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This is a story of love and courage in the face of unrelenting terror as four men in the Lodz Ghetto struggle to document the tightening of the noose under Nazi rule. Written by the son of Holocaust survivors, this stunning novel based on events described in the Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto (Yale University Press, 1984), asks what you would have sacrificed to be one of the few to survive.

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass covers the life of the prominent abolitionist during and after the Civil War. Here, Douglass provides a fuller account of his escape from slavery and the underground railway to freedom. It includes his recollections of presidents Garfield and Lincoln, Johnson and Garfield, and an account of his service as Marshall of the District of Columbia.

Pilgrim walks again between the worlds of magick and of men. In an eerie new adventure for the immortal mediator, Pilgrim donates an impossibly valuable artwork to Timbermoor museum. Paul Hilton stars as William Palmer, the immortal, reluctant and unthanked hero protecting mankind from an enemy they resist believing in. Thrilling, dark and contemporary, this present-day drama is set in a recognisable present day but one haunted by the folktales of the British Isles.

Représentées pour la première fois au théâtre du Palais-Royal le 12 mars 1672, "Les femmes savantes" fut un succès, car le registre de La Grange indique que, de cette date au 5 avril, la comédie fut jouée onze fois avec des recettes satisfaisantes. Si, avec "Les femmes savantes", Molière a atteint un degré de perfection qu'il ne pouvait plus dépasser, c'est qu'il s'y efforça avec obstination ; autant pour prendre sa revanche de tant d'ouvrages faciles que le caprice royal l'avait contraint à "bâtir sur l'heure", que pour confondre ses détracteurs qui l'accusaient de "bâcler"...!

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois is a landmark in sociology and a cornerstone of African American literature. The book comprises various essays on race, some of which had previously appeared in The Atlantic Monthly. As an uncompromising advocate of civil rights, Du Bois stated that through work, culture, and liberty, the dual heritage of African Americans could be melded into a force for positive social and cultural change.

Laila and her husband, James, arrive for a week's holiday in the Maldives, much in need of a fresh start. While James spends his time exploring the island, Laila relaxes by the pool and finds herself drawn to the seemingly perfect family who arrived on the same flight as them. Emilia is on holiday with her husband and 12-year-old twin boys. She has no idea who Laila is or that she has been watching her family since they arrived. Emilia is enjoying her holiday far too much to worry about anyone else. But five days later Emilia's world is blown apart by a horrifying accident.

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

Daniel A. Payne went down in history as a supporter of the education and liberation of African Americans as well as the first black man selected to lead a college. First published in the Lutheran Herald, his oration supporting the abolition of slavery unites a religious stance with a social criticism. Payne’s words describe slavery as the great oppressor, detaching man from his divinity and lowering him to the level of brutes.

I know you care about children. Whether you've got your own kids or you look after other people's, you have a deep love for these little humans. You want them to grow up in a world where people are basically kind to each other and kind to the planet. But when you look at the world now—a mental health crisis, a global pandemic, climate change, war—you worry about the possible future your child is facing and how they will cope.

"Presque trois siècles séparent Molière et Louis Jouvet. Pourtant leurs destins sont extraordinairement similaires. Ces deux hommes de théâtre, chefs de troupes, metteurs en scène, ambassadeurs du théâtre populaire, se sont tous deux épuisés à la tâche. Il s'en fallut de peu qu'ils ne meurent en scène."

Like millions of others, Louis’ plans were mothballed by the onset of COVID. Unable to escape to the porn sets, prisons and maximum-security psychiatric units that are his usual journalistic beat, he began reporting on a location even more full of pitfalls and hostile objects of inquiry: his own home during a pandemic. Theroux the Keyhole is an honest, hilarious and ultimately heartwarming diary of the weirdness of family life in COVID World.

In November of 1978, while on a visit to New York to speak at the United Nations, Gopi Krishna was interviewed by Dr. Louis Rogers, author of numerous books and publisher of Inner Paths magazine. The interview covered a wide range of topics, including the personal experience of kundalini, meditation, mantras, miracles, psychic phenomena, and the most effective way to achieve success in a spiritual practice.

"Konbanwa, c'est Louis-San. Je vous présente "Jiken", ma nouvelle série audio dans laquelle je vous raconte des faits réels effroyables au Japon. Dans cette série je n'ai pas seulement voulu vous décrire des histoires terrifiantes, mais j'ai surtout voulu vous les faire vivre. Des meurtres, des disparitions, de la folie, de la manipulation... Beaucoup de faits qui reflètent les problèmes sociétaux japonais."

"Konbanwa, c'est Louis-San. Je vous présente Jiken, ma nouvelle série audio dans laquelle je vous raconte des faits réels effroyables au Japon. Dans cette série je n'ai pas seulement voulu vous décrire des histoires terrifiantes, mais j'ai surtout voulu vous les faire vivre. Des meurtres, des disparitions, de la folie, de la manipulation... Beaucoup de faits qui reflètent les problèmes sociétaux japonais."

Das Tor zur Wüste: Nachdem Po von der Verbotenen Gesellschaft verhaftet wurde, soll er soll zum Kaiser gebracht werden. Doch ein geheimnisvoll-gruseliger Kuttenträger sorgt dafür, dass Po entkommen kann. Rabia, ein kleines Mädchen aus dem Dorf, in dem Li Gao lebte, verfolgt Wandelnde Klinge und möchte sich dafür revanchieren, dass Klinge ihr das Leben gerettet hat. Am liebsten möchte Klinge Rabia nach Hause schicken. Sie willigt dann aber ein, dass das Mädchen sie zum Markt am „Tor zur Wüste“ begleiten darf. Weimin, einer der Komodos der Verbotenen Geselllschaft, ist Po gefolgt und tut so, als wolle er sich mit ihm anfreunden.

What do you do after you take that leap of faith? The world that we live in and the system that we live in...is not changing. You just have to learn how to operate within it. After the Jump was written for individuals who are close to making that jump towards fulfilling their destiny...or have already made the jump and just need to know what to do to elevate their business or visions to the next level of living.

Au lendemain d'une tragédie, les choses dont on se souvient sont étranges. Le bruit assourdissant de l'explosion de la maison. La peur paralysante alors que je cherchais ma femme. La fumée aveuglante qui m'a brûlé les yeux lorsque je l'ai sortie des flammes. Mais ce qui restera gravé dans mon âme jusqu'à la fin de mes jours, c'est la prise de conscience bouleversante que la personne que je tenais dans mes bras n'était pas ma femme.

Imaginez... Une jeune femme lancée dans une course folle pour retrouver un homme qui, selon toute vraisemblance, n'existe pas... Un enquêteur de la police de Montréal qui tente d'élucider les meurtres crapuleux de deux hommes, tués de la même manière à une journée d'intervalle... Un chasseur impitoyable qui pense que chacun doit payer pour ses fautes...

Benjamin Tucker Tanner (1835-1923) was an editor, historian, and prominent theologian of his time who founded The Christian Recorder, an early African American newspaper. In his 1895 book The Color of Solomon, he contends that King Solomon of the Bible did not belong to the white race.

The Jamaican orator and entrepreneur Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (1887-1940) preached success to the African diaspora. He believed that attaining economic, cultural, and political success would free African Americans in this life. Identifying integrity of character as the first step toward achievement, Garvey promoted capitalism as the means to establish African Americans as an independent group.