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  • Creating Excellence Creating Excellence
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    Creating Excellence

    "Bentley Nettles emphasizes the universal importance of selfless service and a commitment to a greater good."Col (R) Russ (doc) Kotwal, 75th Ranger Battalion surgeon and Ranger Hall of Fame inductee "Bentley Nettles takes the experiences from a...
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  • Saving Mama Saving Mama
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    Saving Mama

    The story of a unique family taking matters into their own paws.Saving Mama is the tale of a single mother's travels in uncharted territory. With the help of some unlikely warriors-five kitties and one pup-she discovers that life isn't always what you...
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  • The Truth on Water The Truth on Water
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    The Truth on Water

    "I did not die on the river. I lived."She thought, why am I doing this?Despite the possibilities on this river journey, Bobbi knew the only certainty was her unknowing. She felt relief when the downstream current was smooth and tame, but she knew the...
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  • They Called Me Mr. Scales They Called Me Mr. Scales
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    They Called Me Mr. Scales

    The story is about a young Black kid who had a dream of becoming a professional orchestra conductor. I grew up in a low-income area of Pittsburgh where three steel mills were within a mile radius of my home. The B&O railroad ran through the...
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  • The Dude Circus The Dude Circus
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    The Dude Circus

    In The Dude Circus, Rose Heyze shares the ups and downs, the freaks and clowns, and her wild experiences in online dating after being "off the market" for more than two decades.  Her eye-opening and wild ride includes: • The Creepy Shit: Dating...
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  • Well Was Well Is Well Be Well Was Well Is Well Be
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    Well Was Well Is Well Be

    Just reading the title feels like a deep breath.This English edition of the widely quoted Korean essay collection offers quiet strength in a noisy world.From bestselling Korean author Jung Young-wook, Well Was, Well Is, Well Be invites you to explore the...
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  • The Courtyard The Courtyard
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    The Courtyard

    The writing is clever and impressive... A mesmerizing, nightmarish story that has, for once, a happy ending. -Kirkus ReviewsIn the heart of Nazi-occupied Paris, one Jewish family is protected by their working-class community.It's 1937, the eve of...
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  • Der Weg des Schwertes Der Weg des Schwertes
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    Der Weg des Schwertes

    Anhand der japanischen Schwertkunst führt dieses Buch zu Bewegungsprinzipien, die Körper und Geist in Einklang bringen können. In das Verständnis des  Schwertweges, entstanden aus der alten Kriegskunst und durch den Buddhismus nachhaltig...
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  • Ripples in the River Ripples in the River
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    Ripples in the River

    A mother's love knows no bounds. Even beyond death.As seen on Dateline, 48 Hours, The Discovery Channel, and Dick Wolf's Blood and Money (The Business of Divorce).Soorya Townley was at the top of her game-one of Los Angeles' most sought-after massage...
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  • Short Stories For opWorldPeace Short Stories For opWorldPeace
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    Short Stories For opWorldPeace

    Written to be the foundation, goal and summary of the Omniversal Revelation and opWorldPeace.1. A scientist on an exploration mission meets a divine being and is changed forever.2. A lost Christian speaks with a vision about the meanings of the cross and...
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  • Beyond the Map's Edge Beyond the Map's Edge
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    Beyond the Map's Edge

    What drives someone to spend a decade hunting for hidden treasure? For Justin Posey, featured in Netflix's Gold & Greed: The Hunt for Fenn's Treasure, it began with bedtime stories about lost Spanish gold and secret tunnels, and evolved into an...
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  • Reading Secrets Reading Secrets
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    Reading Secrets

    A trans pastor's fascination with the Scripture inherited from his closeted, fundamentalist father. When his dad died, Malcolm Himschoot inherited his father’s Bibles. He chose to re-read them, examining his dad’s notes in the margins,...
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  • Skull & Laurel 003 Skull & Laurel 003
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    Skull & Laurel 003

    Issue 003 of THE SKULL & LAUREL has manifested itself with an emphasis on eco-horror and cli-fi, featuring Weird Fiction stories and poetry from around the globe. Sometimes these things are not engineered; sometimes they simply burst forth.Get in on...
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  • Journey into Living Waters Journey into Living Waters
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    Journey into Living Waters

    Maria longs for a life of comfort and influence like her parents enjoyed. Instead, after marrying the handsome, charismatic Marcelo, she finds herself drowning in financial ruin and despair.With their children in tow, the beleaguered couple flee the...
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  • The Runaway Series The Runaway Series
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    The Runaway Series

    One car. One cross-country road trip. Five small town romances about six runaways finally finding home. From Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author, Devney Perry, this collection includes Runaway Road, Wild Highway, Quarter Miles, Forsaken...
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  • I Don't Believe It... We're Good? The New Detroit Lions I Don't Believe It... We're Good? The New Detroit Lions
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    I Don't Believe It... We're Good? The New Detroit Lions

    The Detroit Lions are roaring into the new season with a big win. And now lifelong Lions fan Barry Schumer is capturing the excitement and optimism in his new book, I Don't Believe It, We're Good! The New Detroit Lions. In this new edition...
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  • Phoenix Girl Phoenix Girl
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    Phoenix Girl

    After Michelle emigrates to the U.S. from the tight-knit ethnic Chinese enclave in Incheon, South Korea, she must adapt quickly to survive. With a dominant, impulsive father in charge-who protects the family from everyone but himself-and a mother who...
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  • What Was It Like Marrying in the 80s? What Was It Like Marrying in the 80s?
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    What Was It Like Marrying in the 80s?

