A young man is driving down a lonely stretch of highway after midnight and is mulling over the conversations he had earlier with people at a friends wedding. He is feeling like life is passing him by and he has no idea how to change it. Fate steps in and his life is suddenly turned up-side-down when he finds a shiny disk where he saw a UFO land. He experiences, fear, wonder and excitement during the next few months of his life as he is shown a whole new culture under the sea and learns ans...

La Terra è stata privata dei suoi campioni ed è tenuta in ostaggio. Due entità antiche e misteriose hanno rapito i supereroi del pianeta per metterli l’uno contro l’altro, in una sfida con in palio la vita… e la morte! Nuovi eroi emergono e altri vengono messi alla prova, nel primo evento della Marvel che ha radunato tutti i suoi personaggi, Contest of Champions. Inoltre, per la prima volta in Italia, l’epilogo della saga: gli Avengers contro la Legione dei non vivi! [Contiene: Contest of ...

**Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist**Achievement almost killed him. Fulfillment saved him.Grant Muller was nearly killing himself – quite literally. A desperate quest to get rich had made him a millionaire before the age of 30 but then taken him to the brink: homeless, living on drugs and hustle. If his lifestyle didn’t end him, one of the thugs he owed money to would surely do the job.So when he finally got off the streets and got...

**Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist**Achievement almost killed him. Fulfillment saved him.Grant Muller was nearly killing himself – quite literally. A desperate quest to get rich had made him a millionaire before the age of 30 but then taken him to the brink: homeless, living on drugs and hustle. If his lifestyle didn’t end him, one of the thugs he owed money to would surely do the job.So when he finally got off the streets and got...

George is at rock bottom: His wife is leaving him, his job is gone, and even his kids can barely stand him. But instead of wallowing in despair, George opts for a drastic makeover. Inspired by his cinematic hero, Cary Grant, he sets out to reinvent himself, enlisting the help of modern-day mentors akin to Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering from 'My Fair Lady.'Suddenly, George is the toast of Hollywood. He rubs elbows with A-listers like Bradley Cooper and George Clooney, while acc...

Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after the election of Barack Obama to the presidency.Ivery and Bassett combine their...

Fear Nothing tells the story of 28-year-old oddball hero Christopher Snow, who lives in the city of Moonlight Bay, California, along with his hyper-intelligent dog Orson, his best surfing buddy Bobby and his late-night deejay girlfriend Sasha. Snow has XP-xeroderma pigmentosum-a very rare genetic affliction that forces him to avoid light at all costs, and will likely give him cancer later in life. His parents died under mysterious circumstances and he's now being stalked by the shadowy cha...

A captivating BBC Radio adaptation of Cervantes' masterpiece, chronicling the adventures of an intrepid knight errant and his faithful squireLocked up in jail, Miguel de Cervantes is attempting to start a novel when he is visited by a priest, who tells him about an old man driven insane by chivalric romances and a vision of glory. Inspired, Cervantes takes up his pen, and begins to write...His story begins in La Mancha, where an elderly country gentleman de...

Two vintage thrillers, written by award-winning writer Roy Clarke and directed by Alan AyckbournAcclaimed radio and TV dramatist Roy Clarke is well known for his hit sitcoms Last of the Summer Wine, Open All Hours and Keeping Up Appearances. But before he came to fame, he penned two hugely entertaining six-part thriller serials - both directed by a struggling radio producer who would become one of the most renowned playwrights in the world: Alan A...

From her first appearance in Grantville Gazette 4, no one viewed Velma Hardesty as a delicate flower, with one exception. Virginia DeMarce's "A Rose By Any Other Song" ends Velma's tale from the point of view of that personNatalie Silk's tale tells how Rahel's life goes "Down This Path" to a childbirth that takes her life in an unanticipated direction..In other news, George Grant's "Mail From Up-Time" sees the consequence of some set-aside and forgotten mail being delivered...

In Optimism, Bob Brown shares with us his stories and insights from throughout his public and private life, that reveal the events that have made an impression, the ideas that have caught his imagination, and the people that have stayed in his thoughts. This book reflects on the simple things, the moments that are meaningful, and the big questions that have concerned Bob Brown and inspired him to achieve. It is a powerful book as well as a meditation on the great and the small. Inspiration...

Shortlisted for the Australian Society for Sports History (ASSH) Biennial Book PrizeUnlike every other sport that has captured the nation’s interest, Australian football is not a copy, a clone, or a hand-me-down of European culture. Rather, it is a game with special qualities, which arose from a distinctive series of events in the fledgling colony of Victoria, grew rapidly, and is now the most dominant sport in the country: a social, commercial, cultural and—for ma...