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Report copyright infringementby Lenore Greiner (Author)Shattered Compass: A Memoir of Loss, Escape, and RenewalHow does a young woman cope when she cannot speak the truth?When nineteen-year-old Lenore experiences sexual assault while studying abroad in Italy, her entire world shifts. Survival becomes the focus of her daily life, physical illness grabs control of her body, and no one can free her from her pain. A ghost of herself, she takes the path of denial, believing it's the only way to pr...

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Report copyright infringementby Delores J. Dillard (Author)My dream of going to, Nigeria, West Africa began in 1974. I didn't go to Nigeria until 2004. Don't give up on your dream even it takes 30 years. Some things are worth the wait. Number of Pages: 42 Dimensions: 0.11 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: May 27, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Clancy (Author)Ask yourself: "but how the heck did it get this way?" Pondering Minds is the multifaceted, weird, and genre-transcending brainchild of New York-born, Austin-based musician and poet Paul Clancy. At once a tale of his travails hitchhiking across the United States in the late 1970s and a chronicle of late-night subway rides away from ten dollar rooms in Hoboken, Clancy's memoirs reveal a cross-section of American life and love at the tail end o...

Another Camino Story: Learning to walk my own Camino through life on 500 miles to Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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Report copyright infringementby John Seegers (Author), Gene Russell (Illustrator), Frederick Boyd (Photographer)Everyone that walks the Camino de Santiago has their own story to tell.In the fall of 2021, John, at age 67, walked 500 miles on the Camino de Santiago from St. Jean Pied de Port, France to the tomb of Saint James in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He walked with his friends Rick and Dave.This is John's story. A story that turned out differently than expected. Share his experiences a...

The Dangerous Voyage Performed By Captain Bligh: With A Part Of The Crew Of His Majesty's Ship Bounty, In An Open Boat (1824)

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Report copyright infringementby William Bligh (Author)The Dangerous Voyage Performed By Captain Bligh: With A Part Of The Crew Of His Majesty��s Ship Bounty, In An Open Boat (1824) is a book written by William Bligh, detailing his harrowing journey after being cast adrift in an open boat with a small group of crew members following a mutiny on the HMS Bounty. The book provides a detailed account of the events leading up to the mutiny, as well as the subsequent journey of Bligh and his me...

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Report copyright infringementby J. Grigsby Crawford (Author)Within weeks of arriving as a volunteer in a remote corner of South America, Crawford got a lot more than he bargained for: a narrow escape from a kidnapping plot hatched by the people he was sent there to help. Then things only got stranger. In his quest to find adventure, Crawford undertook a savage journey of danger, drugs, sex, and alarming illness. What resulted is The Gringo: one part literary tale of two lonely years in the A...

Dear Alyne: My Years as a Married Virgin

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Report copyright infringementby Alyne Tamir (Author)From world traveler, entrepreneur, and content creator @DearAlyne, a vulnerable and hilarious memoir about leaving the Mormon church and how she escaped the restrictive expectations of her family and faith to find herself in the process.Alyne Tamir was raised to live her life for others: for her husband, her family, and the Mormon church. For twenty-five years, she put them ahead of herself, repressing things that didn't fit the neat, tradit...

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Report copyright infringementby Lorna Stuber (Author), Kimmy Beach (Editor), Tracey Anderson (Editor)If a friendship lasts longer than fifteen years, you're no longer friends. You're family.Since childhood, Lorna has been curious about Germany and her ancestral roots there. She was fourteen when her great-grandfather died, a man who was born in what is now part of Ukraine but who was a self-proclaimed, proud German.Having grown up during the Cold War, Lorna had always viewed the former East a...

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Report copyright infringementby Heidi K. Brown (Author)The Map I Draw: A Memoir of Travel as a Passport to SelfRoam. Write. Heal. Age powerfully.Seven years pre-pandemic, in a sticky parking lot in South Florida in the United States, Heidi's father-an Episcopal minister-lays down a gauntlet: "You're not going to find your soul in Rome." What begins as a quest to prove her pious parents wrong-that she's not irreparably broken, lost, unworthy-morphs into an adventure of relationship-trauma-reco...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Brand (Author)Welts on Your Butt a Calf Could Suck is a heartfelt, humorous, and deeply nostalgic collection of true stories from the rural heartland-where front porch wisdom, gravel road lessons, and the stubborn sting of farm life meet grace, grit, and good humor.Raised in Hopkins, Missouri, longtime farm broadcaster Tom Brand brings together five decades of personal memories that echo with universal truths. Whether it's hauling feed, scooping snow, backi...

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Report copyright infringementby Joe Fahey (Author)In Global Entries: Anecdotes From My Travels Abroad, Joe Fahey invites readers on an unforgettable ride through decades of global adventures. This engaging and lighthearted collection of short stories combines humor, history and cultural insights as it relates his experiences from far-off places. The anecdotal stories capture the essence of travel -- the thrill of discovery, the wonder of diverse cultures as well as the emotions associated wit...

