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Le livre explore la vie et les réalisations d'Elon Musk, entrepreneur, ingénieur et PDG de SpaceX, Tesla Motors, The Boring Company et SolarCity. Le livre se concentre sur les premières années de Musk, les défis rencontrés par ses entreprises et ses projets futurs. Il couvre l'histoire de SpaceX et de la vision de Musk pour l'exploration spatiale, l'innovation de Tesla dans les technologies de conduite autonome, la création de SolarCity, les...
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The sequel to the novel, China Laid Bare, which describes the author's time living in Germany."I often tried to think of words to describe the German people. The best I could come up with was weirdly bland or blandly weird. In the end, I settled for weirdly bland." Book 5 of the author's Great Escape series.
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Edgar Allan Poe is a name that seems known to all, yet remains just as shrouded in mystery as complete unknowns. For so long, Poe has been the subject of polarizing opinions and plenty of debates, even amongst scholars. There doesn't seem to be any true debate concerning his literary value. The same, however, cannot be said about his life and character, neither of which were spared from contradictions and controversy. Delve into this illustrated biography...
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Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) was a superstar: a virtuosic violinist, notorious womanizer, and reckless gambler. He was also widely believed to have sold his soul. Paganini Agitato, a novel based on his life story, was released by Fomite Press in August 2023, thirty-one years after the author's death. However, in preparing the book for eventual publication, the editor was obliged to delete portions of her original manuscript. Some of the material...
5) Tula
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A sus veinticinco años, Tula Bowman es considerada la estrella más grande de Hollywood. Sin embargo, termina recluida en un psiquiátrico después de un colapso nervioso. ¿Cuál es la razón que desencadena su colapso nervioso? La perturbadora respuesta se encuentra en Tula, el primer libro de la serie La Época dorada de Hollywood.
6) Preludes
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When a nine-year-old boy in a well-respected middle class family is raped, then repeatedly molested by his father, how does the boy experience the abuse and how does he manage to survive? Illuminating the horrors of child sexual abuse from a child's perspective, Preludes examines these questions.The boy wakes in the middle of the night to find his father sitting on the edge of his bed, gently shaking him from his sleep. Though confused by his father's...
7) Bellosguardo
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Enter an opulent world that no longer exists. Stretching from Europe to North Africa to the Hawaiian Islands, Bellosguardo: The Lives of Anna & Huguette Clark is based on a true story. It is a novel of a remarkable American family from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. Enabled by one of the richest men of the Gilded Age, the mother-daughter duo lived according to the values and traditions of Old Money, pursuing luxurious privacy and...
8) Boomerang
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Book 6 of Jack Freestone's series The Great Escape, set in Australia and New Zealand. The sequel to Weirdly Bland, and prequel to Bruce Grove. Novella based upon the author's experiences surfing, gambling, and traveling in Australia and New Zealand.
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One day searching through old, battered storage boxes sorting through paper file folders thinking he would shred them, Felix Fist discovers a large, tan envelope darkened by the dust of passing years. Surprised by what he finds in that envelope prompts him to search through an apple box of old notebooks taking him back over fifty years to when his search for the truths about the world and himself began. Reading through entries for several years, Felix...
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The new ideas of the new era give some new feeling to the human being. If there is something missing in this Kali-yuga, it is trust. Do not understand who is right and who is wrong. If you look from the wrong side, everyone looks wrong and on the other hand, if you look at the right side, everyone looks right. Now the biggest thing is how to identify who is right and who is wrong. In this competition, a person sometimes argues with someone and sometimes...
11) Cello Bride
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Read the story when heartache becomes destiny. . .
A beautiful hot, sexy, and ravaging classic that tells the life of a young girl name Miya Xi. She is an enthusiast, and strict critic for all art through-out world, but also a best distant friend to young woman name Angela who continues to serve as Beijing's Queen Piyan's chosen toy concubine that she uses to please her husband sexual desires.
Miya is a care-free woman who loves to tease men time...
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Lumen
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2023.
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278 pages ; 23 cm.
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Mucho se ha escrito y dicho sobre Maria Callas, uno de los mitos del siglo XX, pero casi nadie ha tenido acceso a su correspondencia privada, unas cartas en las que Maria expresaba su yo mas intimo. Alfonso Signorini, un hombre devoto desde la infancia de la voz de la gran artista tenia entre manos estos documentos cuando se puso a escribir La vida de Maria Callas. Tan fiera, tan fragil, la biografia novelada de la diva que nacio en Nueva York en...
14) Flawed
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Edward Horner was born with a silver spoon in his mouth but the spoon is tarnished as he suffers from a debilitating lack of self respect and self confidence. This has dire consequences for him in his later years as he squanders his inherited fortune due to his irrational determination to prove himself. It also creates an inability to confidently implement his own creative ideas.Edward's marriage to Cynthia fails as he avoids the responsibilities...
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Persevero Press
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2023.
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273 pages : 24 cm
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In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in a mountain-rimmed New Mexico desert, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot-a young and na�ive would-be writer-to join her. Their tempestuous relationship endured throughout the chaotic years of WW2; the death of Georgia's domineering, philandering husband (famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz); and...
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Tout le monde a, un jour, été touché par une sage-femme. C'est beau de se dire cela de sa profession et en même temps, tout de suite, ça met la pression ! Lirio Michèle "Quand le carré de chocolat ne suffit plus" explore une série d'histoires, parfois liées, parfois indépendantes, qui abordent la grossesse, la parentalité, le couple et le désir. Il nous pousse à remettre en perspective une conception médicale et très sociétale du...
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Reviewing lost times on Milwaukee's South Side during the 1930s and 1940s and beyond, this chronicle offers memorable events of an extended family of European heritage, some immigrating to America at the start of the 20th century. Recalling those events, the chronicle depicts how feelings and dreams deferred influenced perceptions and responses to the challenges of living in a new social environment and changing culture. Through its search for lost...
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Mais je suis miséreux, je n'ai plus que quelques sous, j'ai déroulé mes richesses sous tes pieds, consomme-les doucement parce que tu gaspilles mon sang, mais je suis nécessiteux, je n'ai plus que mes yeux, j'ai immolé mes lumières dans tes yeux, garde-les précieusement puisque je ne peux voir sans eux, mais je suis pauvre, je n'ai plus que mon âme, j'ai dépouillé mon corps comme un fou, traite-le gentiment parce que tu écrases mes os,...
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Times were not the best nor the worst during the late 1950s when Felix Fist set out for California to attend college and fulfill the dream he had always thought impossible, the only one in his extended family to even aspire toward that auspicious goal. Facing challenges, many of his own making from a limited social and cultural background, Felix responds ingenuously as a participant observer in absorbing the unexpected emerging events of the turbulent...
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Having finished his first year of college, Felix Fist sets off to complete his year of wandering: Leaving a dreary room in a derelict building on Anaheim in Long Beach on the border of the ghetto, Felix hitches rides to Oregon, works for the first and only time helping harvest grain, then takes to the road again traveling back to his place of origins where he encounters friends he thought he knew.His trip back through purple mountains, painted desert,...
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