The Life of Sutton is a coming-of-age story based on a trip in 2004.It captures a pre-social media world where privilege wasn't posted online, the possibilities for real escapism were endless, and self-discovery a matter of private discourse.Inspired by the shock departure of his fiancée, Charlie Sutton leaves his stately life in Australia. He puts his charmed life at risk to save a friend.While travelling from country-to-country reality sets into his elite social e...

Who is Tom Monaghan?Is he the four-year-old kid whose father died on Christmas Eve and whose mother sent him to an orphanage and then a juvenile detention home?Is he the entrepreneurial genius who built Domino's Pizza from a hole-in-the-wall pizzeria in Michigan into an American brand as world-conquering as Ford or Coke?Is he the religious visionary who sold Domino's for $1 billion to create an orthodox Catholic university, law school, and special interest law firm ...

While in rehab, James Frey finds a father figure in a shady mafia boss called Leonard. When Leonard returns to his dubious, prosperous life in the criminal underworld of Las Vegas, he promises James his support on the outside.Tragedy strikes the day James is released and his world seems set to implode. Unsure where to turn, he calls Leonard. Paradoxically, it is in Leonard's lawless underworld that James discovers the courage and humanity needed to rebuild his life.

Combines professional insights along with the authors own experience and insights to speculate on how believers can make sense of their Christian faith when confronted with tragedy and suffering.

Perhaps the most unconventional and literally breathtaking father-son story you'll ever read, My Friend Leonard pulls you immediately and deeply into a relationship as unusual as it is inspiring.The father figure is Leonard, the high-living, recovering coke addict "West Coast Director of a large Italian-American finance firm" (read: mobster) who helped to keep James Frey clean in A Million Little Pieces. The son is, of course, James, damaged perhap...

Le Corsaire rouge, publié en 1827, s'inscrit dans le contexte littéraire du début du XIXe siècle, une époque marquée par l'essor de la romance et la fascination pour les thèmes maritimes et l'aventure. L'intrigue se déroule dans le cadre des guerres anglo-américaines et met en scène des personnages emblématiques tels que le Corsaire rouge, un pirate au grand cœur, et sa quête de justice. Le style de Cooper, riche en descriptions et en dialogues vifs, allie le réalisme à un élan romantique,...

Meet Leonard, the clueless and softly spoken shrew, in this charming story about finding your voice and speaking up.Little Leonard can be a bit shy and finds it hard to make his voice heard. This sometimes means he misses out on some of the exciting experiences life has to offer: tasty seed snacks, playing games with the other children at break time, or being the first in the class to answer a question he knows he has the answer to. But when Leonard sees a friend b...

'An absolute triumph of a novel' Guardian'Compulsive' IndependentWelcome to L.A. City of contradictions.It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees.Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. Frey's trademark filmic snapshots zoom in on the parall...

Meet Leonard the clueless shrew in this hilarious story about getting lost in the jungle.It's moving day for the Shrew family, so Mrs Shrew has asked them to all hold on to each other's tails tightly so that nobody gets lost! They set off in a long line, but wait, where's little Leonard? This picture book will have you on the edge of your seat as you follow Leonard, who manages to grab on to anything and everything that isn't a shrew tail!Narrowly avoiding ...

"Le Dernier des Mohicans", publié en 1826, fait partie de la série des "Leatherstocking Tales" et se déroule durant la guerre de Sept Ans. L'œuvre explore les tensions entre les colons européens et les peuples amérindiens, à travers les aventures de Nathaniel "Hawkeye" Bumppo, un homme blanc élevé par les Mohicans. Cooper adopte un style narratif riche et des descriptions vibrantes, mêlant aventure et réflexion sur la nature, tout en posant des questions sur l'identité américaine et les re...

A lo largo de estos textos, el autor profundiza en diversos aspectos de la logoterapia y su vinculación con el pensamiento existencial, abordando cuestiones clínicas, éticas y filosóficas desde la experiencia concreta del trabajo psicoterapéutico.

Leonard è il miglior amico che James abbia mai avuto. Quando James non desiderava altro che distruggersi è stato Leonard ' carismatico uomo di mondo e gangster dichiarato ' a salvargli la vita. Quando James si è trovato a dover superare ostacoli durissimi, psicologici e pratici, per ricostruire la propria vita, Leonard gli ha offerto il suo appoggio, e una protezione sulla cui natura in generale era meglio sorvolare. E così, quando James, appena uscito di prigione, subisce il colpo più dur...