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Une créatrice de contenu qui connaît le succès grâce à des capsules sur les pires tortures de l’Histoire. Un tueur qui s’en inspire et les teste au fond d’une cave sordide. Un père qui se réfugie dans le sanctuaire d’un passé heureux pour oublier l’horreur. Et d’autres suppliciés qui agonisent sous les yeux du spectateur impuissant. Dans cette sinistre mue de la Corriveau, la mémoire de cette jeune femme entrée dans la légende continue de se transformer et de se moderniser.

This is the first book ever written for the defense on how to avoid runaway jury verdicts. I wrote this book because I care about fairness. I believe everyone has the right to a fair trial, not just plaintiff lawyers and their clients. Defendants are entitled to have a jury decide their case without being stirred with passion and bias by creative plaintiff lawyers. This is the defense “playbook” for justice.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The posthumous memoir of Rev. James Lawson Jr., peer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mentor to Congressman John Lewis and the Freedom Riders, and a principal architect of a nonviolent resistance movement that changed the world. “This book is a gift to be treasured, from...

A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled Black men in America's prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s, Jackson's story still resonates for its portrait of a man taking a stand even while locked down.

Ted Sorensen, JFK’s closest adviser, speech writer and friend, in his own words and final interview, brings us directly into the Oval Office as a member of Kennedy’s inner circle. This film reveals how essential Sorensen was to the administration, as Kennedy said: “My intellectual blood bank”. Not only with the epic speech “Ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country,” but as special counsel to the President.

Desde que David Valenzuela, un joven ingenuo y poco lumbrera, mató en defensa propia a uno de los hermanos Castro, conocidos narcotraficantes del Triángulo Dorado en la región de Sinaloa, su vida se convierte en una huida llena de oportunos golpes de suerte y en la que se cruzará con los más variopintos personajes que, sin él pretenderlo, le involucrarán en situaciones tanto trágicas como cómicas.

El verano de la serpiente es una historia magistralmente narrada desde perspectivas distintas que van confeccionando y perfilando a cada uno de los personajes. En sus páginas, asistimos al momento decisivo en la vida de una familia, durante el verano de 1977, que se desliza inquietante, develando los secretos que cada uno de ellos guarda.

La historia personal, la creación literaria, observaciones sobre la naturaleza humana y apreciaciones estéticas conforman este atractivo abanico de reflexiones que comparte Paulo Coelho, mientras muestra que las lecciones vitales más importantes se extraen de experiencias aparentemente insignificantes.

Assim que Winston Churchill assumiu como primeiro-ministro do Reino Unido, Hitler invadiu a Holanda e a Bélgica. A Polônia e a Tchecoslováquia já haviam sucumbido e a evacuação de Dunquerque ocorreria duas semanas depois. Pelos doze meses seguintes, Hitler travaria uma incessante campanha de bombardeios, matando 45 mil britânicos. Coube a Churchill manter a nação unida e convencer o presidente americano Franklin Roosevelt de que era um aliado valioso―e com disposição para lutar até o fim.

L’histoire de la famille Rothschild racontée de l’intérieur, de Mayer Amschel Rothschild, né en 1744 à Francfort, jusqu’au XXIe siècle. Décrivant comment les destins individuels s’articulent aux destinées collectives, l’auteur analyse le succès de la plus ancienne dynastie du monde des affaires ainsi que la naissance du mythe et les constructions antisémites qui lui sont associées.

Local weather reporter Suzanne Maretto craves nothing more than to transcend life at her suburban cable television news station and follow in the footsteps of her idol: Barbara Walters. When she concludes that her unglamorous husband is getting in the way of her dream of stardom, the solution seems obvious: Get rid of him. She seduces a 15-year-old admirer, Jimmy, and persuades him to do her dirty work. Mission accomplished, Suzanne takes to the airwaves in her new role as grieving widow, in search of a TV deal. If that means selling Jimmy down the river, she’s ready.

Classic Speeches: 1940-1987 is a collection of the most famous speeches of all time from political figures, such as Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr and John F Kennedy.

In the Search of Freedom is a collection of Martin Luther King Jr's speeches, including his world famous "I Have a Dream".

Everyone has a purpose, and we were born with it. But having purpose is not enough. Purpose without the Lord’s presence connected to it has no reason. It is only when our purpose connects with His presence that we are able to achieve our divine destiny and leave a lasting legacy that inspires others to become Presence Driven.

J.R. Jamison spends his days in a world of trigger warnings and safe spaces, while his trigger-happy dad, Dave, spends his questioning why Americans have become so sensitive. Yet at the height of the 2016 election, the two decide to put political differences aside and travel together to rural Missouri for Dave’s fifty-five year class reunion. But with theco nstant backdrop of the Trump vs. Clinton battle at every turn, they are forced to explore one formidable question: Will the trip push them further apart or bring them closer together?

Mathew King, el empresario más joven de Joyerías Diamond, está atravesando un difícil momento personal y laboral. En un vuelo a París conoce a Giana Orsini, ella es fuerte y audaz, y está dispuesta a todo por convertirse en presidenta de Joyas Miccelatti, la empresa de su padre. En París la atracción surge entre ellos y viven un explosivo romance que se afianza con el paso de los días, pero que se verá perjudicado por los secretos que Giana esconde, secretos que afectan directamente a Joyerías Diamond y, en especial, a Mathew.

The myth of an epic, public life—its triumphs and tragedies—is a particularly American obsession. ROAR is a metafictional exploration of such a life and attendant fame of an extraordinary, and completely made up, man.

La historia de Colombia ha estado marcada por varios períodos violentos: La Conquista, la Colonia, la Independencia, la consolidación de la República, la violencia bipartidista, el narcotráfico en los 80, las luchas guerrilleras del siglo XX y XXI.

Many today have given up on church. But God has not and does not give up on the church. The church is God's idea. And once we truly understand what God has in mind for his people, we can become who he wants us to be. Bishop Claude Alexander shows how the original Christians did not always understand what the church was supposed to be, but God worked in them anyway to become the community that he intended.

Murder for Love: Murder for Women is a collection of wickedly witty crime-of-passion short stories by some of the best women writers inside and out of the mystery field.