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Michael and Elizabeth Stewart discovered long ago that they could time travel through an old church’s basement on Long Island. What they didn’t realize was that their actions in first-century Jerusalem could upend life for the world as we know it.

Their encounter with Roman thug Pontius Pilate turns life upside down for billions of future generations. Michael endures family loss and survives in a brutal and violent world with the help of a new friend, Adriel.

Who controls our stories? Christopher Chen’s expectation-defying new play takes an unpredictable trip into the ways storytelling can reshape what we believe about ourselves and others. The play starts with a series of intriguing and seemingly unconnected creative conversations. It then takes a sharp turn when Sylvia - host of the popular interview program, Art Beat - goes missing and her listeners are left to wonder, is this also an art piece? The journey continues and the mysteries multiply in this mind-bending audio play that investigates the very nature of reality.

The four stories narrate the struggles of the tiny island nation of Buron to resist the onslaught of its much bigger neighbor, Garsia, via any means necessary. “Green Monkey Syndrome” describes the disaster of a pathogenic weapon leaked among indigenous tribespeople; “The Gaoka Case” tracks through case files a pharmaceutical offensive designed to take advantage of the enemy’s patriarchal culture; “I Love Thee Winona” and “The Lost Bird” describe campaigns to manipulate disastrous weather patterns and deliver bioweapons through migrating birds.

Ich bin Malu, die kleine Fledermaus mit dem großen Herzen. Ich nehme Dich mit auf eine Schnupperreise, durch meine Bücher. Eine Reise, die uns in die Wunderwelt des Lebens führt. Lausche 11 faszinierenden Erlebnissen und lerne meine Freunde kennen. Reisen mit mir bedeutet: Entspannung vom lauten Alltag. Abenteuer erleben und nicht nur leben. Den Gedanken freien Lauf lassen, träumen und das Kind in uns hervorzaubern. Wage es und tauche ein, in meine Geschichten für die Seele. Für jedes Alter geeignet.

Der Kapitän der Garcia, Grady O'Connor, war für den Unfall verantwortlich, in dem der Frachter auf ein Riff lief. Jedoch konnte er entkommen und ist seitdem spurlos verschwunden. Treibt er sich vielleicht nachts auf dem Schiff herum? Und wer ist der unheimliche Mann mit der Schlangentätowierung am Handgelenk? Auf einmal steht ein Schuppen auf der Werft in Flammen. Wer hat ein Interesse daran, das Abwracken der Garcia mit allen Mitteln zu verhindern?

Fourteen-year-old Tom Röschenberg has inherited a ghost train and its members of the undead are very lively! And it's a suspenseful time for our young Ghostsitter: Vlarad the vampire has consumed too much hamster blood and has now turned into one, and Wombie the Zombie's hundredth deathday is coming right up. But the ritual for celebrating Wombie's deathday is no easy task: It requires a voodoo dagger, a magic ring, and an enchanted cauldron, and if Tom and his undead friends don't perform the ritual in time, Wombie will turn to dust.

It is AD 312. Rome teeters on the brink of war. Constantine's army is on the move. On the Rhine frontier, Brandulf Rex, a pagan Germanic barbarian, joins the Roman army as a spy and special-forces operative. Down in Rome, Junia Flavia, the lovely and pious daughter of a nominally Christian senator, finds herself embroiled in anti-Christian politics as she works on behalf of the church.

This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great - the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of an icon in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction listeners and that always includes the hero's childhood influences. This volume features Founding Father and scientist Benjamin Franklin.

March, 1945. Allied forces are battle-worn but wearily optimistic. Russia's Red Army's advancing hard on Germany from the east, bolstering Allied troops moving in from the west and north. Soon, surely, Axis forces must accept defeat. Yet for Captain Jim Curtis, each day's a reminder of how unpredictable and uncertain warfare can be. Captured during the Battle of the Bulge after the Germans launched a devastating surprise attack, Curtis is imprisoned at a POW camp in Hammelburg, Bavaria. Conditions are grim. Inmates and guards are freezing and starving, rations dwindling day by day.

From some of your favorite best-selling and critically acclaimed authors - including Sandhya Menon, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Rin Chupeco - comes a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the intersection of family, culture, and food in the lives of 13 teens.

