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Who is Johnny Two Kebabs? There has been much speculation in recent years as to whether Johnny Two Kebabs really exists. Is it true that on June 15, 2011, after drinking 13 pints of lager, he polished off two doner kebabs in one minute, 59 seconds? Is Johnny Two Kebabs just an urban legend? Is the song that was written about him and for which the video appears on the internet just in the tradition of Irish blarney and storytelling?

Based on the true story of the celebrated Nancy Hart Rifles, The Cotillion Brigade is a sweeping epic of the Civil War’s ravages on family and love, the resilient bonds of sisterhood amid devastation, and the miracle of reconciliation between bitter enemies. 1856. Sixteen-year-old Nannie Colquitt Hill makes her debut in the antebellum society of the Chattahoochee River plantations. A thousand miles to the north, a Wisconsin farm boy, Hugh LaGrange, joins an Abolitionist crusade to ban slavery in Bleeding Kansas.

"Mi Amor - Winter im Frühling des Lebens", ist die Geschichte eines kleinen Mädchens, das im Frühling seines jungen Lebens den Winter erfährt. Die Kälte und Hartherzigkeit einer Welt, in der es schutzlos der Willkür, Brutalität und Perversion seines Peinigers ausgeliefert ist. Ein Hörbuch, das erschüttert und tief berührt und gleichzeitig Kraft gibt und Hoffnung macht. Es nimmt den Leser an die Hand und führt ihn durch die Abgründe menschlichen Verhaltens.

Diana: A Spencer in Love is a novel that spans the first extraordinary year of Princess Diana’s royal life. As a novel, it tells the story from Diana’s own point of view - this is her voice telling us what happened in the early ’80s. Everyone knows the bare facts about Lady Diana Spencer, but no one has told the story of what this remarkable young woman was thinking, feeling, and experiencing during this incredible time.

Spanien, 1503: In der Festung La Mota soll Johanna von Kastilien endlich zur Vernunft kommen. Zu viel steht für ihre Mutter, Isabella die Katholische, auf dem Spiel. Die Königin regiert das Land mit unerbittlicher Härte, sie hat die Mauren vertrieben und lässt Tausende als Ungläubige auf den Scheiterhaufen der Inquisition verbrennen. Sie kann ihr Reich nicht in die Hände einer Tochter geben, die nicht betet, nicht beichtet und der Macht nichts bedeutet. Johanna will nicht über andere herrschen. Alles, was sie will, ist, über sich selbst zu bestimmen.

Catherine Donohue's life was set on a an unexpected course when she accepted a job at Radium Dial. The pay was great, and her co-workers became her best friends. But a secret was lurking in the greenish-grey paint that magically made things glow in the dark. When Catherine and her friends started becoming sick, this shy Catholic girl stood up to the might of the radium industry, the legal and medical communities, and townspeople who told her to be quiet. Would she be too late? Catherine's quest for social justice in the era between World Wars is emotive and inspiring.

Edinburgh, Scotland, 1766. One particular bible is printed in the Kincaid and Bell print shop and makes its way to its first family in Ayr, Scotland. For over 250 years, this small family Bible would weave its way throughout the United States of America beginning in Charleston, South Carolina, in the late 1790s, ending up in Tennessee in 2001, where it remains today. 

Bland spillrorna efter tsunamin i det som nyss var ett paradis, trotsar hon sin sönderslagna kropp i kampen för sina barn och sin man. Hon tvingas finna oanade styrkor inom sig själv och fastän rädslan för en nästa våg ständigt är närvarande, låter hon inte någon, eller något stå i hennes väg.

Joseph is a Christian man with a phenomenal life. Paul is a tortured soul who succumbs to addiction, ultimately betraying his wife and family. After their lives fatefully collide, the challenge is to find redemption and salvage relationships with family and friends. Is that even possible? Based on a true story, Joseph and Paul navigate healing, hypocrisy, accountability, belief, and forgiveness. Written for the thousands who suffer silently, this story shows that there is always a way back.

