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About the Book The Kennedy Detail
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"The Kennedy Detail is the true story of the critical events leading up to and following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, told for the first time, from the perspective of the Secret Service agents who had a front row seat to one of America’s greatest tragedies."
About the Author Gerald Blaine
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"Jerry Blaine is a former U.S. Secret Service Agent and one of the country’s leading experts in high-level, high profile security. In 1959, Jerry Blaine was hired as a Special Agent of the United States Secret Service, and was handpicked to serve on the elite White House Secret Service Detail, the thirty-four man team responsible for protecting President Dwight D. Eisenhower."
The Kennedy Detail, JFK Assassination Story
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"JFK’S Secret Service Agents Reveal the Inside Story of an American Tragedy. Secret Service Agent Clint Hill was just ten feet from President John F. Kennedy, desperately trying to hurl his body in front of the gunfire, when the president’s head exploded before his eyes."
Reviews for Voices of the Heart
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"I read your book “Voices of the Heart” and it was so moving. I feel very grateful to have had the opportunity to read about your life and how your faith has carried you through it. I struggle with my faith and you offer so many examples of how when we question our faith, it becomes stronger, not weaker - Judi M"
About the Book Voices of the Heart
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"Voices of the Heart is a powerful, compelling, and inspiring story. Laugh and cry with Linda as she takes you through her incredible journey as she finds her way in life and seeks answers to her three profound questions."
Borneo Tom | Blog
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"Borneo, also known as the island in the clouds, is the third largest island in the world. Located south and east of the Malay Peninsula and southwest of the Philippine Islands, Borneo offers both mountains and dense rain forests and is divided into four main political areas – Kalimantan, Sabah and Sarawak and the sultanate of Brunei."
About the Author Linda Lambert Pestana
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"Linda was born on October 29, 1948 in Dover, New Hampshire. She received her master’s degree in creation spirituality from Holy Names College in Oakland, California, and furthered her studies in clinical pastoral education at the Interfaith Healthcare Ministries in Providence, Rhode Island."
About the Book Borneo Tom
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"Borneo Tom: In Story and Sketch: Love, Travel and Jungle Family in Tropical Asia, written by Tom McLaughlin, is a collection of independent, stand-alone stories. The book also includes some special illustrations that will make you laugh and give you more insight into what you’re reading. It’s an engaging and interesting read about one man’s adventures in a part of the world that most of us know ve..."
Linda Pestana: Voices of the Heart
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"Don't wait to live your life, live it now… is a motto that Linda Pestana shares in her book, “Voices of the Heart”. Linda’s life experience has paved a path for her own healing and growth, leading to a story with universal appeal."
About the Author Tom McLaughlin
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"Tom McLaughlin is a man who has actually done what most of us only dream about – he’s followed his dream to the ends of the earth, found happiness and love and has now written a book about his exploits and some of the issues that are important to him."
Love, Travel and Jungle Family in Tropical Asia
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"Why Borneo? Why write about a place that some are afraid to visit and that most people misunderstand because of its unique intricacies and idiosyncrasies. Tom McLaughlin has set out to change that by writing Borneo Tom - In Story and Sketch: Love, Travel and Jungle Family in Tropical Asia- – an unlikely book about an unlikely place that’s full of insight into one of the most fascinating places o..."
About The Book Secrets of a Mysterious Older Woman
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"Secrets of a Mysterious Older Woman is Constance’s hilarious history after her mid-life divorce: Her One-Woman Cabaret show, her affair with The Count, their wedding in a Swiss castle, and their misadventures living in a cow-haunted barn in France."
About the Author Constance Feathers
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"We MOWs don’t give statistics of any sort. A MOW cannot be classified, categorized, labeled or typed. So I can’t tell you my age. I will say that I think of myself as 32, which is perfect for me. And, of course, I am a widow."
Constance Feathers
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"Like all MOWs, I call myself a widow, and though I feared it all my life, I love living alone, especially here where the forest meets the sea. It’s such a great time of life because I Don’t Face The Facts."
