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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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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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Inspiring story of a 15th-century farm girl who answered a divine call to drive the English from France. The miraculous story of the Maid of Orleans unfolds from her early childhood and the touching story of the "Voices," to the battles she led and the splendid march to Rheims.
85) 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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"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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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Green Carnation" by Robert Hichens. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
89) On Fear's Edge
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It is in the Eastern part of Tennessee this story begins, in the small town of Johnson City, located one hundred miles northeast of Knoxville-a lovely city nestled in among lush green mountains.
The year is 1954, population 23,000. Johnson City is a town that has flourished, from its beginning. It is rich in history, but this is not a story of history. This story centers on the strife and hardships of one dirt-poor Southern family and one little girl's...
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La lluvia del comienzo no es la misma que la del final. Entre el jardín con caracoles de la infancia, y el viejo barrio con los vecinos que sacan la silla a la vereda, hoy convertido en nido de narcotraficantes, se extiende el territorio de una vida llena de acontecimientos, algunos sorprendentes.
El que un joven fervoroso descubra las tablas y resuelva consagrarles todas sus fuerzas forma parte, si no de lo habitual, al menos de lo esperable. El...
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A principios del siglo XX, Aurora Rodríguez, una dama de la burguesía gallega, puso un anuncio en prensa en el que demandaba a un varón para concebir a una bebé. Una criatura que debía estar destinada a emancipar a la mujer española. Bajo este tremendo sino nació la pequeña Hildegart, quien, tras la estricta educación de su madre, pronto se convirtió en una brillante líder feminista de la Segunda República, pionera en España de la educación...
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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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Heinrich Mann: Zwischen den Rassen Entwicklungsroman einer jungen Deutsch-Brasilianerin Neu editierte 2021er Ausgabe, mit zahlreichen erklärenden Fußnoten Der heute irritierende, aber von Heinrich Mann wertfrei verstandene Titel Zwischen den Rassen bezeichnet den Entwicklungsroman einer in Rio geborenen jungen Deutsch-Brasilianerin, die von ihrem Vater zur Ausbildung in ein Internat in die deutsche Provinz gebracht wird und von nun an zwischen zwei...
94) Journal
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Journal is a somewhat fictionalized autobiography based on a series of the author's real-life dreams – about life, love, family, death, and an unexpected journey across time and tide.
"I'm in bed, staring at the ceiling, just lucid enough to ponder on the thought that I'm 60 years old, and I've been having this same dream as long as I can remember. It's always the same, always ending right when I reach for the doorknob...except this time; all...
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This is the entire collection of the Love and Resistance in WWII Germany trilogy consisting of the books Unrelenting, Unyielding and Unwavering.
Berlin, Germany 1932. In a time of political unrest and strife, one man finds the courage to fight back...
The Trilogy consisting of Unrelenting, Unyielding, and Unwavering in one book.
Follow Dr. Wilhem "Q" Quedlin, chemical engineer and inventor, and Hilde Dremmer through the rise of Hitler and into...
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Do you know your ancestry; your parents, grandparents, great grandparents and great-great grandparents? Have you taken the time to document your life since the day of your birth? I do and I did. In Volume 1, I'll take you back to the old countries of France and Italy where my story begins with my great-great grandparents. Their off-spring came to America, the first generation of Americans. I'll guide you through the second generation who gave birth...
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Cuando vives una vida intentando encontrar una razón, un por qué, una nueva motivación, te das cuenta de que la rutina es un asesino silencioso, lleno de conformidad y aceptación, olvidando los sueños que te mantienen activo con ganas de progresar, de ser alguien importante. En este relato trato de plasmar un pequeño diario lleno de fantasía, aventuras, adrenalina, pequeños cambios, meditaciones en la manera de pensar y actuar en el momento...
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Basada en hechos reales, es la odisea de la familia Ellul que emigra desde Malta en 1854 a Constantinopla, donde asiste a las últimas convulsiones de la caída del Imperio Otomano y la llegada de Ataturk, hasta que finalmente en 1941 durante la segunda guerra mundial se ve obligada a abandonar su hogar, iniciando así un periplo que la llevará a la diáspora en un relato sorprendentemente actual.
Son los nacionalismos, la xenofobia, la limpieza...
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Stephen Hopkins was a hurricane and shipwreck survivor, Jamestown settler, psalmist reader and adventurer who yearned for the freedom to live life on his own terms. His pursuit of this ambition is explored in this imagined look at the four-year period in which Hopkins lived in London, aligning himself with the oppressed Puritans and their escape from persecution. Although not a follower of the Puritans' vision of Christianity, he became a leader and...
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Chaque matin, Marie-Sol se réveille sans mains ni pieds. Puis, chaque soir, elle doit enlever ses prothèses de bras et de jambe pour dormir. Mais ça n'a pas toujours été ainsi...
Le 8 mars 2012, Marie-Sol St-Onge était admise d'urgence à l'hpital de Trois-Rivières. Une foudroyante attaque de la bactérie mangeuse de chair allait lui faire vivre un véritable cauchemar, ainsi qu'à son amoureux et à ses deux garçons. Au moment o les derniers...
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