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Bonusgeschichte zum SPIEGEL-Bestseller "Wenn ich uns verliere". Weihnachten steht vor der Tür und Maggie ist auf der Suche nach einem Geschenk für Leo. Dabei macht sie sich ziemlichen Druck, denn natürlich soll es etwas ganz besonderes sein. Zum Glück hat Melina, die Freundin von Leos Bruder Ben, einen heißen Tipp für sie.

Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, and author. He was one of the first three black people admitted to Harvard Medical School. Delany dreamed of establishing a settlement in West Africa and visited Liberia, a United States colony founded by the American Colonization Society. He was a prolific writer, and his book The Origin and Objects of Ancient Freemasonry, Its Introduction Into the United States, and Legitimacy Among Colored Men was published 1853.

Like millions of others, Louis Theroux’s plans were mothballed by the onset of COVID. Unable to escape to the porn sets and the prisons and the maximum-security mental hospitals that are his usual journalistic feeding ground, the garlanded documentary maker began reporting on a location even more full of pitfalls and hostile objects of inquiry - his own home during a pandemic.

The terrors of the Lodz Ghetto and the tales of survival continue in this sequel to The Devil’s Bookkeepers.

Twelve Years a Slave is the 1853 narrative of former slave Solomon Northup. He was born free in New York and kidnapped and sold into slavery. It was famously adapted for film in 2013.

Meer dan 75.000 exemplaren verkocht. Wanneer Jules Moreau na een ernstig motorongeluk in het ziekenhuis belandt, wordt hij geconfronteerd met herinneringen uit zijn jeugd. Al vroeg verloren Jules, zijn broer Marty en zijn zus Liz hun ouders door een tragisch ongeval. Op hen alle drie laat dit verlies zijn sporen na, en in de jaren die volgen groeien zij gaandeweg uit elkaar. Vooral de eens zo zelfbewuste Jules trekt zich steeds meer in zijn eigen wereld terug. Alleen met de mysterieuze Alva kan hij vriendschap sluiten; jaren later zal hij echter pas begrijpen wat ze voor hem betekent - en wat ze altijd voor hem heeft verzwegen.

Les 8 plus beaux poèmes de Louis Aragon dits par Jean-Louis Barrault.

In this harmonized portrayal of the miraculous events surrounding the birth of Jesus from Matthew and Luke, listeners will encounter the drama and joy of Christmas in a fresh and exciting way. The Word of Promise Christmas Story features original music from the world-renowned guitarist and Dove Award winner, Phil Keaggy, along with a faithful presentation of the New King James Version (NKJV) text selected from The Word of Promise Audio Bible.

Willkommen im WHITESTONE HOSPITAL: dramatische Liebesgeschichten und bewegende Schicksale. Laura Collins hat es geschafft! Ihr größter Wunsch geht in Erfüllung, als sie eine Stelle an einer der angesehensten Kliniken des Landes ergattert. Am WHITESTONE HOSPITAL in Phoenix ist Laura eine der neuen Assistenzärzt:innen und erkennt schnell, dass sie für ihren Traumjob an ihre Grenzen gehen und alles geben muss. Nicht nur lange Arbeitszeiten, wenig Schlaf, schwere Entscheidungen und Patient:innen, denen sie nicht helfen kann, warten auf sie.

In 1802, Richard Drake (1790-1857) at the age of 12, joined his uncle on a slaving voyage between Benin and Brazil. It was the beginning of his 50 years’ career as a slave trader. Revelations of a Slave Smuggler, published posthumously in 1860, tells his stories including those of journeys to the interior of Africa, slave hunts, gold prospecting in West Africa, his capture by an African tribe, lion hunting, marriage to an African woman, visits with African rulers, slave markets, and the West Indies trade.

In his 1920 book The Jews of Africa, Mendelssohn attempts to chart the separate and progressive histories of the Jews in the different parts of Africa where they lived since their expulsion from the land by the Romans. He succeeds in compiling a narrative of a large part of the histories of the Jews of Africa during the centuries following the Romans’ destruction of Jerusalem.

This audiobook contains more than 150 affirmations, declarations, and meditations to transform your thoughts, your mind, and, ultimately, your life. Listen to these affirmations but, most importantly, repeat some of them on a daily basis and see how your life will start to fulfill its purpose.

Do you have trouble completing your daily tasks? Do you find yourself being unable to achieve your goals? Do you often lack inspiration or the energy and willpower to go after your endeavors? Everyone should be able to make their dreams become a reality. Get the motivation you need through God's power. Use empowering affirmations to help you become and remain motivated in order to reach your goals in life. Christian Affirmations for Motivation contains more than 125 bible-based affirmations which will remind you of the power of God which is able to change your mindset.

A selection of short fiction by Dusty McGowan; blending magic realism and dark comedy.

Misery, love, freedom - that is the philosophical order of the book. The last poem, "The Prophet", is the target point, and all else is an educational journey within this very life to reach the final destination: the prophetic wisdom, the ultimate freedom. Our struggles, frustrations, confusion, fears - through all these we search for the ways to be free; we try to love, we try to be loved, conditionally and unconditionally.... All these experiences slowly grow us up over a period of time.

Karen Tei Yamashita has been honored with the American Book Award and Janet Heidinger Kafka Award. A stunning portrait of Asian Americans in 1960s and ’70s San Francisco, I Hotel is a remarkable collection of 10 related novellas. Touching on such topics as Japanese internment camps and the Marcos dictatorship, the book presents readers with characters of rich design.

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States is an 1853 novel by the author and playwright William Wells Brown. Set in the early 19th century, it is the story of Clotel and her sister Althesa, who are fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson. It is considered the first novel published by an African American and explores the destructive effects of slavery on African American families, the difficult lives of mixed-race people, and the degraded and immoral condition of the relationship between master and slave.

James Pierson Beckwourth (1798-1866) was a fur trader and explorer born into slavery in Virginia. He moved to the West, and as a fur trapper, he lived with the Crow for years. He is credited with the discovery of Beckwourth Pass through the Sierra Nevada Mountains during the California Gold Rush era.

"The Heroic Slave" is the only work of fiction by the eminent abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The narrative was inspired by Madison Washington, a slave on the Creole who led a rebellion on the ship in November 1841, and had it sail to Nassau in the Bahamas instead of New Orleans. The short story appeared in the collection Autographs for Freedom (1852).

Der kleine Rabe ist mal wieder zu spät dran. Aber das ist nicht seine Schuld. Er ist im Wald einem Außerirdischen begegnet, behauptet Socke jedenfalls. Seine Freunde wollen ihm das nicht glauben. Doch dann trifft auch Eddi-Bär den galaktischen Gast. Ist tatsächlich ein Ufo im Wald gelandet?