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THE GREAT PLATYPUS CAPER & OTHER HILARIOUS MISADVENTURES is a collection of short autobiographical stories that are often humorous, occasionally thought-provoking, and at times uplifting. It is filled with tales of situations spiraling wildly out of control, but at the end holds a message of hope for anyone who ever considered themselves an outcast or misfit. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and hopefully you'll buy copies for everyone you know.
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Having served over thirty years in fire departments across three states, Gary R. Ryman brings a unique perspective to the firefighting experience. The son and father of firefighters, Ryman ignites the fire, smoke, blood and fear spanning three generations of the "family business." He recounts his early days in upstate New York learning from his father, the department fire chief. He describes the blazes he battled with a career and volunteer crew in...
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Everyone has a story. Probably not quite like this one.Written by an author who has had a more than 'interesting life', this book will pull you into the rollercoaster of Natashas past.Forget what you think you know about a person, this book shows how anyone can have dark, deep secrets that you'd never have guessed they kept hidden from the world ...
4) Desaparecido: memorias de un cautiverio: Club Atlético, el Banco, el Olimpo, Pozo de Quilmes y ESMA
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El físico Mario Villani enseñó en la Universidad de La Plata y trabajó en la Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Tenía treinta y ocho años cuando un grupo armado lo secuestró en noviembre de 1977 en plena ciudad de Buenos Aires. A partir de entonces y hasta agosto de 1981 estuvo desaparecido, trabajando como mano de obra esclava en cinco centros clandestinos de detención y tortura: Club Atlético, Banco, Olimpo, Pozo de Quilmes y ESMA....
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Un escándalo literario cuyos ecos siguen vivos sacudió la vida cultural italiana en septiembre de 2014: para sorpresa de todos, un asesino convicto y confeso había ganado el Premio Sciascia de ese año. Se llamaba Giuseppe Grassonelli, aunque en su pueblo natal todos lo conocían desde niño por el apodo de "Mala Hierba". Este libro es su historia. Comienza cuando, siendo aún adolescente, emigra a Alemania en busca de la prosperidad que Sicilia...
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Este libro sincero es el resultado de una necesidad del propio Andrés Iniesta: la de explicarse como jugador de fútbol, pero sobre todo como ser humano.
Para lograrlo utiliza su propia voz y nos cuenta cómo fue su infancia y su adolescencia en Fuentealbilla y en la Masia, el mundialmente conocido vivero del Fútbol Club Barcelona, cómo vivió los momentos más felices y más tristes de su carrera deportiva y cómo es su vida cotidiana, rodeado...
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Hortense Calisher's evocative memoir bristles with intelligence and youthful inquiry Kissing Cousins recalls the author as a teenager: peppy, earnest, and a bit self-important. Hortense Calisher documents her family's surprising history as Southern Jews adrift in New York. Finding her new city and school boorish, the young Calisher takes solace in the enduring friendship she develops with Katie Pyle, a gregarious nurse turned "kissing cousin" fifteen...
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One of the deep, embedded emotions I have experienced my entire life is that I don't belong. That was a difficult feeling to have growing up and throughout my school days, particularly for an extroverted girl. I was a fun-loving, thrill-seeking people-pleaser. I was one of those kids who showed empathy toward others easily and wanted to be liked. I was not the original and creative one who did not care what others thought, though I admired those girls...
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Summer with the Indians recalls many of my personal observations and experiences with Native Americans over the years, with a special focus on my life as a teenager in 1961. Only a few weeks before my 15th birthday I began working with Native Americans in the apple orchards of Washington State. It was the summer I learned much about a different culture, about prejudice, about true friendship.
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A powerful, inspiring memoir from Kon Karapanagiotidis, founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, which argues that by putting community, love and compassion at the center of our lives, we have the power to change our world.
'I hope you take from this book the message that we all matter. That there is a place for all of us. That once we know our own voice, live the values close to our hearts and follow our dreams, we can be unstoppable. Hope is...
