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DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR FIRST LOVE?
Do you remember your first heart break? This Memoir book is about a young woman who fell in love at the age of fifteen. She never expected to go through all of the pain, hurt and abuse that she encountered over the years. She had to grow up at an early age and thought that everything she went through in her seventeen year relationship was normal and ok. She had to learn the hard way and she had to make many...
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Step into the remarkable journey of resilience and hope with Life After a Craniotomy Operation. Our brain, often compared to a computer perched atop our heads, serves as the epicentre of our existence, enabling us to navigate the complexities of modern life and its myriad highs and lows. However, when illness strikes, rendering simple tasks impossible, fear takes hold, and the words of a wise consultant resonate deeply: fright, flight, fight-an embodiment...
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Delve into the riveting memoir of an attorney who navigated the transformative world of litigation law in private practice. Journey back to an era when senior partners donned wing collars and were addressed as clerks by their surnames, and when solicitors weren't confined to specialisations.
Experience the spectrum of clients he represented, from navigating harrowing cases at police stations – covering everything from murders to activists challenging...
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When Hard Lilies Cry describes my 26 years journey battling two cancers and preventing two more.Diagnosed with breast cancer. How do you deal with that? How do you wait for weeks not knowing whether you will live or die? How do you inform your children and raise them while going through treatment? How to cope with your family during chemo and radiotherapy? Can you accept the alteration of your figure after mastectomy? Will your husband leave you?...
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As a Professor Emeritus of a major university, Norman set out to write his memoirs until he was introduced to a volunteer experience that set him on a course of activism for the next 20 years.
That activism would take him to the United Kingdom where he would engage in an historic African Asian Solidarity Conference, aimed at securing the rights of Ethnic and Religious minorities in the forthcoming European Union.
Alex Norman, having taken an...
6) Royal Edge
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The year is 1971. Blocks away from Princeton University and just days after his graduation, a young Michael meets Ella, an elderly woman living alone and in need of a housemate. Michael cannot refuse her offer of free lodging, since he hopes to stay in town and ride out the Vietnam War draft-a war that has already taken his friend's life.
As their friendship grows, Michael learns of Ella's remarkable past as a Russian countess: Ella is a descendent...
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Within the gentle embrace of bouquets of falling leaves and the soft pearls of bashful innocence, embark on a journey aboard a pain-hued train that winds through the clouds. This enchanting odyssey breathes life into once-disillusioned hearts and celebrates a body reclaimed from the depths of adversity.For years, Alessandra has poured her soul into the pages of this collection – thoughts, poems, and essays that resonate with the echoes of rekindled...
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This book was written at the request of a great teacher in order to support spiritual practitioners of various paths better integrate their spiritual experiences, vijñāna, with an understanding of how and why they happen: jñāna. This is not intended solely as a spiritual memoir. The author shares her personal experiences as an authentic example of a person's journey of self-inquiry, self-knowledge and self-actualization.
Her use of Sanskrit and...
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It's only through fear that we become fearless
Young love and a whirlwind romance slowly curdles into a life of shocking abuse, manipulation, and control, made all the more harrowing for the innocent children at its center. This is a tale of a woman trapped on all sides, and her inspiring journey, step-by-painful-step, to freedom, family, and a life finally lived on her own terms.
10,000 Hours of Fear illuminates how the interconnected dichotomy...
10) Granny Rags
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Winner, IP Picks 2012 Best Junior Prose. Tim Trickett - shy, over-protected and troubled by memories - is the new boy in a small country town. When his classmates put him up to an initiation test, he finds himself on his way to visit Granny Rags, the reclusive old lady who lives near the creek and is rumoured to be a witch. But one visit turns into several, and soon Tim finds himself deep in a mess of buried secrets, crooked business deals and long-harboured...
11) An Ordinary Man
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While German bombs were falling on London people didn't worry too much when hearing Hitler's doodlebugs, the dreaded V1 flying bomb. But when the noise stopped then they were worried because they knew that the rocket was about to drop – on them!David, hanging in a basket inside an air raid shelter, was oblivious to all of this for he was just a baby.Growing up in West London he spoke with a cockney accent even though he wasn't a true cockney. He...
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What did you want to be when you grew up? For a long time, I wanted to be a walking talking real life superhero. For over eight years, I pursued that vision of myself in trying to become a Police Officer. With each attempt at selection, and with each letter of decline, I grew hungrier and more determined to make it. It's answering the highest calling in serving my community, I said during my interview. The selflessness, the sacrifice, the unfathomable...
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How does one move forward to a big and open world with many possibilities? Mary was always determined to broaden her horizons from her life in a tiny village in Guam. Mary is entrusted with a religious upbringing, and this is how she made connections to her world. You will see how the glimpses of a village girl made an abrupt and meaningful change to womanhood which gifted her a new perspective in life. Her simplicity of life took her to many milestones...
14) A Girl's Memoir
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If you are looking to learn more about perspective then this is the book for you. It shows the point of view of life through a young girl. A lot of people do not like to hear the truth so she decides to tell it anyway. You may begin to question yourself the further you get into the story. Some things may even sound familiar or seem relatable. Being both sympathetic and an empath is a gift and a curse and you will learn more about that. The truth did...
15) Take Me Home
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Take Me Home is a collection of short stories based on the author's experiences as a sports-loving boy growing up in Indiana in the 60s and as a practicing attorney in Florida. Each story presents vivid local colors and memorable characters. Many present-life passages are to be navigated and moral questions are to be pondered. Take Me Home is a light but worthwhile read that you will want to pass along to your family and recommend to your friends....
16) Milestone
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Join Hugh on his hilarious adventures in the UK haulage industry in the 1970s and 80s. From securing his truck license on a disused airfield to traversing the country on colourful escapades, Hugh recounts rollicking tales with unforgettable characters.
We follow Hugh through a whirlwind of trucking jobs, from the docks of Watchet to the remotest corners of Scotland. Laugh along as he fumbles his way as a rookie and gains wisdom from wizened veterans....
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Get the Summary of Frank McCourt's Teacher Man in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Teacher Man" recounts Frank McCourt's thirty-year teaching career in New York City high schools, beginning with his first job at McKee Vocational and Technical High School on Staten Island in 1958. McCourt, an Irish immigrant, faced challenges such as scarce resources, budget constraints, and the need to assert authority in the classroom....
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Life Blood, written by a renowned leukaemia physician, tells unforgettable stories of his leukaemia patients' battles to be cured but also uniquely describes the stresses that doctors face when looking after extremely ill young people during an extraordinary time in their lives.
In reflecting on his long and illustrious career, Professor Marks' memoir offers frank descriptions of his own medical family, some personal experiences of ill-health and...
19) 101 Elsie St
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Dominic Albanese is back with something completely different - a surreal road trip veering wildly from psychedelic nightmare to idyllic dream; an utterly new experience. 101 Elsie St is a riveting jaunt through a fading time - the beginning of US involvement in Vietnam, the awakening of the counter-culture of the sixties, and one man's journey through the hell of addiction, prison and self-doubt to the realization of the healing nature of fellowship...
20) Unbreakable
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Eighteen years ago, I stood in the passage of my home staring down the barrel of a gun while my children lay asleep meters away. One loud bang and the bullet slammed into my chest, paralyzing me instantly. My whole life as I knew it was changed forever. As if that wasn't enough, I survived breast cancer and a deadly tumour when the doctors said my chances were slim.
I am the preacher's daughter that was thrown out of home at the tender age of 17...
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