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Theroux began his career in America working on Michael Moore's TV Nation, and from this sprang his Weird Weekends (1998-2000) where Theroux spent time on porn sets, with swingers, body builders and white supremacists, to name but a few. Then came the hugely popular series When Louis Met..., in which Theroux spent time with the likes of Max Clifford, Chris Eubank and Jimmy Savile.

Twelve Years a Slave is the 1853 narrative of former slave Solomon Northup. He was born free in New York and kidnapped and sold into slavery. It was famously adapted for film in 2013.

Le premier souvenir de solitude ? Un petit garçon coiffé en brosse qui réclame sa mère à l'accueil d'un grand magasin. Plus tard, c'est un enfant de 10 ans qui nage seul dans la mer du nord et qui, lorsqu'il se retourne, découvre la plage vide : personne ne l'a attendu. Puis c'est la première danse refusée, la première rupture, le premier deuil, mais c'est aussi tous ces moments choisis, voulus, espérés, goutés : seul avec un livre, avec une musique, seul à regarder les autres, seul en écrivant.

Sie sind über hundert Jahre alt, doch die wahre Liebe finden sie erst jetzt. Haruka Hirano ist entstammt einer uralten Linie reinblütiger Vampire und gehört damit zur absoluten Elite der Vampir-High-Society. Doch trotz seines Standes und des Respekts, der ihm entgegengebracht wird, hat er die letzten Jahrzehnte mehr überlebt, statt seine Existenz zu genießen. Lediglich Harukas Aufgabe als Vampir Chronist, für die er die magischen Verbindungen zwischen Paaren dokumentiert, lockt ihn hin und wieder in die Gesellschaft anderer Vampire.

Mr. New Orleans tells the incredible story of Frenchy Brouillette, a redneck Cajun teenager who stole his big brother's motorcycle and embarked on a 60-year vacation to New Orleans, where he became a legendary gangster and the underworld political fixer for his cousin, Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards. Written by Crescent City native Matthew Randazzo V, the wickedly funny Mr. New Orleans is the first book to ever break the code of secrecy of the New Orleans Mafia Family, the oldest and most mysterious criminal secret society in America.

The dwindling population of beaver leaves Zach Connors, his family, and friends no choice but to leave Blacks Fork. They make a new home to the west, in a high mountain meadow along the Bear River. There, they find beaver and plenty of game, but there is more. A grizzly has claimed this area for his own. Star had dreamed many times of being taken by a warrior. But the dreams had stopped once they reached their new home to the west. As days passed, and with the threat of the grizzly always present, her dreams were forgotten. Until the day a Lakota Medicine Man came, and stole her away.

It is a long and treacherous journey to the mountains, some braved the dangers to escape the sure death from a rich and powerful man, while others were looking for the freedom they have never known. For some it was a job, a job that paid much better than working in Saint Louis, as others hoped to find their riches in the fur trade.

Early spring 1829 was a cold, starving time for most people in the Rocky Mountains. For Zach Connors and his family, it was the same. Known throughout the mountains as "Grizzly Killer", Zach fights the worst Mother Nature has to offer to find food, but then he must fight Cheyenne warriors to bring the treasured buffalo meat back home, only to find others have kidnapped his wife and her sister.

À l'instar de Phèdre, la langue de Racine atteint des sommets dans Bérénice (cf. Acte IV, scène 5) - Le dénouement, sans mort ni violence, est extrêmement pathétique.

The Jamaican orator and entrepreneur Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (1887-1940) preached success to the African diaspora. He believed that attaining economic, cultural, and political success would free African Americans in this life. Identifying integrity of character as the first step toward achievement, Garvey promoted capitalism as the means to establish African Americans as an independent group.

In the spring of 1832, Zach Connors and his family have survived another winter in the Rocky Mountains. It was a winter without the supplies they usually enjoyed. In 1828, William Reed built a trading post on the Uintah River, just over the mountains from Zach’s home on Blacks Fork. Reed received supplies from Santa Fe each spring and fall, making his trading post the best source of supplies west of the great divide.