Straight Down the Middle
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"We shared our interest in golf and nontraditional golf instruction. But, in truth, like Renee Zellweger in Jerry Maguire, Yoni had me at “effortless.” We decided that I should come to Denver."
About the Book Straight Down the Middle
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"Throughout the ages, the ancient arts of Zen and meditation have helped warriors prepare for battle, brought philosophers to enlightenment, and opened the path to inner peace for countless practitioners."
Sarah Silverman (Author) - The Bedwetter
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"Stories of courage, redemption and pee, courtesy of the one and only Sarah Silverman. A hilarious history of the comic in question, this memoir will make you cry with laughter as you follow Sarah from her awkward adolescence to her awesome adulthood."
Three Little Words: A Memoir by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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"This book is a heart wrenching account of what happens on a regular basis to the over half-a-million youth in foster care in our country. As a former foster youth myself, I cried and way too often related to Ashley's depiction of life in the system. Highly recommend this to anyone involved in child welfare, or to those with friends in the system, or those in the system themselves. A parent migh..."
Laura M. Flynn (Author) - Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir
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"Dive into this elegant memoir. Flynn details how her mother had been an adventurous bohemian in the 1950s and '60s, before she became unhinged by what was later diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia. Great book, easy read!"
Barnes & Noble: The Bag Lady Papers by Alexandra Penney
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"Stories of rags to riches abound on bookshelves, but stories of riches to survival are far more rare and (I find) much more soulful. What it has taken one woman to get her life back in the midst of a crushing economic blow points to hundreds more who struggle mightily still . . ."
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
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"Mike here also wrote The Blind Side, yes, THAT Oscar winning tear jerker. However, yours truly is more interested in this book, Liar's Poker. Not because it's a #1 National Best Seller, not because Mike wrote it, but because it's about Wall Street. What could an 18 year old want with a memoir written about New York tycoons and sleazy business deeds? Well, to be honest, the New York City Stock ..."
Mary Karr (Author) - Lit
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"An honest memoir about addiction, self hatred and forgiveness. Lit is the third memoir by Karr, Liars Club and Cherry preceeded. She describes a truly electrifying story of how to grow up—as only a seasoned poet can tell it."
Notes of a Baseball Dreamer: A Memoir by Robert Mayer
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"I'm a baseball fan. At time in my life full of abject darkness, watching a game for a few hours nearly every day really helped. It gave me something to care about when I didn't think there was anything left to care about. In the midst of my malaise I found this book at the library under its old title. I was entranced with it, for the opening sentence, unable to put it down. It's told in a..."
Privacy Wear: Lives inspired - Breast Cancer Survivor Book
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"Give the gift of hope, the power of inspiration . . . these straight-from-the-heart stories and photographs will bring joy to anyone who is or loves someone who has struggled mightily in the battle against cancer. Life itself is the celebration."
I Slept With Joey Ramone (A Family Memoir)
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"A Family Memoir," is the story of the turbulent life of one of America’s greatest rock icons. The Ramones gave voice to the disaffected youth of the seventies and eighties."
Barnes and Noble: Read My Pins by Madeleine Albright
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"Style matters. And accessories speak, crossing boundaries that sometimes the most well-conceived speeches fail to reach. No one understands this better than Madeleine Albright, scholar, diplomat and author of "Read My Pins.""
Barnes and Noble: Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
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"Not just a Talking Head, David Byrne is also a serious student of bicycle transportation and its evolution all across the globe. Get his unique street-level perspective in this memoir/tour de cycle. For cyclists, environmentalists and alternative music enthusiasts alike."
Judy L. Mandel’s Blog
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"The lurking nature of grief| I came to grief late in life, protected and coddled in my own death-free existence. Save for a poisoned rabbit and a disappeared gold fish, death avoided me for many years"
Through Rose Colored Glasses - A Book By Donna Deegan
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"Having faced a breast-cancer diagnosis not once, not twice, but three times, Donna Deegan has become an unwilling veteran of the disease. Recognizing the tremendous need of other women in the midst of her own struggle, she has created a benefit marathon and a foundation to raise funds in support of survivors living in the First Coast area of Florida. Get a hearty dose of her all-purpose optimism..."
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