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  • Dear Samantha Dear Samantha
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    Dear Samantha

    A year long collection of letters written from a grandfather newly diagnosed with inoperable cancer to his infant granddaughter beginning shortly after her birth.
    $29.00

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  • Butter on Table 7 Butter on Table 7
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    Butter on Table 7

    Impressionistic sketches of a young waiter's reaction to life in the late 1970s - musings on existence, politics, and the restaurant business. Handwritten while high on 'shrooms and naked for all the world to see. An attempt to find meaning in a culture...
    $31.00

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  • In Kathryn's Korner In Kathryn's Korner
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    In Kathryn's Korner

    I've been writing a column for our local daily newspaper in Upstate New York for the Sunday edition for more than 20 years. It was never my goal to be a newspaper columnist. I wanted to be an actress or maybe sing and dance on stage. But along the way to...
    $35.00

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  • The Organ Works of Dinos Constantinides The Organ Works of Dinos Constantinides
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    The Organ Works of Dinos Constantinides

    A study of the organ works of Greek-American composer, Dinos Constantinides, would further elucidate the creative processes, complexities, and intrigues involved in composing for organ in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
    $16.00

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  • In the Wake of America's Hannibal In the Wake of America's Hannibal
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    In the Wake of America's Hannibal

    In 1775, Benedict Arnold and an army of 1100 set off into the Maine wilderness. Enduring floods, frostbite, desertion and starvation, they traversed over 300 miles of untraveled wilderness. While ultimately unsuccessful in their attack on Quebec City,...
    $26.00

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  • The Lucky Bag The Lucky Bag
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    The Lucky Bag

    The collection of writings is a memior version of Philadelphia scrapple, made from bits and pieces from the previously unpublished works of a retired lawyer, adjunct professor, US Marine Corps Officer and native of Philadelphia.
    $27.00

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  • Rudy's Diary Rudy's Diary
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    Rudy's Diary

    Engineering officer Rudy Carlson kept a diary during his time aboard the USS Ashland I during World War II. Included is his account of major battles around the Philippines as well as Iwo Jima. Rudy's diary was tucked away in a trunk for decades and was...
    $23.00

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  • Adventures in brainmancing Adventures in brainmancing
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    Adventures in brainmancing

    Have you ever wondered what exactly goes on in that brain of yours?Did you ever think there could be a whole other world full of living breathing people that exist or could exist? In adventures in brainmancing we don't just blur the line between fantasy...
    $56.00

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  • The Brownstone on West 53rd Street The Brownstone on West 53rd Street
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    The Brownstone on West 53rd Street

    Follow Lora as she discovers the wonders of her adopted home, New York City. The moment she sets foot on the stimulating, rich land of culture, concrete and skyscrapers, it's an immediate love affair. Walk down the streets of the early 60's as she paints...
    $21.00

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  • EL GRAN DOCTOR DE LA PAZ - ERNESTO KAHAN EL GRAN DOCTOR DE LA PAZ - ERNESTO KAHAN
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    EL GRAN DOCTOR DE LA PAZ - ERNESTO KAHAN

    Este proyecto nació de la admiración y el respeto que este gran hombre ha generado en mí y en todos los que hemos llegado a tener la suerte de conocerlo. Ernesto Kahan es alguien crucial para la salud de este universo humano del siglo XXI, en gran parte...
    $44.00

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  • The Grinch Who Stole Being So F**king Hardcore The Grinch Who Stole Being So F**king Hardcore
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    The Grinch Who Stole Being So F**king Hardcore

    Nils Rasmussen, front-man for the electro-junk-punk band, Uncle Outrage, has released his autobiography at age 30.Pretty ballsy if you ask me.But THIS isn't your mom & pop's type of autobiography. This is... Well... It's insane. It's new. I GUARANTEE...
    $30.00

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  • Marion's Moments Marion's Moments
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    Marion's Moments

    This book continues to look at the special moments I am honored to share with my family and friends. From stories at the 'Camp' where I work, to memories growing up. Marion's Moments: The 'Eye" Tell Stories Collection Volume II will have you checking to...
    $40.00

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  • Great Tales By Me Great Tales By Me
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    Great Tales By Me

    Jerry (Jake) Repard was born December 23, 1936 to Edward and Edna (Richmond) Repard. Follow Jake as he takes you on his interesting trip down memory lane. If you knew Jake you will find much that is familiar and enjoyable. If you didn't know Jake you...
    $46.00

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  • Jennifer's Body Jennifer's Body
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    Jennifer's Body

    As a young girl, Jennifer's life is perfect. She lives in a quiet, small town with pink bedroom walls. She graduates high school at the top of her class. She is accepted into a prestigious private university. She's sweet. She's smart. She has a wicked...
    $33.00

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  • By The Bridge By The Bridge
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    By The Bridge

    "On June 15, 1929, with Dr. John G. Cullinan, Reverend Thomas J. Hill and Father Healy by his side, William Swanton signed his name for the very last time . I wasn't there, of course, but I can imagine him raising his pen with an age-spotted, quivering...
    $62.00

