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On the last day of kindergarten, Patty Dykstra's mother picked her up after school and told Patty they'd be going on a trip to visit an aunt in New Jersey. Six-year-old Patty didn't know she and her mother would not be coming back, and that she would leave behind her father, her home, and the only life she'd never known.
Thirty-six years later, Patty discovers cards that had been written to her by the father she had been told was 'gone'.
Patty
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The 19-year-old Pitt Kreuzberg applied to the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the summer of 1907 and was accepted. He has a wealthy family behind him; his great-grandfather was the discoverer of the world-famous Apollinaris spring in Ahrweiler. In Düsseldorf, Pitt found himself in a group of artists who rebelled against the traditional, especially against the true-to-life rendering in painting, as taught at the academy. In the artists 'houses and in Johanna...
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PD Bell is one of the best extreme skiers on the planet and Mallory Prescott is used to his exploits. This time Bell is taking on the West Rib of Denali, highest and most dangerous mountain in North America. It's a feat that has never been accomplished. Five years ago, Bell had tried it. The attempt nearly killed him.
While he's gone, Mallory begins to question her relationship with Bell. Does he love her? What has loving him cost her? Should she...
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Across the great bay from San Francisco, the city of Alameda evolved into an island hometown of fine Victorian and Craftsman architecture and a port containing a naval air station, shipbuilding center, and the winter home of the long-gone Alaska Packers fleet of "tall ships." But Alameda also was a busy railroad town. In 1864, a passenger railroad with a ferry connection created a commute to San Francisco. In 1869, the city became the first Bay Area...
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Eine junge Frau fällt nach einer Zumba-Stunde ins Koma; offenbar wurde sie vergiftet. Auf der Suche nach dem Täter stolpert die Freiburger Journalistin Katharina Müller immer wieder über denselben Namen: Diego Sanchez, Star der internationalen Kunstszene. Doch nicht nur ihre Nachforschungen halten Katharina auf Trab-denn da gibt es noch diesen gut aussehenden Spanier mit den unwiderstehlich braunen Augen...
Ironisch, witzig, unterhaltsam-nicht...
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Devised by German sportsmen at the turn of the twentieth century, the German Wirehaired Pointer is a multi-purpose hunting dog that possesses the four key characteristics required in the field: strength, boldness, stamina, and intelligence. Prized for his eager-to-please personality, the German Wirehaired Pointer has even more fans who don't require him to point, retrieve, or hold wounded game. Today the GWP is a superb family companion, a true people"...
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On September 3, 1999, Ute Lawrence was involved in a horrific eighty-seven-car highway pile-up, the worst in Canadian history, that saw eight people killed. In The Power of Trauma, she draws on her mind-altering experience to develop a profound new perspective on life that has actually empowered her.Lawrence was nearly stopped in her tracks after staring death in the face, and her lengthy and successful career as a magazine publisher soon ended as...
9) Listen
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Listen is a collection of poems spanning the life cycle: birth, parenting (and grandparenting), aging, and dying. Images of nature and our connections to it abound throughout because nature is our habitat. The cover further invokes this symbiotic relationship. The poems within Listen run a full gamut of human emotions-wonder, doubt, pleasure, regret, love, loss, enchantment, and more, all woven into the fabric of lived experience and of experience...
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Ute Craemer movingly describes her social work amongst the poorest of the poor in the favelas of Brazil, using "Waldorf" educational methods and the anthroposophical world view. Written as a diary, it details the hardships and the emotional ups and downs with her journey.
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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2023
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The pressure on companies to innovate is increasing. Market conditions are becoming more volatile. The number of competitors is increasing. New business models are upsetting old structures. And customers are increasingly well informed and digitally connected. Only offers that provide comprehensible and credible solutions for a company's own pain points can prevail.
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Dream River Press
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2020
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When fate offers Gwynn Powell a chance to start over, she jumps at the opportunity. Laid off and living with a husband whose gambling problem has eaten through a good part of their savings, Gwynn buys a farmhouse sight unseen, leaving both her marriage and her old home behind.
But fate has more in mind for Gwynn than just a new home. The farmhouse, tucked away in the Green Mountains of Vermont where even GPS can't find it, is also a step
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Deslisle Publications
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The beeper counts down to zero, the start bar slaps her shin, and there is nothing but the pitch of the mountain, her skis roaring over snow and ice at breakneck speed. Mia Whitmeyer lives for this. Ski racing is her first love,. With six world cup titles and a string of Olympic medals, she's the best in the world at it.
Mia is determined to win a seventh world cup. Nothing will stop her, not a breakup with her boyfriend, not her best friend
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Terra preta is the Portuguese name of a type of soil which is thought to have almost miraculous properties. The newspapers are flooded with reports about black gold," scientists believe that two of the greatest problems facing the world climate change and the hunger crisis can be solved by it. The beauty of it is that everyone can do something about it because since 2005 the secret of producing this black soil has been revealed and it is a secret...
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Wenn das Leben kopf steht, mach einen Handstand
Eigentlich will die alleinerziehende Ella nur eine Lampe kaufen, doch dann nickt sie völlig erschöpft in einem Luxusbett des Möbelhauses ein. Der aufmerksame Verkäufer Julius bewacht ihren Schlaf, fasziniert und gleichzeitig irritiert von dieser müden jungen Frau. Das Treffen endet mit einer Anzeige. Zwischen Kindererziehung, Job und Wohnungssuche rückt diese Begegnung für Ella in immer weitere...
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Stress beim Essen, Gequengel beim Einkaufen, Chaos im Kinderzimmer : Eltern müssen im Alltag mit ihren Kindern von 0 bis 10 täglich zahllose Hürden nehmen. Die Eltern-Trickkiste verrät ganz praktische Tipps und Ideen von erfahrenen Müttern und Vätern, die Eltern helfen, alle typischen Alltagssituationen entspannter, gelassener und fröhlicher zu meistern. Dieser Hörbuch-Ratgeber ist nach Problemzonen eingeteilt (Im Bad, Beim Essen, Schlafen,...