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The #1 bestselling author of The Alienist tells the extraordinary story of Masha, a half-wild rescue cat who fought off a bear, tackled Caleb like a linebacker—and bonded with him as tightly as any cat and human possibly can."One of the most powerful and beautiful grief narratives ever written, including all the memoirs about people.”—Kirkus Reviews “In writing that is as beautiful as it is unguarded, Caleb Carr tells the surprising and...
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“Gripping and true in all ways. This fine, affecting memoir will stay with me for a very long time.”—Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion
“In this vividly written memoir novelist O’Hara shares a painful but ultimately beautiful account of her daughter Caitlin’s life with cystic fibrosis. . . . Her compelling story will resonate with anyone seeking a light in the darkest depths
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Fran Stewart, award-winning & national best-selling author of three ScotShop mysteries and eleven Biscuit McKee mysteries, offers here the final volume of her "mini-memoirs," daily musings taken from the popular Facebook author page she posted on from 2012 through 2020. Her unique take on life continues this four-volume legacy: Clear as Mud (parts 1 & 2), Clearly Me, and now the concluding book, Crystal Clear. If you're the kind of person who would...
4) Clearly Me
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Fran Stewart, award-winning & national best-selling author of three ScotShop mysteries and eleven Biscuit McKee mysteries, delights us with this second volume of her unique take on life through these "mini-memoirs," a collection of her daily musings from her no-longer-available Facebook author page. The first two volumes, Clear as Mud parts i and 2, covered many of her posts through 2018. Now you can enjoy all of the year 2019, as seen through the...
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Step into the remarkable journey of resilience and hope with Life After a Craniotomy Operation. Our brain, often compared to a computer perched atop our heads, serves as the epicentre of our existence, enabling us to navigate the complexities of modern life and its myriad highs and lows. However, when illness strikes, rendering simple tasks impossible, fear takes hold, and the words of a wise consultant resonate deeply: fright, flight, fight-an embodiment...
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Scruffy, deaf, and homeless, life on the streets is tough for young Albi. What could the future possibly hold for an abandoned Spanish Podenco puppy that has been hit by a car and can't hear? Yet despite a traumatic start, Albi's life changes when he is rescued, brought to the UK, and fostered by Lois Sinclair, founder of the rescue charity, Gracehounds, and a passionate dog lover who has shared her life and home with numerous canine companions. Before...
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This book, in Guinness Book of Records style, tells the remarkable true stories of some of Australia's youngest heroes.
At different times and in different ways, these brave, clever, adventurous, creative, athletic, caring or enterprising young Australians have done something amazing.
The stories are accompanied by quirky cartoon illustrations that will amuse children.
The book includes a range of incredible stories from the 18th Century...
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In the second book of this ongoing series, Royce continues his journey of self-discovery from age 14 to 18, as trauma lurks trying to hide him from himself.
Navigating life's pains, strains and hardships while attempting to find oneself is a winding path travelled as best one can. Though often unaware, Royce moves slowly yet steadily forward despite the darkness. Dangers explode without warning - hidden perils that scar his soul and edge him further...
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Lying Down with Dogs is a series of interrelated essays about the years Caradine spent starting and running Other Mothers Animal Rescue. As in any worthwhile endeavor, life has a way of intervening and she includes some of those non-animal adventures in her tale as it is all a part of the larger Other Mothers saga. From rescuing kittens under a house to finding a farm sanctuary that would take in a pig, from birthing puppies to cats in the freezer,...
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Shortlisted, Adelaide Festival Literary Awards.
The sourcebook for the film Hemingway in Spain, this hybrid work melds several Hemingway "voices", the author, the "Hemingway Hero", and the author projecting the Hemingway consciousness and aesthetic on a contemporary Spanish landscape.
"The poems stitch you into a tapestry...with loose threads left hanging just to trip you up if you become complacent." Bev Braune, Australian Book Review.
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In An Autobiographical Meditation: The Dislodged Goldfish, the journey traversed is as serpentine as the paths of life for those whose existence defies conformity. While some seamlessly blend into societal moulds, others are destined to a life reminiscent of a dragon's breath: intense, fiery, and unyielding. The relentless trek through tumultuous trails and muddy roads can leave one spinning in disorientation akin to a dizzying dance with destiny....
12) Milestone
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Join Hugh on his hilarious adventures in the UK haulage industry in the 1970s and 80s. From securing his truck license on a disused airfield to traversing the country on colourful escapades, Hugh recounts rollicking tales with unforgettable characters.
We follow Hugh through a whirlwind of trucking jobs, from the docks of Watchet to the remotest corners of Scotland. Laugh along as he fumbles his way as a rookie and gains wisdom from wizened veterans....
13) Arguing With God
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My vacation turned into a prophetic spiritual journey. My friend worked for a secret service, while abusing drugs himself. They set him up to bust drug dealers. God warned him to give his life to Him. A wild and twisted spiritual journey occurred and my friend had to make a decision to give his life to Christ. Which he did before he died.
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In her third collection from Interactive Press, E. A. Gleeson casts her poetic eye as far afield as Belfast or as close to home as her own mortality.
In an assured but always personal voice, she addresses the everyday, the exotic and even the taboo with immersive detail, challenging the reader to reflect on the elemental issues of modern existence.
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Fran Stewart, award-winning and national best-selling author of the Scot Shop Mysteries and the Biscuit McKee Mystery Series, delights us with her unique take on life through these "mini-memoirs," a collection of her daily musings from the first few years of her Facebook author page. Since nobody wants to scroll back and back and back, we've compiled most of her posts in this CLEAR Series. Clear as Mud Part 1 and Part 2 cover up through 2018 Her 2019...
16) Hightide
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This book is a biography about my unique and extraordinary life that most people couldn't even imagine, or even comprehend. I had the best childhood, spending my summers in a log cabin with my grandfather in remote Alaska (even being rescued by a coast guard helicopter). This fueled my unique connection to animals and nature. I married my high school sweetheart; we have known each other since we were five years old. We have two wonderful children...
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A childhood experience, from the 1940s post-war infant years to the raging 1950s. My mother told me that I had actually come into the world with a bang. It happened during one very early morning in 1943 when German bombers were flying overhead, and the spent rounds of anti-aircraft bullets were clattering on the tiled roof above her. Dad also said that he could hear bombs dropping somewhere between Edinburgh and Glasgow. So, it seems that I had come...
19) Arthur
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This is a fact-based fiction story of Arthur who grew up in Marinette, Wisconsin. A small logging town on the shores of Lake Michigan. As a young boy, he worked in these lumbermills.
Then as a young teen, he went down to Milwaukee to work in the steel mills. In his mid-tense, he and a friend decided to take a train to Montana and to the wheat field. But the drought there dried up the crops, so on the advice of people on the street, he decided to...
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This is a book that will hold the reader's attention from start to finish. It's a story of courage, determination, control, anger, jealousy, and love. Alma, the main protagonist, was injured during the Blitz in East London when half her house fell on top of the air-raid shelter also killing her father and her sister. That experience coloured the rest of her life.
Alma and the family moved to Poplar ('Call the Midwife' country) in 1947. By 1951, they'd...
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