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17122) Lion: droga do domu
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Polish
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"The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home ... but an identity long-since left behind"--
"Pięcioletni chłopiec gubi się na ulicach Kalkuty. 25 lat później wyrusza na poszukiwanie utraconego domu i rodziny."--Filmweb.pl.
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Clive Evans had a lengthy front-line flying career in which he flew Hunters, Canberras and Lightnings. He covers the roles, performance and technical details of each of these types before recounting his own personal experiences on them. The final fast jet he flew was during a three year posting to the USA to evaluate the General Dynamics F-111 that the British Government were considering purchasing. It was at the end of that overseas tour that he...
17125) Leaving for America
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English
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The author recalls her early years in a small Jewish town in western Russia and the last days there as she and her mother prepare to join her father in the United States.
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"What is the price of living an authentic life? Ellen Krug knows . As a man named, "Ed," she had everything anyone could ever want: a soul mate's love, two beautiful daughters, a house in the best neighborhood, a successful trial lawyer's career -- a Grand Plan life so picture-pefect it inspired a beautiful pastel drawing. But there was a problem: "Ed" was a woman born into a male body. Finding inner peace meant Ed would have to become Ellen. It also...
17127) Go home!
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English
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Asian diasporic writers imagine "home" in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction, memoir, and poetry.
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English
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The author shares his war experiences, his role in the Japanese surrender, and his participation in the setting of a world's record for longest submerged voyage.
"In early 1943 the submarine USS Scorpion, with Paul R. Schratz as torpedo officer, slipped into the shallow waters east of Tokyo, laid a minefield, and made successful torpedo attacks on merchant shipping, In a fierce battle with a heavily armed patrol vessel, Schratz's executive officer...
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"A late-in-life coming-of-age escapade told with humor and heart, Don't Think Twice is a moving and irreverent account of grief, growing up, and the healing power of adventure. Within six months, Barbara Schoichet lost everything: her job, her girlfriend of six years, and her mother to pancreatic cancer. Her life stripped bare, and armed with nothing but a death wish and a ton of attitude, Barbara pursues an unlikely method of coping. At the age of...
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"'Generations of men and women have stood on these beaches, listened to water rushing over these basalt rocks, and picked wild blueberries here well before I sailed into the Bayfield harbor. The families of those men and women are still here, tethered to a place where they can slip behind their ancestor's eyes and take in essentially the same view'--From the introduction. In 2007, Mary Dougherty and her family moved from St. Paul to the tiny Bayfield...
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"How does the US Army mold a video-game generation with its thumbs on the joystick into a proud fighting force with its fingers on the trigger--and lives on the line--in America's War on Terror? Michael J. MacLeod, already an accomplished professional photographer and journalist, decided to find out the hard way: by enlisting in the armed forces at age forty-one. What he observed and experienced as an embedded reporter and a serving soldier makes...
17139) Soy Zlatan Ibrahimović
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Español
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"Esta autobiografía es una espectacular visión de la vida de un genio desde las entrañas de una gran estrella mundial. Temerario, ostentoso, desequilibrado, no importa cómo le llamen, Ibra es una de las grandes estrellas mundiales del fútbol que ha jugado en la mayoría de los grandes equipos de elite internacional. Soy Zlatan Ibrahimović es la historia del futbolista conocido en el mundo entero como Ibra. La historia desde dentro de su conflictiva...
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