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In Articulate While Black, two renowned scholars of Black Language address language and racial politics in the U.S. through an insightful examination of President Barack Obama's language use--and America's response to it. In this eloquently written and powerfully argued book, H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman provide new insights about President Obama and the relationship between language and race in contemporary society.

Lady Chatterley's Lover was the subject of one of the most infamous trials of the 20th century when Penguin was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act. However, with expert witnesses for the defence, including E.M. Forster, Penguin was acquitted and permitted to publish in 1960. The book became a best seller largely on account of explicit scenes of a sexual nature and use of four letter words.

David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885-1930) is recognized as one of the greatest English novelists, poets, playwrights and short story writers. His works address such themes as emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct, wrapped up in gripping plots which range from the poignant to the downright creepy.

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Make Your Bed—a short, inspirational book of advice and leadership lessons that Admiral McRaven collected over his four decades as a Navy SEAL. The title “Bullfrog” is given to the Navy SEAL who has served...

Ich stieß auf die Weltkarte in einem Reiseführer aus den 1970er-Jahren, und mir war auf Anhieb bewusst, dass sie dort nicht hineingehörte. Vermutlich hätte ich sie nicht weiter beachtet, wäre da nicht diese Notiz am Rand gewesen. Und da, wo die Umrisse des afrikanischen Kontinents zu erkennen waren, stand ein weiteres rätselhaftes Wort: XULHU. Sechs unheimliche Geschichten entführen den Leser an verschiedene Orte kosmischen Grauens.

This is the first-ever series of graded stories for beginning and intermediate adult learners of Arabic as a foreign language. The 24 stories in this audiobook are divided into 6 levels of 4 stories each. Levels 1-3 for beginners, levels 4-6 for intermediate students. The stories range from 200 - 400 words.

Expresa tus sentimientos, la responsabilidad de ser padres, elimina el temor de llegar a viejo, date permiso de recibir la prosperidad, expresa tu creatividad, crea un mundo ecológicamente sano, un mundo seguro dónde amarse uno al otro sea posible, cambio y transición, medita para tu cura personal y del planeta.

Silvester '89/'90: Statt Neujahrswünschen erhält Jack Reacher die Meldung, dass ein ranghoher General tot aufgefunden wurde. Bei seinen Ermittlungen wird Reacher bald klar: Nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges haben sich die Machtkämpfe verlagert - nun finden sie innerhalb der Army statt. Und er nähert sich dem Machtzentrum.

There is something quite special about this fine collection of tales of terror from the Sceptered Isle, each and every one crafted in the dead of the night by twisted, fevered minds, who have brought crawling and slithering to life the darkest denizens of the blackest shadows to terrify those brave souls amongst you who are brave enough to listen...

Tauche ein in die dunklen Abgründe der Literatur – mit unheimlichen, fesselnden und meisterhaft erzählten Geschichten aus der Welt des Grauens. Diese Hörbuch-Compilation vereint Klassiker der Horrorliteratur, schaurige Novellen, gespenstische Kurzgeschichten und unheimliche Begebenheiten – gelesen von Jürgen Fritsche, Sven Görtz und Tim Eriksson. Von Edgar Allan Poe bis H. P. Lovecraft, von Guy de Maupassant bis Stefan Zweig, von E. T. A. Hoffmann bis Robert Louis Stevenson – die größten Autoren des Schreckens und der düsteren Fantasie sind vertreten.

Gabe and Lily are trapped, held captive by the very justice they once served. But with the vampire lord, Elias, unleashing his army on Portland, a city collapsing into ruin, they can't afford to wait. The only way to save humanity is to break free. The only way to fight is to risk everything. Two renegades. One impossible war. Can they stand against a rising tide of blood and ruin?

Q-World 3: Playing with Fire. Everything and everyone seems to be conspiring against Ben – and all he did was promise a girl the strongest monster in Q-World: a dragon. Ben isn't facing simple obstacles, but entire boulders, as the AI bombards him with one nearly impossible quest after another. He's also confronted for the first time with the cutthroat competition between players and becomes increasingly entangled in Obre, the city of cities, with promises to people he'd better not let down.

Immerse yourself in Nada the Lily, a captivating tale of love and vengeance set against the backdrop of the Zulu Kingdom in present-day KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. This fictional narrative, intricately intertwined with real historical events, stands out in the literature of the British Empire for its all-black African cast. The story is narrated by Mopo, a witch-doctor to the legendary Zulu king Chaka, and features an eerie spectral wolf pack and a cave that becomes a haunting tomb. Drawing inspiration from the adventures of Alan Quatermain, this novel showcases H. Rider Haggards unique ...

En Las montañas de la locura es un relato fundamental de la mitología de Lovecraft donde, a través de una misteriosa expedición a la Antártida, un grupo de científicos descubren una antigua y devastadora civilización aliénigena.

Lorsque Lola Faye surgit devant Luke pour lui faire signer un de ses livres, il panique. Que lui veut cette femme, responsable à ses yeux du drame de sa jeunesse ? Luke allait partir pour l'université quand le mari jaloux de Lola a abattu son père. Ce meurtre a précipité la mort de sa mère dépressive et ruiné ses propres ambitions. Sa conversation avec Lola va éclairer le passé d'un jour nouveau.

With so much written, rumored, told, and retold about Marilyn Monroe, it's amazing to consider how much we still don't know. On the screen she was iconic, radiant, yet her talent so rarely earned her respect. In life she was intelligent, brilliant, yet regarded as little more than Hollywood's blond bombshell. But who was the real Marilyn Monroe beyond the hit films and the headlines?

A party is all fun and games until someone goes missing. Unfortunately, sometimes people wind up dead. Not usually because of me, and I can’t say burying a guy is something I have a lot of experience with. So when a scary, sexy stranger wanders up and taps into all of my fears and all of my dark tastes, I can’t help wondering if this dark tragedy was meant to be.

How did the world as we know it—from the soil beneath our feet to the air we breathe and the life that surrounds us—come to be? Geologists have proposed one set of answers while biologists have proposed another. Earth and Life is the first book to reveal why we need to listen to both voices—the physical and the biological—to understand how we and our planet became possible.

Sunday morning phone calls from work are always bad news, and this one is no different. An agent in El Paso has just been murdered. But for Special Agent Hank Rawlings, the news quickly veers from bad to a whole lot worse when he hears who the agent was, where his body was found, and who the bureau thinks is responsible for the murder. All of it has disturbing connections to Hank and his team.

Bodies, strangled and dumped along the interstate, send Agent Hank Rawlings and the rest of his team to Texas. The method of homicide, as well as the locations where the bodies are found, are identical to those from a six-year-old investigation. When the wheels touch down in Dallas, the team is greeted with another body and a possible eyewitness. They quickly put together a suspect profile, a profile that leaves the agents with more questions than answers.