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La casa de una escritora en Gales

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«Trefan Morys es el nombre de mi casa en Gales y, a decir verdad, creo que lo más interesante es el hecho de que está en Gales.»Con sencilla elegancia, Jan Morris reflexiona sobre su hogar en Gales, su hermoso entorno y sobre el significado de ser galés. Es un relato íntimo y nítido que recorre la turbulenta historia de los galeses y su batalla para mantener vivos su idioma y su cultura a la sombra de su vecino más poderoso.Entretejiendo algo de poesía y tradición galesa, Morris nos lleva por un camino sinuoso hasta su casa, una humilde estructura del siglo XVIII construida para el ganado y posteriormente convertida en hogar. Este modesto edificio se convierte en un espejo de su vida, así como del alma del pequeño y complejo país de Gales, que ha desafiado al mundo durante siglos para preservar su propia identidad.En su recuerdos están el aroma de la madera quemada, el sonido de las vigas, bosques encantados, torres de libros, muchos recuerdos y, por supuesto, su gato Ibsen.

Nothing to Fear

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In Nothing to Fear, Larry Burkett tells his personal journey of a seven-year battle with cancer. Filled with intimate stories and wisdom from the Word, this book will be a great help to the thousands of people who fight this disease, or to friends and loved ones of those in the midst of the struggle. Larry's 2003 passing was the result of heart failure rather than cancer. His legacy continues today and his words still bring hope to those in need of encouragement. "Even if you can avoid dying from cancer, you'll certainly face something else that will eventually kill you, because all of us are going to die. As god as modern medicine is, it is not the ultimate answer. It will let you down. Trusting God is the answer. He will never let you down."--Larry Burkett

The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1

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In preparing this volume use has been also made of a mass of material, bearing more or less directly on Byron's life, which was accumulated by the grandfather and father of Mr. Murray. The notes thus contain, it is believed, many details of biographical interest.

Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila

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In this landmark of Christian mysticism, the revered Carmelite nun presents moving accounts of her profound religious experiences and ultimate union with God. St. Teresa wrote this memoir at the behest of her confessor. It offers a warm, accessible account of her transformation into an impassioned leader and reformer of church doctrine.St. Teresa recounts her childhood and education in sixteenth-century Spain, her physical afflictions and spiritual crises, her many visions and mystical encounters, and her determination to embrace the contemplative life. In describing the ascent of the soul, she explains the core of her theology as a four-stage process that progresses from mental prayer to divine rapture. Next to Don Quixote, this timeless work constitutes Spain's most popular prose classic. It forms an excellent introduction to the saint's other writings and to the Christian tradition of mystical literature.

Out of Darkness

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"I have a burning desire to tell people who are hurting that there is a way out of their pain. There is hope for their lives."Stormie Omartian tells her compelling story of a childhood marred by physical and emotional abuse that eventually led her into the occult, drugs, and tragic relationships.Finding herself overwhelmed by fear and on the verge of suicide, she shares the turning point that changed her life and reveals the healing process that brought freedom and wholeness beyond what she ever imagined.In this poignant drama, there is help and hope for anyone who has been scarred by the past or feels imprisoned by deep emotional needs. It is a glorious story of how God can bring life out of death, life out of darkness.

Les mots

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"J'ai commencé ma vie comme je la finirai sans doute : au milieu des livres. Dans le bureau de mon grand-père, il y en avait partout ; défense était de les faire épousseter sauf une fois l'an, avant la rentrée d'octobre. Je ne savais pas encore lire que, déjà, je les révérais, ces pierres levées : droites ou penchées, serrées comme des briques sur les rayons de la bibliothèque ou noblement espacées en allées de menhirs, je sentais que la prospérité de notre famille en dépendait..."

Chagrin d'école

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Chagrin d’école, dans la lignée de Comme un roman, aborde la question de l’école du point de vue de l’élève, et en l’occurrence du mauvais élève. Daniel Pennac, ancien cancre lui-même, étudie cette figure du folklore populaire en lui donnant ses lettres de noblesse, en lui restituant aussi son poids d’angoisse et de douleur.

