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This award-winning piece by NY Times best-selling author Wendy Goldman Rohm goes inside one of the world's biggest wine counterfeiting frauds. How a young, Indonesian Bacchus seduced the rich and powerful in the world's largest wine counterfeiting scheme. The author was on the scene in Hong Kong and elsewhere to report the Rudy Kurniawan story. This is a reprint of the author's original story that was first published in 2012.

This isn’t just a story—it’s a transmission. A raw, intimate journey from deep trauma through addiction, despair, and near death… into the luminous mystery of awakening. Shellee Rae invites you into her fiercely honest, heart-opening memoir—one that traces the unflinching terrain of incest, abuse, addiction, and depression, and reveals how the deepest suffering can become the very doorway to freedom. With no spiritual bypass and no polished pretense, Shellee offers a rare kind of companion: one who’s walked through the fire and emerged not only intact, but awake. From the ...

This book studies the life and thought of Valentinus using his genuine fragments. After translating the fragments and introducing Valentinus' life, it reorders the fragments and segues into a line-by-line spiritual and historical commentary: Valentinus Sees a Vision (Fragment 7) Summer Harvest (Fragment 8) Evil Angels and the God Human (Fragment 1) The Image and the Name (Fragment 5) You Are Deathless! (Fragment 4) The Pure in Heart (Fragment 2) . On Self-control (Containing Fragment 3) The Truth is Everywhere (Fragment 6) This volume is the first to integrate the discovery that Valentinus ...

Essay on Michael Connelly's rise to fame as an author.

In 2008, Iman Elwan, an American convert to Islam, moved to Cairo, Egypt, to pursue a new career as an English teacher. Shortly before moving, she met the man of her dreams – literally. But instead of a great new life with her Egyptian husband, she found herself subjected to verbal abuse amidst confusing behavior and mixed messages from the man she married. By examining her marriage in retrospect, Iman walks us through the process of discovering what was wrong with her husband. This story provides the reader with a raw, honest account of what a marriage to an individual with a personality...

The story of a band that was formed in the wake of The Beatles appearance on Ed Sullivan - along with two hundred and fifty thousand other bands - and how it became a victim of the Vietnam War. After fifty-five years the four members of the band, surprised to find one another still alive, reunite and start making music once again.

The Hulda Clark Story The Cure for All Diseases Suppressed by Government, Big Pharma, and the Medical Establishment Dr. Hulda Clark was not just a scientist — she was a threat to the medical status quo. After decades of research, Dr. Clark discovered that most diseases — including cancer — could be traced to parasites, toxins, and pollutants. Her natural protocols using black walnut, wormwood, and clove offered a non-invasive, affordable path to healing. But rather than being celebrated, she became a target. In this hard-hitting exposé, investigative journalist Wayne C. Robinson ...

Women in War is a stirring, raw, and profoundly inspiring collection of over twenty true stories about brave women who served and fought throughout history. Written by bestselling author and retired police officer David Yuzuk, this powerful narrative is the result of meticulous research and firsthand interviews, offering a unique and intimate look into the lives of military heroines. Step into the combat books of the courageous women who served from the steamy jungles of Vietnam to the arid deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan. Facing overwhelming adversity and enduring unspeakable losses, these...

Did you know that the remora fish will try to swim up a whale shark's butt when they poop? The crew of Twig didn't. It turns out there was an awful lot the family of five didn’t know when they decided to move aboard and set off for adventure on the high seas. After decades of dreaming, and planning, the explorers finally sailed off into the sunset. Yes, they found the palm trees and coconuts they had longed for, but they also glimpsed the other side of paradise. They ran from waterspouts, dodged hurricanes, got (sort of) robbed by pirates, and played chicken with naval warships. They ...

In an assiduously researched biography of a 16th-century Jewish woman who managed a powerful business empire, Brooks, an associate fellow at Yale, has illuminated a mostly forgotten corner of history. Famed during her lifetime both in the Sephardic Jewish community for her unstinting philanthropy and in the wider world of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, where she fled to escape the Inquisition, Beatrice de Luna Mendes, better known as Doña Gracia Nasi (1510-1569), was a woman of formidable business acumen, personal courage, outstanding altruism and devotion to the Jewish religion, which, as a ...

The true story of transgender adult film superstar Meghan Chavalier. Meghan will take you through her years as a stage performer, actress, author, and singer and how she became one of the most famous transgender adult film stars in the world. But, it hasn't all been all fame and fortune; in fact, Meghan will walk you through the tumultuous steps in her life, growing up with an abusive alcoholic father, drug abuse, prostitution, the adult film industry, the failed relationships, the love she finally found and lost that changed her life and a lifelong struggle with Bipolar Disorder 1. You'll ...

