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In February of his forty-fourth year, journalist David McCumber signed on as a hand on rancher Bill Galt's expansive Birch Creek spread in Montana. The Cowboy Way is an enthralling and intensely personal account of his year spent in open country-a book that expertly weaves together past and present into a vibrant and colorful tapestry of a vanishing way of life. At once a celebration of a breathtaking land both dangerous and nourishing, and a clear-eyed...
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A fiercely honest and moving story of how Joan Rivers, one of comedy's greatest stars, survived the worst that life could throw at her, how she hit bottom and then made it back to the top.
"There are many self-help books by Ph.D's, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A. - I've Been Through It All. This degree comes not on parchment but on gauze, and it entitles me to tell you that there is a way to get through any misfortune." -From Bouncing...
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During the Summer of Love in 1969, Alan Hodgkingson was drafted. After basic training, he was sent to serve his tour of duty in Viet-Nam. THE FOREST OF DARKNESS is a gut wrenching account of how a nineteen year old managed to cope with the horrors he witnessed in order to survive during his stay in that war-ravaged country. But besides being a first-hand account of a military conflict, it is also a question about a moral dilemma that an unwilling...
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A book anyone can read especially if they wonder how their dream may be fulfilled.
"Father Mike Ortiz is now retired from the Army Chaplaincy and the active Priesthood. After several attempts to become a military chaplain he finally was accepted and volunteered for the Green Berets and served with the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th and the 10th Groups. He underwent SCUBA and HALO training and is a graduate of the Command & General Staff College as well...
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A Gay professional recounts his life before and after HIV positive diagnosis.
Dr. Marty is a second generation chiropractor. He first wrote Living Beyond Rainbows in 2011. He worked in the HIV arena since the 1980's. A different perspective of growing up in America.
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A book anyone can read especially if they wonder how their dream may be fulfilled.
"Father Mike Ortiz is now retired from the Army Chaplaincy and the active Priesthood. After several attempts to become a military chaplain he finally was accepted and volunteered for the Green Berets and served with the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th and the 10th Groups. He underwent SCUBA and HALO training and is a graduate of the Command & General Staff College as well...
7) Barack Obama
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In the incredibly giftable little book Barack Obama, readers get an inside look at the remarkable 44th president of the United States. Barack Obama is the first African American U.S. president and the first politician to bring 21st-century technology to an election and the presidency. He brought change to a nation and changed history. From local community reformer to Oval Office tenant, Barack Obama has lived the American dream. This is his story...
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Tracing the life of the author's father, this passionate, vivid memoir follows him through his childhood in the west of England, his successful 25-year career in the Indian Army prior to the country's independence in 1947, and his final years in Devonshire, where he raised a family while the symptoms of Huntington's disease gradually set in.
Born of a family of impoverished Cornish fishermen, he and his six sisters cared for their dying mother after...
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Catching Up provides the reader with an amazing number and variety of the author's personal adventures in the outdoors. These include such experiences as encountering mountain lions in the wild, being treed by a moose in the Grand Tetons, encountering a fierce javelina boar in Big Bend, studying ferruginous pygmy-owls on the King Ranch, restoring Ridley sea turtles to Padre Island, being face-to-face with a number of wild bears, censusing birds on...
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Rosie was born loving horses and has pursued many disciplines in the horse world-breeding, showing, teaching, endurance racing, driving, camping, and trail riding wherever she can. Any ride on a horse is an adventure, and most folks can only dream about the places she has seen from the back of her horse. As an ICU nurse, getting away on her horse is a great escape.
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The first book by distinguished novelist, journalist, and literary critic Rebecca West: a biography of Henry James. Setting the standard for a century's worth of criticism, Rebecca West diagnosed Henry James as an American who "could never feel at home until he was in exile" in this slim, readable biography, published just a few months after his death in 1916. West boldly assesses Roderick Hudson as "not a good book," and displays remarkable foresight...
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A collection of new-in-print comics from legendary creator Leela Corman. Motherhood, music, trauma, and heritage whirl together in powerful and unexpected ways. Praise for You Are Not A Guest:"In You Are Not A Guest, Leela Corman is in a no holds barred wrestling match against Trauma set to the tune of an antifascist punk band. She leads us into the heart of her personal tragedies: the death of her daughter, and her family's history in the Holocaust,...
14) The Great Flood!
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Based On a True Story of the Author as Seen Through His Eyes as a 6 year-Old Child Caught Up in a Scary Flood That Creeped Upon His family in the Middle of the Night! A Scary hair Raising Experience!
15) Siege
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This is a true story that has it all: killer cops, and whores, and mafia connections. There is even a hanging. It's all about their relationship to a ten-year old boy. He lives, sometimes, with Jesus followers, and sometimes with hard-core atheist. You've probably seen this kid walking down the street by your house. he's a quiet loner, nothing to say, head down, eyes inspecting the sidewalk as he goes. You ask yourself how did he get this withdrawn...
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Moses is a central figure in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. But what can we learn from his example from the Bible record? Topics in this helpful Bible commentary on his life include the following: Early Life and Flight, At The Burning Bush, The Hand of God, Moses and Pharoah, The Passover, The Red Sea and the Wilderness, Mediator of the Covenant, Faithful in all God's House, The Pleader, Wilderness Wanderings, Departure, Some New Testament References,...
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Art Linson has had a hand in producing some of the most unforgettable films of the past half-century-Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Untouchables, Fight Club-and has worked with some of America's finest actors and directors. In what the Los Angeles Times calls "a breezy anatomy of ritual humiliation," his memoir gives us a brutally honest, funny, and comprehensive tour through the horrors of Hollywood.
Includes a new interview of Art Linson by...
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"An engaging journey into the wild and wonderful world of drumming."-CLEM BURKE, Blondie
To have a great band you need a great drummer. For the first time, Tony Barrell shines a long-overdue spotlight on these musicians, offering an exciting look into their world, their art, and their personalities. In Born to Drum, he interviews some of the most famous, revered, and influential drummers of our time-including Chad Smith, Ginger Baker, Clem Burke,...
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The world watched…...as a teacher flew into space. Do you remember where you were when Christa McAuliffe died? She was a wife, Mother and Teacher and the first civilian to fly into space but Christa's dream tragically ended on a cold January day with the needless explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Has anyone ever been held accountable? Told by her distant relative, award-winning author Tom McAuliffe, 'Throttle Up - Teacher Astronaut Christa...
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This Life of Grace is a biography and a history. It tells the story of Grace Jarrold, the youngest of eight children, who lived for almost ninety years in the village of Plympton in Devon. It also tells the story of the village over the last century, beginning with the Great War of 1914-1918, school life at that time as revealed in original documents, the building of 'homes fit for heroes' in the 1920s, and the General Strike of 1926. It describes...
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