y hombres en ese país.
De fondo, el sordo rumor de la contienda del Líbano de 2006, en la que Israel luchó contra Hezbolá, su...
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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...
33) I Wish
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Mark had it all a beautiful wife and a career that he loved. However he lost everything. His wife cheated on him. Now left at the crossroads of destiny he has no choice but to move on with deep remorse in his heart
A true heartbreaking story can only be written if experienced first hand
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Taking the Risk is Hilary Bradt's engaging, insightful, amusing and sometimes alarming memoir about serendipitous adventures in travel and publishing. A travel industry trail-blazer who co-founded Bradt Guides, Hilary looks back on 50 years of escapades, surprises, mishaps, disasters… and success. From her first solo trip aged three (on a British beach), she revisits six decades of hitchhiking, feeding the travel habit by working abroad, and starting...
35) Facing Terror
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They were willing to pay the ultimate price to help the people they'd come to love.March 15, 2004?Carrie McDonnall and her husband, David, had just spent the day surveying refugee camps. They were in a hurry to reach the safety of their home before nightfall. Suddenly, the crowded street they were on became eerily quiet. And then, out of nowhere came an explosion of bullets and shrapnel . . .Within hours their tragedy was all over the news. But who...
36) Yuruparí
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Entre las gestas míticas, la obra más representativa es Yuruparí, relatada por el indio amazónico Maximiano José Roberto, escrito en lengua neêngatú en el siglo XIX al conde Ermanno Stradelli, quien lo tradujo al italiano en 1890. Es de este manuscrito de donde esta leyenda se rescata hasta nuestros días. Aborda temas de vida y muerte (en fuerte consonancia con el mito solar y rituales de la región Amazonas-Vaupés); además, da una explicación...
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Prepare to be captivated by the enthralling pages of "The True Legacy of Dr. Tom Boring." This extraordinary biography promises to reshape your perspective and transport you back to the 1940's, 50's, 60's, and 70s, where haunting photographs taken by Photographer William Eggleston will immerse you in the world of Dr. T.C. Boring, his home and Murderabilia.
As you delve deeper into this gripping narrative, prepare yourself for an unsolved murder that...
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De Beyrouth à l'Amérique est la première partie de l'autobiographie d'Edward Challita: vingt-six ans d'une vie qui démarre au Liban pendant la guerre civile, en passant par la France, puis aux États-Unis. Son expérience est unique, marquée par le péril et les conflits, mais aussi par l'espoir et la rédemption.
Edward est né à Beyrouth, de parents chrétiens franco-libanais qui vivaient à Beyrouth-Ouest en tant que citoyens français...
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Saigon fell to the Viet Cong on April 30, 1975. Kien Nguyen watched the last U.S. Army helicopter leave without him, without his brother, without his mother, without his grandparents. Left to a nightmarish existence in a violated & decimated country, Kien was more at risk than most because of his odd blond hair & his light eyes - because he was Amerasian. He was the most unwanted. Told with stark & poetic brilliance, this is a story of survival &...
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