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What My Brother Knew
As a boy, Jay Amelong predicted the accident that caused his death, down to the colour of the car that hit him. ''I will die young, while riding my bike,'' he told friends and family repeatedly. ''It wont be much longer, I want you to be prepared.'' These were baffling words to hear from the mouth of a content thirteen-year-old but when Kristina Amelong was only seventeen, her brother''s tragic death unfolded exactly as he said it would, radically changing her life. Propelled down a self-destructive path of drug addiction and reckless sex, Kristina spent much of her young adult years wanting to die. Once or twice she came close. Always, Jay''s bizarre story and his inexplicable acceptance of his own death lived in her body. More than thirty years after losing Jay, Kristina embarks on a journey of discovery, seeking truth about herself, her brother, and the universe. The result of her investigation is a memoir that defies belief. Charting a life path from loss and abuse to healing and spiritual awakening, WHAT MY BROTHER KNEW demonstrates the transformative power of facing the mystery of death head-on and our incredible ability, as humans, to do just that.
Robert Shaw
Robert Shaw unforgettably commanded attention as the weathered seaman Captain Quint in the blockbuster sensation, Jaws. But what came before and after that landmark film is as dramatic as the hunt for the great white shark itself. Capturing the many facets of the vibrant, generous, and sometimes polarizing man is his nephew, Christopher, who explores the forces that shaped a dynamic personality-including Robert''s indomitable mother, his deeply troubled father, and his activist sister, Joanna, with whom Robert shared an unbreakable bond. Out of the traumatic events of their childhood in the Orkney Islands and Cornwall, Mrs. Shaw pushed her children to pursue their dreams. For Robert, that dream was acting and writing. Despite a storied career on the British and American stage-as both performer and playwright-and a string of hit films including From Russia with Love, A Man for All Seasons, The Sting, and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, international celebrity eluded Robert... until he was summoned to star in ''a little horror film'' called Jaws. What happened on-screen was unforgettable. What happened off-screen was chaos. Now Christopher Shaw Myers reveals the true story of the making of the classic. Jaws would become both an artistic success and a worldwide triumph for Robert Shaw. Tragically, for a man shadowed by his father''s demons, it would also signal the beginning of the end. Drawing on family recollections, personal letters, scrapbooks, recordings, extensive interviews, and a lifetime of his own memories, Christopher paints a unique, intimate, and honest portrait of a man he was proud to call his uncle.
Adventures of a Hypnotherapist, The
Steve Burgess did? set out to become one of the worl? most experienced hypnotherapists and past life regression specialists. Little did he know that when he fell into the profession by accident it would be the start of a strange odyssey that would change his life beyond recognition, and he would be facilitating therapy sessions in previous lifetimes in order to heal the emotional root causes of illness. Steve recounts stories of the power of hypnotherapy and regression therapy in his most memorable and jaw-dropping cases from over 15,000 therapy sessions including doing major surgery without any anaesthetic, helping clients to heal cancer and other physical illnesses, exploring alien contact experiences and releasing spirit attachments, along with his own adventures spending time in prison with Britai? most violent prisoner, performing therapy on the Great Wall of China and the Inca Trail in Peru and spending the night in his own grave. Discover why Steve has devoted his life to helping others heal by using the extraordinary power of their subconscious minds.
Baddest Man - The making of Mike Tyson
On a defining evening of the 1980s, Donald Trump hosted celebrities and high rollers in a Jersey Shore town to witness 21-year-old Mike Tyson knock out Michael Spinks in just 91 seconds, earning more than the annual payrolls of the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics combined.
Only eight years earlier, Tyson, a troubled child from Brooklyn, was taken under the wing of boxing legend Cus D'Amato in upstate New York. Their story of mutual redemption captivated novelists, screenwriters, and the emerging cable TV industry. Tyson became HBO's leading man long before Tony Soprano.
Despite the immense success, Tyson's story was more complex and darker than it appeared. Over the decades, he has been villainized, lionized, and fetishized-but never fully humanized until now. Acclaimed biographer Mark Kriegel, who first encountered Tyson as a young reporter, explores Tyson's life through what he survived rather than whom he knocked out.
Tyson, often compared to Jack Dempsey, was more akin to Sonny Liston-Black, feared, and expected to die young. What made Liston a pariah made Tyson a touchstone for a generation influenced by hip hop and gunfire. Kriegel captures not just Tyson's rise but his profound impact on the American psyche.