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  • My Life, My Story, My Destiny My Life, My Story, My Destiny
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    My Life, My Story, My Destiny

    How do our journeys through life ask us to redefine ourselves in relation to the places that shape us? Ninth-grade authors from the Bronx High School of Business reflect on the journeys they have taken-movements and changes in their lives that have...
    $20.00

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  • Micrófono Hacia el Mundo Micrófono Hacia el Mundo
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    Micrófono Hacia el Mundo

    Este libro es un micrófono al mundo con el propósito de traer entendimiento a las dificultades que las adolescentes en situacion de calle en Lima, Perú superan para poder seguir adelante y mediante el cual puedan ofrecer consejos y recomendaciones a...
    $90.00

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  • Guardians of Life Guardians of Life
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    Guardians of Life

    A collection of short memoirs and essays about the author's summer job as a lifeguard. The stories illustrate how a simple task, like watching a pool, can quickly escalate into all sorts of crazy events ranging from girls to explosions and everything in...
    $23.00

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  • I'm Not What They Call Me I'm Not What They Call Me
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    I'm Not What They Call Me

    We are labeled. We are stereotyped. We are teenagers, and we will use our voices to rewrite the story of adolescence. In this honest and inspiring collection of diary entries, vignettes, and prose poems, seventeen brave 9th grade students at Hoboken...
    $13.00

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  • Shamanic Sovereignty Shamanic Sovereignty
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    Shamanic Sovereignty

    In this book, the author writes of 3 shaman (Lawrence of Arabia, Gandhi of India, and the author, unsaid leader of his hometown hosts) -- intermediaries between the mortal and immortal realms -- who sought hegemony for 3 societies.
    $19.00

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  • Hollywood, Elvis and Me Hollywood, Elvis and Me
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    Hollywood, Elvis and Me

    From early childhood Suzanne had the hope of going to Hollywood to pursue her dream of a career in movies and television. She followed her heart, and left for California with an AA degree from college. Her time in Hollywood and the wonderful experiences...
    $86.00

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  • Today is Monday Today is Monday
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    Today is Monday

    Have you ever wanted to see how you got to a certain point in your life?I did.I want to take you on a journey of heartbreak, self-discovery, and ultimately what it means to lose everything you thought was important to you.Yo, I don't know what love is. I...
    $41.00

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  • Year of the Pitcher Year of the Pitcher
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    Year of the Pitcher

    "Both a pleasure and a revelation."--Daniel Okrent, author of Nine InningsIn 1968, two astounding pitchers would dominate the game as never before. One was black, the other white. The stoic Bob Gibson, together with the St. Louis Cardinals,...
    $26.00

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  • Goodness, Gracious! Goodness, Gracious!
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    Goodness, Gracious!

    Vera Strunk was born and raised in northeast Kansas and received her R.N. degree from St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing in 1952. Here she tells the story of her life which included raising 13 children on a farm and eventually returning to her...
    $20.00

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  • MY LETTERS MY LETTERS
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    MY LETTERS

    My story about 78 years of fantastic living on this planet we call earth.
    $16.00

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  • Twitching the Iron Curtain In Central Europe and London Twitching the Iron Curtain In Central Europe and London
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    Twitching the Iron Curtain In Central Europe and London

    Twitching the Iron Curtain is the fourth volume of Martin Nicholson's memoirs. It takes the author's career and family life from 1972 to 1984, following the abrupt end of his posting in Moscow in a flurry of expulsions and counter-expulsions of...
    $13.00

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  • manuAle di sopravvivenza manuAle di sopravvivenza
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    manuAle di sopravvivenza

    Il manuAle di sopravvivenza non vuole dare nessun consiglio, non indicazioni né istruzioni d'uso, è la storia da sopravvissuta, al mio terzogenito Alessandro. Sono passati cinque anni da quando il mio bambino di quattordici anni ha lasciato il suo corpo,...
    $21.00

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  • THE TRIUMPH CONTINUES THE TRIUMPH CONTINUES
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    THE TRIUMPH CONTINUES

    This book is about experiencing full blown Coronavirus from the patients perspective. Discussing all of the symptoms of the virus, from sudden onset pain, loss of the ability to smell or taste, memory fog, being hit with vertigo, and many other physical...
    $26.00

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  • The Birth of the Social Gospel in the Church of England The Birth of the Social Gospel in the Church of England
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    The Birth of the Social Gospel in the Church of England

    As readers will see there are far too many parallels between the divided Britain of 'Two Nations' of rich and poor and plenty and want when Christian Socialism was born in the 1840s and the divided society in crisis that is Britain today in 2016.May we...
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  • The Jennings Families 1800-1985 West Cork to New Worlds The Jennings Families 1800-1985 West Cork to New Worlds
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    The Jennings Families 1800-1985 West Cork to New Worlds