Notes from Afar: Culture, People, and a Musical Language

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Report copyright infringementby John Steffa (Author), Nancy Steffa (Author)Explore the Fascinating Journey of Two Intrepid Travelers as they Discover Vibrant Cultures Around the Globe, Transforming Their Experiences into Unique Musical Compositions.The book, Notes from Afar, charts an engaging narrative of John and Nancy's relentless pursuit for unique global experiences. Their insatiable curiosity propels them to traverse far-off lands, immersing themselves in diverse cultures. Each place th...

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From Jungle Cruise Skipper to Disney Legend: 40 Years of Magical Memories at Disney (Disney Legends)

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Report copyright infringementby William Sully Sullivan (Author)Four Decades with DisneyYoung "Sully" Sullivan needed a job, and so in 1955 he applied for one at the brand-new theme park, Disneyland, where he was hired on the spot as a ticket-taker for the Jungle Cruise. Soon he was promoted to skipper, and then he met his future wife at Waltah Clarke's Hawaiian Shop across from the Jungle Cruise, and then he was assigned to projects ranging from the 1964 New York World's Fair and Epcot to Dis...

The Woman on the Ferry: A Journey of 1,000 Miles to Redefine Success and Discover Joy

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Report copyright infringementby Brenda Uekert (Author)What if the life you were taught to chase isn't the one that will truly fulfill you?What if success isn't about titles or money, but about the freedom to rewrite your own story?Brenda K. Uekert spent decades building a successful career and launching a business-only to find herself questioning everything. When a long-held dream began slipping away, she felt lost. But years earlier, a chance encounter with a radiant woman on a ferry-a woman...

Awakening in the Northwest Territories: One man's search for fulfilment

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Report copyright infringementby Alastair Henry (Author)Awakening in the Northwest Territories is an inspirational, humorous and absorbing account of one Boomer's transformative life journey over a sixty year period. Follow Alastair's story from his strict Catholic upbringing in England to Canada by himself at the age of 19 in search of love and adventure, where he quickly acquires a family, and over the next twenty years, climbs the corporate ladder and builds up a flourishing business, all o...

Lost Province: Adventures in a Moldovan Family

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Henighan (Author)Stephen Henighan, a Romanian grammar book and hours of language tapes under his belt, billets with a family as an English teacher in Moldova, a country born from the dismantling of Romania during World War II. As a Westerner in this "lost province" and former Soviet republic, Henighan feels he's an unnerving disappointment for many Moldovans, especially to the MTV-addicted, twenty-year-old Andrei.Author BiographyStephen Henighan is the ...

Free Ride: Heartbreak, Courage, and the 20,000-Mile Motorcycle Journey That Changed My Life

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Report copyright infringementby Noraly Schoenmaker (Author)INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the YouTube sensation with three million followers, the inspiring account of a young woman who, in a moment of personal crisis, embarked on an epic, transcontinental motorcycle ride--and along the way found a new sense of purpose. Noraly Schoenmaker was a thirtysomething geologist living in the Netherlands when she learned that her live-in partner had been having an affair. In desperate need of a n...

Dining Out: First Dates, Defiant Nights, and Last Call Disco Fries at America's Gay Restaurants

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Report copyright infringementby Erik Piepenburg (Author)From a New York Times journalist, a culinary tour of gay restaurants--their history, and how they evolved as a space of safety and celebration for the LGBTQ+ community--full of joy, sex, sorrow, activism, and nostalgia. Dining Out explores how gay people came of age, came out, and fought for their rights not just in gay bars or the streets, but in restaurants. From cruisy urban cafeterias of the 1920s to mom-and-pop diners that fed the S...

Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Richards (Author)There is something special about the night. For many, just the idea of it conjures thoughts of starlit skies, romance, refuge, of being tucked up in bed. For some, the night means fear, vulnerability, danger, sleeplessness. For others still, nightfall signals the start of work. At night things go bump, monsters hide under beds, owls take wing and foxes prowl. Overnight is a celebration of all things nocturnal, of those who labour while the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sandy Jessica Colling (Author), Gerhard Heuschmann (Foreword by)This isn't just a book about travel.It's about movement-across borders, through heartbreak, beyond expectations, and into freedom.Born to globe-trotting parents and launched into international life at the tender age of six-shortly after the devastating loss of her brother-Sandy's life has always been in motion. From boarding school trips across Europe to family Christmases in Hong Kong, her earlies...

