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Anne Virginia Culbertson who was born in Ohio in 1864, traveled around Virginia and North Carolina in the post-war years interviewing black Southerners to collect and publish their folk tales. The Woman Who Married an Owl is such a folk tale, written in dialect, about a woman’s encounter with an owl. It is told as a bedtime story by Aunt ‘Phrony to three children, and contains references to Cherokee words.

While on a business trip to Las Vegas, Lauren Bradley’s coworker is murdered - and she’s identified as the police’s number one suspect. With a shaky alibi and the evidence mounting against her, she places a desperate call to her boss. She and Brent set out to find the real killer, but nothing is as it seems in this city. Their only lead is a chance encounter with a troop of entertainers. Together, Lauren and Brent uncover an illegal operation that stretches all the way back home to Atlanta. Can they expose the desperate killer before one of them becomes the next victim?

A devastating tsunami is heading towards the Cornish coast. With no early warning and limited means of escape, many people won’t get away in time. While the terrifying reality of the news hits home, one young woman posts a message on Facebook: ‘With nowhere to run to, I’m heading to my favourite beach to watch the sunset, who wants to join me?’ A small group of people follow her lead and head towards the beach; each of them are harbouring their own stories - and their own secrets.

This is the story my mom, Helen Kaczor, told her six children. We then went on to tell her 17 grandchildren. We each had fun embellishing the details, but the moral stays the same.

Er könnte alles verlieren, auch sein Herz... Aiden Kelley ist ein milliardenschwerer CEO und liebt Planung über alles. Doch sein extravagantes Leben wird auf den Kopf gestellt, als seine Exfreundin mit einer Zehnjährigen auftaucht, die seine Tochter sein soll. Hilfe muss her, denn er weiß nicht, wie er sich plötzlich um ein Kind kümmern soll. Die einzige Frau, die Aiden helfen könnte, ist ausgerechnet seine persönliche Assistentin Chelsea Houston - die gerade gekündigt hat.

Ein Streuner mehr oder weniger, was ist da schon dabei, denkt Paula, als sie die Ausreißerin in ihrer Scheune entdeckt. Besser, als sich den Kopf über einen bestimmten Tierarzt zu zerbrechen. Die dreizehnjährige Leslie traut ihrem Glück nicht. Kann es wirklich sein, dass sie bei der netten Frau mit dem großen Herz und den wundervollen Tieren, wo sie zufälligerweise gelandet ist, eine neue Familie gefunden hat? Der Tierarzt Nate hingegen kämpft mit eigenen Problemen.

Sam is an ordinary teenage girl. She is going to high school and hanging out with her loving family, when World War Three breaks out. This war is not a conventional war, where two nations are fighting one another for land or superiority. It is a war made and planned out by all world leaders. Not to take control, but to save the planet.

The thinking woman's Fifty Shades, Polarity is the story of Dr. Sara Jane Spencer, MD, an attractive middle-aged woman in search of love and a life partner who shares her interest in alternate sexuality. Erotic and intelligently written, Polarity offers an authoritative exploration of consensual domination and submission between sexual partners. A must-listen for any man who wants to fulfill his woman’s deepest, darkest dreams and a primer for how to become the superior man that every woman desires.

NBC University Theater initially started in Chicago with a remit to bring adaptations of classic novels, usually Anglo-American, to a radio audience. In its later years, it also included short stories and plays and went on to win the distinguished Peabody award. University Theater relied on excellent distillations of the novels and first-class acting alongside high production values.

Jolly is 17. She can't really spell. She doesn't have much of a job. And she has two little kids from two different, absent fathers. Jolly knows she can't cope with Jilly and Jeremy all by herself. So she posts a notice on the school ­bulletin board: BABYSITTER NEEDED BAD. No one replies but Verna LaVaughn, who's only 14. How much help can she be? For a while, Jolly, Jilly, Jeremy, and LaVaughn are an extraordinary family. Then LaVaughn takes the first steps toward building her own future, and Jolly begins the long, slow process of turning the lemons of her life into lemonade.

Virginia Woolf's second novel is both a love story and a subversive comedy which questions the role of women in society. Contemplating their futures, five single people in their late 20s and early 30s are immobilized by indecision. Questions like who, when, and whether to marry, the changing roles of men and women in a rapidly changing world, and matters of independence versus family obligations come to the fore.

