The Biographies & Memoirs category has 8,363 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 123,952 ratings. The most-rated is Born a Crime.
La piena
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Questa è una storia di traffico di cocaina. I protagonisti sono i produttori, i distributori e le polizie di tre nazioni. Ma questa è anche la storia di una piena, un'onda di piena lenta e inesorabile che arriva imprevista e sale fino a travolgere la vita di un giovane uomo. È la storia di Gianfranco Franciosi, che grazie al suo talento di meccanico nautico, viene suo malgrado coinvolto in un traffico di cocaina proveniente dal Sud America e inizia a collaborare con la polizia italiana diventando di fatto un infiltrato. Anzi, diventa il primo civile infiltrato sotto copertura nella storia della lotta al narcotraffico in Italia. Nel corso di queste 10 puntate Matteo Caccia ci accompagna attraverso eventi straordinari, che sembrano far parte di un romanzo e non di una vita vera. Alle voci dei protagonisti e dei testimoni dei fatti si aggiunge il racconto di Gianfranco Franciosi in prima persona: gli eventi che lo portano prima in carcere, poi a partecipare al più importante sequestro di cocaina nella storia dell'Europa, e infine a entrare nel programma protezione testimoni perché la sua vita è ormai in pericolo. Gianfranco Franciosi è protagonista di una vicenda costellata di colpi di scena e svolte improvvise, che ci racconta come a volte la vita possa trasformarsi in una lotta per rimanere a galla. Di Matteo Caccia Scritto con Mauro Pescio Regia e musiche originali di Luca Micheli Una produzione Mismaonda per Audible Studios >> Questo podcast vi è offerto in esclusiva per Audible ed è disponibile solamente in formato audio digitale.
©2018 Audible Originals (P)2018 Audible Studios
Vera Brittain and the First World War
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Vera Brittain and the First World War tells the remarkable story of the author behind Testament of Youth while charting the book's ascent to become one of the most loved memoirs of the First World War period. Such interest is set to expand even more in this centenary year of the war's outbreak. In the midst of her studies at Oxford when war broke out across Europe, Vera Brittain left university in 1915 to become a VAD (voluntary aid detachment) nurse. There she treated soldiers in London, Malta, and Etaples. The events of the First World War were to have an enormous impact on her life. Four of Brittain's closest friends, including her fiancé, Roland Leighton, and her brother, Edward Brittain, MC, were killed in action, sparking a lifelong commitment to pacifism. In 1933 she published Testament of Youth, the first of three books dealing with her experience of war. In equal measures courageous, tragic, and deeply fascinating, Testament of Youth is one of the most compelling and important works of war literature ever to have been written by a British woman. Mark Bostridge's Vera Brittain and the First World War, published to coincide with the film of Testament of Youth, explores the effects of the First World War on Vera Brittain both in terms of her personal life and in terms of its effect on her development as a writer and her eventual decision to become a pacifist.
©2014 Mark Bostridge (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
Elizabeth & Margaret
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Perfect for fans of The Crown, this captivating biography from a New York Times best-selling author follows Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret as they navigate life in the royal spotlight. They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward Vlll decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered. Forever more Margaret would have to curtsey to the sister she called "Lillibet". And bow to her wishes. Elizabeth would always look upon her younger sister's antics with a kind of stoical amusement, but Margaret's struggle to find a place and position inside the royal system - and her fraught relationship with its expectations - was often a source of tension. Famously, the queen had to inform Margaret that the church and government would not countenance her marrying a divorcee, Group Captain Peter Townsend, forcing Margaret to choose between keeping her title and royal allowances or her divorcee lover. From the idyll of their cloistered early life, through their hidden war-time lives, into the divergent paths they took following their father's death and Elizabeth's ascension to the throne, this book explores their relationship over the years. Andrew Morton's latest biography offers unique insight into these two drastically different sisters - one resigned to duty and responsibility, the other resistant to it - and the lasting impact they have had on the crown, the royal family, and the ways it adapted to the changing mores of the 20th century. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2021 Andrew Morton (P)2021 Hachette Audio
I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?
