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61) The River and I
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In 1908 John Neihardt (1881—1973) and two companions traveled the Missouri River—about two thousand miles—in a twenty-foot canoe. Originally published in Outing Magazine as a series of articles, The River and I describes their adventures on that wild waterway before it was dammed by the Army Corps of Engineers and points out storied sites along the shore. The result transcends journalism, Neihardt does for the Missouri what Twain did for the...
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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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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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"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...
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How much time do I have left? A hundred days? A thousand? If I knew I was going to die next week but could be taken to see The Marriage of Figaro tonight, would I go? Absolutely." In a long and generously lived life, Barry Jones has been on an endless quest to share the extraordinary and the beautiful, to encourage the pursuit of an abundant life of reading and listening. Following the publication of A Thinking Reed, he was staggered by the response...
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Orphaned at the age of nine, Mikey Cuddihy left the U.S. to board at an experimental British school. A vivid and intense memoir of coming of age amidst the unraveling social experiment of the late 1960s.When Mikey Cuddihy was orphaned at the age of nine, her life exploded. She and her siblings were sent from New York to board at experimental Summerhill School, in England, and abandoned there. The setting was idyllic, lessons were optional, pupils...
68) We Are Here
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Told through the bright and unflinching eyes of Cat Thao, a daughter born in a refugee camp, We Are Here is a memoir that begins in 1975 with her family's gripping exodus by foot out of post-war Vietnam-a dangerous journey, unimaginable to most, on which many perished. Cat Thao's family's escape from persecution traverses the horrific jungles of Khmer Rouge Cambodia and into the crowded Thai refugee camps. From which, finally, the Nguyens were allowed...
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"Print and public-radio journalist Wagner describes rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina...Despite Kafkaesque experiences with the infamous bureaucratic mess that threatened to undo New Orleans once and for all, the couple held on to their optimism for the city and their little piece of it. Wagner captures the nostalgia, the heartbreak and the friendships spawned in Katrina's turbulent aftermath with raw emotional honesty free of sentimentality. Unflinching,...
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One Person Can Make A Difference!
Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night thinking, "I've got to DO something," but felt like you were just one person who couldn't bring about change? Well, Joan Wile woke up one night thinking she had to do something about the war in Iraq.
Little did she know how far she would go...
Joan founded Grandmothers Against the War in 2003. In this outspoken memoir, she tells the amazing story of the courageous,...
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"Has your life ever flashed before you? Sumangali Morhall chased everything Western society taught her to pursue: material wealth, academic success, and even the perfect relationship, only to discover something deeply significant was still missing. A sudden near-death experience opened her eyes, and her life began anew. Left with nothing and nobody to rely on, her inner strength blossomed and her spiritual search began in earnest. Her journey led...
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From early childhood in postwar Blenheim to the remote regions of Bangladesh, from an English boarding school to 1960s Auckland, and from Jordan during the civil war of 1969-70 to family homes full of children, this dazzling book traces the many shifts in Ian Wedde's life. Haunted by the ghosts of his restless German and Scottish great grandparents, and of his wandering parents, Wedde is always looking over his shoulder as he writes. His companion...
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A nostolgic memoir of an extraordinary woman Thea Hayes left her Sydney city life behind in 1959 when she took her first job as a newly qualified nurse at Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory. Little did Thea know that she was about to find herself living among a large aboriginal community on a vast station. This is the inspiring story of how she took on the job, met the love of her life, and became part of the historical Wave Hill Station...
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"Angela Locke travelled to Nepal in the early 90's to research a new book, and found herself on a journey of discovery which would change her life. She would find herself returning to Nepal, becoming immersed in the life of the country, and experiencing a deep spiritual awakening. Her experiences would lead to the founding of the charity Juniper Trust which now works in Education and Health with the poorest communities all over the world."--
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Three years ago Mel Jacob's life took an unexpected twist when her husband was jailed for selling a crossbow and an antique rifle through his online mail-order business. He was a man who'd never even got a speeding ticket, someone who'd wait for the light to turn to green before crossing the road. Now he was facing a four year sentence in a prison world that was utterly alien to everything he'd known before, and his wife and two young children were...
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"Lessons in Simply Being is the memoir of a recovering control addict who finds meaning in life after the collapse of all she had clung to. Plunged into despair, she calls upon the skills honed in her thirty-four years as a behavioral scientist and professor at Duke University. She searches for order, change, and meaning as she walks through much of what she most feared (divorce, aloneness, physical disability, her mother's dementia and dying, and...
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A deeply moving and searingly honest memoir about fathers and sonsWasn't that the whole point of being alive? To ask the right questions, not just as a journalist but as a human being? To not just examine other people's dark, cold, self-hating, contradictory, disconnected places, but to examine one's own, given that this was possibly the most uncomfortable inquiry one could ever undertake? Not to rush to one position or another, but to allow disparate...
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"There are moments when I suddenly realize that I'm a nice boy from Iowa who is entirely comfortable sitting in a room of freaks."
So begins Patrick Moore's unforgettable account of life as a crystal meth addict-a "tweaker." Like a wild ride down Alice's rabbit hole with a guide who is darkly funny and heartbreakingly honest, Tweaked chronicles a twenty-year trip that stretches from Moore's lonely childhood in Iowa with his grandmother, Zelma-an...
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Pete May spent 20 years failing to get on the property ladder, struggling to find a decent flat in first Thatcher and then Blair's England. Only rising house prices, rent, shady landlords, eviction notices, washing-up rotas, and asbestos stood between him and independent living. With Dexys Midnight Runners, the Clash, Elvis Costello and Billy Bragg blaring from his speakers, May searched all of London for sane roommates and functional plumbing. Finding...
80) Save Send Delete
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"Save Send Delete is a debate about God between polar opposites: Mira, a poor, Catholic professor and Rand, an atheist author and celebrity. It's based on a true story. Mira reveals gut-level emotions and her inner struggles to live fully and honestly - and to laugh - in the face of extraordinary ordeals. She shares experiences so profound, so holy, they force us to confront our beliefs in what is true and possible. Rand hears her; he understands...
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