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  • Narrative of Sojourner Truth (An African American Heritage Book)
    Sojourner Truth
    Sojourner Truth transformed herself from a runaway slave into a well-known campaigner for abolition and women’s rights. Her dedication to her principles and her fiery speaking style electrified the abolition movement and brought her fame. This is an extraordinary story about the triumph of an extraordinary woman. ...
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    20,53 €

  • Ira's Farm
    Virginia Johnson
    A WWI veteran with a young family, Ira bought a sixty-acre farm in the rural community of Harlan Michigan just ninety days before the October 1929 stock market crash and its ensuing financial crisis. He fashioned a living with a team of horses and a never-give-up work ethic on land his wife often called “sand banks” when a harvest failed. This memoir covers a thirty-year span o...
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    11,19 €

  • God-Sized Dreams
    Debra Williamson
    God-Sized Dreams: The Story Of A Little Black Girl From The South Side Of Chicago, tells the story of a highly sensitive little black girl who from a young age, felt insecure in her own skin and struggled with low self-esteem and low self-worth for most of her life. With a front row seat, she witnessed the crumbling and eventual demise of her parents' marriage and loss of t...
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    11,66 €

  • A House Without Meatballs
    Vincent Herr-Romano
    Switched at birth. Raised in a dysfunctional family. Constantly searching for meatballs. 71 years of searching for the answer to life's ultimate questions: Where did we come from? Where are we going? What is this life all about? In the end, DNA holds the answer. ...
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    14,65 €

  • Whippoorwill Calls
    Gabrielle Songe
    Alternating between prose and poetry the author weaves her journey of awakening from agnosticism to belief. The story travels along paths of loves and loves lost at times metaphorically and other times supernaturally. Does 'More Is Expected' signal a sequel? Old Testament Prophet Jeremiah and King David provide sign posts along the way. ...
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    8,53 €

  • Yishar Koach
    Susan Sloan
    We live in an era of unpredictable and ubiquitous change and challenge. Each one of us will be confronted with difficult circumstances and some will be called on to make heroic choices. Forward With Strength is the story of a man who shone brightly in response to his own personal challenges.   From refusing to give up his education as a youth to sacrificing his future for the...
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    14,42 €

  • The Good, The Bad and Jesus Christ
    James McConnell
    As an orphan, life was not easy for James McConnell. He also battled with fear for many years but soon ‘learned to whistle’ as he would say. But it would be that fear that would lead him down a dark entry with two half-bricks in his hands. He would have to combat the fear and defeat it completely to be the man of God that he was called to be. Read how he went from having a con...
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    14,01 €

  • The Other Side of the Moon
    Sheridan Morley
    ‘A highly readable work … Niven emerges as gallant and gracious.’ Chicago TribuneSheridan Morley wrote this biography of the consummate on-screen English gentleman after speaking to over 150 of Niven’s friends and colleagues (only Rex Harrison refused). The result is a picture which both supports and contradicts the charming vagabond persona depicted in Niven’s own bestselling ...
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    14,61 €

  • The Wayward Traveler
    Robert Louis DeMayo
    A young man searches the pre-internet world for meaning while traveling on an extreme budget in this real-life, coming-of-age story. The Wayward Traveler follows the adventures of Louis, an American who, in 1985, is determined to travel the world. The story takes place in forty countries and spans ten years: from the deck of a felucca on the Nile to the scorched dunes of India’...
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    22,07 €

  • My Wonderful Journey Through Life - With God, Family, and Friends
    Jr. Warren C Biebel
    This is one man’s perspective on his own life—the challenges, victories, sorrows, and joys of following Jesus for more than 70 years. You’ll be encouraged by what you read, and you may even hear, as you read, the echoes of that great hymn, “Where He Leads Me, I Will Follow.” Follow the author through his many adventures in the northeast part of the USA, where he served three c...
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    26,00 €

