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There have been innumerable biographies for Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States - the leader most widely known for leading the US through the American Civil War and ending slavery, but none quite stand apart from the rest like The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, published in 2013.

Spring Awakening (German: Frühlings Erwachen) was the first major play by Frank Wedekind. It was written in the early 1890s but, due to opposition from censorship authorities, was not presented on stage until 1906. The play explores two contentious themes: the development of adolescent sexuality and the repressive nature of the German education system.

In reality, a lot of people procrastinate in different ways, but some are continually affected by procrastination that stops them from fulfilling their perspective and disrupts their performance. Procrastination is as enticing as it is hurtful. If you think that you are procrastinating, you need to figure out the reasons why you are doing it. And once you know the reason behind your procrastination, then you may want to see how you can defeat it.

A contemporary story about heroes, football, and how a teenage youth eventually comes to reject the image of a modern day role model in favor of the reality of one from an earlier time. Through the story threads a theme which haunts and threatens the modern game of soccer. Racism and hooliganism rip at the heart of Jamie’s family infiltrating and disrupting not only daily life but society as a whole. At the centre of the story is the life, and love story of probably the games greatest ever ambassador. (Sir) Stanley Mathews. The man of whom Pele said “He taught us how to play”.

Perry Rhodan ist mit der MARCO POLO in den Schwarm eingedrungen, der mit seiner Verdummungsstrahlung und den Gelben Eroberern, die ganze Planeten entvölkern, weiterhin eine nie gekannte Gefahr für die Milchstraße darstellt. Sonderkommandos versuchen, die empfindlichen Stellen innerhalb des seltsamen kosmischen Gebildes auszumachen. Als Anführer eines dieser Kommandos gerät der Arkonide Atlan in eine verzweifelte Situation. Er muss mit seinen Gefährten ums nackte Überleben kämpfen. Dabei stoßen sie zum ersten Mal auf einen der geheimnisvollen Götzen.

Einst war Ordoban der Kommandant einer gigantischen Wachflotte. Mit dieser beschützte er lange Zeit ein kosmisches Objekt, das Einfluss auf weite Bereiche des Universums hat: das Kosmonukleotid TRIICLE-9. Ordoban lebt nicht mehr; sein Erbe hat in neuer Zeit Perry Rhodan angetreten. Nun befiehlt der Terraner über die Endlose Armada, jene gigantische Flotte, die aus Millionen von Raumschiffen besteht. Mit dieser Armada muss sich Rhodan dem Kampf gegen die Mächte des Chaos stellen. Wenn er verliert, stehen die Milchstraße und die gesamte Menschheit vor ihrem Ende.

Francis Pretty was a diarist and sailor who wrote detailed accounts of his two separate circumnavigations of the globe. The first was with Sir Francis Drake (1577-1580) and the second with Thomas Cavendish (1588).

Hapless Nate Hester yearns for the safety and affection of a group. He sets off on a hitchhiking trip to escape bad parenting and the Vietnam draft. Nate soon longs to be off the road. A drug dealer befriends him and introduces him to the Hells Angels. The Angels introduce him to the wonders of drug use and free sex, but the effects wane, and Nate leaps from mania to depression.

Kaylee Cooper is certain that Alex will become friends with a ghost this year. Alex thinks that he is far too old to be listening to a little grade one and encourages Kaylee to stop jeopardizing his important sixth-grade social life. Kaylee doesn’t listen and finds awkward ways to spend as much time with Alex as possible, even if it means following him into the boy’s washroom. Fed up, Alex develops a strategic plan to ultimately get rid of Kaylee Cooper for good.

Britain's private, fee-paying schools are institutions where children from affluent families have their privileges further entrenched through a high-quality, richly resourced education. There is an irrefutable link between private schools and life's gilded path: private school to top university to top career. Engines of Privilege contends that, in a society that mouths the virtues of equality of opportunity, fairness and social cohesion, the educational apartheid separating private and state schools deploys our national educational resources unfairly and inefficiently.

