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"Four days on the job Jay Dobyns was shot point-blank in the back by a criminal suspect. The bullet travelled through his lung and exited his chest. For the next twenty-seven years, he accepted every dirty and dangerous undercover assignment possible. Some days he succeeded, on others he failed, but all he ever wanted to do was to defend and protect people who couldn't, or wouldn't, do that for themselves. Death threats mounted from street criminals...
17164) When I was young
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Tom tells us his story of growing up in a rural community of the Midwest and the choices we all have to make while growing up; a struggle to climb a tall ladder in search of a career in aviation that lasts an amazing 50 years, starting and finishing in his hometown; a hitch in the army, a war, flying freight, spotting fish in the Atlantic and flying a major airline, returning to manage his hometown airport. This path was guided by the people he met....
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Rosie life in Italy volume 1
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Wedding planner Rosie is struggling with her grey, rain-soaked life in Ireland. Everyone dismisses her long-term dream to live in Italy as another "mad hippy whim." While she's busy planning other people's happy endings, grief, eviction and debt nip at her heels. Trying to stabilise her life as an entrepreneur in the middle of an economic crash is almost impossible. When her landlord suddenly doubles the rent, Rosie is left with no choice but to pack...
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"Élisabeth Gille was only five when the Gestapo arrested her mother, and she grew up remembering next to nothing of her. Her mother was a figure, a name, Irène Némirovsky , a once popular novelist, a Russian émigré from an immensely rich family, a Jew who didn't consider herself one and who even contributed to collaborationist periodicals, and a woman who died in Auschwitz because she was a Jew. To her daughter she was a tragic enigma and a stranger....
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"In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson escaped from his numerous troubles - poor health, tormented love, inadequate funds - by embarking on a journey through the Cevennes in France, accompanied by Modestine, a rather single-minded donkey. The notebook Stevenson kept during this time became Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, a highly entertaining account of the French people and their country. The Amateur Emigrant is a journal of his travels to and in...
17172) Diario de un incesto
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"Diario de un incesto es la historia real, contada en primera persona, de una mujer que estuvo sometida a abusos sexuales y maltratos por parte de su padre cuando aún era una niña. Es la anatomía de una mente rota, la radiografía de un alma herida y, sobre todo, una visión privilegiada de cómo alguien intenta sobrevivir y cómo se relaciona con el mundo. La autora cuenta su historia sin adjetivos ni metáforas de ningún tipo. El horror, primero...
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In this memoir, the celebrated soldier, scholar, and statesman recounts his active participation in more than sixty years of international history-from the onset of World War II through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the post-Cold War era.--Publisher's description.
17176) The zeroes
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Randall Lane, publisher of Trader monthly, chronicles his experiences among the Wall Street elite from 2001 to the collapse of the stock market in 2009.
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Through stories, confessions, illustrations, and plenty of self-reflection and self-deprecation, this new book goes behind the scenes and addresses the experience of getting cancelled, getting that positive pregnancy test, and saying "I do" in the backyard instead of in Italy. Stassi won't hold back about her transformation from proud basic bitch to proud basic bitch who has a deeper appreciation for what's really important in life: love, relationships,...
17178) When I came out
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"Forty-something Louise is married to Peter, with whom she has four children. They live in a big house, and on paper everything looks fantastic. But Louise has a secret that she barely dares to admit to herself: a burning desire for women. When I Came Out is the story of a woman who has met society's expectations throughout her life but finally realizes that she has not been true to herself. From first-time creator Anne Mette Kaerulf Lorentzen, this...
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"In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee. Unmarked on regional maps, Oak Ridge attracted more than seventy thousand people eager for high-paying wartime jobs. Among them were author Emily Strasser's grandfather George, a chemist. All employees-from scientists to secretaries, from military personnel to construction workers-were restricted by...
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