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  • Suiyue Liusha
    Jianping Liu
    出生于50年代中期，她见证了大饥荒年代，寄养在亲戚家的童年和少年，使她有不同的视角回顾那一段历史。经历了文革，她15岁就被打成“反革命”，19岁下乡当了知青，在文革后第一次恢复高考的那年，考上了大学，却被分到不喜欢的专业……一个普通的留学生，在北美的求学，求职，以及职场和家庭生活。作者以幽默的笔触，描写了第一次在美国考试，就考了38分的惊慌；有摔门而去，愤然辞职的愤怒；有反映家庭矛盾的学车的场景……最后，作者回忆了她与父母之间温馨往事，记录了一对儿女成长过程中的酸甜苦乐……这里有惊恐，有无奈，有欢乐，有悲哀，有奋斗，有成长。这是一本跨越东西文化，交织三代人情感的故事书。 ...
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    17,02 €

  • The Smell of Garlic on Sunday
    Norma Jo Thomas
    A memoir, neither a nostalgic look back, nor a pity party, just some serious self-work getting into those deep-rooted feelings that threatened to sabotage my efforts and derail my dreams, feelings that had shaped my view of myself, my world, and my relationship to it, hell bent on delivering a message from my higher self - their message, packed away in timeless memories, delive...
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    27,14 €

  • Addicted to Lies
    Terrell Patterson
    Author Terrell Patterson bares all—his past and his present, his strengths and his flaws—in this candid and refreshing debut, Addicted to Lies. Part memoir, part life guide, Patterson takes us through the events of his tumultuous childhood spent in inner city Baltimore with a mother who struggled with addiction, his capricious teenage years in which he searched for love and loy...
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    19,05 €

  • Shaking the Family Tree
    Dallas H
    There was a boogie man in the closet and its name was alcoholism. This story is not for the faint at heart. Shaking the Family Tree is an anonymous personal memoir of a recovering alcoholic. It is interlaced with poetic offerings that take the reader to the heart and soul of the ramifications of the disease of alcoholism. Dallas’s story is one of coming to terms with what has b...
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    18,95 €

  • Trapped by a Mouse
    Bob Zumwalt
    Memoir depends on recollection—not only the particulars of experience, but the emotions, reflections, and even the daydreams elicited. Bob Zumwalt uses memory and imagination to tell the poignant, the fanciful, and the humorous moments of his life. From a bashful young lad in small town Central Texas to world-traveling chemical engineer, Zumwalt shares the rich, (and sometimes ...
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    15,77 €

  • A Royal Love Revealed
    Corrine Sharpe
    In 2011, God sent Corrine Sharpe a simple, loving message: Look for the hearts. She had lost her mother to cancer. Her family struggled in the depths of grief. This divine revelation from God healed their hearts. A Royal Love Revealed is Sharpe's memoir of loss, belief, and love. Are we loved? Are we valuable? Our material world has its opinions as to the nature of love. It...
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    22,71 €

  • I Promised Not to Tell
    Cheryl B Evans
    A Readers' Favorite 2017 Bronze Medal Award Winner.  Cheryl Evans and her husband Jim raised their children telling them: 'You can be anything and do anything you want in life.' They just never expected to learn that what their youngest daughter desired most in the world was to be a boy. Experience this powerful, raw and, deeply personal story as one family invites you to b...
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    14,94 €

  • I'm Not An Actor (I Just Play One On TV)
    dave e. keliher
    This is the part of the story of my life. But there is more to it than that. I mean, like, there's things about me as a kid and as a teen and as twenty-year old. And since this description has to be at least 200 characters I just have to keep typing until I can stop. Like now. ...
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    5,65 €

  • Ghetto By The Sea
    Ghetto By the Sea is the second anthology in an annual series produced by the students of P.O.P.S. the Club, a club for those whose lives have been touched by prison. In short memoirs, poems, photographs and drawings, the students tell the stories of their lives--sometimes stories about how their lives have been touched by prison, often by the ways in which all kinds of losses ...
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    14,54 €

