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'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' – Roddy Doyle 'His [Dominic Hofman] performance is terrific: variously wry, poignant and thoughtful as he imbues Jim with the humanity and agency denied to him by Twain' – The Guardian, Audiobook of the Week James is a profound...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST ONE...

This fully revised and updated resource offers complete coverage of the latest release of CompTIA A+ exams 220-1101 and 220-1102. You'll find learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, exam tips, practice exam questions, and in-depth explanations. Designed to help you pass the CompTIA A+ exams with ease, this definitive guide also serves as an essential on-the-job IT reference.

Percival Everett's The Trees is a must-listen that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till.

Erasure is Percival Everett's hilarious satire about race and publishing, now an Oscar-nominated film, American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross. 'Hilarious . . . Everett is a first-rate word-wrangler.' – Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian...

Perhaps the world’s leading expert on forgiveness research, Everett Worthington distills decades of wisdom into 15 life-changing lectures. The author or editor of more than 38 books on marriage, family, and forgiveness, Prof. Worthington received the Humanitarian Award from the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling. Now you can learn to practice his groundbreaking REACH Forgiveness model through these 15 engaging lectures.

Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell" linguist and "instant folk hero" (Tom Wolfe, Harper's), provides in this sweeping history a comprehensive examination of the evolutionary story of language, from the earliest speaking attempts by hominids to the more than 7,000 languages that exist today.

Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of life that evades contemporary understanding. The Pirahã have no counting system and no fixed terms for color. They have no concept of war or of personal property.

Eighteen of the very best American short stories, each a classic in its own right. Stories include "The Little Frenchman and his Water Lots", by George Pope Morris; "The Angel of the Odd", by Edgar Allan Poe; "The Schoolmasters’s Progress", by Caroline M.S. Kirkland; "The Watkinson Evening", by Eliza Leslie; "Titbottom’s Spectacles", by George William Curtis; "My Double and "How He Undid Me", by Edward Everett Hale; "A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters", by Oliver Wendell; and more.

James es un libro fascinante. Una reescritura de Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn de Mark Twain desde el punto de vista de Jim, el esclavo. Con el humor típico de Percival Everett y una inteligencia sobrecogedora, el lector vive una gran aventura, la de la libertad. James es el nombre de la dignidad. El esclavo ha visitado de forma clandestina la biblioteca de su amo y ha aprendido a leer y escribir. Cuando se entera de que lo han vendido y lo van a separar de su mujer y su hija decide escaparse.

When Black graduate student Lyndsay begins her dissertation work on a mysterious box that pops up during the most violent and troubled time in Africana history, she has no idea that her research will lead her on a phantasmagorical journey from West Philadelphia riots to Haitian slave uprisings.   

Life Skills: 10 Spiritual Skills focuses on teaching you 10 spiritual skills that will improve your relationships, career, general success in life, and your communication with God. Once you understand the skills and persistently practice them, you will notice improvements in all areas of your spiritual life. The book’s message is simple: Using the life skills taught in this book will make your life more spiritual. Once you achieve that, you can pay it forward and teach those same skills to everyone you can to help them live more spiritually.

Discover the spiritual system for surrender: How to understand surrender, how to surrender to God, how to avoid spiritual ego, how to use the seven steps for freedom, and how to find help to surrender. Seven-step system: This audiobook presents the seven-step system of surrender to God, the seven-step system is an accurate and reliable map of how surrender to God takes place. Become aware of surrender: Using this map, you can become aware of when you are already following the seven steps.

Mind-move (M-M) is likely the easiest and fastest method you will ever find to help you to cope with stress, relax, sleep, meditate, strengthen your mind, improve concentration, let go of baggage, find internal balance, meet counseling goals, and meet your life goals in constructive ways. While some report taking only minutes to benefit from the exercise, others report taking only seconds.

Discover the system for developing a stoic mind: How to recognize a stoic and stiff-mind, how to remove a weak mind, how to replace a weak mind with a stiff-mind, how to use the 3Rs for freedom from ego and weakness, how to use the 5TP for perspective and balance, and stiffen and strengthen your mind. This book is designed to stiffen your mind to injuries and insults to the point that you can learn to be psychologically free from them. The wisdom of the Stoics can be understood as, in practice, acquiring a stiff mind, mental attitude, or outlook.

Transform your business into one that achieves high growth, profitably.

Discover the incredible journeys of courageous teenaged girls and young women throughout history in this collection of twenty inspiring short stories. Each tale highlights their heroic deeds and unwavering spirit. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle

You’ve never heard of Roman Ganzha. But if you lived or worked in America between 1997 and 2016, there’s a good chance he stole from you. The Spider King is the never-before-told true story of a Ukrainian child prodigy who became one of the most dangerous cybercriminals and real-world...

Discover the untamed heart of America’s Southeast, where misty mountains meet endless wetlands and history whispers from every trail. In Southeast National Parks Adventure: Exploring Nature’s Best in the Southeast, Everett Wilder takes you on an unforgettable journey through the region’s most breathtaking national parks, from the towering peaks of the Great Smoky Mountains to the mysterious depths of the Everglades.

Un afamado pintor de mediana edad nos cuenta cómo se ha librado del peso de un secreto que no le permitía vivir. Un secreto lleva a otro y a otro hasta que la comunicación con los más cercanos resulta imposible. El protagonista cuenta su viaje juvenil a El Salvador atravesado por la muerte y la violencia, un affair amoroso en París y su fracturada vida familiar en los Estados Unidos. Una historia actual contada con una sencillez de lenguaje llamativa y que alcanza una gran profundidad.