    When Gregg N. Jennings of Columbus, Georgia, U.S.A. retired in 1981 he investigated his father's ancestry. After visits to Ireland, Australia and New Zealand he collected contributions from the extended Jennings families. He co-ordinated the development...
    $38.00

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  • Sapper to Subaltern Sapper to Subaltern
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    Sapper to Subaltern

    This book is the story of one young man's journey through two years national service during the years 1957-1959. Sapper to Subaltern traces his time through basic training, on through advanced infantry training at Mons Officer Cadet School, and then to...
    $23.00

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  • We've never had it so good We've never had it so good
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    We've never had it so good

    We've never had it so good - puts forward the opinion that the 'Baby Boomers' - those born within eight years or so after the end of World War II have lived through the most fortunate period in history.Now in their sixties, they have seen pensioners'...
    $11.00

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  • Grandad's Book Grandad's Book
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    Grandad's Book

    This is the story of Grandad's time as a Prisoner of War in World War 1. Grandad was amongst the first men sent to fight in France, i.e. an Old Contemptible, and sadly it was to be over four long years before he saw his wife and three young daughters...
    $17.00

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  • If It Hadn't Been For Grace If It Hadn't Been For Grace
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    If It Hadn't Been For Grace

    Esther Harkess lives in Edinburgh with her husband Addie. Esther was 11 when she learned the truth. She had been adopted. She heard this staggering news a few weeks before she departed for boarding school for the first time. No wonder the next three...
    $18.00

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  • The Late Great Me The Late Great Me
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    The Late Great Me

    This story covers the controversial topic of what happens when you die, what you experience and the phenomenal power of the mind to work consciously, unconsciously and sub consciously. It also covers the way that death leads me to live a life with brain...
    $39.00

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  • LA GRAN DECISION (Memorias de un exiliado cubano) LA GRAN DECISION (Memorias de un exiliado cubano)
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    LA GRAN DECISION (Memorias de un exiliado cubano)

    Las experiencias personales de un muchacho que agobiado por la falta de libertad en su país de origen tomó una gran decisión que cambiaría su vida cómoda y segura hasta entonces, para emprender una aventura llena de penurias, dificultades y sacrificios,...
    $28.00

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  • Uma Vida pelo Desporto Uma Vida pelo Desporto
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    Uma Vida pelo Desporto

    "Uma vida pelo desporto" narra experiências e reflexões de um jornalista durante um quarto de século, numa publicação já extinta, (O Comércio do Porto), abordando também, para além de alguns reparos que envolveram o desmantelamento do próprio jornal...
    $13.00

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  • Cyrus the Great - Celestial Sovereign Cyrus the Great - Celestial Sovereign
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    Cyrus the Great - Celestial Sovereign

    Cyrus the Great lived 599-529 BCE and ruled 559-529 BCE.The book is a fictionalized historical biography in a chronological order, inferring from the Old Testament and other legitimate sources in the search for valid clues, including a study into the...
    $23.00

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  • Agustín Barrios Mangoré Agustín Barrios Mangoré
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    Agustín Barrios Mangoré

    This is a monograph of the Paraguayan guitarist and composer Agustín Barrios. It looks particularly his influences and the innovations and range of techniques and styles found in his work.
    $11.00

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  • Jessep Down Under Jessep Down Under
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    Jessep Down Under

    This book is a celebration of the Jessep Ancestors who made the decision to leave their Norfolk home and travel down under to start a new life. Through great adversity they made a life for themselves and their descendants becoming very successful in...
    $53.00

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  • MUDNOCCHIO MUDNOCCHIO
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    MUDNOCCHIO

    SECOND INSTALLMENT TO MISADVENTURES AND HEARTBREAK IN FIRST PERSON NIHILISM.
    $48.00

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  • Hooked on Antifreeze Hooked on Antifreeze
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    Hooked on Antifreeze

    In this collection of stories, poems, and photographs, Nancy Woods reveals her life-long affection for Alaska.
    $25.00

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Biography Books – Explore Inspiring True Stories

Step into the extraordinary lives of real people with BookLoop’s rich and diverse collection of biography books. Whether you're searching for heartfelt autobiographies, gripping tales of adventurers and explorers, or intimate portraits of public figures, our General Biography section is your gateway to powerful stories that captivate and inspire.

This category brings together compelling accounts from every walk of life. Dive into the world of arts and entertainment with biographies of musicians, actors and filmmakers, or gain insight into the minds of influential thinkers through our philosophy and social sciences biographies.

If you’re passionate about real-life stories that have shaped history, don’t miss our collection of historical, political and military biographies. For those interested in innovation and progress, our science, technology and medicine biographies highlight incredible journeys of discovery and transformation.

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At BookLoop, we pride ourselves on curating a wide selection of general biographies for Australian readers who crave meaningful, real-life narratives. With fast, local shipping and secure checkout, it’s easy to find your next great read. Whether you're after famous autobiographies, celebrity memoirs, or non-fiction life stories that move and motivate, you're in the right place.

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