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Visiting Iceland as an anthropologist and film-maker in 2008, Sarah Thomas is spellbound by its otherworldly landscape. An immediate love for this country and for Bjarni, a man she meets there, turns a week-long stay into a transformative half-decade, one which radically alters Sarah's understanding of herself and of the living world. She embarks on a relationship not only with Bjarni, but with the light, the language and the old wooden house they make their home.

In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric firsthand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile.

Discover how facing your underlying pain will allow you to overcome it and move forward. With practical insights and biblical teaching about what it takes to break the cycle of addiction and shame, Reframe Your Shame will set you on the path to freedom.

Hätte Doris Robinson ihre damals 18 jährige Freundin Sarah Vaughan nicht dazu geraten 1942 im Apollo Theater bei einem Amateurwettbewerb teilzunehmen, wäre der Welt eine der wohl markantesten und eindrucksvollsten Stimmen des Jazz entgangen. An jenem geschichtsträchtigen Abend, wo Sarahs Talent erkannt wurde, begann eine beispiellose Karriere, wie Amerika sie zuvor kaum gesehen hatte. Folgen Sie uns zu den schönsten Klängen des Jazz und lassen Sie sich erzählen, wer Sarah Vaughan war. Wen sie liebte, mit wem sie stritt und wer am Ende ihrer langen Karriere ihr wahres Glück bedeutete.

Dr. Kent and Amber Brantly (with David Thomas) tell of Dr. Brantly's near-death encounter with the Ebola virus in Liberia. The first American diagnosed during the 2014 outbreak, Dr. Brantly's ordeal - including his controversial evacuation to and hospitalization in the United States - received worldwide media attention. Interspersed in the account is the full story of how both Kent and his wife, Amber, sought to serve others in the name of Christ in Liberia.