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  • Suiyue Liusha
    Jianping Liu
    出生于50年代中期，她见证了大饥荒年代，寄养在亲戚家的童年和少年，使她有不同的视角回顾那一段历史。经历了文革，她15岁就被打成“反革命”，19岁下乡当了知青，在文革后第一次恢复高考的那年，考上了大学，却被分到不喜欢的专业……一个普通的留学生，在北美的求学，求职，以及职场和家庭生活。作者以幽默的笔触，描写了第一次在美国考试，就考了38分的惊慌；有摔门而去，愤然辞职的愤怒；有反映家庭矛盾的学车的场景……最后，作者回忆了她与父母之间温馨往事，记录了一对儿女成长过程中的酸甜苦乐……这里有惊恐，有无奈，有欢乐，有悲哀，有奋斗，有成长。这是一本跨越东西文化，交织三代人情感的故事书。 ...
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    17,02 €

  • The Smell of Garlic on Sunday
    Norma Jo Thomas
    A memoir, neither a nostalgic look back, nor a pity party, just some serious self-work getting into those deep-rooted feelings that threatened to sabotage my efforts and derail my dreams, feelings that had shaped my view of myself, my world, and my relationship to it, hell bent on delivering a message from my higher self - their message, packed away in timeless memories, delive...
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    27,14 €

  • Addicted to Lies
    Terrell Patterson
    Author Terrell Patterson bares all—his past and his present, his strengths and his flaws—in this candid and refreshing debut, Addicted to Lies. Part memoir, part life guide, Patterson takes us through the events of his tumultuous childhood spent in inner city Baltimore with a mother who struggled with addiction, his capricious teenage years in which he searched for love and loy...
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    19,05 €

  • Shaking the Family Tree
    Dallas H
    There was a boogie man in the closet and its name was alcoholism. This story is not for the faint at heart. Shaking the Family Tree is an anonymous personal memoir of a recovering alcoholic. It is interlaced with poetic offerings that take the reader to the heart and soul of the ramifications of the disease of alcoholism. Dallas’s story is one of coming to terms with what has b...
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    18,95 €

  • Trapped by a Mouse
    Bob Zumwalt
    Memoir depends on recollection—not only the particulars of experience, but the emotions, reflections, and even the daydreams elicited. Bob Zumwalt uses memory and imagination to tell the poignant, the fanciful, and the humorous moments of his life. From a bashful young lad in small town Central Texas to world-traveling chemical engineer, Zumwalt shares the rich, (and sometimes ...
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    15,77 €

  • A Royal Love Revealed
    Corrine Sharpe
    In 2011, God sent Corrine Sharpe a simple, loving message: Look for the hearts. She had lost her mother to cancer. Her family struggled in the depths of grief. This divine revelation from God healed their hearts. A Royal Love Revealed is Sharpe's memoir of loss, belief, and love. Are we loved? Are we valuable? Our material world has its opinions as to the nature of love. It...
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    22,71 €

  • I Promised Not to Tell
    Cheryl B Evans
    A Readers' Favorite 2017 Bronze Medal Award Winner.  Cheryl Evans and her husband Jim raised their children telling them: 'You can be anything and do anything you want in life.' They just never expected to learn that what their youngest daughter desired most in the world was to be a boy. Experience this powerful, raw and, deeply personal story as one family invites you to b...
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    14,94 €

  • I'm Not An Actor (I Just Play One On TV)
    dave e. keliher
    This is the part of the story of my life. But there is more to it than that. I mean, like, there's things about me as a kid and as a teen and as twenty-year old. And since this description has to be at least 200 characters I just have to keep typing until I can stop. Like now. ...
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    5,65 €

  • Ghetto By The Sea
    Ghetto By the Sea is the second anthology in an annual series produced by the students of P.O.P.S. the Club, a club for those whose lives have been touched by prison. In short memoirs, poems, photographs and drawings, the students tell the stories of their lives--sometimes stories about how their lives have been touched by prison, often by the ways in which all kinds of losses ...
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    14,54 €

  • Stuck in the Passing Lane
    Jed Ringel
    What happens when a newly divorced, monogamous, family-oriented Baby Boomer gets trapped on the Internet dating superhighway?From Spanish Harlem to Singapore, in relationships with Muscovite intellectuals and streetwise Chinatown massage parlor queens, Jed Ringel takes you on this hilarious, heartrending, self-revelatory, and sometimes even cringe-worthy journey.With the unspar...
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    12,21 €

  • How To Grow Up Like Me
    Ballou High School Writers
    "Your Story Is Your Strength." This is the mantra that emerged from a six-month writing project at Ballou High School in Washington, DC, in which eleven dedicated freshmen and six determined seniors told their stories of ambition and struggle in what came to be known as The Ballou Story Project. The freshmen were students in AVID, a college-preparedness program, who gathered vo...
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    10,50 €

  • What You’re Hiding Is Hindering Your Blessings
    Tina Bailey
    'One of the most liberating things is to realize that you don’t have to be perfect in this imperfect world. All you have to do is strive to be better than you were yesterday. This book will help you avoid the pitfalls of low self-esteem, learn to look for the best within yourself, stop hiding who you are, and embrace your identity. Life is a precious gift given to us by God an...
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    9,68 €

