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'Rumpole and the Way Through the Woods': Rumpole makes friends with a dog named Sir Lancelot and finds himself defending a hunt saboteur who claims to be guilty of murder. 'Rumpole for the Prosecution': Rumpole’s personal commandment is ‘Thou Shalt Not Prosecute’ - but he breaks this rule to take on a private prosecution brought by a dead girl’s father. However, an obscure literary reference and a piece of evidence that doesn’t fit bring his defender’s instincts to the fore....

Why are we here? What does it mean to love? How do we overcome suffering? Is happiness truly possible? For thousands of years, we have turned to the same beloved texts to explore these universal questions—from the Bible and the Tao Te Ching, to the poetry of Rumi and Sappho, to the words of modern-day mystics. What if you could take all of the wisdom contained in these collective pages and, using the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence, receive the answers?

Leena feels empowered, which sets in motion her journey of self-discovery and personal transformation--everything from using a vibrator for the first time to wearing a g-string--and a provocative incident with a samosa that has even her husband rethinking oral sex! In trying to discover who she truly is, will Leena suffer the backlash of her community and, worse, her own mother?

Rough : brutal, dur, cru, rude, difficile. Le monde de Hunter en somme. Hunter lui-même. Leader d'une bande de voyous depuis tout jeune, il gagne confortablement sa vie en menaçant et punissant des gens à coups de poing. Le monde de Swan est son total opposé : étudiante appréciée, en couple avec un homme séduisant et brillant. Elle vit un véritable conte de fées... En apparence, en tout cas.

Jasmine was diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis at the age of 13 and spent four years confined to a wheelchair. She has over eight different autoimmune diagnoses, has undergone 36 surgeries to date, and still needs more. She's had her knees replaced twice in her lifetime and has tried countless treatments, from Western to Eastern medicine. Today, she is completely in remission from everything and thriving! Discover how she did it and how music saved her life.

A perfect family or a perfect lie? When Jo's teenage daughter goes missing, she feels like the world is collapsing around her. Has Grace been taken, or have recent tensions between mother and daughter driven her away? With little urgency from the police, who have dismissed Grace as a teenage runaway who will soon return home, Jo takes matters into her own hands. But as she gets closer to discovering what has happened to Grace, it looks like the Jo's deepest, darkest secret is about to be uncovered, and it could destroy everything she holds dear.

Everyone knows Leona would do anything for her daughter Beth: she moved to Church Langdon to send Beth to the best school, worked hard to build a successful business to support them and found them the perfect little cottage to call home. People say they’re more like best friends than mother and daughter. But their closeness means that Beth struggles to make friends. Her mother has kept her sheltered from the world. When Beth finds an envelope hidden under the floorboards of their home, the contents make her heart stop. Everything she thought she knew about her mother is a lie.

Kids Life Skills is a comprehensive guide for kids to develop essential life skills that will help them navigate through various challenges in life. The book covers a range of topics including cooking, cleaning, making friends, handling emergencies, setting goals, making good decisions, time management, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Small-town police detective Hanna Duncker has a past. Her deceased father was convicted of murder and arson long ago, and she has taken up residence and resumed her police career in her hometown after his death. She and her partner Erik Lindgren are called to investigate the disappearance of a father and his infant son from their home while his wife was away on a weekend trip. As the investigation unfolds, Hanna makes a breakthrough in her ongoing private investigation of her father’s crimes: a discovery that could change everything she thought she'd learned so far.

Charles Dickens was, for a time, editor of a daily newspaper. This series takes an imaginative look at how Dickens would have tackled bringing the news to the masses. We follow Dickens the editor as he contends with railway crashes, gory deaths in the River Thames, having his editorial judgment scrutinised, working with tyrannical landowners, entering the murky worlds of opium and prostitution and, most tragically of all, investigating a child's death. He and his newspaper tackle financial plotting, encountering a young and secretive Disraeli, and the prospect of war overseas.

You may think positive affirmations are too simple or ineffective. But the truth is, our thoughts shape our reality. By consistently affirming positive beliefs, you can rewire your brain and create a more positive and fulfilling life.

