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At 77, Bergman no longer works in film, the medium that brought him world fame; he gave it up in 1983, when he announced that Fanny and Alexander would be his last film. This ingenious little collection is Oliver's attempt to say something meaningful about Bergman the masterful artist of many mediums-film, theater, television, print-the Renaissance artist. To accomplish the goal, Oliver selected essays that address Bergman's work as a film director...
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In "Since We Told The Truth" The Nine answer many of the questions from the readers of their first book, "Hutterites". They boldly go beyond their past lives as Hutterites, to bring a national perspective and raise awareness of truths that offer an accurate solution to those challenges currently shaping our social and political landscape. The Nine hope to see those foundational truths, bring a fulfilling vision and future for both individuals and...
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For more than sixty years a handwritten poetry journal languished in an attic. Rescued before the estate sale by a granddaughter, Mary Lachman, who opened the text and journeyed into an enthralling past. The poems painted a breathtaking portrait of the American heartland---the wonder of nature and saga of human relationships in the 1920s to 1940s, as well as musings on God and heaven. Intrigued, Lachman combined the collection of poems with her own...
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This book is a journal that will take you on a roller coaster ride traipsing through my severely distressed mind as I work through the recovery process from past childhood sexual abuse. Going to a counselor twice a week, journaling daily, and experiencing the extreme emotional highs and lows all while keeping these secrets from my family was very painful and tricky. You will go step by step with me as I work through many issues such as feelings of...
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There was no doubt that Agnes Edwards had ambition. It stemmed from the self-confidence she had gained during her university years and from being in the first generation of women to vote. Her professors at the University of CaliforniaBerkeley had encouraged her to pursue a career in publishing or teaching. Whats more, she knew she could support herself with her secretarial skills and job experience. So it was, in the fall of 1922, that Agnes left...
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In Memoirs of Her Majesty's Prison Doctor, the author takes us behind the walls and bars of some of the UK's toughest prisons, where he encountered challenging conditions for inmates and staff, and came across some of the country's most hardened and desperate inmates. Based on his experiences of over a decade working in the UK prison system, visiting more than 40 prisons around the country, this memoir offers a deeply personal insight, telling the...
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El escultor, dibujante y diseñador valenciano Andreu Alfaro Hernández (1929-2012) inició su actividad artística a finales de los años cincuenta con una escultura abstracta de herencia constructivista. En la segunda mitad de los años setenta, empieza a ser conocido entre un público más amplio por unas esculturas geométricas de sorprendentes efectos ópticos y cinéticos. Pero el éxito no detiene su evolución, y en la década de los ochenta...
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This is the story of how NINE courageous people came to make their decision to forsake all and find their new life in Jesus Christ and in society. They left the Hutterite system which is a branch of Anabaptists similar to the Amish and Mennonites. Each of "THE NINE" have committed to paper a personal chapter where they share their testimonies of their life-changing decision...
10) The Wife
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This is my memoir. I know what youre thinkingwhat kind of an unexceptional egocentric thirty-something-year-old writes a memoir? Ill tell yousomeone that had life figured out by kindergarten and, by college, was destined to take on the world with a certifiably impenetrable heart. I was religiously raised thinking that I would never ever screw things up the way my parents had, and unlike most marriages, mine really was meant to be happily forever after,...
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Barbara Chase Palson spent her childhood summers in West Harwich, Cape Cod, Massachusetts in an 18th century half-house that had been in her fathers family for nearly 200 years. In this collection of memories, she invites the reader to return to the Cape of her childhood, when working farms and scrub woods dominated the landscape, when the daily mail delivery was a social occasion, when it was still possible to live off the land and sea. Through her...
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Summary of Freedom by Jaycee Dugard | Includes Analysis Preview: Freedom (2016) is the sequel to the memoir A Stolen Life (2011) by Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped in 1991 at age 11 and held captive in a hidden backyard compound in California for 18 years. In Freedom, she narrates her reintegration into mainstream society. Jaycee emphasizes that she is not Elizabeth Smart or one of the women held captive by Ariel Castro in Cleveland. She is Jaycee...
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Cowpet Bay, a vacationing haven for the privileged in St. Th omas, US Virgin Islands, is the meeting ground between fi ve peoplethree men and two womenwhose interaction leads to major changes in their lives. A Wall Street banker, his younger mistressan aspiring academica retired professor of literature, a German graduate student of philosophy, and a local waitress all find their lives to be intertwined in a way that none expected. As their collective...
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Alumnos jovencísimos matriculados en octubre de 1968, en una Facultad creada de la noche a la mañana. Eran los tiempos de la dictadura franquista y de enormes cambios sociales en todas partes del mundo. Desde entonces, la práctica médica ha evolucinado como de la noche al día.
Tras ciencuenta años y ante la pregunta: ¿qué fue de aquellos jóvenes, hombres y mujeres que inauguraron la Facultad de Medicina de Bilbao?, la primera generación...
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This is the work of a national nonfiction masterpiece. The experiences, strength, and hope described herein are true events. The vivid memories of my family and friends have been modified as I remembered the situations to protect their anonymity. This is a national outreach to those who still suffer from abuse together we stand divided we fall. This is a true story of abuse awareness for victims to receive help in sexual, mental, and physical abuse....
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Summary of A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard | Includes Analysis Preview: A Stolen Life is a memoir by Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped at age 11 and held captive in a hidden backyard compound in Antioch, California, for 18 years. On June 10, 1991, in a small community near Lake Tahoe, a strange car approaches Jaycee as she is walking to the school bus. A man reaches out of the window, zaps Jaycee with a stun gun, and forces her into the back seat. He...
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Michael H. Barras was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, but calls Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi home. He came to live in California in 1960 where he now reside and pastors The Love of God Church, located in the City of Bellflower, California. Pastor Barras has had a love for music since his childhood. In 1965 he began his singing career in various nightclubs in Los Angeles, California and was successful in recording two records. After singing for: several...
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