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Funny, thought provoking, and always entertaining, personal essayist Marion Winik is known for decades of storytelling on NPR and the stunning memoir First Comes Love. Memory and identity are the focus of this new collection, Guesswork, drawn from a column that has won "Best of Baltimore" from Baltimore magazine several years running.

It begins with a rumor, an exciting whisper. Anything to break the tedium of the harem for the shah's eldest daughter. People speak of a man with a face so vile, it would make a hangman faint, but a voice as sweet as an angel's kiss. A master of illusion and stealth. A masked performer known only as Vachon. For once the truth will outshine the tales. On her birthday the shah gifts his eldest daughter, Afsar, a circus. With the circus comes a man who will change everything.

Sir Hugh takes his secret to the grave with a vicious grin on his lips–a devious grin that is somehow contagious.

Endlich Sommer! Urlaubszeit ist doch einfach die beste Zeit! Tobi und Flora haben eine Kreuzfahrt in einem Online-Preisausschreiben gewonnen. Beide waren noch nie auf einem solchen Schiff und sind sehr beeindruckt von den riesengroßen Dimensionen. Die vielen Läden, die Freizeitangebote, die Bistros und Cafés bringen sie ins Schwärmen. Aufgeregt gehen Tobi und Flora zum ersten Dinner an Bord, da entdecken sie Herrn Debil und seine Frau Wind-Debil. Zu ihrer Verwunderung sind die Debils in Begleitung von zwei sehr merkwürdigen Gestalten: Cyprinus und Procula vom Orden der Letzten von Atlantis. Diese zwei Atlanteer sind Tobi und Flora von Anfang an sehr unheimlich und sie ahnen nichts Gutes...

Rake. Rogue. Scoundrel. Each of these words has been used to describe Damien Largess, youngest prince of Cardenas, most frequently by his ridiculously somber eldest brother. Damien is perfectly content to spend his days drinking at the card tables, and his nights in the bed of his scheming mistress, especially since doing these things seems to vex his high-handed brother to no end. But when he steps into a glittering ballroom on the night of his twenty-fifth birthday, the roguish young prince's life will be forever changed.

Bald findet ein wichtiger Judo-Wettkampf statt. Robins Vater trainiert die Mannschaft und ärgert sich über Robins schlechte Leistung. So gewinnen sie nie! Bei einer Sache ist Robin richtig gut: Origami. Aber davon weiß niemand etwas. Welcher normale Junge in seinem Alter bastelt schon Figuren aus Papier? Doch die Wahrheit kommt heraus und alle machen sich über Robin lustig. Sogar Maxie geht ihm aus dem Weg. Und dabei mag Robin sie doch so sehr. Nun will Robin zeigen, dass er tatsächlich kämpfen kann.

Schon wieder ist es mit der Beschaulichkeit in dem schönen Essing im Altmühltal vorbei, als bei Bauarbeiten ein Skelett ausgegraben wird. Diesmal braucht Dorfkommissarin Mary etwas länger, dem Opfer einen Namen zu geben und ihr Schwiegervater, der Opa, ist ihr eine große Hilfe dabei. Beide werden dadurch in die Vergangenheit versetzt: Die Tote und ihr Bruder waren in den 1950er-Jahren als Magd und Knecht beim wohlhabenden Steininger-Bauern angestellt und verschwanden eines Tages spurlos. Mary und ihr Kollege, der Bär, beginnen zu ermitteln.

True crime and weird stories from the forgotten heartland of South Florida.

Sabine Mahler dachte, sie kann sich um ihre eigenen Angelegenheiten kümmern und die Augen vor den Ereignissen im Dritten Reich verschließen. Doch das ändert sich schlagartig, als die Gestapo Informationen von ihr benötigt. Plötzlich hängt das Überleben ihres Ehemanns von Sabines Bereitschaft ab, mit der Gestapo zusammen zu arbeiten. Schon bald steckt sie mitten in einer Widerstandsorganisation, die Juden aus Nazideutschland schmuggelt. Ihre Aufgabe? Den Anführer finden und ihn ausliefern.

The brooding banker and the Amazing Miss Mischka! Banker Mathew Bond is more used to boardroom antics than circus ones. The king of emotional detachment wouldn't normally foreclose on a loan in person, but Sparkles Circus meant a lot to him once Big mistake! Because feisty Allie (aka the Amazing Mischka) has more acumen than her pink-spangled bodysuit suggests. She won't allow a man in a suit to evict her family, no matter how gorgeous he is! Yet underneath the cold exterior, Allie's about to discover this brooding billionaire's heart of gold....

