Resultados para "Inseparables" en Biografías y memorias

La historia de cómo cayó una peligrosa generación de criminales. Detrás de la larga lista de guerrilleros, paramilitares, y delincuentes de todos los pelambres que han caído en las manos de la justicia, está el general de la Policía Óscar Naranjo. Dirigidos por él, agentes encubiertos...

Much more than a sports memoir, in Inseparable Shaquem and Shaquill Griffin share the previously untold details of the powerful and inspiring story behind the modern NFL’s first one-handed player, and his twin brother’s unrelenting devotion, sacrifice, and love. It’s the story of...

Stefan and Marion Hess’s happy childhood was shattered in 1944. Torn from their home in Amsterdam, the six-year-old twins and their parents were deported to a place their mother called “a dying hell”—the infamous concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Inseparable is the vivid account of one family’s struggle to survive the Holocaust.

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were "discovered" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Bringing an Asian American perspective to this almost implausible story, Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but later as financially savvy showmen who gained their freedom and traveled the backroads of rural America to bring "entertainment" to the Jacksonian mobs.

Queimada Grande, die verbotene Insel verbirgt ein Geheimnis. Zwei renommierte Naturwissenschaftler werden durch den Fund eines Buches, in der Mandalay Region von Myanmar, vor eine extrem herausfordernde Entscheidung gestellt. Unvorhergesehene Ereignisse durchkreuzen ihren Plan, das Geheimnis der Welt vorzuenthalten. Zu groß wäre die Gefahr, wenn die falschen Menschen davon in Kenntnis wären. Ein narzisstischer, arroganter Senator instrumentalisiert einen labilen Police Lieutenant, um dem Geheimnis auf die Spur zu kommen.