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Life of a Pioneer

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by 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 ... Read more

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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
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The Indifferent Stars Above

The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

by 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 ... Read more

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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
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The Boys in the Boat

Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

by 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 ... Read more

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**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
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Born in Chains - Collected Slave Narratives

First-Person Testimonies of Enslavement, Escape, Resistance, and the Fight for Freedom

by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, William Grimes, Solomon Northup, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Zamba Zembola, Boyrereau Brinch, Olaudah Equiano, Solomon Bayley, Henry Watson, John Brown, William Craft, Ellen Craft, J. W. Loguen, John Andrew Jackson, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Elizabeth Keckley, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, L. S. Thompson, James W. C. Pennington, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, Leonard Black, Henry Box Brown, Phillis Wheatley, James L. Smith, Joseph Mountain, Peter Still, Annie L. Burton, Israel Campbell, Lewis Clarke, Francis Fedric, William Still, Moses Roper, Joseph Vance Lewis, Rev. Greensbury Washington Offley, John Thompson, Venture Smith, Isaac D. Williams, William Walker, Octavia Albert ...

Born in Chains—Collected Slave Narratives assembles a capacious archive of bondage, flight, resistance, emancipation, and memory. Spanning autobiography, dictated testimony, spiritual reflection, political argument, and documentary recollection, the volume reveals the formal range of slave narrative traditions across the Atlantic world. Accounts of escape, family separation, literacy, labor, ... Read more

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Born in Chains—Collected Slave Narratives assembles a capacious archive of bondage, flight, resistance, emancipation, and memory. Spanning autobiography, dictated testimony, spiritual reflection, political argument, and documentary recollection, the volume reveals the formal range of slave narrative traditions across the Atlantic world. Accounts of escape, family separation, literacy, labor,
... Read more
Emotional Footprints

The thriller about new technology that captures and manipulates emotions, between business and legal intrigue

by 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... ... Read more

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"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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Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown

by James S. Brown ...

The narrative begins with Brown's early life, detailing his upbringing and the motivations that led him to seek a new life in the West. He recounts his journey as a young man, highlighting the difficulties faced by pioneers, including treacherous travel conditions, encounters with Native Americans, and the struggle to establish a homestead in an often harsh and unforgiving environment. Brown's ... Read more

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The narrative begins with Brown's early life, detailing his upbringing and the motivations that led him to seek a new life in the West. He recounts his journey as a young man, highlighting the difficulties faced by pioneers, including treacherous travel conditions, encounters with Native Americans, and the struggle to establish a homestead in an often harsh and unforgiving environment. Brown's
... Read more
It Takes a Town to Raise an Orphan

Jimmy Brown the Orphan Boy, #2

by JAMES BROWN ...

Series Book 2 - 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 ... Read more

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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
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Facing the Mountain

An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II

by Daniel James Brown ...

**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyWinner of the Christopher Award“Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism… Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown’s ability to make us care deeply about ... Read more

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**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyWinner of the Christopher Award“Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism… Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown’s ability to make us care deeply about
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Animal House

by 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. ... Read more

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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.
... Read more

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The Mastery of Success

Classic Wisdom on Ambition, Wealth, Self-Mastery, Character, and the Art of Purposeful Living

by Wallace D. Wattles, William Walker Atkinson, P. T. Barnum, Benjamin Franklin, Orison Swett Marden, James Allen, Russell Conwell, Henry Harrison Brown, Thorstein Veblen, Émile Coué, Kahlil Gibran, Marcus Aurelius, Niccolò Machiavelli, Lao Tzu, B. F. Austin, Charles F. Haanel, Robert Collier, Elbert Hubbard, William Crosbie Hunter, Harry A. Lewis, Florence Scovel Shinn, Napoleon Hill, George Matthew Adams, Genevieve Behrend, Elizabeth Towne, Ralph Waldo Trine, Charles Fillmore, George S. Clason ...

Translated by George Long, W. K. Marriott ...

The Mastery of Success gathers foundational writings on ambition, prosperity, self-command, and purposeful living into a capacious genealogy of modern self-help. Its selections range from aphoristic wisdom and philosophical meditation to entrepreneurial counsel, motivational essays, metaphysical instruction, and practical financial maxims. Classical reflections on virtue and strategy sit beside ... Read more

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The Mastery of Success gathers foundational writings on ambition, prosperity, self-command, and purposeful living into a capacious genealogy of modern self-help. Its selections range from aphoristic wisdom and philosophical meditation to entrepreneurial counsel, motivational essays, metaphysical instruction, and practical financial maxims. Classical reflections on virtue and strategy sit beside
... Read more
Role of a Lifetime

Reflections on Faith, Family, and Significant Living

by 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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more

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Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown

Frontier Adventures: A Pioneer's Memoir of American West Expansion

by James S. Brown ...

In "Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown," the author provides a compelling and introspective account of his experiences as a settler in the American frontier. The narrative is marked by a richly descriptive style that captures the harsh realities and the exhilarating possibilities of pioneer life. Brown meticulously chronicles his journey, blending historical context with ... Read more

$2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

In "Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown," the author provides a compelling and introspective account of his experiences as a settler in the American frontier. The narrative is marked by a richly descriptive style that captures the harsh realities and the exhilarating possibilities of pioneer life. Brown meticulously chronicles his journey, blending historical context with
... Read more

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