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After 25 years in prison for a senseless juvenile murder, Gordon Loomis returns to a changed world. His old neighborhood is blighted by drug dealers and neglected property. His brother, Dennis, a successful oral surgeon, tries to help but is torn by his own fears and failings. Gordon's persistent visitor, the flamboyant Delores Dufault yearns to be part of his new life, but he is as afraid of relationships as he is of being sent back to jail.

Jack Frey was a street thief, saved from the gallows and forced to join a mysterious order of warrior priests known as the Black Dogs. Their mission is to keep the country of Abios safe from the flesh-eating demons known as the Nostros. But the Black Dogs have other enemies. Before Jack can take his vows and become a Black Dog, he's asked to help on a simple mission. He thinks it's an easy job, but he soon discovers the war is closer to home than he thought.

Mystery writers and church ladies derail on a cross-country train, chuffing with intrigue, shenanigans, and romance. Too bad Sandra can’t concentrate on honing her writing. Or purifying her heathen soul. Because, she keeps discovering dead bodies. Sandra has an aversion to a particular detective Lt. Hottie. She can’t let things get stirred up with him again. Because of what she did during the hurricane.

Daniel Bradford, a poor young Brit, is separated in a cruel twist of fate from his sister, Lyna, and left to rot in the infamous Dartmoor Prison. His only hope for escape comes when he agrees to a seven-year indenture in America. But he discovers he had traded one imprisonment for another under a cruel and exacting master, Sir Leo Rochester.

Plato. Socrates. Aristotle. Confucius. Thomas Aquinas. Hundreds, even thousands of years later, the names of the great philosophers remain legendary, their ideas continuing to captivate minds, stimulate thought, and shape the course of human history.But what are those ideas? Why are they still impacting the way people think, understand, and act? Most importantly, how can they help you to live a happier, better, more fulfilling life today?

Aldeburgh, 1972. The local community is devastated by the accidental death of a local fisherman. Another tragedy to add to the recent murders of three young women. Soon, Laurel Bowman, Frank Diamond and the rest of the Anglian Detective Agency are pulled in to investigate another complex and dangerous case. But one of them is convinced that the fisherman's death is not an accident and they'll do anything to prove it. Even risk breaking up the agency.

Eine neue Heimat, eine neue Hoffnung ... und ein neuer Feind. Brandon Q. Morris erzählt die Besiedlung des Mars als großes Abenteuer der Menschheit. 2058. Eine Künstliche Intelligenz hat mithilfe von Robotern den Bau einer Marskolonie beendet, in der bald die ersten hundert Menschen wohnen sollen. Da die kosmische Strahlung während der langen Reise und später auf dem Planeten das Erbgut der ersten Generation von Mars-Menschen irreparabel schädigen wird, entscheidet man sich für Astronauten und Astronautinnen im fortgeschrittenen Alter.

Parents Tim and Caroline Morris review movies based on their family-friendliness. Join them as they cover topics like violence and gore, language, relational themes, substance usage, and more.For more resources from Family Movie Night, visit fammovienights.com!

Welcome to Juggling the MotherLoad! An everyday take on dealing with the multitude of balls that life at us…and the odd piece of advice on how to deal with them all! I'm your host, Laura Morris, & I have spent the last few years dabbling in blogging but have had this burning desire to start a pod. So, here I am with JTML. This is NOT a pod solely about Motherhood, but more about life in general. It's verbalising, dealing with & finding ways to overcome the hectic/intense/challenging/heart breaking/{Insert your own adjective} elements that life throws our way everyday. I hope you enjoy!

Una conmovedora historia de superación en la Segunda Guerra Mundial contada con la maestría de la autora de El tatuador de Auschwitz. Cuando lo perdieron todo, el destino las unió. El 14 de febrero de 1942, el Vyner Brooke, un barco mercante que transportaba a un grupo desesperado de expatriados que huían de Singapur fue hundido por bombarderos japoneses. Aunque muchos de los pasajeros se ahogaron de inmediato, Nesta, enfermera australiana y Norah sobrevivieron milagrosamente pero fueron tomadas como prisioneras de guerra y trasladadas a campos.