  • Keep This Quiet! III
    Margaret A. Harrell
    'Keep This Quiet! III-Initiations' begins in the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich, where Margaret was enrolled in 1984. She is headed for a big initiation there, which she narrates for us - showing how initiations are life-transforming. Notably, she also dives into the debate between physicist Wolfgang Pauli and psychiatrist Carl Jung about how science/matter and psyche/spirit/synch...
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    18,12 €

  • Crossing the Borders of Time
    Leslie Maitland
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    26,14 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Wisdom From the Back of a Bike
    JB Owen
    Are you looking for something to inspire, uplift, and transform your thinking? Do you get excited about the idea of seeing the world through a different lens? Perhaps you prefer to find a more enjoyable way to reach your dreams and desires. If you like unique, out-of-the-box inspirational ideas, buckle up and experience wisdom principles, and life lessons, all from the back of ...
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    15,41 €

  • Engineering a Father
    J Smith
    Ross J. Smith, writes his debut memoir about fatherhood from the calculated perspective of an engineer. In his self-deprecating, yet surprisingly poignant story about being a new dad, he battles his technical predispositions as he navigates the uncontrolled variables of life while his premature twins fight to survive in the NICU. Engineering a Father connects to a variety of re...
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    15,63 €

  • J’st to Live
    A.C. Mueller-Rowry
    In the 1970s, Angie’s sheltered, middle-class outlook is turned upside down when she falls in love with Robert, an incredibly handsome Black guitarist and brilliant, street-savvy school dropout. The pair lose touch when Angie leaves St. Louis’s Northside and returns home to Germany.Twenty-five years after their turbulent romance, Angie, worldly-wise and aware of her own emotion...
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    38,99 €

  • Much More Than Love
    Vritika Rene Viswanathan
    About the BookThe wonder of my adoption never ceases to amaze me and so, I feel like I need to hear the story of my journey over and over again. When I turn the pages of my narrative, I can envisage how two strangers took a chance on me and became my heroes by adopting me. I am also blessed to be engulfed in the warmth of an amazing network of extended family. By putting my tho...
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    11,29 €

  • Goal in Progress
    Bhikkhu Nyanadhammika
    In Goal in Progress: The Detours and Diversions of a Spiritual Journey, an American Buddhist monk describes his eclectic, non-linear spiritual journey and his ongoing attempts to clarify the goal of his quest.Beginning with his early search during the late 1970s, followed by a prolonged residence in West Berlin, he goes on to articulate the monastic journey he embarked on at th...
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    12,74 €

  • Third Act Encore
    Catherine Clark / Pat Labez / Robert R. Blume
    Step into the spotlight and discover that, indeed, 'All the World’s a Stage,' with the Third Act stealing the show as the best act of all! In this anthology, a dynamic community of authors in their encore years share tales of courage, resilience, and personal metamorphosis, uncovering the secrets to a profoundly fulfilling life. As you turn the pages, each author becomes your g...
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    38,12 €

  • Unwrapping Your Gift
    Giulio Veglio
     Giulio Veglio stands as a testament to the transformative power of leadership and service. Beginning his illustrious career with John Paul Mitchell Systems in 1984, he swiftly advanced from an enterprising salon owner to an internationally recognized educator and master stylist. His innovative approaches to customer service have propelled multiple salons and educational instit...
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    33,82 €

  • Sipping Sunlight
    Bernard Ross
    'Over the course of this remembrance, Ross eloquently narrates the unusual twists and turns of his existence as he searched for meaning and true love in his life...[an] engaging story of a seeker on the path of enlightenment.' - Kirkus ReviewsEmbark on a mesmerizing journey into the wild and transformative landscape of the 60s, a time of free love and psychedelic exploration. T...
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    14,61 €

  • Novos Rumos
    Geraldo Souza Pinto
    Novos Rumos, uma continuação de A Trajetória de um Piloto, aborda ciclos de vida numa aviação em constante evolução, abrangendo empresas aéreas, aviões e tripulações. Além de relatos cronológicos das diversas fases que compõem o desenvolvimento de empresas iniciantes, como Webjet, Lynx e Whitejets, seus desafios e tensões, o leitor encontrará reflexões sobre o desaparecimento d...
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    11,60 €

  • Tundra Tales
    Michael A Rossi
    Following, rooting, dedicating oneself to the Packers is unlike any other endeavor, either within sports or in life. They are a team that has never had an owner and operates in a tiny market competing against teams from the biggest markets in the world. For those of us born at a time when our formative years saw the end of a dynasty and ushered in over two decades of agonizing ...
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    14,68 €

  • STABLE
    Emily Swisher
    'Emily Swisher’s beautiful prose illustrates how an emotional connection with horses helped both her and her clients gain insight into their own emotions.' -Temple Grandin, Author Animals Make us HumanWhen Emily Swisher follows her dream to work with horses at an equine-therapy ranch first in Colorado and later in Montana, she helps people heal from their wounds and traumas. Em...
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    20,03 €


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