The author of the best-selling Crazy Love pleads passionately for the church to live by the power of the forgotten God: the Holy Spirit. Calling Christians to more than just a better life, Chan says he wants to live a life unexplainable without the Holy Spirit, so dependent on the Spirit that, he says, "If he doesn't come through, I'm screwed." He offers vivid personal stories about how the church ought to help Christians discern the powerful gifts of the Spirit, rather than toning down radicals.

Pollen is a visitor from the far reaches of space, and his mission is to save the Earth from human destruction with the power of his mysterious, living ring. Accompanied by a ragtag group of friends, he journeys across the United States to deliver a message to the president and the world.

Anfang des Jahres 3587 an Bord der BASIS, des gewaltigsten Trägerraumschiffs, das je für die Menschheit gebaut wurde: Der einäugige Roboter Laire und Pankha-Skrin, höchster Würdenträger der Trümmerleute, sind Gegner und müssen doch Verbündete sein. Ihr Duell beginnt auf der BASIS und eskaliert auf einem bewohnten Planeten. Perry Rhodan erreicht dennoch mit dem Trägerschiff sein Ziel, die Kosmische Burg des Mächtigen Partoc. Aber humanoide Wesen, die sich Demonteure nennen, haben bereits mit der Bergung und dem Abtransport der Burg begonnen.

Nach einem schrecklichen Schicksalsschlag werden zwei Männer durch einen Fluch zu Vampiren und bekämpfen sich seither über Jahrhunderte bis in unsere Zeit. Auf dem Schloss Alphonse de Marcins geraten auch die beiden Deutschen Yvonne Bergmann und Tim Böttcher in den Strudel des Bösen. Können sie das Geheimnis aus der Vergangenheit lösen oder werden sie und die anderen Besucher des Schlosses ebenfalls zu Opfern der beiden blutrünstigen Vampire?

The New Atlantis (1627) is a utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon in which he describes a vision of the future of human discovery, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humanity. The novel portrays a utopian world where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit" are the dominant qualities of the inhabitants.

In Korvana, ancient daemons run rampant, spreading death and terror across the continent. Only the pistol warlocks hold them at bay: gunslingers able to summon lightning at the pull of a trigger, or trap a daemon’s essence with a single word. Temperance Whiteoak, granddaughter of the famous pistol warlock "Brimstone", travels across the continent, capturing daemons and looking for clues behind her family’s murder. In this debut story, she finds herself assisting with the transport of a dangerous criminal sorcerer.

St Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, was a late-12th/early-13th century Italian friar and preacher. Bernardone came from wealthy beginnings, being part of one of the most affluent families in Assisi, but after a year of captivity after being captured by neighboring city’s army after conflict with Assisi flared up, Bernardone's outlook was much changed.

Im April des Jahres 3441 ist es soweit: Perry Rhodan geht in die Offensive und schickt mit dem Raumschiff GEVARI seine Fünfte Kolonne, bestehend aus den fähigsten Mutanten in den Schwarm. Der Durchbruch gelingt, und die Besatzung der GEVARI erlebt auf der Suche nach einem geeigneten Stützpunktplaneten das Grauen. Perry Rhodan folgt mit der MARCO POLO und verbreitet seinerseits Panik unter den Beherrschern des Schwarms. Doch nicht nur dort spitzt sich die Lage dramatisch zu. In der Milchstraße lassen die Cynos die Masken fallen.

Francis Bourdillon reflects on the term “light affliction” and how, for most of us, some afflictions may not be light at all. He refers to the apostle Paul who described his own afflictions not only as light, but as short as well and invites every true Christian to follow this path. Even though Paul’s trials were many and were neither short nor light, he feels resolved in approaching them as mere trifles since suffering is temporary and divine glory is eternal.

Francis Bourdillon reflects on the gifts sent to us by God. As described in the Psalms, gifts can have altogether different meanings and only the truly faithful will be able to understand its worth. Afflictions, though often seen as a plague, are in his mind to be understood as a veiled gift, with a value that requires a greater depth of belief to comprehend.