This diary of acclaimed psychologist and radical feminist icon Phyllis Chesler was a pioneering work when it was first published in 1979. A look into the second wave of feminism and the era’s changing attitudes toward motherhood and pregnancy, With Child - now with an updated preface from her son - remains relevant for mothers today.

Bill Bo und seine Kumpanen reisen durch das Land und klauen, was nicht niet- und nagelfest ist. Die bunt zusammengemischte Räuberbande hat das Umherziehen mittlerweile aber gründlich satt und will sesshaft werden - und sie wissen auch schon wo. Die auf einer Insel im Rhein gelegene Burg Dingelstein wäre das perfekte Quartier. Vorher müsste man nur die aktuellen Bewohner vertreiben: Graf von Dingelstein, seine Tochter Desdemona genannt Ding-Ding und ihr Gefolge, allesamt scheinbar leichte Gegner für eine erfahrene Räuberbande.

On a May evening in 1998, the idyllic marriage of wealthy Lake Tahoe couple Peter and Rinette Bergna ended in a crush of metal. Peter was thrown from the vehicle and lived. Rinette, strapped in her seat, died on impact. In time, the grieving widower would meet a new woman, and put the tragic past behind him. Two-and-a-half years later, his life took another fateful turn. Bergna, esteemed art appraiser and son of one of California's most prominent attorneys, was indicted for the murder of his wife. Was Rinette's death really an accident - or deliberate homicide?

Der Waise Victor wächst zusammen mit seiner Stiefmutter Ludmilla und seiner Stiefschwester Hanna auf. Eines Tages verlässt Victor jedoch schweren Herzens die gewohnte Umgebung um ein Leben als Beamter zu beginnen. Doch zuvor bittet sein Onkel, der Bruder seines lange verstorbenen Vaters, ihn zu sich auf eine abgelegene Alm in den Bergen. Victor erzählt ihm, dass er nicht heiraten möchte. Sein Onkel macht ihm aber klar, dass das Alleinsein im Alter nicht erstrebenswert ist... Bearbeiter: Klaus Gmeiner, Regie: Hans Conrad Fischer.

When young journalist Thomas Cleary is sent to dig up quotes for the obituary of a legendary film producer, the man's eccentric daughter offers him entrée into the exclusive upper echelons of Hollywood society. A small-town boy with working-class roots, Thomas is a stranger in this opulent world of private jets and sprawling mansions. Then he meets Matilda Duplaine. Matilda is a beautiful and mysterious young woman who has never left the lush Bel-Air estate where she was raised.

Lexi Titan has mastered the art of pretending everything's fine. After all, how else could she ignore the fact that her husband is never home, her son barely knows him and the last time she had sex, well, who can remember. With her life crumbling, the last thing she wants to do is go on a trip, especially back to Vegas; a city full of glitz, excess, and Leo, the man she's spent the last six years trying to forget. But when her best friend announces she's getting married, Lexi doesn't have a choice. It's ridiculous to avoid an entire city because of one guy. Even if he is the father of your child.

Twenty years after the death of her father during the Battle of Altair, Lieutenant Amy Palmer returns to the system as an officer aboard the reconnaissance ship Mirage. Almost immediately disaster strikes and Amy, along with the crew of the Mirage, must face the possibility of performing their final duties. "Final Duty" is a novella set in the same universe as the other two stories in this anthology.

The final adventure...

After leaving the Isle of Man, Aubrey and Jimmy return to the Foundation to confront Hannah about her betrayal and to free the people of Holocene II only to find themselves facing new and more difficult challenges in a world where nothing is as it seems.

Das Hörbuch besteht aus den fünf Kurzgeschichten "Langeweile der Sensation" und "Kein Bettler, nur Schnorrer" gesprochen von Michael Holz, "Menschen am Sonntag" und "Der Altersgenosse" gesprochen von Georg Braun und "Die Kapuzinergruft" gesprochen von Arnold Richter.

In the post-apocalyptic future, a fifteen-year old boy stumbles on a paradise where the few remaining humans live on the run from deadly drones controlled by a mysterious Park Service. Now this boy must learn to survive in a world he never dreamed existed while searching for answers to why everything he was taught is a lie.