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The comic genius of English writing takes on Hollywood, delusion, celebrity and last century's ultimate glamour couple: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

The gripping corporate saga of Twitter's titans and their journey towards power, innovation, and controversy.

Out of print for a decade, David Katz's classic history is reborn in the White Rabbit Deep Cuts series.

A stunningly candid portrait of the Seattle grunge scene of the '90s and a memoir of an addict during the last great era of rock 'n' roll excess, by Hole drummer Patty Schemel

The Journey of Faith is a tale of his spiritual and physical journey and events that he encountered as a renegade priest with some viewpoints and observations of religion and history. Hopefully, the reader will gain some insight into the world of spirituality for the years to come and will be motivated to have a closer connection to God and not to religion as such. There are many questions asked but the answers are up to the reader. Richard Money doesn't expect Journey of Faith to be a record-breaking novel. In fact, the only reason it is being written is because so many people have told Richard over the years that he has a book in him. When is he going to get it out? Well, here it comes, for better or for worse. Journey of Faith is comprised of many incidents in his life that he believes may show not what he has done, but what he has become with the Grace of God. If you are looking for a religious experience, we don't think you will find it here, although you may. We are not making any promises. Journey of Faith will stimulate the mind to see the real messages of Jesus. What makes this book unique is the ingredients of life, and the events of a married priest after being married, and the training of priests of sixty years ago. If you are seeking the meaning of life and the working of the Holy Spirit this book will truly bring light into your life. All people seeking the Holy Spirit in their lives this is for you. Not only the religious but those on the fence, as it were who may doubt the workings of God in their lives. This book is to be a bridge between God and Man, and to see the manifestations of God in our lives. This is our life in the Journey of Faith.

"Bad Blood: A Life without Consequence" chronicles one adoptee's search and journey to discover his birth parents and his roots in the new world of DNA testing, data aggregation, and social media. What began with a simple inquiry to hopefully find his biological roots led one adoptee down a rabbit hole of intrigue, secrets, dark deeds, infidelity, and organized crime.Tracing his birth parents' origins from Detroit, Michigan, and on to their subsequent movements to Southern California, northward to Montana, and then on to Washington, and later to Oregon, he uncovered secrets and exposed many of the lies they told along the way. The trail of abuse and damage led to a man who lived a life without consequence.A search begun in the early 90's was abandoned but was revived when he caught a TV show on adoption by chance and submitted the information he had to a "Search Angel". This led to the discovery of his birth parents, several half-siblings, infidelities, organized crime, drug use, abuse, and attempted murder.Both a how-to and a cautionary tale of navigating the world of complex social media hurdles, sifting through massive quantities of data and dealing with an often unhelpful and obstructive legal system.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Charming and brilliant." --Times Literary Supplement "Provocative, stimulating, wise―the book that our success-obsessed age needs to read."―Tom Holland "Bradatan, a philosopher, writes with elegance and wit, his every thought and sentence slipping smoothly into the next...I was absorbed by Bradatan's book even--or especially--when I felt uncomfortable with its implications." --Jennifer Szalai, New York Times "Bradatan wears his erudition lightly. He is a pleasure to read, and his prose conveys a happy resilience in the face of life's inevitable contradictions. His lessons in humility remind us that the pursuit of success is often motivated by the dread of failure--and that our attempts to create things are often driven by an avoidance of our mortality." --Michael S. Roth, Washington Post "Bradatan writes with the same daring, the same interpretive anger that made his subjects notorious in their own day for choosing failure over what their respective worlds counted as success. A gripping read, start to finish." ―Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography Our obsession with success is hard to overlook. Everywhere we compete, rank, and measure. Yet this relentless drive to be the best blinds us to something vitally important: the need to be humble in the face of life's challenges. In Praise of Failure explores several arenas of failure, from the social and political to the spiritual and biological. Gleefully breaching the boundaries between argument and storytelling, scholarship and spiritual quest, Costica Bradatan mounts his case for failure through the stories of four historical figures who led lives of impact and meaning and assiduously courted failure. Their struggles show that engaging with our limitations can be not just therapeutic but positively transformative.

Ever wonder what life is like on a touring ice-skating show? How many people travel with the show, how do you pack two fifty-pound suitcases with a year's worth of clothes, shoes, and supplies? Do you pay your own hotel and transportation? Speaking of pay, what do they pay? How do you cook in a hotel room? And who is hooking up with whom? This semi autobiography is a humorous look into the world of a traveling show about how to live this type of life on the road. It is a coming-of-age story where quirky characters become family, fall into and out of bed-I mean love-go on adventures, and grow up.

