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    The Fight in the Dog
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    The Fight in the Dog

    Dickie Regan shares his journey through the turbulent waters of NCAA Division I college football at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina while experiencing the myriad conflicts associated with military cadet life. Despite being listed at...
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  • Our Stars Still Shine
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    Our Stars Still Shine

    Society often questions and ridicules the pace and depth at which we grieve a loss, but especially the loss of a pet. The same pointed questions and hollow phrases are repeated over again, which ultimately create more pain and social withdrawal as we...
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  • Ordinary People, Extraordinary Deeds
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    Ordinary People, Extraordinary Deeds

    This book details how the founders located Lifebridge Foundation in NYC that funded four grants to enable the members to sponsor many important activities during the 1990's. The book tells the story of the first Soviet-American Peace Walk venturing...
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  • Confessions of a Murphy's Law Child
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    Confessions of a Murphy's Law Child

    Murphy's Kids. What a strange moniker. It corresponds with the so-called Murphy's Law that states if a series of things can potentially go wrong, they will. As incredible as it sounds, there are some kids who, from the day they are born until they leave...
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  • Broken Rungs
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    Broken Rungs

    There's one common thing that everyone on this earth can relate to, and that's struggle. It doesn't matter your background, ethnicity, religion or financial status; the pain that's inflicted from that struggle tells a story. Rondr Brooks, commonly...
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  • Getting to Here
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    Getting to Here

    How does a square peg survive in a world of round holes? What happens to our sharp edges as we careen into our seventh decade of a wild life? Follow this cage-rattling lady from down-and-out in Central Florida, where she finds herself unceremoniously...
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  • Something To Hold On To
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    Something To Hold On To

    Each chapter includes stories of things we hold on to, whether it is an actual object like rosary beads or a prayer card, or intangible things such as love, our realizations, or a sense of humor. It's what we hold on to through both good and bad times...
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  • Gift for the Messenger
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    Gift for the Messenger

    Surprising events unfold as an earthly messenger is asked by Spirit to deliver a message during her own extraordinary experience in a Peruvian Ayahuasca Center. Her journey coincides with the message she has been asked to deliver, this realization coming...
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  • The Mentalist and the Medium
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    The Mentalist and the Medium

    An autobiography of a Mentalist and a Medium describing the exciting, yet scary trials and tribulations along their path. The authors, Fred and Debbie Osborn, weave an astounding account of their lives together and as individuals. Their tales of close...
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  • Hermon Atkins MacNeil
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    Hermon Atkins MacNeil

    Hermon Atkins MacNeil has been written about in a variety of anthologies of American sculpture with brief, sometime quite serious essays, but never in a full book. Through the use of sound and thorough scholarship, Hermon Atkin MacNeil: American Sculptor...
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  • In Imperfect Equilibrium
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    In Imperfect Equilibrium

    In Imperfect Equilibrium is a collection of written work by 22 student writers that provides a glimpse into the minds of today's youth and the growing pressure placed upon them. Whether it be pressure from relationships, social norms, climate change, or...
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  • Making a Small Fortune
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    Making a Small Fortune

    "This memoir's reward is insights shared by a man honest with himself and his strengths and limitations in a way that is compelling, actually quietly fascinating." -- Jay Levin, Founder of LA Weekly newspaper"Could not put it down" -- multiple...
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  • Where Would I Go?
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    Where Would I Go?

    This is the story of Jose Luis Flores' transformation from the world of drugs and gangs, to being a devoted follower of Christ.In his early life, Jose was introduced to the world of heroin addiction by a friend from New York at the tender age of twelve...
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  • Caborca
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    Caborca

    The trip began with a plan, a few dollars, and a few days. What could possibly go wrong? Seven men find themselves deeply involved in a life-threatening foreign experience of their own making. Six are family-centered, conservative, corporate, button-down...
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    Growing Up Westsider 1950s, 1960s and Beyond
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    Growing Up Westsider 1950s, 1960s and Beyond

