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"It was a moment of revelation for me. I was seventeen when I learned to fly, just a stupid kid, and if I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have done it. I didn't necessarily regret it, in fact quite the opposite;...

Based on a true story of a girl coping with an abusive childhood in the 1970s in central England.His voice echos through her nightmares, "Even when I die, I'll come back to haunt you."It's time for Jes to bury Marie's ghosts forever.Six-year-old Marie finds...

Have you found your joy? Live in the present--bloom where you are planted. We should all have dreams and goals--something to look forward to--something we haven't yet achieved. This gives us purpose and a reason for living. Just take a few minutes to think...

The writing style in Willa Cather Is My Great Aunt and Other Stories is direct and honest. By describing specific moments in her life, Trish Schreiber creates an honest and interesting portrayal of her family.Author: Trish SchreiberISBN-10: 1490760857ISBN-13: 9781490760858Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/11/2015Pages: 168Format:...

My Search is the result of over 10 years of research, testing and experimenting to find answers for all the people about allergies and sicknesses, and how and why they were getting them. The author feels that her work will serve and help people...

This is a story about three generations of a family who have had and are having to live with mental illness. Anyone who knows someone who is mentally ill can benefit from this book, because it is uplifting. Every since I was a child,...

Avoyelles Parish, with its location near the junction of the three main waterways of the Atchafalaya, Mississippi and Red Rivers, sat at the center of much activity during the Civil War. And with more than 1000 able bodies young men in its population, Avoyelles...

Author: Luis TorresISBN-10: 148367620XISBN-13: 9781483676203Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2013Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d

Author: Christine A. PriceISBN-10: 1483665534ISBN-13: 9781483665535Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2013Pages: 100Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Author: Helene E. HaganISBN-10: 1483649989ISBN-13: 9781483649986Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/26/2013Pages: 248Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Author: George S. J. AndersonISBN-10: 1483638138ISBN-13: 9781483638133Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/21/2013Pages: 814Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.94d

"This is an inspiring biography of noted paraplegic Indian athlete Malathi K. Holla. A Different Spirit captures the trials and turbulences of Malathi, who despite undergoing 33 surgeries and many setbacks in her life, never gave up and won over 300 medals for India...

There is only Room for Hope is the true account of one woman's fight with her husband's Cancer. Having lost the battle twice, this time she is determined to win the war. Her arsenal is an eclectic mix of humour, determination and hope, tempered...

The stories told and untold about the Second World War must be infinite and will only ebb (not end) when the last old soldier leaves this world for the next. Katja's story remained dormant for many years after the seed to write about her...

My main point of writing this book is to depict all the happenings in Tawau from 1963 during the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation, the youth movement in Tawau, the Jaycees, and how I was involved working toward my career till I retired in 1998.Author: Bryan Paul...

This love story covers the life of an Austrian diplomat, burdened by the loss of his parents to the holocaust. He finds both love and belief in his work for Israeli intelligence as a member of MOSSAD. Together with his wife, he enjoys the...

A true story of life in Africa under extreme conditions where there's nothing to depend on other than your wits and an ability to improvise. A man, his dog Major, and a small group of helpers trucked across seemingly insurmountable mountainous terrain laden with...

After a life that has spanned more than six decades, Dwight N. Wood, Sr., now provides an intensely painful but transparent account of his story starting from birth and leading to the present day. He always attempted to hide away the damaging scars of...

Merriam Press World War 2 Memoir Series.In this concluding volume, the war in Europe is winding down and at last comes to an end-but there was another war to be fought-in the Pacific.As her parents continued with their struggle to meet they are faced...

Everyone has a unique life story to tell. In The Place I Live The People I Know, author Lori Mendel shares stories from people she knows, gathered from Eilat in the south to Kibbutz Ne'ot Mordecai in the north near the Syrian border. There's...

Author: Jocelyn M. PriceISBN-10: 1479793604ISBN-13: 9781479793600Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/16/2013Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d

Author: Jim HawleyISBN-10: 1479702811ISBN-13: 9781479702817Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2012Pages: 142Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33dReview Citation(s): BlueInk Review 11/03/2012Foreword 01/14/2013

The road from being a young Reggae recording artist to becoming a teacher in a Seventh-day Adventist school is an unusual one, but one that Queen Majeeda, traveled by faith. When the twenty-something poet and musician made the journey from her native Jamaica to...

A canoe trip gone wrong. Two teenage rivals living in the same house. Meet Spud, the wonder dog, who alerted his owner to a runaway tractor. CJ Anderson's life has been anything but boring! Fasten your seatbelt and get ready for an adventure! Join...

In the midst of life's ups and downs, one thing remains steadfast-God's love and providence never fail. Alan Dean knows this to be true. Taking time to look back over his life, Alan marveled at the many times he experienced God's guidance. Through the...

