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Daniel James Brown

From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eigh...

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JAMES BROWN

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Jimmy Brown the Orphan Boy

Life is most definitely what you make of it. Jimmy Brown didn't have a head start or any say on where his life began. He had only two and one-half years with a caring mother before she disappeared from his life due to her inheritance of chromosomes that slowly took over her nervous system—known today as Huntington's Chorea—before she died.Jimmy Brown's story tells how the residents of a small town in the Midwest embraced him in his growing-up years as an orphan. They showed compass...

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James Brown

"Emotional Footprints: The thriller about new technology that captures and manipulates emotions, between business and legal intrigue"A groundbreaking technology can record your emotions. But who controls what you feel... and what you remember?Are you ready to discover how fragile your truth truly is?In the world of "Emotional Footprints," memories are no longer sacred. A revolutionary techno...

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James S. Brown, Scarlett Burke

In "Life of a Pioneer" by James S. Brown, readers are taken on a vivid journey through the life of a typical pioneer in the American West. Brown's descriptive writing style encapsulates the hardships and triumphs faced by pioneers, providing a detailed account of their daily struggles and societal challenges. Set against the backdrop of the 19th century, the book offers a glimpse into the harsh realities faced by those who dared to venture into untamed lands. Brown's use of vivid imagery a...

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James Brown

Music, Magazines & MayhemBetween 1994 and 1997, James Brown's loaded magazine became the the must-buy and must-be-in publication of the decade. It won every award going, year after year, and came to define not only its audience but also a generation. Bright, loud, funny, provocative, ambitious and careless, loaded was read from the barracks of Afghanistan to the England dressing room at Euro '96. It captured a hedonistic lifestyle of alcohol, coca...

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James Brown

We live in a world that all too often operates under the overriding template of self-promotion, embracing a "hooray for me" attitude, and which measures success in increasingly small timeframes dotted with markers of temporal value.Millions of viewers know James Brown as a sports commentator and former athlete. With Role of a Lifetime, James reveals a different side of his character. Brown rose from a middle-class home to earn a scholarship to Harvard and a chance at a pro...

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Daniel James Brown

**Now a Major Motion Picture Directed by George ClooneyThe #1 New York Times–bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany—from the author of Facing the Mountain.**For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the...

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James Brown

New Days for Old is a delightful experiment in form by New Zealand poet James Brown. Each scene in this book is like a 1-minute pop song: its depths are at first easy to miss. But as the story proceeds, the grand scheme of things hoves into view: we are born, we crawl and then are carried away, and everything is a-shimmer, even the disappointments. New Days for Old is a life story in small scenes. Funny, moving, erotic, political and undeniably odd, it turns our most familiar-feeling days ...

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James Brown

When money pressure, worry, health concerns, work changes, and loneliness pile up, it can be hard to know where to begin. This practical, research-informed guide helps you name what is happening, separate facts from fears, and choose one useful next step. Explore simple ways to handle financial pressure, reduce the grip of unproductive worry, ask for connection and support, protect your energy, and build plans that can bend when life gets difficult. Each chapter offers grounded questions a...

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James Brown

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects millions of people, and if you are one of them, you are familiar with the discomfort and difficulties this condition brings daily. Happily, there is a beginning to relief, and it starts with the food we eat. Adopting an IBS-friendly diet allows us to spot possible triggers and get rid of them while nourishing our bodies with meals that support gut health, lessen inflammation, and offer the best nutrition. This book seeks to give you access to a vast s...

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James D. Brown

Morrow led the platoon cautiously up the narrow draw in the green jungle twilight; the warning sense that usually kept him out of trouble was up--enemies were near--but today the officers were too focused on their plan to pay him any attention. Steep, rocky slopes boxed him in like a rat sneaking between a lion's paws, hoping it wouldn't wake up and swat him. Dark fissures among the ledges stared down at him like cats' eyes and he could feel them watching him, waiting to spring their trap-...

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James Brown

Plagued by the suicides of both his siblings, and heir to alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and economic ruin, James Brown lived a life clouded by addiction, broken promises, and despair.In The Los Angeles Diaries, he reveals his struggle for survival, mining his past to present the inspiring story of his redemption. Beautifully written and limned with dark humor, these twelve deeply confessional, interconnected chapters address personal failure, heartbreak, the trials of w...