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Jo Brand is one of Britain's funniest and best-loved comedians. With a sharp eye for the absurd and in her own unique voice, she tells her story for the first time. What possessed her to become a professional comedian in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy after 10 years as a psychiatric nurse? How did she deal with late-night drunken audiences? Raised in middle class comfort, Brand left home in her teens to live with someone entirely inappropriate.

"Ich wiege 120 Kilo und fühle mich wie ein Schmetterling." In den turbulenten Jahren, in denen Feine Sahne Fischfilet es bis an die Spitze der deutschen Musikszene geschafft haben, heißt es für Frontmann Monchi immer nur Vollgas. Bis die Band eine Pause einlegt und er zum ersten Mal Ruhe hat, um sich mit sich selbst auseinanderzusetzen. Die Waage verrät ihm, dass die Zeit reif ist: Er wiegt 182 Kilo.

In An Extravagant Hunger, time slows and is relished, and the turning points and casual strolls of M. F. K. Fisher's life are unwrapped and savored. From the Berengaria, which washed her across the sea to France in 1929, to Le Paquis, the Swiss estate that later provided a backdrop for some of the most idyllic and fleeting moments of her life, the stories of Fisher's love for food and her love for family and men are meticulously researched and exquisitely captured in this book.

With the same winning wit and candor that touched several generations of fans in Losing It, Finding It is an optimistic story for trying times. It's about believing in love and happiness, having faith that both are possible, and finding out that God does want you to enjoy life's desserts - even when you're on a diet.

Als erste deutschsprachige Gamerin mit über einer Million Abonnentinnen und Abonnenten auf YouTube hat sich Jasmin alias Gnu einen Namen gemacht. Viele kennen sie als witzige, selbstbewusste junge Frau aus dem Internet, schauen vielleicht sogar zu ihr auf. Doch dieser Erfolg ist hart erkämpft. Lange Zeit prägte der Gedanke "Du schaffst das nicht" Jasmins Leben. Sie hielt sich für nicht klug genug, nicht hübsch genug, nicht gut genug.

Born in a Dublin tenement in the middle of the 20th century, this dead-poor, curious Irish girl escaped to Paris when she was 17 with the help of a nun, a Hollywood actor, and a kind stranger. There she was accepted into the emigre community blacklisted in the McCarthy era. She met James Baldwin and Ring Lardner, Jr.; Ruth Gordon gave her a fur coat. Still restless and full of dreams she spent years working her way around the world. On a ship bound for Egypt with her year-old daughter Aisling she fell in love with a radical longshoreman from San Francisco.