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Jim sets off with his friend Rute to meet Jenny, a young woman Rute says is special. Rute breaks a leg in a fall and heads for Frozen, Nevada to heal up with friends and finds himself pursued by three widows intent on matrimony. Jim finds Jenny and frees her from a mayor who wants to marry her. On the way, Jim kills a man in self-defense after stopping him from abusing a waitress. As Jim and Jenny head for Frozen, he must fight off assassins sent by the man's mother.

On the shore of the Sea of Galilee, in the first century Palestine, a spirit possessed a woman, Mary of Magdala—a generous and learned woman of business. Mary drew together a community of outcasts, rescued from lives of poverty and humiliation. Longing for children, she brought into her circle a Greek slave girl, Demetria, and adopted her as a daughter. Though she was a devout Jew, it was natural for Mary to show compassion to all those who were looked upon as "other"—gentile, prostitute, and leper.

Abra Dixon is well educated, fashionable, and married to the perfect man. She also runs a film production company with her childhood friend, Natasha. Abra’s perfect life is suddenly thrown off course when her husband leaves her for a sexy young model.As Abra and Natasha try to find a backer for their latest film, they must navigate the opulent world of directors and investors. But now Abra must learn to be single and strong again. In a world where everyone seems so confident, Abra will need to develop her own definition of success.

In this series of five short stories, Holmes and Watson continue their late investigations into dark crimes in 1920s London, joined by their excitable housekeeper at 221B Baker Street, the brilliant, buxom Miss Lily Hudson, and by Jasper Lestrade of Scotland Yard, the ambitious, respectful son of the late George Lestrade. Thanks to Royal Jelly, Holmes is a fit 72-year-old who has lost his interest in bees and returned to detecting, joining forces again with his colleague and friend, Dr. John Hamish Watson.

Holmes and Watson are plunged into the secret underworld of 1925 London, where a serial killer of musical (gay) men is afoot. The killer has a little list, and Sherlock is on it. Why? And what have the Bloomsbury Group and the Diogenes Club got to do with anything? Thanks to Royal Jelly, Holmes is a fit 71-year-old who has lost his interest in bees and returned to detecting. He's not quite as sharp as he used to be, but he's still pretty sharp, and a bit of a vigilante in his old age.

The new drug of choice, heroin, is pouring into the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. The drug pipeline starts below the border and extends through the northeast US and then to West Virginia and Kentucky. The addicts flock for the new, cheap, stronger high. Many are dying from overdoses. Nearly every family has lost someone to the drugs.

Children have been stolen and taken to Mexico. The Reaper goes after them and rescues all but one girl, who is stolen away. Jim Thornton is pursued by a Ranger turned manhunter and is finally reunited with brother Cal. The slavers send assassins to kill the Reaper. The Rangers are going to Mexico to rescue all the children and wipe out the slavery ring.

The Hoozles are not ordinary toys. When they find a special friend, they all come to life! In Ragbag Friends, Croc is up to something - he's making strange Hoozles out of bits and bobs for the Summertown Fair. Can Willow help the raggedy toys find loving homes?

They're not just toys - they're the magical Hoozles! And every Hoozle needs a special friend...

Frischer Wind in der Welt der Spannungsromane. Janie Jenkins wird im Alter von 16 Jahren für den Mord an ihrer prominenten Mutter für schuldig erklärt. Das Problem: Janie kann sich selbst nicht daran erinnern, was in der Nacht des Mordes geschehen ist. Als sie zehn Jahre später das Gefängnis verlässt, macht sie sich auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit. Eine Spur führt sie in eine verschlafene Provinzstadt in South Dakota, wo sie Stück für Stück die überraschende Vergangenheit ihrer Mutter aufdeckt. Am Ende muss Janie sich entscheiden, ob sie weiter unter falscher Identität vor Presse, Polizei und einem möglichen Mörder fliehen will - oder sich der Wahrheit stellt.

When Alice Andrews, a reporter from Newark, meets Jack Russworm, a Harvard-educated doctor from Boston, she immediately senses they are from different sides of the tracks. As their love and passion develop, they get lots of advice and warnings from friends and family. Can their relationship survive, or will social status push them apart? The landscape of upper class Black Manhattan society gives a thoroughly modern twist to this tough-girl rich-boy love story.

Tammy's mother and stepfather, leave her and her brother, Johnny, home while they attend a class reunion. After Tammy accidently-on-purpose walks in on Johnny at an awkward moment, one thing leads to another and another and another....

Allan Little investigates key moments and issues that brought the EU to the current crisis. In this three-part series, he looks at the transformation of Europe following the fall of the Berlin Wall, probes the failure to enforce the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact and examines new resentments and divisions within the EU exposed by the crisis.

Though we're known as a nation of English speakers, the linguistic map of the United States is hardly monochromatic. While much ado has been made about the role that Spanish may play in our national future, it would be a gross misrepresentation to label America a bilingual country. On the contrary, our languages are as varied as our origins. There is Basque in Nevada, Arabic in Detroit, Gullah in South Carolina. We speak European, Asian, and American Indian languages; we speak creoles, jargons, and pidgins.

Does your faith seem more like a routine than a relationship? Do you know in your heat that God cares about your day-to-day life? Do you want your prayer life to be personal and intimate rather than simply saying words? If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, you need to know.......You can connect with God!

Know Why You Believe is a thinking person's audiobook designed to help you carefully examine the claims of the Christian faith.

A major, best-selling novelist and former magazine editor, long married to a handsome and successful stockbroker with whom she has a beautiful daughter and son, Benilde Little once had every reason to feel on top of the world. But as illness, the aging of her parents, and other hurdles interrupted her seemingly perfect life, she took a tailspin into a pit of clinical depression. Told in her own fearless and wise voice, Welcome to My Breakdown chronicles a cavern of depression so dark that Benilde didn't know if she'd ever recover.

Best-selling author Benilde Little is acclaimed for her funny and compassionate novels. Her Good Hair was selected as one of the 10 best books of 1996 by the Los Angeles Times. In Who Does She Think She Is? she weaves a rich tale of three generations of women. Twenty-six-year-old Aisha is about to wed a wealthy white man. But when she has second thoughts, she, her mother, and her grandmother confront the universal truths that tie lovers and families together.

Menschen mit Einschlafstörungen werden zu 80% aufgrund von psychischen Problemen vom Schlafen abgehalten. Dazu gehören Ängste, ein gesteigertes Sorgenverhalten, Grübelgedanken und psychovegetative Anspannung. Das Einschlaf-Hörbuch der Schlafmedizinerin Dr. Samia Little Elk holt den Zuhörer auf seinem erhöhten Anspannungsniveau ab und führt ihn langsam in die Entspannung hinein, sodass er loslassen und ruhig einschlafen kann. Der Schlafgestörte lernt in der in diesem Hörbuch erzählten Geschichte seinen persönlichen Schlaf-Vogel kennen, der ihn auf sanften Schwingen durch die Nacht und in den Schlaf hineinträgt. Unterstützt wird die beruhigende Stimme der Erzählerin durch die eigens für dieses Hörbuch komponierte Entspannungsmusik, die mit Naturgeräuschen kombiniert wird.

When the four adult sons of recently retired Senator John Bright, and their significant others, join their parents at the family’s Berkshire compound for their mandatory summer vacation, the matriarch Patty decides to hire a documentary filmmaker to memorialize their time together. The Brights, a family of outsized pride, are beautiful, competitive, athletic, and terrible… They have everything they need, except the ability to see themselves clearly. Naturally, they let their guard down.