Alexander Fulop experienced the hardships of life at an early age when his father passed away. Unable to take care of her three children on her own, his mother split the family up and sent the two boys to live with relatives in another...

YOUTH, MIDDLE-AGE, and YOU-LOOK-GREAT! Dying To Come Back As A Memoir With reckless ravenous scientific curiosity. Stephen Rosen disassembled a clock and swallowed a part at age two. At age four, impulsively chasing a cat up a tree, he impaled himself upon a steel-spike...

A Weak American in Russia & Ukraine is a painfully funny collection of travel nightmares; country and culture shocks experienced by an American living and working among the natives over the past 20 years. It offers practical tips on how to cope with: Sexy...

Includes Franky Respicio's journal entries and reprinted articles, plus biographical essays by his daughter.Author: Franky T. RespicioISBN-10: 1477126163ISBN-13: 9781477126165Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2012Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d

'I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.' G.K. Chesterton The Presence of Mind follows the delightfully dysfunctional and thoroughly creepy Rosalina. Here was a little girl with only her x-rated Mind for company; her...

This is the story of Sipho and what happened in four days trying to kill himself before he turned 41. It includes poems written in hospital and friends stories I met in hospital. In the US they experience 11,000 self-inflicted deaths per year and...

Author: Karen KondorISBN-10: 1469171031ISBN-13: 9781469171036Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2011Pages: 72Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

eet Vanola Ann and her friends, Diane and Kristen. They have so many choices to make...but will they choose the right ones? Some of her acquaintances have decisions to make also. Perhaps you can help them because the choices they make now will impact...

This book is written to minister and give inspiration and encouragement to all of the orphaned and foster children around the world. She wants to give hope to those children who feel unloved and feels no one cares about them. The book answers the...

After she finished her PhD at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Tammy Redman continued working there as a postdoctoral fellow, but in 1997 she decided to move back to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to be near her family, which included her twin sister, Terri;...

All throughout his life, Jose Martinez had been plagued by Demons and the Horrors of life. He has fought many battles. Not battles of war but battles of the mind and spirit. He has fought his way through life to stay alive and better...

Author: Bamgbopa Oluwaseun SundayISBN-10: 1465366180ISBN-13: 9781465366184Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1900Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

Author: Paul C. ValentineISBN-10: 1465343237ISBN-13: 9781465343239Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2011Pages: 568Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.27d

Author: Joan,Pierre L. DelvaISBN-10: 1462881866ISBN-13: 9781462881864Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2011Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

Author: Hughie Boy LevoyISBN-10: 1462853412ISBN-13: 9781462853410Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/13/2011Pages: 282Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Have you been negatively labled by society and have allowed that label to control you and your future? In Rip the Labels Off, author Ryda Isabella Percy uses her personal experiences to help you remove the labels, identify your true being, and walk in...

Author Mary Ellen Stepanich, with tongue firmly in cheek, answers the question, "How do you turn a normal, happy-go-lucky, poor, small-town girl of the Midwest into a push-me-pull-me, multi-married, mass-of-inner-conflicts schizophrenic?" In her memoir, she shares the personal (and mostly true) story of her...

Author: S'Kay MagaganeISBN-10: 1456868012ISBN-13: 9781456868017Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2011Pages: 120Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Author: Lisa S. GagnonISBN-10: 1456853880ISBN-13: 9781456853884Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1900Pages: 278Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

The fact is, Canton may be one of few Homo sapiens "humans" who can see the Big Picture, one encompassing the beginning of time and the end of time, the creation of the universe and all the galaxies, including the Milky Way, and the...

This story expresses life, truth and beauty; it represents a 1950's American Southern way of life; it touches on love, jealousy, life, hate, death and hope. You will see a determination and love for his wife also the quality that he puts forth in...

Biography of Dr. Sandor Mihaly: Scientist, Researcher, Physician, Inventor, Humanitarian, Financier, Chairman of the Swiss Silent Trust, and a Director of the World Government. He was a man unknown to many, except for those who were and are the wealthiest and most powerful people...

Each of us experiences the vicissitudes of life in different ways. Some, it could be said, never experience grief while others seem to have lives of grief alone. I wrote this book, the story of my life, not to suggest my life is full...

Each of us experiences the vicissitudes of life in different ways. Some, it could be said, never experience grief while others seem to have lives of grief alone. I wrote this book, the story of my life, not to suggest my life is full...

People worked hard, back then, to promote themselves as they believed they should be. Norman Rockwell, then Ozzie and Harriet, depicted Godlike behaviors and values that we continue to admire. However the hurt and loneliness endured by the fat girl, the oddball, the foreigner...