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  • Vagabond Memoirs
    Phil Karber
    Vagabond Memoirs combines travel and memoir-the linear, horizontal travels to another geographic space and the vertical one of Karber’s coming of age interior life. The book begins with a road trip to his ancestral home in the piney woods of Arkansas, pauses to take account of the world of baby boomers and the Jim Crow South in the ’50s, and takes off in the mid-60s with his te...
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    18,14 €

  • Coragem
    Emerson Pereira De Sousa
    Uma história que precisa ser registrada. Assim era o meu sentimentoantes de iniciar este trabalho. A vida de Prizilina Matos Pereira é rica emdesafios, batalhas e triunfos produzidos por sua imensa coragem. Mineira dacidade de Joaima-MG, logo cedo seguiu os passos de seus pais nas diversasmudanças por cidades de Minas Gerais e da Bahia e viveram suas vidasseparados e sem conhec...
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    25,91 €

  • Human Justice
    Human and the Lights
    Human Justice tells the compelling true story of a human rights lawyer’s last trial in a 15-year career spent helping people living on the margins enforce civil rights and anti-discrimination laws. Corporate values, which are only about money and nothing else, played out to their logical extreme in the case, signaling that corporatism is incompatible with a sustainable future f...
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    9,43 €

  • La luz de la memoria
    Fernando Noguera
    Las páginas de La luz de la memoria os narrarán esos primeros años de la vida que marcan para siempre.De mi vida, claro, aunque también he querido dejar constancia de una época que he intentado rescatar y, ¿por qué no?, añorar en su justo punto al rememorar sus calles, sus casas, sus costumbres, sus hombres y mujeres con las vicisitudes que los acompañaron. Y así dejar testimon...
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    19,99 €

  • Simon’s Diary - Volume One - Love, Hate and Knowledge
    Simon Mark Smith
    Most autobiographies won’t be of any apparent interest unless the author is famous, so, why read this one given Simon Mark Smith is not a public figure? The brief answer is this book will take you on journeys that will resonate with your deepest feelings about love, hate, and knowledge.Written in a format that jumps between time zones and subject matter, you will be challenged ...
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    52,00 €

  • Route 66
    Nigel M. Sainsbury
    Nigel, a Kiwi on a three-year assignment at the New Zealand Embassy in Washington, DC, is hell bent on riding a motorcycle along the iconic Route 66. Nigel willingly shares his intent with a few close friends, which generates multiple ideas and personal agendas. Without a real idea of how, when, or who is going to do it with, Nigel decides to simply make things up as he goes al...
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    26,42 €

  • Notes From A BlackBerry
    Julie Barth
    Discover a journey of unimaginable challenges and unbreakable bonds - It’s a path that might not have been chosen, but gifted invaluable life lessons of love.In Notes From A BlackBerry, author Julie Barth embarks on a profoundly moving journey, chronicling the lives of her beloved daughter Taytem and her husband Colin.Taytem, a vibrant soul, grapples with a undiagnosable medica...
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    21,57 €

  • Practically Still a Virgin
    Monica Hall
    Practically Still a Virgin is the riveting memoir of a fifteen-year-old adoptee’s rape -and the pregnancy that changed her life. During Alaska’s rough-and-tumble 1970s oil boom, a time when prostitution, violence, and lawlessness reigned, Monica Hall rebels against her strict Catholic parents in a downward spiral of delinquency. Overwhelmed by guilt and shame when the unthinkab...
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    19,30 €

  • Non-Smoking Mirrors
    Suzette Bell-Butler
    'Non-Smoking Mirrors' is a collection of forty original poems that have been uniquely curated to capture the life experiences of the voice of the author in a rhythmic, compelling, and forceful artistic space. It is poetry that speaks to universal topics and themes that can easily resonate among individuals who have the passion and desire to echo sentiments of pure, unadulterate...
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    12,93 €

  • More Than a Memory
    Joan Hanson Landreth
    More Than a Memory is a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of wartime, with elements of mystery and spirituality woven into the narrative. The author creates intrigue and raises questions that could potentially be explored further as the story unfolds. The last part of the book hints at a mysterious and potentially divine encounter at the beach. It involves a man in a...
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    28,28 €

