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In this riveting landmark autobiography, which reads like a novel, Academy Award and Emmy winner Louis Gossett, Jr., masterfully transports us to 1840s New York; Washington, D.C.; and Louisiana to experience the kidnapping and 12 years of bondage of Solomon Northup, a free man of color. Twelve Years a Slave, published in 1853, was an immediate bombshell in the national debate over slavery leading up to the Civil War.

Do you ever feel like learning Pharmacology is kinda like learning another language? You're not alone. In fact, I felt the same way in nursing school. Don't get me wrong, I loved Pharm. But, trying to keep thousands of medications, contraindications, and assessment information straight in my mind was, well...impossible. That's when I realized something. I didn't need to know EVERY medication. I needed to focus on the most important ones and really understand them well. So, I developed a list of the most commonly tested and prescribed medications.

This audiobook will shift your thoughts to wealth positive on a subconscious level, with affirmations and suggestions that sink deep into your subconscious mind. As you fall into a hypnosis state, you will start to relax and allow new wealth-positive suggestions into your subconscious mind. The audiobook will reprogram your mind and fill your subconscious with positive affirmations and thoughts to attract wealth, abundance, and all of good things into your life starting today.

The Vietnam War remains one of the most iconic events of the 20th century. In the United States, it polarized public opinion and changed foreign policy. It destroyed the presidency of Lyndon Johnson and was the catalyst for a massively impactful protest movement. More importantly, in Vietnam, as well as surrounding areas, it caused untold destruction, death, and suffering.

When the new ranch hand the Daltons hire asks Cash for assistance, he's all in - until he learns it involves a Mexican daughter and a marriage license. His first instinct is to run the other direction. But he figures he needs a wife, and she needs help, so it's a damn good bargain. Maya Perez is desperate to get out of her home city and into the States, where she can make a better life. When her only living family member, her father, sends for her to come to Texas, she's met by a gorgeous cowboy and an offer of marriage.

Hollywood Murders and Scandals: Tinsel Town After Dark is a collection of some of the most famous murders, infamous scandals, and Hollywood crimes going right back to the beginnings of Hollywood itself.

The man who would become the Father of Organized Crime in the United States was born Salvatore Lucania in Sicily, but he would quickly make a name for himself after his family moved to New York City when he was still a child. By his teenage years, he was running the streets, organizing his own teenage gang, and moving in circles with the likes of Meyer Lansky, who would become key figures in Lucky's rise to power.

The intention of this book is to tell you what you need to understand, and then do, to become successful and is the only book of its kind you will need, eliminating the need to buy another book like this again. The author lives by his advice and is not purely a self-help enthusiast, which seems to be how most self-help gurus have amassed their fortunes. This book is for those who want advice on life through the eyes of someone with many entrepreneurial experiences including import and export, financial trading, and other entrepreneurial business activities.

Are you looking for relationship breakup advice? Then you are probably feeling as though this is one of the lowest points in your life. Now that may very well be true, but however badly you are feeling right now, this feeling will pass! You will get through this!

Every watched an Omaha card game and wondered what’s going on? Do you want to play Omaha with your friends but are not sure about the rules? No need to worry! Now you can easily learn everything you need to know about Omaha and become an Omaha master in just a few minutes. You don’t have to spend hours online or waste your time reading lengthy guides anymore, since this all-inclusive and easy-to-listen-to Omaha guide will turn you from a poker rookie to a Las Vegas-grade pro!

When the name General Patton comes to mind, we are automatically inundated with themes of strength and tough resolution. Patton was a man who seemed to embody the old American ethos of the rugged individual who shattered all expectations, decimated the status quo, and pulled himself up by his bootstraps. In order to understand Patton, you can’t focus on just one side of this larger-than-life personality; you have to take in the whole picture. This audiobook allows you to do just that.

Doctor Horrible, Jayne Cobb, Oz, Fitz-Simmons, Echo, Pike, Saffron, Kaywinnet, the Groosalugg, Skip, Satsu, Dana Polk, Perfect Jheung, Icarus, the Siphon, Edna Giles, Dandelion Naizen, and especially Buffy the Vampire Slayer. With Whedon's superhero names, goddess names, flower names, saint's names, and dozens of British names, he's filling his world with references from Shakespeare to manga, delighting fans who look closer. Which names repeat the most? Which characters have secret links?

Violet Osborne, a successful lawyer and workaholic, has given up all hope of ever finding a man she can love and trust. Things change dramatically for her when she decides to go on a dream vacation to Europe. Her idealist romantic notions have made her believe that the right type of man did not exist. Until she met the wrong type.

The essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement are set in historical context by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the magisterial America in the King Years trilogy—Parting the Waters; Pillar of Fire; and At Canaan’s Edge. Taylor Branch, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning America...

The fifth volume of The Greatest Mysteries of All Time is an intriguing anthology of crime and suspense short stories by some of the most renowned writers in the field. This unique collection of master writers includes the usual suspects such as Patricia Highsmith and Mickey Spillane, but also writers better known for other genres, such as Isaac Asimov and Ogden Nash. Edited by the legendary multi-award-winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler—whose name is a hallmark of quality and expertise—this thrilling mixture of mystery and suspense will have you guessing up until the very end.

Fitting seamlessly alongside current bestsellers like Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park, and John Green's Paper Towns, LIKE NO OTHER provides a thoroughly modern take on romance that will inspire laughter, tears, and the belief that love can happen when you least expect it. ...

Where survival is the meaning of life. A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas set in a strange and punishing world. In Book 3, Cult, missionaries arrive on a holy quest to fulfill their scriptures. But the desert has other plans. Will they escape with their faith, or even their lives, intact?

Even a city that boasts three hundred days of sunshine a year has its sudden, often violent storms—and writers have long taken advantage of that metaphor. Renowned authors Katherine Anne Porter, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Rex Burns, Robert Greer, Michael Connelly, and Kali Fajardo-Anstine—among many others—have brilliantly portrayed this picturesque but often merciless city. Today, Denver is home to a thriving literary scene, with writers of all stripes finding inspiration in its people and streets. The authors and stories featured in Denver Noir are no exception....

It is December, 1963, and the tensions that have been simmering since the October war came to a boil in an atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion so poisonous that nobody in England or Washington, DC, realize that in the background, there is a third, malignant force at work.

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.