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42) Finding me
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"Much-anticipated, emotionally-charged debut memoir from award-winning actor and icon Viola Davis"--
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The amoral sensibility Hoess displayed regarding all that went on in the charnal factory where the industrialization of death was practiced--where probably 3 million people were literally worked to death, shot or quickly gassed--is still almost beyond belief today. Jurg Amann has taken Hoess' text and produced a work imaginatively new, always using Hoess' own words; The Commandant is a book Hoess would certainly not have approved--an excruciating...
44) A Stellar Life
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Helmut Abt opted for astronomy as a vocation because... well, it was fun. Dr. Abt will delight readers with this light-hearted memoir of a career in 20th century astrophysics, its challenges, its participants, and the fascinating places in the world he visited. With humor and insight he takes readers on the journey of a lifetime filled with stars and exciting adventures. Among other stories, he tells how he located the site of the first national observatory...
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Striving to keep their Glass Half Full, this expat family struggle to cope with loss and grieving, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the devastating Brisbane floods.
Life is never without its challenges, but how many life-changing events can one family endure before they reach breaking point? Find out in this heart wrenching and touching true story.
After enduring divorce and numerous child custody battles, Sarah Jane knew that moving to Australia...
46) Lafcadio Hearn
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The writings of author and traveler Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) introduced many Western readers to the otherworldly space of Japan. This unauthorized 1919 biography of a unique figure in literary history is based on his candid correspondence with his Irish half-sister, Mrs. Atkinson. For as Kennard notes, Hearn was shy and not just any correspondence would suffice to present the journalist as who he was.
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Extrait : "Ce n'est rien que le jeu d'aujourd'hui auprès du jeu d'autrefois : la révolution a fait passer dans la politique et dans le commerce cette activité ambitieuse qui n'avait naguère que des chances de cartes pour s'occuper, et la Bourse est un tripot honnête sur une grande échelle o l'on perd des millions problématiques, puisqu'on ne joue pas argent sur table."
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"The News from Arkansas" presents an honest and humorous outlook on the culture shock that can occur, when somebody moves to a different state after living in the same place for decades. And, the inevitable problems, when she hits the road in a motorhome.
I was a California girl. My children were unofficially forbidden to move more than 1 ½ hours from their mother. How did I end up in Arkansas? I blame Eric Estrada! After purchasing our new home...
49) Nine Moons
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From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind “Sexographies” comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood that delves headlong into our fraught fascination with human reproduction.
Women play all the time with the great power that's been conferred upon us: it's fun to think about reproducing. Or not reproducing. Or walking around in a sweet little dress with a round belly underneath that will turn into a baby...
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In New York, acclaimed reporter Richard Harding Davis hopped a train westward, hoping to encounter the Wild West he had read so much about. His dispatches to "Harper's Weekly," including a riveting account of riding with the U.S. Army on the trail of a fugitive, are collected this early portrait of a growing region.
It is Davis' account of his wanderings around the west, traveling by train, and his adventures with cavalry soldiers, ranchers, and...
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Lafcadio Hearn's books have charmed and captivated readers, just as the exotic subjects about which he has written have captivated him. "Gleanings in the Buddha-Fields" presents more Hearn magic as he enters into the spirit of Buddhism as though he were born into it. This collection of stories, subtitled "Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East," takes the reader on a journey into the soul of Hearn's adopted land as no other writer-especially a non-Japanese...
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The Further Tales of a Country Doctor are Carter's continuing stories of the tapestry of life as drawn from overseeing a small-town medical practice in rural Australia.
Over the years, in both private and professional capacities, Carter's fellow community members have taken him into their lives and opened themselves up to him. They have shared their hopes, their fears, their highs, and their lows. Now their generosity extends to allowing him to share...
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How I Got Off That Tree Limb is, based on an experience, that I had, when I was 22-years of age, and a preacher that I had, worked with in a revival in Little Rock, Arkansas said to me, "Get off that Limb" He explained to me, that if I wanted to make an apple pie I would, have to get the apples off the tree to make a delicious Apple Pie. This book shares early beginnings of my childhood. It takes you through my journey of getting off, of the tree...
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Now with God's promise in hand, Susan still waited for her groom to return. But, since God never wastes the waiting times, He began to move in her life once again. He began to orchestrate the events of her life in order to prepare her for the fulfillment of His promise, and for her wedding day. In doing so, He began to paint a beautiful picture depicting how all His people should live in preparation for His return and for their ultimate wedding day...
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"Take two dogs, an expat family and eventually some other animals, facing all that France can throw at them, and you have another brutally honest episode in Sarah Jane's travel stories!"
This travel memoir, the sequel to Glass Half Full: Our Australian Adventure, follows our French exploits as we endeavour to rebuild our lives in another new country, after spending four and half years in Australia.
The title says it all: what we have and where we...
56) On Dreams
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Central to Sigmund Freud's philosophy on psychoanalysis is the idea that dreams give a window into one's unconscious desires. This is the principal argument of his groundbreaking work "The Interpretation of Dreams", published in 1899. However, realizing the incredibly technical and dense nature of that more detailed work, Freud felt that a simpler and more accessible derivation of his theories was necessary in order to popularize his ideas and to...
57) The Rough Riders
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Theodore Roosevelt's bestselling memoir chronicling the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry and its victory at San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War. Yearning to join the fight for Cuban independence in the Spanish–American War, Theodore Roosevelt and Col. Leonard Wood formed the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry. They enlisted a motley crew from all walks of life, from cowboys and frontiersmen to Ivy League graduates. These 1,250 men became...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.
"I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one
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Bestselling mystery writer Fran Stewart shares her sense of adventure with you as she discusses not only bees of all sorts, but the ghosts in the Tower of London, moon photos and chicken eggs, vultures and dammit dolls, car wrecks and appendicitis, and a real-life cow car wash.
She continues her well-loved BeeAttitudes at the end of each daily entry, and rollicks along on this joyous journey through life. In this sixth and final volume of her beekeeping...
60) De Profundis
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Oscar Wilde's autobiographical work on suffering, self-realization, and the artistic process De Profundis (Latin for "from the depths") is Oscar Wilde's reconciliation from a life full of pleasure. In 1891 the author began an intimate relationship with the young aristocrat Lord Alfred Douglas, known to his friends as Bosie. This affair led to speculations about Wilde's sexuality just as his career was reaching its apex. Ultimately, Bosie's father,...
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