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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The charming real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on the west coast of Africa. King Peggy chronicles the astonishing journey of American secretary, Peggielene Bartels, who suddenly finds herself king to a town of 7,000 people on Ghana's central coast, half a world away. Upon arriving for her crowning ceremony in beautiful Otuam, she discovers the dire reality: there's no running water, no doctor, no high school, and many of the village elders are stealing the town's funds. To make matters worse, her uncle (the late king) sits in a morgue awaiting a proper funeral in the royal palace, which is in ruins. Peggy's first two years as king of Otuam unfold in a way that is stranger than fiction. In the end, a deeply traditional African town is uplifted by the ambitions of its decidedly modern female king, and Peggy is herself transformed, from an ordinary secretary to the heart and hope of her community.

We first meet Larry Wright in 1960. He is thirteen and moving with his family to Dallas, the essential city of the New World just beginning to rise across the southern rim of the United States. As we follow him through the next two decades-the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the devastating assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the sexual revolution, the crisis of Watergate, and the emergence of Ronald Reagan-we relive the pivotal and shocking events of those crowded years. Lawrence Wright has written the autobiography of a generation, giving back to us with stunning force the feelings of those turbulent times when the euphoria of Kennedy's America would come to its shocking end. Filled with compassion and insight, In the New World is both the intimate tale of one man's coming-of-age, and a universal story of the American experience of two crucial decades.

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In this laugh-out-loud personal journey, acclaimed author Meghan Daum explores the perils and pleasures of believing that only a house can make you whole. From her teenage apartment fantasies and her mother's decorating manias to her own "hidden room" dreams and the bungalow she eventually buys on her own, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House is the true story of one woman's quest for the four perfect walls to call home.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Most of us have dreamed of sitting in the dugout with our favorite baseball team, and at sixteen Matt McGough was no different. A few months after sending a blind application letter to George Steinbrenner, on Opening Day 1992 Matt found himself walking into the legendary Yankee clubhouse. There, amid the chaos and excitement, he was greeted by none other than his idol Don Mattingly — who promptly played a prank on him.Thus began two years of adventures and misadventures, from being set up on a date by the bullpen to playing blackjack on the team plane to studying for an exam at 3 am in Yankee Stadium. Through these often hilarious experiences, and especially through his friendships with the ballplayers, Matt learned priceless lessons about honor, responsibility, and the importance of believing in oneself. A magical tale of what happens to a young man when his fondest dream comes true, Bat Boy wonderfully evokes that twilight time just before adulthood, ripe with possibility, foolishness, and hard-won knowledge.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

After two producers, four directors, thirteen years, and uncounted rewrites, the movie version of John Irving's acclaimed novel, The Cider House Rules, at last made it to the big screen. Here is the author's account of the novel-to-film process. Anecdotal, affectionate, and delightfully candid, My Movie Business dazzles with Irving's incomparable wit and style.

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Ich bin keine Sozialarbeiterin, keine Deeskalationstrainerin, keine Detektivin und keine Polizistin. Das wollte ich nie. Als Wiebke Wollnau nach der Elternzeit an die Wolkenheimer Realschule versetzt wird, freut sie sich aufs Unterrichten. Doch sehr bald muss sie feststellen, dass sie vor allem Streitigkeiten schlichten und Fehlverhalten sanktionieren muss. Unterstützung gibt es kaum, jeder kämpft für sich. Während die Arbeit immer mehr Raum einnimmt, versucht Wiebke verzweifelt, noch Zeit für die eigenen Kinder aufzubringen. Doch der Frust aller Beteiligten an der Schule ist groß und entlädt sich an ihr. Als schließlich die eigene Klasse gegen Wiebke rebelliert, wird der Schulalltag für sie zur Hölle. Sie muss sich die Frage stellen, wo sie als Lehrerin ihren Platz finden kann ... Ein zeitgeschichtlicher Roman nach wahren Begebenheiten.

Der ukrainische Schriftsteller Volodymyr Vakulenko-K. geriet in seinem Heimatdorf Kapitoliwka nahe Isjum im März 2022 unter russische Besatzung. In persönlichen Aufzeichnungen hielt er seine Beobachtungen und Gedanken aus dieser Zeit fest. Der letzte Eintrag stammt vom 21. März 2022. Am 22. März wurde er zusammen mit seinem an Autismus leidenden Sohn von russischen Soldaten verhaftet, zunächst wieder freigelassen, um am 24. März erneut entführt zu werden. Sein geschundener Leichnam wurde im September 2022 nach der Befreiung der Region Isjum durch die ukrainischen Streitkräfte in einem der Massengräber gefunden. Der ukrainischen Schriftstellerin Victoria Amelina ist es zu verdanken, dass die Aufzeichnungen gerettet werden konnte. Sie fuhr noch im September 2022 in das Heimatdorf von Volodymyr Vakulenko und fand die Aufzeichnungen vergraben im Garten neben einem Kirschbaum. So wurde dieses Buch möglich, das neben den Aufzeichnungen von Volodymyr Vakulenko auch eine Auswahl seiner Gedichte enthält. Enthalten sind zudem ein Vorwort von Victoria Amelina über ihre Suche und Rettung des Manuskripts, Texte von Sashko Dermanskyi, Kateryna Lykhoglyad und Iryna Novicka sowie ein Nachwort von Franziska Davies.Die ukrainische Originalausgabe des Buches konnte am 22. Juni 2023 zum BücherArsenal in Kyjiw durch Victoria Amelina präsentiert werden. Nur fünf Tage später, am 27. Juni 2023, wurde Victoria Amelina Opfer eines russischen Raketenangriffs auf ein Restaurant in Kramatorsk. Sie starb an ihren schweren Verletzungen am 1. Juli 2023, dem Geburtstag von Volodymyr Vakulenko. So ist dieses Buch auch ein Nachruf auf gleich zwei der hoffnungsvollsten Talente ihrer Generation in der ukrainischen Literatur und ein mahnendes Zeugnis des russischen Terrorkriegs gegen die Ukrainerinnen und Ukrainer und die ukrainische Kultur und Identität.