    As an Architect, we often think of 'Way Finding", starting when one approaches the site we create signs to point to the emergency access, the normal access, and delivery dock. Once inside the facility, we provide directories and directional signs. In...
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  • Journey to Death Row
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    Journey to Death Row

    The personal account of Willie Leroy Jones describes clearly how a man, who had never been arrested prior to his murder conviction, became a resident on death row. It establishes the fact that anyone can be convicted. In addition, the State can execute...
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  • Your Feet Walk, Your Mind Travels
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    Your Feet Walk, Your Mind Travels

    Your Feet walk , Your Mind Travel is the story of the difficult journey I and my family took with cancer- or ,as i like to call it ," Mr. C."It's also the story of an Italian immigrant who came to the United States in 1974 at the age of 17. Finally it is...
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  • Heart of the Sparrow
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    Heart of the Sparrow

    In her memoir, Erika reflects on being born at the beginning of WWII in Dusseldorf, Germany and how her innocence during bombing raids, destruction, an evacuation and an eventual escape helped shape who she became. The family's home was bombed and...
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  • Cantina Psalms
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    Cantina Psalms

    "Cantina Psalms" main characters include penthouse politicos, icy homegrown drug czars, and a mysterious redhead who creates havoc for everyone. Caught in the middle, is the Mayor's bodyguard, who has to protect himself from good trouble and bad,...
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  • Special Agent
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    Special Agent

    Candice DeLong has been called a real-life Clarice Starling and a female Donnie Brasco. She has been on the front lines of some of the FBIs most gripping and memorable cases, including being chosen as one of the three agents to carry out the manhunt for...
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  • Rescued at Birth
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    Rescued at Birth

    "Rescued at Birth" is a breathtaking story about identity, belonging, and family. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to grow up never physically identifying with anyone, or seeing pictures of immediate family members who bare any resemblance to...
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  • Parisian Life
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    Parisian Life

    When your best girl friend is Coco Chanel, your life can't be too dull. When your enemy is Napolon, your life can't be too ordinary either. And when you are flirting with Hemingway at the Ritz bar in Paris, even your love life is glamorous. This is the...
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  • The Last Sandstorm
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    The Last Sandstorm

    In her memoir, "The Last Sandstorm", Jasmin Faulk-Dickerson tells the story of her first 25 years in Saudi Arabia, before her daring escape to the West. The author was born in the 1970's and grew up in the shadow of Riyadh, a city that was burgeoning...
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    Fool Me Once
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    Fool Me Once

    A riveting look at the perpetrators, victims, and whistleblowers behind financial crimes, from forensic accounting expert and documentarian Kelly Richmond Pope.Have you ever wondered why Bernie Madoff thought he could brazenly steal his clients'...
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    Good Power
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    Good Power

    Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty delivers a powerful combination of memoir, leadership lessons, and big ideas on how we can all drive meaningful change.Ginni Rometty led one of the world's most iconic companies, and in Good Power she recounts her...
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    Invent and Wander
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    Invent and Wander

    In Jeff Bezos's own words, the core principles and philosophy that have guided him in creating, building, and leading Amazon and Blue Origin, with a 10,000-word introduction penned by Walter Isaacson - bestselling biographer of Steve Jobs,...
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    Collision Course
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    Collision Course

    In Japan it's called the 'Ghosn Shock' - the stunning arrest of Carlos Ghosn, the jet-setting CEO who saved Nissan and made it part of a global automotive empire.Even more shocking was his daring escape from Japan, packed into...
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  • Love in Defiance of Pain
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    Love in Defiance of Pain

    Love in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Storiesaims to bring the riches of contemporary Ukrainian literature-and of contemporary Ukraine, too-to the world. While Ukraine is under sustained attack, many in the West have marveled at the nation's strength in...
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  • Motherfield
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    Motherfield

    A poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and ecological, Motherfield is a poet's insistence on self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus.Julia Cimafiejeva was born in an area of rural Belarus that became a Chernobyl zone...
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  • A Constellation of Ghosts
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    A Constellation of Ghosts

