Popular Literature

From growing up in Detroit, where he marched as a 10-year-old with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to attending the inauguration of President Barack Obama, where he narrowly avoided the Purple Tunnel of Doom but still saw nothing, David Alan Grier examines how he - and America - have changed for the better and the funnier.

Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other.

Twenty hours of the very best of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories.

Was defeating the monsters under the seas of Europe the end of Zaena's worries? Well, no. She knows the worst battle will come at the Night Elves' abandoned enclave. Is it possible the demise of the Night Elves was exaggerated? Something is bringing back creatures that hadn't threatened humanity since elves walked among them. Zaena and Team Princess confront threats all over the country, but how can a warrior be prepared if she doesn't know what she might face?

Rondalles contades a la vora del foc és una selecció de 7 de les moltes rondalles de la tradició popular catalana que van ser recollides de la literatura oral pròpia, i de les tradicions d'altres països, per diferents autors i en diferents moments als inicis del segle xx. Els textos seleccionats provenen de diverses publicacions de l'època i s'han actualitzat per tal d'apropar-los al públic infantil del segle XXI , sobretot a nivell de continguts i només en els casos en què l'argument ho requeria.

All Phoebe Sharpe wanted was to start over at a new college to escape the drama and humiliation of her mom's sordid past. But her present is hardly less complicated. To avoid sleeping on the streets, Phoebe seeks sanctuary at a 24-hour gym. When she meets the smoking-hot Tiago, her desire to remain anonymous disappears. Fortis University kicker Tiago Trindade has more on his plate than the average college sophomore. He's trying to keep his GPA high enough to maintain his football scholarship while balancing practice and a job at the local gym to help support his family.

Mark certainly knows Bill Cromwell, whom he meets officially when his father volunteers him for manual labor at the school. Bill is his polar opposite: outgoing, gregarious, athletic. But when a massive snowstorm traps the two boys together for three days, Mark learns that being popular doesn't mean you can't be bullied or abused - or gay. And that bullying doesn't stop at the school doors. And that bullying doesn't stop at the school doors.

Mr Punch Presents: It’s a Wonderful Life, the irresistibly heart-warming story of George Bailey, who is prevented from committing suicide by the elderly angel Clarence, who takes him on a journey back through his life to show him how the town of Bedford Falls would have been had he never lived. Originally directed by the celebrated Frank Capra, it is performed here for radio with James Stewart, Victor Moore and Donna Reed recreating their original roles.

Mr Punch Presents: It Happened One Night, the winner of five Oscar’s including Best Picture is Frank Capra’s classic romantic comedy, telling the story of a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) who falls in love with a cynical reporter (Clark Gable) on a cross-country bus trip across America.

Наверное только дети умеют не просто слушать сказки, но проживать их вместе с героями, примеряя на себя поочередно все роли. Кто из девочек не мечтал стать принцессой, и какой мальчик не представлял себя сказочным принцем, одним махом расправляющимся со всеми злодеями.

A delightful and humorous diary account from Bix, a plain Jane from a struggling family trying to outdo and steal the third-grade classroom stage from Valerie, whose mother is a famous author. Miss Popular may be a wheelchair-user, but she knows how to charm the classroom, and her pink bejeweled wheelchair rules.

Liam "Mr. Popular" Carter will always be the closest thing to the "walking plague" in my eyes. His cockiness seeps through his every move, and no matter how many state championships he wins with the basketball team, he will forever be a "loss" to me. Because he's my older brother's best friend, I'm forced to tolerate him, and he's forced to tolerate me. In fact, unless my brother is around, we happily ignore each other every chance we get. It wasn't always this way, though....

La Primera República, 1873-1874, que acabó con el pronunciamiento de Martínez Campos y la restauración borbónica, y la Segunda República, de abril de 1931 hasta el inicio de la dictadura franquista, son dos épocas históricas vinculadas entre sí que guardan muchas de las claves para entender e interpretar nuestro presente ya que fundamentos ideológicos de la política actual tienen muchas de sus raíces en aquellos sucesos que marcaron definitivamente unos profundos cambios sociales.

Fantástica aventura reinventada a partir de la canción popular "¡Estaba el señor Don Gato, sentadito en su tejado maramamiau, miau, miau...!". Nuestro querido y conocido personaje es un gato que vive debajo del coche de la Señora Laura pero su lugar preferido del vecindario de La Fortuna es el tejado de la casa de los niños Dani y Mónica ¡Cómo le gusta su tejado al señor Don Gato! Un día, Don Gato recibe una carta.

"La salchicha que no quería ser asada", "Los piojitos de la princesa", "La grave enfermedad", "El pequeño lischen y la luna", "El gran espanto", "La mirilla" y "Federiquillo el mentiroso".

"El castillo de iras y no volverás", "El pandero de piel de piojo", "El príncipe desmemoriado" y "El cristo del convite".

"Alí Baba y los cuarenta ladrones", "El soldadito de plomo", "La gaita maravillosa", "La dama del lago", y "La princesita que fue convertida en almendro".

"La Ratita Presumida", "El Sapo y el Ratón", "Los Zapatos de Hierro", "Pereza y Testarudez", y "El Príncipe Tomasito y San José".

"El patín de ruedas", "El caballito blanco hühü", "La buena ardilla", "El agujero en la manga", "El bosque de los cuentos", "El anillito del elfo", "El hada de los deseos", y "La niña de la caja de cristal".

FEAT DESCDescubre con tus hijos los 25 cuentos más mágicos de Perú. Una selección de las historias más entrañables para prosperar mirando al pasado y al futuro. Lo mejor de las tradiciones y las costumbres peruanas para los más pequeños con música de banda sonora, voces de cine y efectos de sonido. Son perfectos tanto para escuchar en casa antes de dormir como en el coche.