Ten Drunks and a Parson
The fascinating life story of Ted Peate, a top Victorian cricketer hailed by W. G. Grace as the world’s best spin bowler. This is the first-ever biography of Peate!Peate is the cricketer whose name heads the Lord’s honours board. Yet he ended his life broke and is buried in an unmarked grave at the side of the runway at Leeds-Bradford airport. Read and you’ll discover:How Peate was the last man out in the famous first ‘Ashes’ Test when Australia beat England at The Oval in 1882The truth behind Peate’s character flaws, including his weakness for drink, which led to his sacking by new Yorkshire captain Lord Hawke when he was at the peak of his powersHis working-class origins, his season touring local fetes with a group of clowns, plus the dramatic breakthrough that led to a tour of Australia after just one full seasonThe murky world of the professional cricketer, including new details about the scandal-ridden 1882 England tour to AustraliaWith unprecedented insight into Peate’s life and times, the book will appeal to lovers of Yorkshire county cricket, plus anyone interested in the emergence of the England cricket team or the development of sport in Britain.
Leaving Lethinnis
In this sequel to Life in Lethinnis, Rory offers a further collection of pen-portraits from those early years in the place he has called Lochuisge. In the tradition of Lillian Beckwith’s The Hills is Lonely, or Sybil Armstrong’s A Croft in Clachan, the anecdotes inevitably revolve around the strong characters that made up this isolated community and became part of everyday life. With the author continuing to earn a living as a professional biologist, the characters featured are both human and animal as the various tales capture the atmosphere of living and working in this tight-knit community into which he and his wife were so immediately welcomed.After 20 years leading a research group in wildlife biology at the University of Southampton, Rory Putman decided to ‘retire’ to the Highlands of Scotland, moving with his wife to a croft at the edge of a small and somewhat inaccessible village on the west coast. In the same vein as the well-received Life in Lethinnis, he offers a further collection of cameos from those first few years as they moved into and settled in their remote smallholding.The author’s intimate writing style draws the reader with him into the heart of that same community. But in this sequel there is perhaps a greater darkness as Putman registers that life on the Peninsula is changing and that he is in effect chronicling the end of an era.
A harcos - Rafael Nadal géniusza
A mester című New York Times bestseller szerzőjétőlRafael Nadal 209 héten át vezette az ATP ranglistát, és öt évet zárt a lista első helyén. 22 Grand Slam győzelmet aratott, ebből 14-szer a francia nyílt bajnokságon, ez utóbbi rekordot képvisel. Olimpián is nyert aranyérmet.
Salakon, ahol a lassú játék leginkább kedvez taktikai fenoménjének, gyilkos tenyeresének és gladiátorokéval vetekedő szellemének, egyeduralkodó volt: egy alkalommal zsinórban 81 salakpályás meccset nyert. Wimbledonban ő játszotta a valaha feljegyzett leghosszabb férfi egyes döntőt: 2008-ban 4 óra 48 perc alatt győzte le Roger Federert. John McEnroe azt mondta, életében nem látott még ilyen jó meccset.
Mallorca szigetén, egy negyvenezres városban, Manacorban született. Hároméves korában kezdett teniszezni, jobbkezes, de bal kézzel fogja az ütőt. Egyéni sportágakban alig találunk Nadaléhoz fogható karriert a 21. században.
Clarey hosszú éveken át készített interjúkat a spanyol géniusszal és riválisaival is, így például Roger Federerrel. A harcos több, mint egyszerűen teniszről szóló könyv. Betekintést nyerhetünk Nadal módszereibe, ahogyan a játékra koncentrál, és a külvilágot kizárja. Igazi lecke ez az állhatatosságról, amiből mindenki leszűrheti, mit gondolt Rafael Nadal, és hogyan állt hozzá a versenyzéshez.
Ez a kötet azt a hihetetlen utat mutatja be, amelyet Rafael Nadal bejárt, egy nem mindennapi történet arról, hogyan lett a mallorcai kisfiúból a teniszpályák királya.
"A szöveg középpontjában Nadal áll, de Clarey könyve olyan érzékletes, hogy a Roland-Garros salakpályája saját jogon is a mű teljes értékű szereplőjévé válik. Clarey gazdag hátteret biztosít egy kivételes karrier állomásaihoz. Tüzetesen bemutatja a sportág egyik páratlan géniuszát." - Publishers Weekly
Christopher Clarey hosszú éveken át dolgozott a New York Times és az International Herald Tribune tenisztudósítójaként, illetve sportújságíróként. Több mint 100 Grand Slam tornán és 15 olimpián volt jelen.
A könyv színes képmelléklettel jelenik meg.
