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Before the heyday of the Food Network, there was Chef Tell - TV persona of Friedemann Paul Erhardt, America's first TV showman chef. Big on personality and flavor, Chef Tell was once called by Philadelphia magazine the "affably roguish Bad Boy of the Philadelphia restaurant world." Chef Tell explores how a young German American chef became America's biggest TV celebrity chef of his time. Most of Chef Tell's forty million baby boomer viewers - a number comparable to Julia Child's - never knew his fascinating, hardscrabble life story. Until now.

In this sequel to the much-acclaimed A Killer’s Grace, Pitcairn and Emmy return to the exploration of innocence while adding to it a deepening understanding of injury and ordeal, and its amazing corollary of Post-Traumatic Growth. As the quest and its dangers rip their lives apart, doors open that lure them back and forth across the country in search of tendrils tying together the events and anguish, as well as bringing the protagonists more deeply together.

When we say we have faith in people or material things, it’s because they have proved themselves in the past and we expect them to do the same in the future. But that’s not faith. It’s belief.

Once upon a time, there was a struggling writer named Woodhouse Carton, who tried to make his name as an author while simultaneously running his own creative writing class. Over 12 episodes, we follow the frustrated scribe's fruitless search for fame and fortune as, supported by his long-suffering wife, Gila, and feckless sidekick Seamus, he tries to write the definitive biography of philosophical novelist Wolf Heinrich Graubart - or compose the hit song that will set him up for life.

Books can serve as gateways into alternative modes of behavior and consequently of living. Dealing with difficult people is something one can never avoid completely ,and this is why such a book would provide tools and patterns for those possessing skills other than those belonging to the social or day-to-day human interaction category.

Sam Ryan, New York-based private eye/actor, is heading to California for the reading of his Uncle Hobart’s will. On the train, he meets a model named Marilyn Williams who is on her way back to LA with one stop off in Denver for a photo shoot. Sam is introduced to her by the waiter in the dining car. They have lunch and Sam tells her he is a P.I./actor. She wants to hire him for a case. Before she can tell him what it is all about, she is found dead in her compartment and Sam is the number-one suspect by the Denver Police.

This BBC Radio full-cast drama tells a story of love and deception set during the Cold War. Throughout the period of the Cold War in the late 1960s and early 1970s, 'romeo spies' were operating, targeting bright and susceptible young women. Alice Reeves, a young secretary from London, unwittingly becomes romantically involved with Otto Hanhart - an East German spy. The encounter leads to unexpected consequences for all parties, changing their lives forever.

The scene is the children's ward of a great hospital, and the story of a profoundly moving account of a young doctor's involvement in the life of Mary Berquam, an enchanting 11 year old girl affected with leukemia. He learns how to be a better, more compassionate doctor from this child.

The Beatitudes in Poems reflects the message of Jesus Christ from His Sermon on the Mount, found in the Bible in the Book of Matthew. These poems will inspire their listeners through greater meaning and understanding of the Beaititudes. They describe how the human heart should be and how man should live his life. Author and narrator Ronald E. Hignite was born in North Carolina and grew up in Indiana. He returned to North Carolina with his family after high school and attended East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

We all grow up with the assumption that everybody perceives the world in the same way that we do and, as an adult, live what we feel to be normal lives and interact socially just like anyone else. Imagine what would happen to you if you found out that you are really very different, that you have been compensating all of your life and that what you considered normal behavior was actually an elaborate coping mechanism you had created for yourself. Your world suddenly changes. That’s what happened to me when I found out I was face blind.

Find out what happens to a hiker lost in the Colorado Rockies when he's caught in a sudden high mountain storm and finds a welcoming cabin. Be there when a new cowboy ropes a huge Texas wild-range bull and his rope breaks. Share the terror of a night shift Officer working in a jail housing unit when the shadows come to life. This is a collection of fictional Ghostly short stories I wrote and decided to put together in one book. They're great for reading around a campfire, if you're spending a quiet evening at home, or when you just want an enjoyable temporary escape from the burdens of ...

PI Deets Shanahan takes on the search of his lifetime - When seventy-one-year-old private investigator Deets Shanahan learns from a snippet of news on the Internet that his brother – who disappeared when they were kids – could be somewhere in Thailand, he immediately sets out, accompanied by his lover, Maureen, to find his errant sibling.

Since the deployment of the first atomic weapons, people everywhere have lived with the possibility that everything they hold dear - their lives, their families, their careers and even the human species itself - could be extinguished in a few moments of devastation. Such consequences would be so overwhelming that, formany, the only defense is a hope it will never happen....

Every human being seeks to know the truth about himself and to resolve to his own satisfaction the mysteries of life. And therefore, for many thousands of years, countless philosophical and religious teachings have sought to enlighten people with answers. But where their practitioners insisted - indeed, demanded - that their answers must be the answers, they blocked the road to greater freedom for millions of people.

Everyone performs certain routine tasks automatically. Driving a car would be awkward indeed if one had to think newly of every tiny procedure. But what happens when someone puts a whole field of thought and action “on automatic”? His education, for example? Or his work? Or even his entire life? The answers are here and they open a completely new perspective on the mind. To the degree an individual has withdrawn from participation in an area of life, he substitutes an automatic mental mechanism for himself. Here, then, are these mental mechanisms and exactly how they undermine an individual’s power of decision.

The single word “liberty” articulates not only basic rights, such as freedom of speech and religion, but many other vital concepts: opportunity, choice,security and even happiness. Indeed, it is a word that symbolizesthe dreams and goals of every human being.Yet its very power makes it liable to abusive ends entirely opposed to its true meaning.

A story of life on a tropical island called Topia. This intrepid wilderness hides all manor creatures from the outside world. and at night a thousand monsters eyes and teeth glow in the dark. You see all anaimals need to live all animals have family; but not all animals are nice. Only, something lurks in a pond, and this pond gives life to all animals. The source of this life comes from cloud mountains, but can cloud mountain save the smallest animal in this wilderness.

A time-traveling adventure to restore the balance of history.

Mary Burleigh never knew that her mother, the straight-laced Carolina lady Anne Burleigh, had in her youth been the infamous pirate Anne Bonny, and that her real father had actually been a pirate. All Mary knew was the privileged life she had led growing up on a plantation. While on a sailing voyage to Jamaica, Mary is abducted by the pirate captain Jack Read, the famous son of Calico Jack Rackham, but her initial horror soon turns to unimaginable bliss as during her time aboard she transitions from hostage-for-ransom to cabin girl, and then to lover.

Als Robert Enke am 10. November 2009 starb, berührte sein Schicksal Deutschland...