Plutarch’s Lives: Life of Cato the Younger

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Plutarch, later named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, c. 46 – 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. Plutarch lived most of his life at Chaeronea, and his duties as the senior of the two priests of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi (where he was responsible for interpreting the auguries of the Pythia) apparently occupied little of his time. He led an active social and civic life while producing an extensive body of writing, much of which survived. By his writings and lectures Plutarch became a celebrity in the Roman Empire. At his country estate, guests from all over the empire congregated for serious conversation, presided over by Plutarch in his marble chair. Many of these dialogues were recorded and published, and the 78 essays and other works which have survived are now known collectively as the Moralia. Plutarch's best-known work is the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues and vices. The surviving Lives contain 23 pairs, each with one Greek Life and one Roman Life, as well as four unpaired single Lives. Some of the Lives, such as those of Heracles, Philip II of Macedon and Scipio Africanus, no longer exist; many of the remaining Lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae or have been tampered with by later writers. Extant Lives include those on Aristides, Pericles, Pompey, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Cato the Younger, Mark Antony, and Marcus Junius Brutus. Plutarch also wrote a series of biographies, including the biographies of Demetrius, Pyrrhus, Agis and Cleomenes, Aratus and Artaxerxes, Philopoemen, Camillus, Marcellus, Flamininus, Aemilius Paulus, Galba and Otho. This edition of Plutarch’s Life of Cato the Younger is specially formatted with a Table of Contents and is illustrated with over a dozen illustrations.

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

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Narrative of Sojourner Truth is one of the most important documents of slavery ever written, as well as being a partial autobiography of the woman who became a pioneer in the struggles for racial and sexual equality. With an eloquence that resonates more than a century after its original publication in 1850, the narrative bears witness to Sojourner Truth's thirty years of bondage in upstate New York and to the mystical revelations that turned her into a passionate and indefatigable abolitionist.In this new edition, which has been edited and extensively annotated by the distinguished scholar and biographer of Sojourner Truth, Margaret Washington, Truth's testimony takes on added dimensions: as a lens into the little-known world of northern slavery; as a chronicle of spiritual conversion; and as an inspiring account of a black woman striving for personal and political empowerment.

The Life of Christopher Columbus

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This eBook edition of "The Life of Christopher Columbus" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. To these days, the best authorities agree that the children and the grown people of the world have never been mistaken when they have said: "America was discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, a native of Genoa". But what do we really know about the man behind this name, the life behind the myth? Discover the man that experienced incredible adventures, the man with ferocious drive, but still a man of flesh and blood whose life story, spirit and destiny will move you in a way you didn't expect. Contents: Early Life of Columbus: Birth and Birth Place Early Education Marriage and Residence in Lisbon Plans for the Discovery of a Westward Passage to the Indies Columbus Leaves Lisbon, and Visits Genoa Visits Great Spanish Dukes Six Years at the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella The Council of Salamanca Petition at Last Granted—squadron The Great Voyage: The Squadron Sails Refits at Canary Islands Hopes and Fears of the Voyage The Doubts of the Crew Land Discovered The Landing on the Twelfth of October The Natives and Their Neighbors Search for Gold Cuba Discovered Columbus Coasts Along Its Shores Landing on Cuba The Cigar and Tobacco Cipango and the Great Khan Cuba to Haiti Discovery of Haiti or Hispaniola Hospitality and Intelligence of the Natives Colony to Be Founded Columbus Sails East and Meets Martin Pinzon The Two Vessels Return to Europe The Azores and Portugal Columbus Is Called to Meet the King and Queen His Magnificent Reception Negotiations With the Pope and With the King of Portugal The Second Expedition Sails From Cadiz Touches at Canary Islands Discovery of Dominica and Guadeloupe Skirmishes With the Caribs Porto Rico Discovered Hispaniola The Fate of the Colony at La Navidad The New Colony Guacanagari Discovery of Trinidad ...

Born to Run (Dansk version)

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Bruce Springsteen fortæller ærligt om sin næsten 50 år lange karriere i en stærk selvbiografi, der udgives på den samme dag, 27. september, over hele verden. Den ikoniske sanger og musiker Bruce Springsteen har i al hemmelighed skrevet på sin selvbiografi de seneste syv år. Han begyndte at arbejde på den i 2009 efter at have optrådt med The E Street Band til Super Bowl. I Born to Run beskriver han sin opvækst i Freehold i New Jersey imellem ”poesi, fare og mørke”, som det, der har næret hans fantasi. Han fortæller levende om sit stædige behov for at blive musiker – fra hans tidlige dage , hvor han var kongen over alle barmusikere i Asbury Park til dannelsen af The E Street Band. Med hudløs ærlighed taler han også for første gang åbent om de personlige kampe, der har inspireret ham til at skrive sine bedste sange og afslører, hvorfor sangen Born to Run har langt dybere selvbiografiske lag, end man tror. ”Det er noget underligt noget at skrive om sig selv”, skriver Bruce Springsteen i bogen.”Men i et projekt som dette har forfatteren givet læseren et løfte om at vise, hvem han virkelig er. Det løfte har jeg forsøgt at leve op til i denne bog”. Og det er ikke bare tomme ord, at han her viser sig, som han er.Born to Run er en sjældent ærlig og indsigtsfuld selvbiografi, hvor Bruce Springsteen ikke bare tager læseren med gennem sin ikoniske musikalske karriere, der strækker sig over næsten 50 år. Men også gennem en personlig historie fyldt med den form for kærlighed og svigt, tillid og usikkerhed, kampe og succes, som alle kan spejle sig i.

