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    A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir (Paperback)
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    A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir (Paperback)

    From the former prime minister of New Zealand, then the world's youngest female head of government and just the second to give birth in office, comes a deeply personal memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise and offering inspiration to a new generation...
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    A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir (Hardcover) A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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    A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir (Hardcover)

    From the former prime minister of New Zealand, then the world's youngest female head of government and just the second to give birth in office, comes a deeply personal memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise and offering inspiration to a new generation...
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    Brainstorm
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    Brainstorm

    Revealing his fight against a diagnosis of 'incurable' brain cancer, this is the remarkable story of 2024 co–Australian of the Year Richard Scolyer. SHORTLISTED, AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARWINNER, AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY...
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  • Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers
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    Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers

    In the years since the death of Mao Zedong, interest in Chinese writers and Chinese literature has risen significantly in the West. In 2000, Gao Xingjian became the first Chinese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature followed by Mo Yan in...
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  • Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature
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    Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature

    This volume explores the role of music as a source of inspiration and provocation for modernist writers. In its consideration of modernist literature within a broad political, postcolonial, and internationalist context, this book is an important...
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  • Cultural Encounters as Intervention Practices Cultural Encounters as Intervention Practices
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    Cultural Encounters as Intervention Practices

    Setting up cultural encounters is a widespread intervention strategy employed to diffuse conflicts and manage difficulties related to diversity. These organised cultural encounters bring together people of different backgrounds in order to promote...
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  • Gender, Companionship, and Travel Gender, Companionship, and Travel
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    Gender, Companionship, and Travel

    Over the last couple of decades there has been a strong academic interest in how individuals interact with each other while en route. Yet, even if various studies have informed us about present-day realities of travel companionships, we know little about...
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  • Elusive Happiness Elusive Happiness
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    Elusive Happiness

    I have been keeping a journal since I was 15 years old. Over 35 years and hundreds of pages later, I decided to transcribe my chicken-scratch handwriting into typed form. Then I thought I needed to put my journal entries into context so I wrote a...
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  • Kommunarov St. Kommunarov St.
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    Kommunarov St.

    Learn about how a loving father flew 4,380 miles in 1992 to pick up a little boy from Leningrad, Russia. This is the convergence of two minds, in two points in history: the journal of a father's travels and the internal thoughts and response of the boy...
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  • Ronnie and Me Ronnie and Me
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    Ronnie and Me

    This book is about two brothers, Ronnie and Michael, born to parents of south Italian origin and growing up in small-town Rochester, NY during America's "golden age" of the 1940's and 1950's.
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  • This Was Us This Was Us
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    This Was Us

    Memories of old Yorkville, a neighborhood in New York City. Friendships and community separated by gentrification.
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  • The Diaries of Sir Ernest Mason Satow, 1889-1895 The Diaries of Sir Ernest Mason Satow, 1889-1895
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    The Diaries of Sir Ernest Mason Satow, 1889-1895

    These are the edited (i.e. transcribed, annotated and indexed) diaries of the diplomat Sir Ernest Satow (1843-1929) for the six and a half years during which he was posted to Montevideo (Uruguay) and then Morocco. Throughout the period his ultimate goal...
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  • Scrap's Adventures - The Rose Bowl Scrap's Adventures - The Rose Bowl
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    Scrap's Adventures - The Rose Bowl

    Hold on to your dreams - They just may come true! A childhood dream becomes a life accomplishment. Enjoy this play by play recollection of an incredible, impromptu trip to the 2019 Rose Bowl!
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  • Autobiographical Memorys Autobiographical Memorys
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    Autobiographical Memorys

    Lee S. Thomas spent his seventh birthday, in February 5 1891, watching the Spokane Falls from the immigrant car of the trans-continental railroad. The next day, his family settled in Washington State, where his father worked as a schoolteacher, after...
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  • The UFO Guy The UFO Guy
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    The UFO Guy

