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Nothing Could Stop Her: The Courageous Life of Ruth Gruber
Par Rona Arato, Isabel Muñoz. 2023
Ruth Gruber didn't want to live an ordinary life, and she wouldn't take "no" for an answer. Born to a…
Jewish American family in 1911, she grew up to become a renowned journalist and activist. Her career spanned seven decades and led her to places that other reporters wouldn't or couldn't go, from Nazi Germany to the remote Arctic regions of the Soviet Union. At a time when women were expected to stay at home and raise families, Ruth told the stories of people in need and fought for their rights to live in safety and freedom.The last outlaws: The desperate final days of the dalton gang
Par Tom Clavin. 2023
The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multiple New York…
Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of one of the greatest outlaw gang. The dreaded Dalton Gang consisted of three brothers and their rotating cast of colorful accomplices who saw themselves as descended from the legendary James brothers. They soon became legends themselves, beginning their career as common horse thieves before graduating to robbing banks and trains. On October 5, 1892, the Dalton Gang attempted their boldest and bloodiest raid yet: robbing two banks in broad daylight in Coffeyville, Kansas, simultaneously. As Grat, Bob, and Emmett Dalton and Bill Power and Dick Broadwell crossed the plaza to enter the two buildings, the outlaws were recognized by townspeople, who raised the alarm. Citizens armed themselves with shotguns and six-shooters from nearby hardware stores and were locked and loaded when the thieves emerged from the banks. The ensuing gun battle was a lead-filled firefight of epic proportions. As the smoke cleared, eight men lay dead––including four of the five members of the doomed Dalton Gang. For the first time ever, the full story of the Dalton Gang's life of crime, culminating in one of the Wild West's most violent events, are chronicled in detail––a last gruesome gasp of the age of gunfights. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's PressLife by the numbers: a basic guide to learning your life through numerology
Par Ursule Molinaro. 1971
Masters of the occult
Par Daniel Cohen. 1971
Anansi's gold: The man who looted the west, outfoxed washington, and swindled the world
Par Yepoka Yeebo. 2023
New Yorker Best Book of the Year "A fascinating story brilliantly told."— The Boston Globe * "A non-fiction masterpiece." —…
Philadelphia Inquirer The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of the 20th century's longest-running and most spectacular frauds. When Ghana won its independence from Britain in 1957, it instantly became a target for home-grown opportunists and rapacious Western interests determined to snatch any assets that colonialism hadn't already stripped. A CIA-funded military junta ousted the new nation's inspiring president, Kwame Nkrumah, then falsely accused him of hiding the country's gold overseas. Into this big lie stepped one of history's most charismatic scammers, a con man to rival the trickster god Anansi. Born into poverty in Ghana and trained in the United States, John Ackah Blay-Miezah declared himself custodian of an alleged Nkrumah trust fund worth billions. You, too, could claim a piece—if only you would "invest" in Blay-Miezah's fictitious efforts to release the equally fictitious fund. Over the 1970s and '80s, he and his accomplices—including Ghanaian state officials and Nixon's former attorney general—scammed hundreds of millions of dollars out of thousands of believers. Blay-Miezah lived in luxury, deceiving Philadelphia lawyers, London financiers, and Seoul businessmen alike, all while eluding his FBI pursuers. American prosecutors called his scam "one of the most fascinating—and lucrative—in modern history." In Anansi's Gold , Yepoka Yeebo chases Blay-Miezah's ever-wilder trail and discovers, at long last, what really happened to Ghana's missing wealth. She unfolds a riveting account of Cold War entanglements, international finance, and postcolonial betrayal, revealing how what we call "history" writes itself into being, one lie at a timeThe art thief: A true story of love, crime, and a dangerous obsession
Par Michael Finkel. 2023
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief,…
