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Unable to approach her own long-buried history of loss and displacement, Historian Joan Severance takes refuge in the cool library rooms and the crumbling probate lists from Renaissance times. As Joan's disturbed, hyperintuitive mind falls increasingly under the spell of Valparuta and the charismatic resident archivist, Chiesa, a beautifully dressed heroin addict, she is forced to confront her long-submerged past.

Olivia Streete is a corporate lawyer out to find the truth. What starts out as a simple job working for the millionaire Paddy Cornish turns into a dangerous game of cat and mouse as she is pulled into a family feud and a vendetta in the international art world. After a body is found and she is threatened, Olivia is forced to risk her own life to search for the killer before they strike again.

When an MI6 operation in Belarus goes wrong and a key asset is killed, Agent Blackhawk has to go under cover to break a crime and espionage ring in Eastern Europe. Then an expert in biological warfare disappears from a British safe house in Denmark and needs to be found before a Russian assassination team finds him. The attacks are coming from all sides—but will she and her team all survive?

Sean Cardinal O'Malley explains why evangelization is at the heart of our faith and that there is a mandate to share the Gospel with the world. Passing on the faith is not an option but an imperative. In every century, believers have to hand on the faith to the next generation and at the same time offer the wisdom of the Church to a world that is content with foolishness. Drawing upon the scriptures, philosophy, and literature, he illustrates how this passing on the faith is ultimately God's enterprise.

Gabby Lane is a Senior Field Agent in British Intelligence. When she is sent on an undercover operation to kill Europe's largest arms dealer and find a British spy who has disappeared, she discovers that the two men are connected and are part of the criminal gang who are stealing western weapons.

Nora has always been the odd duck in her squad of three - a trait that never bothered her before. But now that Lucy and Addy are going off to college and Nora is stuck in Delinki, she's ready to find her match. Which is why her senior year goal is to score a serious relationship by prom. Step one: Hit the dating scene. Step two: Keep the loyal guy friend on the sidelines as an escape plan. Step three: Do not get caught kissing the escape plan!

A spectacular collection of classic ghost stories from some of the masters of spooky fiction. 'On the Brighton Road' by Richard Middleton; 'A Ghost Story' by Mark Twain; 'The Everlasting Club' by Arthur Gray; 'The Snow' by Hugh Walpole; 'Rose Rose' by Barry Pain; 'The Ghost Ship' by Richard Middleton; 'The Bus Conductor' by E. F. Benson; 'The Tarn' by Hugh Walpole; 'The Diary of Mr. Poynter' by M. R. James.

Olivia Streete is a corporate lawyer out to find the truth. When she arrives back from America one evening, she has a message from her boss, Richard Carlisle, to meet him urgently. He needs her to fly to Paris and save a corporate deal. Max, who was working on it, has disappeared after apparently killing a man.

Featuring two classic horror stories that are sure to send shivers up your spine, Frightful Tales includes "The Night Wire", a story of a small town overrun by a horrible, animated fog and the night wireman who observes helplessly as unspeakable acts occur, and "Rats", a story of a deserted room at an out-of-the-way inn, and the young man who dares to enter.

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.

A portrait of one of the greatest American food writers of the 20th century, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, whose writing transcended recipes and reviews to probe our deep-seated relationship to our appetites. Assembled from diaries, journalism, and short stories, Kelly Nespor's play creates a vivid tableau of the life of this preeminent and influential gourmet.

There's a mole in MI6. Gabby Lane is a Senior Field Agent in British Intelligence. She is suspected of being the traitor and she has to go off-grid when she is framed by the real double agent. Her undercover life has given her a dangerous enemy who is out to kill her. She must contact the people she trusts and bring them together to clear her name and stay alive before her luck runs out. This is the first Blackhawk novel in the series. Follow Gabby's adventures in MI6 across Europe.

En este podcast abordamos algunas cuestiones relevantes para el futuro del feminismo. ¿Cuál es la raíz de la división dentro del movimiento feminista? ¿Qué es y cómo se manifiesta el sexismo en nuestras sociedades? ¿Qué hacemos con la violencia machista? ¿Qué está pasando con el aborto y los derechos reproductivos? ¿Qué implicaciones tienen la igualdad y la diversidad como reivindicaciones políticas? Este podcast está inspirado en el curso gratuito online de la plataforma Coursera Feminismo, Género y Política dirigido por Eva Anduiza, Maria Freixanet y Margarita León e ...

Venskabsprinsessen Twilight Sparkle rejser til Krystalslottet for at deltage i sit allerførste prinsessetopmøde. Men hendes krone bliver stjålet, og både den og tyven forsvinder ind gennem en magisk portal til en helt anden dimension. Twilight er nødt til at rejse gennem portalen for at få sin krone tilbage, for et af Harmoniens Elementer sidder i den. Men den anden verden er helt anderledes, end Twilight nogensinde kunne have forestillet sig. Også selv om en del af de fremmede skabninger minder om hendes gode venner hjemme fra Equestria.

Saturn. The Ringed Planet. Harbinger of ideas and wonder. The planet that gave birth to the modern era of science envisioning the myriad of multi-colored rings circling the planet, one of the reasons for the invention of the telescope, and the second largest in our solar system. These are the stories of Saturn, the great Titan. Tales of time, age, and endings.

The first short story - "The Tomb of Sara" - was written by English navy officer, and writer, Frederick George Loring. It was one of the very first stories from the last century featuring a lady vampire. The feminine element represents the connection with "Luella Miller" by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. The inhabitant of a haunted house sucks life out of everyone who gets interested in her - and the atmosphere gets denser throughout the story.

Ein dunkles Geheimnis der Habsburger. Ein verloren geglaubter Schatz. Eine atemlose Jagd in die Vergangenheit. Der Thriller "Der Stein des Schicksals" führt Tom Wagner und Hellen de Mey in die dunkle Vergangenheit der Habsburger und zu einem Schatz, der seit langer Zeit verschollen scheint. Durch halb Europa geht die atemlose Jagd und die Überraschung am Ende bleibt nicht aus: Eine Verschwörung, die in den letzten Tagen des ersten Weltkriegs ihren Anfang nahm, reicht bis in die heutige Zeit!

Open City, Closed Set is a comic thriller set in Hollywood during World War II and follows Roberto Balio, an Italian spy sent to the California coast to investigate his predecessor’s disappearance. Roberto, a charming, handsome man with an innate ability to be trusted, becomes mesmerized by the bright lights of Hollywood, the allure of its beautiful women, and the promise of fame and fortune.

Musings is an extensive anthology of poems written by the author over a period of some forty years. Now, the collection is recast anew. In this new volume, the author invites the listener to join him on a journey of times, places, and scenes, both real and imaginary. This is the author's invitation as the book opens.

It's Christmastime in London. When a body is found on the tracks at Clapham Junction Railway Station, the widow asks Olivia Streete to help find the killer. But after she stirs up a hornet's nest of corruption and murder from 15 years ago and two other terrible accidents happen, Olivia has to race to find the killer through the snow on Hampstead Heath before they can catch her.