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17201) ¿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...
17202) 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.
17203) Letters from Berlin: a story of war, survival, and the redeeming power of love and friendship
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"The stunning memoir of a girl coming of age in Hitler's Germany, her subsequent imprisonment in the Russian Gulag, and her posthumously discovered love letters to a mysterious soldier on the front-written during the final siege of Berlin."--Book jacket.
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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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Estefanía Igartua Escober reflects on the childhood sexual abuse she endured at the hands of her father and explains the process of overcoming her trauma and helping others do the same.
"Romper el silencio narra en primera persona la impactante historia de Estefanía Igartua, cuya vida ha estado marcada por los diferentes malos tratos recibidos en su infancia; entre ellos, el más monstruoso de todos, que tu propio padre abuse sexualmente de ti....
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Greg Stier was raised in a family of bodybuilding, tobacco-chewing, fist-fighting thugs. He never knew his biological father because his mom had met his dad at a party; she got pregnant, and he left town. Though his mom almost aborted him, in a last-minute twist, Greg's life was spared for so much more. Unlikely Fighter is the incredible story of how God showed up in Greg's life--and how he can show up in yours as well. This is a memoir of violence...
17210) Long red hair
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In this graphic memoir, Fitzgerald paints a childhood full of sleepovers, playing dress-up, amateur fortune-telling and renting scary movies. Yet, Fitzgerald suspects that she is unlike her friends. The book navigates a child's struggle with averageness, a preteen's budding bisexuality and a young woman's return after rejection. Fitzgerald takes us from her first kiss to a life sworn to singlehood, while weaving in allusions to witches in history...
17211) Alkoholiczka
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Alkoholiczka to prawdziwa opowiesc o wchodzeniu w uzaleznienie i uwalnianiu sie od niego. Ta przejmujaca historia przekonuje, ze naprawde mozna zrobic cos, co wydaje sie niewyobrazalne: przestac pic.
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The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is an honest and heartfelt look at one young woman's exploration of her sexuality, mental well-being, and growing up in our modern age. Told using expressive artwork that invokes both laughter and tears, this moving and highly entertaining single volume depicts not only the artist's burgeoning sexuality, but many other personal aspects...
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"After attending a friend's wedding, Nagata Kabi decides she wants one of her own. That's not the only thing she wants--she longs to love and be loved. But she has three major problems: she has no partner, no dating experience, and her only sexual encounters are limited to a lesbian escort service. With the help of a photoshoot, a dating app, and more, the author embarks on a journey to seek the love and happiness she so desperately desires."--Page...
17215) Courage and consequence
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A memoir of Karl Rove and his committment to the conservative cause and service to his country.
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In 2015, Russia's Anti-Doping Centre was suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) following revelations of an elaborate state-sponsored doping programme at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Involving a nearly undetectable steroid delivery system known as 'Duchesse cocktail', tampering and switching of urine samples, and a complex state-sanctioned cover-up, the programme was masterminded by Grigory Rodchenkov. The Rodchenkov Affair tells the...