The man who holds the power rules the valley. But I won’t let him rule me. To get out from under his thumb, I’ll make a bargain with the old gods. I’d sell my soul to be free of him. But the goddess of spring offers me a deal that feels too much like a reward to be safe. And when I’m delivered into the hands of her son, I start to wonder if I want to be free at all.

In between dating, shopping, drinking, dancing and having fun, the girls of Riyadh live by Saudi Arabia’s strict cultural traditions. Well, not quite... They’re still trying to be good Muslims and please their families. But can you be a 21st century woman and a Saudi woman? A full-cast dramatisation of Rajaa Alsanea's best-selling novel, revealing the social, romantic, and sexual tribulations of four young women from the elite classes of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Aller guten Dinge sind drei - oder auch nicht. Melli und Gregor haben es versucht - schon zweimal! Jetzt nehmen sie Anlauf für den dritten und, bitte sehr, letzten Versuch, den Bund fürs Leben zu schließen. Das sollte eigentlich nicht so schwer sein. Doch dass sie sich nicht auf einen gemeinsamen Nachnamen einigen können, ist plötzlich ihr geringstes Problem. Und je näher der große Tag rückt, desto chaotischer werden die Vorbereitungen - und umso größer die Zweifel. Sind Melli und Gregor wirklich füreinander bestimmt?

An engrossing BBC Radio 4 series spanning the history of the home and domestic relationships over the past 500 years, presented by Amanda Vickery. Professor Vickery is one of the most charismatic historians in Britain today. In 'A History of Private Life' she reveals the intimate secrets of life at home, from the Tudor mansion to the modern bedsit.Through letters, diaries and other first-person accounts, we hear the voices of men and women from very different backgrounds telling their stories.

The moment Joanna told me she was engaged, I had this awful feeling that something was wrong. We used to speak on the phone every day. Growing up I spent more time at her house than I did at my own. I’d always imagined what it would be like to see her get married, and now I didn’t even know her fiancé’s name. She asked me to come and meet Mark and I intended to tell her to slow down. When I got to Joanna’s front door, only Mark was there. He was charming and gorgeous and nothing but nice to me, and I started to understand....And then he told me that Joanna was missing.

Her name is Beth. She came into my life when I needed her the most. We lead very different lives, but she’s the only person who understands me. She was the only other witness to the terrible accident on the street between our homes - the only person who saw the cracks in my perfect life before I had the chance to cover them up.

Lauren has spent years running away from her home town, her childhood, and the memories of her best friend, Hannah. Until the 10th anniversary of Hannah’s death forces her to return home and to the group of friends she abandoned there. It should be a quick visit, just so Lauren can pay her respects. At home, Lauren finds Hannah’s old diary. A diary full of secrets. The terrible things Lauren did, the lies she’s told, the reason she ran away. And she receives a message: "I don’t know why you’re back, but I know why you left." Hannah’s dead, isn’t she?

Un tempo il regno di Cornucopia era il più felice del mondo. C'erano moltissimo oro, un re con i baffi più belli che si possano immaginare e macellai, pasticceri e casari le cui prelibatezze facevano piangere la gente di gioia. Era tutto perfetto: a parte le Paludi nebbiose del Nord, dove si narra vivesse il terribile Ickabog. Ogni persona di buon senso sapeva che l'Ickabog era solo una leggenda inventata per spaventare i bambini e convincerli a comportarsi bene. Ma le leggende sono strane e a volte assumono una vita propria.

Ci sono romanzi che toccano corde così profonde, originarie, che sembrano chiamarci per nome. È quello che accade con "L'Arminuta" fin dalla prima pagina, quando la protagonista, con una valigia in mano e una sacca di scarpe nell'altra, suona a una porta sconosciuta. Ad aprirle, sua sorella Adriana, gli occhi stropicciati, le trecce sfatte: non si sono mai viste prima. Inizia così questa storia dirompente e ammaliatrice: con una ragazzina che da un giorno all'altro perde tutto - una casa confortevole, le amiche più care, l'affetto incondizionato dei genitori.