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This is the story of an author and his apprentice. It is the story of literary influence and tragedy. It is also the story of incarceration in America. Norman Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, his novel about condemned killer Gary Gilmore, when he struck up a correspondence with Jack...

Che succede se un gruppo di cinque o sei inglesi si ritrovano attorno ad un fuoco, la sera della Vigilia di Natale come consuetudine, sorseggiando gin e whisky, per raccontarsi storie (assolutamente veritiere) di fantasmi? Succede che i fantasmi compaiono davvero, e all'ennesimo giro di gin, non ci sono più dubbi. Jerome K. Jerome stesso, con una sfrenata ironia britannica, prende le vesti del raccontatore in prima persona, riferendo di spiriti che più che farci morire dalla paura ci fanno morire dalle risate.

Le strategie più rapide ed efficaci di mindset, auto-disciplina e auto-motivazione. Il raggiungimento degli obiettivi è un'abilità che può essere insegnata e appresa. Dall'essere più organizzati al cambiare la propria mentalità, ci sono numerosi modi per mettersi in una posizione migliore per conquistare i propri obiettivi. Questa guida vi fornisce 101 consigli per trovare la vostra motivazione, la vostra autodisciplina, per gestire il tempo e più in generale per cambiare la vostra mentalità e poter finalmente raggiungere i vostri, unici obiettivi.

The Olive Branch from Palestine provides a new narrative of the Palestinian effort to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and offers a bold plan for ending this conflict today, a proposal that focuses on Palestinian agency and the power of the Palestinians to bring about the two-state solution, even in the absence of a fully committed Israeli partner.

Graceful Simplicity: The Foundations of Bread and Roses Socialism is a new audiobook prepared with an eye on the 2024 Presidential elections. The author, Jerome Segal, is challenging Joe Biden for the nomination of the Democratic Party. The audiobook is primarily the first audio of Dr. Segal’s seminal 1999 book, Graceful Simplicity: The Philosophy and Politics of Simple Living

Dopo quattro anni di sospensione, "Le Roi" Michel Platini si mette finalmente a nudo e racconta la verità sullo scandalo che gli è costato la presidenza della Fifa e che ha scosso il mondo del calcio internazionale. Il celebre centrocampista francese, tre volte Pallone d'Oro, rompe il silenzio e sceglie di dire la sua: in questo audiolibro ricco di ricordi e sfoghi, aneddoti e confessioni Platini ricostruisce le ragioni e denuncia gli interessi in gioco in questa vicenda, svela i retroscena di un vero e proprio complotto e per la prima volta parla del suo rapporto con Sepp Blatter.

Vuoi migliorare te stesso, vuoi davvero prendere in mano la tua vita e renderla grandiosa? Allora questo audiobook fa per te. È un semplice prontuario di strategie, consigli pratici e tecniche veloci da mettere in pratica per formare una mentalità da vero campione. Saprai pensare e agire come un vero campione, imparerai a usare le tue capacità, conoscere i tuoi talenti, riconoscere i tuoi limiti e lottare fino a superarli. Contenuti principali: Cosa significa avere la mentalità del campione, I tratti di un vero vincente, Persistenza, coraggio e azione.

Humor and overall literary style have changed a lot in the 132 years since this book was published in 1889. However, the information remains informative, primarily because there is a certain amount of truthfulness about it that manages to disregard the passage of time. It takes in some unusual...

The stories Told After Supper, related by the guests at a Christmas Eve party, are about ghosts and have all the wit and whimsy of Jerome K. Jerome's more famous works.

Little might be thought of the purchase of a skeleton for use in a lab, but a prudent scientist would check its provenance - the departed wearer of those bones may yet have a score to settle. 'The Man of Science' is taken from the second volume of the Victorian Anthologies Horror series, featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known.

