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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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In 2009 Cristina Nehring's brilliant first book, A Vindication of Love, was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. An important new voice had appeared in American letters. Just as suddenly, Nehring seemed to disappear-only to reemerge like a bolt from the blue. "Now unexpectedly, writes California poet laureate Dana Gioia, "from Paris comes a heartbreaking and tender memoir, The Child Who Never Spoke, that explains her years of silence....
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Get the Summary of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Be Useful in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.
Arnold's stratospheric success...
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Some time ago Rafi Zabor sat down to write a brief narrative of the year 1986. That was the year he set out across two continents in a used Mercedes-"Wabenzi" is the Swahili word for a member of the Mercedes-owning class-to buy a grave stone for his friend Mahmoud Rauf and to outrun the shadow of his own parents' recent death.
But like a boat against the current, the writer was drawn back into the past: his father's escape from the Nazis, Rafi's...
6) Driven
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Steph (Hammerman) Roach is an accomplished fitness personality and owner of Staying Driven, LLC . Over the past decade she has used her influence and life experience to help shift societal perceptions of what it means to have a physical disability and be included in the fitness industry. Becoming the world's first Level 2 CrossFit trainer living with Cerebral Palsy, and the first adaptive athlete to be signed by Nike Training, Steph is used to blazing...
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I Have Fun Everywhere I Go is a rollicking, high-octane, always irreverent journey through the seamy side of the publishing industry. Mike Edison's résumé spans twenty-years and a slew of notorious titles, including Screw, High Times, Penthouse, and Hustler. An Ivy League dropout who's never looked back, Edison embarked on a career that's landed him in the producer's chair for one of the worst B movies of all time; on tour with the likes of the...
8) Thirteen
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If you really want to get into it, 13 of the craziest stories you will read. Summer camp, school, parents/siblings, a couple essays in there about some restaurants, and really bringing life. These are just stories I wrote 3 years prior to publishing and hope they aged well. There's not much to say because the stories speak for themselves and I'm not much of a show off honestly. All i can say is all these stories are true, I fabricated the truth a...
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Behind Blue Eyes opens a window into a journey not just through time, but through the tapestry of life itself. Where do the threads of our stories begin? Perhaps a few years back in the blush of youth, or maybe in a distant decade, or even another century. This book isn't just a story; it's a revelation, an uncovering of beginnings and the surprising events that follow.
Life, in its essence, is an unpredictable journey. We traverse its path without...
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Surviving Smoking Mirrors: My Reflection is a candid chronicle of Alliey's tumultuous relationship with Josh, tracing its journey from the beginning to its bitter end, and the myriad challenges she faced along the way. Following the collapse of their marriage, Alliey finds herself entangled in a complex property settlement while enduring ongoing gaslighting and abuse from Josh. Concurrently, Josh plunges into a hedonistic lifestyle.
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Growing up in Beverly Hills with two famous uncles - a cosmetics magnate and a well-connected mobster - eventually led Ilene Médecin to a romantic and glamorous life as the American First Lady of Nice and the French Riviera. "Arrested" follows Ilene through her marriage to Jacques Médecin, a Medici Count fondly known as "King Jacquou," who was the last scion of a century old political dynasty. Her unique experience is from the perspective of an...
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"Letters of Love and War" is an apt title, I believe, because it capsulizes the emotion that young people of the: Great Generation" must have experienced from being torn apart by the ravages of war. These letters present an honest and straightforward account of their struggle and how they remained resilient throughout, preserving their love for each other and for their country. The book has letters that range from the mundane to the sublime and yet...
13) My Story
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My Story tells the tale of one man's coming to adulthood in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Because of his international focus, the Author had said little about a subject that might interest a reader familiar with his existing body of work, that is, himself. So, he has turned a penetrating gaze from his customary subjects--people and places in the Middle East and South Asia--to a subject that provides context for his earlier books.
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There is a large floor of broken boards, covered here and there with bit and pieces of broken linoleum. I cannot see the walls or what's above them, but there is a woman at a fire who keeps looking at me, and a man on a chair reading a paper, who keeps looking at me.' Born in a fourth-floor tenement, the youngest of twelve, Liam was the son of a Dublin Fusilier and a flaxmill worker. Although half his siblings were dead before he was born, he does...
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Get the Summary of Nancy Sprowell Geise's Auschwitz 34207 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Auschwitz 34207" by Nancy Sprowell Geise tells the harrowing story of Joe Rubinstein, a Jewish man from Radom, Poland, whose life is irrevocably changed by the Holocaust. The narrative begins with Joe's early life in Radom, filled with family love and Jewish tradition, before shifting to the brutal reality of Nazi occupation....
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This is the true and heartwarming biography of an abandoned puppy and a young police officer who seemingly adopts him by pure chance. But the reality was, they were brought together by crisis and a necessity...for each other.
The two go through life together in a journey filled with twists, turns, and every range of emotion. It is a love letter written by the officer to his valiant dog, Chico. In his life story, we learn of the strength, will, and...
17) Raising Atlantis
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Raising Atlantis picks up where both Umma Dawn and BioHazard left off…Biohazard is the natural history of Earth and Umma Dawn the cultural history of Earth… while Raising Atlantis is the real history of Earth… Ever since Atlantis was first mentioned it has been feeding the dreams and fuelling the feuds of adventurers and historians…What was Atlantis ? Where was Atlantis ? What happened to Atlantis ? Where did Atlantis go ? Where did Atlantis...
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“Ten Nights in a Bar Room” is a book written by T. S. Arthur. The book is a moralistic tale about the dangers and consequences of excessive drinking and alcoholism. The story follows the journey of a man who becomes addicted to alcohol and the negative impact it has on his life and the lives of those around him. The author uses the character's experiences to explore the social and personal tolls of alcohol abuse, and to deliver a warning against...
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Join Gordon on a journey through the world of professional cycling, from following in the footsteps of Tom Simpson on a journey to Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, to building a successful financial services business and organizing popular training camps in Mallorca, which helped make the island the top destination for serious cyclists. Along the way, discover the amusing characters and incidents that defined Gordon's career, as well as the challenges and...
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Eine Reise in die Vergangenheit Innsbrucks - lebendig in persönlichen Erinnerungen!
Gernot Zimmermann ist in der Reichenau aufgewachsen und kennt den Stadtteil seit seiner frühesten Kindheit. Seine Erinnerungen reichen bis 1965 zurück, er hat die wichtigsten Jugendjahre hier verbracht und schildert diese Zeit in zahlreichen Anekdoten. Zimmermann und seine damaligen Freunde waren Kinder der Straße, sie haben sich in den Höfen herumgetrieben,...
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