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701) Deadly
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In the early nineteen hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of "Typhoid Mary, " a seemingly healthy woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever. Includes a historical note by the author.
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Roaming the country by bus and train, on a budget and without any institutional support, Linh Dinh set out to document, in words and pictures, what life is like for people. From Los Angeles, Cheyenne, Portland, and New Orleans, to Jackson and Wolf Point-Linh walked miles and miles through unfamiliar neighborhoods, talking to whoever would talk to him: the homeless living in tent cities, the peddlers, the protestors, the public preachers, the prostitutes....
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"There can be more to life than meets the eye..."
The incredibly talented writer and artist, Diana Thomas, shares the world through her lens in Simple Beauty-a diary-style book designed to help people slow down, seek, listen, and discover a deep appreciation of everyday life. Readers become passengers alongside the author as she transports them on a journey through the seasons and immerses them into her artistic world.
Diana shares journal...
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The Bible Never Says It Will Be Okay.
The Bible is largely silent on the topic of grief, which surprises most people; contrary to popular belief, the Bible never says things will be okay-that the pastures greener on the other side. Further, the Bible never says God won't give us anything we can't handle. That's a proverb man made up.
When it seems hopeless, there's a reason: this might be a trial we cannot handle. It's natural to feel bleak about...
707) Swan Dive
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Refugees from the Bosnian War, Lazar's family flees the Siege of Sarajevo and arrives in Winnipeg in the early 1990s. Despite various mini dramas unfolding at home, as his parents and older sisters navigate a new language, the bitter cold and a strange city and country, Lazar manages to find a place for himself at school, largely by making friends with Elle, a sassy, outspoken girl who divides her time between living with her hoarder mother (who stuffs...
708) Un Américain à Paris, l'Ambassade de Thomas Jefferson (1785-1789): Un témoignage historique précieux
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Une plongée inédite dans les écrits d'un futur président américain!
Rédacteur de la déclaration d'indépendance et troisième président des États-Unis d'Amérique, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) reste une figure majeure de la première démocratie moderne de l'Histoire. Défenseur acharné de la justice et écrivain de talent, il nota ses impressions lors de son séjour à Paris comme ambassadeur des USA (1785-1789) avec un regard critique...
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Ernst Jünger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important-and most controversial-writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel, he frankly depicted war's horrors even as he extolled its glories. As a Wehrmacht captain during World War II, Jünger faithfully kept a journal in occupied Paris and continued to write on the eastern front and in Germany until its defeat-writings...
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There is Healing in Prayer, just stay in the face of God.
We are living in a time of much-needed prayer and love.
"Prayer Beyond the Chemo Chair," will open your heart to see:
God's Love
God's Healing Power
God's Supernaturally rain down His healing from Heaven
God will fight your battle with you
The Bible has many healing scriptures.
The prayers in this book are anointed to heal and bring strength to all types of sickness.
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Le témoignage juste et émouvant d'un grand-père fou de sa petite-fille atteinte d'une grave maladie.
« Lola, ma petite fille, est née le 20 janvier 2009, porteuse en son giron de la terrible maladie de Hirschsprung, dont le vocable imprononçable, vous en conviendrez, m'oblige, à chaque fois qu'il m'arrive de l'écrire, à réfléchir à l'emplacement des h, des s, des r, des c. Aujourd'hui 26 février, elle est âgée de un mois six jours...
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From the much-celebrated author of the satirical novel Evelina (1778), this volume is the collected journals and private correspondence of Fanny Burney, Queen Charlotte's Keeper of the Robes.
First published posthumously in seven volumes between 1842-1846, this work is comprised of epistolary correspondence and diary excerpts written by Fanny Burney and edited by her niece, Mrs. Barrett.
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Redécouvrir l'harmonie du monde à partir d'un sourire
Ce livre est né un matin d'avril. Si le sourire y est bien présent, pas toujours éclatant mais en tout cas perceptible derrière chacune de ses pages, il n'en constitue pas pour autant et à proprement parler un éloge. Trop généraliste, hétéroclite quant à son contenu, et aucunement un discours ou un ouvrage structuré à partir d'une thématique...
À la vérité, il procède surtout...
714) Lakehouse Déjà Vu
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College students Rose and Jessica embark on a spring break dream vacation off the beaten path at a Florida lake house B&B. Jessica loves Rose like a sister and planned this life altering getaway basically behind Rose's back, but then finds herself floating on air in love with the destination she chose. And Rose gains something more than she had ever dreamed possible-a connection to a kindly man who helps her through opening up to strangers as well...
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“9000 Miles in a Knight” relates the experience of Pearl MacHenry on her family's road trip across America in 1930. Pearl, her husband Rev. Ward MacHenry, and their four youngest children, ages 14 to 20, set off from Seattle, Washington, on May 18th in their Willys-Knight touring car.
No heat, no radio, bad tires, 4000 miles of unpaved roads.
Pearl recorded the routes and distance they traveled, destinations, her reaction to new places and people,...
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Extrait : "En compagnie du chat, j'ai travaillé tout le jour dans la solitude de mon palais de la Rotonde que j'avais déserté hier. A l'heure o le soleil rouge du soir s'enfonce derrière le Lac des Lotus, mes deux serviteurs, comme d'habitude, viennent me chercher. Mais, le Pont de Marbre franchi, nous passons cette fois sans nous arrête devant la brèche qui mène à mon fragile palais du Nord."
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For the first, time available in English, two portraits of grief by Friederike Mayröcker, one of the significant European writers of our time.
Friederike Mayröcker met Ernst Jandl in 1954, through the experimental Vienna Group of German writers and artists. It was an encounter, that would alter the course of their lives. Jandl's death in 2000 ended a partnership of nearly half a century. As writers have for millennia, Mayröcker turned to her art...
719) Man about town
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With a marriage in shambles and a shaky client roster, slick Hollywood agent Jack Giamoro has lost his killer instinct. To make matters worse, his personal journal has been stolen by a reporter who is now threatening to write a career-ending exposé. Now with everything on the line, Jack is forced to take a hard look at himself and step up to close the deal on what's most important in his life.
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