On the day of my birth, my mother had already decided that she wanted to give me away. She had made this decision even though she had not yet known the extent of the problems that would confront me. As it turned out, there were many, including the fact that I was not born a beautiful baby.Actually, I was considered to be quite ugly, disfigured by a cleft lip and palate that left a gaping hole in the middle of my face. In addition, I was born deaf, covered with bruises, and showed signs of haemophilia, an ancient life-threatening hereditary bleeding disorder.I longed to be hugged, kissed, and cuddled in my mother's arms, but that was not about to happen. Instead, I spent months in a hospital crib, as I recovered from complicated facial surgery. Following the surgery, I was placed in a dark room of a foster home, and left to languish in loneliness for several months.On a dark snowy night, shortly before Christmas, a man and woman arrived at the home of my foster parents. They had driven five hundred miles through a blizzard, and requested to see me... see me! No one had ever before asked to see me! My only previous visits away from the foster home were trips to the hospital for painful medical procedures.

"Des pleurs...Je peux encore entendre raisonner ces sons dans ma tête, dans mon corps. Mon coeur s'est serré dans ma poitrine, il s'est accéléré aussi. Je ne voulais pas croire au signal d'alarme que m'envoyait mon cerveau, mais au fond je savais. Le moment, ce moment était arrivé. Je savais qu'il viendrait. Il fallait que j'aille voir! Que j'aille vérifier que tout cela ne provenait pas de mon imagination."Amanda est une quadragénaire dont la vie a décidé de lui faire un cadeau très mal emballé, lui offrant ainsi la capacité de se découvrir et d'apprendre à exister pour elle-même. Seulement, voilà, ce cadeau Amanda ne l'aurait certainement pas choisi, elle n'aurait jamais souhaité ce voyage impromptu à travers les méandres de son passé.

In diesem Buch schildert die Autorin ihre ungewöhnliche Lebensgeschichte in Verbindung mit der Kaiserin Elisabeth von Österreich. Schon sehr früh entwickelte sie ein großes Interesse an der Kaiserin durch ein schönes Bild von ihr, obwohl sie sie gar nicht kannte; fortan musste sie alles wissen über "Sisi". Sie musste an Orte gehen, wo die Kaiserin war, besuchte Museen und Ausstellungen; und bald entdeckte sie, dass sie viele Gemeinsamkeiten mit der Kaiserin hat, sodass sie sich fragte: War ich Sisi? Jedenfalls fühlt sie sich als ihre "Zukunfts-Seele" und möchte die wahre Sisi kennenlernen.

In einer Welt, in der die Vergänglichkeit unerbittlich alles, was wir festhalten wollen, zwischen unseren Fingern zerrinnen lässt, lädt Emilio uns zu einer Reise zu mehr Selbstreflexion ein. Denn sobald wir zu authentischen Persönlichkeiten heranreifen, offenbart sich uns ein eigener Polarstern, der uns den Weg zu unseren tiefsten Träumen, Wünschen und Leidenschaften weist. Wir lernen, zwischen dem zu unterscheiden, was unserem wahren Wesenskern entspringt, und dem, was uns durch externe Quellen suggeriert wird. Indem wir die bedingungslose Liebe zu uns selbst entdecken, werden wir zu empathischen Menschen, die die universellen ethischen Gesetzmäßigkeiten in ihr Handeln integrieren. Es gelingt uns, jene Menschen zu finden, die wirklich zu uns passen, weil unser wahres Sein in Resonanz zu ihnen steht. Emilio Deia beschreibt seinen Weg zu einem möglichst hohen Maß an Selbstreflexion, um so zu Selbstliebe und der mit ihr verschränkten Empathie zu gelangen. Der Autor zum Buch: "Wer eine detaillierte Anleitung zum Gelingen seines Lebens sucht, wird diese in meinem Buch nicht finden. Ich bin zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass es keine universelle Anleitung im Äußeren gibt. Meiner Erfahrung nach muss jeder seinen eigenen Leitfaden schreiben, um ein erfülltes Leben zu erreichen. Es liegt mir fern, als Lehrer oder Anweiser aufzutreten und vorzuschreiben, was jemand tun sollte. Ich möchte in meinem Buch Erlebnisse teilen, die mir im Leben weiterhalfen, in der Hoffnung, dass man Parallelen entdecken und sich aus dem, was mir half, etwas mitnehmen kann. Es sind die Geschichten, die das Leben schreibt, die uns als Orientierungshilfe dienen können." "Emilio Deia hat ein wundervolles Buch geschrieben. (...) Was will ich wirklich, wohin soll die Reise meines Lebens gehen? Wir Leser oder Hörer blicken in den `Spiegel unseres wahren Selbst¿. Emilio Deia erzählt von seinem Weg zu sich, der ein universeller ist." [Olaf Pessler, Sprecher & Journalist]

