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Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand.

Nach zahlreichen Abenteuern hat sich Ruth Mensing auf Tahiti ein kleines Handelsimperium geschaffen und in James Hutton den Mann ihres Herzens gefunden. Doch Ruths ungetrübtem Glück steht nach wie vor die Sorge um ihre Familie entgegen. Ihr Vater wird noch immer vermisst, und Ruths Sorge wächst, als sie erkennen muss, dass die Briefe, die sie angeblich von ihrer Familie erhalten hat, allesamt gefälscht sind. Noch ahnt sie nichts von den üblen Intrigen ihres skrupellosen Schwagers Mathias Mensing in Hamburg, der sein Ziel, Ruths Familie zu vernichten, nun beinahe erreicht zu haben scheint...

This is Jim Hart's story: how he survived a violent childhood home, how he overcame obsessive dependencies, and how he finally found the strength to be his true self. A master at building relationships, Jim is charming, funny, and a great listener. His success in life and business was based on his ability to connect with others, from people recovering in 12-step groups in upstate New York to those living in the rarefied air of Martha's Vineyard.

Prvotina slavného britského prozaika Kingsleyho Amise se okamžitě po svém uveřejnění v roce 1954 zařadila mezi nejoblíbenější a nejčtenější romány. Jen během prvních čtyř let se dočkala dvaceti vydání. Čtenáře od počátku až do dnešní doby baví neodolatelným vtipem a sžíravou ironií, s nimiž Amis zaznamenal, jak mladý James Dixon přišel o iluze ve zkostnatělém prostředí malé anglické univerzity v provinčním městě.

At first, they were “Lucky Lima”. Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company—3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, young men drawn from blue-collar towns, immigrant households, Navajo reservations—returned unscathed on patrol after patrol through the increasingly violent al Anbar region of Iraq, looking for weapons caches and insurgents trying to destabilize the nascent Iraqi government. After two months in Iraq, Lima didn't have a casualty, not a single Purple Heart, no injury worse than a blister. Lucky Lima.

From Jim Lampley, HBO’s ringside face and voice of boxing, comes a first-person, blow-by-blow account of the evolution of sports television chock full of famous names, history-making events, and never-before-told stories from the world of sports.

With five successful companies to his name and over $1.2 billion in combined retail sales, serial entrepreneur Jim Markham has made an indelible mark on the hair care industry. Across six decades, he has built a legacy of innovation that has forever changed how people care for their hair. But the path to success wasn't foregone, obvious, or easy. In his early years, nobody would have wagered on his success. Armed only with sheer determination and an unflappable confidence that he was meant for something bigger, Jim fought to make it from the bottom to the top - more than once.

Mr. Darkwoods was born John Woods—a convicted arsonist sentenced to 40 years in prison. But when a jailbreak on behalf of the ghastly Mr. Acid and Mr. Binary ensues, he sneaks into the getaway chopper and essentially wins his freedom. However, his luck doesn’t end there. Mr. Acid and Mr. Binary offer him a job as one of their trusted thugs, tasked to collect money from blackmails and robberies across the metropolis of Darsmit. This new gig earns Mr. Darkwoods riches he’s only ever dreamed of. Over the years, all its power consumes him. He wants more. And so he takes more.

It’s Christmas Eve, 1938, and 15-year-old Cassidy Smith is very pregnant with the child of 40ish Reed Hooker. Cassidy is desperate to marry Reed, Reed is desperate to open Louisiana’s hottest new taxi-dancing emporium and neither are prepared for the arrival of Reed’s wife, Sue Jack Hooker, a dangerous beauty who has just been let out of the penitentiary.