Interweaving an insider’s account of the true crime saga driving Netflix sensation Making a Murderer with other controversial cases from his career, this powerful memoir from Steven Avery’s defense attorney reveals the flaws in America's criminal justice system and puts forth a provocative...

Was machen drei junge, hypochondrische Freunde samt einem neurotischen Foxterrier, wenn sie dem Wetter entfliehen wollen und wilde Abenteuer suchen? Sie packen Blazer, Hut und Schlips ein und fahren in einem Ruderboot auf der Themse in die Wildnis hinauf. Doch sie haben den Büchsenöffner vergessen, die Zahnbürste ist unauffindbar, und wenn sie einem Schild begegnen, auf dem steht "Achtung! Gefahr! Nicht hier entlang!", dann steuern sie schnurstracks in ihr Verderben.

The Mortal Plane has long been divided among the servants of Light and Darkness, suffering a thousand years of atrocity by both sides. When one god finally rose up and slew another, The Pact was formed, forestalling any further damage to the realms of men. But now, over the last few decades, signs of the Demons and their mindless Accursed minions have dwindled to an all-time low. It seems that after a thousand years of conflict the Gods of Light and the Gods of Darkness have finally tired of the bloody war. Or have they?

When the severed head of a Wall Street stock analyst turns up spiked on a horn of the Wall Street Bull, Detective Louis Martelli of the NYPD is assigned to track down the murderer. But why were this victim and the victims of two similar murders that followed singled out for execution? Martelli eventually learns the answer to this question and tracks down the killer, but not before uncovering some of Wall Street's and the US government's darkest secrets pertaining to the US financial markets and the nation's health care practices.

The trail from a major theft at the Banco Central de Chile in Talcahuano following the Great Chilean Earthquake of May 22, 1960 leads to Base Bernardo OHiggins, a wind- and snow-swept Chilean Army outpost on the North Antarctic Peninsula. When Chilean Army 1SGT Leonardo Rodrguez fails to return from a seal hunt in the waters around the base, two Chilean Navy non-commissioned officers, CWO Raul Lucero and CPO Eduardo Bellolio, become LCDR Cristian Barbudos' prime theft and murder suspects. 

Jerome K. Jerome is of course known for the hilarious adventures of “Three Men in a Boat”. He also wrote many short stories and essays that have all the wit, whimsy, and wisdom of his more famous work. The essays in this volume were published together with “The Diary of a Pilgrimage” in 1891. They are: “Evergreens”, “Clocks”, “Tea-Kettles”, “A Pathetic Story”, “The New Utopia”, and “Dreams”.

In this compelling audiobook, noted political commentator and journalist Dr. Jerome R. Corsi presents a case outlining how "progressive forces" and yes, even the Communist Party, have literally taken over the US Democratic Party. Citing historical facts that correlate with modern-day events, Dr. Corsi outlines step-by-step how this infiltration has taken place. While exposing these strategies and tactics, Dr. Corsi also opines on their execution, intent, and success.

A party of friends exchange ghost stories on Christmas Eve; but everything may not be quite as it seems....

When a man dressed in a long priest’s robe and wearing a black ecclesiastical hat walked into a Catholic church just prior to a funeral service, stuffed garlic into the deceased’s mouth, and pumped a bullet into the corpse, NYPD Homicide Detective Louis Martelli was as puzzled as he’s ever been on a case. No stranger to the macabre, Martelli is even more mystified by Deputy Coroner Michael Antonetti’s findings, which confirm that the deceased, far from having died of respiratory failure and a possible heart attack, was murdered by someone who injected him with a lethal dose of Philippine cobra venom.  

The funny and poignant autobiography of Jerome K Jerome, who is best known for his comic novel Three Men in a Boat. Jerome struggled against poverty and obscurity, not to mention his improbable name, for many years before Three Men in a Boat made him a celebrity and the friend of other celebrities. A man of deep human sympathies and principles, he lived through and engaged with, a time - like our own - of unprecedented changes and inventions.