  • Stuck in the Passing Lane
    Jed Ringel
    What happens when a newly divorced, monogamous, family-oriented Baby Boomer gets trapped on the Internet dating superhighway?From Spanish Harlem to Singapore, in relationships with Muscovite intellectuals and streetwise Chinatown massage parlor queens, Jed Ringel takes you on this hilarious, heartrending, self-revelatory, and sometimes even cringe-worthy journey.With the unspar...
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    12,21 €

  • How To Grow Up Like Me
    Ballou High School Writers
    "Your Story Is Your Strength." This is the mantra that emerged from a six-month writing project at Ballou High School in Washington, DC, in which eleven dedicated freshmen and six determined seniors told their stories of ambition and struggle in what came to be known as The Ballou Story Project. The freshmen were students in AVID, a college-preparedness program, who gathered vo...
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    10,50 €

  • What You’re Hiding Is Hindering Your Blessings
    Tina Bailey
    'One of the most liberating things is to realize that you don’t have to be perfect in this imperfect world. All you have to do is strive to be better than you were yesterday. This book will help you avoid the pitfalls of low self-esteem, learn to look for the best within yourself, stop hiding who you are, and embrace your identity. Life is a precious gift given to us by God an...
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    9,68 €

  • Keep This Quiet! III
    Margaret A. Harrell
    'Keep This Quiet! III-Initiations' begins in the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich, where Margaret was enrolled in 1984. She is headed for a big initiation there, which she narrates for us - showing how initiations are life-transforming. Notably, she also dives into the debate between physicist Wolfgang Pauli and psychiatrist Carl Jung about how science/matter and psyche/spirit/synch...
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    18,12 €

  • Crossing the Borders of Time
    Leslie Maitland
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    26,14 €

  • Surviving Life as a Miracle Child
    Brandon C. Gandy
    This is a true story about Brandon C. Gandy, who overcame 15 birth defects, 28 surgeries, a medically induced coma, and cancer, and became the 8th person in the world to have a testicular and kidney transplant. During all of his near-death medical challenges, Brandon persisted he would remain an athlete and he tackled many different sports. His brave, strong journey sheds light...
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    28,55 €

  • A Telephone Call from Cleveland
    Dominic Di Giamarino
    As I review my general surroundings, I am somewhat confused. The children of today are being bombarded and consumed by the continual assault of cyber technology, and I have this worrisome feeling that they are progressing to oblivion. Let us hope that I am wrong and their childhoods were and will be as simple and happy as mine.Dominic is a retired educator and resides in Arizon...
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    9,64 €

  • Across the Pond
    Madelyn June Jorgensen
    Across the Pond Torn Between Two Worlds is a memoir, autobiography, and genealogy. It was initially written as a sequel to I Heard the Alps Call His Name but became a personal journey of resilience and a quest for belonging.Part one, Beginnings, follows the lives of two little Metis orphans Madelyn June and her twin sister, Marilyn Joan, whose Indigenous ancestors crossed the A...
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    18,44 €

  • The Kite That Couldn’t Fly
    Michael Menard
    In 'The Kite That Couldn’t Fly: And Other May Avenue Stories,' Michael Menard crafts a captivating memoir, weaving a narrative of resilience and hope from the threads of his challenging childhood. Raised amidst poverty and complex trauma, Menard was one of 14 siblings, each uniquely shaped by their shared experiences. His memoir transcends mere storytelling; it’s a journey thro...
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    21,60 €

  • The Kite That Couldn’t Fly
    Michael Menard
    In 'The Kite That Couldn’t Fly: And Other May Avenue Stories,' Michael Menard crafts a captivating memoir, weaving a narrative of resilience and hope from the threads of his challenging childhood. Raised amidst poverty and complex trauma, Menard was one of 14 siblings, each uniquely shaped by their shared experiences. His memoir transcends mere storytelling; it’s a journey thro...
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    25,94 €

  • Frozen Voices
    Kit Roberts Johnson
    Don’t take speech for granted. Kit Roberts knows what it is like to have a frozen voice. She knows what it is like for others to have their voices silenced, like children with Down Syndrome, or adults with stuttering. She became a speech therapist to help people with communication disorders and discovered over the span of her career that we have all been silenced in some way. W...
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    15,91 €

