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It’s summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor’s shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels. Once he had aspirations of breezing through law school and punching his ticket to the good life. Now he doesn’t have a job or a prayer—except for one: an insurance dispute that leaves a family devastated and opens the door for a lawsuit, if Rudy can find a way to file it. By the time Rudy gets to court, a heavyweight corporate defense team is there to meet him. And suddenly he’s in over his head, plunged into a nightmare of lies and legal maneuverings.

Four gripping novellas tied together by the changing of seasons. Hope Springs Eternal - "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption": An unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge...the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award nominee The Shawshank Redemption.

No one - fictional or factual - embodies the Jazz Age as completely as F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby. First published in 1925, this legendary novel continues to enthrall generations as it serves as a lens to view our not-so-distant past. Many of our notions about that period are taken from this book. Bathtub gin, flappers, and house parties that last all week enliven Fitzgerald's classic tale. Stylish and engaging, The Great Gatsby is also a startling literate portrait of Gatsby's search for meaning in his opulent world.

Seven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of P. D. James' acclaimed mysteries, plus P. D. James in Her Own Words. This collection includes: Cover Her Face, A Taste for Death, Devices and Desires, A Certain Justice, The Private Patient, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull Beneath the Skin.

One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the 10 profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world.

Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman is one of the tech world's most accomplished executives in enterprise growth, having led Snowflake to the largest software IPO ever after leading Data Domain and ServiceNow to exponential growth and the public market before that. In Amp It Up, he shares his leadership approach for the first time.

Familie Hardcastle lädt zum Ball auf ihr Anwesen Blackheath. Alle Gäste amüsieren sich, bis ein fataler Pistolenschuss die Feier beendet. Evelyn Hardcastle, die Tochter des Hauses, ist tot. Einer der Gäste muss mehr über ihren Tod wissen, denn am selben Tag hat Aiden Bishop eine seltsame Nachricht erreicht: "Heute Abend wird jemand ermordet werden. Es wird nicht wie ein Mord aussehen, und man wird den Mörder daher nicht fassen. Bereinigen Sie dieses Unrecht, und ich zeige Ihnen den Weg hinaus." Tatsächlich wird Evelyn nicht nur ein Mal sterben.

Since man first walked the Earth...in heels, no other art form has wielded as unique an influence on pop culture as drag. Drag artists have now sashayed their way to snatch the crowns as the queens of mainstream entertainment. Through informative and witty essays chronicling over 100 years of drag, listeners will embark on a Priscilla-like journey through pop culture, from television shows like Bosom Buddies and RuPaul's Drag Race, to films like Some Like It Hot and Tootsie, and Broadway shows like Hedwig and the Angry Inch....

This anthology presents a new vision that recovers and reframes the literature produced by the people targeted by the actions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress to deny Americans of Japanese ancestry any individual hearings or other due process after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. From nearly seventy selections of fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, and letters emerges a shared story of the struggle to retain personal integrity in the face of increasing dehumanization—all anchored by the key government documents that incite the action.

This Very Short Introduction tells the evangelical story from the preacher-led revivals of the eighteenth century, through the frontier camp meetings of the nineteenth, to the mass urban rallies of the twentieth and the global megachurches of the twenty-first. More than just a sketch of where evangelicals have come from, this volume aims to examine the heart of evangelical phenomenon.

Murakamis persönlichstes Buch - jetzt auch als Hörbuch. Zwei Leidenschaften bestimmen Haruki Murakamis Leben: Schreiben und Laufen. Eines verbindet beide Tätigkeiten - ihre Intensität. Für Haruki Murakami bedeutet das Laufen ein zweites Leben, in dem er sich Kraft, Inspiration, vor allem aber die Zähigkeit zum Schreiben holt. Der Einfall und Entschluss, Romanautor zu werden, kam ihm beim Sport. Das Sitzen am Schreibtisch gleicht er mit dem Laufen aus.

On the planet of Taldain, the legendary Sand Masters harness arcane powers to manipulate sand in spectacular ways. But when they are slaughtered in a sinister conspiracy, the weakest of their number, Kenton, believes himself to be the only survivor. With enemies closing in on all sides, Kenton forges an unlikely partnership with Khriss - a mysterious Darksider who hides secrets of her own.

Für viele Menschen des 21. Jahrhunderts ist es alltägliche Realität: Dauerhafter Stress, die Unfähigkeit, wirklich abzuschalten, Anspannungs- und Angstgefühle und abends quälend langes Umherwälzen, bis sich endlich – oft wenig erholsamer – Schlaf einstellt. Das kommt Ihnen bekannt vor? Dann bietet Autogenes Training Ihnen die langersehnte Lösung: In Form einer wissenschaftlich entwickelten Übungsmethode, mit der Sie in Eigenregie Entspannung, Ausgeglichenheit und tiefen Schlaf ganz einfach "erlernen" können.

The Official IELTS Prep Speaking Strategies audiobook has everything you need to prepare and excel on the speaking section of the IELTS! This powerful audio course was created by expert IELTS tutors and teachers who know the test and all its variations inside and out.

There are few tests as important as the SAT. It controls your admission to top colleges and universities. Now you can vault to the top of the class with this new SAT Course. This course covers everything from leading test taking skills and strategies to a high yield content review of the verbal, quantitative and analytical writing portions of the SAT as well as a review of the top 500 SAT vocabulary words.

Labeled variously a realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, a symbolic allegory, and a drama of heroic conflict, Moby Dick is first and foremost a great story. It has both the humor and poignancy of a simple sea ballad, as well as the depth and universality of a grand odyssey.

The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes - the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto, and the Trans-Siberian Express - it describes the many places, cultures, sights and sounds he experienced and the fascinating people he met.

Spielplatz, Windeln, Hausarbeit. Da muss es doch noch mehr geben! Herbert, mittlerweile stolzer Papa, hat sich die Elternzeit ganz anders vorgestellt. Glücklicherweise braucht ihn sein Kumpel Hans, und er folgt seinem Hilferuf in die Berge. Der hat bei Berchtesgaden eine Art Pension eröffnet und hofft auf Unterstützung.

Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the jurors' increasingly odd behaviour.

What really drives workplace equity and inclusion - beyond strategies and systems? The truth is, all historically excluded persons who have broken through to greater levels of professional belonging and achievement have succeeded not by policy and systems change alone, but because of leaders who chose to remove barriers, open doors, and guide them toward their goals. The bottom line? Someone made a way for them. Using case studies, data, and candid storytelling, Tara Jaye Frank outlines how leaders with power and position can clear the path to workplace equity.