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  • The Battle Within
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    The Battle Within

    Head-aches. Dizziness. Can't sleep. Bad dreams (never have been released). The rice jungle had some compensation to some of us who just don't seem to make a success of our return - ROBERT, A RETURNED POWThis landmark and compelling book follows...
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  • The Rapids
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    The Rapids

    'The Rapids is beautifullywritten: brimming with humour, empathy, pathos and heart. This book is an earnest,generous, and important contribution to ongoing global dialogue around mentalhealth.' - Maxine Beneba Clarke Writingand...
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  • A Fhrer for a Father
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    A Fhrer for a Father

    'I was written out of the family story. This book is my attempt to write myself, and my mother, back into it.' In this singular memoir, historian and biographer Jim Davidson writes about his fraught relationship with his authoritarian and controlling...
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  • Valiant for Truth
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    Valiant for Truth

    Chester Wilmot (19111954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic...
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  • Not Just For this Life
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    Not Just For this Life

    Not Just For This Life is a salute and tribute to Gough Whitlam, commemorating what would have been his 100th birthday. Upon his death in October 2014 there was a national outpouring of grief and affectionate remembrances across the nation. This book...
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  • The Worst Woman in Sydney
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    The Worst Woman in Sydney

    Matriarch of the criminal underworld ... or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney?The legend of Kate Leigh, Sydney's famed brothel madam, sly grog seller and drug dealer, has loomed large in TV's Underbelly and every other account of Sydney's criminal history...
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  • Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo
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    Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo

    For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated...
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  • Australian Women War Reporters
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    Australian Women War Reporters

    Why do Australians know the names of Charles Bean, Alan Moorehead and Chester Wilmot, but not Agnes Macready, Anne Matheson and Lorraine Stumm?This is the hidden story of Australian and New Zealand women war reporters who fought for equality with their...
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  • Fraying
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    Fraying

    Being a carer is not unlike being an interpreter. The task is to listen intently, to catch not only the words but the spirit of the message, and then to immediately pass that on. So too the carer, who is required to listen, to catch the spirit of what is...
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  • W-3
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    W-3

    An extraordinary portrait of a brilliant mind on the brink: A new edition of the 1974 memoir by the author of the acclaimed collection Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage. With an introduction by Yiyun Li.'For a long time it had seemed to me that...
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    Claude Coats: Walt Disney's Imagineer
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    Claude Coats: Walt Disney's Imagineer

    Claude Coats: Walt Disney's Imagineer-The Making of Disneyland: From Toad Hall to the Haunted Mansion and Beyond is the story of artist and designer Claude Coats who, for more than half a century, was one of the most prolific creative talents at The Walt...
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  • Rascal's Republic
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    Rascal's Republic

    "Rascal's Republic" is a catalogue of the author's early twenties through poetry, unstructured prose, and photographs. While there is a table of contents, the book is not designed to be read in any particular order. Many passages have been informed by...
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  • Tolstoy Together
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    Tolstoy Together

    From the acclaimed author of Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, a book about the art of reading. In Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace, Yiyun Li invites you to travel with her through Tolstoy's novel - and with fellow readers...
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  • A Room with a Darker View
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    A Room with a Darker View

    'Unsurprisingly, feminists have been at the forefront of writing illness narratives, from Virginia Woolf to Audre Lord and Susan Sontag. My family's inability to accommodate my mother's illness, the perniciousness of her particular subtype of...
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  • Copper Nickel Issue 35
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    Copper Nickel Issue 35

    Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. It isedited by poet, editor, and translator Wayne Miller (author of five collections, including We the Juryand Post-, coeditor of Literary Publishing in the...
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  • A Mind Full of Music
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    A Mind Full of Music

    Similar to how songs become familiar and welcoming earworms, these essays will imprint themselves on readers' minds.A Mind Full of Music contemplates and celebrates the mysterious, powerful, dynamic relationship between ourselves and the songs we love:...
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  • The Dream Machine
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    The Dream Machine