Dorie

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'Someone has said that when you have nothing left but God, you realize that God is enough. God had stood beside me when no one else wanted me. He was not going to abandon me now. God would have to heal the emotional pain that throbbed through my body.' As a child, Dorie was rejected by her mother, sent to live in an orphanage where she was regularly beaten by the orphanage director, was beaten time and again by cruel foster parents, and was daily told that she was ugly and unlovable. Dorie never knew love until a group of college students visited the orphanage and told her that God loved her. As she accepted that love, her life began to change. Dorie is the thrilling, true account of what God's love can do in a life. Doris Van Stone takes readers through the hard years of her childhood into her fascinating years as a missionary with her husband to the Dani tribe in New Guinea. With the rise of illegitimate births, the increase in divorce statistics, and the frightening escalation of child abuse, this story stands as a reminder that God's love, forgiveness, and grace are greater than human hurt and sorrow. More than 170,000 in print.

The House of Rothschild

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A major work of economic, social and political history, Niall Ferguson's The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker 1849-1999 is the second volume of the acclaimed, landmark history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty.Niall Ferguson's House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848 was hailed as a "great biography" by Time magazine and named one of the best books of the year by Business Week. Now, with all the depth, clarity and drama with which he traced their ascent, Ferguson - the first historian with access to the long-lost Rothschild family archives - concludes his myth-breaking portrait of once of the most fascinating and power families of all time.From Crimea to World War II, wars repeatedly threatened the stability of the Rothschilds' worldwide empire. Despite these many global upheavals, theirs remained the biggest bank in the world up until the First World War, their interests extending far beyond the realm of finance. Yet the Rothschilds' failure to establish themselves successfully in the United States proved fateful, and as financial power shifted from London to New York after 1914, their power waned."A stupendous achievement, a triumph of historical research and imagination."—Robert Skidelsky, The New York Review of Books"Niall Ferguson's brilliant and altogether enthralling two-volume family saga proves that academic historians can still tell great stories that the rest of us want to read."—The New York Times Book Review"Superb ... An impressive ... account of the Rothschilds and their role in history."—Boston GlobeNiall Ferguson's new book The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook will be published in January 2018.

Kuelezea Ni Nani Barack Obama Kikamilifu

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The e-book is a biography of Obama's life as a child and his works before, during, and after being the 44th president of the USA. Barack Hussein Obama was born on 4th August 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president for two terms from 2009 to 2017. He is the son of parents from Kenya and Kansas. Barack Obama's father, Barack Obama Senior., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. Obama's dad grew up herding goats in Africa. Eventually, he received a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and follow his dreams of going to college in Hawaii. During World War II, Obama's mum, Ann Dunham, was born on an Army base in Wichita, Kansas. As he studied at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Obama's dad met fellow student Ann Dunham. The two got married on 2nd February 1961, and Obama Junior was born six months later. Obama Senior left soon after Obama Junior's birth, and the couple divorced two years later. In 1965, Ann Dunham was re-married to Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian student from the University of Hawaii. Twelve months later, the new family transferred to Jakarta, Indonesia, where Obama Junior's half-sister, Maya Soetoro Ng, was born in 1970. A series of incidents in Indonesia left Ann Dunham uncertain of Obama Junior's safety and education. So, when he was 10, Obama Junior was sent back to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents. Ann Dunham and Obama Junior's step-sister, Maya Soetoro Ng, later joined them. Barack Obama Junior Growing Up As a child, Barack Obama Junior did not have a relationship with his father. While Obama Junior was still an infant, his father relocated to Massachusetts to attend Harvard University and pursue a Ph.D. Obama Junior's parents officially separated after some time and eventually divorced in March 1964, when Obama Junior was two years old. After a while, Obama Senior returned to Kenya. Barack Obama struggled with his dad's absence during his childhood, who he saw just once more after his parents had divorced. This was when Obama Senior visited Hawaii for a short while in 1971. “[My father] had left paradise, and nothing that my mother or grandparents told me could obviate that single, unassailable fact,” Obama Junior later reflected. “They couldn’t describe what it might have been like had he stayed.” While living with his grandparents, Obama Junior enrolled in the esteemed Punahou Academy. He excelled in basketball and graduated with academic honors in 1979. Since he was among the only three Black learners at the school, Obama Junior became conscious of racism and what it truly meant to be an African American. Obama Junior later described how he struggled to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage with his sense of self: “I noticed that there was nobody like me in the Sears, Roebuck Christmas catalog….and that Santa was a white man. Obama Junior wrote: “I went into the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror with all my senses and limbs seemingly intact, looking as I had always looked, and wondered if something was wrong with me.”

