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Visionaries: The 20th Century's 100 Most Important Inspirational Leaders
by Satish Kumar  Publisher Comments Visionaries brings together the lives and works of 100 great men and women who offered inspiration, hope and healing. The 20th century was marked by wars, dictatorships and environmental destruction, yet many individuals kept alive the hope of a sane and...
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The Golden Mountain: Beyond the American Dream
by Irene Kai 
Publisher Comments In The Golden Mountain, Irene Kai tells a deeply personal story of how she overcame cultural bias and a difficult mother to move from China to America and become an independent woman. The child of a loveless arranged marriage, Kai was born into a culture...
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Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism
by David M Robinson
Publisher Comments Traces--on the event of the sesquicentennial of Thoreau's "Walden--the evolution of the concept of "natural life" as an ethical standard in Thoreau's writings with an emphasis on the later phase of his career and his engagement with science and natural...
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Manchurian Legacy : Memoirs of a Japanese Colonist (99 Edition)
by Kazuko Kuramoto
Synopsis Kazuko Kuramoto was born in Dairen, Manchuria, in 1927, at the peak of Japanese expansionism in Asia. Dairen and neighboring Port Arthur were important colonial outposts on the Liaotung Peninsula; the train lines established by Russia and taken over by...
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The Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold Ecology
by Mary Rose O'reilley Publisher Comments At midlife, Mary Rose O'Reilley reflects on her past and her hard-won sense of self. She is determined, now, not to sacrifice or waste her self. She has struggled for years along the paths set by her suburban childhood, her Catholic upbringing, her...
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Smokescreen 1ST Edition One Man Against the Unde
by Paul Willia Roberts
Publisher Comments Smokescreen is a riveting true-life tale of a brilliant undercover agent who infiltrated the world of organized crime. Tall, handsome, larger-than-life Cal Broeker was a successful businessman with a wife and two kids, respected in his upstate New York...
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The Death of Franz Liszt: Based on the Unpublished Diary of His Pupil Lina Schmalhausen
by Alan (edt) Walker
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-198) and index....
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Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River
by Velma Wallis
Synopsis Opening a window to a world rarely seen, Velma Wallis tells her family's troubled history with honesty, wisdom, wit, and overriding hope. Wallis also wrote Two Old Women, the million-seller translated into seventeen languages....
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Castaways: The Penikese Island Experiment
by George Cadwalader Publisher Comments Cadwalader, a Marine captain severely wounded in Viet Nam, recuperates but is unable to return to combat. Strongly influenced by his experience in the Marines, he recruits a small band of unlikely "teachers," well-educated social drop-outs, and launches...
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Writing Naturally: A Memoir
by William Sargent Synopsis A science writer reflects on his journey into the profession....
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Riding Grace: A Triumph of the Soul
by Alissa Lukara Publisher Comments Riding Grace: A Triumph of the Soul chronicles author Alissa Lukara's no-holds-barred 12-year quest to reclaim her life from a debilitating, presumably incurable illness, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and the trauma of childhood sexual abuse. In this raw...
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Pope Benedict XVI: A Biography of Joseph Ratzinger
by John L Allen Synopsis This book is the only existing biography of Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Aloysius Ratzinger on April 16, 1927, in southern Bavaria. Comprehensive in scope and intimate in content, it provides a vivid blow-by-blow of the controversies that have wracked...
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Edith Thomas: A Passion for Resistance
by Dorothy Kaufmann
Synopsis Follows a remarkable French woman of letters (and lover of Dominique Aury, author of the "Story of O) who was deeply involved in the traumatic upheavals of her time including the French resistance to Nazi occupation and the Spanish Civil War....
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Sisters: Coming of Age and Finding Love in the Wild Copper River Valley
by Samme Gallaher Synopsis In 1926, beautiful Aileen Gallaher left California to join trapper "Slim" Williams in the wild Copper River Valley. Theirs was a perilous existence spent in isolated cabins, bucking heavy snows, uncertain river ice, and fierce cold. Yet Aileen fell in...
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The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin's Lieutenant
by Peter Steele
Publisher Comments In the mid-1800s, George Back went on three Arctic expeditions with Sir John Franklin across the barren lands of the Canadian north. But unlike Franklin, Back lived to tell his tales in journals, drawings, watercolors, and maps. Noted writer Peter Steele...
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Therese of Lisieux: Living Justice (Saints & Virtues)
by Boniface Hanley Synopsis Through her kindness to others, Therese of Lisieux, lived the virtue of justice. In her autobiography, The Little Way, Therese shows that one does not have to be great to find God. The prayers and service activities opens up Therese's spirituality to...
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Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm
by Linda Faillace Publisher Comments In the mid-1990s Linda and Larry Faillace had a dream: they wanted to breed sheep and make cheese on their Vermont farm. They did the research, worked hard, followed the rules, and, after years of preparation and patience, built a successful...
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After Goodbye: A Daughter's Story of Grief and Promise
by Lynette Friesen
Publisher Comments Lynette Friesen shares her spiritual journey, with its struggles and challenges, through the last years of her mother's life. Chapter by chapter she provides detailed accounts of various aspects of her mother's diminishment. Her open, familiar, and...
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Arctic Bush Pilot: From Navy Combat to Flying Alaska's Northern Wilderness
by James Anderson Synopsis "Andy" Anderson pioneered postwar bush service to Alaska's Koyukuk River region, serving Natives, sportsmen, adventurers, and assorted "bush rats."...
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The Voice That Remembers: A Tibetan Woman's Inspiring Story of Survival
by Adhe Tapontsang Publisher Comments Ama Adhe's spirit soars over national and cultural boundaries. Her tenacious struggle to remain human in the face of inhuman torture and deprivation while imprisoned by the Chinese for 27 years inspires any reader fortunate enough to encounter this...
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