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Report copyright infringementby David Lebrun (Author)In 2001, David LeBrun travelled to Costa Rica to reconnect with an old friend. LeBrun, a young writer at the end of a string of dead-end jobs, planned on living cheaply for a winter while finishing the book he thought would make his career. (And, of course, drinking every night and getting stoned every day. And maybe stealing the occasional pill.) But once there, he was swept up in his friend's self-destruction and ran out of money far soon...

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Report copyright infringementby Jerry Kelly (Author)A hitchhiking memoir by a writer who began hitching at age 12 (locally, to and from the beach near his Long Island home, early 1960s). Later, as a means of cheap or free travel for a young impoverished student, hitchhiking had practical value and, when time allowed, offered opportunities for road adventures in a widening world. Hitch Haikoo began as a long series of short poems written while the writer was hitchhiking around Ireland, in 2000...

Down the Horizon Line: The Working Adventures of Hayes Perkins 1878-1964

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Report copyright infringementby John M. Martin (Author), Brian Timoney (Illustrator), Joyce Krieg (Editor)Hayes Perkins (1878-1964) left home at fifteen to travel the world for the next 60 years, a lone working-class adventurer, maintaining no fixed address and always paying passage with the skill of his own hands. Throughout his travels, Hayes kept a diary that eventually ran to 2,000-pages. One early entry, written as he walked away from yet another good job, announced his life's guiding pr...

Wild Blueberry Summer: More Upper Michigan Moments and Memories

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Report copyright infringementby Jon C. Stott (Author)The excitement of arriving at the Little Cabin in the Big Woods in late spring... the joy of greeting old friends-people, birds, and forest animals... listening to bird calls to tell the time of day and spotting different flowers to mark the progress of the seasons... visits to favorite out-of-the-way spots... the first harvest of blueberries and the aroma of the first batch of fresh out of the oven muffins. Wild Blueberry Summer celebrates...

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Report copyright infringementby Arne Fronsdal (Author)From Himalaya to South Pacific is an inspiring memoir of adventure, resilience, and exploration. Arne Fronsdal shares his extraordinary journey across continents-from crossing the Atlantic on a freighter to navigating the towering Himalayas, the rugged Andes, and the vast Pacific.More than a travelogue, this book is a testament to the thrill of discovery, the power of human spirit, and the deep connection between man and nature. Perfect fo...

Slack Action: My Year of Marginal Mishaps, 1967

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Report copyright infringementby J. Tim Raymond (Author)Step back into the analog world of 1967, a turbulent time of change. The author takes a detour from student life to live among his peers, travel across the country, find romance, and experience independence. The Vietnam War was on the nightly news and the United States military needed all available men. Caught between the attitudes of a traditional World War II generation and the emerging free-thinking youth culture of the time, he learns...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Walker (Author)From Ghanaian dance floors to global adventures, Richard Walker's memoir, Highlife, & my other lives is a celebration of love, music and resilience. Blending personal history with cultural exploration, it offers readers a poignant and adventurous journey through a remarkable life.As a boy, Richard went to live in Ghana where he danced with his parents and their friends to Highlife music. This experience sets the tone for a life in whi...

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Report copyright infringementby Jacqui Webster (Author)"I can't believe we're actually doing this!" I shouted, wheeling my heavily laden bicycle between motorbikes, horse-drawn carts piled high with dates and oranges, and stalls selling spices, ceramics, carpets and French pastries, as we weaved our way out of the bustling alleyways of Marrakesh... Jacqui Webster has always wanted to travel in Africa - she just never expected it would be on a bike! Inspired by her partner Joe's adventurous s...

Three Vassar Girls Abroad: Rambles Of Three College Girls On A Vacation Trip Through France And Spain For Amusement And Instruction (1882)

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Williams Champney (Author)""Three Vassar Girls Abroad"" is a travelogue written by Elizabeth Williams Champney and published in 1882. The book follows the adventures of three young women from Vassar College as they embark on a vacation trip through France and Spain. The girls travel for both amusement and instruction, making stops at various historical and cultural landmarks, including the Palace of Versailles, the Louvre Museum, and the Alhambra. Alo...

How In The World...? - A behind the scenes look at what it takes to create the MAGIC of Walt Disney World

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Report copyright infringementby David Schroeder (Author)How In The World... can you buy forty-three square miles of land without anyone knowing? That is just the beginning of this fascinating journey through the first twenty-five years of development, construction, and daily operations of Walt Disney World -- Disney's largest resort complex. No other Walt Disney World book offers such an all-encompassing perspective as "How in the World...?" as it delves into everything from how Walt Disney W...

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Report copyright infringementby Larry Drawdy (Author)When on the journey of writing my first book, Train of Thought: Stories from On and Off the Rails, I communicated with several people on the Internet: authors, editors, and others in the business. I eventually met with a couple published authors for advice, and one gave me advice that I will never forget: "If you're afraid to write it? Write it." At times, some of my family, friends, past coworkers, and many others (including myself) wish I...