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Joy Nason was born into an English working class family during World War Two and raised in the fundamentalist Christian cult of the Exclusive Brethren. Growing up in this strict and demanding world, her family migrated to Australia in the 1950s. In her early 20s, Joy made the courageous decision to flee her family, knowing that she would be cut off from that moment on. Slowly but surely Joy made her way in the world, with kind employers who encouraged...
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After years of hedonism in the literary life, journalist Brandon M. Stickney is caught in an opiate epidemic drug sting and sentenced to prison. Surrounded by society's most troubled individuals and hostile guards, Stickney faces his addiction and mental illness behind the razor wire. Searching for answers, he befriends four inmates and a guard who help change his life. Haunted by severe cravings, nights of mania, and threatened by prison's evils,...
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All he wanted was another 1920s Hollywood Utopia! The Winds of Malibu is the true story of a boy whose father (a computer engineer with a grudge against Hollywood) has held on to a house in the movie colony of Malibu, California, after a bitter divorce. At the age of eleven, Lucas is fiercely bitten by the Acting Bug and does anything to act. What ensues is a war between him and his controlling father as to his Hollywood aspirations, amid crippling...
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Exhausted by her job as a political press secretary, Melinda Roth found the courage to escape. Her goal: a simpler life in rural Illinois that would let her pursue her passion for writing. But then real life intervened. A fire at a neighboring farm and a misinterpreted gesture of kindness transformed her into the reluctant caretaker of a homeless menagerie of animals. Roth, coauthor of the New York Times-bestseller From Baghdad with Love, writes vividly,...
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Norman Sherman s idea of fun is attending a political convention. He has been active in liberal politics since before he could vote, often as a ghostwriter and editor of speeches and books. His story describes a life working for Minnesota political leaders: Governors Orville Freeman and Karl Rolvaag, Congressman Don Fraser, Senators Wendell Anderson, Eugene McCarthy, Walter Mondale and Hubert Humphrey. He was press secretary to Vice President Humphrey,...
5566) Hope Truth Art & Joy
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About the front cover drawing:
Adam and Eve after the Fall
The greater the fall to death and darkness
The greater the rise to life and light
My parents told me that when I was first able to walk, I immediately began dancing and they saw an artist at work. They were amazed by my love for dance and my innocence. But for some unknown reason, since my first day at school, I became a victim of bullying. It shattered my spirit, from first grade to eighth...
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A young man is found collapsed backwards over his bed still fully clothed from the previous day. His housemates, Catherine and Martin, cannot rouse him. They know he should have been at work some time ago but they walk away. Catherine goes to work. Martin has a cup of tea and goes back to bed. About forty-five minutes later, Catherine telephones and asks Martin to check on Billy. Billy is dead. An ambulance was only four minutes away.
At the age...
5568) Messy Bitch Magic
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What is spirituality for the ones who find God on the dance floor? What does ascension look like when you're the kind of person who knows more about pasta than meditation? And how are you supposed to love yourself, when you can't even figure out who you're supposed to be?
In “Messy Bitch Magic”, we join Ani Ferlise on a quest to find the answers to these questions and more, as she navigates the decade-long dark-night-of-the-soul leading to her...
5569) Billy Ray's Farm
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In his first work of nonfiction since the acclaimed “On Fire”, Brown aims for nothing short of ruthlessly capturing the truth of the world in which he has always lived. In the prologue to the book, he tells what it's like to be constantly compared with William Faulkner, a writer with whom he shares inspiration from the Mississippi land. The essays that follow show that influence as undeniable. Here is the pond Larry reclaims and restocks on his...
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A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald Hall
In an intimate record of his twenty-three-year marriage to poet Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall recounts the rich pleasures and the unforeseen trials of their shared life. The couple made a home at their New England farmhouse, where they rejoiced in rituals of writing, gardening, caring for pets, and connecting with their rural community through...
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History Encounters unearths the greatest stories with the major events from Phoenician Civilization to expand reader horizons for readers to be best informed. The Phoenicians have gone down in history as the original seafarers of the world. It's interesting to note that they were considered a lost civilization until archeologists and etymologists discovered ancient writings from Phoenicia that revealed vital information about the civilization. They...
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During a career of thirty years, Tahir Shah has published dozens of books on travel, exploration, topography, and research, as well as a large body of fiction.
Through this extraordinary series of Anthologies, selections from the corpus are arranged by theme, allowing the reader to follow certain threads that are of profound interest to Shah.
Spanning a number of distinct genres — in both fiction and non-fiction work — the collections incorporate...
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For years, Thomas Mannella observed the intrigue of people who believed him when he said the scars across his chest were from an alley knifing. This was a lie, but the more scarred by surgeries he felt, the greater his denial. He detached himself from the deteriorating valve in his heart, which he hoped would make him feel normal, and appear that way to others, but living this way, he didn't own the marks; the marks owned him. With every beat, blood...
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Shackleton's own thrilling account of his first Antarctic expedition and astonishing march to reach the South Pole.
With the same drama and adventure of Shackleton's later memoir, “South, Heart of the Antarctic” chronicles the first polar expedition he led himself, which lasted over a year and included triumph, defeat, and harrowing experiences. In 1906, Lieutenant Ernest Shackleton decided that he would make his own attempt to reach the South...
5575) God Had Other Plans
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Having just given birth to her third child under the stress of unemployment and past due bills, Tameka Hope strongly believed that life couldn't, get any worse. She was soon, proved otherwise, when an EF-4 tornado touched down and demolished her Tuscaloosa neighborhood in less than ten minutes, leaving nothing but the foundation of her home.
The death of more than 50 people served as a reminder that her alcohol abuse, physical disability, clinical...
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After becoming a teenage mother of two children while in high school, suffering spiritual depression, and surviving an emotionally abusive, narcissistic husband, Melanie Smiles was broken. But with an unyielding faith, she found transformation and emotional healing through the word of God, constant prayer, loving family, and devoted mentors. Follow Melanie's journey of internal struggles and unfortunate life events that eventually led to her brokenness,...
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The mountains of the American West are the setting for healing and personal development in this collection of lyrical essays. From forest fires to mountain lions, an Ohio farm to a Colorado cabin and from violation to silence to reclamation, Kathryn Winograd draws keen attention to the details, that braid her own history with that of the land, on which she dwells with her husband and daughters and with that of anyone who has experienced loss and fought...
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A U.S. Army Platoon Leader shares an honest account of Iraq War combat and his long journey of healing from trauma in this military memoir.
During his time in Iraq, Jeff Morris saw and experienced some truly harrowing events, such as the time he had to pulled shards of another man's skull from the palm of his hand. When he got home, he struggled for years just to face his own reflection. In Legion Rising, Morris provides a candid account of his service-from...
5580) Full Moon Reaction
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"At 8:30, I somehow manage to fall asleep. I do not dream. I never dream."
Full Moon Reaction is a piercing, comedic, and unnerving glimpse into the rot of American culture. Justin Geoffrey's literary debut, his book delves into the "secret history" of the U.S., connecting modern political trends and his personal experiences to the occult forces that have shaped our lives. With wit and erudition, Full Moon Reaction explores the true nature of our...
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