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"For the past twelve years, a community of Anishinaabe people have made the Northern Ontario bush their home in the wake of the power failure that brought about societal collapse. Since then they have survived and thrived the way their ancestors once did, but their natural food resources are dwindling, and the time has come to find a new home. Evan Whitesky volunteers to lead a mission south to explore the possibility of moving back to their original...
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The #1 New York Times bestseller and the true story behind the film: A rugby team resorts to the unthinkable after a plane crash in the Andes. Spirits were high when the Fairchild F-227 took off from Mendoza, Argentina, and headed for Santiago, Chile. On board were forty-five people, including an amateur rugby team from Uruguay and their friends and family. The skies were clear that Friday, October 13, 1972, and at 3:30 p.m., the Fairchild's pilot...
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"On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the seven on the rope who swim out to shipwrecks to plunder them. Mira's job is to rescue survivors, if there are any. After all, she never feels the cold of the frigid ocean waters and the waves seem to sing to her soul. But the people of Rosevear never admit the truth: that they set the beacons themselves to lure ships into the rocks. When the Council watch lays...
4) Silver
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The final exam is survival.
Paul is the new kid at Mortingham Boarding Academy, and he has a dark secret. Caitlyn admires Paul from afar and resents that he only has eyes for Erika. Erika thinks that she and Caitlyn are best friends, but she's wrong.Adam is a bully with a major chip on his shoulder.Mark is outgrowing his old friends but doesn't know how to make new ones.In a few short hours, none of this will matter. Without warning, a horrifying...
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"Deep in the forests of Nordland, in a lake-side cabin on a small island, Juno has lived in almost complete isolation since early childhood. She has only her Mama and Papa and her little brother Boy for company. They live in constant fear. For danger could already be lurking on the other side of the lake, seeking them out - Strangers, as they call them, who want to take revenge on their father and destroy the family. But Mama and Papa are wise and...
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"Tomorrow, the funk descends on Manhattan, a noxious cloud which separates the island from the rest of the world and mutates the population. Some generations on, the surviving population exists amid the rubble of modernity, wearing our cast-off clothing, worshiping celebrities as dim gods and using emojis in place or written language. The Island exists in a state of uneasy peace, with each neighborhood an independent fiefdom, protecting itself with...
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This book is based on a true story about an infant who grew up without any parents (no mother or father); struggled throughout life; endured hardships, ups and downs, highs and lows; dealt with racism, discrimination, mental, verbal, and psychological abuse; functioned independently; graduated from college with a professional degree without owing a cent for financial aid; built a house from the ground up without owing a single cent; bought timeshare...
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Titling his book Journey to the End of the Century, SACHAL puts us in the macrocosm of the culture of the Soviet Union through the microcosm of his life there. It was a harsh and difficult beginning: homelessness, starvation, loneliness, diseases, and a painful existence. Never complaining, little Sacha learns how to use experience in the most magical ways. He recounts how he bravely endured, how to use the system of control to survive and fully be...
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Our marriage was given about two weeks to two months to survive. We stood two chances of making it work out--slim and none. But through commitment and stubbornness, we hung in there. The name sumpter is in the dictionary and says "a packhorse," which I relate to a mule, telling Bill he was stubborn as a mule. This book tells a little of the years we lived in Rapid City and how we grew. I'm sure there are others that have endured more turmoil and grief,...
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Just as travel and danger walk hand in hand in the Far North, Swallowed Alive, volume 2, follows in the footsteps of Swallowed Alive, volume 1, presenting stories of misadventure in the arms of Mistress Alaska. Danger is but a whisper away from those who travel Alaska's trails. And danger never falters in her efforts to unseat man.
Stories of crevasses; dog team, river and ATV travel; bigfoot; trapping; hiking; fighting marlin; bear, bird, mouse,...
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"Into the Shadows, I Ran" begins with the Khmer Rouge's forced evacuation of Cambodia's cities immediately after the fall of Phnom Pen and Saigon in April of 1975. The story traces Tha Chhay's attempted escapes from the forced labor camps when he was a boy. After the Khmer Rouge fell from power, he traveled extensively around Cambodia as a boy merchant. After buying and selling goods in different markets across Cambodia, he saved enough gold to hire...
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For Zion's sake I will not keep silent; for Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch. (Isaiah 62:1)
On the day that I cried out, you answered me and made me bold with strength in my soul. (Psalm 138:3)
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus is the answer.
This is How I Survived Death (From Death to Freedom). This book is my living testimony of what a gracious God we...
13) Connected Dots
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Jose Luis Fernandez fought an underground war against the dictator of Cuba, Fulgencio Batista, late 1950s. Jose was imprisoned and tortured twice, but he never stopped believing in the cause, he never stopped believing in the revolution, he never stopped believing in their leader, Comandante Fidel Castro. After succeeding against Batista, Jose found himself close enough to Fidel Castro to realize his life had changed, but it was not for what he had...
14) A Private Life
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Don't get me wrong here, I've had an amazing life, the last thing that I want anyone to think is that this book, My Private Life, is about sour grapes. I consider myself a true American red-blooded capitalist like all other good Americans. This book is about my experiences growing up, my experiences fighting back and growing up to become the best that I can be.
Growing up black in the South, I felt that I had the cards stacked against me from the...
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From the "boots on the ground," often dangerous efforts to stop the horrid spread of infectious diseases on the Yukon and Kuskokwim, to pioneering efforts. Rescuing a badly aborted Russian girl from the Bering Sea and then a Medivac to Moscow led to shocking personal contacts in Russia, which directly resonate to this day. Rogues and Rascals abound in Anchorage.
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You are about to embark on a journey that will stimulate each and every one of your emotions and move your soul. This is one victim's story of her ability to survive through years of relentless childhood, physical and sexual abuse, the affect it had on her, and how she has finally found the courage to share her life experiences in her quest to help others.
Born and raised in a Midwestern town just an hour west of Chicago, Illinois, is a little...
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Is there a time in your life you aren't too happy about? Is there something you regret about some choices you made? Well, you aren't the only one. There are people all over the world just like you and me. Those mistakes can either make us better or cause us to keep spiraling down the wrong path. Our past decisions, our choices today, and the ones we will make tomorrow and in our future, God already has a plan in place to bring victory out of our lives.
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After being labeled for the majority of my life, I was frightened by the things that would occur. It was fear that kept me in my cage. Being sexually abused, abandoned by my father, my childhood was taken away. I even hated to see myself in the mirror, and in my mind, I became a reflection of all the things that I didn't want to see. I never imagined that I would have to endure so much pain, that God would allow my life to become so unpleasant, until...
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This story is about the life of a girl who grew up in the Tompkins projects in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She enjoyed life with her family, joining her family for holiday fun, going on picnics, and enjoying the summer fun. Her teenage years were moving fast. She gets married to her childhood sweetheart, Leonard Brown, and life quickly changes from fun to the life of drugs and trying to hide their secret drug life. Drugs and death prove to be too...
20) Fiercely ME
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In her self-published memoir, Stephanie narrates her remarkable journey through childhood, adolescence, and early-adult life with parents who struggled with addiction and poverty. She describes her fight to survive and reveals her growing understanding of the role that inner strength and determination has played in her personal and professional achievements.
Stephanie explores how she learned to overcome debilitating depression, the return of...
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