Atahualpa Yupanqui, (nacido Héctor Roberto Chavero) fue un cantautor, guitarrista, poeta y escritor argentino y el músico argentino más importante de la historia del folklore. Su nombre artístico proviene del idioma quechua: Ata, quiere decir "venir". Hu, significa “lejos”. Alpa es la “tierra” y Yupanqui es “haz de narrar”. Es decir que Atahualpa Yupanqui significa "Venir de lejos para narrar".Ha realizado más de 325 composiciones, entre las que sobresalen “Piedra y camino”, “El arriero”, Los ejes de mi carreta” y “Coplas del payador perseguido”.

This book intends to account the struggles of a young man from Africa who traveled to the United States to live the American dream, but was later caught up in the heightening racial tensions. He later found love, and that love conquered all odds.

While growing up in the ’70s, Mark Edwards was surrounded by bullies. As a kid back then, you would eventually find yourself with older kids, whose only purpose was to threaten and pummel the crap out of you. All you had to do was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was the age before political correctness and the peak of the bullies. They were everywhere.

Mastering the Knife, Volume II, of A Surgeon’s Tale, is the coming-of-age story of an Egyptian/German medical student in the hospitals of London in the 1960s. Hounded by failure, self-doubt, and cultural identity, he searches for his social and professional place in the world. The story masterfully goes beyond the biographical to encompass the people, language, and the rituals of surgical training. The author lifts the veil on the technical and moral concerns that contribute to the making of a successful surgeon. 

There is a light and there is a darkness. There is, also, a space in between. Homer Antumbra inhabited this no-man’s-land. In his flickering flame of a life, he shined the light and lived with the darkness. His life and work changed the craft of songwriting, both showing what a song could be, and hinting at where it could go. His work redefined a genre before shattering any attempts at categorization. Shining the Light is the first in-depth look into the man, the myth, the music of Homer Antumbra, ensuring that the light still shines. 

Stephen Hawking fue uno de los científicos más importante del siglo XX. Físico teórico, astrofísico, cosmólogo y divulgador, sus trabajos más importantes estuvieron centrados en los agujeros negros y en la divulgación científica a través de sus libros, que fueron best sellers en todo el mundo. Casado, con 3 hijos, esta ficción dramática enfoca sobre los preparativos de Stephen Hawking para asegurarse que su familia estuviera protegida y cuidada luego de su muerte, que parecía inminente pero finalmente nunca se concretaba.

The game of life in Middle-Earth hemisphere is often interrupted like breaking news, a sudden reminder to the occupants on the face of the earth that the eye of the queen of the universe is beaming down on humans and mankind like the ray of the Sun.

An innocent pastor's daughter hid safely in her own self-made bubble. Until, as an adult, the bubble popped. The dusty, long-sealed book was pried open. Based on a true story, For The Silenced Ones take you on an inner healing journey with Callie McCormick, a victim of satanic ritual abuse under the guide of the church. From a betrayed, shatter soul to forgiveness, redemption, and wholeness, Callie braves the uphill battle towards freedom

A truly delightful piece of writing that takes the listener on a journey back in time to the beginning of the Second World War, just after the Dunkirk evacuation. Winston Churchill was desperate; the German army was ripping its way through Europe with France about to fall. Adding another world power into the fold was the only option.

People say that in chaos, you have to fulfill heavy punishment against any severe crimes. It is joking to push around ru-ism in dark ages, which is just default your duty/responsibility to say rule without doing anything. People will just laugh at such stupid judges. Be a tough judge, be a killer judge, kill the evil criminals, you save fragile low average mass, but sometimes some innocent people may be killed mistakenly.

 Sugar and Spice is based on the story of Peter and Alison Spice, who graduate from University with degrees in Early Childhood Development and decide to devote their careers to helping impoverished children in the inner cities. Along the way, and quite by accident, they win a Grammy.