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A daring memoir of love, magic, adventure, and miracles, Victor Villaseñor's Thirteen Senses continues the exhilarating family saga that began in the widely acclaimed bestseller Rain of Gold, delivering a stunning story of passion, family, and the forgotten mystical senses that stir within us all.
Thirteen Senses begins with the fiftieth wedding anniversary of the aging former bootlegger Salvador and his elegant wife, Lupe. When asked by a young...
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After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant and elegiac memoir, Loung recalls her assimilation into an unfamiliar new culture while struggling to overcome dogged memories of violence and the deep scars of...
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Recounts the achievements of photojournalism pioneers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro as they captured the tragedies of the Spanish Civil War and documented the fight against Fascism.
"Robert Capa and Gerda Taro were young Jewish refugees, idealistic and in love. As photographers in the 1930s, they set off to capture their generation's most important struggle--the fight against fascism. Among the first to depict modern warfare, Capa, Taro, and their friend...
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Desafiando las expectativas, estadísticas y estereotipos, Alberto Gonzales se ha convertido en uno de los hombres más poderosos de América. Gonzales es una figura clave en la administración de Bush, mantiene puntos de vista espinosos y posiciones muy influyentes acerca de los asuntos que polarizan a la nación. Su apoyo indiscutible a George W. Bush, cuya presidencia va más allá de lo "controversial," es un estudio fascinante en la política...
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In his renowned biographies Portrait of a President and The Death of a President, William Manchester intimately and meticulously detailed the life and death of President John F. Kennedy. One Brief Shining Moment is a celebration of that life, based on Manchester's own recollections of his time with one of America's most famous families. John Kennedy first met William Manchester in 1946, beginning a friendship that would follow him to Washington and...
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Take Dave Barry, Jack Welch, Homer Simpson, and Ray Romano, mix in a family, a little weight gain, failure, introspection, and redemption, and you have Nigel Marsh's international best-selling autobiography.
As a stressed husband and father of four small children under the age of eight, Nigel Marsh was enslaved to his mortgage, recuperating from an embarrassing surgery, and suddenly fired from his corporate career. Deciding to venture "off the treadmill"...
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Embark on a riveting journey of ambition and valour that takes a young sailor from the humblest beginnings in the Merchant Navy to the apex of the marine world. This tale of ascent is punctuated by thrilling perils at sea: accidents, collisions, blazes, and even the perils of war.
As the first North Sea Oil makes landfall in Orkney, our protagonist steers mammoth oil tankers through some of the planet's most treacherous waters, skilfully averting...
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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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Frank Marotta was born and raised on the mean streets of New York City in the 1950's. Corona, Queens, was a close-knit, blue-collar, predominantly Italian neighborhood. It had the distinction of being the site of the two World's Fairs, in 1939 and 1964. Now known as Flushing Meadows Corona Park, it's home to the New York Mets Citi Field, the Arthur Ash Tennis Stadium, Queens Theatre in the Park, and the New York City Hall of Science. But, such upscale...
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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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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Sarah K has a secret. By day she's a writer and level-headed single mother; by night she's a submissive, living a real-life Fifty Shades of Grey that is thrilling beyond her wildest dreams. But this is no fantasy: Sarah's story is all true. Daring, evocative and thrilling, but told with wit and honesty, this is an explosive account of life as a submissive, and of a secret world in which only a few dare to play. When Max...
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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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For those who feel they are content to be working with the cards that life has dealt them – beware!
I was that person – enjoying my work, enjoying the good salary I earned and enjoying considerable job satisfaction. So why would I throw that away and allow myself to be carried along by curiosity and vanity?
This book is the story of what happened next and of the wonderful variety of people I met along the way.
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From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP. After sixteen years of high-pressure nursing, Michael Alexander has traded in his hospital uniform for the fresh air, comfort and routine of an International private school in the French Alps. Bliss! But it's not long before he discovers that school nursing is not all permission slips, sniffles and gift baskets. Disastrous school trips; after hours dorm sleepovers; awkward sex education...
18) Humble Pie
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Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, driven, stubborn. But this is his real story... In this fast-paced, bite-sized edition of his bestselling autobiography Ramsay tells the real story of how he became the world's most famous and infamous chef: his difficult childhood, his brother's heroin addiction, his failed first career as a footballer, his fanatical pursuit of gastronomic perfection and his TV persona - all the things...
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Cinco noches por semana, María Elena Salinas presenta las noticias a millones de televidentes hispanos en todo el país. Pero cuando se apagan las cámaras, es como tantas otras mujeres, una esposa y una madre que lucha por encontrar un equilibrio entre su vida personal y su vida profesional. Un día descubrió que su adorado padre había sido sacerdote católico, y su vida dio un vuelco: todo lo que creía saber, y en lo que había basado su vida,...
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Oscar De La Hoya, uno de los luchadores más celebrados en la historia del boxeo, nos brinda su historia franca y conmovedora sobre cómo logró el Sueño Americano: su ascenso al éxito, el poder de una ética de trabajo sólida, la dolorosa pérdida de su madre al cáncer, las trampas del estrellato, así como una perspectiva muy personal de lo que significa ser americano Hijo de padres mexicanos, De La Hoya "El Chico de Oro" ha tenido una carrera...
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