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Other Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Set in Denmark in the darkest days of World War II, [this] is a cinematic novel that, in its ... portrayal of a family struggling to survive the German occupation, both captures a savage moment in history and exposes the violence and want inherent in a father's love"--Amazon.com.
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☆☆☆☆☆ "What a perfect way to start the Christmas season! ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ "Heartwarming second chance romance!" ☆☆☆☆☆Ashley flips houses but she can't get her heart to flip anymore.Sam – her high school sweetheart and former fiancé – cheated on her the day before their wedding. She left town without saying goodbye. If only she could say she's never looked back.When her grandmother's house comes up on the market,...
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David. Once upon a time, I was a complete idiot-too damn young and inexperienced and cocky to boot. And because of that, I messed up my chances with the woman I've always loved.
Unrequited love is never easy, but it's a whole hell of a lot harder when it includes a successful business and a lifelong friendship. Even years after I blew my chance, I just can't let go of the feeling that Andi is the only one for me.
I never want to see Andi hurt again,...
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"A narrative history, cinematic in scope, of a process that was taking shape in the winter of 1933 as domestic passions around the world colluded to drive governments towards a war few of them wanted and none of them could control. All Against All is the story of the season our world changed from postwar to prewar again. It is a book about the power of bad ideas -- exploring why, during a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much...
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English
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In the underground tunnels below Grand Central Terminal, Lee Stringer-homeless and drug-addicted for eleven years-found a pencil to run through his crack pipe. One day he used it to write. Soon writing became a habit that won out over drugs, and before long Stringer had created one of the most powerful urban memoirs of our time.With humane wisdom and a biting wit, Stringer chronicles the unraveling of his seemingly secure existence as a marketing...
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English
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A Sweet Cute Guy. A Bad Boy. A Second Chance At A Winter Wedding.Sebastian plans wonderful weddings. He creates a wedding for his best friend. Sebastian misses the love of his life.Dylan attends a wedding. He looks for a shag. Dylan finds someone stunning.Their love rekindles the moment they meet.Can they find love a second time around?Don't miss this heart-warming, moving gay second chance romance short story. You will love it!
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The Boys of Winter tells the true story of three young American ski champions and their brutal, heroic, and fateful transformation from athletes to infantrymen with the 10th Mountain Division. Charles J. Sanders's fast-paced narrative draws on dozens of interviews and extensive research to trace these boys' lives from childhood to championships and from training at Mount Rainier and in the Colorado Rockies to battles against the Nazis.
8) All against all: the long winter of 1933 and the origins of the Second World War / Paul Jankowski
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Publisher
Harper Collins
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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All Against All is the story of the season our world changed from postwar to prewar again. It is a book about the power of bad ideas—exploring why, during a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went so wrong. Historian Paul Jankowski reveals that it was collective mentalities and popular beliefs that drove this crucial period that sent nations on the path to war, as much as any rational calculus called “national interest.”...
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S. hrg volume 113-494
Publisher
U.S. Government Printing Office
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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S. hrg volume 115-498
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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S. hrg volume 108-953
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U.S. Government Printing Office
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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English
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"Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration. In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible...
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This scarce book was first published in 1908. It is a fascinating account of the Norwegian polar explorer, Amundsen's, exploration of the Northwest Passage. Not only the first person to traverse the Passage, Amundsen was also the first to reach the North and South Poles. A fascinating autobiographical report from a bygone era of exploration and adventure. Contents: Introduction, Making for the Polar Sea, In Virgin Water, The First Winter, Towards...
18) Ice!
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Retiring on a pension after being torpedoed in WWII, Tristan Jones embarks on a test of endurance that will last over two years, nearly killing him more than once. Attempting to sail farther North than anyone ever has, he embarks from Iceland on the Cresswell in the summer of 1959. His only companion? A three-legged, one-eyed Labrador named Nelson. He spends his first winter holed up near an Eskimo village in a Greenland fjord. After a violent snowstorm...
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The Bonfire Sessions: Second Winter is a thought-provoking booklet that: explores the reasons people fall for conspiracy theories and bad-faith politics, why self love is more fulfilling than traditional "worship," and how "The Bonfire Sessions" is not really a collection of books and a podcast, but a way of life that is almost tainted by content.
With rawness and vulnerability, as well as a large dose of salty language, this set of conversations...
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English
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A luminescent debut novel following one woman's journey through love, loss, grief, and renewal.
In her rambling Victorian house, surrounded by heirloom gardens and the gentle sounds of a river, fifty-two-year-old Kate Harding faces her second winter since the untimely death of her husband. In her living room are several hatboxes filled with letters recently brought by her sister from the attic of their grandparents' eighteenth-century Connecticut...