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An award-winning Iraqi writer creates a new world for himself in Seattle in search of lost love. As the US occupation of Iraq rages, novelist Mortada Gzar, a student at the University of Baghdad, has a chance encounter with Morise, an African American soldier. It’s love at first sight, a threat to them both, and a moment of self-discovery. Challenged by society’s rejection and Morise’s return to the US, Mortada takes to the page to understand himself. In his deeply affecting memoir, Mortada interweaves tales of his childhood work as a scrap-metal collector in a war zone and the indignities faced by openly gay artists in Iraq with his impossible love story and journey to the US. Marginalized by his own society, he is surprised to discover the racism he finds in a new one. At its heart, I’m in Seattle, Where Are You? is a moving tale of love and resilience.
©2021 Mortada Gzar. Translation © 2021 by William Hutchins. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Black Boy Out of Time
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An eloquent, restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists today about growing up Black and queer in America, reuniting with the past, and coming of age their own way. One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare K???a mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their own coming-of-age story, Ziyad takes listeners on a powerful journey of growing up queer and Black in Cleveland, Ohio, and of navigating the equally complex path toward finding their true self in New York City. Exploring childhood, gender, race, and the trust that is built, broken, and repaired through generations, Ziyad investigates what it means to live beyond the limited narratives Black children are given and challenges the irreconcilable binaries that restrict them. Heartwarming and heart-wrenching, radical and reflective, Hari Ziyad’s vital memoir is for the outcast, the unheard, the unborn, and the dead. It offers us a new way to think about survival and the necessary disruption of social norms. It looks back in tenderness as well as justified rage, forces us to address where we are now, and, born out of hope, illuminates the possibilities for the future.
©2021 by Hari Ziyad. (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Looking for Lorraine
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Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had an unflinching commitment to social justice, which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. While her close friends and contemporaries, like James Baldwin and Nina Simone, have been rightly celebrated, her story has been diminished and relegated to one work—until now. In 2018, Hansberry will get the recognition she deserves with the PBS American Masters documentary “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart” and Imani Perry’s multi-dimensional, illuminating biography, Looking for Lorraine. After the success of A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry used her prominence in myriad ways: challenging President Kennedy and his brother to take bolder stances on Civil Rights, supporting African anti-colonial leaders, and confronting the romantic racism of the Beat poets and Village hipsters. Though she married a man, she identified as lesbian and, risking censure and the prospect of being outed, joined one of the nation’s first lesbian organizations. Hansberry associated with many activists, writers, and musicians, including Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, among others. Looking for Lorraine is a powerful insight into Hansberry’s extraordinary life—a life that was tragically cut far too short. A Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Book for Nonfiction A 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize Finalist
©2018 Imani Perry (P)2018 Random House Audio
Tales from the Farm by the Yorkshire Shepherdess
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For everyone who loves watching Amanda Owen and her family on Our Yorkshire Farm, or enjoys her best-selling books, comes this delightful and uplifting collection of her monthly Dalesman columns. In Tales from the Farm by the Yorkshire Shepherdess, Amanda takes listeners on an evocative journey to Ravenseat, where she lives with husband Clive and their nine children, not to mention their flock of sheep, herd of cows, hardworking dogs and a formidable chicken called Linda. Covering events in 2019 and 2020, Amanda describes saving the life of a newborn calf on New Year's Eve and watching, mouth agape, as their livestock trailer was swept away by floodwater in March. Son Sidney braves the wrath of Linda and husband Clive and crafts an unusual Valentine's Day gift. Eldest daughter Raven leaves the nest, headed for university, while young sheepdog Taff and Tony the pony arrive at the farm. As Covid-19 sends the country into lockdown, Amanda feels more lucky than ever to live close to nature, finding happiness in the beauty of the Dales and the unchanging routines of the farming year.
