* The Chinese musical prodigy tells his heartbreaking, dramatic & ultimately triumphant story * Published to tie in with Lang Lang's week-long residency at London's Barbican * The rags-to-riches story of a popular crossover star who regularly tops Classic FM's charts ...

Farmer August King (Jason Patric) hits trouble when he reaches his town to make the final payment on his l&. Two slaves have escaped from Olaf Singletary's (Larry Drake) estate & the people of the town are in a state about it. That night one of the escapees, 17-year-old Annalees Williamsburg (Thandie Newton), runs into August. August decides to help her & hide her from Olaf when he learns that she has been abused by her master
- but in doing so, August is risking everything he owns. Town gossip spreads fast & the word is soon out that someone is harbouring the slaves.
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At the eighth assembly of the World Council of Churches in Zimbabwe in 1998, the powerful political drama entitled 'A Journey of Hope' was the beginning of a pilgrimage of conversion & above all, accompaniment with Africa. This book is a story of people who have vowed never to walk on tiptoe: people who will never again submit to humiliation. ...