    Weddings are remarkable life milestones-and '80s brides celebrated love in a multitude of ways. Some held extravagant ceremonies, with seven-course meals, a DJ, and pricey floral arrangements. Other '80s brides happily threw backyard weddings with a...
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  • Into the Thin Into the Thin
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    Into the Thin

    It felt like an emotional crucifixion-a dark year in which a father figure passed, a friend and mentor suffered a terminal illness, one child entered psychosis, another child took his life, a 14-year marriage ended.As a new life began, an ancient...
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  • My 21 Years in the White House My 21 Years in the White House
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    My 21 Years in the White House

    My 21 Years in the White House, first published in 1960, is the fascinating account by Alonzo Fields of his service as head butler under 4 presidents: Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower. Fields (1900-1994) began his employment at the White House...
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  • Monday Morning Ethics Monday Morning Ethics
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    Monday Morning Ethics

    Chuck Gallagher and author Bruce H. Wolk present a provocative collection of 31 stories that test our ideas of morality and judgment in a world where convenience and self-interest frequently take precedence over integrity and character. The fan...
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  • The Valley Rose Between the Star and the Light The Valley Rose Between the Star and the Light
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    The Valley Rose Between the Star and the Light

    "Even the very wise do not see all ends." Danger Geist obsessed over two things as a child: playing stitch at recess and scrupulizing the coming Christian apocalypse in the geopolitical epicenter of Armageddon. Now an adult, nobody can tell him he's...
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    You Are Not Alone - A Rwandan Memoir

    Sounds of artillery rattled the house as if it were a toy. Inside, a frightened parent and her children lie underneath a mattress, unsure if it spelled the end of them. You Are Not Alone tells the story of author Verediane Mukagatanazi from her...
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  • Motherwell F.C. Motherwell F.C.
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    Motherwell F.C.

    Motherwell F.C.: The Steelmen's Legacy chronicles the rich and proud history of one of Scottish football's most storied clubs. From its humble beginnings in 1886 to its present-day ambitions, this book delves deep into the club's triumphs, challenges,...
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  • Bologna F.C. 1909 Bologna F.C. 1909
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    Bologna F.C. 1909

    Bologna F.C. 1909: A Legacy of Passion and Resilience takes readers on an unforgettable journey through one of Italy's most storied football clubs. From its early days in the 1900s to its modern-day resurgence, this book chronicles the triumphs and...
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  • Thomas McMahon's Search for Fame Thomas McMahon's Search for Fame
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    Thomas McMahon's Search for Fame

    Thomas McMahon's photographs and reports from the southwest Pacific appeared in capital city and provincial newspapers in Australia and New Zealand, and globally in pictorial encyclopedia, books, magazines and postcards and in his own lantern slide...
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  • I Feared Nothing I Feared Nothing
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    I Feared Nothing

    Qasem Soleimani was a towering figure in the Iranian resistance and revolutionary movement.You are holding in your hands an English translation ofthe first-ever book published by the Hajj Qasem Library. It is an autobiography of Qasem Soleimani, former...
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  • HERE I STAND. THE ABC OF MY LIFE HERE I STAND. THE ABC OF MY LIFE
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    HERE I STAND. THE ABC OF MY LIFE

    The book delves deeply into themes of personal reflection, nostalgia, and the contrasts between youth and aging, as well as a vivid recollections of growing up in an African village. An exploration of cultural heritage, the...
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  • Women Thrive IV Women Thrive IV
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    Women Thrive IV

    Could the stories of others spark the transformation you've been seeking? Women Thrive Volume IV is a celebration of courage, resilience, and the strength it takes to rise. Through the deeply personal stories of 14 extraordinary women, this book shines a...
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  • Mysterious Christmas Mysterious Christmas
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    Mysterious Christmas

    Criminally good mysteries happen during the Christmas season. A sense of crime waiting to happen runs through everything, and people get lured into a feeling of false security. Criminals take advantage.Short stories in this intoxicatingly rich,...
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  • Wing of an Angel Wing of an Angel
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    Wing of an Angel

    <p>Discover how one woman's courage to act against overwhelming odds changed her life and the lives of those around her in Wing of an Angel.<br></p><p>This hard-hitting memoir by JB Hollows draws on ten years of experience in the...
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  • Laylah Laylah
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    Laylah