©2021 Amanda Owen (P)2021 Macmillan Publishers International Ltd
Un altro giro di giostra
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Viaggiare è sempre stato per Tiziano Terzani un modo di vivere. Quando scopre di avere il cancro viaggiare alla ricerca di una soluzione è la sua risposta istintiva. Questo è un viaggio diverso da tutti gli altri, e anche il più difficile perché ogni passo, ogni scelta - a volte fra ragione e follia, fra scienza e magia - ha a che fare con la sua sopravvivenza. Strada facendo prende appunti. Da una lunga permanenza a New York e poi in un centro "alternativo" della California nasce un ritratto inquietante dell'America. Da un lungo girovagare per l'India, compresi tre mesi passati da semplice novizio in un ashram, sempre in cerca di qualcosa o qualcuno che possa aiutarlo, Terzani arriva ad una visione di quel che di più profondo questo paese ha da offrire all'uomo: la sua spiritualità. Ogni cultura ha il suo modo di affrontare i problemi umani, specie quelli della malattia e del dolore. Così, dopo essersi interessato all'omeopatia, Terzani si rivolge alle culture d'Oriente sperimentando sulla propria pelle le loro soluzioni, siano esse strane diete, pozioni di erbe o canti sacri. Medicina tibetana, cinese, ayurveda, qi gong, reiki, yoga e pranoterapia sono fra le sue tappe. Alla fine il viaggio esterno alla ricerca di una cura si trasforma in un viaggio interiore, il viaggio di ritorno alle radici divine dell'uomo. La cura di tutte le cure è quella di cambiare punto di vista, di cambiare se stessi e con questa rivoluzione interiore dare il proprio contributo alla speranza in un mondo migliore. Tutto il resto inutile? Niente affatto. Tutto serve, la mente gioca un enorme ruolo nelle nostre vite, i miracoli esistono, ma ognuno deve essere l'artefice del proprio. Un libro sull'America, un libro sull'India, un libro sulla medicina classica e quella alternativa, un libro sulla ricerca della propria identità.
©2011 Longanesi & C., Milano (P)2011 Adriano Salani Editore s.u.r.l., Milano
Genius Makers
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"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives of Geoff Hinton and other major players, Metz explains this transformative technology and makes the quest thrilling." (Walter Isaacson, author of The Code Breaker) Recipient of starred reviews in both Kirkus and Library Journal The Untold Tech Story of Our Time What does it mean to be smart? To be human? What do we really want from life and the intelligence we have, or might create? With deep and exclusive reporting, across hundreds of interviews, New York Times Silicon Valley journalist Cade Metz brings you into the rooms where these questions are being answered. Where an extraordinarily powerful new artificial intelligence has been built into our biggest companies, our social discourse, and our daily lives, with few of us even noticing. Long dismissed as a technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence was a project consigned to the fringes of the scientific community. Then two researchers changed everything. One was a 64-year-old computer science professor who didn’t drive and didn’t fly because he could no longer sit down - but still made his way across North America for the moment that would define a new age of technology. The other was a 36-year-old neuroscientist and chess prodigy who laid claim to being the greatest game player of all time before vowing to build a machine that could do anything the human brain could do. They took two very different paths to that lofty goal, and they disagreed on how quickly it would arrive. But both were soon drawn into the heart of the tech industry. Their ideas drove a new kind of arms race, spanning Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and OpenAI, a new lab founded by Silicon Valley kingpin Elon Musk. But some believed that China would beat them all to the finish line. Genius Makers dramatically presents the fierce conflict between national interests, shareholder value, the pursuit of scientific knowledge, and the very human concerns about privacy, security, bias, and prejudice. Like a great Victorian novel, this world of eccentric, brilliant, often unimaginably yet suddenly wealthy characters draws you into the most profound moral questions we can ask. And like a great mystery, it presents the story and facts that lead to a core, vital question: How far will we let it go?
©2021 Cade Metz (P)2021 Penguin Audio
Option B
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Book summary of Option B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant.