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A sense of humour, a garden, two dogs, an extended family, a 'make do and mend' mentality, new freedom fighter friends and a deepening Christian faith enabled one family to weather the storm that was Covid.
Pervasive and unrelenting fear produced a divide between those who received a 'safe and effective' vaccine and those who did not, a requirement to wear a mask to go to a swimming pool or visit a dentist, job losses, QR checks at playgrounds...
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Taimak was only 19 years old when he starred in The Last Dragon. He was already a champion martial artist, a bouncer at New York City's famous clubs, and a budding ladies' man. Over the next thirty years, he had many more adventures. He learned lessons, fell in love, made countless new fans, and discovered the spiritual strength inside himself.
In this book, you'll follow Taimak's inspirational, hilarious, shocking, eye-popping life story. You'll...
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The Tale of a Tale is a companion to The Tale of a Hip (published 2018). It expands on the theme of taking up ballroom dancing seriously in middle age, and the problem of misaligned bones, a limiting factor in many aspects of Pamela's life, leading ultimately to hip replacement. Despite difficulties, she and John go on to take professional exams in both ballroom and Latin American dancing, and teach for more than twenty years, offering the joy, companionship,...
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'For a story that is so much about being scared, this is writing at its most fearless.' – Matthew Bright, Everybody's Reviewing.
A compelling, heartbreaking story of a teenager, his family, and finding the courage to live with anxiety. It's an everyday story of life, friendship, love, going to school, and terror.
The Fear Talking tells the true story of Chris Westoby, who as a teenager has a life-long anxiety condition, but he doesn't know it...
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Get enchanted with Pearl Harbor's history and its remarkable events. Are you struggling to make sense of what happened at that specific point in history? Do you want to learn all of the historical stories in an easier manner? Pick up this overview history book today to learn the inspiring history behind Pearl Harbor! This is the perfect book for history fans for all kids to enjoy. The 7th of December, 1941, is recounted as the most devastating naval...
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Harlan Brandt needed a Good Samaritan. Would anyone answer the call for help? Would you?
On any given day at any given time, we may be called to help someone in need. It could be someone close or someone unfamiliar. When Harlan Brandt, a cattleman living and working in northeast Nebraska, was critically injured in a horrific tractor accident, a slew of friends, family and strangers came to his rescue. This is the story of how and why each of these...
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This book is a short, lovely memoir of the authors childhood, based on the song/poem written by David Mallett, I Knew This Place. A place that was unique, very historic, and very loving, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, was a hustling and bustling community in the 1950s. All predictions were it would become the next Chicago.
The Sounds and Smells of My Childhood is a nostalgic journey. It brings the reader back in time to that place of their own youth,...
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The Sounds and Smells of My Childhood Part II invite the reader to pause and remember the times of their own youth. Like the first book, it is a nostalgic journey, with fond memories, tremendous humor and laughter, and at times, tears. But the author always shares the beauty of the Sault, the lovely St. Mary's river, and the grandeur and power of Lake Superior as well as the pride and resilience of its people. Sault Sainte Marie has a unique historic...
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Undetectable is a story of love, loss, and viral loads, a memoir of long-term survival with HIV. From New York graduate student in 1989, who contracts the virus from the love of his life to Montana writer in 2018 visiting the slums of Nairobi, the author finds his own drama intertwined with the astonishing stories of his HIV+ peers, narratives that intersect the path of his travails and act as foils to the foibles of a gay man who comes out, falls...
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One of America's funniest women opens up in this real and raw memoir, encouraging readers to face life's trials with unshakeable faith and joy.
A stand-up comedian beloved for her combination of feisty wit and Southern charm, Pierce knows all too well that life is funny-until it's not. But she also knows that it will become funny again. She's held on to that hope-and that promise-through tragedy and triumph.
And now she's finally ready to tell...
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