    This book covers just the first eighteen years of my life, which were anything but normal..I began to publish a monthly newsletter of UFO Sightings that I heard about from First Responders, Pilots and other credible witnesses. Penny Saver saw my...
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  • The Basset Hound Whose Book Was Read By The Pope The Basset Hound Whose Book Was Read By The Pope
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    The Basset Hound Whose Book Was Read By The Pope

    When it comes to Gandy, it's not about the amount of books published. It's not about the amount of stories told. It's not about the amount of people he met, the global outreach, the amount of work done. It's about what he made people feel, how he made...
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  • James Stephen Hogg James Stephen Hogg
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    James Stephen Hogg

    No other governor has become so completely identified with Texas and its citizens as Jim Hogg, the first native Texan to hold the state's highest office. His fame was not, however, easily earned. Orphaned at twelve, he worked as farmhand, typesetter, and...
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  • David Baker David Baker
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    David Baker

    A Living Jazz Legend, musician and composer David Baker has made a distinctive mark on the world of music in his nearly 60-year career--as player (chiefly on trombone and cello), composer, and educator. In this richly illustrated volume, Monika Herzig...
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  • The Million Dollar Race The Million Dollar Race
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    The Million Dollar Race

    From humble beginnings to world renowned boxing promoter, tattoo artist, pigeon racer and entrepreneur; Kevin Houston has lived the life of dreams. That is, until his world was shattered and evaporated in an instant.No one could have predicted Kevin's...
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  • An Fear As Kilshanny An Fear As Kilshanny
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    An Fear As Kilshanny

    My story of Kilshanny in Ireland, the homeland of my father. My experiences whilst I was visiting this beautiful country
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  • aufbewahrt aufbewahrt
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    aufbewahrt

    Über lange Zeit, es begann mit einem Brief meines Vaters aus dem Jahre 1939, habe ich handschriftliche Mitteilungen aus dem Umfeld meiner Familie gesammelt.
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  • Sing the unsung heroes Sing the unsung heroes
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    Sing the unsung heroes

    A slightly satirical look at the Rhodesian war mainly about a very enthusiastic but crappy soldier with stories from other soldiers in similar circumstances who instead of leaving school to begin a new life full of girls and beer before settling down to...
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  • L'Eros negli scacchi 2009 L'Eros negli scacchi 2009
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    L'Eros negli scacchi 2009

    Questa terza edizione di "L'Eros negli scacchi" nasce dalla necessità di aggiornare il testo in ordine ai nuovi risultati scacchistici di Eros Riccio.Nelle 674 pagine del libro si trova tutta la carriera scacchistica di Eros, dai primi risultati nei...
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  • Twenty Minutes Lessons of Life Twenty Minutes Lessons of Life
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    Twenty Minutes Lessons of Life

    Each one of us has a story and it would be compelling if we share it. This book is a simple narration of a five months experience of Mike, a Lebanese young man who is struggling to shape the next decade of his life.
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  • Red and White Starlight Sky Red and White Starlight Sky
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    Red and White Starlight Sky

    Red and White Starlight Sky is the follow-up to 2022's If That Day Ever Comes. It is a journey of many different topics, most of which are in sections throughout the book.The title is a way of saying Canadian visions, specifically from the prairies. It...
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  • Twisted Path Twisted Path
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    Twisted Path

    What do you do when your life changes in an instant? The appointment changes your life when you hear the words "you have cancer." Through this book, I share my experience as a patient and as a person to help those newly diagnosed, or have someone they...
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  • Not Always There Not Always There
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    Not Always There

    A unique story of the challenges faced by a couple married 35 years when dementia reared its ugly head. Travel through this journey with Godfrey, a former international rugby player, who, at 68 years of age, could no longer read, write or even sign his...
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  • The Generative "Source-Mind" The Generative "Source-Mind"
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    The Generative "Source-Mind"

    This exciting and intriguing new book in the Generative MIND series will reveal a personal (auto-ethnographic) account of curiosity-driven, experiential research based on the discovered seemingly inherent and consistent properties of a reactive...
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  • Missing from Me Missing from Me
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    Missing from Me

