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Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States. Washington came from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. Character Building (1902) is a collection of talks on self-development given to students and faculty at the Tuskegee Institute, of which he was leader. The author stresses the importance of developing oneself for life-long success.

Adam Hasting’s life takes an unexpected turn when a baby is left at Hastings Security with a note asking him to take care of his daughter. As the oldest brother in the family business, Adam has always set an example. One thing he knows for sure is the child can’t possibly be his. Faced with an impossible situation, America’s sweetest voice, September Platt makes the only sane decision she can and leaves her baby with the only man she ever loved.

Write It to Win It!: 39 Secrets from a Screenwriting Contest Judge is the first book ever written for screenwriting contest success. The author is a highly successful script consultant and judge for Hollywood screenwriting contests who reveals the insider secrets that give screenwriters the winning advantage while avoiding costly pitfalls.

The fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of Franklin Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court has special resonance today as we debate the limits of presidential authority.

So sehr der NFL-Star Saint Alvarez seinen Job als Wide Receiver bei den L.A. Vipers liebt, so sehr hasst er es, in der Öffentlichkeit zu stehen. Doch nach einem medienwirksamen Fehltritt wird er von seinem Verein zu einer Dokumentation verpflichtet, die sein Image aufpolieren soll. Zähneknirschend stimmt Saint zu, schwört sich allerdings, der Journalistin ihre Arbeit nicht leicht zu machen – bis er Callie McQueen gegenübersteht. Die junge Reporterin hat nicht nur jeder seiner Schikanen etwas entgegenzusetzen, Callie scheint auch hinter seine Schutzmauern blicken zu können.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling mystery and collaboration between award-winning and bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin! This historical adventure follows two siblings at Bletchley Park, the home of WWII codebreakers, as they try to unravel a mystery surrounding their...

How are we supposed to be partners? He can’t see the cards and I don’t know the rules! The summer after junior year of high school looks bleak for Alton Richards. His girlfriend has dumped him to hook up with his best friend. He has no money and no job. His parents insist that he drive his...

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller! From debut author Asha Lemmie, “a lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a family together.” —Kristin Hannah, #1 New York...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021 Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Christopher Award “Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed...

Qu'est ce que l'inquisition ? L'histoire de l'inquisition – dans laquelle le Midi de la France tient une large place – a longtemps été l'objet d'opinions contradictoires. On a pu croire qu'elle avait sauvé la chrétienté et la société occidentale de la subversion religieuse et sociale ; on a pu dire qu'elle avait écrasé une religion évangélique par l'oppression, la terreur et les bûchers. Cet enregistrement tente d'approcher au plus près les réalités médiévales sans a priori ou complaisance et de dresser le tableau de l'inquisition en Languedoc au temps où elle consacre tous ses efforts à l'éradication du catharisme. Inquisition et hérésie.

Der Auftakt zur "Frozen Hearts"-Reihe von Bestsellerautorin Ayla Dade. Als Paola an der Fassade des imposanten Blackwell Palace mit seinen verschneiten Türmen und Spitzendächern emporblickt, kann sie kaum glauben, dass dies ihr neues Zuhause und ihr Arbeitsplatz ist. Der Hotelpalast in St. Moritz hat einen legendären Ruf – genau wie die beiden Hotelerben Charles und Edward Blackwell. Als Paola ihnen zum ersten Mal begegnet, gerät auch sie sofort in ihren Bann: Die Brüder sind verboten schön, mächtig und in beiden sitzt ein tiefer Schmerz, der sie unberechenbar macht.

Une chronique nostalgique et tendre, généreuse et colorée, pleine de saveur et d’humour. Evelyn Couch, femme au foyer vivant mal l’approche de la cinquantaine, se rend chaque semaine dans une maison de retraite où elle se lie d’amitié avec Ninny Threadgoode, fringante octogénaire qui lui raconte ses fabuleuses histoires de jeunesse. Nous voici alors en Alabama, dans les années 1930. Commence alors l’aventure du Whistle Stop Café, bientôt connu de tous les laissés-pour-compte du pays pour être le refuge idéal contre les rigueurs de l’époque.

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.

Für die Welt ist er der Böse, für sie ist er ihr Ritter in strahlender Rüstung. In den Medien ist Cillian Fitzpatrick nur als "Villain" bekannt. Der attraktive Milliardär ist ein skrupelloser Geschäftsmann, der seine Firma über alles stellt. Für Persephone Penrose jedoch ist er der Mann, in den sie unsterblich verliebt ist und der ihr mehr als einmal das Leben gerettet hat. Aber selbst Cillians Hilfe hat ihren Preis: Als Gegenleistung soll Persephone in der Öffentlichkeit seine Ehefrau spielen.

Like millions of others, Louis Theroux’s plans were mothballed by the onset of COVID. Unable to escape to the porn sets and the prisons and the maximum-security mental hospitals that are his usual journalistic feeding ground, the garlanded documentary maker began reporting on a location even more full of pitfalls and hostile objects of inquiry - his own home during a pandemic.

The terrors of the Lodz Ghetto and the tales of survival continue in this sequel to The Devil’s Bookkeepers.

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.

The Rev. Calvin Dill Wilson (1857-1946) was an author and Presbyterian minister. In Black Masters of 1904, he discusses the little-known history of the free African-Americans that bought and sold slaves just like Southern white planters. Free colored men and women could own their families and in this way protect them against oppressive local laws. There was also the desire to attain a position of superiority over other blacks, an ambition to rise to the class of the masters and to be on the same level as white men.

Zach Connors, known as Grizzly Killer, and his family and friends have searched for the buffalo that will sustain them through the coming winter, leading them dangerously close to the land of their enemies: the Cheyenne and Arapaho. The chief of the Cheyenne village Blue Dog wants revenge against Zach, who he blames for his brother’s death.

Born a slave, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) escaped to the North where he became a prominent abolitionist, historian, novelist and playwright. His 1863 book The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements portrays the lives of individuals selected by Brown that had “by their own genius, capacity, and intellectual development, surmounted the many obstacles which slavery and prejudice have thrown in their way, and raised themselves to positions of honor and influence."