Mehr als zwölf Jahre sind vergangen seit den letzten Abenteuern der ehemaligen Wanderhure Marie. Sie und ihr Mann Michel Adler leben zwar immer noch auf Burg Kibitzstein, doch ihr Gönner, der Fürstbischof, ist gestorben, und seinem Nachfolger Gottfried sind die beiden ein Dorn im Auge. Besonders Maries Tochter Trudi bekommt die Auswirkungen dieses Konflikts hautnah zu spüren...

1428: Marie ist wieder schwanger - was leider auch ihre Todfeindin Hulda mitbekommt, die ebenfalls in anderen Umständen ist, und deshalb einen perfiden Plan schmiedet: Sie lässt Marie entführen und täuscht ihren Tod vor. Als Marie einen Jungen zur Welt bringt, nimmt Hulda diesen an sich und übergibt ihr stattdessen ihre Tochter und schickt beide zu dem Handelsherrn Fulbert Schäfflein, der sie als Sklavin verkauft...

Die ehemalige Wanderhure Marie führt als Frau des Burghauptmanns Michel ein angenehmes Leben am Rhein. In Böhmen aber tobt ein Krieg, in dem Michel nach einem Scharmützel für tot erklärt wird. Marie, die nach zehn Ehejahren endlich schwanger geworden ist, gilt nun als Witwe. Doch sie glaubt nicht an Michels Tod und geht, als Marketenderin verkleidet, auf die Suche nach ihm...

Die Äbtissin Isabelle de Melancourt hütet in ihrem Waldkloster ein Geheimnis. Leopold von Gordean und seine Ordensritter sind überzeugt, dass es sich um das Versteck des heiligen Grals handelt. Sie überfallen das Kloster, bringen einige Nonnen um und nehmen Isabelle und die anderen gefangen. Die Novizin Justina entkommt ihnen und macht sich in Isabelles Auftrag auf den Weg, den Würzburger Fürstbischof Johann von Brunn um Hilfe zu bitten. Die Schergen des Großmeisters holen sie ein und wollen sie töten. Da greifen die ehemalige Wanderhure Marie und ihr Mann Michel ein.

Der neue Fürstbischof von Würzburg trachtet nach der Herrschaft über Kibitzstein. Um dies zu verhindern, geht die ehemalige Wanderhure Marie ein Bündnis mit dem thüringischen Grafen Ernst von Herrenroda ein und folgt der Einladung auf dessen Burg. Doch die Burg wird überfallen, alle Bewohner bis auf Marie, ihre Tochter Trudim und eine mit dem Grafen verwandte, schwer verletzte Nonne werden niedergemetzelt. Nach und nach begreift Marie, dass sie mitten in die erbitterte Fehde zweier Thüringer Adelsgeschlechter geraten sind.

When mystery author D. B. Ziegler is late delivering her book, Abi Schore steps in to help. Surely she can give her favorite author moral support over the holiday break and get the manuscript to her boss at Tea & Sympathy Publishing in time for the new year. When Abi shows up on Ms. Ziegler’s doorstep bearing holiday treats, she’s met by the author’s handsome grandson Dov, who reveals a startling plot twist. His grandmother isn’t able to finish the book and Dov promised he’d complete it so fans won’t be disappointed—a task that’s harder than he ever imagined.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on illegal drugs. But Heather would never consider doing anything like that. That is, until her longtime boyfriend dumps her, she finds herself failing anatomy, and her world starts to crumble.

Tilly Farriday isn’t feeling very jolly this season. Recently divorced and broke, she’s squatting in one of her rental agency’s properties until her new home is ready. The sprinkles on top of the burnt Christmas cookie that is her life? The new owner shows up early, forcing Tilly to hide in the attic to save her job…and what remains of her dignity.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

Oakland-bred LaVeesha “Vee” Gilliam (Coco Jones) is a determined single mother of an autistic son and a gifted aspiring coder. When Vee loses her job as a food-services worker at the onsite restaurant at Grapengine, a large Silicon Valley tech company, she’s unable to pay for her son’s much-needed specialized education. By a twist of fate, mistaken identity, and her tech skills, Vee meets Troy Wilson (Keith Powers), the company’s wealthy founder and CEO and a wunderkind in the tech industry, who believes that Vee is a college-educated techie who works at his company.

As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio. From the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow to the tortured spirits of M.R. James, from Edgar Allan Poe’s terrifying tale of a doppelganger to Charlotte Riddell’s Open Door that should definitely stay shut, join Stephen as he tells you some truly terrifying tales.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.

Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job.