©2005 FLASHBOOKS, LLC (P)2017 FLASHBOOKS, LLC
LifeLines
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Join Melissa Bernstein, co-founder of the wildly successful toy company Melissa & Doug, on a journey to triumph over anxiety, depression, and despair - a story she hopes will help others find their path to meaning and inner peace. Now, more than ever, Melissa’s message is needed by others, and her promise to all who journey with her is that you are not alone. This uniquely annotated audiobook takes fellow seekers behind the scenes of Melissa’s transformation with bonus commentary and insights, to help them with their own journeys. Who would ever guess that Melissa Bernstein, happily married mother of six and creator of over 5,000 toys which have sold over a billion dollars, begins many days the same way far too many others do, wondering if she’ll make it to tomorrow? Melissa shows us that when darkness descends, and it seems there’s no escape, there actually is a way out, there actually is hope, and there actually is a path that can lead to meaning and purpose. In this dually narrated audiobook, narrator Lisa Larsen leads listeners on Melissa’s path through depression, revealing how Melissa’s “lifelines” transformed despair into a beacon of hope. Melissa herself reads selections from the book’s extensive verses, which chronicle both her struggles and her breakthroughs. Melissa then takes listeners “behind the scenes” of these verses with annotated commentary, providing insights into where she was along her journey to self-discovery and inner transformation when she wrote each line of verse. With this bonus material, Melissa hopes to share a framework for people seeking their own path from darkness to light.
©2021 Melissa Bernstein (P)2021 LifeLines, LLC
Designed to Win
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Designed to Win, written by Po Chung - the co-founder of DHL - reveals the industry secrets they used to build a worldwide network that now operates in more than 200 countries and territories! Warning: Listening to this book and following the advice within can result in designing an industry that doesn’t yet exist! Start listening now to: Discover how caring about things bigger than ourselves drives effective leadership Find out how a unique marriage between Eastern and Western values inspired an inter-cultural leadership model Discover why you should address leadership needs rather than management needs Learn how to design, develop, and lead a global service network Understand why superior leaders practice noble visions, competence, character and care Learn how to articulate human - and company - actualization Figure out how better followers and leaders build more competitive networks Discover how happy people led by happy leaders run like a well-oiled machine ...and much more! Designed to Win answers the question: How do I design a global company?
©2019 by Leaders Press (P)2020 by Leaders Press
My Journey - Sally to Shay
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My Journey - Sally to Shay is a powerful story of one person's struggle to live as themselves and find self-worth. After a traumatic life as Sally, from childhood to adulthood, true love is the key. Happiness follows, as months under the surgeon's knife lead to Shay becoming his true self. Sally to Shay is a must-listen for individuals and families going through the same turmoil.
©2018 Shay Robertson (P)2020 Shay Robertson
Survival Lessons
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Fifteen years ago, Alice Hoffman received a diagnosis that changed everything about the life she'd been living. Most significant - aside from the grueling physical ordeal she underwent - was the way it changed how she felt inside and what she thought she ought to be doing with her days. Now she has written the book that she needed to read then. In this honest, wise, and upbeat guide, Alice Hoffman provides a road map for the making of one's life into the very best it can be. As she says, "In many ways I wrote this book to remind myself of the beauty of life, something that's all too easy to overlook during the crisis of illness or loss. There were many times when I forgot about roses and starry nights. I forgot that our lives are made up of equal parts sorrow and joy, and that it's impossible to have one without the other…I wrote to remind myself that in the darkest hour the roses still bloom, the stars still come out at night. And to remind myself that, despite everything that was happening to me, there were still some choices I could make."
©2013 Alice Hoffman. Recorded by arrangement with Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing Company, Inc. (P)2013 HighBridge Company
Lost on Treasure Island
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When Midwesterner Steve Friedman arrived in Manhattan, the land of the quick and the mean, raring to go and ready to conquer, he soon found pitfalls and pratfalls more numerous and perilous than he had ever imagined. Here is his utterly honest, often hilarious, self-deprecating account of those fateful years, starting with his first job at GQ and his awkward efforts to impress his boss, Art Cooper, and including real and imagined love affairs, disasters at work and play, growing self-awareness with its inevitable bouts of depression and subsequent therapies - all of which fail - and in the end, a wisdom that promises better things to come. In the tradition of Bright Lights, Big City and The Devil Wears Prada, Lost on Treasure Island is a witty rendition of the perils of growing up and being thrown into the real world. With sharp humor and unexpected sincerity, Friedman crafts a inviting portrait of the best of times and the worst of times. For all those who have confronted the endless opportunities of the Big Apple, only to discover how hard it is to succeed in this - or any - big city, this boisterous and often enlightening memoir will prove irresistible.