In this harmonized portrayal of the miraculous events surrounding the birth of Jesus from Matthew and Luke, listeners will encounter the drama and joy of Christmas in a fresh and exciting way. The Word of Promise Christmas Story features original music from the world-renowned guitarist and Dove Award winner, Phil Keaggy, along with a faithful presentation of the New King James Version (NKJV) text selected from The Word of Promise Audio Bible.

Endlich sind Sydney und Ridge auch offiziell ein Paar, und eigentlich könnte alles perfekt sein. Dies umso mehr, als Ridges Exfreundin Maggie dabei ist, sich umzuorientieren: Beim Skydiving hat sie Jake kennengelernt, und der ist ganz offenkundig ebenso interessiert an Maggie wie sie an ihm. Doch als ihre Krankheit erneut ausbricht, gibt sie ihm aus lauter Angst gleich wieder den Laufpass - und sucht Hilfe bei dem Menschen, der ihr so vertraut ist wie kein anderer: Ridge.

Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, and author. He was one of the first three black people admitted to Harvard Medical School. Delany dreamed of establishing a settlement in West Africa and visited Liberia, a United States colony founded by the American Colonization Society. He was a prolific writer, and his book The Origin and Objects of Ancient Freemasonry, Its Introduction Into the United States, and Legitimacy Among Colored Men was published 1853.

Do you have someone in your life that knows more and knows better? Do the rules apply to everyone else, but not them? Do they think they are special and more important than everyone else? Do they take your concerns as criticism. They can be critical of others, but they hate to be criticized in any way? Do they blame other people when they are angry, upset or act inappropriately? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then you may be dealing with a narcissist. Learn how to get the upper hand!

Der perfekte Abschluss für Charlottes und Noahs Geschichte. Durch Charlotte hat Noah Lake die Kraft gefunden, ins Leben zurückzukehren und seine Blindheit endlich zu akzeptieren. Doch er will sich Charlottes' Liebe wahrlich würdig erweisen und macht sich auf eine Reise, die zur größten Herausforderung seines Lebens wird. Denn zu lernen, sich in der Welt zurechtzufinden, ist eine Sache - die Dämonen, die ihn so lange fesselten, endgültig konfrontieren, eine ganz andere... Die Novella zu "The Light in Us".

"Du bist das Licht in meiner Dunkelheit, Charlotte...". Charlotte Conroy stand am Anfang einer großen Karriere als Violinistin, als die Musik in ihr verstummte. Aus Geldnot nimmt sie den Job als Assistentin für einen blinden jungen Mann an. Noah Lake war Extremsportler und Fotograf, bis er bei einem Unfall sein Augenlicht verlor und sich von der Welt zurückzog. Mit jedem gescheiterten Versuch, Charlotte zu vergraulen, schleicht sich die junge Frau mehr in Noahs Herz und reißt die Mauern ein, die er um sich errichtet hat.

Poetry was Louis de Bernières’ first literary love. Here the much-loved author returns us to the vivid Mediterranean landscape of his fiction. Introduced to Greek poetry while in Corfu in 1983, de Bernières’ own poems about the distant past, the erotic and the philosophical owe much to the influence of the great Alexandrian poet.

The stories in Paul Alan Ruben's Terms of Engagement explore father and son as intimate enemies, each yearning to be understood, acknowledged, and validated by the other. Raw and gripping as delivered by a cast of incredible narrators, these nine stories take place in collision territory - where father and son engage in trying to repair their alienation.

By 1836, the beaver trade was starting to wind down, and trappers like Zach Connors, known as Grizzly Killer, were having to find other ways to get the supplies they had become accustomed to. Zach had found gold nuggets in a creek in the sacred mountains of their home, which he used to make up for the lack of beaver pelts. The Utes and Shoshone alike believe the gold in the creek was given to the Grizzly Killer, but no one was allowed to dig for it.