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  • Arm Candy
    Christopher Gaida / Michael Aloisi
    The Amazon.com #1 Best Seller, now in paperback! In this newly edited edition, Chris reveals what happened after Hollywood heard about this book. Find out whether he has been blackballed from the industry, what celebrity sister confronted him on a live radio show about his Diva’s chapter and what he wants everyone to really know about the entertainment industry. From Julia Robe...
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    20,72 €

  • Using Heavenly Faith to Accomplish Earthly Goals
    John Earl Harris
    This book tells the story of an uneducated man’s journey from shame and regret to honor and respect. “Using Heavenly Faith to Accomplish Earthly Goals” highlights the importance of getting an education and obeying God’s words. The book reveals the author’s abilities to interpret heavenly visions to provide for daily necessities. The author tells his misfortunes in hope of that ...
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    12,07 €

  • Telegram from Mandalay
    Will Cribb
    This is the story of Will Cribb: an idyllic childhood, his father’s early death, a mother’s indifference, a ten-year banishment by his stepfather to boarding school thousands of miles away, and the shy boy’s efforts to cope with the school’s barefoot regime and tough bullies.However, this is no misery memoir. It is also about how the growing boy realises his dream of travelling...
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    12,45 €

  • The Lives of the Artists
    Weam Namou
    Artists have a story, a story that affects their pallets. In Iraqi Americans: The Lives of the Artists, Namou wanted to honor artists of Mesopotamian ancestry by giving them the opportunity to share their incredible stories themselves rather than risk having others to do it for them, as was the case with Layla Al Attar. Layla Al Attar died in 1993, along with her husband, aft...
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    18,96 €

  • Sergeant to CEO
    Sean P. Jensen
    Climbing his way out of the foster care system and into the Marine Corps, Sean P. Jensen rebuilt his life to include a loving wife, family and the rediscovery of a Hawaiian heritage that illuminated his past, his character, and his way forward. Part of that way forward was founding Polu Kai Services.LLC in 2002, a construction and environmental services company that he grew fro...
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    18,49 €

  • Bob Crane
    Carol Ford / Dee Young / Linda J. Groundwater / Linda JGroundwater
    The Estate of Bob Crane and I both worked closely with Carol and Linda, and immeasurably appreciate all of the hard work and dedication they put into this book. The only truthful and accurate account of my dad’s life. -Scott CraneSince his untimely death on June 29, 1978, Bob Crane’s unofficial biography has become akin to a broken record. Like a skip in the acetate, his murder...
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    42,17 €

  • Bob Crane
    Carol M. Ford / Carol MFord / Dee Young / Linda J. Groundwater / Linda JGroundwater
    The Estate of Bob Crane and I both worked closely with Carol and Linda, and immeasurably appreciate all of the hard work and dedication they put into this book. The only truthful and accurate account of my dad’s life. -Scott CraneSince his untimely death on June 29, 1978, Bob Crane’s unofficial biography has become akin to a broken record. Like a skip in the acetate, his murder...
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    32,58 €

  • Hope Reigns
    Mary Farmer
    This suspenseful memoir will keep you on the edge of your seat as Mary shares her terrifying journey of escape from her abusive husband. She quickly learns that his power and control extends far beyond the four walls of their home as she is forced to fight for her freedom and her life while hiding in a shelter with their daughter. Her story is one that all can relate to as she ...
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    12,75 €

  • Fear Is Not An Option
    Michele Anstead
    Michele Anstead’s inspiring true story is a stunning account of ultimate triumph over the most impossible of odds. From an early age, her life was marred by abuse, deprivation, abandonment, addiction, incarceration, tragedy and loss.  Michele's downward spiral began at the age of three, when she witnessed her mother and aunt being beaten by her uncle, followed by her mother...
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    15,60 €

