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#1 Lance Armstrong's mother, Linda, has made a career off telling the story of how she raised the greatest cyclist the world has ever seen. She has said that she was the only constant presence in his life.
#2 Linda's mythmaking did not sit well with the rest of Lance's family. They had their own version of his childhood to tell. For example, they called Sonny Lance's...
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THE AUTHOR OF LIFE WRITES MASTERPIECES-
LEARN HOW TO SURRENDER THE PEN AND LET HIM DO THE WRITING!
Do you long for acceptance without strings? Do you strive for the picture perfect life? Do you feel like a failure? Do you wonder if God even hears you?
You are not alone! For years, author Aimee Fuhrman lived in a negative cycle of lies, self-criticism, and false failure. All she could see were the smudges on her pages, which resulted in depression...
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Lorain has been a prisoner of her secrets for almost her entire life. At the age of thirteen, she managed to keep her pregnancy a secret, discarding the infant and leaving it for dead. Years later, Lorain's mother finally met the love of her life, and Lorain couldn't find the courage to tell her mother that her new beau was the man who molested Lorain and impregnated her. Now, to complicate matters, Lorain discovers that the baby she abandoned all...
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I'm afraid of him, but I want him with all my heart.
I want her like I've never wanted anyone else, but I hate her with all my heart.
He is fear and danger.
She is innocence and sin.
He will never be mine.
She belongs to me.
Lydia Gale dreams of luxury and fame, so when she moves to Los Angeles, she decides to come to terms with herself by becoming the fake girlfriend of a well-known Hollywood actor. When his attentions fail, Lydia threatens...
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In this thriller, Rohan Goodlett grows up in a wholesome traditional family, where he is sheltered from the streets. When he gets to high school, it doesn't take long before his secret insatiable desire to dance on the dark side becomes his reality.
After graduating from Howard University, he gives Corporate America a try. After getting a bad shake at the Marriott, he is forced to turn in his letter of resignation before he gets terminated. In the...
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In a desperate attempt to support his family, a good trucker turns to large-scale drug smuggling. By the time he realizes the money could cost him his business, his family, and even his life, it may already be too late.This is a fictionalized true-crime story. Sourced from the experiences of real truckers, law enforcement, drug interdiction agents, and told true-to-life. If you ever wondered why a good person turns criminal, come along on this blow-by-blow...
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes from a rural road in Vietnam and his girlfriend, an ER doctor trained in deductive reasoning, follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they first met. Alexis and Austen met on a Saturday night. Not in a bar, but instead in the emergency room where Alexis sutured a bullet wound in Austen's arm....
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The Parents is a story of a woman who overcame years of abuse and trauma by discovering the dark root from which it all formed: the generational programming passed down through her family line, and belief systems that could reach back thousands of generations which created repeated patterns of pain and damage. She realized that these beliefs ingrained in her since birth shaped her in ways she never fully understood. After overcoming emotional, sexual,...
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"We've been lied to about periods. PMS, cramping, bloating, migraines, irritability, and anxiety may be extremely common, but contrary to popular belief, they aren't normal. And they certainly aren't "just part of being a woman," despite the fact that this is what we've been told time and time again--by friends, family, and even doctors. After dedicating her entire clinical career to deconstructing the menstrual cycle, women's health expert Kirsten...
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"At the water's edge, a deadly saltwater crocodile lies in wait, its body tensed to lunge after its prey. It grips its catch with lethal, 5-inch-long (12.7 cm) teeth and powerful jaws, exerting the strongest bite force of any animal on Earth! More than 23 feet (7 m) long and a whopping 2,200 pounds (998 kg), saltwater crocodiles are the largest reptiles on the planet. In this book, readers will get an eye-opening look at the saltwater crocodile and...
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"As a writer lies dying, he has one last story to tell: a tale of faith and devotion, a meditation on what lies beyond this life, and a prayer of gratitude that may lead to rebirth. This is Simon Van Booy at his visionary best. "Language is a map leading to a place not on the map," announces a young writer lying in a hospital bed at the beginning of The Presence of Absence. As he contemplates his impending physical disappearance and the impact on...
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"During a long winter and short, chilly spring, a series of disturbing incidents rock the small resort island of Nantucket. A Land Bank executive dies in a suspicious hunting accident, a prominent local family's historic summer cottage burns down in an arson fire, and a teenage girl lies comatose from a drug overdose. When spring turns to summer and the tourists flood the island, the mysterious cycle of violence spins faster. A young Jamaican boy...
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Spiritual perfectionisman obsession with flawlessness rooted in the belief that we can earn Gods love is the most dangerous form of perfectionism because so many of us mistake it for virtue, or deny that it afflicts us at all. Its toxic cycle of pride, sin, shame, blame, and despair distorts our vision, dulls our faith, and leads us to view others through the same hypercritical lens we think God is using to view us.
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"An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in this searing, brave memoir. How do we understand ourselves when the story about who we are supposed to be is stronger than our sense of self? What do we stand to gain--and lose--by taking control of our narrative? These questions propel Prachi Gupta's heartfelt memoir, and can feel particularly fraught for many immigrants and their children who live...
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The first grandchild born into his family in El Salvador, Alberto was showered with attention. Soon, though, he became known as "El Gordito," the little fat boy. By the age of seven, he weighed 120 pounds and his pediatrician had started him on a diet. By age nine he had tried ten different diets. His life became a vicious cycle of eating to excess, sneaking food and lying to himself and his parents; teased by peers and strangers, he ultimately turned...