    Recounting the case of her son Ryan's disappearance in an idyllic Canadian ski town, Heather Shtuka takes the reader from her role of parent to search and rescue coordinator through to missing-person advocate, inviting us on her journey to bring her son...
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  • Dealing with Early-Onset Alzheimer's Dealing with Early-Onset Alzheimer's
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    Dealing with Early-Onset Alzheimer's

    Dealing with Early Onset Alzheimer's: Love, Laughter & Tears is Sonia Discher's heartbreaking but empowering story of caring for her husband, Steve. The story follows Steve's diagnosis with Early Onset Alzheimer's at age 50 through treatment, care...
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  • Refuge in the Shadows Refuge in the Shadows
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    Refuge in the Shadows

    Trauma robs a person from feeling safe. It cripples one's ability to be in relationship with others and to trust that the world is good. Trauma changes everything. Through this memoir, told through prose and poetry, Kaisu Aldom takes the courageous step...
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  • واپسین روزهای زندگی محمد نگرشی بر مرگ مرموز پیامبر اسلام واپسین روزهای زندگی محمد نگرشی بر مرگ مرموز پیامبر اسلام
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    واپسین روزهای زندگی محمد نگرشی بر مرگ مرموز پیامبر اسلام

    اثرات آنچه در واپسین روزهای زندگی پیامبر اسلام اتفاق افتاد تا امروز بر زندگی مسلمانان سایه انداخته است. این کتاب چگونگی مرگ پیامبر و اهمیت ماجراهای آخرین روزهای زندگی او را با همه نگفته ها و نشنیده های تکان دهندۀ آن بگونۀ مستند مورد بررسی قرار می دهد...
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    Pool of Wisdom

    From a fairly young age Mary-Clare Carder has had mystical encounters with the spiritual world. In her late twenties she developed Sjogren syndrome - a painful, incurable condition which blunted her career and made her life very challenging. This...
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  • Dalpe's Crime Chronicles Dalpe's Crime Chronicles
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    Dalpe's Crime Chronicles

    Detective J. P. Dalpe, later promoted to Sergeant Detective, is assigned in the early 1920s to a special detective squad of the Quebec Provincial Police to fight crime in Hull, Quebec. The crime was so rampant in the 1920s and 30s that the New York Times...
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  • A Stealth Game A Stealth Game
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    A Stealth Game

    What do Osama bin Laden, H.G. Wells, and the GTA series have to do with Hideo Kojima? A lot more than you'd think!In this stunning second installment of The Kojima Code series, author Terry Wolfe walks the reader through the brightest and darkest...
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  • Religion, the REAL Matrix Religion, the REAL Matrix
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    Religion, the REAL Matrix

    African people have a spirituality that is uniquely theirs. Before Judaism, Christianity and Islam even existed, African people had a history and spiritual system that these religions copied and plagiarized from. This book specializes in African...
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  • Carp 鲤鱼 Carp 鲤鱼
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    Carp 鲤鱼

    As one of China's Net Reds, who has established many schools successively, Axe has a special love for literature and live video. He recorded his confusion, desire and pursuit in poetic language, and also told stories of his relatives and friends in...
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  • The King Who Would Be Man The King Who Would Be Man
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    The King Who Would Be Man

    Haunted by childhood abuse and triggered by years of emotional turmoil in a hostile work environment, The King Who Would Be Man's unnamed narrator is trapped in a maze of madness, struggling to fight the demons tormenting him. But while he's clawing his...
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  • Little Brown Boots Little Brown Boots
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    Little Brown Boots

    This is the touching story of a boy, the youngest of twelve, born on a farm in Rural Ontario. It is a story of the harshness of wartime, loves, losses and heartbreak. Finally, it is about his revealing battle with Alzheimer's Disease and how he faced it...
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  • Raven's Apprentice Raven's Apprentice
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    Raven's Apprentice

    Raven's Apprentice is a compelling true story from the west coast of B.C. that launches you into the world of Raven and our interconnectedness with all living things."Suddenly, without warning, they spun on a fin and started charging the boat. My thrill...
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