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1) The Push
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English
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Grant broke his back and was told he would never walk again. Despite his prognosis, Grant focused on recovery. Then, he attempted to become the first spinal cord injured athlete to PUSH himself to the South Pole, using only his arms.
3) The push
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Snowmobiler Grant Korgan becomes the first spinal cord injured athlete to push himself to the South Pole after recovering from a fractured L1 vertebrae in the Sierra Nevada, despite being told that he would never walk again.
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English
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"A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, about a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for--and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting, supportive mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter--Violet...
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English
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As our country goes through trying times, the author put together the best of his op-ed columns, published in his local newspaper, The Tuscaloosa News, which deals with the issues facing our nation today. Clayton ranges all the way from the issues very close to home and family, such as what is being taught in our schools, colleges, and universities, to issues straddling the incredibly complex and often rancorous events in public life, from the presidency...
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English
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Andrew Day embarks on a bicycle trip from Halifax to Kingston, his childhood home. As he goes, the dual narratives of Andrew's life emerge: the slow, painful death of his father and the disappearance of Betty, who may be lost to him forever. He contemplates, too, the nature of desire. En route, Andrew sloughs off his fears, material goods, and attachments. In episodes of intensifying violence, he leaves the highway and rides the back roads under the...
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Series
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English
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Everything can become a slog depending on your life conditions and your mental state-even things you love. Over the long haul, after the blush of the initial rush of creativity fades, how do you continue creating? When the ease of imagining and creating new work fades, how do you keep producing? On the Push to Produce Work dives into the question of stamina and productivity-how do you keep moving forward through the haze of disappointment, the necessity...
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English
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Awaken your inner strength to achieve the unthinkable in this extraordinary story that will inspire you to unlock your own unlimited possibilities.
On a cold rainy night in 1989 Joe Roberts was homeless and destitute on a park bench in Vancouver. He made a promise if he was granted a second chance in life, he would pay it forward. Walk with Joe through his personal transformation, his success in business and the epic pay it forward campaign that...
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Language
Deutsch
Description
Anja Finke has already helped hundreds successfully lose weight with the help of the Thermomix. Now she has summarized her bundled knowledge on everyday questions about weight loss.
This audio book is for you if you are serious about your weight loss project or if you have tried in vain to lose weight with diets. Because from now on, this expert guide will serve you the solution to all weight loss problems on a silver platter:
The best tips and...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This engrossing memoir chronicles the journey of a boy with a fanatical mountain-guide father who was determined to instill toughness in his son to a teen whose obsessive nature drove him to the top of the sport-climbing circuit. Caldwell's affinity for adventure then led him to the vertigo-inducing and little understood world of big wall free climbing. But his evolution as a climber was not without challenges; in his early twenties, he was held...
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English
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What children really need has been, misunderstood for most of human history. Drawing on the latest scientific research, philosophy, and psychology as well as her own clinical experience, Maxine illuminates the life of the child. This book promotes the child as a soul, unified in body, mind, and spirit. Articulated through the Foundational Needs Model, the complex interplay of the emotional, mental, psychological, spiritual and physical dimensions...
13) The push
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The party should have been perfect: six couples from the same baby group, six newborns, a luxurious house. But not everything has gone to plan, and while some are here to celebrate, others have sorrows to drown. When someone falls from the balcony of the house, the secrets and conflicts within the group begin to spill out ...DS Alison Hegarty, herself struggling with infertility, is called in to investigate. She's convinced the fall was not an accident,...
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English
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Decision making is often hard and uncomfortable, and there's nothing more frustrating to salespeople than indecision. To combat this mortal enemy, Ryan Serhant, one of the top realtors in the world and costar of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing: New York and Sell It Like Serhant, shares his push, pull and persist method to get indecisive clients swiftly to the next stage. Ryan Serhant is a costar on Bravo's hit show Million Dollar Listing New York and...
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English
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Want to build strength and gain muscle mass at home with no equipment? This book is for you! Anyone who has tried bodyweight exercises (also known as "calisthenics") knows it is an extremely safe and effective type of training to develop lean body mass, improve strength and increase muscle endurance. In this book we will focus primarily on push-up progressive training which can be performed without any special equipment.Bodyweight training doesn't...
16) The push truck
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Series
Publisher
Jojoba Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Dog on a Log books are for anyone learning to read with phonics, especially folks with dyslexia. You can start anywhere in the series based on your child's reading level. Each step of books introduces just a few more phonics rules. The stories get longer and more complicated with the progression. Dog on a Log books are a systematic series of decodable books written with the Orton/Gillingham/Structured Literacy based phonics sequence.
Jan and...
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Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2005, ©1969.
Language
English
Description
"Over four decades ago, Yoshihiro Tatsumi expanded the horizons of comics story-telling by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty, literary short stories about the private lives of everyday people. He has been called "the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics" and has influenced generations of cartoonists, but, until now, the majority of his work has remained unavailable outside of Japan. The first in a chronological, multi-volume...
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Publisher
Center Street, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In his impassioned-yet-measured book, Rafael A. Mangual offers an incisive critique of America's increasingly radical criminal justice reform movement, and makes a convincing case against the pursuit of "justice" through mass-decarceration and depolicing. After a summer of violent protests in 2020--sparked by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks--a dangerously false narrative gained mainstream acceptance: Criminal justice...
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Publisher
The Athlete Story, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When the Dream Became Reality is the story of a professional athlete's path and evolution, as a person and athlete, from childhood through six professional seasons. In this heartfelt memoir, Bobby Warshaw recounts the moments we rarely hear so honestly from athletes, including disagreements with coaches, personal mistrust of his own ability, doubt about his sexuality, and the aftermath of loss and failure. Warshaw experienced incomparable highs--game-winning...
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