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I grew up in Raleigh county, in a little town called Beaver, in the state of West Virginia. I lived on a 100-acre farm in a family of ordinary means. When I look back to my childhood I realize how fortunate I was to have clean air, clean water, vegetables from a thoroughly organic garden, fresh cow's milk, butter, and buttermilk—fresh every day. We gave the hogs what was left from each day so we raised great pork. Recycling was a part of life, not something you had to work into your habit.

No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues - and this authentic biography sets the record straight.

Shocking, but laced with wry humour, Vladimir Pereverzin’s extraordinary story is of an ordinary man whose comfortable life is upended. Refusing to give false testimony against Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, he is plunged into lengthy, brutal incarceration in Russia’s nightmarish prisons and penal colonies, including some in which political prisoner Alexei Navalny has been held.

'Chinese' or 'Any other Asian'. The boxes that people of vastly varied East and South East Asian heritage have to tick when declaring their ethnicity on many forms in the UK. For the first time, author Anna Sulan Masing addresses these issues in a comprehensive way. She explores what it means to be East and South East Asian in Britain today, and celebrates the multiple elements and varied experiences that make up ESEA identity. Powerful, moving and illuminating, this will be a must-read for anyone interested in exploring the make-up of our multicultural society.

Anna Ancher, der var en af Skagensmalerne, regnes som en af den danske malerkunsts helt store personer og var en af de dygtigste impressionistiske malere herhjemme. Især hendes skildringer af kvindernes verden vakte opsigt. Portrættet af Anna Ancher er en del af en ny serie med korte, velresearchede og velfortalte portrætter af kendte danskere. Serien har fået titlen Danske legender, og der udkommer foreløbig 12 bøger i serien. Du kan udover Anna Ancher allerede nu også læse om Tove Ditlevsen, Karen Blixen, Liva Weel, Niels Bohr, Kaj Munk, Knud Rasmussen, Asta Nielsen og Jørn Utzon.

The best days of my childhood were on my grandfather’s farm. Equally, events that happened here left a permanent scar on my psyche. As the years rolled by, there was a realization in our family that malicious entities existed at this place. Also, perhaps an anathema was placed on this property, from ancient times.