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At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly 2000 pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the work Ellison intended to follow his masterpiece, Invisible Man. Five years later, Random House published Juneteenth, drawn from the central narrative of Ellison’s unfinished epic. Three Days Before the Shooting... gathers together in one volume, for the first time, all the parts of that planned opus, including three major sequences never before published.

Written with warmth, accessibility, and vast authority, The Addiction Solution is a practical guide through the world of drug use and abuse and addiction treatment. Here, Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, Chief Mental Health Officer of the NYS Office of Mental Health and the Medical Editor for Mental Health at the Huffington Post, brings together scientific and clinical knowledge, policy suggestions, and case studies to describe our current drug crisis and establish a clear path forward to recovery and health.

Arthur Schnitzlers "Anatol", konzipiert als Einakter-Zyklus, dessen Entstehung sich über mehr als 8 Jahre hinzog, spielt in der Wiener Welt um 1900. Im Mittelpunkt steht hier eine der bekanntesten Figuren Schnitzlers, jener feinsinnige, elegante und vom Leben leicht enttäuschte Weltmann Anatol. Regie: Theodor Steiner, Karlheinz Schilling. Der Hessische Rundfunk sendete 1951 erstmals folgende Teile des gesamten Zyklus: 1: Abschiedsouper, 2: Weihnachtseinkäufe.

Er war einer der bedeutendsten Dramatiker Amerikas, seine Theaterstücke wie "Tod eines Handlungsreisenden" oder "Hexenjagd wurden weltberühmt." Die Ehe mit Marilyn Monroe katapultierte ihn in die Klatschspalten der Magazine. Dennoch behielt er seinen unbestechlichen Blick auf die amerikanische Gesellschaft, war einer ihrer schärfsten Kritiker und entlarvte den American Dream als Illusion.

Mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert lag es verborgen in den Schatten der Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford. Doch bei Sanierungsarbeiten in der Krypta wird das blutige Geheimnis von Arbeitern freigelegt...

Eigentlich will der belgische Meisterdetektiv Émile Poiret an der französischen Riviera nur etwas Ruhe und Entspannung finden, da ereignet sich vor seinen Augen ein mysteriöser Todesfall...

Welches todbringende Rätsel schwebt über dem Grab des Oliver Raymonds? Als Émile Poiret zum Gut Hamingstead Hall gerufen wird, ahnt er noch nicht, dass er in ein Abenteuer voller Gefahren aufbricht...

Une menace pèse sur le royaume des Nuages Roses. Son jeune prince a perdu le sommeil. Pour le retrouver, il part en quête d'un remède.

Émile Poiret, der belgische Meisterdetektiv, staunt nicht schlecht, als er unverhofft von einer jungen Dame parfümierte Briefe erhält....

The Revelation is not about “the things that were” or the past at the time it was written. If this book is primarily about the future from the time of John receiving the Revelation, then we must consider that much of the things which shall be hereafter having commenced shortly thereafter, would now, in our time, 1900 years later, have already happened over that span of time, and can be found in history.

Joyce Carol Oates' hilarious take-off on a classic Southern play begins when liberated Hedda arrives home to visit the family estate, ruled by the family’s tyrannical patriarch, “Tiny” Culligan. Tiny doesn’t know what to make of Hedda’s intellectual boyfriend, Saul. But then, Saul doesn’t know what to make of Hedda’s sister, the slinky Maggie, who finds Jewish professors very sexy indeed. A full cast L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring: Charles Durning, Arthur Hanket, Gary Kroeger, Marsha Mason, Priscilla Pointer, William Schallert and JoBeth Williams.

New York Times best-selling author Jay Winik brings to life in gripping detail the year 1944, which determined the outcome of World War II and put more pressure than any other on an ailing yet determined President Roosevelt.

While the number of patients using medical marijuana increases every year, misconceptions about cannabis and whether it's harmful or dangerous still exist. In Cannabis for Chronic Pain, Dr. Rav explains the potential of marijuana's capacity for healing anyone afflicted with chronic pain. Medical marijuana is a safe, nonaddictive alternative to dangerous opiate pain pills. Cannabis for Chronic Pain is the new definitive guide for anyone who suffers from chronic pain.

This is Irving Stone's powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo. His time: the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the all-powerful Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola. His loves: the frail and lovely daughter of Lorenzo de Medici; the ardent mistress of Marco Aldovrandi; and his last love - his greatest love - the beautiful, unhappy Vittoria Colonna.

The stories in Five-Carat Soul - none of them ever published before - spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They’re funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic - all told with McBride’s unrivaled storytelling skill and meticulous eye for character and detail. McBride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people around us. An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens.

Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another and how social structures - whether they be PTA, church, or political parties - have disintegrated. Until the publication of this groundbreaking work, no one had so deftly diagnosed the harm that these broken bonds have wreaked on our physical and civic health, nor had anyone exalted their fundamental power in creating a society that is happy, healthy, and safe.

Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1924 Charlie Munger studied mathematics at the University of Michigan, trained as a meteorologist at Cal Tech Pasadena while in the Army, and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School without ever earning an undergraduate degree. Today, Munger is one of America's most successful investors, the Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, and Warren Buffett's business partner for almost 40 years.

From the author of The Ghost Ships of Archangel, one of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: The U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the US Merchant Marine who were supplying the European war, and one community’s monumental contribution to that effort. Mathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay with little to offer except unspoiled scenery - but it sent an unusually large concentration of sea captains to fight in World War II.

The first of a multivolume history of Lincoln as a political genius - from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, his assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as "a slave", to his emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln.

From Tesla's childhood in Yugoslavia to his death in New York in the 1940s, Cheney paints a compelling human portrait and chronicles a lifetime of discoveries that radically altered - and continue to alter - the world in which we live. Tesla: Man Out of Time is an in-depth look at the seminal accomplishments of a scientific wizard and a thoughtful examination of the obsessions and eccentricities of the man behind the science.