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Het is een bijzondere nacht. Halloween wordt die genoemd, de enige nacht waarin dieren en pompoenen elkaar begrijpen.

Maak kennis met Hamley, het zwarte katje dat mensen verstaat. Samen met haar zusjes en haar moeder woont ze in een gezellig huis, en wordt ze vertroeteld door haar baasje Viola.

Op een stormachtige nacht komen Mila en Daniel elkaar na jaren weer tegen. Hij heeft een dringende lift naar het ziekenhuis nodig, zij besluit om hem te helpen. Het loopt mis wanneer ze onderweg een ongeluk krijgen.

There is a persistent and incorrect idea, reinforced by countless film misrepresentations, that Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were always staid and dull British chaps of middle years (or older), with Holmes a spry, cranky, and impatient eccentric, and Watson a white-haired and portly Boobus Brittanicus, a la Nigel Bruce. Students of the true and Canonical Sherlock Holmes know this to be a falsehood.

We’re all grown up, right? Or, are we? Do things in the night still make you wanna cry to Mama? Well, you can’t anymore, she’s not around. Time to face your demons, man or woman. Mama ain’t here, but all she ever wanted was to hear your laughter and to know you’re safe.

Timothy Koops is an ordinary man with a dead-end job whose home life is a struggle. He takes part in an experimental procedure to enhance his memories, making them more positive and making him more successful in life. As Timothy discovers, the procedure also alters the past, subtly at first, then with greater impact. The changes begin to affect not only Timothy but also the world around him. Enjoying unimagined wealth and power, Timothy embraces his glamourous new life. But the project’s lead scientist, Dr. Zakery Fasten, is concerned about unexpected consequences.

Welcome to The Emergence. A podcast of essays, commentary, and conversations on the failed state of a highly centralized and manipulative web and ideas on how to reverse this course to create a future web where the user is in control outside the influence of outside interests. Whether it is through the lens of technology, politics, ideologies, philosophies, social orders, or interpersonal relationships, The Emergence will dig deep to find answers to inspire the building of a connection more representative of the user. Contact: TheEmergenceio@gmail.com

by Paul F.J. Arañas

Hi we are J.D. and Paul and this is our podcast where we talk about random stuff like video games, movies, comics, anime, current events, and life. If you enjoy what you hear then please leave some feed back in the form of a review/comment/voice message or whatever works best for you across our platforms. Thanks for listening. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thejdandpaulcast/support

Popular writer Paul Nahin explores the fertile and sometimes uneasy relationship between science fiction and religion. With a scope spanning the history of religion, philosophy, and literature, Nahin follows religious themes in science fiction from Feynman to Foucault and from Asimov to Aristotle. An intriguing journey through popular and well-loved books and stories, Holy Sci-Fi! shows how sci-fi has informed humanity’s attitudes toward our faiths, our future, and ourselves.

In the tumultuous year after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, 29-year-old Pete O'Neal became inspired by reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X and founded the Kansas City branch of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The same year, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declared the BPP was the "greatest threat to the internal security of the country." Arrested in 1969 and convicted for transporting a shotgun across state lines, O'Neal was free on bail pending his appeal when Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the BPP, was assassinated by the police

How do you improve your own life? You find a way to deal with the challenges life throws your way...which is always easier said than done. By listening to Fundamism: Connecting to Life Through F.U.N. you're one step closer to feeling more joy and fulfillment in your life.

Written in his own words, and guided by a man who collects glasses in a local pub, this is the story of Herod 'Rod' Pinkney's search for Daisy Lamprich, a young woman he first sees on a decade-old episode of the Judge Judy Show and who he now intends to marry. When Daisy is located in the coastal city of Huntington Beach, California, he travels there with his good friend and next-door neighbour, Donald, a man who once fought in the tunnels of Cu Chi during the Vietnam War and who now spends most of his time in Herod's basement.

Everything in New Braintree was efficient, comfortable, and convenient, but tightly controlled by PACE, a technology provider with dark ambitions of global dominance. And their proposed justice robot, MAX, is more of a politician than a judge, and lacks even simulated ethics. Railas, now fully operational, is the only alternative. He cannot be intimidated or bribed, and he was created to work against tyranny. His team has high hopes to restore justice and defeat PACE. But while Railas and his team investigate MAX and his motives, he finds something worse.

Traumatized veterans are often diagnosed as suffering from a psychiatric disorder and prescribed a regimen of psychotherapy and psychiatric drugs. But why, asks psychologist Paula J. Caplan in this impassioned audiobook, is it a mental illness to be devastated by war or other intolerable experiences such as military sexual assault? What is a mentally healthy response to death, destruction, and moral horror? In When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home, Caplan argues that the standard treatment of therapy and drugs is often actually harmful.

Sixteen historians, all members of the Society of Independent Southern Historians, have come together to write this truthful history of America specifically for home-schooled students. Herein is a history that is truthful, concise, yet comprehensive, written especially for students of middle school and high school age and for the parents who provide guidance through the home school educational approach. The 40 student lessons in this book present 278 years of our history.

Verblüffend neue Einsichten aus dem Neuen Testament. Was Jesus Managern von heute sagt. Globaler Wettbewerbsdruck, die unaufhaltsame Beschleunigung des Tagesgeschäfts und das Gefühl, mit der Fülle der Herausforderungen langsam aber sicher sich selbst zu verlieren, das ist die Erfahrung von immer mehr Führungskräften. Kein Wunder, dass sie dringend nach neuen Werten und Leitbildern zu suchen, an denen sie ihr Berufsleben ausrichten und gleichzeitig dem Ruf ihrer Seele folgen können.

The colonists get a cold welcome upon arrival in Mariner Valley and soon discover that the many organizations that planned their mission hadn't communicated well on specifics. Worse, the ground crew waiting for them are a collection of angry, tired survivors of ill planning, and their new home is a dirty cave.

If you've ever wondered what goes through the mind of a car boot stall holder, then there are two things you need to do: one: listen to this book; and two: get yourself some new hobbies. If you're thinking about setting up your very first car boot stall, then this book will be an excellent guide for you. If you've done one before, then the characters you'll meet in here will be all too familiar to you. Whilst it would be all too easy to present this book as some sort of manual, its primary purpose is to make you wonder why anyone in their right mind would ever choose to sell at a car boot sale.

Clippity Clippity is the story of a young horse who lives in the circus with his mother Bright Star. His dream is to one day be in the circus like his mother. Clippity is worried that he might never be in the circus, but he is also worried that he might be sent away. Clippity is very concerned about his destiny. Come along with Clippity on his journey and hear what happens.