©2011, 2013 Steve Friedman (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Stealth at an H.B.C.U.: An Exception to the Rule
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Content/trigger warning: Certain content in this book is very descriptive and/or graphic and can cause certain feelings of a negative traumatic nature from certain words or events taken place or spoken of here in this nonfiction memoir and should be treated with discretion and care. (Such words as but not limited to rape, rape apologist, rapist, missing girl notice, unwanted advances, death, murder, asphyxiation, attacker, battery, physical assault, trans violence, police conduct, terfs, LGBTQ slurs, framed, words that can trigger bottom dysphoria, stalking, rumored, sexual harassment, slander, etc.) The listener has the right to their feelings, and it is validated, and I, the author, have and maintain the right to share my narrative. Proceed with caution, and always remember to take care and be mindful of your mental health. Disclaimer: As the author, I have recreated events and conversations from memory, to which I can recall of them to the fullest extent. In order to maintain their anonymity in some instances, I have changed all of the names of individuals, along with leaving out identifiable characteristics and details such as physical properties, in order to protect the privacy of majority individuals in its entirety. Some language may be seen as grammatically incorrect as this style of writing is structured conversationally and outside of the gender binary system of language. Uses of the words they, them, and theirs will be used in the form of a noun as some people use them as their pronouns. Some explicit language will be used to an extent, as well. All events mentioned in the book are true and based on life in a memoir depiction of the author. However, again, all names mentioned in this book are fake/pen names to maintain privacy and protect identity of individuals mentioned, including the author. I, the author, maintain the right to share my narrative and experiences. "Stealth at an H.B.C.U. shines the light on gender; specifically, transgender and the struggles that come when openly expressing narratives that reveal the soul. Through personalized narratives Stealth loudly shouts, 'Look at me. I am here, too!' The poetic and rhythmic narrative voice of Stealth juxtaposes gender references that keep the listener “woke”. Woke to the truth that the 21st century has not ushered a 21st-century philosophy thinking about the gender spectrum in a community where family, race, and acceptance are historical fabrics within the H.B.C.U. tapestry. Markel Adel humanizes the Black, young transgender experience by recreating for the listener a gender culturally and spiritual vernacular that makes you listen. It makes you listen to the freedom that comes with embracing the truth deep inside you and how that truth can be lived out, without apology at an H.B.C.U. Stealth is revealing and touching!" (Garry Yates, MC, MFA, interim chair, Clark Atlanta University) “How absolutely refreshing! Something innovative, different, and uniquely displayed to show the author’s piercing perception of the many dynamics of gender variant, day-to-day life applications. This audiobook is delivered in a way that not only puts you in the center of the storytelling, but also gives the amazing experience of a journey not just read but heard in the actual voice of the author. The teachable moments that unfold both intentionally and unintentionally render this book both a must-have for those walking and moving in ways that call for authenticity within their gender identity and sexuality that is still real and yet unexposed, simultaneously. Excellent job at telling your story, your way, and sharing with us your experiences, viewpoints, and perspectives of being stealth at an H.B.C.U. True art, sharing the stage with this transgender experience of change, growth, and self-discovery." (Pastor Mykal Shannon, Dynamic Faith Ministries, Inc)
©2020 Savon M. James (P)2021 Savon M. James
The Wild Blue
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The very young men who flew the B24s over Germany in World War II against terrible odds were an exemplary band of brothers. In The Wild Blue, Stephen Ambrose recounts their extraordinary brand of heroism, skill, daring, and comradeship. Ambrose describes how the Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and chose those few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in the war. These are the boys - turned pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners of the B24s - who suffered over 50 percent casualties. Ambrose carries us along in the crowded, uncomfortable, and dangerous B24s as their crews fought to the death through thick, black, deadly flak to reach their targets and destroy the German war machine or else went down in flames. Twenty-two-year-old George McGovern, who was to become a United States senator and a presidential candidate, flew 35 combat missions (all the Army would allow) and won the Distinguished Flying Cross. We meet him and his mates, his co-pilot killed in action, and crews of other planes - many of whom did not come back. As Band of Brothers and Citizen Soldiers portrayed the bravery and ultimate victory of the American soldier from Normandy on to Germany, The Wild Blue makes clear the contribution these young men of the Army Air Forces stationed in Italy made to the Allied victory.