This Time Next Year
Discover the brand new, inspirational autobiography from the Only Fools and Horses star and national treasure. 'This time next year, we'll be millionaires'So said Sir David’s iconic Only Fools character, Derek Trotter. But such a dream was almost unimaginable for David growing up in a working-class family in North Finchley in the rubble of the Blitz. Throughout his remarkable career, David's north star for navigating life's challenges has been his positive outlook and his resilience. From a trainee electrician to national treasure, David’s bumpy journey to success has overcome obstacle after obstacle. Candidly revealing the ups, the downs, and the roundabout turns, David’s latest volume of memoirs, This Time Next Year, is an uplifting, entertaining, and inspirational book offering an essential and unvarnished primer to leading a good life. Told with his characteristic warmth and humour, David reveals the hard-won wisdom of a life doggedly led getting through one day, looking to the next, and always chasing what's new on the horizon.
The Paris Trilogy
'This is valuable writing. It has immense vitality. You will encounter a female narrator whose direct and bright-eyed stare at the world, and her self, is without shame or faux modesty. At the same time, it is also a deep study of existence, at various ages and stages in life.'— Deborah Levy 'Swimming is a dreamy, bruised, and carnal book that pretty much no American would write and pretty much every American will thrill to read. Schneck’s “discovery of her body, at the age of fifty” is our encounter with an entrancing mind.'— Lauren Collins From celebrated author Colombe Schneck, in her first translation into English, The Paris Trilogy is three semi-autobiographical takes on a woman’s life, starting with Seventeen, progressing with Friendship, and then Swimming: A Love Story. Exploring questions of sexuality, bodily autonomy, femininity, friendship and loss, The Paris Trilogy is a moving meditation on a lifelong journey to reclaim the female body, accepting it for all its faults and learning to celebrate its strength. The Paris Trilogy is translated into English by award-winning translators Natasha Lehrer and Lauren Elkin.
Highlife
As a boy, Richard went to live in Ghana where he danced with his parents and their friends to Highlife music, the foundation of Afrobeat. This experience set the tone and tenor for the rest of his life. A life in which music, poetry, literature, theatre, art, travel, nature and love entwine. Performing at the Edinburgh Festival, he met Lauren, who became his soulmate. His story weaves their enduring romance through a life that brought them adventures in many parts of the world: Thailand, Nigeria, India, Brazil, Cyprus, Greece. On the Peloponnese coast by a turtle beach, they create the perfect place to live out the rest of their lives together. But their dream is prematurely cut short. Both irreverent and moving, this is a story that will inspire the reader to value each day as a unique adventure and experience.
Learning to Think.
‘A memoir you read with the same breathlessness as you read the most gripping of novels’ - iNews‘Astonishing … a story that brims with life and hard-won hope’ - Sunday Times‘Fantastic. Could have been me. Could have been you. Could have been anyone’ - Lee ChildWhen Tracy King was twelve she was exorcised.Unfortunately, the demons that beset Tracy could not be so easily displaced.While her life was filled with creativity, curiosity, and love, it was also constricted by poverty, by Tracy’s father’s alcoholism and her mother’s agoraphobia.By the time she turned twelve Tracy’s father had been killed, her sister taken into care and her mother ensnared by the promises of born-again Christianity.This is the story of an ordinary family trapped in a broken system. It is a story that could happen to anyone without the tools to transform their circumstances.But it is also a tale with a twist. And one full of humour and hope.Because with courage, perseverance and self-education, Tracy learnt to think for herself and found her way out......................................................................................................................................................................................''Tracy King''s memoir is heartbreaking and hopeful...An incredible true story of survival and forgiveness.'' TIM MINCHIN''Raw and unflinching.'' CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ''A brilliant writer.'' ADAM KAY''What would you do if you began to suspect the events of your childhood didn''t happen as you remembered them? In this evocative memoir, Tracy King confronts the stories we all tell ourselves in order to live.'' HELEN LEWIS
The Balance
From Paris Olympics star and legendary gymnast Simone Biles’s longtime coach, an insider’s look at the making of a championWith a Foreword by Simone BilesThe Balance is coach Aimee Boorman’s inside account of the growth of a transcendent athlete and the tumultuous events—from the dictatorial coaching of Martha Karolyi to the sexual abuse by Larry Nassar—that upended the lives of many girls, including Biles. Simone Biles is one of the greatest athletes of all time. She’s won six all-around world championships and eleven Olympic medals (seven gold). Five gymnastics moves are named after her, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the youngest recipient ever), and at an age when most elite gymnasts have retired, Biles is not just still competing—she’s dominating. She soared in the 2024 Paris Olympics, bringing home more Olympic gold. She’s having so much fun that LA 2028 is not out of the question. But when coach Aimee Borman met her at a gym in Texas, Simone was just a seven-year-old kid. An exceptionally athletically gifted one, to be sure, but not yet great. That would take time, care, love, and balance. Boorman helped shape Biles, both pushing her and holding her back, protecting both her mental and physical health. “She’s like a second mom to me,” writes Biles, and Boorman was the National Team coach in 2016, where the US—and Biles—took home all-around gold.The Balance combines unprecedented insider perspective on a legend, newsworthy details on gymnastics history, and compelling lessons on coaching, leadership, and development.
