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The mother of the revolutionary firebrand Malcolm X was a Grenadian woman born at the turn of the 20th century in a small rural community in a deeply colonial society where access to education had only just begun for the children of working people. She emigrated to Canada and then the USA, where she became involved in the struggle for Black civil rights led by Marcus Garvey.

Best-selling sportswriter Peter Golenbock knew Mickey Mantle, as well as many of Mantle's friends, family members, and teammates. While Mickey was a good person at heart, he had a dark side that went far beyond his well-known alcoholism and infidelities. In Golenbock's shocking and revealing first novel, 7, Mickey tells the hidden story of his life as a baseball hero and asks for forgiveness from his friends and family. In this fictional portrait, Mantle, now in heaven, needs to unburden himself of all the horrible things he did and understand for himself why he did them.

A seven-volume collection containing some of the most fascinating journals and letters to have been written in the last two hundred and fifty years, all performed in a dramatised setting.

In The Woman of Wyrrd, the seventh book in her best-selling Medicine Woman series, follow Lynn Andrews as she travels back in time in a spiritual journey within the sacred Dreamtime to medieval England as a young woman named Catherine, an initiate of the Sisterhood of the Shields. Guided by Agnes Whistling Elk into a world of power and magic, Lynn Andrews enters the sacred Dreamtime and emerges as a young woman, Catherine, in medieval England.

Giorgio, che continua a guidare la Saxol come leader indiscusso e ad accrescere il suo patrimonio, decide di investire nel settore immobiliare. Al ritorno da una vacanza da sogno ai Caraibi con la duchessa Altagracia, è ancora una volta costretto a prendere un'importante decisione sentimentale, mentre alcuni fantasmi del passato bussano alla sua porta. Dopo essersi finalmente chiarito con Miriam, Giorgio si accorge che qualcosa in lui sta cambiando davvero.

La fama siempre tiene un precio. Julien Meadow era el chico de la eterna sonrisa, el que cantaba en el garaje con su hermano y el que se enamoró de unos ojos valientes ocultos tras una mecha rosa, los de Crysta. Nunca hubiera esperado que, a raíz de un vídeo subido a YouTube, le llegaría la fama. De repente, su voz inunda el mundo y su cara protagoniza todas las noticias. Julien debe hacer frente a un nuevo universo lleno de altibajos, lujo, descontrol y poder. Uno en el que te vuelves adicto a focos que queman y a palabras que muerden.

世界の歴史を動かしてきた人物たち、総勢415名の伝記・小伝をまとめたオーディオブック。
要点をかんけつにまとめ、きちんと文学性をもった文章によって語られる内容は、
大人にも子どもにも分かりやすくしっかりと真実を伝えることができます。

さらにはじめから順に聞いていくことによって歴史の流れをきちんとつかむことができ、
それぞれの人物たちの歴史が大きくつながっていることに気がつきます。

ただ歴史を学ぶだけではなく、偉人たちの「夢」や「情熱」に触れることによって、
子どもたちの心の成長につながるかもしれません。

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“A marvel of lost innocence” (O, The Oprah Magazine) that reimagines three life-changing weeks poet Elizabeth Bishop spent in Paris amidst the imminent threat of World War II. June 1937. Elizabeth Bishop, still only a young woman and not yet one of the most influential poets of the 20th...

Der Roman über John Lennons erste Liebe und die Geburtsstunde der Beatles. Liverpool, 1957: Der durch den Unfalltod seiner Mutter traumatisierte junge John Lennon rebelliert gegen alles - und will doch nur Musik machen. Dann begegnet er der schönen, stillen Cynthia, die von seinem düsteren Charisma sofort in den Bann gezogen wird. An ihrer Seite erlebt John jene Beständigkeit und Liebe, die er in seiner Familie nie erfahren hat. Gemeinsam mit Paul McCartney schreibt er nun die ersten eigenen Songs, und schon bald sind die Bühnenauftritte von The Silver Beatles legendär.

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Does it matter how a man fills out his regimentals? Miss Austen never considered that query. Yet, this question marks the beginning of an education - and the longest life - in the Bennet Wardrobe saga. Lydia Bennet, Longbourn’s most wayward daughter, embarks on her quest in The Pilgrim: Lydia Bennet and a Soldier’s Portion. This biography reveals how the Wardrobe helps young Mrs. Wickham learn that honor and bravery grow not from the color of the uniform - or the gender of its wearer - but rather from the contents of the heart.

La monumental obra de Marcel Proust (1871-1922), En Busca del Tiempo Perdido es un inmenso retrato de toda una sociedad y es considerada como una de las grandes obras maestras de toda la literature. Como su nobre lo indica, Proust trató de recobrar en su novella en siete volúmenes lo que había sido el ayer y sus personajes están basados en el círculo del autor. La obra en total es un reflejo de uno de los más brillantes análisis de la conciencia que se hayan escrito.

As America embraces the 1950s, that brash upstart called television is poaching Hollywood's turf, inch by inch. If the studios don't do something drastic, they may lose the battle. When screenwriter Marcus Adler fell afoul of the blacklist, Europe offered sanctuary. Hollywood lures him back, but the specter of Joseph McCarthy forces Marcus to fight for a final chance to clear his name.

Steventon, 1759: Die aufgeweckte Pfarrerstochter Jane möchte am liebsten nur eines: schreiben, schreiben, schreiben. Mit tintenverschmierten Händen durchwacht sie die Nächte und begibt sich in die Welt ihrer Heldinnen. Ginge es jedoch nach ihrer Mutter, würde sie schon bald die Schreibfeder gegen einen Ehering eintauschen. Jane allerdings interessiert sich herzlich wenig für die jungen Herren aus ihrem Ort - bis der belesene Tom Lefroy aufkreuzt. Doch Janes Liebe zu ihm wird immer wieder enttäuscht.

Widowed at the age of twenty, Ann has no optimism for the future. At the beck and call of her domineering mother she longs to make a new life for herself. But it's not that easy. Her world is turned upside down when a curious gentleman stops to speak to her. He's new to the area but seems to know a lot about her . . . and he appears very well-to-do. Could he be her savior? With newfound hope Ann dares to dream.

Mercedes Sosa ha sido probablemente la principal cantante (o cantora como ella clamaba ser) de la Argentina. Exploró todos los géneros musicales, desde el folklore, pasando por el tango, el rock y el pop y se convirtió en una leyenda de la canción argentina, latinoamericana y mundial.

How does a man who lost his life to food - and ate himself into a coma - find the power to change the destructive path he was on and discover joy within himself? Read about my eight-year journey that took me from the jaws of death to a contented and satisfied life. Behind Closed Doors is my story.

In 1883, a young, newly married Mercy Reynolds begins a personal journal, filling it with thoughts of her young family. She records her opinions on women's suffrage, historic events, small town gossip and life in general, never imagining she will also be documenting incredible loss as well. Her writings remind us of how America's pioneers lived in a world now largely forgotten.

L'envoutante Vanessa Ground a toujours su qu'elle avait un penchant puissant pour la sexualité. Elle a toujours vécu au rythme de ses passions et de ses pulsions lui permettant ainsi de vivre le moment présent. La séduction et l'assouvissement de ses désirs lui ont permis de vivre une multitude d'expériences hord du commun.