Notes from My Travels


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From actress and activist Angelina Jolie comes the personal journals she compiled while performing humanitarian relief efforts in such countries as Sierra Leone and Tanzania, Pakistan and Cambodia. When award-winning actress Angelina Jolie took on a radically different role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), she was determined to document everything she witnessed and experienced. Here are her memoirs from her journeys to Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Pakistan, Cambodia, and Ecuador, where she lived and worked and gave her heart to those who suffer the world’s most shattering violence and victimization. Here are her revelations of joy and warmth amid utter destitution...compelling snapshots of courageous and inspiring people for whom survival is their daily work, and candid notes from a unique pilgrimage that completely changed her worldview—and the world within herself.




Angel


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Angelina Heart is a sweet kindhearted girl who goes above and beyond for others. She has been through so much in her young life, but she never loses her faith or hope that life will get better. She overcomes challenges from her past, and her future looks bright, but she is haunted by the death of her parents. Can she let go of her past, or will it destroy her? When put in a life-threatening position what will she do? Risk her life to save a life of someone else or give up on everything. What will happen if her heart stops beating? Is her love and faith enough to get a second chance?




Charlie and the Angel


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She was promised to God, until she met him. Charlie Coltrain has been an outlaw since the end of the Civil War. For the past year he has been working an honest job as a trail hand. After he saves a postulate from a gang of marauders, he takes her to the nearest town, hoping to put her on a stage back to the convent. Unfortunately, their journey is sidetracked by the bounty hunters and the ranger on Charlie's trail, this time for a crime he didn't commit. He is fascinated by Angelina's innocence, but he believes he is too old and too broken to ever share her life. Angelina is captivated by Charlie's unearthly beauty, and the pain she glimpses in his eyes. She decides it is her mission to save Charlie from himself. She flees with him to Mexico hoping to show him that there is still good in this world and in him. She is uncertain what to do with the new and confusing feelings she has for the man. Is the only way to save Charlie by ruining herself? best western historical romance novels, historical western romance novels, western historical romance books, may december romance, may december romance novels, older man younger woman, second chance historical romance







Going Places


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Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.




Stolen Angels


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In October 1996, thirty Ugandan schoolgirls were abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and disappeared into the bush of Northern Uganda. The girls were raped and tortured before being forced to become child soldiers and sex slaves. This was only one out of thousands of child kidnappings by merciless madman and rebel leader Joseph Kony. But for the battered civilians terrorized by rebel warfare and neglected by corrupt government, this was the breaking point. Something had to be done—the world needed to know and their girls needed to be brought home. Kathy Cook's one-on-one interviews with the surviving girls and their mothers make their fear, frustration, and suffering overwhelmingly real. With exceptional insight gained from on-location research, Cook gives us an authoritative account of how concerned parents, interfaith groups, politicians from Canada and the United States, and NGOs banded together in a struggle to rescue the girls and to mobilize a people, their country, and a global community. An emotionally charged retelling of a heartbreaking true story, Stolen Angels reminds us of the importance of faith, strength, and determination in the face of adversity.




Forgiving What I Couldn't Change


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Life doesn't come with cheat codes.Vera Bartlet finally lands her dream job after rescuing her dad from the psychotic bullies who held him captive. Despite dealing with the recurring trauma from being bullied and the psychological struggles surrounding it, Vera's moving in a much better direction. With time-travel under her belt, happily engaged friends, and an improved relationship with her previously estranged Uncle Edgar, life is stable - until the time machine gets stolen.Vera's family worries that a machine immune to the limits of time and space in the wrong hands would spell disaster for more than just their family. But when she's quite literally dragged into the epicenter of the nefarious operation, Vera gets thrown into the very same virtual reality world that imprisoned her dad for the better part of a decade.This place isn't like anywhere Vera's been before. Sporadic sky patterns with a deadly acid nightfall, man-eating purple-blooded wolf creatures, and an avatar with totally unnecessary upgrades is only the beginning of what she has to deal with. Her only saving grace is the frustratingly attractive Fader, who's been in the game longer than she has and knows a way out. Can Vera make it out of the game alive, forgive her bullies, and level up before her whole world glitches?




St. Raphael


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A little book about the great Archangel Raphael, who is the Patron of Healing, of Happy Meetings, of Marriage, of Joy and of Travel. It gives the Scriptural background on St. Raphael, plus famous prayers to use in invoking the aid of this great Archangel, who identifies himself as one of the seven who stand before the Lord. Imprimatur.




Harvey, the Traveling Harmonica


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Meet Harvey, a little harmonica that likes to travel. From Grandpa to Dad to Walter, Harvey sings tunes sweeter than candy. But Harvey has competition with Buddy, the family dog, whose howling is so annoying that even the birds fly away. When Harvey accidentally falls into the rushing creek waters, losing sight of Walter, can Buddy save him? Young children will delight in this fun tale filled with colorful illustrations about a little harmonica's adventures. This is book two in the Traveling series, books that stem from the author's life and experiences.




Spirit Guides & Angel Guardians


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They come to our aid when we least expect it, and they disappear as soon as their work is done. We all regularly receive messages from our guardian angels and spirit guides but usually fail to recognize them. This book aims to help the reader to realize when this occurs.