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Sonny Rollins is one of the towering masters of American music, a virtuoso of the saxophone, and an unequaled improviser whose live performances are legendary and who has reshaped modern jazz over the course of a career lasting more than sixty years. A turning point in that legendary career came...

"Wildly inventive, twisty tour de force"—BookPage The lush Gothic drama of Crimson Peak meets the murderous intrigue of Knives Out with an LGBTQIA+ love story to die for from award-winning author KJ Charles. WHO WILL SURVIVE LACKADAY HOUSE? When Zeb Wyckham is summoned to a wealthy...

People may call me an "overachieving ice queen," but I would do anything for the people I love. So when my friends ask me to host an event at their famous farm, I'm more than happy to help… until I discover I've been set up.

Fortune hasn't been kind to 66-year-old Mattie Gifford. Her mother committed suicide, her husband slept with her best friend, and she can't stand her three selfish daughters. But she does love her son, Sonny, who nevertheless plunges her into deep despair when he takes two women and a poodle hostage in his ex-wife's trailer. Sonny claims to have seen John Lennon's face in an apparition and gets his own mug on the television news.

In diesem Theaterstück geht es um zwei gealterte Komiker, die 23 Jahre lang zusammen aufgetreten sind, sich aber dauernd gezanket haben...

The Widow and the Tree features a 500-year-old Ghosthead Oak, whose stately presence has borne witness to the rise and fall of generations, to the hopes and dreams of untold lives, and to the births and deaths of innumerable residents alongcoastal Alabama. So why would a widow enter a biker bar and hire a man to chainsaw the cherished landmark?

Set in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the 20th century, No Pain Like This Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, a drunken and unpredictable father and the violence of the elements end in unbearable loss.

After five years of grieving over her childhood sweetheart, Frankie Five-Fingers is ready to get back to business. Shedding her caged-bird persona, she has a new man and a new plan: snatch everything that isn't nailed down! Along with Cowboy and his crew of bandits, they wreak havoc on the streets of New York, robbing everything from businesses to ballers. If it had value, they were coming for it.

Inspired by Diane di Prima, Rene Ricard, Henry Miller and others 'who tell it like it is', The Blues Comes with Good News is a collection of poems by prolific writer Sonny Hall. The collection ranges from articulating addiction, self-destruction and identity to romantic relationships, his journey to recovery and his unapologetic depiction of truth, through life and its happenings. At 18 years old Sonny entered a treatment centre for alcohol and drug addiction, after losing his biological mother - whom he remained close to despite being adopted aged four - to a heroin overdose.

Northumberland, Herbst 1068. Tod den Normannen! Mutig legt Lady Aelia den Bogen an und zielt auf den mächtigen Reiter, der seine Kampfestruppe anführt. Doch da lässt eine erregende Vorahnung die Hand der schönen Angelsächsin verhängnisvoll zittern. Weshalb ihr Pfeil den grausamen Baron Mathieu Fitz Autier, der ihre Ländereien erobern will, nur leicht verletzt! Aber als in derselben Nacht ihr kleiner Bruder in das Lager des normannischen Barons schleicht, um ihn zu töten, eilt Aelia ihm hinterher.

Border patrol agents are being ambushed along the Big Bend region of West Texas, a notorious drug corridor running east and west across the Lone Star State. They’re not the only targets. A film production depicting human trafficking in the area has been attacked by a brutal drug cartel. Into this lawless frontier steps Texas Ranger Sonny Hawke, ready and willing to dispense his own brand of justice. It’s an all-out war with the thinnest line separating the good from the bad. Sonny knows the only way out is to aim straight and stand your ground....

Da flitzte jahrelang eine Vogelscheuche übers Kopfsteinpflaster – mit enormer Geschwindigkeit – mit einwärts gerichtetem Blick. Meist beim Haustor raus, ins benachbarte Café: „Ein Wodka, ein Mineral, nicht vom Eis, das Telefon!“ – und weg war die Überraschung.

Non bisognerebbe mai addormentarsi arrabbiati: si rischia di finire sballottati da un confine all’altro dello spazio. È quel che succede a Primo, che in una notte di sconforto si ritrova risucchiato in un’avventura di quelle che cambiano la vita. Insieme al suo pupazzo Malcolm, approda sul pianeta delle Tzor, minacciate dal Leviatano, poi su quello della misteriosa e indipendente Regina senza Re, e il viaggio continua tra incontri paurosi, inquietanti, commoventi. Primo vorrebbe solo tornare a casa, ma dovrà imparare a combattere, oltre a nemici e mostri, le sue emozioni.

This radio dramatization of the classic movie, featuring the original stars, aired on November 1, 1943.

Drengen Cairo bliver til papir, da hans cirkusstjernemor falder ned fra sin line og dør. Og når man er af papir, skal man holde sig langt væk fra vand, store sakse og forfattere, som kan finde på at spærre en inde i en billedramme. Papirdrenge kan i det hele taget alt, alt for let gå i stykker. Så Cairo beslutter sig for at blive en rigtig dreng igen med blod og muskler og alt det. Men hvordan gør man lige det? Papirdrengen er en sælsom historie om Cairos rejse mod at blive en rigtig dreng. En rejse, der bestemt ikke er ufarlig.