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"Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--'one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.' Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of strangers...
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2015
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English
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"In this powerful debut novel, three American soldiers haunted by their actions in Afghanistan search for absolution and human connection in family and civilian life. Wintric Ellis joins the army as soon as he graduates from high school, saying goodbye to his girlfriend, Kristen, and to the backwoods California town whose borders have always been the limits of his horizon. Deployed for two years in Afghanistan in a directionless war, he struggles...
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"A journey of two best friends that is part love story, part detective story, and part supernatural thriller, from the acclaimed author of YOU, whose work Stephen King describes as "hypnotic and totally original." Growing up as best friends in small-town New Hampshire, Jon and Chloe are the only ones who truly understand each other and their intense connection. But just when Jon is ready to confess the depth of his feelings, he's kidnapped by his...
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IRB
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I was born in 1939, in Bielitz, a town close to the Czechoslovakian border. When I saw people deserting my town, I realized how close we were to the Czechoslovakian frontier. #2 On September 1, the day the war began, I was in my parents' bedroom watching them. The red glow of the fires outside made Papa look strange and unfamiliar. He spoke to me, telling me to call...
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IRB
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I had a difficult time understanding the concept of death as a child, as my family attended many funerals. I thought the dead looked good, as they were sleeping in big suitcases. #2 My family lived in the rural north Louisiana town of Gibsland, near the border with Texas. It was a place where the line between heroes and villains was not so clearly drawn. #3 I had a...
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Adam Drake
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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Here are the fourth installments for both ongoing LitRPG series by genre author, Adam Drake. Shadow Blade (Shadow For Hire Book 4) A hallowed weapon hidden in a jungle hell. Forced to prove my worthiness to an elite group of players, I must earn the right to enter one of the most notorious locations in the game. The Emerald Caldera has a fearsome reputation for chewing up would-be adventurers and quickly sending them back to the newbie zone. Filled...
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IRB
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I have lived in Washington, DC, as a free Uyghur for more than twenty years. I have not seen my mother since 2004. I have been able to spend only eleven months with my parents since I left China twenty-seven years ago. #2 I was born in 1970 in a Communist labor camp in Kashgar, China. My mother was imprisoned for having relatives in a hostile country, and I was malnourished...
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IRB
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 My childhood was wonderful. I had a father who was a bookseller and a mother who was a librarian. I had a large library of Jewish books, and I thought I was the luckiest girl alive because I was given samples of the beautiful dolls my father was selling. #2 My father was a successful businessman, and because of this, my family was able to live a comfortable life. I...
12. The last stand
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date:
c2013
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English
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After leaving his LAPD narcotics post, Sheriff Ray Owens moved and settled into a life fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction. That peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez, one of the most notorious drug kingpins, makes an escape from the FBI. Cortez begins racing towards the US-Mexico border, straight through Sommerton Junction.
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Hackberry Holland volume 3
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English
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Sheriff Hackberry Holland patrols a small Southwest Texas border town with a deep and abiding respect for the citizens in his care. Still mourning the loss of his cherished wife and locked in a perilous almost romance with his deputy, Pam Tibbs, a woman many decades his junior, Hackberry feeds off the deeds of evil men to keep his own demons at bay. When alcoholic ex-boxer Danny Boy Lorca witnesses a man tortured to death in the desert and reports...
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Hybrid Publishers
Pub. Date:
2015
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English
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A baby is born in Warsaw in 1939. Stalin has signed a pact of nonaggression with Hitler, marking the beginnings of the Second World War. As the city is attacked, Ola, a young nurse, escapes with her husband-to-be and their newborn baby to a small town in Soviet territory just across the border. Two years later, when the German forces attack the Soviets, she is separated from her partner and again has to flee. With immense courage and resourcefulness,...
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IRB
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I am an infantry officer right out of school, which makes me dangerous. I can make a mess with two-thousand-pound bombs. I am the terror of plastic targets. I want to destroy al-Qaeda, which is easy to demonize with their werewolf faces and medieval ways. #2 I was about to break the news to my wife, Elizabeth, that I was going to Afghanistan. She was shocked. She didn't...
16. My Life
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BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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In June 1998, I was living a normal life close to my sister in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Following the ignition of a border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the government of Ethiopia announced in the national tv that all Eritreans be registered by going to the nearest police station. The next day I went to a station in my area and the police kept me the whole day there. At dusk, the police told us to board their pickup trucks and took us to Shegolle...
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BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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This is amazing story from my first BOB DYLAN concert that occurred on his fall tour in 2005. I was born in Slovenia in 1987 exactly when is BOB, 1 year later gone on his NEVER ENDING TOUR in 1988. I living in a small young town Nova Gorica, which lies down just near to Italian border in western Slovenia. Bob likes prowling and performs round Italy and also this year came and stopped here. On two concerts. He played first with his band in BOLOGNA...
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Alison Post
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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After leaving her dangerous husband, Elizabeth Porter decides to move back home. She immediately begins to rekindle her relationships with her parents and her best friend. But when she begins to get harassing messages from her husband, she has no one to turn to but her old rival. The one man she hates almost as much as her husband. Nick Wilder. Nick Wilder hasn't given Elizabeth Porter one moment of his attention in the last ten years since he last...
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Ametsa
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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Although it may shock you, I was conceived on a drafting board. It happened on a rainy day in the office of my architect, Monsieur Ernest Devolz, in the city of Fribourg in Switzerland. The name I was given at birth was The Villa St. Pierre, and I was destined to have an interesting life. I appeared in the peaceful and prosperous year of 1912, in a chic faubourg outside the ramparts of a medieval town on Lake Neuchâtel. Wealthy Parisian tourists...
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Ylva Johansson
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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Dare to travel light and flexible! You will find secret paradises you could otherwise never reach. Here you find practical tips on how to pack in such a flexible and useful way that you never need to turn down an adventure or a dinner at a nice restaurant. But at the same time light enough to carry on long walks if necessary. Me and my 15-year old daughter started in Bangkok and spent two intense days exploring China Town, river cruising, visiting...