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This radio dramatization of the classic movie, which also starred Alice Faye, originally aired on November 15, 1943.

Toni Windsor is trying to live a quiet life in the green and pleasant county of Staffordshire. She'd love to finally master the rules of croquet, acquire a decent boyfriend and make some commission as an estate agent. All that might have to wait, though, because there are zombies rising from their graves, vampires sneaking out of their coffins and a murder to solve. And it's all made rather more complicated by the fact that she's the one raising all the zombies.

On the night of Bel’s birthday, at the stroke of midnight, her world goes black. When she wakes, she is thrust into a new and frightening world—the underground Onyx City. It is a place rife with magic and creatures of the night. It is also a place of dark beauty, dangerous intrigue and ruled by a beast—the ruthless vampire prince, Ezra Blade. When Bel makes a desperate attempt to escape her captors, she trespasses through the royal gardens, and is caught by the prince himself. Now, her fate is in his hands.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: when adopted midwife Mariam embarks on a project to protect an abandoned premature baby, she is forced to face her own abandonment years before. Time is running out before the baby is sent to the orphanage. Mysterious characters from the city surrounding the hospital will be crucial in determining the baby's fate, as will a workaholic British doctor with whom Mariam finds herself falling in love.

When Susie finds a picture on her husband Mark's computer depicting an older man with a schoolgirl-looking female, she is shocked, betrayed, horrified, and a little horny. Looking through some of the websites she finds, Susie discovers instructions on 'How to Make Her Your Little Girl' and a plan forms in her mind

As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, pregnancy and maternity services underwent a rapid transformation in an attempt to deal with transmission of the virus and the growing pressure on healthcare services. In a climate of fear, and with many unknowns about the virus and the risks to pregnant women and their babies, restrictions and hastily implemented policies often overrode years of work to improve maternity care, with devastating consequences for new families.

The Elusive Pimpernel is a historical espionage novel. In September 1793 Frenchagent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin journeys to England as an official representative of the French government tasked with looking after the interests of French citizens, but this is only a cover and his real task is to trick Sir Percy Blakeney into returning to France, where he can be apprehended and put to the guillotine.

Une semaine à bord d'un yacht luxueux, à sillonner les eaux du Grand Nord avec seulement une poignée de passagers. Pour Laura Blacklock, journaliste pour un magazine de voyage, difficile de rêver d'une meilleure occasion de s'éloigner au plus vite de la capitale anglaise. D'ailleurs, le départ tient toutes ses promesses : le ciel est clair, la mer est calme et les invités très sélects de l'Aurora rivalisent de jovialité. Mais dès le premier soir, le vent tourne. Laura, réveillée en pleine nuit, voit la passagère de la cabine adjacente être passée par-dessus bord. Le problème ?

Unsettling accounts of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances, the weight of which carry them to an inevitable fate, are presented here by the grim-voiced Father Time. This omniscient and ominous host, portrayed by both Charles Webster and William Conrad, lends the proceedings an appropriate atmosphere of foreboding. The Clock brings you the desperate obsessions, investigations, attractions, nightmares and violence of the underhanded, the unsuspecting, and the insane.

Alzi la mano chi non ha mai dovuto superare un momento difficile o la fine di una storia d’amore, chi non si è mai sentito scoraggiato, demotivato o insicuro, chi non si è mai chiesto come smettere di crearsi problemi e poter finalmente raggiungere la felicità. La soluzione è più semplice di quanto si potrebbe credere: secondo la seguitissima giornalista Brianna Wiest, il trucco è ribaltare la prospettiva, imparando a vedere le difficoltà e gli ostacoli come opportunità di crescita e di conoscenza di sé.

A captivating collection of six stories from Australia's master storyteller Judy Nunn. The Long Weekend, The Wardrobe, The Otto Bin Empire: Clive's Story, Changes, The House on Hill Street and Just South of Rome.

Я воспользовалась вторым шансом, переродившись в юную магичку, но сохранив опыт прожитой жизни. Смогу ли я обжиться в новом мире, влюбить в себя будущего правителя и стать счастливой? Или вляпаюсь в еще большие проблемы?

X è un romanzo e una lettera. Valentina scrive al fratello con cui non parla da anni per raccontargli quello che ne è stato di lei e soprattutto quello che non ha avuto il coraggio di dirgli in passato. Torna all'estate del 2010, l'estate della sua maturità. C'è una festa, alcol e nelle casse la musica degli ZetaZeroAlfa, band di riferimento di CasaPound.

As it turns out, it's entirely possible for the people we've lost to come back to us when we need them the most. Although letting her mother back into her life is not an easy thing, Alice navigates it with humor, intelligence, and honesty. What she learns is that she must revisit her childhood, and allow herself to be a daughter once more, in order to take care of her own girls.

Dieses hochaktuelle Hörbuch gibt wirklich hilfreiche Tipps, wie man Rechtspopulismus erkennt, wie man mit ihm umgeht und vor allem wie man am besten dagegen argumentiert. Es bestärkt junge (und gerne auch ältere) Menschen, eigenständig zu denken, Schlagzeilen zu hinterfragen und angesagte Themen auch mal von einer anderen Perspektive zu betrachten. Vor allem aber wird gezeigt, woran typisch rechtspopulistische Sprachbilder zu erkennen sind und wie man sie elegant und wirksam entkräftet.

Cerys leaves her life behind in a fiery wreck. Lily slips away from hers early one morning, silent as a shadow. Both are mothers, and both are desperate. When the two women are thrown into each other’s paths, they strike a tentative bond. Cerys is a mother with no children to care for anymore, and Lily is doing all she can to take care of a four-year-old on her own. But each keep secrets from the beginning—the scars, the loneliness, and, most importantly, who they actually are. They need to work together to survive, but how can they trust each other?

This rerelease of the popular Stories for a Man's Heart is an enjoyable collection of quotes, humorous stories, and short stories selected just for a man's heart. These uplifting, feel-good, and motivational stories will inspire men to be "all they can be". The book features contributions from many of today's most respected and loved communicators and is divided into sections on virtue, love, motivation, encouragement, fatherhood, sports, legacy, and faith.

When Pandora picks up her older brother, Edison, at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn’t recognize him. The once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened? Soon Edison’s slovenly habits, appalling diet, and know-it-all monologues are driving Pandora and her fitness-freak husband Fletcher insane. After the brother-in-law has more than overstayed his welcome, Fletcher delivers his wife an ultimatum: It’s him or me. Rich with Shriver’s distinctive wit and ferocious energy, Big Brother is about fat: why we overeat and whether extreme diets ever really work.

Imagine on honeymoon, lulled by sultry heat and the promise of a lifetime’s happiness, you discover a shocking secret about your husband. But instead of destroying you, the knowledge brings freedom; the freedom to bare your soul, explore your deepest desires, and discover what you really want. The Bride Stripped Bare is the story of a passionate sexual awakening, as erotic as it is dangerous....

La felicità non capita per caso. La felicità è una decisione. Perché allora la vita contemporanea è segnata da condizioni di ansia, paura, stress, senso di colpa? Secondo la psichiatra Marian Rojas esiste una spiegazione e, soprattutto, una soluzione. In questo libro, già best seller in Spagna, Rojas traccia un quadro completo del nostro mondo psichico.