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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The larger-than-life journey of an 18-year-old college freshman who set out from his dorm room to track down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and dozens more of the world’s most successful people to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers. “If you care...

Best-selling author Bryan Burrough recently made a shocking discovery: The small town of Temple, Texas, where he had grown up, had harbored a dark secret. One of his high school classmates, Danny Corwin, was a vicious serial killer. In this chilling tale, Burrough raises important questions of whether serial killers can be recognized before they kill or rehabilitated after they do. It is also a story of Texas politics and power that led the good citizens of the town of Temple to enable a demon who was their worst nightmare.

During a fateful evening at a house party, successful business leader and renowned public speaker, Abner Mariri, unwittingly stumbles through a door into a private room. What he discovers inside is the harrowing story this book unfolds. Titled “The Door,” this unflinching autobiography reveals how a single misstep plunged Abner into the depths of drug addiction. It’s a raw and unfiltered account of an addict who’s seen it all.

A fan from the moment the Doors’ first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock ’n’ roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over. Forty years after singer Jim Morrison was found dead in Paris and the group disbanded, one could drive from here to there, changing from one FM pop station to another, and be all but guaranteed to hear two, three, four of the Doors’ songs in an hour - every hour.

“Behind every door lies a secret. Join us as we unlock chilling true crime stories, delve into unsolved mysteries, and explore the dark side of humanity. Every episode opens a new door to the unknown.”

For many of us, it’s playing softball with friends, under the lights, a cooler of beer in the dugout. In the late 1980s, author Rich Cohen, then a senior in high school, assembled a team of ne’er-do-wells - gear heads, burnouts, goof balls, and the possibly gifted - to compete in what Cohen considered the best 12-Inch softball league in the Lower 48. Think Field of Dreams, but, instead of a cornfield in Iowa, these games were played behind a grade school in Glencoe, Illinois, on Chicago’s North Shore.

‘An incredible read. I laughed, I cried and my heart was truly touched by this beautifully written true story of hope and humanity at its best.’ Rosemary Conley CBE 'An extraordinary story. Truly Inspirational' Tim Vine An astonishing story of kindness, self-learning, pain, unbelievable hope...

The Behind Closed Doors Podcast is the world's first ever podcast from inside a UK prison, giving you access to stories you rarely hear, told by the people living them.Presented by 21TV, each episode goes beyond headlines and stereotypes to explore what life is really like behind locked doors: the routines, the relationships, the regrets, the humour, the hard lessons, and the hope. Through honest conversations and raw first-person accounts, Behind Closed Doors shines a light on the realities of custody and the journeys that happen when the world stops and reflection begins.This is more than a ...

é um podcast silencioso e cinematográfico sobre os momentos que nos colocam à prova.Cada episódio conta uma história curta — uma decisão tomada no silêncio, uma dúvida que permanece, um ponto de virada que quase ninguém percebe. Sem conselhos. Sem discursos. Apenas narrativas cuidadosamente escritas sobre o que significa ser humano quando nada parece fazer sentido.Este é um podcast para ouvir à noite, durante caminhadas longas, ou nos espaços invisíveis entre quem você foi e quem está tentando se tornar.Às vezes, a pergunta mais importante não é o que fazer depois — é ...

ist ein ruhiger, cineastischer Podcast über die Momente, die uns prüfen — oft ganz leise.Jede Folge erzählt eine kurze Geschichte: eine Entscheidung, die im Stillen getroffen wird, ein Zweifel, der bleibt, ein Wendepunkt, den niemand sonst bemerkt. Keine Ratschläge. Keine Belehrungen. Nur sorgfältig erzählte Geschichten darüber, was es heißt, Mensch zu sein, wenn nichts eindeutig erscheint.Dieser Podcast ist für späte Abende, lange Wege und für den unsichtbaren Raum zwischen dem, der du warst, und dem, der du gerade wirst.Manchmal ist die wichtigste Frage nicht was als Nächstes...

بودكاست هادئ، سينمائي، عن اللحظات التي تختبرنا دون أن تُصدر ضجيجًا.في كل حلقة، نروي قصة قصيرة — قرار اتُّخذ في صمت، شكٌّ طال بقاؤه، أو لحظة تحوّل لا يلاحظها أحد سوانا. لا نصائح. لا مواعظ. فقط حكايات مكتوبة بعناية عن أن تكون إنسانًا حين لا تبدو الأمور واضحة.هذا بودكاست لآخر الليل، للمشي الطويل، وللمسافة الخفية بين من كنت… ومن ...

es un podcast silencioso y cinematográfico sobre los momentos que nos ponen a prueba.Cada episodio cuenta una historia breve: una decisión tomada en silencio, una duda que se queda, un punto de quiebre que casi nadie más nota. Sin consejos. Sin discursos. Solo relatos escritos con cuidado sobre lo que significa ser humano cuando nada parece del todo claro.Este es un podcast para las noches largas, para caminar sin rumbo, para ese espacio invisible entre quien fuiste y quien estás intentando ser.A veces, la pregunta más importante no es qué hacer después — sino simplemente: pero… ...

एक शांत, सिनेमाई पॉडकास्ट है — उन पलों के बारे में, जो बिना शोर किए हमें परखते हैं।हर एपिसोड एक छोटी-सी कहानी सुनाता है — एक निर्णय जो चुपचाप लिया गया, एक संदेह जो मन में ठहर गया, या एक ऐसा मोड़ जिसे शायद कोई और देख भी नहीं पाता। कोई ...

When twenty-five-year-old Maud Kells gave up her home in Ireland to replace martyred missionaries in Congo, she was acutely aware of the risk she was taking. Despite the state of the war-torn country, her own reserved nature and the objections of her family, she chose to follow the God who promised, 'I am with you. That is all you need.' This is the remarkable story of an ordinary woman who decided to walk through the door God opened for her, whatever the cost.

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Carolyn Woods leidt een gelukkig leven in een rustig dorpje in de Cotswolds als er op een dag een aantrekkelijke vreemdeling op haar pad komt. Deze Mark Conway straalt zelfvertrouwen en mysterie uit, waardoor Carolyn zich direct tot hem aangetrokken voelt. Langzaam ontstaan er scheurtjes in Marks verhaal en komt Carolyn achter de afschuwelijke waarheid. Om te beginnen is zijn echte naam Mark Acklom en wordt hij gezocht door Interpol.

For fans of Educated and The Sound of Gravel, The Dirt Beneath Our Door tells the remarkable and inspirational story of how a mother escaped a fundamentalist Mormon cult with her eight youngest children, only to struggle with newfound freedom in an America she barely knew.

‘’F *** ing brilliant. I would describe it as like a bag of political nuts – moreish and fabulously salty’ JOE LYCETT A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors is an entertaining and original romp through the highs and lows of British political history and the unlikely...

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Ken Khachigian, trusted adviser and confidante to America's presidential giants and political legends, draws the curtains back on his most private moments with Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon during revolutionary changes in our economy, politics, communications, foreign policy, and culture.