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"In 2006, Mary Turner Thomson's world shattered when she discovered her husband Will was a bigamist, con man and convicted sex offender. Unbeknownst to her, this would be the start of a bold new chapter in her life, fighting to protect other women from his heartless gaslighting campaigns -- and putting a stop to his endless deception. Mary thought that her story would end with the revelation that Will in fact had several families -- and numerous...
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A book not only about how the story of one crime was constructed -- but about how we grapple with our own personal histories. Along the way it tackles questions about the nature of forgiveness, and if a single narrative can ever really contain something as definitive as the truth. The fact of a body shows how the law is more personal than we would like to believe -- and the truth more complicated, and powerful, than we could ever imagine.
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"[Esta libro] continúa las memorias que Mandela publicó en El largo camino hacia la libertad, relatando sus años como presidente. La extraordinaria historia de un país en transición y los retos que afrontó el premio Nobel de la Paz al luchar por que su visión de una Sudáfrica liberada se convirtiera en realidad. En 1994, Nelson Mandela se convirtió en el primer presidente democrático de Sudáfrica. Desde el comienzo, se comprometió a...
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Tells the harrowing, yet wryly funny story of Safran's childhood chasing the perfect life off the grid--and how he and his mother survived the imperfect one they found instead. More than just a coming-of age story, "Free Spirit" is a journey of the spirit, as Safran reconnects with his Jewish roots; a tale of overcoming adversity; and a captivating read about a childhood unlike any other.
17211) Dziennik z prodróży do Rosji
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"Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa, ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad - now Volgograd - but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. A RUSSIAN JOURNAL is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical...
17215) White house in a grey city
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A lighthouse in the darkest period of human history.Warsaw, August 1942. Janusz Korczak, a pediatrician who became an admired educator, renounces the opportunity to remain alive and escorts the children of the orphanage he had established and so lovingly managed, to the ghetto and from there, on their final journey. Korczak, together with two hundred of his pupils, were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp where they met their death.In his book,...
17216) ¿Y si comenzamos de nuevo?
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"En ¿Y si comenzamos de nuevo? el adorador Ricardo Rodríguez y su esposa Susana exponen cómo Dios restauró su matrimonio en medio de circunstancias que lucían imposibles. Es una conmovedora historia de amor, infidelidad, coraje, divorcio, arrepentimiento, perdón pero sobre todo, fe. Sin duda ¿Y si comenzamos de nuevo? ayudará a los matrimonios en crisis, pero también a los pastores, padres, hijos, amigos y familiares que les toca vivir junto...
17217) Quilt of souls
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When four year old Phyllis Lawson is sent to live with her grandmother in Alabama, she has no idea what to expect. What she finds is inspiration the catalyst for everything good to come. She needed a miracle, and that miracle took the form of a tattered old quilt--a family heirloom stitched together from the clothes of her grandmothers loved ones, telling the tragic stories of their lives and deaths. Born in 1883, Grandma Lula lived to be 103 years...
17218) Corazón descalzo
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Chronicles the life of a child growing up in a family of Mexican-American migrant farm workers who traveled between Texas and Minnesota.
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"This work is Lloyd M. Wells's firsthand account of World War II based on a journal he kept during the war, letters he sent home, and personal records, as well as recollections of people and events." "In June 1941, the twenty-one-year-old Wells was drafted into the army. He was commissioned second lieutenant after he attended OCS and was later promoted to first lieutenant with the First Armored Division. He saw action in North Africa, Italy, and Germany...
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"Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames--before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It's a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror and violence of the Vietnam War. Kim was left for dead in...
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