Man of Valor, Man of Grace
For fans of the hit series House of David, discover the real King David in more depth and transform your life as you learn from his successes and failures.How did David become the national hero of God''s chosen people?Why is he the one character in the Bible described as "a man after God''s own heart?"Man of Valor, Man of Grace by Charles Swindoll invites you to walk alongside David from his heroic youth through his many decades as king so you can witness his life with its great accomplishments but also its endless struggles. All the dramatic highlights in David''s life—extreme highs, extreme lows—are unfolded for you here, along with keen insights into his many character strengths, especially his unsurpassed intimacy with God.Curated from Swindoll''s Bible Commentary on the life of David, Man of Valor, Man of Grace illustrates David''s experiences to help you weather your own storms—be they self-inflicted or brought on by others—and emerge stronger, more focused, and aligned with what truly matters. This book will help you:Uncover David''s human side and see how managed life''s challenges and used them to grow closer to GodGain practical insights you can apply to your daily lifeConnect with David like never before as you see his struggles and triumphs and get insights into your spiritual journey Like all of us, David was far from perfect, but Swindoll teaches us that David had the chance to become great when he placed himself at the Lord''s disposal. David was a man endowed by God with passion, strength, integrity, and humility—an unforgettable personality whose life offers endless lessons for people of all ages. Man of Valor, Man of Grace invites you to explore David''s life and learn lessons that will transform your life.
Brothers
In this intimate and open account – nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever read – Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate. ‘A remarkable memoir’ Classic Rock‘A highly emotional read’ GuardianIn his rough yet sweet voice, Alex recounts the brothers’ childhood, first in the Netherlands and then in working class Pasadena, California, with an itinerant musician father and a very proper Indonesian-born mother – the kind of mum who admonished her boys to “always wear a suit” no matter how famous they became – a woman who was both proud and practical, nonchalant about taking a doggie bag from a star-studded dinner. He also shares tales of musical politics, infighting, and plenty of bad-boy behaviour. But mostly his is a story of brotherhood, music, and enduring love."I was with him from day one,” Alex writes. “We shared the experience of coming to America and figuring out how to fit in. We shared a record player, an 800 square foot house, a mom and dad, and a work ethic. Later, we shared the back of a tour bus, alcoholism, the experience of becoming famous, of becoming fathers and uncles, and of spending more hours in the studio than I’ve spent doing anything else in this life. We shared a depth of understanding that most people can only hope to achieve in a lifetime."There has never been an accurate account of them or the band, and Alex wants to set the record straight on Edward’s life and death.
The Editor
Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath—finally gets her due in this “surprising, granular, luminous, and path-breaking biography” (Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem).At Doubleday’s Paris office in 1949, twenty-five-year-old Judith Jones spent most of her time wading through manuscripts in the slush pile and passing on projects—until one day, a book caught her eye. She read it in one sitting, then begged her boss to consider publishing it. A year later, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl became a bestseller. It was the start of a culture-defining career in publishing. During her more than fifty years as an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Jones nurtured the careers of literary icons such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Tyler, and John Updike, and helped launched new genres and trends in literature. At the forefront of the cookbook revolution, she published the who’s who of food writing: Edna Lewis, M.F.K. Fisher, Claudia Roden, Madhur Jaffrey, James Beard, and, most famously, Julia Child. Through her tenacious work behind the scenes, Jones helped turn these authors into household names, changing cultural mores and expectations along the way. Judith’s work spanned decades of America’s most dramatic cultural change—from the end of World War II through the civil rights movement and the fight for women’s equality—and the books she published acted as tools of quiet resistance. Now, based on exclusive interviews, never-before-seen personal papers, and years of research, her astonishing career is explored for the first time in this “thorough and humanizing portrait” (Kirkus Reviews).
