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Old Clontarf
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F. W. R. Knowles |
Local history of [Clontarf][1], a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Mostly based on the memories of the author, who was born in Clontarf in 1907 and lived there until about 1930.
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Nefertiti Lived Here
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Mary Chubb |
In 1930 Mary Chubb joined an expedition led by archaeologist John Pendlebury to the site of Tell el-Amarna, the remains of Akhetaten, the ephemeral capital founded by the heretical pharaoh Akhenaten … |
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Known and Unknown
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Donald Rumsfeld |
Donald Rumsfeld tells the story of his career serving as a Congressman, and working for several Presidents in different capacities including two stints as Secretary of Defense.
He describes Rumsf… |
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Gangsters, Harlots and Thieves
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Todd Moore |
This book is a bio / memoir of my father’s experience growing up in post depression America at the down and out Hotel
Clifton in Freeport, Illinois and his experiences interacting with the various… |
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The Blue and the Maize
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Ismael Marrero |
Being an Account of the Agonies & Ecstasies, Prides & Prejudices, Travails & Triumphs, During a Four-Months’ Residence Among the Members of the Finest Slow-Pitch Softball Team in the World. (Plus 6 m… |
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The Pensive Pencil ... a life of thought
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Link Starbureiy |
A personal documentary and memoir from link e. starbureiy covering the first thirty years of his life and work. |
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Sometimes It Was Beautiful
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PT Armstrong |
SOMETIMES IT WAS BEAUTIFUL is a very different kind of book in the annals of work published in the American and African-African tradition. It is a true to life story told by PT Armstrong, a man whose… |
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Back In The Day
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Karen L. DeWinter |
This is a clipping book devoted to Lehnhardt and Prendergast newspaper clippings, gathered through the years by our family. It shows achievements and interesting anecdotes about Lehnhardt and Arndt f… |
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Finding my place
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Anne Aly |
In 2016, Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and the first counter-terrorism expert to be elected to federal parliament. This is the story of how Anne and he… |
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Madness in Mogadishu
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Michael Whetstone |
On the afternoon of October 3, 1993, two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down over the Somali capital of Mogadishu, leaving a handful of U.S. Army Rangers and Delta Force operators at the mercy of s… |
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Tuesdays with Morrie
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Mitch Albom |
Tuesdays with Morrie is a memoir by American author Mitch Albom about a series of visits Albom made to his former sociology professor Morrie Schwartz, as Schwartz gradually dies of ALS. The book topp… |
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Philipovna
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Valentina Gal |
A riveting, must read book describing the life of an orphaned child in Soviet Ukraine as the Soviets, known as the Bolsheviks, came to power. The author, Ms. Gal, blind from birth, describes this tr… |
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走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること
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村上春樹 |
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such r… |
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Arkay Trucking
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Robert I. Kabakoff |
"A park bench. A shoe salesman. Death row." As the second installment of a three-part series, a personal memoir detailing the slings and arrows of my outrageous young life, I tell the tale, beginning… |
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Sunday on the Farm
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Bruce B. Daniels |
In Sunday on the Farm, America’s best-known farrier of the 20th Century remembers his years as an itinerant shoer at leading (and lesser) US harness tracks in the 1960s. You’ll enjoy equally his funn… |
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Algonquin Woods
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Bob Callahan |
An elegaic, personal and intimate journey of growing up Irish in 1940's and 50's Northeastern America, with of all of its residual anti-Irish prejudice and the fierce and resilient Irish pride of th… |
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Taking America Out of the Boy
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Billy Marshall Stoneking |
Stoneking refers to this book as an auto-fictography - a "new" kind of autobiographical writing that is based solely on memory without recourse to notes, diaries or the memories of family, friend and… |
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Strength for the Journey
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Diana Butler Bass |
In Strength for the Journey, Diana Butler Bass illustrates the dynamic strength and persistence of mainline Protestantism. While many baby boomers left the church, only to come back later in life, Ba… |
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The other side
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Vincent Panella |
Subtitle is "Growing up Italian in America." Publishers Weekly called it "...a colorful, bittersweet memoir, a sensitive rendering of immigrant culture as found in one man's family. |
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Intimacies of court and society ; an unconventional narrative of unofficial days
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Widow of a diplomat. |
A memoir of a wife of American Diplomat. Narratives of official and unofficial days during her husband overseas posting. A story of experiences and friendships occured during diplomatic services inc… |
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