J'irais nager dans plus de rivières

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"Les rencontres sont les cadeaux de la vie." Entre souvenirs et citations, aveux et sagesse, ce livre offre une plongée dans les mille vies de Philippe Labro qui, au contact de personnages illustres, s’est enrichi de leurs enseignements. On découvre ses passions pour la littérature, la musique, la politique et la nature. Mais aussi les portraits inédits de Hallyday, Gainsbourg, Gary ; les 5 leçons de Churchill ; les mots d’une infirmière ; les glaciers bleus et le tronc d’un aspen ; le frère disparu ; Picasso et Prévert face à la mer ; Belmondo qui meurt dans les bras de Denner ; la tendresse infinie des enfants ; Luchini, Trintignant, Chirac ; les résistantes… C’est comme une rivière qui coule, celle d’une vie.

The Life of Columbus

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Christopher Columbus was born in the Republic of Genoa. The honor of his birth-place has been claimed by may villages in that Repubic, and the house in which he was born cannot be now pointed out with certainty. But the best authorities agree that the children and the grown people of the world have never been mistaken when they have said: “America was discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, a native of Genoa. ” His name, and that of his family, is always written Columbo, in the Italian papers which refer to them, for more than one hundred years before his time. In Spain it was always written Colon; in France it is written as Colomb; while in England it has always kept its Latin form, Columbus. It has frequently been said that he himself assumed this form, because Columba is the Latin word for “Dove, ” with a fanciful feeling that, in carrying Christian light to the West, he had taken the mission of the dove. Thus, he had first found land where men thought there was ocean, and he was the messenger of the Holy Spirit to those who sat in darkness. It has also been assumed that he took the name of Christopher, “the Christ-bearer, ” for similar reasons. But there is no doubt that he was baptized “Christopher, ” and that the family name had long been Columbo. The coincidences of name are but two more in a calendar in which poetry delights, and of which history is full.

Our Nig

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Our Nig is an an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson, her only published work. It was written not for pleasure, but to financially support the lives of the author and her sick child. It was long considered to be the first novel published by an African-American woman in the United States, but recent research has put that title into question.Frado, born to a white mother and black father, is abandoned by her parents at age six and left to the Bellmont family. Though the Bellmonts live in the northern United States, the matriarch of the family, Mrs. Bellmont, loathes her for her dark skin color. She forces Frado (nicknamed “Nig”) to do the chores of the family under the threat of rawhide floggings and beatings. However, not everyone agrees with Mrs. Bellmont’s treatment of their new family member.

El conde negro

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Después de El orientalista, un bestseller mundial, Tom Reiss nos brinda El conde negro, la original biografía de uno de los grandes héroes olvidados de la Historia, a pesar de que su vida nos resulte inesperadamente familiar. Sus proezas se narran en Los tres mosqueteros, y sus victorias y padecimientos inspiraron El conde de Montecristo, dos novelas escritas por su hijo, Alexandre Dumas. El general Alex Dumas merece ocupar un lugar entre los grandes por un motivo muy singular: fue el único de su raza que estuvo al frente de poderosos ejércitos durante una intrépida campaña en la que atravesó Europa hasta llegar a Oriente Medio. Hijo de una esclava negra y de un noble francés de raza blanca, Alex Dumas nació en Saint-Domingue (hoy Haití). Vendido como esclavo, consiguió llegar a París, donde estudió esgrima y se codeó con la flor y nata de la aristocracia. Cuando estalló la Revolución Francesa, ingresó en el ejército como soldado raso, pero después de hazañas legendarias fue el general al mando de un ejército de más de cincuenta mil hombres. Aunque llegó muy alto, Dumas siguió viviendo gracias a su audacia y a su dominio de la espada, que le permitieron hacer frente a difíciles situaciones de las que siempre salía airoso. Con todo, sus férreos principios terminaron convirtiéndolo en una amenaza para Napoleón. Cuando regresaba a Francia tras conquistar Egipto, su barco se hundió, y él, capturado por un misterioso enemigo, fue a parar a un calabozo, donde fue víctima de un lento envenenamiento. Y el destino que lo esperaba tras conseguir escapar de la prisión sería aún más «ponzoñoso». El conde negro es, a la vez, una vibrante historia rebosante de aventuras, un viaje desbordante de detalles por la historia europea de finales del siglo XVIII y una ventana a la primera sociedad multirracial del mundo moderno. Asimismo, es una narración entrañable sobre los duraderos vínculos del amor paternofilial. Basado en documentos, cartas, despachos militares y el diario que el general Dumas escribió en su cautiverio –documentos desconocidos hasta la fecha–, este libro es una obra maestra en el ámbito de la no ficción narrativa.