  • The Branch and the Vine
    Stephen D. Edwards
    Author Stephen D. Edwards became depressed as a young adult. He suffered insomnia. He lost interest in many pleasures. He was constantly tired and restless. He felt worthless and had many suicidal thoughts. There were many moments when he thought depression had gone away, but that was all circumstantial. With little hope of finding healing or freedom, he reached a crossroads. T...
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    10,14 €

  • Tendrel
    Anne Waldman
    Tendrel: A Meeting of Minds is an examination and recollection that ventures into the heart of a unique cultural and intellectual crossroads. Anne Waldman’s profound exploration of the fusion of poetics and Tibetan Buddhist wisdom, set against the backdrop of the compelling and provocative figures of Chögyam Trungpa and the celebrated writers of the Beat literary movement, shin...
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    20,35 €

  • Live And Die For Hip Hop
    Tyler Idleburg
    'A true story of Love & Hip Hop.' - Keandra Clay'Such a thought-provoking story.' - Jerrod Williams'... displays a vivid image into the mind of a child, growing up without a father figure. With no proper guidance throughout his life, he resorted to the one thing that gave him comfort: Hip Hop--In following the culture, he was able to find great insight, a sense of direction, an...
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    24,35 €

  • Memórias E Confidências
    José Antonio Maranho
    Maranho produziu este livro como é mencionado no seu subtítulo para contar histórias não contadas por outros meios ou mal contadas, advertindo, portanto, na sua introdução, que não se trata de sua biografia, mas, sim, das histórias (verdadeiras e comprovadas) de sua atuação, como protagonista central ou secundário, em trabalhos, criações e contribuições em instituições acadêm...
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    17,46 €

  • Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons
    Homer B. Sprague
    'This narrative of prison life differs from all others that I have seen, in that it is careful to put the best possible construction upon the treatment of Union prisoners by the Confederates, and to state and emphasize kindnesses and courtesies received by us from them.For the accuracy of the facts stated I am indebted to a diary kept from day to day during the whole of my impr...
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    12,17 €

  • You Have a Kind Face
    Joel Simmons
    You Have a Kind Face is a collection of true, firsthand accounts of what a career in firefighting can be like. Over the course of twenty-six years in the fire service, Joel has seen more than a few strange situations and difficult calls. From fighting fires in houses and apartments, to the extrication of a victim under a train, to struggling to save lives alone in the back of a...
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    20,79 €

  • Transformed
    Carrie Wright-Christopher
    This personal collection of poems, prose, and photographs taken by the author expresses reflections and transformative experiences that open a window into the heart, mind, and soul of the author. Her viewpoints on nature; home; artistry; love; motherhood (trigger alert - abortion); childhood; humanity; pain, self-awareness; spirituality, and the experience of awakening are reve...
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    30,73 €

  • Transformed
    Carrie Wright-Christopher
    This personal collection of poems, prose, and photographs taken by the author expresses reflections and transformative experiences that open a window into the heart, mind, and soul of the author. Her viewpoints on nature; home; artistry; love; motherhood (trigger alert - abortion); childhood; humanity; pain, self-awareness; spirituality, and the experience of awakening are reve...
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    20,28 €

  • All Who Believed
    Tamara Mathieu
    'Come for a day or to stay!' beckons the maroon double-decker bus called The Peacemaker. One couple, searching for peace and a better life, did just that. In August of 2000, Tamara Mathieu and her husband gave up everything they had and joined the Twelve Tribes, a worldwide religious organization, with their 17-month-old son. They were just 23 years old. Fourteen years and thre...
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    15,79 €

  • Death Trip
    Seth Lorinczi
    When a midlife crisis threatens his marriage and an open-minded therapist offers him MDMA, the author learns just how trippy a search for meaning can get.Like many children of immigrants, Seth Lorinczi knew only the major plot points of his Hungarian family’s backstory. But when he stumbles upon his father’s long-forgotten memoirs, he realizes the antisemitic violence and traum...
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    13,36 €


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