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The Sweet Potato Queens are bona fide experts at planning a marvelous marriage (and ending one, look below if you're looking for advice on dumping a deadweight hubby!), so who better to provide this handy wedding planner? And even if you're not planning your own nuptials, surely you have dreamt about your perfect day, regardless of whether you've met Mr. Right yet!

This is the story of a family led to confront a crisis they had never foreseen. Of a happy life with two young daughters which suddenly falters, never to be the same again. Aged 11, the eldest stops eating and speaking, while her younger sister struggles to cope. Slowly, alongside diagnoses of autism and selective mutism, their desperate parents become aware of another source for their firstborn daughter's distress: her imperilled future on a rapidly heating planet.

Before September 11, 2001, one terrorist group had killed more Americans than any other: Hezbollah, the “Party of God.” Today it remains potentially more dangerous than even al Qaeda. Yet little has been known about its inner workings, past successes, and future plans–until now.

In 2010, thousands of feet in the air above Singapore, the 469 passengers aboard QF32 found themselves in a crisis that no one could have anticipated when the A380 in which they were flying suffered a catastrophic explosion. Captain Richard de Crespigny and his crew confronted extraordinary challenges over the next four hours, with only three partially working engines, and a potentially explosive plane facing an imminent emergency landing.

Contención, desempeño y agilidad.

The madcap true story of how Rachel Johnson - born into one of Britain's most famous political families and known since childhood as "Rake" - tries and fails to get elected in the 2019 hard-fought effort to stop Brexit, running against her older brother, Boris, and what she learns in the process about politics, ambition, family, marriage, and winning and losing.

ربّما ليس هذا ما يرمي إليه الكاتب بالحرف الواحد لكنّها إشارة الخطر حيث يبحث من خلال هذه الصفحات عن مبررات ودوافع الالتحاق بداعش من خلال سرد خمس قصص واقعية لشباب وشابات من تونس التحقوا بتنظيم "داعش"، وما يجمع بين هذه القصص هو طريقة استقطابهم التي تمت عبر موقع التواصل الاجتماعي "فيسبوك".

The power grid could fail tomorrow. Are you ready to keep your family alive? This book contains the steps that took me from a clueless city dweller with zero survival skills to complete off-grid self-sufficiency in less than 18 months. The key? The "Off-Grid Mastery System" – combining wilderness skills, homesteading techniques, and crisis preparedness.

Her enemy will stop at nothing for control...she will risk everything for freedom. A horrific crime shatters Lisa Harper’s idyllic childhood. Her father is dead and her desperate mother, Annie, quickly marries Dutch Hauk, an abusive monster who soon reveals his hatred for Lisa. To protect her, Annie defies her ruthless husband and forfeits custody to a trusted friend. Enraged, Dutch vows to keep Annie and Lisa apart - and he does. Years later, though keenly aware of Dutch’s evil intent, Lisa and her mother seize a chance to be a family, safe in a home where love dwells.

Un nuevo virus irrumpe en un país lejano, aunque no tan lejano. La Tierra se ha vuelto pequeña. Día tras día, billones de impulsos digitales transportan la información a la velocidad de la luz de un punto a otro del planeta; infinidad de aviones surcan los cielos, borrando fronteras a su paso y trasladando sin pausa a millares de personas; y, a menor velocidad, miles de toneladas de mercancías se mueven en todas direcciones en un incesante intercambio mercantil que nutre la economía global.

La crisis ambiental se cobrará más vidas y golpeará más duraderamente a México que el Covid-19, simplemente no hemos querido verlo.

Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock is a jittery father-to-be with a simple question: If OBL is behind 9/11 and all the ensuing worldwide chaos, why can't we just catch him? And furthermore, why is his message so compelling to so many people?

Manchmal nimmt einen das Leben aus der Kurve, um einen vor Schlimmeren zu bewahren: bewegende Lektionen für ein gelingendes Leben von einem der größten deutschen Schauspieler Äußerlich vielbeschäftigt und erfolgreich, steht Francis Fulton-Smith nach zwei gescheiterten Beziehungen vor den Scherben seiner Lebensplanung. Alles scheint sich gegen ihn verschworen zu haben, nichts scheint mehr Sinn zu machen. Er fühlt sich einsam, verloren und entwurzelt.

Osama bin Laden was the most wanted man in American history - an enemy who brought the United States what President George W. Bush called “a day of fire”, and ushered in a new era of terrorism. It took a decade of blood and sacrifice, of determination and frustration, but finally, in a nighttime raid at the end of a dirt road in Pakistan, the hunt for Bin Laden ended with a gunshot. It was a dramatic climax to a long and painful chapter. But now what?

Was den "Islamischen Staat" so gefährlich macht. Nach seinem brutalen Eroberungszug im Jahr 2014 herrscht der "Islamische Staat" heute über mehr als fünf Millionen Menschen und eine Fläche von der Größe Großbritanniens. SPIEGEL-Korrespondent Christoph Reuter zeichnet den präzise geplanten Aufstieg der Dschihadisten nach und stößt zu den Wurzeln des Terrors vor - im zerfallenden Irak, im syrischen Bürgerkrieg und in den vielfältigen Konflikten der Region, die die Strategen des Terrors geschickt für ihre Zwecke zu nutzen wissen.

This deep-dive investigation examines the multitude of relationships between radical Islam and politics in India's neighborhood, laying bare the forces that seek to shape Bangladesh's present and its destiny.

Hace ahora veinticinco años se publicaba La Casa, el primer libro que se atrevía en España a desvelar los misterios del entonces Cesid, ahora CNI. Fue tal el impacto que produjo, que durante tres meses fue el libro de no ficción más vendido en toda España. Hasta en el Congreso dos diputados -Álvarez Cascos, del PP, y Mur, del PAR- criticaron al entonces gobierno socialista por no contar lo que ya sabían gracias a La Casa.

Die Welt kennt nur die Bilder aus dem Lagezentrum des Weißen Hauses: Präsident Barack Obama und sein Stab beobachten am Monitor den Zugriff...

Habiburahman was born in 1979 and raised in a small village in western Burma. When he was 3 years old, the country's military leader declared that his people, the Rohingya, were not one of the 135 recognized ethnic groups that formed the eight national races. He was left stateless in his own country. Since 1982, millions of Rohingya have had to flee their homes as a result of extreme prejudice and persecution. In 2016 and 2017, the government intensified the process of ethnic cleansing, and over 600,000 Rohingya people were forced to cross the border into Bangladesh.

25 Jahre nach dem Sensationserfolg "Von der Nutzlosigkeit erwachsen zu werden" folgt die kongeniale Fortschreibung. "Werde demnächst 50 und weiß nicht, was ich an dem Tag machen soll. Eine Party? Abhauen? Mir die Kante geben? Wenn ihr Ideen habt, meldet euch!" Mit diesem Hilferuf in Facebook fängt alles an... Und so gibt es einen Ort und ein Treffen: Sechs Menschen, sechs Geschichten, sechs Schicksale - eine Generation und ein großes Thema: Was bedeutet es, älter zu werden?