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Indianapolis, 1957. Ten-year-old Aaron Cooper has witnessed the death of his younger sister, Pookie, and the trauma has left him unwilling to speak. Aaron copes with life's challenges by disappearing into his own imagination, envisioning being captain of the Kon Tiki, driving his sled in the snowy Klondike, and tiger hunting in India. He is guarded by secret friends like deposed Hungarian Count Blurtz Shemshoian and Blurtz's wonder dog, Nipper, who...
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Adopted at an early age, I had no idea what was going on or what was about to happen to me. I found myself growing up in a household with people that abused me mentally, physically, and emotionally. Not knowing how to deal with living in a loveless home, I began to act out. I was out of control in school. I made sure I got good grades. My behavior, on the other hand, showed that I was a troubled child. I did not listen to teachers, principals, or...
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Avec comme trame de fond les bars louches de la Basse-Ville de Québec en 1983-84, Basse-Ville Blues se veut le récit d'une enquête journalistique sur la prostitution, un road trip urbain lancinant et poignant o Gilles Simard, jeune journaliste alcoolique et pharmacodépendant, tente de mener à bien son projet tout en luttant contre ses nombreux démons.
Durant cette tranche de vie trépidante de l'auteur, on croisera donc avec bonheur les Julie,...
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This biographical novel is based on the life of America's more iconic and widely read woman poet, Emily Dickinson of Amherst, Massachusetts who became known for her succinct and pointedly meaningful lyrical poetry the world over after her death and posthumous publication. The book is based on a carefully researched non-fiction forward: "Lover of Science and Scientist in Dark Days of the Republic" which discloses at last who the mysterious "Master...
65) Life
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My divorce was final, and I was kid free. Although it was a choice I made, I was at the lowest point in my life. I spiraled all the way out of control-what we all know as hitting rock bottom. I needed to build myself back up and get my shit together quickly.
All the drinking, drugging, and partying led me to people that helped me turn things around. Regardless of how bad things got, my club brothers never turned their back on me. That's why joining...
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In these linked stories Jewel navigates the stage of life between 25 and 45, from the day she finds a body on a wild California beach to crossroads encounters with mystics, lovers, beggars, surgeons, and sailors on the shores of Maui and streets of San Miguel de Allende, Lisbon, Larkspur, Mill Valley, and Barcelona. Falling in love, whether with the one she marries, her newborn babies, total strangers, or the places she goes, calls forth conflicting...
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Esta narrativa describe algunas de las experiencias del autor a lo largo de sus más de tres décadas de residencia en Los Ángeles, adonde llegó para pasar solamente los nueve meses del curso académico 1989-1990 enseñando en un programa de educación bilingüe transitoria en una escuela primaria de East LA, con la intención de regresar a España a su término. «Las cosas de la vida» le llevaron a cambiar radicalmente sus planes y a quedarse...
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The book is a novel but written as an 'autobiofiction'. The main character is a child of the Holocaust's and his story is about his later life and inheritance or lack of it. The backbone of the story a search for missing inheritors of a lot of money, but one of course inherits (or not... ) much more than that. The themes are about memory, loss, love, missing people, human nature and its feelings and contradictions. One component is the migrant experience,...
69) Nixon Ebere
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The book Nixon Ebere is a biography of the fictional character Nixon Chukwuka Ebere. The book shows moments of his life. Chapter One shows Nixon in his childhood, Chapter Two shows Nixon in his adolescent age, and Chapter Three shows Nixon in his teen age. This book gives some insights of Nixon's thinking, the struggles he faces as he grows up, and some technological advancements.
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This book has been inspired by the personal relationship between the author and the famous journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci. It is the true story of the friendship that developed against all odds between two very different women. It starts with each of them taking an antagonistic attitude towards the other that gradually transforms itself into mutual respect and ultimately friendship. This novel has no political or religious direction although...
71) Siempre te amaré
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Gracias a todos los lectores por haber leído este pequeño libro basado en una historia real.
Pareciera cosa extraña en dónde lo escribí; me encontraba en el taller donde trabajo, escribiendo y aprovechando los momentos en los que no tenía nada que hacer, no sé por qué ahí me dio por escribir.
Los demás trabajadores solo me miraban y quizás pensaban o tal vez dirían: "éste está loco".
Mi compañero Joel en algunas ocasiones cuando...
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This bundle of stories describes about events often placed at tumultuous times of the twenties century. The plots of the stories are skillfully skimmed throughout different, well known places and times, and at which the people involved had been struggling with the adversities of their fate. Returning home by long distance train, old and tired Alexander Vertynsky, a well known singer, is recalling different periods of his life, full of dramatic events...
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"The Golden Grasshopper" by William Henry Giles Kingston. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is...
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A young freelance writer, intrigued by the life stories of a reclusive author, is taken on a jaunt through the burgeoning era of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, back alley Asian paradises and nights filled with women, young and lusting. What starts as a short article, whose sole intention was to bring in a few bucks from the publisher, becomes an adventure in every sense of the word. The story of an aged writer's rise from intellectual poverty and his...
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The story of my life might be interesting to some and might not be to others, but what ever the case may be, what it boils down too is, that I have always ask myself How strong is love. One might say its only as strong as you wish it too be, or a feeling that can drive one mad. Maybe the feeling that youre on top of your game.. What ever the case may be, we all at one time or another have gone down that road. Yes, some of us have said I have come...
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The "Cyclops" of Greek myth tells the story of his life, including his famous encounter with Odysseus. He is a man, not the monster of myth, although he is extremely large, very powerful, and has but one good eye. He tells the story of his troubled childhood; his friendship with his little sister, Anastasia; his love for his mother, Thoosa; and his fraught pursuit of the beautiful island shepherdess, Galatea. It is a story of loneliness, banishment,...
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Ein autobiografischer Erfahrungsbericht, der episodenhaft Einblicke gibt in die Tücken und Katastrophen des (Familien)Lebens mit einem Au Pair. Die Autorin schildert aus ihrer Sicht was geschieht, wenn anstelle der "großen Schwester" zur Kinderbetreuung ein heiratswilliges Sorgenkind einzieht...
79) Joan's Story
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Looking around at her family, Joan sighed happily. Yes, she was truly blessed. For everything she had ever hoped for was right here in this room. Her family and her daughters, all happy and content, all the grandchildren growing up fast and making their own way in the world and her precious Ed by her side. Life was truly good. Today would be a memory she would never forget.
Roll on ten years and life for Joan has changed considerably. She has indeed...
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Esta es la historia de mis tres abuelas y
yo, un libro basado en hechos reales.
Una de mis abuelas es la afamada
"Locha", Eloísa Velásquez, tan presente en la historia de Guatemala.
Pero en estas páginas, descubrirán a la verdadera "Locha", a quien Guatemala nunca conoció. Solo sus familiares mas cercanos supimos quien era realmente y yo supe en carne propia de lo que era capaz.
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