  • Fish Out of Water
    Jeffrey S McLain
    Immerse yourself in the inspiring story of an individual who overcame tremendous challenges to pursue his passion. This book tells the story of an author who, despite severe dyslexia, transformed his love for fish into a career as a marine biologist. Jeffrey McLain had all the makings of a perfect childhood, but something wasn’t right. He had trouble reading and performing acad...
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    16,65 €

  • THE BLACK CAT STRIKES OAKDALE
    Mary Parker / Peggy O’Connell O’Neill
    I am going to tell you a story that happened in Oakdale, a neighborhood in Dedham, Mass. We were just moving into a home right across the street from the Oakdale Elementary School! This was going to be great!The Elementary school was a really nice-looking building. It was all brick and stone and had this round entryway surrounding the big wooden front doors. If you went around ...
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    16,38 €

  • Postcards from Cookie
    Caroline Clarke
    Award-winning journalist and host of Black Enterprise Business Report Caroline Clarke’s moving memoir of her surprise discovery of her birthmother--Cookie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole--and the relationship that blossomed between them through the heartfelt messages they exchanged on hundreds of postcards.Caroline Clarke was born in an era when adoptions were shameful and ...
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    15,27 €

  • Tuned In - Memoirs of a Piano Man
    Jim Wilson
    'An inviting mix of star-studded encounters and an affirmation of a persevering artistic spirit.' - Kirkus Reviews'A truly fascinating tale by a fascinating man.' - Martin Short'So much more than I expected. ... Highly recommended!' - Ray RomanoTuned In: Memoirs of a Piano Man offers a message of hope to anyone pursuing a dream against the odds. The unique convergence of Jim Wi...
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    30,99 €

  • Tuned In - Memoirs of a Piano Man
    Jim Wilson
    'An inviting mix of star-studded encounters and an affirmation of a persevering artistic spirit.' - Kirkus Reviews'A truly fascinating tale by a fascinating man.' - Martin Short'So much more than I expected. ... Highly recommended!' - Ray RomanoTuned In: Memoirs of a Piano Man offers a message of hope to anyone pursuing a dream against the odds. The unique convergence of Jim Wi...
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    20,82 €

  • The Many Dimensions of Dementia as Seen Through Family’s Eyes. Subtitle
    Shirley KalpinOlson
    If you have met or known someone inflicted with a deadly Dementia or Alzheimer’s and feel you are having a difficult time knowing what to do or say, you may want to read about how this family was able to deal with a situation which could have been much more tragic and unbearable. There is sickness, sadness, grief, anger, crying, feeling of uselessness and just feeling like giv...
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    12,19 €

  • She Rose
    ReCe Wilson
    In this amazing memoir, you will go on a journey that can rival any of your favorite childhood fairy-tales. Have you ever read or watched Cinderella and noticed how many oppositions she had in her life; all the issues she had to overcome? Just like Cinderella we all walk in different shoes navigating through all the storms of life rising from rejection to REsilienCE. The differ...
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    35,81 €

  • DaLawn Parrish The Man Who Became a WISE Coach
    DaLawn Parrish / Gary / Gary A Hughes
    This colorful memoir captures and highlights the ups and downs of an African American boy who never stopped dreaming, even as he became a man. Coach DaLawn Parrish is a living legend and is not even fifty years old. He has won six Maryland state championships and has nine state final appearances in only seventeen seasons. DaLawn was being raised by his mother in Baltimore City ...
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    20,03 €

  • Minha Amiga Mara
    Sonia Madeira De Ley
    A esfuziante Mara e sua elegante amiga Sonia atravessaram períodos de profundas mudanças no Brasil e no mundo. Éessecenáriode ebulição política e comportamental que emoldura as aventuras da autora e sua homenageada.Enquanto experimentam roupas e chapéus, exploram a vida em ambientes anteriormente dominados apenas por homens. Tudo como se nada demais estivessem fazendo, com humo...
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    9,30 €

  • Echidna in a Suitcase
    Kathleen Frances
    Echidna in a Suitcase is Kathleen Frances’ memoir in which she reveals what life was like after being taken as an infant and placed into institutional care. Through it all, she continued to look up, and through moth-eaten blankets, she was able to see the stars.Her tangled ancestral twine eventually leads her to a man she had been searching for all her life.A remarkable journey...
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    19,66 €