  • The Lonely House
    Paul Brody
    During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson did not seek out recognition or attempt to change the world around her, even in the smallest way. A private but not antisocial person, she kept her life’s work, and her innermost feelings, almost entirely to herself. Her life was rich in intellectual pursuits, and she had many friends with whom she exchanged witty and brilliant letters, but ...
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    6,16 €

  • Lunch With A Leadership Coach
    Simon K Milne
    When Matt Wilson replaced his father as CEO at Wilson Industries he expected a smooth leadership transition. His Executive Team, however, all resigned from the business and set up in competition to him. Matt quickly discovered that leadership often involves difficult (and sometime unexpected) choices, and he engaged Simon K Milne to help him with the challenge. By following Ma...
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    13,53 €

  • The Vision Of An Unknown Indian
    Jamal Khwaja
    In this book I have recounted important facets of the story of my inner intellectual and spiritual growth. It is the story of how, a relatively, dogmatic model of Islam developed into the paradigm that I now accept. In one sentence my journey has taken me from an honest acceptance that Muslims alone will win salvation to an equally honest acceptance of the beauty and validity o...
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    14,28 €

  • Only If
    Linda Lee Pope
    Linda Lee Pope dealt with more than her fair share of tragedy in life. From losing her mother at a youngage to seeing her own daughter die in a car accident, Linda was beginning to wonder if life was even worth living. In fact, she even contemplated suicide at the depth of her depression.However, the presence of a singular goal, created shortly after her mother’s death through ...
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    12,80 €

  • Passage to Persia - Writings of an American Doctor During Her Life in Iran, 1929-1957
    In 1929 Adelaide Kibbe was a 27-year-old missionary physician who set out from New York, on the steamer SS American Banker, headed for Iran. Her route to Persia took her through England, Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland and Egypt. It would be 28 years before she returned home, and during the ensuing decades she would see huge changes in her adopted country: the development of ...
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    17,13 €

  • Getting Hosed
    Dave Nassaney
    David Nassaney has been the owner of 6 gas stations in Californiasince 1976. Before that, he had worked at or managed several gasstations for many different family members since 1966. Prior tothat, his father had owned, and managed gas stations and garagessince 1945 in New York City and California. They have seen a lotof changes in the gas station business over the years. This ...
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    10,34 €

  • El conquistador aleman Pedro Lisperguer Wittemberg
    Daniel Piedrabuena Ruiz-Tagle
    Cuando Pedro Lísperguer Wittemberg llegaba a América lo hacía con feudo imperial: 'no embargante que es alemán y cualquier provisión que haya en contrario', siguiendo las propias palabras del emperador Carlos V. Comenzaba así un poderoso linaje, especialmente en Chile y Perú, que tuvo notable protagonismo en los siglos XVI y XVII, enlazándose con varios títulos nobiliarios. De ...
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    24,87 €

  • Alfred the Great
    Jacob Abbott
    Jacob Abbott was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. Check out the following list of books to take and exciting, informative, and easy to understand stroll through history               Alexander the Great, Alfred the Great, Charles I, Charles II, Cleopatra, Cyrus ...
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    20,32 €

  • Cyrus the Great
    Jacob Abbott
    Jacob Abbott was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. Check out the following list of books to take and exciting, informative, and easy to understand stroll through history                Alexander the Great, Alfred the Great, Charles I, Charles II, Cleopatra, Cyrus...
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    20,26 €

  • Fighting Clowns of Hollywood
    David Ossman
    David Ossman’s memoir of The Firesign Theatre’s rapid response to the on-coming Reagan Era recounts the quartet’s uneasy transformation from writer-performer-producers of in-studio comic audio masterpieces to theatrical hopefuls and Movieland script-writers.  Firesign goes Hollywood with a million $$ MGM movie deal and a string of big stage shows, featuring all-new hot comedy m...
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    29,21 €

