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  Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud...

  Charles Nicholl

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  In 1880 a taciturn young Frenchman arrives at the Yemeni port of Aden, where he finds work as a foreman in a coffee warehouse. He is the poet and enfant terrible Arthur Rimbaud, author of A Season in Hell – a notorious figure in France but now, at the age of twenty five, determined to start a new life. In this atmospheric study of Rimbaud's 'lost years', Charles Nicholl pieces together the shadowy story of his life as a trader, explorer and gun-runner in East Africa. We follow his trail in Somalia and Djibouti, in the highlands of Ethiopia, in the souks of Cairo: a man on the run from his past, living out his famous teenage pronouncement, 'Je est un autre' – I is somebody else.

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  Sandhills Boy - The Winding...

  Elmer Kelton

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  “[A] charming memoir of renowned western novelist Kelton’s early years in the saddle, at the desk and in the trench . . . a pleasure through and through.” —Kirkus Reviews 
   
  Voted the “Best Western writer of all time” by his peers, Elmer Kelton wrote fifty novels that form a testament and tribute to the American West. 
   
  But who is that Texas gentleman with the white Stetson and rimless eyeglasses whose friendly face appears on so many book jackets? 
   
  Sandhills Boy is Kelton’s memoir, a funny and poignant story of “a freckle-faced country boy, green as a gourd, a sheep ready to be sheared,” growing up in the wild, dry, sandhills of West Texas. The son of a working cowboy and ranch foreman, Elmer was expected to follow in his father’s footsteps but learned at an early age that he had no talents in the cowboy’s trade. Buck Kelton said Elmer was “slow as the seven-year itch,” and reluctantly supported his son’s decision to become a student at the University of Texas, and, eventually, a journalist and writer. 
   
  Kelton’s life in ranch and oil patch Texas during the Great Depression is told with warm nostalgic humor animated with stories of the cowboys and their wives and kids who gave the time and place its special flavor. He writes with great feeling of his service in WW2 in France, Germany, and Czechoslovakia, and the romantic circumstances in which his life changed in the village of Ebensee, Austria. 
   
  “The most beloved western writer alive recounts his own story of growing up in Depression-era west Texas.” —Booklist

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  The Early Life of Abraham...

  Ida M. Tarbell, J. McCan Davis

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  This book is a result of a thorough research conduct by the author Ida M. Tarbell. Tarbell's research in the backwoods of Kentucky and Illinois uncovered the true story of Lincoln's childhood and youth. She wrote to and interviewed hundreds of people who knew or had contact with Lincoln. She tracked down leads and then confirmed their sources. She sent hundreds of letters looking for images of Lincoln and found evidence of more than three hundred previously unpublished Lincoln letters and speeches.

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  The Brand New World Principles -...

  Michael Gwanda

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  In an interdependent world of population explosion, confusion, culture insecurity, crime, violence, xenophobia, poverty, political corruption, economic crashes, technology advancement, youth disappointment, political relationship crisis, fast social lifestyle, high rate of unemployment, and the increase in incurable diseases and occurrences of untimely droughts, the wisdom to navigate and discover a successful living is needed.
  
  The Brand New World Principles is a guidebook designed to develop one to equip and give wisdom, insight, information, inspiration, motivation, and revelation. We focus on self-development; professional and cooperate business development; spiritual growth; family issues; relationship issues; leadership issues; financial advice; marriage issues; youth issues; women and men issues; education issues; mentorship, including religious; and the political divide and on discovering one's purpose and potential in life in all life aspects. It deals with issues such as kingdom, leadership, character, business, entrepreneurship, finances, self-discovery, relationships, healthy ethics, and many more.

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  Sky's Story - Thrown Away...

  Louise Allen

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  When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by unhinged parents who hoarded compulsively, creating horrific conditions no child should live in, the two girls arrived at foster carer Louise's home, neglected, malnourished, and indoctrinated. Louise had to draw on all of her experience as one of Britain's leading foster carers to rehabilitate and change the course of their lives. 
   
  But with constant attempts to thwart her work, Louise ends up under siege in her own home. Will she succeed or is their fate sealed forever?

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  The Life of Samuel Johnson Vol IV

  James Boswell

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  This is the fourth volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this biography being originally published by James Boswell, and then edited several times by other persons, such as John Croker, who have been friends of both Samuel Johnson as well as James Boswell.Already famous during his life time, Samuel Johnson's biography attracted considerable attention when it was published after Johnson's death, and continues to be read until today.

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