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“martha e leiker”

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  • From Silence to Secrecy

    A Memoir

    by Martha E. Leiker ...
    As a young girl growing up in Kansas, Martha Leiker always felt a pull toward Africa. She couldnt explain why, but she dreamed of working in Africa with the African people. In From Silence to Secrecy, Leiker narrates the story of how she made that dream come true.Leiker likens her life to that of a chameleonchanging easily from one lifestyle to another. This memoir follows those changes, beginning ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • The Rules Do Not Apply

    A Memoir

    by Ariel Levy ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This Year’s Must-Read Memoir” (W magazine) about the choices a young woman makes in her search for adventure, meaning, and loveNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYVogue • Time • Esquire • Entertainment Weekly • The Guardian • Harper’s Bazaar • Library Journal • NPRAll her life, Ariel Levy was told that ... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Fascinating Facts and Curious Questions

    by Arcturus Publishing Limited ...
    A great collection of questions, answers and facts! Why can't elephants jump? Why don't sheep shrink when they get wet? Divided into sections about animals, people, the law and funny names and places, each part of this hardback book explores little known and often amusing information - Certain to entertain! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bushman’s Lair

    On the Trail of the Fugitive of the Shuswap

    by Paul McKendrick ...
    Some of Western Canada’s most enduring legends involve wilderness fugitives like the Mad Trapper of Rat River or Gunanoot of the Skeena. This book is about one of the most mysterious and most recent fugitives, the Bushman of the Shuswap, who made national headlines while on the lam in the wilderness around Shuswap Lake during the turn of the millennium. For several years he played cat and mouse ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2016

    Edited by Bill Bryson ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    This collection gathers the best travel essays from The New Yorker, Harpers, GQ and more—featuring Paul Theroux, Alice Gregory, Dave Eggers and others.Why do I travel? Why does anyone of us travel? Bill Bryson poses these questions in his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2016, and though he admits, "I wasn't at all sure I knew the answer," these questions start us on the path of ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Letter to a Stranger

    Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us

    Edited by Colleen Kinder ...
    “Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness. Perfect for our times.”—Dani Shapiro, author of InheritanceSixty-five extraordinary writers grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter with a stranger leave such an eternal mark?When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to write a letter to a stranger about an unforgettable ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Adventurist

    My Life in Dangerous Places

    by Robert Young Pelton ...
    The Adventurist is one man's story, a story that will change the way you think about travel, survival, where you have been, and where you are going.Enter the world of Robert Young Pelton (if you dare), adventurer extraordinaire, author of Come Back Alive and The World's Most Dangerous Places (required reading at the CIA), and host of his TV series, Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Find Me Unafraid

    Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum

    by Kennedy Odede, Jessica Posner ...
    The New York Times–bestselling, inspiring true story of how one couple's love changed a community.Growing up homeless in Kibera, a slum in Kenya, Kennedy Odede received a book of Martin Luther King's speeches that changed his life and inspired him to start Shining Hope for Communities, a local youth group. Several years later, irrepressible Wesleyan student Jessica Posner traveled to Kenya to work ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Thailand Confidential

    by Jerry Hopkins ...
    "Wanna stand in the face of a charging elephant, get hit by a motorcycle, eat giant water bugs, blowtorch your mouth on some of the hottest chili peppers on earth, then go watch a sex change operation? Of course you don't, but, happily, Jerry Hopkins has done all that and more—lots more—in this darkly humorous, deeply affectionate, clear-eyed but never patronizing portrait of Thailand, his adopted ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Facing the Lion

    Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna

    by Herman J. Viola, Herman Viola ...
    Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton gives American kids a firsthand look at growing up in Kenya as a member of a tribe of nomads whose livelihood centers on the raising and grazing of cattle. Readers share Lekuton's first encounter with a lion, the epitome of bravery in the warrior tradition. They follow his mischievous antics as a young Maasai cattle herder, coming-of-age initiation, boarding school ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Angel Esmeralda

    Nine Stories

    by Don DeLillo ...
    A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Story Prize, the first ever collection of “dazzlingly told” (The New York Times) literary short stories from Don DeLillo, the National Book Award-winning author of Underworld and Falling Man.Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, this “small masterpiece of short fiction” (USA TODAY) is a mesmerizing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • One from the Hart

    by Stefanie Powers ...
    The career of Stefanie Powers is one of so many stage, screen, and television credits that her name alone recalls memories as varied as her roles—on screen and off. From movie roles including John Wayne’s daughter in McLintock! and Lana Turner’s rival in Love Has Many Faces, to being terrorized by Tallulah Bankhead in Die, Die My Darling and befriending a Volkswagen in Herbie Rides Again, she ... Read more

    $13.99 USD