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What you're holding in your hands is a very funny and sometimes poignant look at fathers. It's filled with stories of what it's been like as a dad and a son, from a child's first day of kindergarten to the awkward sex talk, right up to the day the always practical dad tries to pay for college with bonus miles.
While bookstores are filled with tales of mothers, their children, and families, there are so few from the dad's side. Now, as a public...
63) Growing up
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Ranging from the backwoods of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the city of Baltimore, this remarkable memoir recounts Russell Baker's experience of growing up in pre–World War II America, before he went on to a celebrated career in journalism. With poignant, humorous tales of powerful love, awkward sex, and courage in the face of adversity, Baker reveals how he helped his mother and family through the Great Depression by delivering papers...
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Bestselling mystery writer Fran Stewart shares her sense of adventure with you as she discusses not only bees of all sorts, but the ghosts in the Tower of London, moon photos and chicken eggs, vultures and dammit dolls, car wrecks and appendicitis, and a real-life cow car wash.
She continues her well-loved BeeAttitudes at the end of each daily entry, and rollicks along on this joyous journey through life. In this sixth and final volume of her beekeeping...
65) Lovey
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This deeply moving memoir tells the story of Hannah: a child who has been beaten and abused; a girl full of loneliness and rage; a student no one but learning disabilities teacher Mary MacCracken could reach. Mary had reservations about eight-year-old Hannah joining her class. The three emotionally disturbed boys she was currently looking after had been making steady progress, and Hannah, who had a reputation for being a withdrawn and incredibly troubled...
66) Small fry
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"A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, vacations,...
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"Sometimes the swamp-forest visibly thins away from these shores into wastes of reedy morass where, even of breathless nights, the quaggy soil trembles to a sound like thunder of breakers on a coast."
Images are expertly imbued into the mind by vivid description. In Chita, Lafcadio Hearn paints life on a marshy, eclectic Gulf Coast island in the middle of the nineteenth century. Chita is a young white girl who is orphaned by a shipwreck and then...
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A hilarious and moving memoir-in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron-about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis
Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her world turned upside down. It was bad enough that her brilliant husband of fifteen years left her for Bob, a guy he met on Gay.com, but that same week a car accident left her with serious injuries. What was a gal to do? Rhoda packed her bags...
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Extrait : "Ce n'est rien que le jeu d'aujourd'hui auprès du jeu d'autrefois : la révolution a fait passer dans la politique et dans le commerce cette activité ambitieuse qui n'avait naguère que des chances de cartes pour s'occuper, et la Bourse est un tripot honnête sur une grande échelle o l'on perd des millions problématiques, puisqu'on ne joue pas argent sur table."
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"The News from Arkansas" presents an honest and humorous outlook on the culture shock that can occur, when somebody moves to a different state after living in the same place for decades. And, the inevitable problems, when she hits the road in a motorhome.
I was a California girl. My children were unofficially forbidden to move more than 1 ½ hours from their mother. How did I end up in Arkansas? I blame Eric Estrada! After purchasing our new home...
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The Further Tales of a Country Doctor are Carter's continuing stories of the tapestry of life as drawn from overseeing a small-town medical practice in rural Australia.
Over the years, in both private and professional capacities, Carter's fellow community members have taken him into their lives and opened themselves up to him. They have shared their hopes, their fears, their highs, and their lows. Now their generosity extends to allowing him to share...
73) Nine Moons
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From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind “Sexographies” comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood that delves headlong into our fraught fascination with human reproduction.
Women play all the time with the great power that's been conferred upon us: it's fun to think about reproducing. Or not reproducing. Or walking around in a sweet little dress with a round belly underneath that will turn into a baby...
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The Footprints of an American Soldier contains some fiction and nonfiction stories. The stories are that of Clay Mills, who finds himself to be on this journey looking for his soul mate. He started his journey looking for a new soul mate about three years ago after going through a divorce, and while he tries to makes his way through this desert in which he has found himself, he tells short stories about the time he spent with his hometown unit. He...
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The amoral sensibility Hoess displayed regarding all that went on in the charnal factory where the industrialization of death was practiced--where probably 3 million people were literally worked to death, shot or quickly gassed--is still almost beyond belief today. Jurg Amann has taken Hoess' text and produced a work imaginatively new, always using Hoess' own words; The Commandant is a book Hoess would certainly not have approved--an excruciating...
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Striving to keep their Glass Half Full, this expat family struggle to cope with loss and grieving, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the devastating Brisbane floods.
Life is never without its challenges, but how many life-changing events can one family endure before they reach breaking point? Find out in this heart wrenching and touching true story.
After enduring divorce and numerous child custody battles, Sarah Jane knew that moving to Australia...
77) Lafcadio Hearn
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The writings of author and traveler Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) introduced many Western readers to the otherworldly space of Japan. This unauthorized 1919 biography of a unique figure in literary history is based on his candid correspondence with his Irish half-sister, Mrs. Atkinson. For as Kennard notes, Hearn was shy and not just any correspondence would suffice to present the journalist as who he was.
78) A Stellar Life
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Helmut Abt opted for astronomy as a vocation because... well, it was fun. Dr. Abt will delight readers with this light-hearted memoir of a career in 20th century astrophysics, its challenges, its participants, and the fascinating places in the world he visited. With humor and insight he takes readers on the journey of a lifetime filled with stars and exciting adventures. Among other stories, he tells how he located the site of the first national observatory...
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How I Got Off That Tree Limb is, based on an experience, that I had, when I was 22-years of age, and a preacher that I had, worked with in a revival in Little Rock, Arkansas said to me, "Get off that Limb" He explained to me, that if I wanted to make an apple pie I would, have to get the apples off the tree to make a delicious Apple Pie. This book shares early beginnings of my childhood. It takes you through my journey of getting off, of the tree...
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Torn between two cultures, Australian and Lebanese, Silvana Ghoussain defied the odds to make a stance to show that chasing your dreams means taking risks-sometimes at great cost.
This is a true account of one woman's determination to conquer a male-dominated world.
To discover her strength and voice, Silvana Ghoussain must beat the odds to achieve her goals as a bodybuilder, entrepreneur on Sydney's King Street, Newtown, and a boxing coach...