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This book is a tale about a girl who was born into an unexpected reality. We laugh at the unexplained and tend to mock what we dont understand. This girl was born into a world that didnt want her.. She found love with her Grandmother in the northeastern farms of Thailand. At the age of six she encountered a near death experience that forever changed her life. During the course of her first seventeen years she experienced coming back from the other...
2) Body of Work
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Heroes, a man and his dog, the American landscape, remembered passion, conflict a dying father and a prodigal son, pioneer journals, reflections of a young boys Eden, a hooker on a corner in West Oakland, love in all its myriad forms these are just a few of the stories revealed within the covers of Body of Work, Dan Strawn's personal collection of six decades of Twentieth Century Americana. Strawn tells his stories through the mediums of poems, family...
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Set in the imaginary Igbo village, Iwu, this play tries the lowest fathoms of lunacy, and from there surveys a sane world; mocks the sanity of common-minded folk and quakes the strongholds of Time-weathering Customs! A comedy to our best, Forewarning to every beast; But lest we give too much away, We hold our peace, as ancients say!
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Learn about McNamaras 100,000, soldiers who failed to meet minimal intellectual standards but were given a chance at Army careers. Meet a soldier who won a silver star while wearing a black lace bra under his fatigues. Hear the story of how a British Army in India 19th century water policy was almost resurrected for Desert Storm. Discover why the military stopped pushing cheap booze and attempted to change from an alcohol-positive to an alcohol-neutral...
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Jamaicans, like others around the world, often experience a tugging at the heart that can only be assuaged by pleasant memories. In her collection of old Jamaican proverbs, Edna Bennett shares the powerful messages and folk wisdom of the Jamaican people, conveying not only the mellowness of nostalgia, but also the gentleness of the island culture.Led by a desire to keep her culture alive, Bennett urges others to take five, cock up yu foot, and member...
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The book is a collection of artistic stories and topical political articles and tracts. The author tries to demonstrate versatility of life in a special unity of man and nature. Here are reflected the authors views on intimacy of the bee and the wild flower, on pernicious influence of regional, local wars, as well as reflections about bright ideas of democracy, freedom, and human rights, dimming and paling against the background of ambitious politicians...
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After a life dedicated to the study of languages, A. Colin Wright has distilled his life's observations into this engaging collection of short stories, most of which have been previously published in literary journals. Now retired, his life's adventures, which include serving in the British Air Force, attending Cambridge University, and being a professor of Russian, have inspired this collection. I'm a librarian and I kissed a film star once. I touched...
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As the title suggests, the stories in this book are incidents that actually happened in the lives of people. The stories fall into different categories such as unexplained phenomenon, bizarre happenings, spiritual, horror, mystery, going beyond human limit, and a host of others. All these incidents have reason or reasons as to why they happened and embedded in these true incidents are values and as such, these experiences must be told and shared with...
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This book basically highlights the need for understanding and acceptance of the arts as viable career options for young people. It promotes the need for a discussion on choosing careers, thus avoiding possible conflicts between parents and child. In this story, Angelique, a girl of eleven years, grows up in a Caribbean island with her parents, younger brother, and older sister. She realizes at this early age that she has a great love for music, a...
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If you are about to take a college entrance examination, attend an interview, or are being considered for promotion or further training, this book will be an invaluable practical resource that will increase your chances of success. With about 3,000 practice tests, it will familiarize you with verbal reasoning tests and provide practical strategies for improving your performance. Key points: Tips and advice on pretest preparation A variety of familiarization...
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Good Morning, Africa is a compendium of series of poetry collection on the African dream, Sierra Leone experience, the power of regeneration, and love and life in general. Africa in recent time has experienced a series of wars that seriously threatened the corporate existence of most of its states and brought untold hardship on its people. These wars were quite devastating and gravely debased human dignity and beyond those brutally murdered; others...
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The aim of these proverbial entries is to collect English proverbs and sayings published in different countries. The collection of these entries took more than ten years. For this period of time, I collected more than three thousand entries, and after this, I began translating them into Azerbaijani language. Most of those entries have their own equivalents, but some is translated into Azeri language.
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Imperial Eden is a collection of poems written mainly by citizens of Victoria, British Columbia, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries about that city. Established in 1843 as a Hudsons Bay Company trading post, Victoria became the capital of the province in 1866. Before the opening of the Panama Canal and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, however, its inhabitants were relatively isolated from the rest of North America....
14) Food for Thought
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT is a collection of short articles pertaining to different aspects of life. Hopefully one can get some comfort from FOOD FOR THOUGHT and encouragement to turn to God in good times as well as bad.
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Celebrating her successes and coping with life's challenges, A Life Well Lived Through Words is an account of a woman's lifelong struggle with love, relationships, geopolitical issues, lawyering, and disease. Sharon Greenspan has always looked to poetry and writing to find her peace. She writes about her life as an immigration attorney, both in private practice and for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, her relationship with her daughter...
16) The Human Race
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In 1986 I continued on with my prayer time. It wasn't much, just continuing on during prayer time with the Father. Then one night it changed, I prayed a little more when suddenly I was aware that this was a prayer to almighty God. I continued on a little bit and whoops, I made a mistake. So I made a correction and started from there. I made a few more lines and whoops, another mistake, So I fixed it and started again, only I didn't get even halfway...
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