  • If I Knew Then What I Know Now
    John Paciorek
    The joy of first-time big-league baseball experience is the fulfillment of countless childhood dreams, imagining glorified moments of grandeur. My first taste of major-league fan adulation made me feel good, and I wanted more, even for just another moment. The enthusiasm with which the sportscaster mentioned my name, along with details of my first game exploits, slowed only aft...
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    63,81 €

  • Is It Okay With You?
    Janine Maxwell
    Janine Maxwell is back again with a book that tells more of Heart for Africa’'s amazing work on one of the world’s neediest continents. It takes up where her first book, It’'s Not Okay With Me, left off. Raw in style and truth, this book digs deeper into the who, what, why, and how of the AIDS pandemic and the plight of millions of orphans left in its wake. Is It Okay W...
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    13,50 €

  • Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire
    Lawrence Foushee London
    Joseph Blount Cheshire, for nearly forty years Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina, was known and loved throughout the state as a man of great personal charm, good sense, and the ability to get things done. In addition to his ecclesiastical interests, he was a lawyer, a writer, and made many contributions to the formal history of the state as well as to the church. This boo...
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    48,41 €

  • Bad Choices Make Good Stories
    Oliver Markus Malloy
    A shocking glimpse into the crazy lives of drug addicted prostitutes. You'll never look at heroin addicts the same way again. Oliver moves from New York to Florida. Battling with depression, he gets sucked into the seedy underworld of Fort Myers, where he encounters a number of female drug addicts. He empathizes with them because of his own traumatic past. Oliver feels com...
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    10,56 €

  • Five Golden Rings
    Charles Dyer
    The Gospel of Matthew links together 41 men in a genealogical chain stretching from Abraham to Jesus, but he also mentions five women.He did not include such notable women as Sarah. . . or Rebekah . . . or Leah. And the five women chosen seem, at first glance, to be an odd choice. So what is it about the five women Matthew chose that makes them so important to his genealogy? Wh...
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    6,81 €

  • Beat Transnationalism
    John Tytell
    Allen Ginsberg told John Tytell that he would not understand the Beat Generation without first experiencing life in Mexico, and so, while writing Naked Angels, the first book to explore the development of Beat literature, Tytell headed south to Oaxaca.In this volume, Tytell examines the importance of Mexico to the Beat Generation, while recounting – via letters from that period...
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    16,04 €

  • MindGames
    Bill Giovannetti
    Having struggles: normal. Not being dominated by them: priceless.Do other people’s actions make you question your worth, doubt your choices, feel insecure, unloveable, and undesirable? You’re caught up in the mess of OTHER PEOPLE’S CRAZINESS!You can rise above the MindGames and find your true self, your inner beauty, and your deeply-rooted strength. You can fulfill God’s purpos...
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    13,15 €

  • Tails from the Track
    Janice Gannon
    A fascinating perspective of the racing industry, one you’re not likely to find anywhere else, a unique look at life from the backstretch of the racetrack in the 1970’s. With characters such as Magpie and Capitan, Fourfoot and Duck, it’s hard sometimes to separate the humans from the horses. The male-dominated backstretch of the seventies was riskyat the best of times. It was ...
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    31,83 €

  • The Armchair Activist's Handbook
    Ruth Stokes
    Would you change the world, if only you knew how? Do you dream of doing more than signing online petitions but don't want to camp out on a pavement to prove a point? Are you frustrated because you're not making a difference but don't want to turn your life upside down in the name of action? Then this is the book for you. THE ARMCHAIR ACTIVIST'S HANDBOOK will help you find easy ...
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    15,01 €

  • Split Second
    Jeff Garland
    Split Second provides a rare, confronting and honest account of front line policing behind the ’thin blue line’.For nearly 16 years, Jeff Garland served as a proud member of the NSW Police Force, risking his life to uphold the law and protect the community. His career, moulded on the streets of inner city Redfern and the infamous ’Block’, was flooded with a multitude of violent...
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    23,91 €


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