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"Told through the language and imagery of the native Mexican flowers and plants comes the life of acclaimed and beloved artist Frida Kahlo. Like a flower, Frida blossomed, wilted, was crushed, survived, and thrived, growing into one of the most celebrated Indigenous painters. This poetic and empowering picture book features the very flora Frida grew in her garden, bought at the market in her hometown, painted in her famous portraits, and wore proudly...
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This is a memoir which celebrates the life of a remarkable woman in a variety of short stories from the people she loved. It may be of particular interest to those who have struggled with the challenges of parenthood while excelling in a career outside the home. It is also a living testimony to a deep and abiding love shared by her life partner for more than 50 years. It is rich in humour and life lessons. It also includes the end of her journey and...
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"Gather the fragments" are words spoken by Jesus. In this uplifting spiritual memoir read by the author, Maureen O'Brien's lyrical essays reflect on discovering wonder and God's grace in what feels broken. Using the gospel tale of the miracle of the loaves and fishes as a lens, she intimately shares her story, and the moving stories of others. You are invited into this miracle: to find hope in your despair, to find the nearness of God within love,...
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In the summer of 1942, the first group of African American recruits stepped off a bus into the pine woods of North Carolina, bound for an experiment the Marine Corps had long vowed never to attempt. Their destination - Montford Point, a hastily constructed satellite to the new Camp Lejeune - was more than a training ground. It was a compromise with democracy, a segregated doorway into an institution that had defined itself for generations by who could...
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Journey through my troubled childhood as I went from victim to victimizer. Explore my punishment and experience my distress as I tried to make sense of the incomprehensible. Follow my transformation from innocence to the unthinkable on my journey to find my footing in an unfriendly world.
Can I grasp what others could not explain in time, or will I forever be a product of my upbringing, a thing to be reviled?
This inspirational story shows how one...
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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
In this evocative narrative, a voice emerges from the shadows of a tumultuous past, weaving the tale of a soul's harrowing voyage toward liberation. Here lies the journey of an individual ensnared by the legacy of ancestral anguish, searching for solace amid the remnants of a fractured existence. This account reassures those who navigate the stormy seas of healing, inviting them to discover that resilience...
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Trauterose: Growing Up in Postwar Munich is the compelling first-person account of Elisabeth Haggblade, who was orphaned at birth at the height of World War II and spent the first eleven years of her life under the care of a former S.S. officer and his family.
Like many she knew and met during her formative years, Elisabeth was marked both physically and psychologically by the traumatic events of the war and its aftermath, where negotiating daily...
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"What is it like to grow up with a terrorist in your home? Zak Ebrahim was only seven years old when, on November 5th, 1990, his father El-Sayed Nosair shot and killed the leader of the Jewish Defense League. While in prison, Nosair helped plan the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. In one of his infamous video messages, Osama bin Laden urged the world to "Remember El-Sayed Nosair." In The Terrorist's Son, Ebrahim dispels the myth that terrorism...
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Een vrouw klaagt haar Tinderdate aan voor verkrachting omdat hij loog over zijn uiterlijk. Een studente dient een klacht in tegen een docent nadat die hun relatie heeft verbroken. En een vader wordt veroordeeld voor een seksuele relatie met zijn dochter.
Advocate Sanne De Clerck neemt de lezer mee achter de schermen van tal van zedenzaken. Is incest altijd strafbaar? Hoe ga je met pedofielen om? En hoe moeilijk is het om als advocate daders van seksueel...
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A stunning book from Amanda Owen - shepherdess, wife, mother of nine children, bestselling author and star of C5's Our Yorkshire Farm - that brings her world to life in glorious colour.
In Celebrating the Seasons, Amanda shares funny and charming stories about life with her family and their many four-legged charges and describes their activities at Ravenseat, from lambing and shearing to haymaking and feeding the flock in midwinter. Her gorgeous...
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For everyone who loves watching Amanda Owen and her family on Our Yorkshire Farm, or enjoys reading her bestselling books, comes this delightful and uplifting collection of her monthly Dalesman columns.