The story is set in the aftermath of World War One. Paul Harris, still frail after shellshock, returns to his father’s home and to the arms of his secret lover, Adam. He discovers that Margot, the fiancée of his dead brother, is pregnant and marries her through a sense of loyalty. Through Adam he finds work as a schoolteacher; while setting up a home with Margot he continues to see Adam.

A spine-chilling collection of creepy, unsettling and unnerving stories. 'If You See Her Face' by B. M. Croker. 'The Ghost at the Blue Dragon' by William J. Wintle. 'The Shadows' by Henry S. Whitehead. 'The Grey Cat' by Barry Pain. 'The Yellow Globe' by Alexander W. Drake. 'The Devil of the Marsh' by H. B. Marriott-Watson. 'The Spectre Spiders' by William J. Wintle. 'The Curious Vehicle' by Alexander W. Drake. 'Number Ninety' by B. M. Croker. 'The Black Cat' by William J. Wintle. 'The Permanent Stiletto' by W. C. Morrow. 'Passing of a God' by Henry S. Whitehead. 'The Chamber of Doom' by William J. Wintle. 'The White Cat' by Hugh Walpole. 'The Loosened Cord' by Alexander W. Drake. 'Mrs. Brassington-Claypott's Children's Party' by F. Anstey. 'The Inmate of the Dungeon' by W. C. Morrow. 'The Red Rosary' by William J. Wintle. 'Caveat Emptor' by F. Anstey. 'The Former Passengers' by B. M. Croker...and over 20 more unsettling tales.

En bref On Mérite Mieux est un podcast documentaire sur un cercle de parole. Alors qu'on en entend facilement parler, rares sont ceux d'entre nous avec une idée claire de ce que permettent ces espaces. A croire qu'il faut avoir participer à l'un d'entre eux pour comprendre. Et c'est exactement ce qu'On Mérite Mieux vous propose : Infiltrer la vie d'un groupe de parole, de ses premières séances à sa conclusion. Plus de contexte ? Pendant l'automne 2023, dix participants se sont retrouvés toutes les trois semaines pour réfléchir ensemble autour de la thématique de l'anti-patriarcat. ...

Eza lost her father, who was betrayed by her mother. She is on the run. An elf warrior-in-training. She met Dasia, an angel and member of the Order of the Golden Feather - an elite group of angel weapon makers and secret society that is spread throughout the world, smiting fallen angels, vampires, or whoever offends the Lord. One problem. Eza isn’t a huge fan of churches. Or secret societies.

Marion Braschs autobiografischer Roman erzählt die Geschichte einer außergewöhnlichen Familie. Der Vater, konvertierter Jude...

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Francis Marion Crawford, an only child, was born on 2nd August 1854 at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. He was a nephew to Julia Ward Howe, the American poet and writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". Crawford was educated at St Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and then on to Cambridge University, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Rome. In 1879, he went to India, to study Sanskrit and then to edit The Indian Herald. In 1881, he returned to America to continue his Sanskrit studies at Harvard University.

This story chronicles the journey of an 18-year-old young woman who entered an order of teaching nuns in 1952, believing herself to have a religious vocation. After three years of novitiate training, she pronounced vows and was assigned to teach in the elementary grades of parochial schools in New Jersey, Baltimore, Fall River, and New York. During the last two years of her life as a nun, she matriculated in a program of religious studies at Fordham University. There, she enjoyed exposure to many European theologians who proffered enlightened views on religion.

Marijuana 360: Differing Perspectives on Legalization examines the perception of marijuana legalization from the perspective of those who are directly involved in some aspect of legal marijuana. Nancy E. Marion and Joshua B. Hill interweave the interviews from a variety of representatives from different integral groups that have been affected by marijuana legalization, in both states that have legalized or are considering the legalization of marijuana, to get their impressions of the impact the law has made (or will make) in their area.

"Je m'appelle Marion, je fais 1m70 (en talons) et 52 kilos (en rêve). Je suis née en 1980 - une année détestable pour le Bordeaux et franchement pas terrible pour Joe Dassin qui est mort pendant les grandes vacances - et je suis célibataire, mais ça, vous oubliez, ça ne devrait pas durer : je suis enfin décidée à trouver l'homme de ma vie... Seulement les mecs bien, c'est pas comme les métros, il n'en passe pas toutes les quatre minutes."