    Professional violinist, muse to the infamous Aleister Crowley.Though Leila Waddell has become an iconic figure in twentieth century occultism as one of Crowley's Scarlet Women, precise details of her life are mostly obscure. Covering her early years in...
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  • Fighter Boy Fighter Boy
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    Fighter Boy

    Geoffrey Page was one of the most remarkable fighter pilots of World War Two. Shot down in a fireball during the Battle of Britain his hands were burnt to the bone and his face badly charred. Despite his horrific injuries Page went onto fly at D-Day, the...
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  • Brooker Brooker
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    Brooker

    Welcome to Booker 2025... We hope you enjoy our first edition, which takes a look at 60 years of award-winning fashion in Kingston.In recent years The Community Brain, a Kingston based not-for-profit, has used milestone anniversaries to focus attention...
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  • Not a Lot of Work or Life Before D'Oyly Carte Not a Lot of Work or Life Before D'Oyly Carte
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    Not a Lot of Work or Life Before D'Oyly Carte

    'Not a Lot of Work' is a prequel to 'Nothing Like Work' and 'A Bit More Like Work'. It tells of the author's early life in Greenock, his education there, his student days at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and a short period of teacher training at...
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  • What I Wish I'd Said What I Wish I'd Said
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    What I Wish I'd Said

    With wit, warmth, and a touch of insomnia, Marjie Zacks explores in her latest book, What I Wish I'd Said: And Other Things That Keep Me Up At Night, the thoughts that keep us up at night - the missed chances, the unspoken truths, and the comebacks we...
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    Barbours Cut

    The details of Clyde A. Barbour's early life on the Mississippi River call to mind the adventures of that famous riverboat pilot Mark Twain, and like Twain, Clyde would never be content with a life limited by riverbanks - his dreams and ambitions went...
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  • Things That Only God Can Explain Things That Only God Can Explain
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    Things That Only God Can Explain

    Do you ever wonder why things happen? Have you ever experienced a variety of events in your life in which you are unable to give meaning or sense? Did you ever feel as though you won't be able to recover?Life on this Earth is a life of constant struggle...
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  • The Prime Minister's Potato and other essays The Prime Minister's Potato and other essays
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    The Prime Minister's Potato and other essays

    After thirty years confined within museum walls, a restless history curator steps out for air. In this book of essays, Anne-Marie Condé grants herself freedom to ask fresh questions about the significance of objects and places within the lives of...
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  • ESO Guidebook ESO Guidebook
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    ESO Guidebook

    Emergency Services Officers, Paramedics and Nurses in the mining and resources sector operate in some of the world's most challenging environments. Whether responding to medical incidents, fire and rescue, HAZMAT situations, or mine site emergencies. An...
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  • Weep for the Dead Weep for the Dead
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    Weep for the Dead

    Corruption; Betrayal; Murder; Redemption; as Capitaine Celestine Courbet fights for justice against those closest to her, the Bordeaux Police Force and the ruthless and deadly Vietnamese mob. The story races from the backstreets and ancient cemetery of...
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  • Escaping the Mortal Cage Escaping the Mortal Cage
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    Escaping the Mortal Cage

    Mortal: One who cannot live forever. Cage: A structure meant for confining. I found myself stuck in a mortal cage. I was increasingly convinced that the material world is all that exists and that death is the end. I didn't like this conclusion. I...
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  • You Are Invited - Diplomats, Diasporas, and Dégustation You Are Invited - Diplomats, Diasporas, and Dégustation
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    You Are Invited - Diplomats, Diasporas, and Dégustation

    Hospitality is a hallmark of South Asia that I have enthusiastically embraced wherever life has taken me. The world of diplomacy revolves around forging connections, and I encouraged my husband to invite people home. Sometimes the dinner table was a more...
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  • Nanaboozhoo Babaamosed Nanaboozhoo Babaamosed
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    Nanaboozhoo Babaamosed

    Originally published as individual stories in the 1970s, under Billy Blackwell, Director and Editor of the Bilingual Reading Series, Nanaboozhoo Babaamosed brings together these traditional Ojibwe stories, offering readers a treasured bilingual text for...
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  • Women Caught in the Crossfire Women Caught in the Crossfire
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    Women Caught in the Crossfire

    Women Caught in the Crossfire documents the experiences of one woman among many who were thrust into the hardships of civil war in South Sudan during the violent struggle for independence from 1983 to 2011. It explores the question: What becomes of a...
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  • Courageous Ida Courageous Ida
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    Courageous Ida

    In Courageous Ida, we follow Ida's journey from being the oldest in a large family to becoming a determined young woman who embraces both adventure and challenge. Growing up, Ida helps her family and learns valuable skills like sewing and...
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  • Angel City Beat Angel City Beat
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    Angel City Beat

    The City of Angels has a dark side. Hidden beneath its shiny surface are misdeeds, miscreants, and murderers. From Santa Monica's sandy beaches to Hollywood's glitzy streets, from Boyle Heights to Holmby Hills to the dirt trails of the San Gabriel...
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