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  Sufferings in Africa - Captain...

  Captain James Riley

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  In this classic true adventure story, a young American sea captain named James Riley, shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, is captured by a band of nomadic Arabs and sold into slavery. Thus begins an epic adventure of survival and a quest for freedom that takes him across the Sahara desert. 
  This dramatic account of Captain Riley’s trials and sufferings sold more than one million copies in his day and was even read by a young and impressionable Abraham Lincoln. The degradations of a slave existence and the courage to survive under the most harrowing conditions have rarely been recorded with such painful honesty. 
   Sufferings in Africa is a classic travel-adventure narrative and a fascinating testament of white Americans enslaved abroad, during a time when slavery flourished throughout the United States.

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  The Tale of The Stairs - From...

  Hristo Smirnenski

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  The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Hristo Smirnenski.

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  Things I Only Tell My Friends -...

  Lori-Ann Keenan

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  By the end of “Things I Only Tell My Friends,” you’ll feel like you’ve chatted with your best friend who has mentored you to understand what steps you need to take to make a more meaningful life for yourself and those you love. Throughout the book, Lori-Ann gives you practical tips, entertaining stories, and humor. Finally, you’ll learn how to live authentically and regain inner peace. 
    
  It is like a smorgasbord, jam packed with diverse experiences and nuggets of wisdom about love, life and success. 
    
  In a refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, with practical, straightforward style, the            author always the perfect hostess – serves up 16 delicious chapters, helping you to: 
    
  •  Transform your life in every aspect and accelerate your path to happiness and success 
  •  Recognize those “And then it happened…” moments when it’s time to take a leap of faith 
  •  Learn successful techniques for managing others with confidence  
  •  Tie it all together across sales, service, product management, and development  
    
  The author illuminates the habits that separate superstars from the ordinary. This book will show you how successful people think, how they lead, and how they serve.  
    
  With her down-to-earth writing style, the author invites you into her life and shows you how she became a successful entrepreneur at age 24, and owner and operator of a multi-million dollar five-star international English school. She describes practical tips throughout the book on:  
    
  •  How to organize and center your life 
  •  How to deal with employees and peers  
  •  How to entertain one to hundreds 
  •  How and where to vacation 
  •  How to visualize and meditate on a conscious manifestation  
  •  How to maintain healthy and happy relationships 
  •  How best to plan for the future 
    
   

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  Wovoka: The Life and Legacy of...

  Editors Charles River

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  Wovoka (1867-1932), the Ghost Dance Prophet, was a member of the Walker River band of Paiutes, in western Nevada. The Walker River Reservation was established in 1859 and was Wokova’s home off and on for years. Wovoka was also known as Jack Wilson, a name he acquired while he was, for some years, employed on the David Wilson family ranch in the Mason Valley. At that time in Nevada, Indians not living on a reservation often lived on a ranch. Wovoka was exposed to the pious Wilson family’s daily Bible readings, and that may have helped shape his own beliefs. 
  His father was a traditional medicine man, himself a devotee of an earlier prophet. In 1889, Wovoka followed his father in also becoming a medicine man. The year, Wovoka had a series of visions that led to what is sometimes called the Ghost Dance religion, which spread like wildfire across much of the West in 1889 and 1890. 
  Wovoka’s 1889 visions grew into a new religion that gripped the hopes and imaginations of dozens of tribal groups, and it eventually extended over much of the West. It was a kind of antidote for defeat and cultural dislocation. The Lakota Sioux in particular were so caught up in the Ghost Dance and their adaptation of Wovoka’s revelations that they remain strongly associated with the Ghost Dance more than a century later. 

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  Transformed by India A Life

  Stephen P Huyler

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  Stephen Huyler's journey into India began on his twentieth birthday, pedalling a bicycle rickshaw from the border. Over fifty-two years, for an average of four months a year, he has explored India's diverse village and other subcultures through his writing and photography, becoming a leading documentarian of India. Transformed by India invites readers to join Huyler as he navigates this remarkable nation, highlighting individuals from the wide spectrum of life all around the country. Tying all the many stories together is an acknowledgement of the innate strength and creative capacity for improvement expressed everywhere in the subcontinent. Huyler's friendliness and skills have opened doors, leading to shows of previously unrecorded material in major Indian and international museums and galleries. His six earlier books and many publications are illuminated by the iridescent soul of India. Now he shares his life and thoughts with you.

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  To the Man On the Trail

  Jack London

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  "To the Man On the Trail " is a classic adventure short story  by the American writer Jack London, was published in 1900.
  This is f story about a stranger who stops to rest at Malemute Kid's cabin. He tells the other men a little about himself. A little later, the men hear another story about the stranger from the authorities.

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