Taking the Stand

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Dershowitz recounts his extraordinary coming of age in this legal autobiography, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past fifty years, most of which he has personally been involved in.“Overflowing with fascinating and funny vignettes involving his cases and clients, and probing and provocative insights into contemporary legal controversies.”—The Boston GlobeAlan Dershowitz, the preeminent defense lawyer in America today, has been called the “winningest appellate criminal defense lawyer in history.” A professor at Harvard Law School since the age of twenty-five, he has led or been part of the defense team for such storied clients as Bill Clinton, Julian Assange, O. J. Simpson, Claus von Bülow, Mia Farrow, Jeffrey MacDonald, Patty Hearst, Mike Tyson, and countless others.In Taking the Stand, Dershowitz describes his evolution as a lawyer—from a C-minus student in Yeshiva High School to the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard Law School. In his #1 New York Times bestselling book Chutzpah, Alan described his Jewish life. In Taking the Stand, he looks at the people and events that have helped to shape his ideas about the law. He describes his formative years as a clerk for the United States Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. In the course of his career, he confronts the challenges of First Amendment law, the ongoing tension between individual freedom and national security, the questionable science often employed to prosecute accused murderers, the evolution of civil rights—and why the abortion rights debate in society hasn’t moved forward since Roe v. Wade.Filled with unforgettable cases and inside legal “baseball,” Taking the Stand is a deeply personal account of one of the legendary legal minds of our time.

Som rada, že mama zomrela

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Kým je dcéra bez svojej matky? Sama sebou... Otvorená spoveď Jennette McCurdy o tom, ako sa stala detskou herečkou, o poruchách príjmu potravy, závislosti a o komplikovanom vzťahu s panovačnou matkou, ale aj o tom, ako sa jej znovu podarilo prevziať kontrolu nad vlastným životom. Jennette McCurdy mala len šesť rokov, keď absolvovala prvý herecký konkurz. Matkiným snom bolo, aby sa jej jediná dcéra stala hviezdou a Jennette pre to robila všetko. Súhlasila s obmedzením príjmu kalórií a vážila sa päťkrát denne. Keď jej mama vyčítala, že má „neviditeľné mihalnice“, pristúpila na rozsiahle estetické premeny, lebo „aj Dakota Fanning si ich farbí“. Mama ju dokonca do šestnástich rokov sprchovala a Jennette sa s ňou delila o svoje denníky, emaily aj všetky príjmy. V knihe Som rada, že mama zomrela Jennette podrobne rozpráva o všetkom, čo sa dialo, aby splnila mamin sen. Keď dostala hlavnú úlohu v seriáli iCarly, odrazu sa stala slávnou. Jej mama bola vo vytržení. Posielala emaily vedúcim fanklubov a paparazzov oslovovala krstným menom. V Jennette sa však hromadili pocity úzkosti, hanby a sebanenávisti, ktoré vyústili do porúch príjmu potravy, závislosti a viacerých nezdravých vzťahov. Problémy sa ešte zhoršili, keď po získaní úlohy v seriáli Sam&Cat, po boku s Arianou Grande, jej matka zomrela na rakovinu. Jennette napokon zanechala hereckú kariéru, začala sa venovať práci na sebe a prvýkrát mohla sama rozhodovať o tom, čo v živote naozaj chce. Kniha Som rada, že mama zomrela je úprimný, inšpiratívny príbeh plný čierneho humoru o nezlomnosti, nezávislosti a o radosti z toho, že si Jennette končene môže sama umyť vlasy.

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