Across Mountains, Land and Sea
The extraordinary true story of hope, courage and survival and one boy''s journey across the world to find safety When Mir was thirteen, he was forced to flee his village in the mountains of Afghanistan. Separated from his family he embarked on an astonishing journey across snowy mountains, treacherous land and unforgiving seas, until he reached Dover clinging to the underside of a lorry. It was in the UK that he realised his journey had only just begun. This is Mir''s unbelievable story of seeking a better life and education, and the marks left by displacement.
A Yorkshire Vet Back To Herriot Country
Our latest instalment in the ‘Yorkshire Vet’ diaries sees Julian Norton return to ‘Herriot Country’, and Thirsk in particular, as he sets up a new practice in his home town. Follow Julian as he treats a cornucopia of animals in surgery and on location, often with a film crew in tow for the long-running TV series The Yorkshire Vet. Puppy parties and vomiting dogs, complicated surgery, difficult lambing, a ferret vasectomy, Mini the guinea, an ill-tempered swan, bullocks, lifting a heifer, CBA, Boris the rabbit, Skippy the cat, Sponge Bob the vizsla, Narcissus the oystercatcher, Vinnie the vulture, a hamster in space, Thor the walrus, five poorly mice, mating alpacas, sheep aplenty, and many more avian, bovine, canine and feline tales are told. Along the way, Julian encourages children to read and gives advice to the new ‘James Herriot’, Nick Ralph, for Channel 5’s All Creatures Great and Small. He cycles in Switzerland, climbs, visits Slovakia and Henley Regatta, but mostly he is delighted to be back working in the town of Alf Wight, better known as James Herriot. All written in Julian’s usual charming manner. Beautifully produced and illustrated.
Bob Dylan: Jewish Roots, American Soil
From the day that Bobby Zimmerman first turned on the radio in his parents' home in Hibbing, he'd had a pretty good idea that big things were happening.
When Bob Dylan arrived in New York one winter morning in 1961 he was a complete unknown. His music and spirit would go on to capture the hearts and minds of a generation, but what no one knew then was that, like so many before him, Dylan was concealing his Jewish origins.
Covering the same turbulent years as the hit film starring Timothée Chalamet, this entertaining biography offers new insights into Bob Dylan's early career. For Harry Freedman, Dylan's roots are the key to grasping how this young musician burst onto the scene and reinvented not only himself, but popular music. The instinct for escape and reinvention has defined Dylan's long career.
Freedman traces the heady atmosphere of the 1960s and the folk-rock revolution spearheaded by Dylan. Right up until the moment in 1966 when Dylan stepped out onto the stage and went electric - exploring how his musical decisions, genius for reinvention and his Jewishness go inescapably hand in hand.
Diddly Squat: Home to Roost
It''s been another memorable year on Diddly Squat Farm - will the chickens finally come home to roost?Welcome back to Clarkson’s Farm . . .Where the spring barley crop has failed. Just like the oil seed rape. And the oats turned the colour of a hearing aid. The mushrooms went mouldy. While the sheep, pigs and cows cost more than they earned. At least, the farm shop’s doing a roaring trade in candles – even if they smell like Jeremy’s knacker hammock.So never mind the rain, the skirmishes with the local planning department and the gargantuan hole in Jeremy’s wallet. Because it’s hard to feel too gloomy about life when there’s a JCB telehandler, a crop-spraying hovercraft and a digger waiting in the barn.For any man with several metric tons of powerful machinery at his fingertips must be doing something right . . .Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, October 2024
Čítanie o slávnych osobnostiach je mnohokrát inšpirujúce. Motivujú nás biografie slávnych umelcov, známych hercov alebo významných politikov.
Absolútne prvou biografiou všetkých čias je zrejme Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae, ktorú napísal grék Cornelius Nepos a opisoval v nej životy viacerých gréckych vojenských generálov. Neskôr mal už skoro každý významný vodca svoju biografiu, vrátane Cicera, Júliusa Cézara alebo Alexandra veľkého.
Pri čítaní životopisných kníh máme jedinečnú možnosť sledovať dlhú cestu, ktorú museli títo slávni ľudia prejsť. Uvidíme množstvo pádov a chýb, kvôli ktorým sa ale tieto osoby nevzdali a zobrali ich ako príležitosť zlepšiť sa vo všetkyćh oblastiach. Mnoho v sebe skrývajú aj úprimné rozhovory, ktoré sú často otvorenými vyznaniami a v tejto kategórii nájdete isto aj knihu o človeku, ktorého považujete za svoj vzor a je pre vás inšpiráciou.
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