Mit Männern hat man nichts als Ärger, findet Kat. Hunde sind da eine viel bessere Wahl. Kein Wunder floriert ihr Hundesalon in Seattle. Als ihre zwei besten Freunde nacheinander nach Independence, Colorado ziehen, beschließt sie jedoch, es den beiden gleich zu tun. Sie freut sich darauf, ihr Leben in der Kleinstadt einzurichten und mit ihrer Bordeaux-Dogge Rocky die Umgebung zu erkunden. Der einzige Störfaktor in ihren Plänen ist der arrogante Hockeyspieler Sam, der sie permanent zur Weißglut treibt. Da hilft auch nicht, dass er aussieht wie ein nordischer Gott.

A party of English people is aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, a young girl, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society, books, sex, love and marriage. She is a free spirit half-caught, momentarily and passionately, by Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer who she meets in Santa Marina. But their engagement is to end abruptly, and tragically. Virginia Woolf's first novel, published in 1915, is a haunting exploration of a young woman's mind.

Love My Magic Hair is the fourth book in the Trinity Adventures series. It is a delightful story following a little girl, Trinity, who doesn't care that her naturally curly hair is different. She changes her hairstyle every day and loves it. Trinity's friends, Sydney, Sofía, and Paige, are fascinated with her hair, calling her hair magic. Discover the real magic as Trinity encourages and inspires her friends to be the best they can be while sharing ideas and embracing differences.

"Quando il ragazzo, poiché, ahimè, era certo un ragazzo - nessuna donna sui pattini sarebbe mai stata così veloce e potente - gli sfrecciò accanto quasi sulle punte, a momenti Orlando si strappò i capelli per la rabbia che quella persona fosse del suo stesso sesso e quindi ogni abbraccio fosse fuori discussione". Orlando è la biografia scherzosa di un giovane nobile dai lineamenti androgini, che si reincarna rocambolescamente in varie forme attraverso quattro secoli della storia inglese, dall'epoca Elisabettiana fino al '900.

Dalla postfazione di Mario Fortunato: "Orlando è la biografia che diventa romanzo di un eroe che diventa un'eroina e che vive parecchi secoli. Non ci vuole molto a capire che il suo tema non è l'immortalità né il sesso né la letteratura né Vita Sackville-West a cui il libro è dedicato. Il tema è piuttosto lo slittamento o, meglio ancora, la metamorfosi: di un corpo nell'altro, di un sesso nell'altro, di un genere nell'altro.

Scandal drove Catrina Wittmer from her life as a wealthy Englischer's pampered daughter - to reluctant membership in Pennsylvania's thriving new Amish settlement. Surprisingly, Catrina finds contentment and peace in this promising new land, though she won't risk telling anyone about her past. But the unexpected sparks between her and bashful warm-hearted farmer Eli Weber suddenly have her dreaming of an impossible chance at happiness - as his wife.

Ein Unfall hat die Karriere von Starballerina Tyler abrupt beendet. Um ihre körperlichen und seelischen Wunden zu lecken und herauszufinden, wie sie ohne ihr geliebtes Tanzen weitermachen soll, kehrt sie zu ihrer Familie nach Independence, einer Kleinstadt in Colorado, zurück. Dass ausgerechnet Pat, ihr einziger One-Night-Stand, inzwischen in die Stadt gezogen ist, macht ihr das Leben nicht leichter. Pat hingegen freut sich über das Wiedersehen, ist Tyler ihm doch nie aus dem Kopf gegangen.

Wünsche und Karma sind so eine Sache. Eben hat sich Jaz, Vegetarierin, Yogalehrerin und Hundefreundin, mehr Abwechslung in ihrem Leben gewünscht und im nächsten Moment fliegen ihr Kugeln um die Ohren. Nachdem selbst der Polizei von Seattle nicht zu trauen ist, flüchtet sie zu ihrer Großmutter nach Independence, Colorado und lässt Job und betrügerischen Freund hinter sich. Nur Königspudel Rambo nimmt sie mit auf ihre Reise.

Whether you’re a CEO or a grunt in the mail room, who you believe you are determines what you achieve. Steve Jobs understood this principle from his study of Zen Buddhism. By following its precept of “Beginner’s Mind”, he cut through the resistance to new ideas and his inventions became the cornerstone for the world’s first trillion-dollar company. An extension of that concept means having the courage to accept “what is, is”, or being “accountable” for one’s results, positive or negative.