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Risking the Rapids: How My Wilderness Adventure Healed My Childhood#1 New Release in Alcoholism and Christian Self-Help ─ Memoir and Portrait of a Family at Its Worst and BestSome memoirs shock. Some entertain. Some take us places we're afraid to go. A rare few move us. Once in a blue moon, a book...
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Eddie Olczyk: Beating the Odds in Hockey and in LifeEddie Olczyk had built a life and career most people could only dream of. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, he fell in love with the game of hockey during an era when most kids preferred balls to pucks. Against all odds, he...
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Becoming the Light: Realize Your True Enlightened NatureFrom untruth to truth, darkness to light, ignorance to enlightenment, this is Vivianne Nantel's journey. Intimately chronicling Vivianne's quest to overcome a battered childhood, survive depression, advanced breast cancer, and near-death experiences, along with her journey seeking in India Becoming the Light is more...
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Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida: Bringing Social Justice to the Sunshine StateMary McLeod Bethune was often called the First Lady of Negro America, but she made significant contributions to the political climate of Florida as well. From the founding of the Daytona Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls in 1904, Bethune galvanized African...
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Remarkable Women of Old LymeOld Lyme's illustrious history owes much to innovative women. Suffragist Katharine Ludington was co-founder of the League of Women Voters. In the 1830s, Phoebe Griffin Noyes started a school for art and general subjects. At the turn of the twentieth century, Florence Griswold welcomed...
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Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard BrautiganConfident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of Troutfishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur, among many others. When Brautigan took his own life in September of 1984 his close friends...
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Shackleton: Antarctic OdysseyA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Ernest Shackleton was one of the last great Antarctic explorers, and he led one of the most ambitious Antarctic expeditions ever undertaken. This is his story, and the story of the dozens of men who threw in their lot...
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The WalkIn The Walk, William deBuys writes about personal loss and the power of the landscape to nurture the recovery of hope. The book consists of three interrelated essays that move from a period of strife in the author's life to a kind of limbo...
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Call Me Phaedra: The Life and Times of Movement Lawyer Fay StenderWho was Fay Abrahams Stender? A giant among Movement lawyers from the McCarthy Era to the 1970s intent on forcing society to change. Friends could easily picture her as the heroine of a grand opera. A child prodigy, she abandoned the concert piano to...
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Grandmother's Secrets: The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly DancingA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.Author: Rosina-Fawzia Al-RawiPublisher: Olive Branch PressPublished: 11/15/2012Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50dISBN: 9781566563260Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 12/04/2000 pg. 67About the AuthorAl-Rawi, Rosina-Fawzia: - Dr. Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi...
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Rick Hansen: A Life in Motion2015 Golden Oak nominee A biography for young readers of activist Rick Hansen. Rick Hansen suffered a spinal cord injury at the age of 15 after a car accident. But it didn't stop him - during the 1980s he was active in the Paralympics...
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Grizzlies, Gales and Giant Salmon: Life at a Rivers Inlet Fishing LodgeAt age nineteen, Pat Ardley packed up her belongings and left Winnipeg for Vancouver, looking for adventure. Little did she know that she'd spend the next forty years in the wilderness, thirty of which would be spent with a man known as George "Hurricane"...
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I Am Redeemed: Learning to Live in GraceMike Weaver, lead singer of Big Daddy Weave, shares from personal experience how when all we can see is our struggles and failures, God reminds us of who we are. . . . His children. Loved. Set free. Redeemed.I Am Redeemed is an open...
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Marie Curie and RadioactivityAt the start of the twentieth century, Marie Curie, a Polish physicist and chemist, stunned the scientific world. Her research led to the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. She also examined the most unusual property of these elements: radioactivity. This graphic biography...
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The American Dream?: A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Breakfast BurritoAs a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what America meant. The first looked a lot like Hollywood, full of beautiful people, sunlight, and freeways. The second looked more like The Grapes of Wrath--a nightmare landscape...
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Isaac Newton and the Laws of MotionIsaac Newton's youth was marked by constant curiosity. As he began a life of research and experiments, he turned this curiosity into major insights about the workings of Earth and the universe. He even developed three laws to explain the motions of objects. This...
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Process: The Writing Lives of Great AuthorsErnest Hemingway, Zadie Smith, Joan Didion, Franz Kafka, David Foster Wallace, and more. In Process, acclaimed journalist Sarah Stodola examines the creative methods of literature's most transformative figures. Each chapter contains a mini biography of one of the world's most lauded authors, focused solely...
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Sir John Moore: The Making of a Controversial HeroSir John Moore is perhaps the second most famous British soldier of the Napoleonic Wars after the Duke of Wellington, yet his remarkable career has been neglected in comparison to his celebrated contemporary. His death in battle at Corunna overshadows the wide range of...
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Ernest Hemingway & Gary Cooper in Idaho: An Enduring FriendshipIn the autumn of 1940, two icons of American culture met in Sun Valley, Idaho--writer Ernest Hemingway and actor Gary Cooper. Although Hem was known as brash, larger-than-life and hard-drinking and Coop as courteous, non-confrontational and taciturn, the two became good friends. And though...
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ColleyvilleRanked by multiple magazines, including Money and D Magazine, as one of the Best Places to Live in the United States, it is easy to forget where Colleyville came from. A rural farming outpost that started out as six different parent communities, residents eventually...
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