©2001 Stephen E. Ambrose (P)2011 Simon & Schuster
Happiness Samurai
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Happiness is beautiful intrinsically when combined with your true purpose, your life’s true IKIGAI. Manny narrates this book to awaken the Happiness Samurai that sleeps within each one of us. The book consists of insightful yet practical ways of dealing with life’s vicissitudes and blessings for leading a life like a Japanese Samurai with wisdom, courage, honour and a true sense of happiness. The foreword of the book is written by John Abraham, who is an accomplished Indian film actor, producer and most importantly a fantastic human being. About the book, he says, “Listen to this book not because you are down or low – listen to this book because it will teach you the value of happiness. Hear this book to understand how you can create your own happiness with what you have within you in the here and now.” Manny captures his life events, adventures and varied experiences authentically with the lens of IKIGAI wisdom and creates a wealth of knowledge through the journey. We hope you’ll love listening to this book, and we wish you the very best through this powerful tome on happiness. All adults were once children, but only a select few who follow their Ikigai remember it. To the others, there is a beautiful story unfolding inside you, a unique passion that gives meaning to your days and drives you to share the best of yourself with the world. If you don’t know what your story is yet, we hope the Happiness Samurai will help you discover it. Stop Trying and Start Being Simple truth. In the end, life is challenging - right? But know this: you have been playing and splashing in the shallow end, thinking that is your world and that is your only shot at happiness; that is the only extent of your happiness. What happens when you dive deeper? What if you sink? Well, Manny asks you this - what if you swim? Arigato gozaimasu!
©2021 Happiness Quotient Global Private Limited (P)2021 9f10.com
Hammer of the Gods. Led Zeppelin - Die Saga
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In Stephen Davis Band-Biografie, die das Genre begründete, bleibt kein Aspekt der unglaublichen Karriere von Led Zeppelin unberücksichtigt: Von den berühmt-berüchtigten Begegnungen mit allzeit bereiten Groupies und den narkotischen, alkoholischen und psychischen Exzessen über den verstörenden Einfluss des Magiers Aleister Crowley auf Lead-Gitarristen Jimmy Page bis hin zum Tod von John Bonham. Über allem steht dabei der umwerfende, alles und jeden umblasende Effekt der Musik von Led Zeppelin.Auch nach fast 30 Jahren Bandpause haben Robert Plant, Jimmy Page und John Paul Jones - an den Drums unterstützt durch John Bonhams Sohn Jason - nichts von ihrer Anziehungskraft verloren. Anlässlich ihres Live-Comebacks am 10. Dezember 2007 sind über 20 Millionen Kartenanfragen beim Konzertveranstalter eingegangen.
(c)+(p) 2009 Edel Germany GmbH
Tueurs de l'occulte
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Depuis la fin des années 1960, les crimes à caractère occulte connaissent une progression foudroyante. À tel point que des corps policiers ont mis sur pied des unités d’élite spécialisée; en effet, la vision intime du monde de ces meurtriers est souvent peuplée de démons, de vampires et de goules. Ici, nous ne parlons plus de meurtres ou de modus operandi, mais de rituels et de sacrifices. Mais qui sont ces «tueurs de l’occulte»? Par quelle «logique» tordue en viennent-ils à croire qu’ils sont les messagers de quelque divinité? Qu’ils doivent tuer au nom d’un gourou ou de Satan? C’est ce que l’auteur tente d’expliquer dans ces pages bouleversantes. En sa qualité de journaliste spécialisé dans le domaine, Christian Page a bénéficié d’un accès privilégié aux archives judiciaires. Il a donc parcouru le monde afin de documenter les meurtres les plus insolites, est retourné sur les scènes de crime et a rencontré une foule de témoins, policiers, avocats, procureurs et juges. Il présente ici 13 histoires parmi les plus étranges et dérangeantes et les reconstitue avec minutie en suivant, pas à pas, l’évolution perturbante de ces «tueurs de l’occulte»: leur passé trouble, leurs croyances déformées et leurs crimes monstrueux. Ce livre se lit comme 13 nouvelles policières, sauf qu’ici tout est vrai. Même les noms n’ont pas été changés.
©2019 Guy Saint-Jean Éditeur (P)2020 Vues et Voix