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As a sassy young woman used to drinking, partying, blogging, and shopping her way through dreary London, the call of a glamorous, tax-free career in sunny Dubai just couldn't go unanswered. Over the course of two years, an entire city funded by oil wealth rises from the dust around her as Becky rapidly scales the career ladder. She becomes a celebrity editor in a land where sex definitely does not sell and spends most nights in a five-star blur of...
11382) Happily Imperfect
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Renowned and loved for her refreshing candour on everyday issues, social, domestic and intimate, Stacey Solomon reminds us how important it is to embrace ourselves; the good, bad and the ugly.
Stacey's authenticity and her courage to say what others daren't opens discussions on sensitive but significant topics; her lack of sex drive after having kids, her battles with anxiety, the lows of motherhood and even the importance of hairy legs.
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Born in 1964, the last year of the Boomers or the first year of Generation X, depending upon who's counting, Kim McLarin came of age as part of the first real "Brown vs. Board" generation, and that experience, of America first embracing and then rejecting a real and meaningful beloved racial community, has shaped everything in her life.
Searing in its emotional honesty, Womanish is an essay collection that explores what it means to be a black woman...
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Your life is, meant to be a testament of God's never-changing faithfulness and love even in the darkest times.
This book will shake you from spiritual slumber as you navigate these uncertain times and trust God's promises for the future. You will learn how to find hope, faith, and courage during a critical, pivotal time in the history of the church.
Hope in the darkest hour. In this riveting new book, You Can Make It, pastor and Christian television...
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The story behind the best-selling book One Man's Wilderness and how author Sam Keith and Dick Proenneke met and forged an everlasting friendship. "Sam, you know right well you don't want to leave this country. Don't give up on it. Me and you got to figure something out. "After serving as a US Marine during World War II and attending college on the GI Bill, Sam Keith decided to seek adventure in Alaska as a laborer on the Adak Navy base. There he befriended...
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Raised by a lively family of Spanish Jews in tropical and Catholic Panama of the 1950s and 1960s, Marlena depends on her many tíos and tías for refuge from the difficulties of life, including the frequent absences of her troubled mother. As a teenager, she pulls away from this centered world-crossing borders-and begins a life in the United States very different from the one she has known.
This lyrical coming-of-age memoir explores the intense and...
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Meet Dandelion, our author's alter ego, a flailing spouse and dedicated mom of two who's a decade into her expat life and doesn't know who the hell she is anymore. Dandelion's schtick is getting old. Dandelion's feeling uncomfortable in her own skin. Dandelion's longing for the days when there was more to life than wandering the aisles of another damn grocery store in expatland. Dandelion's life is a #shitastrophy.
But all is not lost. Our heroine...
11388) Le guerrier des Alpujarras
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Le guerrier des Alpujarras relate l'histoire de Pierre Welden, un étranger engagé aux ctés des républicains durant la guerre d'Espagne. Autrefois sous-officier de cavalerie dans son pays d'origine, il est dégradé pour avoir défendu ses hommes contre son capitaine. Après un périple mouvementé, incluant des événements marquants en France, en Chine et en mer, Pierre Welden trouve sa voie en rejoignant les rangs républicains en Espagne pour...
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In Radical Courage, retired Marine Staff Sergeant Eric Alva shares his powerful story of coming out as a gay man in the armed forces, as well as his ardent advocacy for diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
The first American service member injured in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Eric was hailed as an American hero. While he lost his leg in combat, his spirit remained stronger than ever-upon retirement, Eric came out as gay. As a former spokesperson...
11390) Liberated From the Hill
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"I must preface everything you are about to read with the indisputable fact that I am proud of the place where I was raised."
Liberty Hill is what Ruthenna affectionately calls the Upper Class Ghetto. Established in 1871, it is the oldest surviving neighborhood in North Charleston, South Carolina. People raised their kids, buried their dead and had a little fun in between without going past the stoplight on one end of the neighborhood or crossing...
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Two of the most grievous human conditions are loneliness and fear. They are siblings in our emotional world, which could lead to anxiety and depression for as many as forty million adults in America alone.
Each generation tends to face their own obstacles to happiness; millennial author, Elizabeth Lucy Ivanecky is, no exception as she embarks on a quest to ask the people that she admires, What does happiness mean to you?
The Child in Us: A Collection...
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Like many of us, Greg Johnson grew up wanting to hit the buzzer-beater shot, throw the final touchdown, and sink the winning putt. Also like many of us, Johnson didn't have the extraordinary physical gifts to make those dreams come true at the professional level.
But, he did have a plan and determination. So he became an athletic trainer, paying his dues and eventually, working with the Atlanta Braves, the USFL, and both the PGA and LPGA.
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11393) Preserving Light
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Preserving Light is more than a memoir. It is a multigenre journey of the human experience. Sometimes funny, unfailingly honest, it offers a unique examination of coping with loss, disappointment, and ambiguity.
In Preserving Light, author Gail Hartman uses the intimate and moving experience of her husband's illnesses and death as cause to reflect upon her life: from growing up in Manhattan - including her adolescence sleeping above Lillian Hellman...
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Your twenties can be isolating, infuriating and painful - but how do you stay healthy and realistic when you're also dealing with depression, mania, or anxiety? Emily Reynolds's A Beginner's Guide to Losing Your Mind explores the unique challenges, including: • How to deal with pressure at school and college• Tips for dating when you are mentally ill (and what to expect when you're on the other side) • Handling self-harm and suicidal thoughts...
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In a voice haunting and filled with longing, Before the Rain tells the story of love unexpected, its fragile bounds and subtle perils. As a newspaper editor in the '80s, Luisita Torregrosa lived her career. Enter Elizabeth, a striking, reserved, and elusive writer with whom Torregrosa falls deeply in love. Their story-irresistible romance, overlapping ambitions, and fragile union-unfolds as the narrative shifts to the Philippines and the fall of Ferdinand...
11396) Left Turn, Life Unimagined
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Jenna Anderson, a small-town middle school teacher, at thirty-six years old, she felt confident in her personhood, motherhood, purpose-hood, and all the "hoods." On an ordinary fall Tuesday Jenna and her daughters made a left turn home and the unimaginable happened, an accident. Life took a tragic turn for many people when Jenna collided with a motorcyclist. Everything began to unravel and life as she knew it was falling apart, her identity, faith...
11397) Strip
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Born in the bohemian seventies, Hannah Sward was abandoned by her mother, and lived with her father on an island with no stores or cars. Kidnapped and molested by a stranger at age six, she grew up to be a stripper and a prostitute with a taste for crystal meth. (Which at least seemed like a surefire way to lose weight.) Strip is a hilarious and heartfelt memoir of one woman's journey from innocence to a darker world, and beyond it to growth and grace....
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A moving portrait of a father and daughter relationship and a case for late-stage creativity from Emily Urquhart, the bestselling author of Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family, and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes.
It has long been thought that artistic output declines in old age. When Emily Urquhart and her family celebrated the eightieth birthday of her father, the illustrious painter Tony Urquhart, she found it remarkable that, although his pace...
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Spoke by Spoke takes the reader on a journey with one woman who reinvents herself following a car-bike hit and run accident which left her back broken, and her bike crumpled under the speeding motor vehicle. The stories Terry shares will take you to the depths of despair and edges of darkness, and then bring you up with her amazing spirit of perseverance and resilience. This book is not a how-to manual for facing the challenges of life, it is an inspiration...
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