    A ghost is not what you think it is, says Raven. A ghost is a commitment. When Laraine Herring receives an unexpected colon cancer diagnosis, her father, thirty years dead, returns to her as a raven, setting off a magical journey into complicated grief,...
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  • Classic Monsters Unleashed
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    Classic Monsters Unleashed

    Stories of famous monsters in a new horror anthology edited by James Aquilone and featuring Joe R. Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell, and many others.Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr...
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    The First 21
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    The First 21

    Rock-and-roll icon and three-time bestselling author Nikki Sixx tells hisorigin story: how Frank Feranna becameNikki Sixx, chronicling his fascinatingjourney from irrepressible Idaho farmboy to the man who formed the revolutionary rock group Mtley Cre...
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  • Last Pick
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    Last Pick

    A whimsical warmhearted autobiography of a twelve-year-old who became a great trial lawyerThe oldest of four children in a prototypical Irish Catholic family, Pierce O'Donnell recounts growing up in a village with more cows than residents with his...
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  • God of Sperm
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    God of Sperm

    God of Sperm tells the remarkable story of Dr. Cappy Miles Rothman, the son of notorious gangster Norman "Roughhouse" Rothman, who went on to become a trailblazer in the field of reproductive medicine.Rothman started the California Cryobank, one of the...
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  • Truth and Beautiful Meaningful Lies
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    Truth and Beautiful Meaningful Lies

    Truth and Beautiful Meaningful Lies is a collection of memorable quotes from one of the most quoted writers in American literature. One of the most celebrated writers in American literature, Jack Kerouac helped an entire generation of post-WWII Americans...
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  • Desolation Peak
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    Desolation Peak

    'Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak...I can feel it.'In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, CA, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking...
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  • The Arrangement: A Love Story
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    The Arrangement: A Love Story

    Everything in author David Winkler's life reads like a "Once Upon a Time in Beverly Hills" fairytale. A film producer of titles such as theCreedfranchise, the fifty-three-year-old sits on the top tier of his profession, enjoys a wonderful relationship...
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  • Icons and Instincts
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    Icons and Instincts

    For the first time, the choreographer of Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bjrk and many others reveals stage stories through his extraordinary journey.Vincent Paterson began his professional dancing career late in life. It would take an exceptional turn when he...
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  • Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
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    Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

    In Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, John Corabi recounts his life from the mean streets of Philadelphia to the Sunset Strip. Take a look behind the scenes at Corabi's time fronting Mtley Cre, Union, and The Dead Daisies, as well as his time playing rhythm...
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  • Double Talkin' Jive
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    Double Talkin' Jive

    In Double Talkin' Jive legendary drummer Matt Sorum takes music lovers behind the scenes of a remarkable life in rock. Sorum, whose albums have sold tens of millions of copies around the world, provides an honest, engaging account of the highs and lows...
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  • Black Heart Fades Blue
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    Black Heart Fades Blue

    If you're looking for the events that inspired the lyrics to all my songs? Those stories are in this book. If you're looking for what I did when I was younger? That's in here. What changed me, made me stop hating and hurting? It's all here. This is my...
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  • The First 50
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    The First 50

    A proudly humanist portrayal of sexual impulse and impropriety in the City of Angels, The First 50 is a chronological recapitulation of fifty erotic encounters that take place between the ages of thirteen and thirty-three. Columbine, 9/11, The Iraq War,...
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  • Bleeding Internally Since 1971
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    Bleeding Internally Since 1971

    Corey Taylor from Slipknot wrote the introductionJason Christopher plays Corey Taylor's solo band, and they tour all over the world together regularlyBooks will be promoted on their tourJason Christopher self-published a book called Rogue to Nowhere and...
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    Overcome

    Karmen Karma is known as a contract star on the popular porn site BrazzersShe has 530k twitter followersShe has 322k Instagram followersShe will be promoting to all of her social mediaEvents in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and moreInterviews with adult film...
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    The Gamesmaster

    The Gamesmaster is a narrative memoir chronicling the life and career of Flint Dille. And while he isn't exactly a household name, you almost certainly know his work-which includes credits from some of the most important and successful entertainment...
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