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    Golden Hill
    Head Over Heels
    Bohemian Rhapsody. The Definitive Biography of Freddie Mercury
    Seal Team Six
    I Need Your Love - Is That True?
    The Last Lecture
    • A lot of professors give talks titled 'The Last Lecture'. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave, 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams', wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humour, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.

      The Last Lecture
      4.3
    • I Need Your Love - Is That True?

      • 254 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Exploring the universal quest for love, approval, and appreciation, Byron Katie offers insights that resonate with readers seeking deeper connections in their lives. Drawing from her successful work, she encourages self-inquiry and personal growth, guiding individuals to challenge their beliefs and find fulfillment. Through her unique approach, she provides tools for transforming negative thoughts and fostering a sense of inner peace and acceptance.

      I Need Your Love - Is That True?
      4.2
    • Seal Team Six

      • 328 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      When the US Navy send their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six. SEAL Team Six is a clandestine unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue and counterinsurgency. Until recently its existence was a closely-guarded secret. Then ST6 took down Osama bin Laden, and the operatives within it were thrust into the global spotlight. In this internationally bestselling chronicle, former ST6 shooter Howard Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of Navy SEALs and Special Forces snipers. From the inside track on the operation that killed the world's most wanted man to his own experience of the gruelling ST6 selection processes to his terrifying ordeal at the 'Black Hawk Down' battle in Somalia, Wasdin's book is one of the most explosive military memoirs in years.

      Seal Team Six
      4.1
    • This is the definitive biography of Freddie Mercury. Written by an award-winning rock journalist, Lesley-Ann Jones toured widely with Queen forming lasting friendships with the band. Now, having secured access to the remaining band members and those who were closest to Freddie, from childhood to death, Lesley-Ann has written the most in depth account of one of music's best loved and most complex figures. Meticulously researched, sympathetic, unsensational, the book - like the forthcoming film - will focus on the period in the 1980s when Queen began to fragment, before their Live Aid performance put them back in the frame. In her journey to understand the man behind the legend, Lesley-Ann Jones has travelled from London to Zanzibar to India. Packed with exclusive interviews and told with the invaluable perspective that the twenty years since Mercury's death presents, Freddie Mercury is the most up to date portrait of a legendary man. Fully revised and updated edition.

      Bohemian Rhapsody. The Definitive Biography of Freddie Mercury
      4.0
    • Head Over Heels

      A Novel

      • 279 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Five unforgettable women. One beloved yoga studio. A million tales to tell. Lee is a caring yoga teacher who changes lives and inspires friendships. But a year after the breakup of her marriage, she's struggling to raise her twins and make ends meet at her small studio in LA's trendy Silver Lake. The California yoga scene is dominated by celebrity teachers with agents, publicists, and other trappings Lee has rejected. When she's offered a teaching stint at a high-profile yoga festival at Lake Tahoe, she has to choose between standing by her principles--and those of the man she's just started dating--and the lure of becoming a "star." It would be an easier choice if her four best friends could join her, but each has problems of her own. Katherine, a masseuse with a troubled past, is being evicted from the only real home she's ever had. Graciela, a dancer, is in New York trying to hide her affair with a famous baseball player from her volatile boyfriend. Imani is a TV actress coping with motherhood as she's struggling to make a comeback in film. Stephanie, a screenwriter, is trying to come to terms with a very unexpected relationship. <i>Head Over Heels</i> explores the burgeoning world of commercialized yoga with the warmth, humor, and insider knowledge that won Rain Mitchell's <i>Tales from the Yoga Studio</i> raves from critics and yogis, and made the book an international success.

      Head Over Heels
      3.3
    • Golden Hill

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      I've no history here, and no character: and what I am, is all in what I will be...

      Golden Hill
      3.7
    • Warlight

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - Warlightis a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue and desire. It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they get to know his eccentric crew of friends- men and women with a shared history, all of whom seem determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all he didn?t know or understand in that time, and it is this journey - through reality, recollection, and imagination - that is told in this magnificent novel.

      Warlight
      3.6
    • "In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist's damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him - and solve the mystery of her husband's disappearances. These three sections are joined in an enthralling and ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can't exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness."--Publisher

      To Paradise
      3.4
    • In a small town on the Italian coast, a mysterious woman washes ashore. She is crippled, mute, and clutches a bundle to her chest-a baby the townspeople insist is a real-life mermaid. It can only bring bad luck; they pay a troupe of acrobats to carry mother and child away. In the bustling trade center of Venice, merchant Paul Pindar is the subject of his colleagues' concern. Since his return from Constantinople, they have found him changed; raging over the loss of his beloved, Celia, he has gambled away his fortune at the gaming tables. But when a priceless blue diamond surfaces in the city, Pindar recognizes the opportunity to regain everything he has lost-including, perhaps, the woman he loves. A celebrated writer of history and travel books, Katie Hickman has always been a master of evoking time and place. With The Pindar Diamond, her follow-up to The Aviary Gate, she brings early-seventeenth-century Italy vividly to life, and also demonstrates her maturity as a novelist. A tale of love and avarice, with a touch of the mystical, The Pindar Diamond is rich with historical detail, and unfolds with urgency and grace. It is accomplished, wholly satisfying historical fiction.

      The Pindar Diamond
      3.3
    • Ideeën die de wereld veranderden

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Meer dan 175 ideeën die de wereld veranderden. &#x000A;Op meeslepende wijze belicht historicus Felipe Fernandez-Armesto de belangrijkste historische, politieke en filosofische inzichten, ideeën en veranderingen. &#x000A;Hij duidt verbanden aan en prikkelt de lezer tot nadenken met dikwijls controversiële stellingen. &#x000A;Daarnaast is Ideeën die de wereld veranderden een fascinerend kijkboek geworden.

      Ideeën die de wereld veranderden
    • Vier vragen die je leven veranderen

      • 334 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Zelfhulpboek om de realiteit onder ogen te zien door het beantwoorden van vier essentiële vragen.

      Vier vragen die je leven veranderen
    • Handboek voor helden

      Een spirituele gids om rijk en beroemd te worden

      • 347 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      Handboek voor helden
    • De yogaclub

      In Lee's yogastudio ontstaan vriendschappen voor het leven

      • 271 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      De yogaclub