When Sam Cooke was shot dead in a cheap motel in Hollywood, he was one of America's most successful pop stars. This biography follows Cooke's life in a racist America where his voice was one of the first to reach beyond the segregated audiences and command a white following, Cooke himself becoming a player in the fledgling civil rights movement.
When thirteen-year-old Daniel Wolff first heard Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," it ignited a life-long interest in understanding the rock poet's anger. When he later discovered "Song to Woody," Dylan's tribute to his hero, Woody Guthrie, Wolff believed he'd uncovered one source of Dylan's rage. Sifting through Guthrie's recordings, Wolff found "1913 Massacre"--A song which told the story of a union Christmas party during a strike in Calumet, Michigan, in 1913 that ended in horrific tragedy. Following the trail from Dylan to Guthrie to an event that claimed the lives of seventy-four men, women, and children a century ago, Wolff found himself tracing the history of an anger that has been passed down for decades. From America's early industrialized days, an epic battle to determine the country's direction has been waged, pitting bosses against workers and big business against the labor movement. In Guthrie's eyes, the owners ultimately won; the 1913 Michigan tragedy was just one example of a larger lost history purposely distorted and buried in time. In this cultural study, Wolff braids three disparate strands--Calumet, Guthrie, and Dylan--together to create a revisionist history of twentieth-century America. Grown-Up Anger chronicles the struggles between the haves and have-nots, the impact changing labor relations had on industrial America, and the way two musicians used their fury to illuminate economic injustice and inspire change [Publisher description]
Auf den 'Naturheiltagen' in Hannover treffen alternative Heilpraktiker und Esoteriker aufeinander, was zu Spannungen führt. Nach einem lebensgefährlichen Anschlag auf eine Tiertelepathin und dem Fund eines Skeletts beginnt Sonia Assmer, eine Werbeassistentin, im Umfeld der Betroffenen zu ermitteln und entdeckt zahlreiche Verdächtige.
Sonia Assmer, Werbeassistentin, ermittelt nach dem plötzlichen Tod eines Messemitarbeiters und dem beinahe tödlichen Vorfall eines Fernsehkochs während der 'Consuma'. Bei ihren Nachforschungen stößt sie auf gefährliche Geheimnisse und bringt sich selbst in Lebensgefahr.
Am Eröffnungstag der Computermesse in Hannover stürzt eine Messemitarbeiterin tödlich und ein Wachmann wird angegriffen. Die Doktorandin Theresa Nandes wird verdächtigt, doch die Werbeassistentin Sonia Assmer glaubt an ihre Unschuld und beginnt zusammen mit dem Journalisten Alex eigene Ermittlungen.