Lynn awoke to the horror of her life unfolding drastically before her very eyes. When her parents died suddenly, which was devasting for her- but at same time, she just found out that she was adopted. By whom? A wealthy couple making her an overnight heiress and trust fund baby. So now with a team, staff and resources all at her fingertips- how will she now cope? With the massive increase that has changed her entire life.

Anne Tyler has been acknowledged as one of America's greatest living novelists. An inspiring chronicler of what lies beneath the everyday, she has written twenty-five acclaimed works, her first in 1964 when she was just twenty-three, and her most recent at the age of eighty-three. Her best-known novels include Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and The Accidental Tourist, made into an Oscar-winning movie. She is greatly loved by her legions of fans all around the world. But for decades, Anne avoided all public appearances and publicity, refusing to talk about herself or her life. Now, for ...

Nancy Pusateri's book is a powerful, raw journey through unimaginable pain and resilience. The book begins by introducing Nancy's roots, tracing her family's migration from Greece to the United States, setting the stage for the story shared ahead in the book. The early years of Nancy's life seemed like a normal childhood until her family shifted to a new house. Then began the series of harrowing experiences, shattering the innocence of her early years. As she shares her story, she reveals the dark undercurrents within her family home: a father who abuses his authority in the cruelest ways ...

Embark On An Inspiring Journey With Michael, who once tipped the scales at 365 pounds, grappling with the burdens of high blood pressure and a pre-diabetic A1c level that loomed like a dark cloud over his future. Determined to transform his life and reclaim his health, Michael set his sights on a definitive goal: shedding the excess weight to prepare for a life-changing knee replacement surgery. What began as a mission to lose weight evolved into a remarkable odyssey toward holistic wellness. In this true account of his inaugural year embracing intermittent fasting as a sustainable ...

Game Ranger, Special Force Soldier, Professional Hunter and Personal Security Officer – Shadows in an African Twilight – is a collection of fascinating stories about a life of adventure spread across nearly four decades in Africa and culminating in Iraq. Many of the stories are not for the squeamish and tell of the aberrant behaviour of man-eating lions and killer crocodiles, stories of courageous Rhodesian game rangers who while fighting to preserve the wildlife of a beautiful country were also fighting against brutal terrorist forces. The author also relates in depth some of his ...

WARNING: These 25 stories are not for the faint of heart. In this raw and relentless sequel to the bestselling True Crime: GORE, Logan Carter returns with 25 more brutal cases that defy belief—but every one of them really happened. Inside this collection, you’ll encounter killers who drank blood, torturers who filmed their crimes, and predators who struck without warning. These are the stories that even seasoned true crime fans find hard to shake. From Japan’s Otaku Killer to Mexico’s death cult sisters, from basement prisons to cannibal horrors, GORE 2 pulls no punches. Each case ...

The author celebrates Christmas in Rio, experiences war-like conditions in Haiti and shells out 200 dollars for a bottle of bottom-shelf whisky in Alaska. He survives with odd jobs in Tokyo, runs from the police in Quito and goes on a celebrity hunt in L.A. In Moscow he gets in trouble with the Russian mafia, in Sri Lanka he discovers the secret of Buddha's tooth, and in Cairo he is haunted by the “Curse of the Pharaoh.” "A fun look at the world." "Want to go to exotic places? Read this first!" "Full of funny encounters with real people from around the globe." (Reviews on Amazon) The ...

"As Dr. Nathan Bryan clearly points out, there’s one miracle molecule in your body that is largely responsible for your health and longevity…NITRIC OXIDE." —Lou Ignarro, 1998 Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine “The Secret of Nitric Oxide by Dr Nathan Bryan may be one of the most important books that you will ever read..." —Mark C. Houston, M.D., M.S., M.Sc., Director, Hypertension Institute and Vascular Biology, Saint Thomas Hospital "Dr Bryan masterfully unveils the life-changing potential of nitric oxide, from its Nobel Prize-winning discovery to its transformative ...

After being falsely accused of cheating on my book report, I plot to set the record straight. I'll prove to my terrible teacher that I truly read the book assignments. Anyone who had nuns for teachers will identify with something in this humorous short story. Do you remember ink wells? Do you know what the Palmer Method of writing is? Did you have to avoid bullies on the way home from school? Set in the early 60's, this lively short tale will bring a touch of nostalgia to folks who grew up in the Beatles era.