Dungeons and dreamers

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Linda Hasselstrom

A rancher's life on the Great Plains, South Dakota, Black Hills, social life and customs. The owl in the dark -- Sonata for horses -- Blues for shoveling horse manure -- Reckoning the cost of a dead steer -- Lightning strikes the white heifer -- Looking for the dark : buffalo winter -- Beekeeper -- Badger's business -- Looking for death : the deer harvest -- The young cow : going back to grass -- Looking for the light : the elk in the aspen -- Climbing into the bull pen -- Nighthawks fly in thunderstorms -- Looking for life : fire in the wildlife pasture -- Badger's daughter.

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Kara DioGuardi

Kara DioGuardi is an award-winning hitmaker, a savvy record executive, and a successful music publisher whose songs have been recorded by such superstars as Pink, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Santana, Steven Tyler, and many others. She was also the feisty fourth judge on American Idol. But success wouldn't have happened for this songwriter, artist, and producer without the dark times of defeat. Kara not only writes about what it was like to collaborate with some of our favorite performing artists, she also opens up about everything from her struggles with debilitating stage fright and an equally paralyzing eating disorder, to caring for her mother during her final battle with cancer. And, of course, she shares behind-the-scenes stories from her years on American Idol and the real truth about her departure from the show.--From publisher description.

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Leila Cobo

Jenni fue la artista latina más vendida dentro del género regional mexicano. Con un programa de radio semanal, su propio programa de telerrealidad, una línea de maquillaje y ropa y su propia fundación, estaba en la cima de su carrera y de su vida. Todo lo que había logrado con sangre, sudor, lágrimas y alegría iba, según ella misma decía, de la mano de Dios. Pero su vida, sus sueños y la alegría que le regalaba a millones, llegaron a un trágico final la madrugada del 9 de diciembre de 2012.

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Pierre Berg with Brian Brock

"From Pierre Berg's opening words, to his decidedly un-lucky detention by Gestapo officers, all the way through his internment in Drancy, Auschwitz, Dora, and Ravensbrueck, Scheisshaus Luck is a harrowing, clear-eyed testament of one young man's experience of the Holocaust. Originally penned shortly after the war when memories were still fresh, this autobiographical account of a Gentile French teenager's odyssey of horror and survival recounts Berg's day-to-day struggle for survival in the camps, escaping death countless times while enduring inhuman conditions, exhaustive slave labor, and near starvation." "Relentlessly unsentimental, yet tinged with a sense of brutal irony, Scheisshaus Luck provides a new perspective on some of the Nazis' most notorious concentration camps. As we quickly approach the day when there will be no living eyewitnesses to the Nazis' "Final Solution," Berg's memoir stands as a searing reminder of Nazi crimes. Scheisshaus Luck is a major addition to Holocaust literature, and a young man's haunting account of one of the darkest periods in history."--BOOK JACKET.