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2024
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Cuando Carlos tena 19 aos, su mam decidi dejar su vida en El Salvador y buscar un nuevo comienzo en Estados Unidos. Para el viaje al norte, contrat los servicios de un coyote. Carlos se resista a ir, pero no quiso dejar que su mam partiera sin l y decidi unirse. En su recorrido a travs de Mxico, vivieron los riesgos y miedos que incontables personas de pases centroamericanos enfrentan al emigrar a otras tierras. Diez aos despus, Carlos comparte estos...
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This is Emily Bloom's journey towards and through motherhood, a path that has become, for the average woman, laden with data and medical technology. Emily faces decisions regarding genetic testing and diagnosis, technologies that offer the illusion of certainty but carry the weight of hard decisions. Her desire to know more thrusts her back into the history of science, as she traces the discoveries that impacted the modern state of pregnancy and motherhood....
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER from the star of Netflix's The Duchess, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Your Face or Mine and host of All That Glitters
'A fearless origin story' Caitlin Moran
'Outrageously brilliant! I'm buying this for all my friends' Laura Whitmore
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'I've come to accept that being audacious is a gift I can't escape.'
People 'know' my on-stage comedy persona or my scripted ballsy characters and wrongly assume that at home, I must...
5) Campeonas
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Solo en el transcurso de este siglo, el Perú ha visto a 16 mujeres en lo más alto del podio del deporte nacional. De a pocos, la presencia de las mujeres se ha vuelto constante en diversas competencias, incluso en aquellas que en el pasado eran consideradas "solo para hombres".
Campeonas. Peruanas que están cambiando las reglas del juego cuenta las historias de 12 mujeres que han marcado para siempre al deporte peruano, cuyos éxitos fueron reconocidos...
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Les pensées pourrîtes sont nées au fil du temps, de l'observation désespérée de nos contemporains persuadés d'être des génies, ce qui qui s'avère peu fréquent dans la réalité. Le premier risque que vous prenez en lisant ces pensées est de vous reconnaître et d'en rire jaune comme la couleur de vos yeux, un lendemain de nuit chaude.
Sachez-le, vous avez servi de modèle à la compréhension acide d'une vérité souvent ingrate. Mais...
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An illuminating, intricately woven memoir about friendships, loss, and language-a stunning affirmation of the conversations that shape and sustain us, even in the presence of death
Lissa Soep lost two friends in quick succession. Christine died slowly, from a mysterious illness, while Jonnie died suddenly, too young. In the ten years since, Soep has found herself among those left behind-spouses, lovers, family, friends-whose grief could have...
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When it comes to adult life, and parenthood, you will never be ready. So, what happens when you hit your mid-thirties and still feel like an out-of-depth teen trapped in the slightly sagging skin suit of a tired and tested mother of two? Join comedian Sophie McCartney as she shares her journey from wild child to with child... a never-ending exercise in expectation vs reality (and the cleaning up of bodily fluids) she voyages deep into difficult and...
9) Who Am I?
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Danny Cipriani has always been searching for . On the pitch, it was a line-break or space. A chink of light to dart through. An angle that no one else could see. Off the pitch, it was seeking a path through the pressure, fame and chaos that came with being anointed the 'Saviour of English Rugby'. is the raw and powerful memoir of a man of mercurial talent who, with the world at his feet, made his England rugby debut aged 20. A man who, just a year...
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A gripping, suspenseful and cathartic memoir that tells a story of pain and perseverance and makes the moral case for asylum.' North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded. Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the 'socialist miracle' to flee famine and dictatorship. By the age of 29 she had already witnessed a lifetime of suffering. Family members...
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***From the no.1 bestselling author***
'These are probably the toughest times we have faced in many decades, and we all have to find within us the strength and resilience to get through and to find happiness and love in our futures, whatever life throws at us.'
Kate Garraway has had to learn how to adapt ever since her husband Derek began his fight against the devastating impact of Covid, a condition that has left him needing 24-hour care at home...
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A shocking true account of one girl's harrowing journey to survival. Sophie Crockett spent most of her childhood suffering from crippling anxiety. Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, she became a virtual prisoner in her own home, afraid to venture outside. After battling with depression, eating disorders and self-harm, Sophie had the courage to re-enter society in her late teens. She was just 17 when she fell prey to ST, a violent psychopath who exploited...
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In an increasingly divided society, Iain examines why we've all become so disrespectful and intolerant. Using experiences from his career in politics and the media, he says it doesn't have to be this way, and suggests how we can all emerge from tribalism and division and become more respectful to each other and those who govern us. It is a book that is optimistic about the fundamental decencies embedded in human nature and uses deeply personal anecdotes...
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We keep an old shoebox, Gill and I, nestled in a drawer in our room. It's filled with thirty-three birthday cards for our two young sons: one for every year I'll miss until they're twenty-one. I wrote them because, since the end of 2017, I've been living with — and dying from — motor neurone disease. This book is about the process of saying goodbye. To my body, as I journey from unexpected clumsiness to a wheelchair that resembles a spacecraft,...
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Hello! I'm Brian Limond, aka Limmy. You might know me from. Or you might not know me at all. Don't worry if you don't. They asked me to write a book about mental health, because I sometimes talk about my mental health in tweets and interviews, like suicidal thoughts and anxiety, and what I've done to try and deal with it. I said to them, oh, I don't know if I could fill a whole book with just that. But how's about I write a general autobiography type...
16) Open Secret, An
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In 1922 Robert Allerton-described by the Chicago Tribune as the "richest bachelor in Chicago"-met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to one another as father and son within a couple years of meeting. In 1960, after nearly four decades together, and with Robert Allerton nearing ninety, they embarked...
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A warmly funny, intensely moving and startlingly personal account of the lives of an urban parish priest and his parishioners.
Father Alex Frost was not always a man of the cloth. He found his calling while running an Argos store in his native Burnley, moonlighting as a stand-up comedian and die-hard fan of The Clarets and Depeche Mode.
But having achieved his profession, Fr Alex quickly recognised the 17,000 inhabitants of his new parish were in...
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The more we learn about psychedelics, the less we seem to understand them... In this engrossing, sometimes hilarious, always dramatic chronicle, a neuropsychologist deflates the hype, explores the limitless possibilities, and reveals a much-needed perspective about psychedelics, giving us a scientist's first-person experiment with ten different compounds in ten different settings.
Once demonized and still largely illegal, psychedelic drugs are now...
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A queer teen rebel escapes small-town Appalachia and becomes Los Angeles's Renowned Lesbian Dominatrix in this searing and darkly funny memoir that upends our understanding of sexuality, class, and power.
From an early age, Belcher appeared destined for a life of conventional femininity. At all of eighteen months old, she took first place in an infant beauty contest, a minor glory that tends to follow you around a working-class town of 1,600 people...
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The first book for the general public about the importance of mindfulness in medical practice, Attending is a groundbreaking, intimate exploration of how doctors approach their work with patients. From his early days as a Harvard Medical School student, Epstein saw what made good doctors great-more accurate diagnoses, fewer errors, and stronger connections with their patients. This made a lasting impression on him and set the stage for his life's...
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