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The Men Who Dared celebrates twelve life stories of men who embraced adversities, whose resilience helped them chase their goals without fear, whose success was not just their own, because it impacted and improved the lives of others. Whether it was archaeologist K.K. Muhammed confronting the world's biggest jigsaw puzzle located in the land of dacoits, or activist Jadav Payeng's will for, first, making, and then saving a forest, or Prince Manvendra Singh accepting his queerness and fighting for LGBTQ rights.

Now published in over 70 languages, this number one international best seller gently offers answers to life's biggest questions as well as a practical process to help you create prosperity, vitality, happiness and inner peace. This is the incredible story of Julian Mantle, a superstar lawyer whose out-of-balance lifestyle leads him to a near-fatal heart attack in a packed courtroom. His collapse brings on a spiritual crisis, forcing him to seek answers to life's most important questions.

Playwright, poet, and novelist Ntozake Shange originally composed for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf in as a mesmerizingly original choreopoem. The New York Post called it "rich with the author's special voice: by turns bitter, funny, ironic, and savage; fiercely honest and personal." Now a new audiobook, it chronicles the interconnected lives of a group of women facing shatteringly difficult issues, and evokes the indomitable power of enduring hope and joy.

In 1892, Alfred Tennyson, the official Poet Laureate of Great Britain, died. According to custom, a new Laureate now had to be chosen by the Prime Minister. But on this occasion, uniquely, there was a problem. Many different candidates for the position were suggested, but for several years, none were chosen. In this recording, we listen to selected poems by Tennyson himself and by ten writers nominated to succeed him.

It appears that everyone in Skary, Indiana, is having an identity crisis of epic proportions, including the town itself. Once known as the haunt of the world's most popular horror writer, Wolfe "Boo" Boone, Skary started losing tourist business after Boo abruptly abandoned his career. Now the little town with the big marketing hook is up a creek...and on the brink of bankruptcy.

First published in 1922 and filled with evocative portraits of pre-World War I society, these eight stories from the creator of the Father Brown mysteries recount the adventures of Horne Fisher, a socialite who uses his immense knowledge and powerful deductive gifts to investigate crimes committed on the sprawling country estates of the aristocracy - crimes that must, alas, go largely unpunished due to the greater harm that justice would unleash.

This volume pays tribute to 50 different women poets, some well-known whilst others undeservedly forgotten but all contributing a single poem which we hope might nudge listeners to discover more of their verse.

Joy Davidman is known, if she is known at all, as the wife of C. S. Lewis. Their marriage was immortalized in the film Shadowlands and Lewis' memoir, A Grief Observed. Now, through extraordinary new documents as well as years of research and interviews, Abigail Santamaria brings Joy Davidman Gresham Lewis to your ears in the fullness and depth she deserves. A poet and radical, Davidman was a frequent contributor to the communist vehicle New Masses and an active member of New York literary circles in the 1930s and '40s.

"The Man Who Keeps His Head" by Harold Begbie (1871-1929) was published in Poems of the Great War in 1914 on behalf of The Prince of Wales' national Relief Fund. A reporter with the Daily Chronicle at the start of the war, Begbie wrote a number of recruiting poems and visited America to aid the recruitment effort there.

Un viaggio indimenticabile nella poesia di Emily Dickinson realizzato da Silvio Raffo, il più grande interprete e traduttore italiano della poetessa americana nonché poeta, che recita l'opera "Io sono nessuno, tu chi sei? / I'm Nobody. Who Are You?", in italiano e in lingua originale inglese, inframezzate a lezioni di critica e storia della Dickinson, nell'amabile contesto musicale dei brani Krell che fanno da sottofondo ai tratti salienti della recitazione.

Un viaggio indimenticabile nella poesia di Emily Dickinson realizzato da Silvio Raffo, il più grande interprete e traduttore italiano della poetessa americana, nonché poeta, che recita l'opera "Io sono nessuno, tu chi sei? / I'm Nobody. Who Are You?", in italiano e in lingua originale inglese, inframezzate a lezioni di critica e storia della Dickinson, nell'amabile contesto musicale dei brani Krell che fanno da sottofondo ai tratti salienti della recitazione.

Sam verlor sein Hörvermögen. Mehr und mehr schwanden seine Sinne dahin. Bis zu jenem Tag, an dem er Gottes Stimme in seinem Herzen hören konnte. Das wurde zum Wendepunkt seines Lebens.

Obsesionado con el pasado acuático de la Ciudad de México, Peñalosa propone un recorrido imaginario por un territorio de ríos entubados; una ciudad en la que el concreto aleja el agua de la gente y de los animales.