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The remarkable story of Judith Schneiderman and her family, from the horror of the Holocaust to the search for loved ones to building a new life in America.

What could be harder for Alison than hunting magical beasties? Meeting Mason’s parents. Now she knows what Mason felt like meeting her father. Well, that was James Brownstone, so...maybe not. No time to ponder impressing the parents anyway - she has other issues to deal with. Sonya’s father has reappeared, seeking their help. But will they? And an unknown person has reached out to Tahir and Hana about Omni’s owner. Something smells a bit fishy about the whole situation - and it’s not Omni being a fish.

At the coronation of the new king of England, two crowns are offered to Richard the Lionheart: the mortal and the magical. Lured by earthbound glory and driven by mortal faith, Richard spurns the pagan crown - and rides off on a Crusade to reclaim a sun-scorched Jerusalem from the infidels, leaving his new kingdom defenseless in the mists…. For some unknown power has brought down the wall between worlds - and beings of dark magic await their chance to cross over the threshold.

Morning service in the quiet village church. Josie Welford, licensee of the White Hart, is daydreaming during Father Tim Martin’s sermon. The peace is shattered when a filthy Chinese youth flings himself into the church demanding sanctuary. The Church must decide whether to accede to a request that no long has legal standing or to hand Tang over to the authorities. Josie’s friend and long-term lodger, Nick Thomas, fears for the boy’s life.

Val Neyler, driving an ambulance through the blazing heart of London, is in an impossible position, for the man she loves is a fighter pilot with the Luftwaffe. And Jenny, whose husband, Simon, is flying Spitfires, finds herself working as a landgirl on a Devon farm. Cara, by contrast, develops her social life, and Maude, in the WAAF, falls in love with two men at once.... And Tina, matriarch of the family, loves them all, scolds them all, and tries to understand the new generation growing up in the troubled times of war.

England, 1810. Young Parson Tobias Campion is excited to be starting at the small parish of Moreton St Jude's. But his first night in the village brings excitement of the wrong kind when he has to intervene in the attempted rape of housemaid Lizzie Woodman. Even in the normal course of events, village life is far from quiet, and soon Tobias has to deal with suspicious deaths.

Un manoir, une famille puissante, un sombre secret... À Augsburg, près de Munich, en 1913, la jeune Marie est embauchée en cuisine à la Villa aux étoffes, la résidence des Melzer, propriétaires d'une imposante usine de textile. Alors que la jeune orpheline tente de tailler sa place parmi les serviteurs, les maîtres anticipent le début de la saison des bals hivernaux qui permettra à la belle Katharina, la cadette de la famille, de briller de tous ses feux en société.

At first glance, Daniel Winters is a shopkeeper with a glint in his eye and the charm of James Bond. The truth involves far more aliens. Presented with a cover-up slipping out of control, he faces a new brand of enemy, one who knows too much and is prepared for anything. That can only mean one thing: They have a man on the inside. What Daniel doesn’t realize is how close to home that revelation’s going to hit.

Maddie’s too busy for romance, and as a single mom has been too busy trying to make ends meet to jump start her languishing photography career. But when her daughter decides to spend the summer with her father, Maddie accepts the offer of her first solo art show, leaves Seattle and the safety of her job, rents a quaint cottage on a lake in the mountains of Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula and gets to work. She has a short timeline to prepare for her show, and her landlord Jake Murphy, a single dad himself, proves to be quite a distraction.

Designed to amplify and stabilize your alpha brainwaves - a frequency bridge to meditation and creative states - these five tracks offer a rich variety of inner experiences. The first four tracks build the sensory alpha brainwaves that open you to deep meditation and inner discovery. The fifth track, "The Heart of Meditation", is a silent meditation practice used by Edgar Cayce as a pathway to the wisdom of the soul. 67 minutes total.

Anna ist neun Jahre alt, als die Reichstagswahl von 1933 Adolf Hitler an die Macht bringt...

Between them, Denise Scott and Judith Lucy have been doing stand-up comedy for over 60 years. Eavesdrop on their conversations about everything from sex to ageing to work and back to sex – actually, there’s a lot of sex. These conversations are based on material tried and tested at live shows so you get the best of their crapping on. Please note: contains strong language and adult content.

Just out of pastry school, Louise Ingstrom has returned to Fortune Bay for Christmas before going to Seattle to find her dream job. Her dad is sick and she wants to help out, but she is staying at the Murphy's cabin for the month to avoid the drama at home.

Did you know there were several women and girls who worked as spies during the Civil War? Thanks to the voluminous hoop skirts and petticoats they wore, their clothing made it very easy to hide messages and smuggle them to the soldiers. Take a look at some of the women who served as Civil War spies!

La célèbre psychiatre Judith Orloff en est intimement persuadée : l'empathie est un formidable outil de guérison pour apaiser notre système nerveux. S'appuyant sur les neurosciences, la psychologie et la médecine énergétique, elle partage dans ce guide complet et unique tous ses conseils pour accéder à la puissance de l'empathie.

Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman is preparing for her forthcoming wedding to Assistant Chief Constable Mark Turner, but renovations at the rectory they plan to move into are disrupted by the discovery of a skeleton buried in the vegetable patch. As investigations into its identity progress, it's also clear that Mark's two grown-up children are less than ecstatic at the prospect of their father's forthcoming nuptials. In fact, at least one of them seems to be behaving very strangely indeed.…

Sometimes even a Brownstone needs to get away from it all. Did the bad guys not get the memo? Alison Brownstone is on vacation. Do not disturb. Oh they disturbed. But when your mom is Shay Carson and she makes two requests of you, you take them seriously. Go on a father-daughter bounty hunt. Go on vacation. How can Alison say no? She can’t. Two Brownstone’s on a bounty. That dude’s going down hard. One and done. The second task takes our Drow princess away from the home base. It’s not like Seattle will burn down because Alison isn’t there, right?

Wicca For Beginners is your comprehensive guide towards understanding the real basics of what the Wiccan path is about. Full of historical knowledge and important figures like Gerald Gardner, Doreen Valiente, and Aleister Crowley, Wicca for Beginners will take you onto an intellectual journey and educate you on the true basics, laws, and honor code that is barely touched on. Sure you can buy someone’s book about magic, but Wicca for Beginners is a true guide that will stay with you throughout the test of time.

Baker's Keyboard Lounge, Detroit's hotspot for jazz - it's there that Sam runs into his childhood friend, Johnny Delbeck, and Johnny's got a problem. A little over three months ago, Johnny and his wife, Grace, took in her niece. Myrna Lou Stevic had been nothing but trouble for her mother, Grace's sister, and her stepfather. One Monday in April, the seventeen year old was sitting on the porch of the Delbeck's Dearborn home one minute, and in the next, she was gone.

Each night, after dark, men flock to Bankside seeking girls of easy virtue, prostitutes known as the Winchester Geese. Joanie Toogood has worked the streets of Southwark since childhood, but her path is changed forever by an encounter with Francis Wareham, a spy for the King’s secretary, Thomas Cromwell. Meanwhile, across the river, at the glittering court of Henry VIII, Wareham also sets his cap at Evelyn and Isabella Bourne, members of the Queen’s household and the girls, along with Joanie, are drawn into intrigue and the shadow of the executioner’s blade.