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The Victorian journalist Nellie Bly (1864-1922) performed one of the most courageous acts in the history of investigative reporting by posing as an inmate at a Women’s lunatic asylum on Blackwell’s Island. Her exposé, titled "Ten Days in a Mad-House" led to a grand jury investigation, which resulted in a one million dollar increase in New York City’s budget for the care of the mentally ill. "Around the World in Seventy-Two Days" chronicles the author’s 72-day trip around the world for Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, the New York World.

The purpose of strategic planning is to set the overall long-term aim of a firm in a direction that allows it to compete and grow. Strategic planning is an old concept, with many variations of models and processes. Leaders have used many of these models and processes for years, and still, some leaders fail to effectively apply them. This is often due to the difficulty in applying the models and the lack of explanation for the significant relevance of the processes, including the tools used in each phase.

First Lady Deidra Jones is expected to do the unthinkable. She must pull together four choirs that hate each other for her husband Pastor Myron Jones’ Pastor’s Anniversary Celebration. The Holy Missionary Mass Choir is filled with characters like Shonda, a single mother of six trying to keep her oldest son alive. Then, there’s Donnell, the church playboy, who is torn between three women. And no one can forget Mother Willie Mae Odell, whose sole mission in life is to take down Lady Deidra and the choir.

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days, the 1890 book by Nellie Bly, chronicles her sensational 72-day trip around the world for the tabloid newspaper, New York World. On November 14, 1889, she boarded the steamer Augusta Victoria on her journey of 23,899 miles with the goal of finishing in 75 days. Her journey took her through England, France, Italy, the Suez Canal, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan to San Francisco where she boarded a private chartered train which brought her to New York on January 25, 1890, 72 days and six hours after leaving.

Bin ich wirklich schön? Das fragt sich Nele, nachdem eine ihrer Freundinnen während eines gemeinsamen Abends gesagt hat, dass sie keine Chance bei einer Modelshow hätte. Diese Aussage trifft Nele sehr! Wieso sagt Pia sowas und überhaupt: Was genau ist denn Schönheit? Wenn Gott doch weiß, was grade angesagt ist, wieso hat er Nele nicht genau so gemacht? Gut, dass Nele mit Maria aus der Gemeinde über das Thema reden kann. Nele teilt ihre Erlebnisse per Sprachnachricht mit den Zuhörern und dabei erlebt sie, dass sie bei Gott eine Rolle spielt - und zwar eine große!

Can you find it in your heart to forgive? Despite how challenging finding forgiveness may seem, according to Nella Coiro, the answer is "yes"! Everyone has the power to forgive past offenses, even the most serious ones. Using a combination of research, interviews, established therapeutic models, and her own personal experience, Nella will take you through the steps needed to forgive those who have offended you and move on with your life without the burden of resentment holding you back.

Her family was to be her legacy, until an angry mob murdered her only son.

Meet Daniela Rose and Cillian in the Orphan Dreamer Saga - a transcontinental sweeping story where Anne of Green Gables meets The Da Vinci Code inside the War Room. When a twist of fate alters the destiny of an orphan boy and the future of humanity in this epic journey that defies time and takes the listener from 1018 BC into a future of “what ifs” in the first full-length novel of the series, Orphan Dreamer and the Glass Tattoo.

Could Earth’s apocalypse really be worse than puberty for Daniela Rose-a depressive schizophrenic girl destined to meet a mysterious orphan boy who haunts her chaotic dreams? One girl. One boy. One mission. To protect their home-Earth-from invasion by the planet’s previous occupants...This epic story weaves an intricate tapestry of Divine guidance, faith, isolation, hope, and loss as it follows two children from their beginnings to their ends. If you knew your ending, how would you have lived your beginning?

Gute Laune ist anders. Nele hat sich beim Musical-Casting für die Hauptrolle beworben. Doch statt der ersehnten Rolle bekommt Nele nur einen Platz im Chor. Als wäre das nicht schlimm genug, darf nun ausgerechnet ihre Freundin Lotta Maria Magdalena spielen. Nele ist am Boden zerstört. Überhaupt: Warum sind immer die anderen beliebter, hübscher und besser als sie? Gut, dass Gott da ganz anders über sie denkt!

Published in 1855, this history book by William Cooper Nell has an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It focuses on African American soldiers during the American Revolution and the War of 1812. It is considered by some to be the first history book by and about African Americans which is based on written documentation.

L´Eli, la protagonista d´aquesta història és una noia que viu amb la seva mare. No ha conegut el pare perquè la mare es va quedar embaraçada molt jove i el pare va desapareixer. Porta una vida normal d´estudiant fins que un día una notícia no esperada trencarà tots els seus plantejaments. S´adona que el seu futur està en les seves mans...o potser no. L´Eli és un personatge que es presenta davant del lector amb una sinceritat sorprenent, de vegades desconcertant, però tremendament creible, sense cap tipus d´artificiositat, i que dona al relat una gran força.

Has sentit a parlar mai de Guguengol? És un continent o una illa? No se’n sap gairebé res. Tret d’una cosa: a Guguengol qualsevol feblesa és condemnada, i no hi ha pietat per als dèbils. El Notlits està a les portes de l’edat adulta, però abans de ser considerat tot un home s’haurà de sotmetre a unes proves que li poden costar la vida.

Aquell any van passar moltes coses, sí, i va ser l’any dels polls, però al començament de curs nosaltres encara no ho sabíem.

Quan l'Hug se'n va a Itàlia per fer-hi una estada i treballar en una nova traducció, no sap ben bé què hi va a buscar. No tot és la traducció. També l'empeny el desig d'agafar distància d'una quotidianitat rutinària, d'apartar-se i alhora de retrobar-se. Però el que segurament no ha previst és que els canvis de residència obren nous interrogants i transformen l'esperit. A Perugia, l'Hug coneixerà el Paolo, un personatge singular que l'impactarà per l'actitud vital, tan diferent de la seva.

Most Western democracies have few or no people serving life sentences, yet here in the United States more than 200,000 people are sentenced to such prison terms. Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis of The Sentencing Project argue that there is no practical or moral justification for a sentence longer than 20 years. A thoughtful and stirring call to action, The Meaning of Life also features moving profiles of a half dozen people affected by life sentences, written by former “lifer” and award-winning writer Kerry Myers.

Journalist Nellie Bly went undercover in 1887 to investigate an insane asylum on an assignment for New York World. After getting herself committed by acting deranged, Bly uncovered the dark truth about the asylum. Patients were fed rotten food, subject to filthy living conditions, and abused by staff. Not only was this no place for the mentally ill to find treatment, Bly discovered it was the kind of place that could drive even a perfectly sane woman off the edge.

Learn the secrets of the Ouija board and the use and methods to yield the best results in this fascinating work first published in 1919.

Wo liegt das Glück, wenn nicht im Rosengarten? Nach dem Tod ihres Mannes und dem Auszug der Kinder sucht die Botanikerin Sandra einen Neuanfang für sich. Sie kauft ein altes Gärtnerhaus auf Usedom an der Ostsee, zu dem ein verwilderter, aber einmalig schöner Rosengarten gehört. Doch die Pflege der empfindlichen Pflanzen erweist sich als schwieriger als gedacht, so dass sie den britischen Rosenexperte Julian zu Rate ziehen muss. Der hilft ihr zwar, verhält sich sonst jedoch merkwürdig abweisend.

Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school - in her 60s - to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful, demands of a life fully lived.