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A successful radiologist and elite athlete, Dr. Dave tended to the blistered feet of strangers on racecourses and gave away many of his trophies. He was appreciated for his generosity and camaraderie with family, friends, colleagues, and adventure-racing teammates, the latter of whom usually accompanied him on excursions. But he embarked on his final pursuit alone-an attempt to summit all fifty-four of the fourteeners in Colorado-and made an unknowable
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As a child growing up in rural Suffolk, I was surrounded by the countryside, in awe of this amazing creation in which I lived. As a child every Sunday I would attend my village Sunday school. There the teachers would give us extracts from the Bible and the Scriptures and explain them to us, so that we would learn how our world was created and the importance of God in our lives. As I grew older, I attended secondary school. Here the education and the...
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Join Amy on a heartfelt journey through life's many twists and turns. A Life full of travel, love & loss, Adventure, family, friends, growth, development, tragedies & triumphs! See how she has navigated life's darkest moments & greatest losses through the help of Faith, Family & Love! Amy has chosen Victory instead of Victimhood, triumph throughout the tragedies. Learning how to be resilient through the fire.
Isaiah 61:3
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The Winter of '79 is the true story of one particular winter season that spanned the gap from 1979 to 1980 with a lot of nasty weather in between. We know about it because Kate, alone on a mountaintop with no phone and no one over the age of one to talk to, wrote letters to her mamasan in Hawaii. Her mom kept the letters. Kate also penned a journal. Between the two written sources and more than one hundred original photographs, a person can get a...
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En este libro se narran las primeras vivencias de Ezequiel Mora, un avispado y suertudo chico nacido en un pueblo de la costa norte del oriente de la isla de Cuba. Es solo el comienzo de una larga y agitada vida que llena de aventuras y riesgos que le llevan a convertirse en un reconocido personaje en las Antillas.
Su autor, bajo el seudónimo de Xyan Xoce, entremezcla los sucesos acaecidos en su propia vida con hechos ficticios para regalarnos una...
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What would be interesting would be to know on what you would base your decision. For example, I could write pages about my life so far, starting with the fact that I was born at a very early age, or so I'm told. But honestly, I have no recollection of the event, so I am left to wonder about that. Or I could say life has been great, full of highs, and better than I could ever have imagined it would be. But I think we both know that's not the truth...
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A story of reconnecting to long-forgotten childhood bonds and memories, Debbie Kaiman Tillinghast's “The Ferry Home” embraces joyful moments with humor and more troubling emotions with compassion. If you have ever faced emotional challenges within your family or had a sibling relationship with both squabbles and shared mischief, if you have found peace in one memorable place, or if you have ever longed for any of these, then this book is for you....
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It is the 1960s in California. World events, the loss of a job, and the near death of a traveling companion propel Jeannette Hanby into an unknown future. Her personal odyssey leads her to the Big Sur Coast, where she finds jobs, celebrities, companions, friendship, and romance. One remarkable man tempts her into the wild canyons of the Sierra Nevada and recruits her into a gold mining venture on the Feather River. While coping with camp life and...
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In the "thirties" in western Kansas, the Great Depression was made worse by years of drought. Robert (it was Bobby back then) was born in the middle of the DUST BOWL, so called because the winds picked huge clouds of dry dust that eventually were carried as far back as Washington DC. Those years were called "The Hard Times" with reason because many people lost all they had. The hardy people that lived there, in the midst of hardships found ways to...
10) Twisted Firsts
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Life is an unpredictable, adventurous and uncertainly certain journey where you're assigned different roles as you move ahead of each phase in your life. Though the first step seems difficult, sometimes even unsure and confused, with each step further you learn to walk with your head held high and your feet firm in the ground. If we compile each of those first steps at each phase it would be excitingly thrilling to replay those baby steps again and...
11) Isle of Hope
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Michael Hawkes was born in England to an Irish mother. She returned with Michael and his twin sister to Ireland only to be taken by the Catholic Church. They then trafficked him to California where he was abused by the most powerful priest in Los Angeles, The Right Rev. Monsignor Benjamin Hawkes. Michael's powerful inspirational memoir Isle of Hope follows his search for his birth family, and to find redemption and peace. A gripping and powerful story....
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LEARN FROM THE MISSTEPS of a globetrotter in the Australian desert and from his adventurous travels in Asia - through Sri Lanka, Thailand, India and Nepal. Be inspired on your personal journey by his dearly paid experiences. Believe in yourself, guard your thoughts, keep your sense of humour, find the love of your life and don't let go of luck! DON'T ASK FOR SUGAR is an autobiographical romance novel that only real life can write. The reader accompanies...
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The stirring narrative of "Unsinkable" tells sixteen-year-old Abby Sunderland's remarkable true story of attempting to become the youngest person ever to sail solo around the world. More people have flown into outer space than have sailed solo around the globe. It is a challenge so immense that many have died trying, and all have been pushed beyond every physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual limit. In Unsinkable, readers follow Abby Sunderland...
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Monday morning. I wake up from my nap and look at time in the car- 2:30 a.m. -Black Suede Jacket.
Then I snapped out of it and realized I had been waiting on 2 friends as if I was their chauffer.
It was at this point, where I decided to drive home. I had lent Angela my favorite jacket and she had, forgotten her pack of cigarettes, in my car.
I wondered, when I would get, my jacket back...
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Un témoignage bouleversant sur les horreurs de l'inceste et de la pédophilie
Ce livre autobiographique relate la jeunesse d'une enfant que le hasard de la naissance a menée au bout de l'horreur mais que la soif de vivre a tirée du néant. Ce témoignage bouleversant illustre la capacité de résilience d'une petite fille maltraitée par ses parents, placée dans un orphelinat et qui connaîtra l'horreur de l'inceste et de la pédophilie. Le réseau...
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A marine biologist's adventurous life as a professor and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. His radical approach to recovery clashes with her instinct to keep him safe at home and sets them on a collision course as he insists on ambitious sailing expeditions with Beth and their young son in Alaska's magnificent yet unforgiving waters.
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When Marc Ashton was kidnapped, thoughts of his famous father, Horace Dade Ashton, filled his mind. The elder Ashton became a founding member of the Explorers Club, and showed his passion for adventure by visiting many perilous, yet captivating, corners of the world at a time when travel was not easy. Marc believed the key to his escape lay in his father's exploits. Dubbed the "original Indiana Jones," the elder Ashton shared his journeys through...
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Plongez dans la fin des années 70 aux cté de Jacques à la recherche de son idéal amoureux
Roman sur fond de rugby, entre Paris et Edimbourg, o le jeu à 15 et les amours difficiles se croisent, Flowers of Scotland nous entraîne dans l'intimité du narrateur à la poursuite de l'idéal amoureux. De Mary l'écossaise à Angéla la danseuse du Moulin Rouge, le destin sera cruel pour ces jeunes femmes…
Écrites à la première personne, ces...
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Turning sixty isn't the end; it's only the beginning.
Michael Cosgrove had a beautiful family, a successful career, and a lovely Southern California home overlooking the Pacific Ocean. At age sixty, he decided to leave all that behind to sail around the world.
With the vision of rugged individualism and salty tales to share with his grandchildren, Cosgrove quickly realized that sailing around the world wasn't as easy as he had imagined. From a psychotic...
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When David Mauro was in his forties, his life hit rock bottom. With nothing to lose, he left everything he knew behind and set out on an epic international adventure. For the next seven years, Dave trudged across glaciers and frozen wastelands and through dense, dangerous forests. He communed with penguins and elephants, kept company with cannibals and gunrunners, and spoke with the dead. And though he'd never been a climber, he ended up joining history's...
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