  • Position to Win
    Dave Scheiber / Dewayne Staats
    Dewayne Staats marks his 40th year as a Major League Baseball broadcaster with POSITION TO WIN, a book that chronicles his amazing journey through America's pastime - a fascinating career working alongside some of baseball's all-time great announcers and calling some of the memorable moments of the game. Many Tampa Bay Rays fans may only know Staats as a Fox Sports/Sun Sports...
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    22,74 €

  • Out From The Shadow Of Men
    Laila El-Sissi
    'The shadow of a man is better than a roof over the head.' This Arabic proverb has long described the plight of women in Egypt. Like the classic Pyramids of Giza, the culture of Egypt for the most part stands unchanged. Egyptian men continue to use the banner of Islam and antiquated interpretation of the Quran to justify controlling women. Egyptian women continue to believe G...
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    18,90 €

  • AFFAIRS VALENTINO - A Special Edition
    EVELYN ZUMAYA
    On August 23rd, 1926, silent film star Rudolph Valentino died unexpectedly at thirty-one-years of age. His sudden death inspired mass hysteria among his fans. His grieving fans were not the only ones to mourn. His business manager and close friend, George Ullman, was appointed executor of Valentino’s estate and faced the daunting task of settling the movie star’s complex postmo...
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    52,96 €

  • A Hero in a Bandana
    Brad W Hoover
    You are invited to come along on a gripping journey involving one brave boy and his steadfast family. A story from the hand of an ER physician from the opposite end of the white coat, it describes a parent's nightmare yet also a community's uplifting love and undying support. See how this ordinary father's journal transforms into an extraordinary primer on not only survival but...
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    7,25 €

  • A Capful of Wind
    Monica Matterson
    A Capful of wind, AKA "Useless Information for Aspiring Skippers" charts the author's progress from her first dubious adventures in a leaky tub to Coastal 1 examination. Despite everything that the elements and even fellow seafarers throw at her, Monica Matterson wittily recalls a wealth of fascinating and usually hilarious tales of misadventure on, in and sometimes under t...
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    16,58 €

  • 86 Dumplings of Insight into China
    Sally Waters
    MY STORIES FROM CHINA FOR YOUAre you moving or travelling to China? Are you curious about Chinese culture? Peel back the layers and uncover the richness of a Chinese way of life.86 Dumplings Of Insight Into China is an intimate guide to Chinese culture all wrapped up in bite-sized morsels of stories and insight. Come along with Sally as she shares own personal stories and obser...
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    12,18 €

  • Fearful Majesty
    Benson Bobrick
    Ivan the Terrible - the name evokes the legend of a cruel and dangerously insane tyrant. Fearful Majesty explores that legend and exposes the man, his nature, and his time.This acclaimed biography of one of Russia’s most important and tyrannical rulers is not only a rich, readable biography, it is also surprisingly timely, revealing how many of the issues Russia faces today hav...
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    21,18 €

  • From Consulting to Cutting
    Nicole Barrett
    Nicole Barrett co-founded NiaNicole Salon in October of 2008. She has an extensive amount of training from across the world and has taken various classes in hair cutting techniques, as well as coloring techniques and finishing. With a background in business consulting, she helped Fortune 500 companies regain and maintain market eminence. As a past educator for L’Oreal, Nicole h...
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    17,07 €

  • My Husband Looks Better in Lingerie Than I Do ... Damn It
    Bobbie Thompson
    Bobbie Thompson, the supportive spouse of a transgender male-to-female, tells her side of their story in 'My HUSBAND Looks Better in Lingerie Than I Do ... DAMN IT,' in this companion memoir to 'Hung in the Middle: A Journey of Gender Discovery,' (www.hunginthemiddle.com) written by her spouse, Alana Nicole Sholar. After knowing 'him' for nearly 25 years, and even sharing a th...
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    10,31 €