  • Making a Difference
    Chesley B Sullenberger / Chesley B. Sullenberger / Chesley BSullenberger
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    13,42 €

  • A Mother’s Intuition
    Catherine Marinelli Gagliano
    'A singular woman who speaks for humanity and community at large, Cathy Marinelli Gagliano shares from her heart and soul. A Mother’s Intuition/Volume 2 takes us into her family’s authentic, raw, and vulnerable journey filled with strength, humor and a deep faith in her conviction to limitless growth!Read it and your eyes will be opened to a bigger, better and brighter understa...
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    19,58 €

  • A Mother’s Intuition
    Catherine Marinelli Gagliano
    'A singular woman who speaks for humanity and community at large, Cathy Marinelli Gagliano shares from her heart and soul. A Mother’s Intuition/Volume 2 takes us into her family’s authentic, raw, and vulnerable journey filled with strength, humor and a deep faith in her conviction to limitless growth!Read it and your eyes will be opened to a bigger, better and brighter understa...
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    27,54 €

  • A Beautiful Broad Place
    Susanne Ellis
    Susanne Ellis unveils her debut book, A Beautiful Broad Place, an inspirational true story that shares her account of going from living in the darkest of places to living in a place transformed by light. You’re about to embark on a personal journey with many destinations. Life is like a roller coaster ride: full of ups, downs, and surprises around every corner. Hold onto your s...
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    10,60 €

  • THE GABARDINE GANG
    Kevin B. DiBacco
    THE GABARDINE GANG: Power and Betrayal in Hartford’s Mob Scene by Kevin B. DiBacco is a riveting tale of crime, family, and redemption in the gritty underworld of the 1950s and 1960s Hartford, Connecticut.  Geno DiBacco led the notorious Gabardine Gang, a small-time mob that ruled the city. Geno’s son, Kevin, takes you on a visceral journey through his childhood and adolescence...
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    12,19 €

  • THE GABARDINE GANG
    Kevin B. DiBacco
    THE GABARDINE GANG: Power and Betrayal in Hartford’s Mob Scene by Kevin B. DiBacco is a riveting tale of crime, family, and redemption in the gritty underworld of the 1950s and 1960s Hartford, Connecticut.  Geno DiBacco led the notorious Gabardine Gang, a small-time mob that ruled the city. Geno’s son, Kevin, takes you on a visceral journey through his childhood and adolescence...
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    17,85 €

  • I Wore the Wrong Shirt to Work Today
    T.W. Sheffield
    T.W. Sheffield released his first novel, imagine leaving for work and realizing you are wearing the wrong shirt. Yet where is the right shirt? Thomas hadn’t even gotten out of the garage when he realized that notion. Why didn’t he go back inside and change? 'I Wore The Wrong Shirt To Work Today', is chocked full with snaps shots of unbelievable, true stories. He reveals insta...
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    31,05 €

  • I Wore the Wrong Shirt to Work Today
    T.W. Sheffield
    T.W. Sheffield released his first novel, imagine leaving for work and realizing you are wearing the wrong shirt. Yet where is the right shirt? Thomas hadn’t even gotten out of the garage when he realized that notion. Why didn’t he go back inside and change? 'I Wore The Wrong Shirt To Work Today', is chocked full with snaps shots of unbelievable, true stories. He reveals instan...
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    26,55 €

  • Blackout Punch
    Chris Hunter
    What’s it like to rise from Youngstown, Ohio, to flying in private jets, then lose it all? What’s it like to be an alpha male who gets what you want, then realize you have put everything that matters to you at risk? What does it mean to know exactly who you are, then understand that you don’t know yourself at all? A born hustler, Chris Hunter co-created Four Loko, the world’s m...
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    18,43 €

  • Mildred’s Mindset
    Gayle Kirschenbaum / Mildred Kirschenbaum
    When Mildred Kirschenbaum celebrated her 99th birthday, her daughter Gayle shared a video of her on Instagram, setting off a viral sensation. Gayle, initially using her account for photography, redirected the spotlight to showcase her mother’s wisdom and the unique bond they share. The attention grew as Maria Shriver and other major media outlets, including NBC Today’s Jenna & ...
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    38,30 €


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