    The story of the man who instigated the work that led to the internet-and shifted our understanding of what computers could be.Behind every great revolution is a vision, and behind perhaps the greatest revolution of our time is the vision of J.C.R...
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    Badge of Courage

    World famous at twenty-four, brilliant and reckless, hard-living and scandalous, Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage before he ever experienced war first-hand. So true was his portrait of a young man who runs from his first confrontation with...
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  • Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life
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    Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life

    The Addams Family is creepy and kooky, but wait till you see what their creator had in his apartment.In Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life, meet the legendary cartoonist behind the altogether ooky Addams Family in this first biography, written with...
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  • American Animals
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    American Animals

    As seen in the Major Motion Picture film.American Animals is a coming-of-age crime memoir centered around three childhood friends: Warren, Spencer, and Eric. Disillusioned with freshman year of college, and determined to escape from their mundane...
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    The Original Six
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    The Original Six

    Since the inception of the National Hockey League on November 26, 1917, the sport of hockey has been one of the most popular games across the globe.After the National Hockey Association (NHA), which had been founded in 1909, ceased operations, the NHL...
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    Amazing Tales from the Chicago Bears Sideline
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    Amazing Tales from the Chicago Bears Sideline

    The Chicago Bears are more than a football team-they are a legend. Founded in 1919, the Bears have won more regular season games than any other NFL franchise. With twenty-six players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and thirteen retired jerseys, it's no...
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    Stifled Laughter
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    Stifled Laughter

    Pulitzer Prize Nominated Winner of the 1993 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award for Claudia Johnson's extraordinary efforts to restore banned literary classics from Florida classrooms. Part memoir, part courtroom drama, and part primer for advocates...
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    Tree With Golden Apples
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    Tree With Golden Apples

    Tree With Golden Apples is a collection of twelve evocative stories drawn from world myths that reveal both the beauty and truth offered to humans by the plant kingdom. Susan Strauss, a renowned professional storyteller, and educator, begins each section...
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    A Year of Moons
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    A Year of Moons

    "There's a fresh coating of snow on the ground outside our cabin as I look to see who's coming to the fourteen feeders, we keep filled with black oil sunflower seeds year-round." So begins A Year of Moons: Stories from the Adirondack Foothills, a...
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    The General's Son

    A powerful account, by Israeli peace activist Miko Peled, of his transformation from a young man who'd grown up in the heart of Israel's elite and served proudly in its military into a fearless advocate of nonviolent struggle and equal rights for all...
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    Moving the Bar
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    Moving the Bar

    Michael Ratner (19432016) was one of America's leading human rights lawyers. He worked for more than four decades at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) becoming first the Director of Litigation and then the President of what Alexander Cockburn...
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    Always Red
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    Always Red

    "Len tells his story as only he can: forthright, confident and witty. What emerges is a hard-hitting assessment of dramatic times, and a message of hope for the future." -Jeremy CorbynLen McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the...
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    The Real Deal
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    The Real Deal

    Photographer and best-selling author Joe McNally shares stories and lessons from a life in photography.When Joe McNally moved to New York City in 1976, his first job was at the Daily News as a copyboy, "the wretched dog of the newsroom." He was earning...
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  • Fists Raised
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    Fists Raised

    What does Muhammad Ali, the greatest boxer of all time, have in common with Megan Rapinoe, the badass pink-haired female soccer player? They achieved perfection, won medals, and lived the glory. But it is above all their raised fists, when, at a time of...
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    Alfred HITCHCOCK
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    Alfred HITCHCOCK

    "Psycho" traumatized viewers around the world. Never before had the angst or the suspense been so well presented in cinema. But where does the talent of this Alfred Hitchcock come from, the one nicknamed the "Master of Suspense"? To find out, we must...
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  • DJANGO, Hand On Fire
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    DJANGO, Hand On Fire

