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A collection of short stories about turning setback into comebacks. Author Troy Harris II was only sure of two things: he was uncomfortable, and in what seemed like a truly foreign land. As it turns out, he was just home less in Dallas....

In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a 10-month voyage around the British Empire with her husband as part of a trade mission to promote the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition. Leaving her two-year-old daughter behind with her sister, Agatha set sail at the end of January and did not return until December, but she kept up a detailed weekly correspondence with her mother, describing in detail the exotic places and people she encountered as the mission travelled through South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and Canada.

No one could have predicted even two years ago that an African American would take the oath of office as president of the United States in January of 2009. For many, the occasion marks the climax to the civil rights movement and the fulfillment of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream that Americans could be judged on the content of their character and not the color of their skin. This collection, with about 400 letters from Americans of all walks of life, is being created to stand as a symbol of this exciting moment in history.

Shaun Usher brings together fascinating correspondence about the universe beyond our planet, containing hopeful thoughts about the future of space travel, awestruck messages penned about the world beyond our own, and celebrations of the human ingenuity that has facilitated our understanding of the cosmos.

When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives of the Paget sisters and their friends and lovers, including Arthur Koestler, Albert Camus, Sartre and de Beauvoir, Edmund Wilson and George Orwell.

Selling firecrackers by the side of the road, floating in space with no hope of rescue, reflecting on goldfish philosophy, the sunsets at San Nada, and the trees at Appomattox, I Awoke One Morning to Find Three Psychoanalysts in the Closet is a collection of short stories, prose poems, and other short writing. The topics, and the words used to fill them in are often silly, occasionally poignant, but always aiming to entertain.

Goldene Kamera, Goldene Schallplatte - Goldener Herbst. Ein neues Jahrtausend bricht an, und ein für alle Mal will Manfred Krug das für ihn so erfolgreiche Schauspiel-Kapitel schließen. Am 11. November 2000 fällt die letzte Klappe beim Tatort - bye-bye, Hamburg! Voller Elan tritt Krug seine zweite Gesangskarriere an. Drei Platten erscheinen, darunter "Schlafstörung", die er für seine beste hält. Quer durch Deutschland geht er auf musikalische Lesereise und besucht Städte, die er von früher kennt. Emotionale Erinnerungen, gravierende Veränderungen.

Eat, Pray, Love meets Claude Monet in this epistolary ode to Paris. What started as a whim in a Latin Quarter café blossomed into Janice MacLeod’s years-long endeavor to document and celebrate life in Paris, sending monthly snippets of her paintings and writings to the mailboxes of ardent followers around the world. Now, Dear Paris collects the entirety of the Paris Letters project: 140 illustrated messages discussing everything from macarons to Montmartre.

In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric firsthand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile.

"Les lettres que Rainer Maria Rilke adressait au jeune poète Franz Kappus, me sont apparues comme une eau claire. J'ai plongé dans cette lecture sans reprendre mon souffle. Ma rencontre avec ces lettres reste un choc ; une émotion au bord des larmes." Barbara. En 1903, Rilke répond à Franz Kappus, un jeune homme de vingt ans, élève d'une école militaire, qui lui a envoyé ses premiers essais poétiques. Neuf autres lettres suivront, que Kappus publiera en 1929, trois ans après la mort de Rilke.

Le "lettere del cuore" di Natalia Aspesi sul Venerdì di Repubblica diventano uno spettacolo. Un viaggio attraverso la vita sentimentale e sessuale degli italiani nel corso degli ultimi trent'anni. I tradimenti, le trasgressioni, le paure, i pregiudizi. Migliaia di storie intorno all'amore e alla passione che, incredibilmente, non cambiano con il passare dei decenni e l'evoluzione del costume.

В Дневнике писателя, не имеющим аналогов в русской и зарубежной публицистике, Достоевский напрямую общается с читателями и словно приглашает присоединиться к обсуждению глубоких тем, которым посвящено все его творчество: человек и Бог, добро и зло, свобода и судьба России. В заметках 1876 года особое внимание он уделяет анализу мировой политики того времени и духовных болезней русского общества, оказавшемся во многом пророческим. А результатом его размышлений можно считать впервые опубликованную в ноябрьской главе повесть "Кроткая", где писатель исследует отношения тирана и жертвы на примере обычной семьи.

Two unforgettable women from opposite poles of power in Maine forge an uplifting bond through good old-fashioned letter writing that helps them navigate the COVID crisis. Both women bring civility, grace, wit, and wisdom to the challenge of protecting those who depend on them—in other words, leadership.

Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor and psychiatrist, was shipped to Auschwitz with his wife, Friedel, whom he had met and married at the Westerbork labour camp in the Netherlands. At Auschwitz, they made it through the brutal selection process and were put to work. Each day, each hour became a battle for survival. For Eddy, this meant negotiating with the volatile guards in the medical barracks. For Friedel, it meant avoiding the Nazis’ barbaric medical experiments.

I could not imagine a world where everyone believes they think freely while another third watches them wander around like puppets doing the same repetitive things having burned out all their brain cells. They never questioned if they’ve even had a thought all their own.

What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the lid. For more than two decades she has kept a secret diary detailing the trials and tribulations of being a political plus-one; the travel, the security, the challenges to family life and the unpredictable events. A professional partner as well as a life partner and one with strong political opinions herself, she detonates the image of the dutiful stereotype.

The Diary of a Curious Mind Volume II continues the subconscious search for purpose in life. As alluded to in the Volume I analysis of Jacob, Esau, and Cain, the pursuit of freedom weaves its way into every journal entry and leads every listener to follow their own imaginative possibilities.

Will Dowd takes us on a whimsical journey through one year of New England weather in this engaging collection of essays. As unpredictable as its subject, Areas of Fog combines wit and poetry with humor and erudition. A fun, breezy, and discursive listen, it is an intellectual game that exposes the artificiality of genres.

Über einen Zeitraum von mehr als 35 Jahren, beginnend mit der ersten Veröffentlichung des jungen Autors im Suhrkamp Verlag im Jahr 1965, besprachen Peter Handke und sein Verleger Siegfried Unseld das ihnen Wichtigste schriftlich: die Literatur und die Bücher. Ihr Briefwechsel eröffnet völlig neue Einsichten in die Bedingungen des Schreibens und der Verbreitung von Büchern, zeigt beider unablässiges Arbeiten an neuen Ausdrucksformen sowie die entsprechenden materiellen, geographischen, politischen und persönlichen Begleitumstände.

"La Lettre à Ménécée" est une lettre écrite par le philosophe Épicure à son disciple Ménécée. Le texte résume la doctrine éthique d'Épicure et propose une méthode pour atteindre le bonheur, en même temps qu'elle en précise les conditions.