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A highly personal true story of memory and the power of friendship from journalist Bob Greene. Growing up in Bexley, Ohio, population 13,000, Bob and his four best friends--Allen, Chuck, Dan, and Jack--were inseparable. Of the four, Jack was Bob's very best friend, a bond forged from the moment they met on the first day of kindergarten. They grew up together, got in trouble together, learned about life together--and were ultimately separated by time...
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The adventures of Ben and Bob land the duo just steps away from Bob's residence in the Piazza Navona in Rome. While Bob enjoys a late evening drink in the Piazza, a bomb explodes in Bob's apartment and soon, he is being shot at. As someone is trying to kill him, Bob telephones his partner in New York City but Ben cannot arrive on a flight until the following morning. Bob must find a way to stay alive in the meantime. Ben is an entrepreneur, whose...
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BOOK #1 CHANGE THE PAST
Kelly Welch's sixteenth summer was supposed to be the best ever. Long, lazy days with her friends and her horse in Texas. But her life changes in an instant.
Her unexpected move to Fort Myers Beach, Florida leaves her lonely and frightened. Living with a workaholic aunt she barely knows and looking to start a school where she's the new girl makes her anxious and unhappy.
Until she meets Scott. He is smart and nerdy, sort...
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BREAKTHROUGHS: The Historic Breakthrough by Marx, and the Further Breakthrough with the New Communism, A Basic Summary is "a distilled discussion of the theory, strategic orientation and objectives of the communist movement as this was developed from the time of Marx and with its further development and synthesis with the new communism" (as Bob Avakian, the architect of the new communism, describes this work in its preface).This work delves into the...
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Working from the spare bedroom of his Bloomington, Indiana, apartment in 1963 with a $1,500 investment, Bill Cook began to construct the wire guides, needles, and catheters that would become the foundation of the global multi-billion-dollar Cook Group. This story has been eloquently told in Bob Hammel's The Bill Cook Story: Ready, Fire, Aim. The sequel to this story explores Cook's final years, when the restoration work he championed, epitomized by...
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The first book to explain the new world of alternative investing, showing how anyone can use nontraditional options to significantly increase returns and lower risks
The world's elite investors have long relied on alternative investments to produce superior returns. Until now, these strategies were the exclusive purview of institutions and the superwealthy, but today any informed investor can play the same game.
A rainbow of investment options-timber,...
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When Malia wakes up to find her dog, Lily, talking to her, she can hardly believe it. But she can understanding everything her canine companion is saying and soon realizes Lily is asking her to let her outside. Malia is amazed but wonders if it was only a dream.
When Malia's Papaw finds out about her experience, he talks to her about their dreams.
In Who Said That? written by Bob Freeman and illustrated by Bryan Werts, Malia's life is turned...
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It happened in Espadín. It was a small, modest, quiet, conservative, and close-knit Christian community, respected models of integrity in their neighborhood. The kind of perfectionism that breeds pride of reputation in the leaders, and the members become charged with defending the leaders' personal reputations. So when the pastor molests the children, and before he can be brought to justice, the reputations take priority over the victims. And in...
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If the weathered landmarks and forgotten trails of the Lone Star State could talk, this is what they might say.
The TV show Expedition Texas brings to life stories of abandoned buildings, ghost towns and other lost Texas history locations. Hit the road with Bob Mauldin and his crew and hear the stories behind the stories. Venture deep beneath the surface to explore a missile launch site. Climb crumbling stairs high above the ground to the top of...
11) Coding for Kids Ages 8-12: Simple C++ Programming Lessons and Games to Get You Started With Progr
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Learning to code isn't as hard as it sounds―you just have to get started! Coding for Kids in C++ starts off with the very basics: Learn why coding has taken the world by storm, and why C++ is a great way to get started. The book has 50 interactive programs, and then another 50 exercises to practice each concept at the back of every chapter. Every chapter is a building block of programming block of programming that kids can use to master the basics,...
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The intensely political cultural production that erupted during Hungary's short-lived Soviet Republic of 1919 encompassed music, art, literature, film and theatre. Painting the Town Red is the little-known history of these developments.
The book opens with an overview of the political context in Hungary after the First World War and how the Soviet Republic emerged in the chaotic months which followed the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Dual...
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How do you prevent those constant food cravings and feelings of deprivation when trying to lose weight? Host of The Biggest Loser and celebrity trainer Bob Harper's Super Carb Diet is the answer. Harper focuses on nutrient-dense foods that are big in flavor and allow certain kinds of carbohydrates at targeted times during the day.
In The Super Carb Diet you'll find:
- How to eat carbs earlier in the day for sustained energy
- A list of super-carb...
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Once you've collected every 7" from your favorite label, broken your back in the mosh pit, and become so well-versed in the interpersonal dynamics of every hardcore band that there's nothing more to learn, what's a punk to do? Try jazz, recommends Bob Suren. No, really. Suren, who wrote Crate Digger about his life and work in punk, turns his obsessive gaze onto another form of rebellious, improvisational outsider music, but this time with more sax.What...
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Bob Berkowitz is not afraid to ask frank, intimate questions. Now he gets honest answers from that most perplexing, emotionally guarded, and enigmatic of species, the American male. A veteran journalist and renowned relationship expert, he has interviewed men of all ages and backgrounds about their innermost secrets-and he reports all in this unique, no-holds-barred volume.
What Men Won't Tell You but Women Need to Know is straight talk on what...
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The memoir 'Not On My Watch', by Bob Hatrak, who was the youngest warden of a maximum-security prison in America, Rahway State, is an inspirational story of how one man with great vision, overcame personal adversity to become one of the most notable and progressive prison reformers of our time. His approach to rehabilitation was 'do-it-yourself'. Inmates were empowered to envision their path after incarceration and were given the choice to join self-rehab...
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Yellow Butterfly showcases not only the budding poetic and visual talents of a promising young artist, but it also chronicles her struggles with increasingly debilitating episodes of psychosis as she attempted to negotiate high school, college, and young adulthood. The potential of her creative voice, easily seen in her earliest work, becomes even more apparent in her later poems. Like a shore bird' s tracks in the sand, her sparse but...
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An estimated twenty million American men and women are in relationships in which the man has stopped being sexually intimate. Is the problem physical, emotional, or psychological-or are these guys simply bored with their partners?
To find answers, bestselling author and relationship expert Dr. Bob Berkowitz and his wife, Susan Yager-Berkowitz, began an unprecedented survey of more than four thousand men and women in this situation, gathering data...
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There was no more glorious Egyptian ruler than Ramesses II, the third king of the 19th dynasty who earned the epithet "Great." A warrior-king who knew the importance of peace, Ramesses II was one of Egypt's most prolific builders - the breathtaking temples at Karnak and Luxor are testimonies to his reign.
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ONE OF THE BEST AUDIOBOOKS OF 2019 - The Guardian
Join these two comedy greats and lifelong friends on their journey from recuperation to riverbank in this hilarious and heart-warming audiobook that gives you a front-row seat at an exclusive Bob and Paul production.
Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse have been friends for 30 years, but when life intervened, what was once a joyous and spontaneous friendship dwindled to the odd phone call or occasional...