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Add three years to your life and help prevent disease in just eight weeks Based on the groundbreaking study that shaved three years off a subjects' age in just eight weeks, discover a proven, accessible plan to prevent diseases and reduce your biological age. It's true: getting older is...

Dick Diver ist ein sorgloser und skrupelloser Sunnyboy, der nichts wirklich ernst nimmt. Er studiert Psychologie, weil das hübscheste Mädchen der Uni in diesem Fach eingeschrieben ist. Er heiratet eine psychisch labile Patientin, weil deren Familie überaus vermögend ist und gründet mit deren Geld eine Klinik für Nervenkrankheiten. Mit Alkohol und Affären befriedigt er weiterhin sein Ego, aber mit den Jahren stellt er fest, dass ihn weder seine Familie noch seine Arbeit glücklich machen.

An undisputed masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, perfect for Fitzgerald lovers and classics collectors alike. Set against a backdrop of jazz music, bootlegging, and lavish parties, The Great Gatsby is the story of Midwesterner Nick Carraway’s curious introduction to the decadent...

This great American novel describes the lavish lifestyle, along with the cruelty and ugliness, of Long Island society during the Jazz Age. Told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, the book follows events surrounding Jay Gatsby, who, despite his enormous wealth, longs desperately for those things that money can't buy.

NBC University Theater initially started in Chicago with a remit to bring adaptations of classic novels, usually Anglo-American, to a radio audience. In its later years, it also included short stories and plays and went on to win the distinguished Peabody award. University Theater relied on excellent distillations of the novels and first-class acting alongside high production values.

A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture blog Tom and Lorenzo NPR's Best Books of the Year 2020 pick A New York Times New & Noteworthy book One of Logo/NewNowNext's "11 Queer Books We Can't...

This sixth book in the series is a great combination of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Terrible Two series, and is perfect for fans of Roald Dahl. Tom Fitzgerald, better known as the Great Brain, is struggling to stay reformed now that his friends have threatened to shut him out if he...

This fifth book in the series is a great combination of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Terrible Two series, and is perfect for fans of Roald Dahl. It's summer vacation, and J. D. is determined to reform his older brother Tom, a.k.a. the Great Brain, from his money swindling ways for good...

This fourth book in the series is a great combination of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Terrible Two series, and is perfect for fans of Roald Dahl. Everyone knew that Tom Fitzgerald, better known as the Great Brain, would get into trouble when he went off to boarding school at the strict...

He's at it again! TD, better known as the Great Brain, is up to eight more schemes to earn some money...

When that shrewd conniver, Tom, the infamous Great Brain, is sent to school in Salt Lake City, his favorite victim, J.D., figures he can step into his brother's shoes as town hustler. Nothing's wrong with his technique--it's just that he hasn't got the instincts of a real con man. But when...

Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation officer dealing with some of Glasgow’s worst cases, and her job is on the line. Liam Macdowall was imprisoned for murdering his wife, and he’s published a series of letters to the dead woman, in a book that makes him an unlikely hero - and a poster boy for Men’s Rights activists. Liam is released on licence into Mary’s care, but things are far from simple. Mary develops a poisonous obsession with Liam and his world, and when her son and Liam’s daughter form a relationship, Mary will stop at nothing to impose her own brand of justice.

An endurance athlete and coach reveals how the marathon transforms the lives of everyone who attempts it--and how it has helped his own family cope with serious adversity Step after step for 26.2 miles, hundreds of thousands of people run marathons. But why--what compels people past pain, lost...

Den store Gatsby blir sett på som et av amerikansk litteraturs hovedverker og er et fullendt og innsiktsfullt portrett av overklassemiljøet i de «glade 20-årene». Gjennom fortelleren Nick Carraway, blir man presentert for det overfladiske, glitrende livet i herskapshusene langs Long Islands kyst på 1920-tallet. Her bor den mystiske hovedpersonen, Jay Gatsby, som er kjent for sine ville, overdådige fester for hundrevis av mennesker. Likevel er det egentlig ikke noen som kjenner ham eller vet hvor hans formue stammer fra.

Ein Morgen im Jahr 1920: Zelda, das blonde Mädchen aus den Südstaaten, erwacht mit unbändigem Appetit auf Biscuits und Pfirsiche, wie es sie nur in ihrer Heimat gibt. Und so macht sich Fitzgerald zusammen mit seiner Frau und dem eigenwilligen Marmon 34, genannt "die rollende Rostlaube", auf den Weg nach Alabama. Wir reisen mit dem frischvermählten glamourösen Paar quer durch die USA - und finden uns in einer abenteuerlichen Road Novel wieder, die die Goldenen Zwanziger ebenso anklingen lässt wie die vielschichtige Beziehung von Zelda und Scott.

A breakthrough program for triathletes -- beginner, intermediate, and advanced -- showing how to balance training intensity to maximize performance -- from a fitness expert and elite coach. Cutting-edge research has proven that triathletes and other endurance athletes experience their greatest...

1980: Josephine flees her home in Ireland to start a new life in London - but can't leave her traumatic childhood behind. Seventeen years and two children later, her sister calls: their mother is dying and wants to see Josephine. It's a summons she can't refuse....

Prize-winning author James FitzGerald explores how the death of an eighteen-year-old girl in the summer of 1968 forever changed his life and the life of the other man who loved her. Dreaming Sally is a deeply moving exploration of the weight of a life cut short. Sally will die in Europe this...

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based, goal-oriented self-help technique that has worked for millions and can work for you! Discover what CBT is and how you can use it, and learn how to be more assertive, raise your self-esteem and transform your mentality - becoming happier and more positive in the process. The Audio Masterclass series provides serious coverage of the most vital topics in self-help, psychology and the humanities, combining comprehensive, expert content from the celebrated Teach Yourself series. 

Toney Fitzgerald stands in front of the class with a message. There's little poetry in making money, he says, and there's even less in poverty. In one hand he holds the hammer of reality and, in the other, the gauntlet of defiance. Mixing fiction, experience and teaching, he leads them through ruthless self-examination, preparing them to break through the Bitch barrier to the richer world beyond.