Stéphane Breitwieser. In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums and cathedrals all over Europe—Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heart’s content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict’s need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend’s pleas to stop—until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down. This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost. Cover images: (top) Bat by Albrecht Dürer. Bridgeman Images; (bottom) The Sleeping Shepherd (detail) by François Boucher © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NYA brilliant life: My mother's inspiring true story of surviving the holocaust
Par Rachelle Unreich. 2023
The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter—a tale that reminds us of the resilience of…
the soul and the ability of the heart to heal. As Mira is nearing the end of her life, her daughter Rachelle wants to find out how her mother had lived through four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a Death March. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed—which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that always happened around her. And, incredibly, when giving testimony later in life, she says that it was during this time—despite witnessing the depths of man's cruelty—that she learned about "the goodness of people." Born in Czechoslovakia, Mira was only 12 years old when World War II broke out. At 88, living in Australia, she is diagnosed with cancer, and her journalist daughter decides to interview her to distract her from her illness. What Rachelle discovers about her mother helps her fit together the jigsaw pieces of her own life. A Brilliant Life portrays not only how remote a prospect it was to live through the Holocaust, but what it is like to be the child of a survivor. A story of love, loss, wonder and the deepest kind of faith, A Brilliant Life questions the role that fate, chance and destiny play in one's life. It is a tribute to family, a story of incredible resilience and a chronicle of the deep connection between mother and child that not even death can destroyLe principe de Peter, ou, Pourquoi tout va toujours mal (Aux marches de la science #Vol. 6024012)
Par Laurence Peter. 1971
Auteur de Enquête sur les OVNI, J.-P. Petit, directeur de recherche au CNRS, a méthodiquement étudié les documents et témoignages…
disponibles sur ces envahisseurs dont les premières manifestations datent des années 50.Ces dates de naissance qui parlent
Par Tri-Thien Nguyen. 2004
Un si long silence (HarperCollins poche)
Par Sarah Abitbol. 2021
La championne française de patinage artistique, aujourd'hui chorégraphe et entraîneuse, raconte les viols qu'elle a subis, entre 15 et 17…
ans, de la part de son entraîneur. Elle accuse également le monde du sport de l'avoir réduite au silence pendant de longues années et d'avoir protégé son agresseur.Les yeux, miroir de l'âme
Par Jacques-A Frigault. 2004
En marchant le camino l auteur rencontre plusieurs personnes. Chacune d elle présente une perspective différente. Les yeux miroir de…
l Âme est un reflet de ces personnes rencontrées sur le chemin de la vie et du message que chacun nous lègue en héritage de leur passage. Cette réflexion est un dernier fruit de la longue marche qui mène à Saint Jacques de Compostelle. Le docteur Frigault est un psychothérapeute en pratique privée depuis plus de 43 années dans la Péninsule acadienne. Il est le premier Acadien connu ayant marché le chemin étoilé de Santiago Compostela.Guérir de la détresse émotionnelle: la sagesse du chagrin, de la peur et du désespoir
Par Miriam Greenspan. 2005
Et si la différence entre se sentir accablé par nos émotions " sombres " et être transformé par elles se…
situait dans notre capacité d'affronter notre souffrance ! Et, si finalement, la clé d'une vie plus heureuse puisait sa source dans les émotions que l'on tente justement d'éviter... Le chagrin, la peur et le désespoir sont parmi les émotions que l'être humain trouve les plus difficiles à vivre -en même temps, s'il les ignore, comme il a tendance à le faire, cela peut entraîner de graves conséquences. La société actuelle, nous pousse plutôt à essayer d'oublier notre passé, à garder sous silence nos peurs et à passer par-dessus notre peine. Pourtant, en faisant face à notre douleur émotionnelle, en prenant le temps de l'écouter et de la laisser circuler librement, elle nous guide vers sa transformation et, ultimement, sa guérison. Dans ce livre d'un remarquable profondeur, Miriam Greenspan nous amène avec douceur et sagesse au-delà de cette détresse pour découvrir, de l'autre côté de cette expérience, la gratitude, la joie et une foi renouvelée"L'Enfant médium c'est d'abord l'histoire d'un voyage : celui qui a mené un jeune paysan marocain jusqu'aux coulisses de l'Élysée.…
