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Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor. Unexpectedly, he met and fell in love with a renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. Their relationship and marriage, navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood, parenthood, and loss, lasted almost forty years. When Joan died in 2021, her final challenge to him was to find a “pocketful of happiness in every day.”

Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions. Prominent White families dress up in hoopskirts and Confederate uniforms for ritual celebrations of the Old South, yet Natchez is also progressive enough to elect a gay Black man for mayor with 91 percent of the vote.

One of the most ideal businesses for those who are just starting out is Airbnb hosting. If you have a property investment, a vacant room, or even just an extra bedspace, you can become an Airbnb host. In fact, more than four million people are currently doing it, and Airbnb says it will need millions more in the coming years. As the world opens up again, and demand for travel picks up, it’s the perfect time to jump into this industry. With insider knowledge from a successful long-time Airbnb host, you can skip over the trial and error, and go directly into doing what works.

A gripping novel of historical espionage, about an 11th-hour attempt by members of the German elite to unseat Adolf Hitler, and its endlessly complex consequences. In late 1937, the young lieutenant Oskar Langweil is recruited to this cause while attending a party at the lavish home of a baroness. A high-ranking officer in Germany's counterintelligence agency brings Oskar into the fold because of their mutual involvement in a patriotic youth league, and soon dispatches him to Washington, DC.

Richard E. Grant’s life changed almost overnight when he was cast as the lead in Withnail & I in 1986. He kept a diary of the experience, the bestselling With Nails, and now it is published for the first time in audio, read by the author. Funny and revealing, told with trademark candour, join Richard E. Grant on the shoot of a lifetime.

Here are the very personal diaries of Richard E. Grant's debut behind the camera, as writer and director of his autobiographical movie of the same name.

It is both a fascinating insight into the intrigues and agonies he encounters along the way, and also a deeply moving portrait of his childhood and his love affair with Swaziland, where he was born and brought up during the last throes of the British Empire.

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses; Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; The Lord's Supper and the Lord's Prayer; The Good Samaritan, the Parable of the Sower, and 12-step recovery programs all make an appearance in this amazing scriptural expository of the Myers-Briggs personality types. (And believe it or not, Captain Kirk, Scotty, Bones, and Spock pop in to make important points as well!) You'll feel as though you're staring into the mirror of your life.

This book will teach you how to achieve weight loss through intermittent fasting. It is beginner-friendly and written with simple terminologies for everyone to enjoy. It also contains detailed explanations of other weight-loss strategies that complement intermittent fasting, which you can incorporate to rapidly lose weight.