From Taraji P Henson Academy Award nominee Golden Globe winner & star of the award-winning film Hidden Figures comes an inspiring & funny memoir-"a bona fide hit" (Essence)-about family friends the hustle required to make it in Hollywood & the joy of living your own truth With a sensibility that recalls her beloved screen characters including Katherine the NASA mathematician Yvette Queenie Shug & the iconic Cookie from Empire Taraji P Henson writes of her family the one she was born into & the one she created She shares stories of her father a Vietnam vet who was bowed but never broken by life's challenges & of her mother who survived violence both at home & on DC's volatile streets Here too she opens up about her experiences as a single mother a journey some saw as a burden but which she saw as a gift Around the Way Girl is also a classic actor's memoir in which Taraji reflects on the world-class instruction she received at Howard University & how she chipped away with one small role after another at Hollywood's resistance to give women particularly women of color meaty significant roles With laugh-out-loud humor & candor she shares the challenges & disappointments of the actor's journey & shows us that behind the red carpet moments she is ever authentic She is at heart just a girl in pursuit of her dreams in this "inspiring account of overcoming adversity & a quest for self-discovery written with vitality & enthusiasm" (Shelf Awareness) ...

Around the World in 80 Cocktails celebrates the globetrotting history of the cocktail through eighty different cocktails
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The eccentric Phileas Fogg is risking his fortune in a race against time With his servant Passepartout he sets out to circle the globe
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With an Introduction & Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal University of Kent at Canterbury Translationsare by Paul Desages (Around the World in Eighty Days) & Arthur Chambers (Five Weeks in a Balloon) JULES VERNE (1828-1905) POSSESSED that rare storyteller's gift of being able to present the far-fetched & the downright unbelievable in such a way as effortlessly to inspire his reader's allegiance & trust This volume contains two of his best-loved yarns chosen from among the sixty-four titles of Les Voyages Extraordinaires Verne's pioneering contribution to the canon of modern science fiction Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg who succeeds
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- in circling the globe within eighty days The dour Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism & versatility of his French manservant Passepartout whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour & suspense to the race against time Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) was Verne's first novel It documents an apocryphal jaunt across the continent of Africa in a hydrogen balloon designed by the omniscient imperturbable & ever capable Dr Fergusson the prototype of the Vernian adventurer

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October 2 1872 Phileas Fogg is asserting that it’s possible to go around the world in 80 days The gentlemen of the Reform Club have made a bet on his failure since they don’t believe this eccentric dandy could ever succeed! However the most troubling part of this story is the strange coincidence between the rash departure of Phileas Fogg accompanied by his loyal valet Passepartout & the theft of 50000 pounds from the Bank of England! The first lady or gentleman to return to London wins the game However since you left the British capital suspected of stealing from Her Majesty’s bank you will have to return to London without any Rumor cards & 10£ or less in your pocket (or rather in your hand) in order to prove your innocence in the eyes of the world! Players will quickly discover that moving too fast drains their wallet just as fast To win you will have to alternate between cautious & ambitious advances waiting for the right moment to return to the city! Around the World in 80 Days is a beautiful & modern republication of the first ever Spiel des Jahres winner (the most prestigious Game of the Year award in 1979) thematically revisited around the timeless & beloved novel of the same name by Jules Verne Players 2-6 Playing time 45-60 minutes Ages 10 ...

Playful retelling of Jules Verne&s classic novel starring Jackie Chan & Steve Coogan Chan plays Passepartout valet to the neurotic time-obsessed English inventor Phileas Fogg (Coogan) who has made a wager with fellow members at his London gentleman&s club that he can traverse the globe in only 80 days using as many kinds of transportation as possible (from boats & trains to hot-air balloons & elephants) Unfortunately the London police have mistakenly identified Fogg as the perpetrator of a bank robbery that took place just before he left the country & a relentless detective is in hot pursuit of the unlikely pair To complicate matters further Passepartout is not what he seems he is in fact notorious Chinese thief Lau Xing & has entered Fogg&s employ for the prinicipal purpose of lying low after stealing a priceless jade Buddha ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Pierce Brosnan & Eric Idle star in this TV miniseries adapted from the classic novel by Jules Verne Phileas Fogg (Brosnan) accepts a wager that he can circle the globe in 80 days but believing him to have robbed the Bank of England a detective sets off after him ...

Sumptuously illustrated with eighty maps from the British Library's unrivalled collection this gorgeous children's book whisks its reader around the globe Like that of Jules Verne's famous hero the journey begins & ends in London plotting an eastwards route with stop-offs at some of the world's most fascinating places There are extraordinary details to pore over as well as stories about how & why these maps were made & by whom Fascinating snippets explore each place in more depth revealing its history famous people landmarks wildlife culture or customs Helpful fact files provide at-a-glance information to broaden geographical knowledge ...

Trees are one of humanity's most constant & most varied companions From India's sacred banyan tree to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon they offer us sanctuary & inspiration
- not to mention the raw materials for everything from aspirin to maple syrup 240 pages Drori Jonathan
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Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout Passing through exotic lands & dangerous locations they seize whatever transportation is at hand
- whether train or elephant
- overcoming set-backs & always racing against the clock

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