Avant de devenir Neil Terence, voyant des grands de ce monde, Neil s'est appelé Mohammed, gamin d'Aïtourir, un village perdu à quelques heures de Marrakech. À cinq ans, en courant sur les chemins de son village, Mohammed a été victime d'un accident qui l'a plongé dans un coma d'un an et demi. Brisé, isolé au sein de sa communauté, il a trouvé refuge auprès de Lalla Fatima, une tante magicienne. Initié à un univers qui évoque de manière troublante les sortilèges de l'Antiquité, le jeune enfant a découvert qu'il avait lui aussi le Don. Don de prédire l'avenir, don de lire les cartes du sort, don de guérir par simple imposition des mains. Vivre avec un tel bagage rend solitaire, mais forge les grandes personnalités. Le chemin sera long et difficile, jusqu'au jour où les puissants viendront lui demander conseil." -- 4e de couvLa bible des anges: écrits inspirés par les Anges de la lumière] / 1
Par Anges de la lumière. 2008
Bien qu'inspirée de la tradition hébraïque, Joane Flansberry, médium, a développé une interprétation particulière et simple de l'influence et du…
rôle des anges dans notre vie. Guidée par ses communications avec le monde angélique, elle donne la parole aux Anges qui nous expliquent eux-mêmes leur rôle et leur influence dans la vie des êtres humains. Chaque lecteur pourra facilement identifier l'ange qui lui est spécifique et bénéficier de son aide, de son appui et de son inspiration [...] . -- 4e de couvWho's who in the Doctrine and Covenants
Par Susan Easton Black. 1997
This 1997 book by a professor of Church History and Doctrine at BYU provides brief biographical essays on the 136…
individuals mentioned by name in the Doctrine and Covenants. LDS Nonfiction. AdultStill so excited!: my life as a Pointer Sister
Par Ruth Pointer. 2016
"|Still So Excited!: My Life as a Pointer Sister| is an engaging, funny, heartbreaking, and poignant look at Ruth Pointer's…
roller-coaster life in and out of the Pointer Sisters. When overnight success came to the Pointer Sisters in 1973, they all thought it was the answer to their long-held prayers. While it may have served as an introduction to the good life, it also was an introduction to the high life of limos, champagne, white glove treatment, and mountains of cocaine that were the norm in the high-flying '70s and '80s. Pointer's devastating addictions took her to the brink of death in 1984. Pointer has bounced back to live a drug- and alcohol-free life for the past 30 years and she shares how in her first autobiography, detailing the Pointer Sisters' humble beginning, musical apprenticeship, stratospheric success, miraculous comeback, and the melodic sound that captured the hearts of millions of music fans." -- Provided by publisherGhosts and legends of Nevada's highway 50 (Haunted America Ser.)
Par Janice Oberding. 2018
The 287-mile stretch of highway that runs east to west across Nevada's desert is billed as the "Loneliest Road in…
America." But those who explore it find there is plenty to discover along the way in the towns of Austin, Eureka, Ely, Fallon and Fernley. Every one of these places has its own unique history, ghosts and stories to tell. From the sordid lynching of Richard Jennings to the humorous legend about a famous sack of flour, author Janice Oberding treks across Highway 50 seeking spirits and uncovering the tales of Singing Sand Mountain, the Red-Headed Giants, the Giroux Mine Disaster and many more. AdultLiving in a mindful universe: a neurosurgeon's journey into the heart of consciousness
Par Eben Alexander. 2017
With Living in a Mindful Universe, the authors share techniques that can be used to tap into our greater mind,…
explore how the power of the heart, and discuss how both can enhance healing, relationships, creativity, guidance, and more. Using various modalities related to meditation and mindfulness described herein, you too can gain the power to access that infinite source of knowing so vital to us all. Adult. UnratedCivil War in the Ozarks
Par Phillip W Steele. 1993
Listening against the stone: selected essays
Par Brenda Miller. 2011