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While struggling to find success as an actor and pay the bills, something accidentally happened to Jeff Hiller: he aged. And while it’s one thing to get older and rest on the laurels of success from the blood, sweat, and tears of your youth, it’s quite another to be old and have no laurels. At forty, stuck in a temp job making spreadsheets, the dream of becoming a star seemed out of reach. But after twenty-five years of guest roles on TV and performing improv in a grocery store basement, he finally struck gold with a breakout role on HBO’s Somebody Somewhere, playing Joel.

"Matar una cucaracha de Osvaldo Calixto Amador es una memoria evocadora y profundamente introspectiva que captura el turbulento viaje del autor a través de importantes desafíos personales e históricos. Esta poderosa narrativa tiene como telón de fondo la Revolución Cubana, el exilio y la devastación provocada por la epidemia del SIDA. Amador entrelaza su odisea personal con temas más amplios extraídos de Matar a un ruiseñor de Harper Lee, utilizando la metáfora del ruiseñor para explorar la inocencia y los dilemas morales inherentes a su propia vida. Las memorias profundizan en ...

This unique, lively and open memoir of gay male life in Minnesota in the late Twentieth and early Twenty-first centuries captures the people, organizations, events, atmosphere, facts and flavor of those gay times. With honesty, humor, laughter and tears, wins and losses, lives and deaths, the author recounts the experience of being Minnesota gay men. The memoir includes many photographs, links to videos, sound recordings, reference materials, an extensive Bibliography and a Timeline. Utilizing these will lead the reader and researchers to many more materials, especially at the University of...

Dicen que el destino juega con los hilos invisibles de nuestras vidas, entrelazándolos sin permitir que se toquen hasta el momento preciso. ¿Y si ese instante llega más de veinte años después? Mariam y Medina han sentido su cercanía en varias ocasiones, rozándose, sintiendo el latido de algo que nunca llegó a ser. Medina ha amado con fuerza, ha aprendido del deseo, de la pasión y del cariño, pero también del desencanto, cuando el tiempo destruye lo que una vez parecía eterno. Mariam, por su parte, ha entregado su corazón sin reservas, solo para descubrir que no siempre el amor ...

This short book aims to shed light on the insidious nature of addiction, using a powerful metaphor to illustrate its destructive grip.

Does peaking in high school ruin you for life? Was Miley Cyrus right, is it all about the climb (when it comes to building a career?) And what - scientifically - is the best way to mend a broken heart? Comedian Suzi Ruffell is considering life's big questions. In this brutally honest, funny, and often moving memoir, Suzi winningly tells her life story, and asks a host of experts to answer the tricky questions it prompts along the way. Diamond life advice comes from the likes of Elizabeth Day, Dolly Alderton, Charlene Douglas, Laura Bates, Dr Kirren Schnack, and more.