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Author: Jane Webster

'When we found this run-down château of Bosgouet, we'd been dreaming of buying a house in France for some time. We'd become obsessed with the idea of living in the French countryside, of learning a new language and tradi ...

Author: Gregory M. Kuzma

On the Field from Denver, Colorado! is one man's view of the inside world of competitive junior drum corps. Whether you've marched 50 years ago, this past year or just yearned to be standing on the field, G.M. Kuzma's pe ...

Author: Victoria Mitchell

In 1987 when Victoria Mitchell was twenty-one years old, she decided to follow her heart and become a professional photographer. Always a music-lover, Mitchell found it almost effortless to capture the essence of musicia ...

Author: Sally Nielsen

Sally Nielsen is a wedding planner, whose own wedding plans were turned upside down when her fiance suffered a catastrophic stroke, leaving him completely dependent on her and his family for all his needs. When others sa ...

Author: Mary Seacole

Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole's offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war met with racism and refusal. Undaunted, ...

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Author: Madeline Sharples

"A moving read of tragedy, trying to prevent it, and coping with life after." - Midwest Book Review "Moving, intimate and very inspiring." - Mark Shelmerdine, CEO, Jeffers Press "Poetically visceral, emotionally honest. ...

Author: William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer

William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one ...

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Author: Chris Sarra

When Chris Sarra arrived as the first Aboriginal principal of Cherbourg State School in 1998, it was a time of high hopes but low expectations in Indigenous education. Over the next six years, he transformed the school i ...

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Author: Glenn Orgias

'I caught a wave and paddled back out. I was just inside the crowd when I ducked a small wave and it left white water boiling around me. A lump of swell came from the north. It reared as it approached the sand bank. I ch ...

Author: Robert Michael Pyle

With a love for adventure as great as his lifelong fascination with butterflies, America's best-known lepidopterist set himself an irresistible challenge: how many of the 800 species of butterflies known in the U.S. coul ...

Author: Susan Edsall

"The Chicago Sun Times" praises ""Into the Blue" is Susan Edsall's fascinating chronicle of the fight to get her father back into his beloved Big Sky...an engagingly readable testament to an everyday courage....Salted wi ...

Author: Robert T. Littell

Rob Littell was a freshmen at Brown when he met JFK, Jr. Although Littell came from a privileged background, it was worlds apart from the glamorous life of the son of the late President and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Li ...

Author: Sue Williams & Sue Williams

Sue Williams has delivered us Women of the Outback and Outback Spirit, stories she gathers from the people of the bush. Ever curious, this time Sue puts herself in the firing line, seeking to find the essence of the outb ...

Author: Charles Anderson

Charles John Anderson was born in the city of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England in 1932. "From Bean Street to Cruise Line Captain and Beyond," tells of his life from birth, evacuation during world war two, school da ...

Author: Charlie Spedding

Charlie Spedding describes himself as 'not particularly talented' - at least, compared to the group of people he had chosen to find himself among. These were the athletes in the Olympic marathon. So how did he end up wit ...

Author: Margaret Overton

During the four years of physician Margaret Overton's acrimonious divorce, she dated widely and sometimes indiscriminately, determined to find her soulmate and live happily ever after. But then she discovered she had a b ...

Author: Sarah Colonna & Chelsea Handler

In this wickedly funny and irreverent memoir, "Chelsea Lately" writer and comedian Sarah Colonna opens up about love, life, and pursuing her dreams . . . and then screwing it all up.
Sarah believes we all struggl ...

Author: John Keeler

Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of four, John Keeler's life subsequently has been marked by a determination to make it as rich and complete as possible. A wise, personal account of his successful struggles with ...

Author: Mohammad G. Mohabbat

In an inspirational journey of words, author Mohammad Mohabbat chronicles his harrowing and inspiring life story in an attempt to spread peace, insight, and unity among humans. From his secret birth in a deserted militar ...

Author: Ricky Lauren

Fresh, seasonal recipes that perfectly evoke the relaxed luxury of the Hamptons Combining food with her memories of raising a family in New York's legendary Hamptons, Ricky Lauren's The Hamptons perfectly captures the li ...