Stephen Walker
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"A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union's most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile--originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead--and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin. And he is about to make history. Traveling at almost 18,000 miles per hour--ten times faster than a rifle bullet--Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows he sees the earth as nobody has before, crossing...
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On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, the first atomic bomb detonated as expected, resulting in nearly 100,000 deaths. The Japanese surrendered nine days later. But if the bombing of Hiroshima represents one of the signal events of the twentieth century--indeed, in the history of mankind--at the time it was but another episode in an unprecedented drama whose final act had begun three weeks earlier, at the secret laboratory in Los Alamos. This...
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“Hide & Seek” chronicles the intensely personal war between wartime Rome's Nazi SS Chief Herbert Kappler and the Vatican's Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a fiercely fought rivalry that culminated in Kappler attempting to kidnap and murder his Irish opponent, who was determined to fight Rome's Nazi rulers. Called "Ireland's Oscar Schindler," O'Flaherty masterminded a large-scale operation from inside the neutral Vatican, to hide and help Jews, downed...
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Stephen Walker hits hard with his surreal hammer. Eye-wateringly funny novel.
Wyndam-on-sea. Rainy season. Next Sunday.
Sally manages her uncle's caravan park. He's ordered her to keep the park dull; the town council - feeling that the resort's image is being damaged by the liveliness of its caravan parks - has promised a million pounds to the least exciting park in Wyndam-on-sea. If that million pounds isn't won, the park will close.
18 year-old...
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La ansiedad puede ser tan terrible que puede llegar a ser incapacitante hasta un punto en el que cada aspecto de tu vida se ve afectada. Sin embargo, con la ayuda de algunas prácticas simples en tu vida, es posible sobreponerte a la ansiedad, y como muchas otras condiciones en nuestras vidas, no hay mejor manera de luchar contra esta condición que la forma natural. Debes saber que no es tan complicado superar la ansiedad siempre y cuando tengas...
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You have never read anything like this in your life. A truly remarkable comic debut. If you put Mel Brooks, Eddie Izzard, Spike Milligan, and Salvador Dali around a table in an enclosed room with no lights and a few cylinders of Nitrous Oxide fizzing away in the corner and asked them to write a book, they might have come up with Danny Yates Must Die. But why bother when Stephen Walker can do it unaided? It follows the adventures of sad Danny Yates...
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People have experiences. The way mine happened was so clear and answered a lot of questions for me. It has to work in all areas of everyday life, right? I found out it worked in ALL areas of everyday life, and I know it can do the same for you. It's real!
There are many stories of things that happened to me as well as others around me in various jobs and careers, marriage, friendships, safety and protection, life challenges, crossing cultural barriers,...
9) Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human Being to Leave our Planet and Journey into Space
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"A fresh and exciting take on an epic flight into space, the triumph of technology, and the Cold War battle in which the Soviets pre-empted the first American space mission by three weeks—a history with uncanny echoes of contemporary Russian resurgence at the expense of the U.S.
On April 12, 1961, twenty-seven-year old Yuri Gagarin, a Russian ex-foundry worker and loyal member of the Communist Party, climbed inside a tiny spherical capsule sitting...
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Mistakes, in the form of bad decisions, are a common feature of every presidential administration, and their consequences run the gamut from unnecessary military spending, to missed opportunities for foreign policy advantage, to needless bloodshed. This book analyzes a range of presidential decisions made in the realm of US foreign policy-with a special focus on national security-over the past half century in order to create a roadmap of the decision...
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Jack lives on the Minnesota and Canada border. His grandpa and father are lumberjacks, working for a big lumber company. His best friend is a big yellow Labrador dog named Duke, who plays an important part in his life.
An Oriental family from China moves to their neighborhood. Phan becomes his best friend, and Phan's father teaches them ninja. During one of their adventures, Jack finds a cave on the side of the mountain where ancient medicine men...
12) Young @ Heart
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2008]
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Young at Heart Chorus is based in Northampton, MA. See the final weeks of rehearsal for the group, whose average age is 81, and many of whom must overcome health adversities to participate. Their music is unexpected, going against the stereotype of their age group, performing songs that range from James Brown to Coldplay. Although the group has toured in Europe and sang for royalty, they are now focusing on preparing new songs, not an easy endeavor,...
13) Rosa's bus
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Calkins Creek
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c2010
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The story of an ordinary bus... until a woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat which became a pivotal event in the Civil Rights movement. Follows the bus's history from the streets of Montgomery to the Henry Ford Museum.
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This is the story of Noel who lost Maris, his beloved wife of 42 years, to suicide following years of struggling with depression. The abrupt ending of a life by suicide can be the most catastrophic of events for those left behind. Survivors experience intense pain and massive guilt. Grief banishes survivors to a place so removed from the normal hurly-burly of everyday life that they feel close to madness. Somehow they have to claw their way back....
15) Repo virtual
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"The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities -- augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are obscured by an intergalactic virtual war being waged by millions of players, while on the streets below people are forced to beg, steal, and hustle to survive. Enter Julius Dax, online...
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
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[2008]
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Through dramatic reconstruction, eyewitness accounts, and archive footage, each episode pieces together the stories of the moments in history - human tragedies, scientific breakthroughs, and calamitous events that have profoundly affected the world.