Биографии и Мемуары
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What if someone you thought you knew very well started behaving strangely? What would you do? Now suppose the person acting strange was — God? Jonah thought he knew God. In fact, he was a prophet. He knew he heard God’s voice. Life might have its difficulties, but no matter what happened, he could count on his God. Then one day God started saying things he couldn’t possibly mean.
| Автор | Bruce G Epperly |
More than 35 years after one of Australia's most baffling and brazen child abductions, journalist John Allin returned to Adelaide to talk with Greg and Christine Gordon.<br /> <br />In this compelling and deeply personal story, Allin tells how a simple but precious gift kept their daughter Kirste's disappearance high in his mind for so many years.<br /> <br />Welcome to Crime Shots – short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia's past and present.
| Автор | John Allin |
The brutal bashings of a five-year-old Cody Hutchings by his step-father promoted a major change in state legislation in Australia.<br /> <br />After Stuart John McMaster was found guilty manslaughter, the Victorian State Government introduced the new offence of child homicide.<br /> <br />Welcome to Crime Shots – short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia's past and present.
| Автор | Fin J Ross |
Перед вами – продолжение автобиографического триллера «Волк с Уолл-стрит», главного бестселлера 2014 года. Книга воспоминаний легендарного биржевого игрока легла в основу одноименного блокбастера Мартина Скорсезе, заглавную роль в котором исполнил Леонардо ди Каприо. Каждая страница этих мемуаров, каждый кадр фильма так и дышали гламуром 1990-х: самые быстрые тачки, самые длинные яхты, самые роскошные женщины… Но когда империя Волка внезапно рассыпалась, словно карточный домик, все изменилось:...
| Автор | Джордан Белфорт |
| Жанр | Современная русская и зарубежная проза, Публицистика, Биографии и Мемуары |
| Год | 2014 |
I Got the Shit Car: On Father's Day in Australia in 2005, Robert Farquharson drove his car and three sons in a dam in country Victoria. The estranged husband and loving father was the only one to survive.<br /> <br />Welcome to Crime Shots – short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia's past and present.
| Автор | Lindy Cameron |
In 1986 a bomb went off outside the main police headquarters in Russell Street Melbourne.<br /> <br />The Russell Street Bombing looks at the consequences of this shocking act of violence from the point of view of an entire city, the police force that was targeted, and in particular one 19-year-old victim.<br /> <br />Welcome to Crime Shots – short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia's past and present.
| Автор | Vikki Petraitis |
This special edition shows never before seen character designs and pin-ups. Is he Jesus? Is he Robert E. Lee? Is he both? Jesus E. Lee fights to defend Richmond, VA from the evil onslaught of Angel Eyes. Witness the miraculous and more with the modern-retro thrillride that is, JESUS E. LEE.
| Автор | Jon Carroll |
Die lewe en politiek van Hendrik Verwoerd – met nuwe inligting gevind deur gerekende historikus Hermann Giliomee. 'n Insiggewende en deurdagte kyk na Verwoerd se beleide en keuses, en hoe hulle vandag nog Suid-Afrika beïnvloed. Hoe kon so 'n intelligente persoon vir so lank help om 'n onderdrukkende stelsel te handhaaf? Giliomee soek die antwoord.
| Автор | Hermann Giliomee |
Ее называли иконой стиля, в нее были влюблены миллионы. За ее личной жизнью пристально следили, завидуя ей и приписывая романы с влиятельными политиками, знаменитыми актерами. Она действительно производила впечатление любимицы судьбы, которая не живет – порхает. Но мало кто знал, что творилось в ее душе. Никто и не догадывался, что блестящая Мэрилин Монро была недолюбленным ребенком и не очень-то счастливой женщиной. Что всю свою жизнь она искала и не находила того, кто мог бы принять ее такой,...
| Автор | Адам Бревер |
| Жанр | Публицистика, Биографии и Мемуары |
| Год | 2014 |
In 2008, a daughter talking to her mother on a long-distance call hears cracks, and the phone goes dead. Later her seventeen-year-old brother returns from school and finds their mother murdered. She had interrupted seventeen-year-old burglars who shot her multiple times. Now from the perspective of time and reflection, Lois Schaffer creates a memoir about her daughter’s life and the consequences of her death and voices a mother’s plea for control of illegal guns.
| Автор | Lois A. Schaffer |
Подробная биография аргентинца Лионеля Месси, которого часто называют лучшим футболистом всех времен. Автор книги, аргентинский журналист Леонардо Фаччо подробно рассказывает о том, как талантливый мальчик, страдавший редким заболеванием – дефицитом гормона роста, – проделал путь к славе, став суперзвездой мирового спорта, единственным в истории футбола четырехкратным обладателем «Золотого мяча». Книга для всех, кто любит спорт и красивые истории успеха. Перевод: Тамара Эйдельман
| Автор | Леонардо Фаччо |
| Жанр | Биографии и Мемуары |
| Год | 2014 |
Meet Rule Eddie and his Rule Ladies. Rule Eddie is the scourge of the underworld, a man with murder and casino games on his mind, and he wants nothing more than to destroy the VSS. Join us as the girls learn of his nefarious plans for world domination and, as the stakes get even higher than before, will an agent meet their maker?
| Автор | CW Cooke |
An all-ages glimpse inside the pages of Lucy Maud Montgomery's tale of Anne. Heartbreak and hope fill the pages as Anne's life fills every nook and cranny of the comic book page. We're almost to the end, so don't give up now!
| Автор | CW Cooke |
The star of the sold out mini-series is back! Adjusting to life in the far-flung present is one thing, fighting the female assassin Silencer is another. Worse, one of Diana's most dangerous adversaries from the 1960s resurfaces to complicate her life, Lincoln Stanley, aka Hepcat. Has he really reformed, as he claims, or is he back to his old tricks?
| Автор | Johnny Lowe |
Former bad guy Lincoln Stanley, aka Hep Cat, wants to take up where he left off with Judo Girl back in the swinging 60s, but Diana begins to have second thoughts about his motives and sexy assassin Silencer's new modus operandi seems to be all over the map. What is she up to, and why?
| Автор | Johnny Lowe |