Chasing the dream by Ryk Neethling

Chasing the dream
Author: Clinton van der Berg
Format: Softcover





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The story of Ryk Neethling is much more than the story of a triumphant sportsman. It is the story of a fiercely determined swimmer from Bloemfontein who overcame great odds – a near-drowning, social awkwardness and family tragedy – to become an Olympic champion.

In this autobiography, Ryk tells of his travels to the US to pursue his Olympic dream; the experience of winning gold in Athens in 2004; the murky world of steroids in sport; his ongoing battle with the sport’s administrators; his struggles with his Afrikaner identity; and his rejection of a multimillion-dollar offer to swim for another country.

The title will take the story up to the end of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, in which Ryk will become the only South African to compete in four successive Olympic Games.

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Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . . One School at a Time
Author: Greg Mortenson
Format: Softcover



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'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die' - Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan.

In 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, a mountaineer called Greg Mortenson drifted, cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. Moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school.

Three Cups of Tea is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools - especially for girls - in remote villages across the forbidding and breathtaking landscape of Pakistan and Afghanistan, just as the Taliban rose to power.

His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit.

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Skinny Bitch - Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls

Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous
Author: Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
Format: Softcover



Description:
If you can't take one more day of self-loathing, you're ready to hear the truth: you cannot keep shovelling the same crap into your mouth every day and expect to lose weight.

Not for the faint-hearted, "Skinny Bitch" tells it like it is, delivering the truth about food so that readers can make informed, educated decisions about what they put in their bodies.

Much more than just the next fad diet, "Skinny Bitch" outlines a way of life that will help readers make healthy choices.

Editorial Reviews:
"...have achieved the seemingly impossible by writing a diet book ... as sassy and entertaining as ... packed with reliable information." -- Energy Times

"...many priceless-yet-unprintable dictums certainly make you laugh in a way few diet books can." -- iVillage

"...there's more solid information about health and nutrition in Skinny Bitch than in most diet and health books..." -- bitch

"Don't hate them--be them. The authors of 'Skinny Bitch' offer women a no-holds-barred approach to being thin and fabulous." -- Metro

"The authors are brazen...They're not trying to win popularity contests...they just want healthy people." -- Associated Press

"This 224-page gem...tells it like it is." -- Austin American Statesman

"A funny foul-mouthed ode to adopting a vegan diet." -- Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Road
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Format: Hardcover



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A father and his son walk alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. This is the profoundly moving story of their journey.

The Road boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which two people, 'each the other's world entire', are sustained by love.

Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

'The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature ...An absolutely wonderful book that people will be reading for generations' - Andrew O'Hagan

'A work of such terrible beauty that you will struggle to look away' - Tom Gatti, The Times

'So good that it will devour you, in parts. It is incandescent' - Niall Griffiths, Daily Telegraph

'You will read on, absolutely convinced, thrilled, mesmerised. All the modern novel can do is done here' - Alan Warner, Guardian

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Soul Wisdom by Zhi Gang Sha

Soul Wisdom: Practical Soul Treasures to Transform Your Life
Author: Zhi Gang Sha
Format: Softcover



Description:
In "Soul Wisdom," internationally acclaimed Soul Master, healer, and bestselling author Dr. Zhi Gang Sha takes healing and personal transformation to the ultimate level, the soul level.

Dr. Sha's teachings empower you to melt all of your life blockages with practical soul treasures: Soul Language, Soul Song, Soul Movement, Soul Tapping, and Soul Dance. This is the first time in history that the Divine has released these soul secrets to transform the consciousness of humanity and create love, peace, and harmony for humanity, Mother Earth, and the Universe.

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The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Format: Hardcover




Description:
A lot of professors give talks titled The Last Lecture. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them:

What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams wasnt about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think).

It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe.

It was about living. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humour, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form.

It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.

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Faith Like Potatoes by Angus Buchan

Faith Like Potatoes
Author: Angus Buchan, Jan Greenough
Format: Softcover



Description:
Faith like potatoes -- ‘The seed for a great miracle lies not in difficulty, but impossibilty’ Angus Buchan is a tough, straightforward South African farmer of Scottish extraction, whose gentle but uncompromising faith has carried him through drought, financial crisis and family tragedy.

Called by God to preach the gospel, he has found the Holy Spirit working through him in amazing miracles of provision, healing and changed lives.

