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In the summer of 2014, Tim Howard became an overnight sensation after more than 10 years as one of America's leading professional soccer players. His record-breaking 15 saves for the United States national team against Belgium in the World Cup electrified a nation that had only recently woken up to the Beautiful Game after decades of hibernation. In this inspiring and candid memoir, the beloved US and Everton goalkeeper finally allows himself to do something that he would never do on the field: He drops his guard.

Join composer Tim Benjamin as he reveals the untold stories behind history's greatest music. From the earliest notation of medieval times to Beethoven's musical revolution, from Shostakovich's struggles under Stalin through to composers of the present day, discover the political intrigue, personal struggles, and creative risks that shaped 1000 years of music. Each episode focuses on a single work, exploring what moved the composer to write what they did. No musical knowledge required - just curiosity about the extraordinary human stories behind immortal art. Literate music from the inside out.

Lors d'un week-end arrosé au Cap, un jeune et riche Afrikaner renverse en voiture une jeune Noire sans logis qui erre dans la rue. Ni lui ni ses amis ne préviennent les secours alors que la victime agonise. La mère du chauffeur, Margot Le Roux, femme puissante qui règne sur les mines du Northern Cape, décide de couvrir son fils. Pourquoi compromettre une carrière qui s'annonce brillante à cause d'une pauvresse ? Dans un pays où la corruption règne à tous les étages, tout le monde s'en fout.

What happens to people's lives during times of battle and strife? From the American Revolution to the ongoing war in Iraq, the subject of this collection is how people cope with the dramatic shifts that come with war. Before Independence, a slave fights for freedom by taking up arms for the British; in World War I, a mother goes to the front lines to see her son; and in our time, a teenager in Oregon waits for e-mail from his father in the Middle East.

A cursed mansion puts a curious house sitter’s free will to the ultimate test. An old polaroid camera holds a monster that yearns to be released. And two brothers encounter a demonic force in the caverns just beyond town. Enter a dreamscape of supernatural terror with Scare Street’s latest collection. This diabolical volume contains 15 terrifying tales of fear and horror. And each story pulls you deeper into the realm of perpetual night.

Die beiden sympathisch dynamischen Freunde Tim und Benjamin kommen beim wöchentlichen Zusammentreffen von Höcksken auf Stöcksken. Es wird viel gelacht. Aber nicht immer. Häufig aber schon. Entscheide selbst.

Harmon Tomeral and his friends wanted nothing more than to go to space, and they have beaten the odds, time and again. They developed a mech and won the Top Fleet Marine Competition. They brought back a battlecruiser from an unknown system and made it their own. They made allies who helped them achieve great victories, and they ultimately founded new colonies in what has become known as the Salvage System.

Mouse is on his way home and he’s having terrible luck. But Mouse doesn’t see all the other dangers lurking – little does he know that it could have been much worse!