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3061) Little Sure Shot
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Annie's family work hard to survive on their Ohio farm. Annie's happiest when hunting game with her pa, and she doesn't care one bit that it's not the kind of thing girls are meant to do. When tragedy strikes, the family is thrown into deepest poverty. Until one day, Annie dares to pick up Pa's old rifle, and find a way to feed her starving family.
As the family's fortunes worsen, Annie is sent away to work, and life becomes an ever greater struggle....
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A Mother's Tears for a Missing Son is a first-hand account of my personal journey when my son mysteriously disappears in remote Alaska wilderness. It describes the adventures of a free spirited young man who lived on the edge of life and whose choices brought him and his family to an unforeseen outcome of bizarre twists and turns. The expansiveness of the environment offers a setting where the unexpected can happen at a moment's notice. A Mother's...
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An amazingly joyous memoir told with humor and brilliant irony that illuminates the beauty of the absurdity that is life.
Christine Hemp's debut work of nonfiction, Wild Ride Home, is a brilliant memoir, looping themes of finding love and losing love, of going away and coming home, of the wretched course of Alzheimer's, of cancer, of lost pregnancies, of fly fishing and horsemanship, of second chances, and, ultimately, of the triumph of love and...
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When her brother dies of AIDS and her husband dies of cancer in the same year, Rosemary is left on her own with two young daughters and antsy addiction demons dancing in her head. This is the nucleus of The Art of Losing It a young mother jerking from emergency to emergency as the men in her life drop dead around her; a high-functioning radio show host waging war with her addictions while trying to raise her two little girls who just lost their daddy;...
3065) Secondhand Summer
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Secondhand Summer begins in Ninilchik, a tiny Alaskan community where the Barger family fishes for salmon. The father's death forces a move from their homestead to an apartment in a poor section of Anchorage. Written in the first person and based on the author's own experiences, the tale is about Sam, a fourteen-year-old boy who loved the homestead fishing life he left behind. Like most kids his age, his physical abilities and his imagination exceed...
3066) Life, Death and Biscuits
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An extraordinarily powerful memoir based on the diaries of intensive care nurse Anthea Allen, who worked on the front line of one of the largest hospitals in Europe — St. George's in South London — during the peak of the Covid crisis.
Her gripping and incredibly moving recollections have been feted by a great range of people, from Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid on Good Morning Britain to Richard Branson and the Queen's apothecary, as well as being...
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Une histoire d'amour avant tout, qui réunit deux générations
« Gloria était contente. C'était mercredi. Elle allait retrouver Grand-Mère Tout Doucement. Le vent était doux. Il tourbillonna dans ses cheveux courts et bruns. On sentait le printemps qui s'approchait. D'ailleurs, on était le mercredi 18 mars. Gloria se mit à marcher plus vite. Grand-Mère Tout Doucement, c'était la maman de sa maman… pourtant, ces derniers temps, la vieille...
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For the first time, middle readers can learn the complete story of the courageous girl whose life, which ended through the effects of war, inspired a worldwide call for peace. In this book, author Sue DiCicco and Sadako's older brother Masahiro tell her complete story in English for the first time-how Sadako's courage throughout her illness inspired family and friends, and how she became a symbol of all people, especially children, who suffer from...
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Pistes et conseils pour atteindre la sérénité
Depuis l'aube des temps, les humains ont du faire face à de multiples défis. Ils ont connu, la maladie, la faim, les guerres, des deuils multiples. Ils ont toujours su se relever et continuer, trouver des raisons de vivre et d'espérer. Ainsi, au cours des siècles, ils ont accumulé une immense sagesse dont nous pouvons être les héritiers et que l'on découvre dans toutes les grandes traditions...
3070) Where the Seals Sing
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A journey around the British Isles discovering the extraordinary lives of these secretive mammals. The Atlantic grey seal is globally rare — there are fewer grey seals in the world than African elephants — and Britain hosts forty per cent of this world population. Over the course of a year in their lives, Susan Richardson comes to know a colony of seals, watching as it is hit by storms in the autumn pupping season, experiencing sociable winter...
3071) Cold hands, warm heart
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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After sixteen-year-old Tyler convinces his parents to donate the organs of his fourteen-year-old sister, who died during a gymnastics meet, he writes letters to the recipients, including Dani, who finally has a chance at normalcy after living fifteen years with a congenital heart defect.
3072) The honest truth
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IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
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A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
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My eyes lifted to the horizon and the unmistakable snowy outline of Everest.
Everest, the mountain of my childhood dreams. A mountain that has haunted me my whole life. A mountain I have seen hundreds of times in photographs and films but never in real life.
In April 2018, seasoned adventurer Ben Fogle and Olympic cycling gold medalist Victoria Pendleton, along with mountaineer Kenton Cool, took on their most exhausting challenge yet - climbing...
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Butterfly Awakens depicts the story of the extraordinary transformation of a forty-something Italian American attorney as she moves through unimaginable grief and sadness watching her beloved mother lose her battle to breast cancer. This tumultuous life experience shifts her world, causing her to question her life choices and opening her up to her soul's calling. Nocero brings readers along on her journey through a dark night of the soul as she deals...
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Odyssey of Ashes: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Letting Go begins with the sudden death of Cheryl Krauter's spouse. Five months later, in a stroke of irony and magic, her husband wins a long-desired guided fly fishing trip in a raffle-and Cheryl decides to go in his place, fulfilling a promise to scatter his ashes by a trout stream.
Part I of this memoir is an account of the first year after Cheryl's husband's death, where she becomes an explorer in...
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As Diana surveyed her newborn baby's face, languid body, and absent cry, she knew something was wrong. Then the doctors delivered devastating news: her first child, Emma, had been born with a rare genetic disorder that would leave her profoundly physically and intellectually disabled.
Diana imagined life with a child with disabilities as a dark and insular one, a life in which she would be forced to exist in the periphery alongside her daughter....
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As her sweetheart's body lies cooling on the living room floor, Joni Sensel-shattered but not surprised-revisits her premonition about this moment. From nearly the start of their fairy tale romance less than four years ago, she knew she would lose Tony, the man she considered to be her soul mate. He was in great health, but fate had other plans-a hard truth that visited Joni in the form of a startling vision during their second weekend together. Though...
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A Jewish Mexican American author chronicles his family's tumultuous, decades-long spars over religion, class, and culture in this candid, inspiring memoir.
The son of a Mexican Catholic father with aristocratic roots and a mother of Eastern European Jewish descent, Carlos E. Cortés grew up wedged between cultures. He grew up "straddling borders, balancing loves and loyalties, and trying to fit into a world that wasn't quite ready." His request...
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No one knows how a suit of samurai armour ended up in the Fort Smith museum. When a mysterious stranger turns up to claim it, Sonny, a young Tłı̨chǫ Dene boy, is eager to help.
Shinobu has travelled to Fort Smith, NWT, to reclaim his grandfather's samurai sword and armour. But when he discovers that the sword was lost in a poker game, he must confront the man known as Benny the Bank. Along the way, Shinobu must rely on unlikely heroes-Sonny, his...
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Megan Brown's brother, Tyler, is dead, but the cops are killing him all over again. They say he died of a drug overdose, potentially suicide-- something Megan cannot accept. Determined to figure out what happened in the months before Tyler's death, Megan turns to the things he left behind. After all, she understands the stories objects can tell-- at fifteen, she is a gifted collage artist with a flair for creating found-object pieces. However, Megan...
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