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Publisher
Publication Consultants
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Listeners of Alaska Outdoor Radio Magazine turned up the volume just a little as Evan ended his show with \"And now before we close the show, there's just time for one last cast.\" One Last Cast is the collection of 120 of listeners' favorite one last casts. It's more than fishing Alaska. It's flying with Charlie's pilot, an early-morning walk on a deserted Kachemak Bay beach, digging clams, pulling crab and shrimp pots, taking pictures, keeping a...
22) Just Plain Becky
Author
Publisher
Vision Publishers LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Becky and her husband were committed to providing a haven in raising their four children in the fear of God. Their lovely neighborhood was increasingly dangerous and running counter to their commitment. What should they do? Where could they go? Where would He lead? How would this affect the relationships they had forged with family and the many friends they had made in the churches they attended in their spiritual journey? Little would they know that...
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the memoir As I Walked Out One Evening Donald Wetzel explores what it is like to enter into the realm of old age. He approaches the changes within his life with the same sense of humor and of awe with which he approaches everything. He is looking for clues. Running through his family is a propensity towards Alzheimer's disease, and Wetzel wonders when, and if, Alzheimer's will claim him.
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Publisher
Spirit Reign Communication
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Whether your dreams have been derailed by self-inflicted choices or second-hand circumstances, From Felon To Forbes, delivers a fresh breath of possibility for what a person can achieve with their life. Coach Jae's ability to connect, coach, and empower with a mix of relevant analogies, shameless transparency and results-based strategies truly makes him a '1-of-1' amongst today's personal success coaches. The gift, you are now holding, is simply your...
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Language
English
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When Tony Hillerman looks back at seventy-six years spent getting from hardtimes farm boy to bestselling author, he sees lots of evidence that Providence was poking him along. For example, when an absentminded Army clerk left him off the hospital ship taking the wounded home from France, the mishap put him on a collision course with a curing ceremony held for two Navajo Marines, thereby providing the grist for a writing career that now sees his
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Publisher
Green Writers Press / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Tea with Dad maps the rough terrain of the author's life and experiences after moving in with her 82-year-old father and living with him consistently and longer on a day-to-day basis than she ever had as a child. She is surprised by the distance between them and the obvious discomfort the two of them feel. Nancie, the twice-divorced mother of three daughters who no longer live at home, still reeling from the last ten years -- during which, among...
Author
Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In a world shaken by the great upheavals of World War and the collapse of Empire, six women from different corners of the world transcend the constraints of their different backgrounds. Their physical and emotional migrations open the way to personal journeys which redefine them and enable their daughters to live lives of greater personal freedom and fulfillment. This book tells the stories of our mothers, six ordinary women who undertook extraordinary...
29) Remember Me
Author
Publisher
Fremantle Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Separated from her true love at the age of 18, Liz dreamt of the day he would return to marry her, but fate had other plans. Thirty-seven years later, Liz answers the telephone to hear a voice from the past that still has the power to stop her in her tracks. A true story of love lost and found, this personal memoir journeys across continents and decades to relate the details of the couple's original love affair and their reunion years later. Poignant...
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English
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"My Inventions" is a candid and illuminating autobiography of Nikola Tesla, one of the most important technological innovators of the modern industrial age. Famous for the radio, robotics, and wireless energy, Tesla quickly gained international notoriety for his pioneering inventions as much for his eccentric life. Perhaps no one in his day more thoroughly embodied the archetype of the "mad scientist". This firsthand account reveals the fascinating...
Author
Publisher
Emerald Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A woman recounts her adventures in Egypt, the Middle East, and beyond in this absorbing memoir. Imbued with a love of travel and adventure as a child through books her parents bought her during the Great Depression, Anne Speake would eventually go on to journey to many destinations in her adult life, from Paris to Thailand to Greece -- but she particularly fell in love with the Middle East, especially the city of Cairo -- to which she's returned...
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This memoir takes readers around the world, from New York to Nigeria, exploring a life illuminated by novels. As a child in music class, Kathleen Hill comes upon Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart, and the novel prepares her for a drowning death that soon occurs in her own life. Later, recently married and working as a teacher in a newly independent Nigeria, Hill assigns Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart to her students, which leads to learning from them...
33) Meditations
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Language
English
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Meditations is Marcus Aurelius' private book of reflections, written over a series of years in far-flung places as he led the Romans in military campaigns, quashed revolts, and dealt with the other tribulations of governing the Empire. It is best described as a spiritual journal, containing a record of Marcus' philosophical exercises. The book is interesting as an example of Stoic thought and is valuable for historical reasons as a document of the...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Matt Kell and Cathy Spehn had known each other since grade school. As adults, they each married, lived in their hometown and attended the same church. Their kids attended school together. Matt died at home on Christmas Day after a three-year battle with cancer, leaving behind his wife, Gina, and two young boys. Prior to his death, Matt recorded a video diary for his sons, which included his desire and expectations that their mom would love again....
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Language
English
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New York Times Bestseller: An “elegant” mosaic of trenchant observations on the late sixties and seventies from the author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem (The New Yorker).
In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own “bad dreams” with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of 1960s counterculture.
From a jailhouse
...In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own “bad dreams” with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of 1960s counterculture.
From a jailhouse
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Language
English
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One day, Richard LeMieux had a happy marriage, a palatial home, and took $40,000 Greek vacations. LeMieux's quiet determination and his almost pious willingness to live with his situation are only a part of this politically and socially charged memoir. The real story of an all-too-common American condition, this is a heartfelt and stirring read.The next, he was living out of a van with only his dog, Willow, for company. This astonishingly frank memoir...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In February of 1973, Nancy Weber put an ad in the Village Voice offering to trade places with another woman, a stranger, for a month. In hopes of better understanding what was fixed and final in each person--and what was invented, and therefore might be reinvented--they would use each other's names, live in each other's homes, love each other's loves, and do each other's work. After interviewing many of the fascinating women who answered the ad,...
Author
Publisher
Charisma House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Your life is meant to be a testament of God's never-changing faithfulness and love even in the darkest times. This book will shake you from spiritual slumber as you navigate these uncertain times and trust God's promises for the future. You will learn how to find hope, faith, and courage during a critical, pivotal time in the history of the church. Hope in the darkest hour. In this riveting new book, You Can Make It , pastor and Christian television...
Author
Publisher
Shadowlilly Publications, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Betray your marital bed and maybe we'll let you go.
Agreeing would mean certain death for Susanna. Refusing would only make matters worse. In an age when women were stoned to death for such things, would the truth even matter? Susanna took a stand for what was right. Will it be enough when it's her word against the pillars of her community?
Betrayal is a bitter pill chased with forgiveness.
The snow was falling, and Stephanie M. Freeman was dying....
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English
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"Comedian Zach Anner opens his frank and devilishly funny book, If at Birth You Don't Succeed, with an admission: he botched his own birth. Two months early, underweight and under-prepared for life, he entered the world with cerebral palsy and an uncertain future. So how did this hairless mole-rat of a boy blossom into a viral internet sensation who's hosted two travel shows, impressed Oprah, driven the Mars Rover, and inspired a John Mayer song?...
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