  • Eco-Logical Lives. the Philosophical Lives of Richard Routley/Sylvan and Val Routley /Plumwood.
    Dominic Hyde
    Richard Sylvan and Val Plumwood were eminent twentieth-century Australian philosophers who, in the way of philosophers, devoted their lives to examining fundamental assumptions about thought and the world. Though they were both renowned logicians - and probed metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, social and political theory and economics - it was their determination to fuse the pr...
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    109,13 €

  • The Transforming Power of Story
    David B Biebel / Elaine Leong Eng
    This book demonstrates, through multiple true life stories, how sharing one's story, especially in a group setting, can bring hope to listeners and healing to the one who shares. As Christians believe that 'history' is 'His story,' we also believe that the smaller personal stories of our lives contribute to the larger story of God's grace and healing power throughout history an...
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    10,73 €

  • Grande Illusions
    Tom Savini
    Legendary special make-up effects artist, Tom Savini’s books, Grande Illusions and Grande Illusions II, have been entertaining readers and educating the next generation of artists for decades. Now, for the first time, both books are combined into one ultimate guide to the craft and art of make-up effects. With hundreds of pictures and diagrams, Grande Illusions uses Tom’s rea...
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    51,17 €

  • Compassionate Vietnamese American Ceos
    Lena Tran
    Much has been written on how to build and grow successful corporations. And yet, traditionally, management gurus often hesitated to explore the role that culture played in corporate success and growth. Recently however, and especially in our straitened economic climate, it has become more acceptable to surmise that culture does indeed play a significant role and to explore alte...
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    22,40 €

  • The Call of Nursing
    William B. Patrick
    The Call of Nursing is not your typical book about nurses. In it, we go behind the curtain of silence that hangs across the profession. It lets us hear why nurses today do what they do, and allows those nurses to show us-in their own words-what has mattered most to them in their professional careersA hospice nurse reveals the connection she develops to dying people. A medical m...
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    13,41 €

  • Secret Storms
    Julie Mannix von Zerneck / Kathy Hatfield
    An Indie Reader Discovery Award and National Indie Excellence Book Award Winner.A pregnant, nineteen-year-old Philadelphia Main Line debutante is confined, against her will, to a state mental hospital. She spends her pregnancy surrounded by the mentally challenged and the criminally insane. On April 19, 1964, she gives birth to a child, whom she is forced to give up for adoptio...
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    13,57 €

  • Unmasked
    Michael Aloisi
    Kane Hodder. To fans, this name is synonymous with horror, an icon on the level of Bela Legosi, Boris Karloff and Vincent Price. Kane has appeared as a stunt man and actor in more than two hundred television shows and movies in a career spanning over thirty years. His role as Jason Voorhees in four consecutive films of the Friday the 13th series came to define the character ...
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    31,45 €

  • The Killer & I
    Michael Aloisi
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    21,25 €

  • Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia
    Warren M Billings
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    29,24 €

  • Scapegoats of the Empire
    George Witton
    According to persistent rumours, the Australian government suppressed the book because its untold story of a slice of colonial history was an embarrassment to the British Empire.  Opens a window on the Boer War, politics of the empire, and the life of enlisted soldiers of the time. George Witton’s Scapegoats of the Empire was published in 1907; however, only seven copies of th...
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    23,91 €

  • Anchored in His Love
    Sandi Borgens
    Within these pages is a life that has known tragedy, devastation, lonliness, sadness, rejection and fears.  A life not unlike many others who have experienced tragedies in their life, yet cannot move beyond them. Discover how one person managed not only to keep moving forward and stay sane, despite one event afer another in her life, but how she did not fall prey to a victim&#...
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    10,16 €

  • The Soul of a Doctor
    Gordon Harper / Sachin H. Jain / Sachin HJain / Susan Pories
    By the time most of us meet our doctors, they’ve been in practice for a number of years. Often they seem aloof, uncaring, and hurried. Of course, they’re not all like that, and most didn’t start out that way. Here are voices of third-year students just as they begin to take on clinical responsibilities. Their words focus on the odd transition students face when they must deal...
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    13,66 €


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