In Tales from the Farm by the Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda takes readers on an evocative journey to Ravenseat, where she lives with husband Clive and their nine children, not to mention their flock of sheep, herd of cows, hardworking dogs and a formidable...
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Une biographie non officielle de Lucien Morel
« Il y a dans le son de Depeche Mode quelque chose de froid et de brûlant à la fois. Un battement mécanique qui a fini par avoir un cœur. »
Depeche Mode n'est pas un simple groupe.
C'est une traversée, une matière vivante, une pulsation qui a accompagné plusieurs générations depuis plus de quarante ans.
De Basildon, petite ville grise de l'Angleterre industrielle, jusqu'aux stades du monde...
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"Return to Eden" speaks of a pilgrimage.
A journey from the horrors and pain, inhumanity and fear of the now to what once was. That place from whence we were exiled to wander through a million wildernesses seeking redemption, seeking forgiveness, seeking love, and unable to endure any longer, where we wish to return.
To go home.
This is the pilgrimage of Suzanne and Jackie.
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Gary Young lebte ein außergewöhnliches Leben, das ihn nach einem schweren Schicksalsschlag den Weg zur Erschaffung der YOUNG LIVING-Essenzen einschlagen ließ. Ein Weg voller Abenteuer und faszinierender Erlebnisse und Begegnungen.
Maria Schasteen, die große Expertin für Duftmedizin, beschreibt in dieser mit viel Empathie verfassten Biographie das Leben dieses besonderen Menschen, der die alternativen Heilweisen des 21. Jahrhunderts maßgeblich...
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Jil Eileen Füngeling lebt ihren Traum und entdeckt als Reisebloggerin die schönsten Orte der Welt, bis ein schlimmer Unfall alles erschüttert. In der afrikanischen Wüste kracht ein entgegenkommendes Auto in ihren Wagen und verletzt sie schwer. Im Krankenhaus kämpft Jil um ihre Zukunft. Wird sie je wieder gehen können? Mit unglaublichem Mut stellt sie sich schmerzhaften Therapien und einem neuen Alltag. Jil gibt alles für ihr großes Ziel, eines...
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"The King Who Walked Away from His Throne"
Discover the extraordinary journey of Ibrahim ibn Adham, the prince who abandoned luxury to seek the true wealth of faith. This captivating biography explores his transformation from royalty to asceticism, unveiling timeless lessons of devotion, humility, and spiritual awakening. A story of sacrifice, sincerity, and unwavering trust in Allah-one that continues to inspire hearts across generations.
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England in the time of his boyhood was a cold and colourless country. They had seen to that, the Autumn Men. They who had been lifted high, the old men of his country and other countries, who in the autumn of their years, reflecting on the unfulfilled promise of their youth, and their failures as yet unredeemed, feeling as any old man adrift alone on a small boat, sails broken, oars lost, swept hopelessly onward towards the deafening roar of the approaching...
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Contrariamente a la idea de que son los padres los que dejan un legado a los hijos, en este libro, es Alex, a través de su historia, el que le otorga una herencia a su madre y a toda la familia: la de la lucha incansable por reconstruirse a sí mismo, lejos de los espacios de las drogas. Dilucidar qué sucedió en esta historia, puede, sin duda, ayudar a otros padres a que conozcan más sobre el mundo de las adicciones, así como darles a conocer...
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Hörbuch "Wiehnacht in'n Noorden" - Plattdeutsche Geschichten und Gedichte zur Weihnachtszeit von und mit Heinrich Evers Der Plattdeutschbeauftragte des Kreises Ostholstein (auch bekannt als "Heiner, de Plattsnacker") und Träger des Bundesverdienstkreuzes am Bande liest 28 neue plattdeutsche Geschichten und Gedichte zur Weihnachtszeit zum Schmunzeln, Lachen, Auswendiglernen, Nachdenken und Träumen. Nach dem großen Erfolg von "Wiehnacht an de Küst"...
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