A story of three generations of passionate Finnish women. A family history, as well as the story of Finland from the 1918 civil war to the 1970's.

In the depths of industrial West Yorkshire during the transformative era of the 1960s and 1970s, Red Bricks and Loose Dogs takes readers on a profound journey of introspection. Inspired by the unwavering honesty of Father Jim, a trusted and wise man, the story unravels the truth behind the boy who grew into a man. Father Jim, revered for his wisdom, kept a powerful revelation hidden until his final moments. He shattered the illusion of his authority to grant heavenly visas or offer absolution, asserting that it is our personal responsibility to face the truth and examine our own past behaviours. Guided by Father Jim's honesty, the author of this remarkable memoir transports readers to the vibrant tapestry of his youth, set against the gritty industrial landscapes of West Yorkshire. Within this backdrop, the author rediscovers the influential people and defining moments that shaped his thinking and character for years to come.

Acknowledging our own Spirit, the eternal part of self, has a wonderful liberating effect on our awareness as there we can see who we really are and what we need to achieve whilst here on earth. Drawing from real life events, Sara chronicles each challenging life event and explores from personal experience how to overcome these challenges. A deeply heartfelt and honest read, the reader is sure to come through changed.

Scruffy, deaf, and homeless, life on the streets is tough for young Albi. What could the future possibly hold for an abandoned Spanish Podenco puppy that has been hit by a car and can't hear? Yet despite a traumatic start, Albi's life changes when he is rescued, brought to the UK, and fostered by Lois Sinclair, founder of the rescue charity, Gracehounds, and a passionate dog lover who has shared her life and home with numerous canine companions. Before long, Lois and Albi's lives become interwoven. With Lois's nursing background and Albi's intuitive nature, the pair soon find themselves volunteering in the animal healthcare sector. Albi also develops a reputation as a transition dog, offering support to other dogs and their owners during times of loss. But Albi is a free spirit. He also has health issues. And while his sensitive nature earns him many friends and admirers, there will be challenges ahead, including surgery. As Albi continues to enrich Lois's life, questions remain. Albi may have found a forever home but can the love and hope which bind him and Lois sustain him? And does this unique animal have the strength to live the life that every dog deserves?

One day, amidst my growing complaints to my mother about my father's lifestyle, he found it necessary to have a heart-to-heart with me. While planting a tree in our garden, he shared a profound insight: "In society, there are only two kinds of people; lambs and wolves. Lambs are perpetually preyed upon and killed, whereas wolves hunt and advance." He then posed a stark question: "Do you wish to be a lamb or a wolf?" Initially bewildered by his abrupt query, I pondered before responding, "Perhaps something in-between." His reply was swift and certain, "There is no middle ground, only these two. Show mercy and you'll be devoured in this world." This conversation was a turning point in understanding my father's complex character - his occasional harshness and rudeness, juxtaposed with moments of thoughtfulness. He maintained his gentle treatment of others, revealing a nuanced perspective of the constant struggle and conflict in human interactions. This book is my endeavour to document the events and experiences I have personally witnessed. It serves as a tapestry of social history, reflecting the intricate dance between the 'lambs' and 'wolves' of our society. My purpose in writing this book is only to record the events and things that I've witnessed with my own eyes.

"In this new portrait of Basil of Caesarea, which will certainly win acceptance as the standard work in English, erudition does not blunt perceptiveness: we are brought close to the heart of a man who struggled to reconcile the high calling of his faith with the appalling demands that a fast-changing world imposed on its leaders. This book takes another long stride towards what all Rousseau's earlier work has aimed atan undogmatic and sympathetic understanding of the fourth-century Church, and the presentation of its great spiritual leaders to new, often unsuspecting audiences."Garth Fowden, National Hellenic Research Foundation"