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Mikey was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They lived in a closeted community, and little is known of their way of life. After centuries of persecution Gypsies are wary of outsiders and if you choose to leave you can never come back. This is something Mikey knows all too well. Growing up, he didn't go to school, he seldom mixed with non-Gypsies and the caravan became his world. Eventually Mikey was forced to make an agonising decision, to stay and...
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"The story of an odd couple -- a British military historian and the Tawny Owl with whom he lived for fifteen years. In The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar, Windrow recalls with wry humor their finer moments as well as the reactions of incredulous neighbors, the awkwardness of buying Mumble unskinned rabbit at Harrods Food Hall, and the grievous sense of loss when Mumble nearly escapes. In the spirit of J. R. Ackerley's My Dog Tulip, Windrow offers...
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"When you have a very famous father, like mine, everyone thinks they know him. My Dad, Larry Hagman, portrayed the storied, ruthless oilman JR on the TV series Dallas. He was the man everyone loved to hate, but he had a personal reputation of being a nice guy who fully subscribed to his motto: Have Fun, Don't Worry, Be Happy. Dad had a famous parent too, Mary Martin, known from many roles on Broadway, most memorably as Peter Pan. Off-stage she was...
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The mortuary curator behind the popular blog presents a career memoir told through the steps of an autopsy that symbolically represent milestones in the author's life, cultural attitudes about the afterlife and her discoveries about what the living can learn from the dead.
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"Acclaimed author and feisty nonagenarian Hotchner's witty ruminations about the art of living well into old age...with brio and a touch of his trademark sass, Hotchner writes about rediscovering love after 75, finding joy in a scrappy African gray parrot he named after his longtime friend, Ernest Hemingway, and going on his very first safari at age 88." - Kirkus Reviews
When youngsters in their seventies and eighties, nervously lurching toward...
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Tis better to be born lucky than rich....
There are many ways to confront tragedy and hard times. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt's tragic--and ultimately uplifting--tale of how one man overcame adversity and found happiness in the New World is a compelling story that has touched thousands of readers.
It's a Long Way from Penny Apples is another view of the Irish experience, another man's journey out of the grinding poverty that held an entire generation...
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"When Jason Mulgrew enrolls in a private high school in an exciting new neighborhood (North Philly, murder center of the city), he finds himlf displaced into a world of privilege and strict standards. His classmates, whose parents are lawyers and bankers, live in houses with yards and pools. Mulgrew, whose longshoreman father bought him a motorcycle upon completion of his driver's test, struggles to relate in this wider world, fighting his way through...
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Race fans, along with Christians, always want toe know the rest of the story. My book will help teach the non-race fan about auto racing, and for all readers, it will show how true faith in God and accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior might give them a miracle when they need one.
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Alan Trabue chose a bizarre, dangerous way to make a living. In A Life of Lies and Spies, Trabue exposes the often perilous world of polygraphing foreign spies in support of CIA espionage programs. He recounts his incredible, true-life globe-trotting adventures, from his induction in the CIA in 1971 to directing the CIA's world-wide covert ops polygraph program.
A Life of Lies and Spies brings readers into the high-stakes world of covert operations...
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In the spirit of Midnight Express and Not Without My Daughter comes the harrowing true story of an American held in a Nicaraguan prison for a murder he didn't commit.
Eric Volz was in his late twenties in 2005 when he moved from California to Nicaragua. He and a friend cofounded a bilingual magazine, El Puente, and it proved more successful than they ever expected. Then Volz met Doris Jiménez, an incomparable beauty from a small Nicaraguan beach...
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The classic erotic memoir of an intense and haunting relationship that spawned the film.
This is a love story so unusual, so passionate, and so extreme in its psychology and sexuality that it takes the reader's breath away. Unlike The Story of O, Nine and a Half Weeks is not a novel or fantasy; it is a true account of an episode in the life of a real woman.
Elizabeth McNeill was an executive for a large corporation when she began an affair with...
15) Double time: how I survived---and mostly thrived---through the first three years of mothering twins
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"Double Time is an up-close and very personal look at Jane Roper's first three years raising twin daughters. From trying to get pregnant to wrapping her head around the idea of twins, from round the clock feedings and diaper changes to coping with the Sisyphean logistics of two babies, double tantrums and differing rates of development, from trying to be super-mom to struggling to keep a history of depression under control, Jane Roper tells her story...
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"Originally from Dublin, Niall Harbison was the owner of a successful advertising company. After selling it, he moved to Thailand where his addictions - drugs and alcohol - almost got the better of him. One day he woke up in hospital, close to death, and realised that something had to change. And that was what spurred him on to start saving and helping street dogs. His aim is to help 10,000 street dogs. This is his story."--
17) Chaos and Ash
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Chaos and Ash records one consultant's views from the inside of some of the largest critical incidents over the past twenty-five years-many front page headliners, that stand out in the nation's memory. From 1987 to 2012 Kendall Johnson served as traumatic stress consultant to emergency service agencies and the military. He has driven into remote locations in both wildland and urban emergencies, convoyed through fire lines, has been airlifted into...
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My mind tends to see humor in what others think isn't so damn funny. Even when I was in the hospital and in some pretty bad pain, I found moments of humor. When people who write humor see the world, it just does not look like what other people see. That is the best I can do to explain it.
Vince Clews is the author of one previous book, Water Walkers: From Secular Careers to Sacred Service, 39 Stories of Faith.
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Memoir Writing - 3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: How to Write Non-Fiction, How to Tell a Story and How to Edit Writing
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HOW TO WRITE NON-FICTION:
7 Easy Steps to Master Creative Non-Fiction, Memoir Writing, Travel Writing & Essay Writing.
YOU'LL LEARN:
• How to define your genre by understanding the scope of your content
• How to understand the subgenre in your content and how to reflect that in your title
• How to write effective...
20) Unimagined Odds
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In 'Unimagined Odds,' a transformative journey unfolds from the unpredictability of the seas to the anchored duties of fatherhood. This memoir is more than a personal narrative; it's a testament to resilience and adaptation in the face of extraordinary challenges. As a sailor, I mastered the oceans, but the voyage of raising my children as conscientious, law-abiding citizens charted a new course of purpose and determination. Within these pages, I...
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