Great Stories Of Famous And Not So Famous People


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The following is the list of 39 Stories: Almost But Lost A Priest Asked His Bishop Amy Carmichael The Hand of God Burke The Burglar Daniel Webster's Greatest Thought David Livingstone Livingstone's Body-Guard Dying Testimony Ed Fuller's Testimony George Washington Carver The History of the Peanut Gipsy Smith He Lived Life in the Fast Lane How Spurgeon Found Christ How the King of England Escaped Ice From Heaven Jesus, I my Cross Have Taken John Foxe, The Penman for the MARTYRS John Harper and the Titanic John G. Paton Lester Leo Roloff Lions On The Road Mary Slessor Meat for the Master Noah Webster and His Dictionary Rose of Sharon Set Free Seven Instead of Ten Tell Mother I'll Be There! The True Story, The Lonely Cabin The Story of Tyndale The Triumph of Polycarp Too Bad They Neglected Joe Transformed Transformed by a Tract Twenty Years of Service Lost What A Way To Go Wife Visits Husband 15 Minutes a Month




The Secret of Success Is Not a Secret


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Features the stories of more than 300 well-known people who faced failure or setbacks in their fields before going on to success.




Famous People


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This fresh, smart novel in the guise of a celebrity memoir probes the inner life of a mega-famous pop star Honestly, what amazes me the most with a lot of the people I meet is that they think they’re so big. They think, ultimately, that the universe revolves around them. And I’m beginning to think that it’s only when you live a life like mine—it’s only when you’re in a position where you don’t even really own yourself, when you can’t even really say that you’re a citizen of any particular country—that you realize that we’re all just tiny pieces of cosmic dust floating through the void until we disappear forever and we’re never heard from again. So begins the life story of our uber famous twenty-two year old narrator. A teen idol since he was twelve, when a video of him singing went viral, his star has only risen since. Now, haunted by the suicide of his manager-father, unsettled by the very different paths he and his teenage love (and girl pop-star counterpart) “Mandy” have taken, and increasingly aware that he has signed on to something he has little control over, he begins to parse the divide that separates him from the “normal people” of the world. Sneakily philosophical, earnest and funny, Justin Kuritzkes's Famous People is a rollicking, unforgettable look at the clash between fame and the human condition.




Fifty Famous People; A Book of Short Stories


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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.




Hollywood Stories


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Just when you thought you've heard everything about Hollywood comes a totally original new book - a special blend of biography, history and lore. Hollywood Stories is packed with wild, wonderful short tales about famous stars, movies, directors and many others who have been part of the world's most fascinating, unpredictable industry! Full of funny moments and twist endings, Hollywood Stories features an amazing, icons and will keep you totally entertained!




The Big Book of Famous People


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Seven Novels


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Collecting Five Weeks in a Balloon, Around the World in Eighty Days, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Round the Moon, Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island, this title offers a compilation of seven of Jules Verne's Voyages.




My [Secret] YouTube Life


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What if your favourite YouTuber's life was a lie? What if you were the one to expose it? YouTuber LilyLoves has an amazing life: a rockstar boyfriend, a totally Insta-worthy London flat and a collection of beauty products that seems to grow daily (thanks, PO Box). Sixteen-year-old Melissa's life is way less amazing – LilyLoves is the only thing getting her through it. She's Lily’s biggest fan and spends hours each night watching her videos and liking her posts. Melissa wants that life for herself – or at least to look like she has it . . . As Melissa starts to grow in confidence – and followers - she discovers a crushing secret about Lily – the ultimate YouTube lie. Does she share Lily’s secret and crush her fame? Or will they both continue to live a lie – both online and off? My [Secret] YouTube Life is the addictive debut novel from Charlotte Seager.




The Importance of Being Famous


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Vanity Fair's veteran special correspondent pulls back the curtain on the world of celebrity and those who live and die there Vanity Fair's Maureen Orth always makes news. From Hollywood to murder trials to the corridors of politics, this National Magazine Award winner covers lives led in public, on camera, in the headlines. Here she takes us close-up into the world of fame--bridging entertainment, politics, and news--and the lives of those who understand the chemistry, the very DNA, of fame and how to create it, manipulate it, sustain it. Moving from former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to Michael Jackson, the ultimate child/monster of show business, Orth describes our evolution from a society where talent attracted attention to a place where the star-making machinery of the "celebrity-industrial complex" shapes, reshapes, and sells its gods (and monsters) to the public. From divas letting their hair down (Tina Turner) to Little Gods (Woody Allen and Princess Diana's almost father-in-law Mohammed Fayed), political theater (Arnold's Hollywood hubris, Arianna Huffington's guru-guided gubernatorial quest), news-gone-soap-opera (I Love Laci), and even the Queen Mother of reinvention (Madonna as dominatrix/children's-book author), Orth delivers a portrait of an era. The Importance of Being Famous shows us the real world of the big room where the rules that govern mere mortals don't matter--and anonymity is a crime.




The Oxford Children's Book of Famous People


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This volume is a guide to the people who matter. It contains the stories of 1000 women and men whose lives have influenced the course of history. Learn about the famous and the infamous - leaders from Genghis Khan to Bill Clinton.




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