Read the true story that inspired the film.

Now also available in Afrikaans.

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Stolen Time by Sunny Jacobs

Stolen Time
Author: Sunny Jacobs
Format: Softcover




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Stolen Time: One Woman's Inspiring Story as an Innocent Condemned to Death --

"In a world of one, I am alone, more alone than I have ever been in my life. Locked up in a box within a box where no one can enter and I cannot leave. I am to await my death."

In 1976 a twenty-eight-year-old mother of two and her partner were wrongfully sentenced to death by the Florida courts for the murder of two police officers.

Sunny Jacobs would not taste freedom again for seventeen years, by which time her two children were estranged, her parents were dead and her beloved partner, Jesse Tafero, had been executed. Sunny spent five years on death row in solitary confinement.

In a cell the width of her arm-span, her only lifeline was the stream of letters between herself and Jesse, offering love and strength, each echoing the other's conviction that the truth would soon be revealed. She refused to lose hope, even though the state had allowed falsified testimonies to condemn her and Jesse, disregarding hidden evidence and the true murderer's confession.

Then in 1981 Sunny's sentence was reduced to life yet Jesse remained on death row, and Sunny lived under the constant shadow of his impending execution. But Sunny miraculously maintained her strength of heart, and fought on to prove their innocence - until in 1992 she was finally released, seventeen years after her ordeal began.

But it was two years too late for Jesse, who had died in a horrible botched execution that caused outrage the world over. Sunny Jacobs' life has been layered with tragedy and yet her story, while delving into her darkest days, is a shining example of a woman's triumph over despair. Sunny's resilience, her unshakeable joy, and her astounding ability to forgive are beautifully depicted in this stunning and uplifting memoir.

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The Da Vinci Method by Garret Loporto

The Da Vinci Method
Author: Garret Loporto
Format: Softcover



Description:
Break Out & Express Your Fire. Discover and master the fiery temperament shared by great leaders, entrepreneurs, artists and AD/HD-ers.

Are you: - Impulsive? - Risk-taking? - Distractible? - Sensation-seeking? - Insightful or Intuitive? Do you: - Crave risk and excitement? - Have an addictive personality? - Rebel against authority? - Think differently? Then you are a DaVinci.

Discover the secret genius that drives risk-takers, rebels, entrepreneurs, artists and ad/hd-ers to achieve greatness. Learn how to express this fire and harness it productively.

About the Author: Garret LoPorto, has been featured in The New York Times, Money Magazine, The Boston Globe and The London Financial Times. He is a successful entrepreneur, CEO, presenter at MIT, U.S. & International patent-pending inventor, and father of two children. He lives with his wife and children in Concord, Massachusetts.

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Law of Attraction by Michael J Losier

Law of Attraction: The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don't
Author: Michael J. Losier
Format: Softcover



Description:
Have you noticed that sometimes what you need just falls into place or comes to you from an out-of-the-blue telephone call?

Or you've bumped into someone on the street you've been thinking about?

Perhaps you've met the perfect client or life partner, just by fate or being at the right place at the right time.

All of these experiences are evidence of the Law of Attraction in your life. Have you heard about people who find themselves in bad relationships over and over again, and who are always complaining that they keep attracting the same kind of relationship? The Law of Attraction is at work for them too.

The Law of Attraction may be defined as: I attract to my life whatever I give my attention, energy and focus to, whether positive or negative. By reading this book you'll come to understand why and how this happens.

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The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

The Secret
Author: Rhonda Byrne
Format: Hardcover



Description:
Once known only by an elite who were unwilling to share their knowledge of the power, 'the secret' of obtaining anything you desire is now revealed by prominent physicists, authors and philosophers as being based in the universal Law of Attraction.

And the good news is that anyone can access its power to bring themselves health, wealth and happiness. Fragments of The Secret have been found in oral traditions, literature, religions and philosophies throughout the centuries.

A number of the exceptional people who discovered its power went on to become regarded as the greatest human beings who ever lived. Among them: Plato, Leonardo, Galileo and Einstein. Now 'the secret' is being shared with the world.

Beautiful in its simplicity, and mind-dazzling in its ability to really work, The Secret reveals the mystery of the hidden potential within us all. By unifying leading-edge scientific thought with ancient wisdom and spirituality, the riveting, practical knowledge will lead readers to a greater understanding of how they can be the masters of their own lives.

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