    Django Reinhardt is a legend. But Django -which may have meant "He who wakens"- was twice born. A first time in the snow, during the winter of 1910 in a nomadic gypsy family stationed in Liberchies, Belgium. The second in Saint-Ouen, near Paris, in the...
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  • Love Me Please
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    Love Me Please

    A lively, fascinating story of one of the greatest stars of Rock, who was way ahead of her time. A biography in comics of the amazing rock singer Janis Joplin with the highlights of her journey from childhood after the Second World War to her abrupt...
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  • Rolling Stones In Comics
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    Rolling Stones In Comics

    When the Rolling Stones hit the scene in the 60s it was to play Rhythm & Blues, nothing more. They were far from imagining that they are not just going to change music but also become the mouthpiece of a changing world. Sticking their tongue out at...
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  • 40 AOS DE AGRONIMA
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    40 AOS DE AGRONIMA

    This book is presented to celebrate the 40 years of graduation and contains some of the anecdotes lived as a student at the National School of Agriculture, now Chapingo Autonomous University (UACH) during the years of study from 1973 to 1980, from where...
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  • Friendship
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    Friendship

    Mrs. Daniels and Paula spend their afternoons after school having tea and learning about all the different places Mrs. Daniels has visited. Their friendship grows over cups of tea and bouquets of roses, and becomes an instrumental part of Paula's...
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  • You Can't Always Have It All
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    You Can't Always Have It All

    This isn't just any ordinary story this is my story, A story filled with lust, love, lies. A story about a young, successful, beautiful black woman who just wanted to have it all. A story about men, drama and my trauma I've experienced. In this book you...
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    No Risk, No Reward
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    No Risk, No Reward

    No Risk, No Reward examines the life and career of golf course architect John Sanford, from an insider's point of view. After a childhood spent on major league baseball fields, Sanford turned a passion for golf into a successful design career. Explore...
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  • YOU WILL BE A BUILDER OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
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    YOU WILL BE A BUILDER OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

    Edward Victor Dick began life as a simple farm boy but was always attracted to music. Growing up amidst the cultural revolution of the 1960's was fertile ground for his exceptionally active imagination. A dramatic epiphany in his early 20's led him to...
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    Wicked Middletown
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    Wicked Middletown

    These poems and short stories you are about to engage in, are inspired and based on true events. Experiences and inner thoughts are dazzled with a sprinkling of the esoteric occult and fiction. When you read these poems and short stories, try to find...
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    Rooster - Fighter Pilot
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    Rooster - Fighter Pilot

    "Rooster-Fighter Pilot" is a riveting story about a boy who had a dream about flying that he has never let go. He would concentrate while dreaming and lifted off the ground and flew over the fields and farms where he lived in France.He lived out his...
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  • Murdered by Mistake
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    Murdered by Mistake

    On December 22, 1993, a murder took place just after midnight. There was very little investigation done. The Case was closed before a key witness could come forward, and when she did, no one believed her. The book reveals the sequence of events that lead...
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  • The Hidden Treasure of Harris-Stowe
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    The Hidden Treasure of Harris-Stowe

    A fun mystery and adventure fiction about three regular hardworking accountants taking on the challenge of finding a lost treasure within the walls of the HBCU where they work. Will they let time, fear, or work keep them from what could be the best...
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  • Ghost of Our Grandfather
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    Ghost of Our Grandfather

    A lifetime of questions led us to discover that the grandfather we never knew had led a surprisingly interesting and varied life, having occupied himself as a farmer and a Populist, a town builder and a merchant, a Freethinker and a pioneer of the Great...
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  • The Days Planned For Me
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    The Days Planned For Me

    Why does God heal some and not others? When caring for a seriously ill parent, spouse or child, when is it appropriate to pray for healing and when is it time to simply accept things as they are? These questions circled in Jean Sullivan's mind when faced...
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  • Student of the Woods
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    Student of the Woods

    "Student of the Woods" follows one young man as he embarks on a journey through life as a hunter. Deep in the woods, life's hardest lessons were learned from firsthand experiences and the natural process of searching for answers. Inevitably, these...
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