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When we're trapped in the darkness, despair takes control. We desperately need the light. Margaret's nightmarish personal darkness started with the horrors of childhood trauma, were exacerbated by appalling medical abuse but finally, totally, overcome. A loving husband and a simple faith longed for a miracle. In Light Overcoming Darkness, Jason Summers authentically shares his mum's incredible journey and gives us a gentle and kind compass to navigate...
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Fueled by cheap vodka and low standards in her twenties, Jana naively assumes that "happily ever after" is just a dark, sweaty nightclub away.
In this memoir, Jana meets men. A lot of men - at bars, online, on New York rooftops. But with every face-licker, toe-sucker, and internet creep who just wants to bathe with her, it becomes clearer that hers is a ghost story, not the fairy tale she expected. Still single in her thirties, with the specter...
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In "Fried Chicken and Chorizo," the author lovingly unfolds a heartwarming tale, deeply rooted in the boundless love bestowed by his cherished Abuela. This beautiful tribute to his grandmother, hailing from Guadalajara, Mexico, gently unfurls the tale of a love that blossomed amidst life's challenges.
Against the harsh backdrop of a prejudiced era, her love emerges as a resilient flame of hope, guiding the way to mutual understanding and togetherness....
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I'm an introvert who pretends to be an extrovert.
There are many of us.
With those words, Dom Testa unlocks the door on a fascinating radio odyssey that has lasted nearly 50 years.
In this captivating memoir, Dom reveals the often funny-and sometimes embarrassing-stories that highlight his long career in broadcasting.
He also pulls back the curtain on radio's quirks, from the absurdity of ratings to the strange allure of contests. And beyond...
65) A Bar in Toledo
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When Duane Abbajay took over his brother's bankrupt nightclub in Toledo, Ohio in 1962, he promised his wife it would be a quick turnaround to bail his brother out and clear the family name. Instead, he became the face of a bar that transformed the city's entertainment scene and inspired a Grammy-winning country song-all under the thumb of a trigger-happy mafia boss.
Informed by interviews with crime historians, employees, and patrons and corroborated...
66) The Road Unpaved
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After a shocking diagnosis for a rare pituitary disease, and with her eighteen-year marriage in shambles, Risa's life has fallen far from picture-perfect. Recovering from brain surgery and desperate to get back to her former self, she signs up for the bike tour of a lifetime-six weeks from Canada to Mexico on the Pacific Coast Highway.
The old Risa could have done the ride in her sleep, but for the new Risa, trapped in a body that no longer feels...
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From co-founder Elyse Oleksak, discover how Bantam Bagels, the company featured on ABC's Shark Tank, the Today Show, and Oprah's Favorite Things, was built! A gut-wrenching, relatable, inspirational memoir offering lessons in how to start, market and grow a business in today's America.
Elyse and her husband and business partner, Nick, seemingly have done it all. Together, they faced the notorious Sharks of ABC's Shark Tank, sold millions of bagels...
68) 10 Days
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What if people around the world stopped everything to pray for 10 days?
In 2004, Jonathan Friz sensed God telling him to invite people to do just that. He had no idea what he was getting into...
"10 Days reveals, without a doubt, a God-orchestrated strategy to help foster 24/7 prayer, praise, and worship unto the return of Jesus!" Dr. Jason Hubbard, International Prayer Council
"You will be captivated in reading about the Lord's great faithfulness...
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En un mundo cada vez más amenazado por el cambio climático y la degradación ambiental, es imperativo que tomemos acciones concretas para salvar nuestro planeta. Pero, ¿cómo podemos hacerlo de manera sencilla y efectiva en nuestra vida diaria?
El audiolibro "Cómo salvar el planeta: Estrategias sencillas para una vida más sostenible" es la respuesta a esta pregunta. En él encontrarás consejos prácticos y acciones que puedes implementar fácilmente...
70) Holly's Hell
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Holly's Hell is a remarkable story of trauma and redemption.
At the age of 29, Holly Deane-Johns was found guilty of attempting to post 15 grams of heroin to Australia from Bangkok.
She narrowly avoided the death penalty but received a 31-year prison sentence.
Holly spent seven years in a notorious Thai women's prison, where staying alive was a daily struggle.
She learnt Thai and formed enduring friendships with fellow inmates, but faced heartbreak...
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"El Caso de Greg Williams" es un absorbente thriller judicial que te atrapa desde la primera página y no te suelta hasta el inesperado giro final. Con una trama meticulosamente elaborada y personajes profundamente intrigantes, esta obra te sumerge en un mundo donde la verdad es un juego de sombras y la justicia se debate entre la evidencia y el engaño. A través de una prosa ágil y llena de suspense, el autor te lleva por un laberinto de intrigas,...
72) Intermezzo
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For all its brevity, Intermezzo is a beautiful and deeply profound piece, rightfully considered Kotsubinsky's best work. It speaks of an artist's ongoing struggle to create in the midst of life and all its good, bad, and ugly aspects. It also acknowledges the need to escape and reset - but emphasizes this as a temporary measure only.
73) Anna Pavlova
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Episodes from life and work of the great ballerina Anna Pavlova.
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The Fundamentals of Community Organizing is George Goehl's bedrock principles of organizing - the modern organizer's bible, much as Shel Trapp's Basics of Organizing was for George 30 years ago. Use these fundamentals to hone your craft and become a more effective organizer. The book is available for sale on fundamentalsoforganizing.org, and now, available for listening as an audiobook in this special offering of the podcast. Listen and re-listen...
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Robert Whitelaw (1913-1999) served on H.M.S. Cygnet escorting convoys to Murmansk 1944-45. After the war, he trained and then worked as a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology but retained his respect for seafarers and his love of ships. His career in the Merchant Navy started as ship´s surgeon on R.M.S. Carnarvon Castle taking passengers to South Africa. He subsequently voyaged to North and South America, the Caribbean, Australia and Japan. On...
77) GameDay
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College Football is America's Game. The game has a rich history that is woven together with that of the nation which founded it. From the Civil War to the Steel Towns of the Midwest. From the Dust Bowls of The Great Depression to the battlefields of World War II. From The Civil Rights Movement to Campus Protests. From tragedy to 9/11. Whether you Roll Tide or you OH-IO. Whether you are a Michigan Man or a War Eagle. Whether you do the Gator Chomp...
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With emotions like fear, guilt and empathy eluding her, the author, trying to replace the nothingness with something, realizes, after connecting with an old flame, if she's capable of love, it must mean she isn't a monster and sets out to prove the millions of Americans who share her diagnosis aren't all monsters either.
79) Elon Musk
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Elon Musk is one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs -- the CEO of Tesla, the founder of SpaceX and one of the richest people on the planet. Raised in South Africa, he attended a number of universities, before founding the software company Zip2 in 1995. Just four years later it was bought for $307 million. X.com, the online bank he founded in 1999, merged to form PayPal the following year. His business interests have expanded to include aerospace,...
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The No.1 football series - over 1 million copies sold!
'As Neymar Jr made the long walk to the penalty spot, he knew this was his chance, the one that he had dreamed of since the age of three. If he scored, Brazil would be Olympic Champions for the first time ever.'
Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior is the boy who carries the hopes of Brazil on his shoulders. Although he now faces a new challenge at Paris Saint-Germain, it was his years playing for...