Xenophon's The Art of Horsemanship is a highly unusual text in the corpus of Classical Greek literature. It is a short survey on the various aspects of care for horses as seen by a highly experienced rider from the 5th century BCE. It is particularly notable because so many of its observations are relevant to the modern rider. Xenophon, friend of Socrates and professional soldier, is best known as the author Anabasis, the vivid account of a failed military expedition deep into Persia.

In London, 1858, women of British nobility are being murdered with alarming frequency, so Scotland Yard calls on Lady Serafina Trent and her crime-solving partner, Dylan Tremayne, to help piece together the perplexing clues. With Dylan's help, Serafina has garnered acclaim as a brilliant detective—solving mysteries by relying on her astute observation and scientific reasoning.

Dare to Care is a personal reflection of the love and care that is offered by carers for love, honor, and duty. It tells the life stories of the author and nine others in caring for a loved one at home and the profound affection they had for each other. This is one story about home caregiving that is very relevant and much needed in times of pandemic and non-pandemic. Many families and homes all over the world can relate to the author’s personal experience in caregiving. Dare to Care is a most beautiful, heartening, and touching story.

Loud and rowdy girls, quiet and nerdy girls, girls who rock naturals, girls who wear weave, outspoken and opinionated girls, girls still finding their voice, queer girls, trans girls, and gender nonbinary young people who want to make the world better: Feminist AF uses the insights of feminism to address issues relevant to today’s young womxn.

Always is the seventh and final part of Felix's story, bringing to a powerful climax a series that countless young listeners around the world will remember. Late in life, Felix finds himself back where he started, living in an aged-care home that reminds him of his childhood orphanage. He's not happy. His body might be old, but his spirit is still youthful. When he learns that a dear friend from his early years is in terrible danger, Felix doesn't hesitate.

The entire planet is being overrun by the dead, and billions of people have succumbed to the Perdition Virus. The humans who have outlasted this zombie plague will prove to be ruthless killers willing to do anything to survive this post-apocalyptic world. In this third installment of Z-Strain, Abbigail, Chris, Kamil, and Jimmy are doing everything they can to end the zombie plague unleashed upon the world. They soon discover that what’s left of the government is more power-hungry than ever and lead by a predator who embodies the absolute worst of humanity.

As a youth, Kochen witnessed the death of his father at the hands of a gruesome spirit that stalked his village's farmlands. From that moment forth, he became a ward of the priests of the village in the cliffs. As he grew, he would begin to experience horrific visions, gifts from the spirits, that all of the other priests dismissed. When the ancient enemies of the Cliff People raid the village and steal Kochen away, they set in motion world-changing events, which threaten to break the shackles that bind the spirits to the Earth.

Iron-fisted Pope Leo XIV emerges from open-heart surgery with the chilling realisation that his reforms have devastated the Church. As he struggles to overcome the policies he himself put in place, he must battle enemies from within the Vatican, as well as Islamic terrorists determined to assassinate him. Amid political intrigue and counterespionage, his brilliant Surgeon, Salviati, becomes a target, too, along with Salviati’s beautiful mistress, Tove, and her fragile daughter, as the plot builds to a dramatic climax.

William Morris was born in Walthamstow, London, on 24 March 1834 and is regarded today as a foremost poet, writer, textile designer, artist and libertarian. Morris began to publish poetry and short stories in 1856. Morris' fascination with the ancient Germanic and Norse peoples dominated his writing, and he was the first to translate many of the Icelandic sagas into English. He also published limited-edition illuminated style books, with his design for The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer standing out.

Wise Black women have known for centuries that the blues have been a platform for truth-telling, an underground musical railroad to survival, and an essential form of resistance, healing, and learning. In her highly anticipated follow-up to the widely acclaimed Pushout, now a core text for teachers and principals on the criminalization of Black girls in schools, leading advocate Monique W. Morris invokes the spirit of the blues to articulate a radically healing and empowering pedagogy for Black and Brown girls.