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  Speaking with Strangers - A Memoir

  Mary Cantwell

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  From the author of American Girl, a “profoundly moving” memoir of single motherhood, loneliness, and finding one’s way home (The New York Times). After growing up in a small New England town and achieving professional success working for Manhattan fashion magazines, Mary Cantwell finds herself personally bereft. Having made it through to the other side of a painful divorce, she is faced with the challenge of raising two daughters alone and seizes any opportunity to leave it all behind—if only for a while.   Taking on travel assignments that send her around the world, Cantwell recounts her experiences in vivid detail as she makes fleeting connections with strangers in all walks of life. But above all, she craves the intimacy she has lost—both in the death of her marriage and that of her beloved father. Eventually, Cantwell finds passion in an intense and tumultuous affair with a famous writer she refers to only as “the balding man.” But as time goes on, she realizes she must face her responsibilities at home.   In this unflinching account of a trying time in a woman’s life, Cantwell “writes with a breathless intensity about love affairs and friendships, impulsive decisions and equally sudden fits of repentance” (People).   “Anyone who has read Cantwell’s earlier memoirs, American Girl (1992) and Manhattan When I Was Young (1995), knows her voice is as tough, as golden, as graceful as forsythia taking hold in a city backyard. . . . A dark, heady wine of a book; every sip is memorable and complex.” —Booklist

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  Dueling the Dragon - Adventures...

  Abdiel LeRoy

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  China — Superpower or Basket Case? You decide!  
  (Author's narration) 
  A wide-eyed expat is detained by Beijing cops and told to sign a false confession. Will he make it out of China alive? 
  Dueling the Dragon is a great adventure story, but this one just happens to be true! 
  With a journalist's eye and lively wit, LeRoy exposes the deep levels of corruption tearing at China's social fabric. You will learn of college students sold into slavery, media suppression of pollution reports, and persecution of a broadcaster just trying to do his job! 
  Yet there is delight amid the despair, reverie amid the revulsion, as LeRoy encounters China's "raven-haired beauties". You'll laugh away the tears with this riveting memoir! 
  "An adventure, a memoir, and certainly one of the more entertaining books about China before us today." 
  San Francisco Review of Books 
  “Shows China in a ‘behind-the-curtain’ way that is informative, entertaining, and absolutely thrilling, even with the despairs and triumphs.” 
  Amy’s Bookshelf Reviews 
  “A fascinating portrait of a time, a place, and a man for readers who want to know more about the ‘real’ China. Very well written and revealing.” 
  G. Miki Hayden

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  The American Home Front 1941–1942

  Alistair Cooke

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  A New York Times bestseller: This portrait of the United States at the beginning of World War II is “an unexpected and welcome discovery in a time capsule” (The Washington Post).   In nearly three thousand BBC broadcasts over fifty-eight years, Alistair Cooke reported on America, illuminating our country for a global audience. Shortly before he passed away, a long-forgotten manuscript resurfaced in a closet in his New York apartment. It was a travelogue of America during the early days of World War II that had sat there for sixty years.   Published to stellar reviews, Cooke’s The American Home Front is a “valentine to his adopted country by someone who loved it as well as anyone and knew it better than most” (The Plain Dealer). A portrait frozen in time, the book offers a charming look at the era as it journeys through small towns, big cities, and the American landscape as they once were. The American Home Front is also a brilliant piece of reportage, a historical gem that “affirms Cooke’s enduring place as a great twentieth-century reporter” (American Heritage).   “An interesting eyewitness record . . . It recalls transcontinental travel in the pre-interstate highway era, and with greater depth, social problems that Cooke detected beneath the win-the-war exhortations he encountered from coast to coast.” —Booklist

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  Conversational Italian Dialogues...

  Language Mastery

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  Improving Vocabulary Skills in Italian Will No Longer Be Boring And Overly Complicated With This Fun And Engaging Method!Are you looking for a fully immersive Italian language book to help conquer any conversation?Would you like to use a proven method that will make you speak with a native Italian speaker in less than 4 weeks?Do you want to find an engaging yet fun way to improve your Italian vocabulary? 
  Well, search no more...Now you can learn to speak basic Italian in no time with "Conversational Italian Dialogues" by Language Mastery! 
  Research has shown that effective language learning happens when students are fully immersed. That's what sets "Conversational Italian Dialogues" apart from the rest because it provides beginners with over 100 conversations and short stories to learn the Italian language in no time! 
  Using the power of storytelling, this audiobook delivers compelling short stories with targeted Italian language topics, including:Authentic Italian spoken dialogues, to help you learn conversational expressions and improve your speaking abilityDifferent stories and adventures - making the process fun while you learn a wide range of new vocabularyAccessible grammar so you learn new structures naturally, in a stress-free wayComprehension questions to test your understanding of the storyA vocabulary word list to nail down the most relevant terms in your mind 
  And MUCH more! 
  You don't have to struggle when it comes to learn a second language like Italian! Make it a breeze with "Conversational Italian Dialogues"! 
  SCROLL UP, GET THE AUDIOBOOK, AND START SPEAKING ITALIAN!

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  Salitrera Humberstone Inglés

  Sonusland

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  Audioguide to discover the Salitrera Humberstone in the city of Pozo al Monte, Chile

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  Around Africa On My Bicycle

  Riaan Manser

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  In a world first, almost incredibly, Riaan Manser rode a bicycle right around the continent of Africa. It took him two years, two months and fifteen days. He rode 36 500 kilometres through 34 different countries. In Around Africa on my Bicycle, Manser tells the story of this epic journey. It is a story of blood, sweat, toil and tears. It is a story of triumph and occassional disaster. Of nights out under the stars, of searing heat and rain, of endless miles of Africa and of pressing on and never surrendering whatever the odds. Mostly however it is the story of one man's courage and determination to escape the mundane and see the continent he loves and feels so much a part of. It is a story of the human warmth he encounters, and occasionally human wrath and hostility as he crosses troubled countries and borders.

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