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London, 1930s. Years after she first fled to South Shields, Cathy is known by everyone as the landlady of the Robin Hood pub. But Cathy has a secret from her life before - a daughter, June, whom she had to leave behind. After all these years, can June accept her? Cathy's friend Sofia faces her own dilemma. Encountering a man from her past, Sofia is given the opportunity to return to her hometown, Naples. It would mean escaping her own troubles in the Sixteen Streets... if only she dares take the chance.

The scariest kind of serial killer - one you don't know exists. Martin Barlow was Clare Carlson's first newspaper editor, a beloved mentor who inspired her career as a journalist. But, since retiring from his newspaper job, he had become a kind of pathetic figure. When Martin Barlow is killed on the street one night during an apparent mugging attempt gone bad, it seems like he was just an old man whose time had come. As she digs deeper and deeper into his secret files, she uncovers shocking evidence of a serial killer worse than Son of Sam, Ted Bundy, or any of the others.

Cassie Morgan needs to earn her Sapling pin to get one step closer to passing her Witch's Licence. To do this, she's set a challenge of training a beginner witch by the Hedgewitch - but the newest member of her coven is not what she expected. Meanwhile, the wicked Erl King is luring witches up and down the country to his side, with promises of unimaginable power. Those who stand against him are running a deadly risk.

For years, Calise Rowe has been able to sense unusual energy from people, making her believe she is different. Pulled into an ancient war raging for centuries between demon hunters and seers, she's about to find out she's right. Her search for the truth leads her to Lucas Rojas, a seer of angels and demons who walk the earth shrouded from normal human eyes. He's hidden his gift for years and refuses to endanger Calise by sharing it with her. In the sultry Costa Rican jungles, their worlds collide. As their passion and desire ignite, so does the ancient war between demons and seers.

Sometime around AD 56, the Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Rome. His letter was arguably his theological masterpiece, and has continued to shape Christian faith ever since. He entrusted this letter to Phoebe, the deacon of the church at Cenchreae; in writing to the church that almost surely met in her home, Paul refers to her both as a deacon and as a helper or patron of many.

Elsabet or Elizabeth Bathory's life is notorious and, for the most part, known to history. What she's done since is another story altogether. Haunted by the crimes of her life and by her bloodfather, Vlad Dracula, Elsa seeks a life of her own in the New World. But her past will always catch up to her and she must face her demon.

Following the deadly events of Dancers in the Wind, freelance journalist and single mother Hannah Weybridge is thrown into the heart of a horrific murder investigation when a friend, Liz Rayman, is found with her throat slashed at her dental practice. With few clues to the apparently motiveless crime, Hannah throws herself into discovering the reason for her friend's brutal murder.

A sparkling sequel to the legendary Round the Horne, Stop Messing About! continued the comedy tradition, reuniting Kenneth Williams with both his former foil Hugh Paddick and his Carry On co-star Joan Sims. Included here are all 26 episodes of the all-nude radio show, complete with favourites such as ‘Crackerjackanory with Mother’, ‘Feeble Fables’, ‘Clarence J Mousepartner’s Problem Corner’ and movie spoofs including 2002: A Space Oddity; The Dirty Half-Dozen and A Fistful of Denaro.

Ten-year-old Miranda Stevens approaches the fifth-grade classroom with trepidation. She must face the same snobby classmates that she met when she came to Montana at the end of the last school year to attend this small rural school, and worst of all, Christopher Bergman, the classroom bully who takes special delight in making Miranda's life miserable. Friendship, loyalty, courage, and lesson's learned the hard way are all part of Miranda's story as she lives with her grandparents on their dairy farm. If only she had a horse of her very own, she thinks, nothing else would matter.

Famous fans choose their favourite writers for BBC Radio 4's Great Lives. For 20 years, Great Lives has been a cornerstone of the Radio 4 schedules, presented by Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock and Matthew Parris. Each week, a well-known personality is invited to select someone who has inspired them. They then discuss the 'Great Life' with the presenter and a guest expert to decide whether their hero really merits the accolade.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Una dura crítica al capitalismo en la obra más surrealista del autor. Considerada por la mayoría de críticos como la mejor obra del autor, en "Poeta en Nueva York" llegan a su punto culminante los procedimientos formales lorquianos, que sirven de base a una radical protesta social y a una penetrante indagación metafísica. Federico García Lorca es uno de los poetas españolas más reconocidos. Nació el 5 de Junio de 1898. Además de poesía escribió obras de teatro y también fue director de teatro.

Tør du stå i dit eget lys? De fleste af os nedbryder os selv hver dag med tanker som fx: "Jeg er ikke god nok, jeg er ikke klog nok, jeg er ikke smuk nok, jeg er for tyk," vi bliver vores egen største kritiker og bruger al for meget tid på at slå os selv oven i hovedet, med alt det vi ikke er og kan. Men tankerne er ikke sande. De kommer fra vores barndom og forfølger os hele livet, hvis vi ikke stopper dem. Hele livet igennem skal du være sammen med dig selv, så hvorfor ikke være din mest trofaste og kærligste ven?

"The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse" is an adaptation of the Aesop fable "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" by Beatrix Potter. In it, a country mouse named Timmy accidentally ends up in the house of Johnny, a town mouse. After experiencing all that the town has to offer, Timmy decides he prefers his quiet life in the country. But how will country life suit Johnny when he comes to visit?

London, 1884: Queen Victoria is Empress of India, and Britain is at its peak of worldwide power. James Falconer works as a barrow boy in a flourishing London market owned by Henry Malvern. But James hungers for more. Turning away from family tradition, he dreams of building an empire of stores like Fortnum and Mason’s and believes that Henry, along with his daughter and heir Alexis, could offer him a way to climb beyond his beginnings. But tragedy and betrayal threaten the dreams of both James and Alexis - and jeopardise everything they hold dear....

After months on the run, sneaking onto a luxury cruise liner wouldn’t be easy, but she’d done worse things to survive. The ship is owned by Roslyn Travel Co, the sole proprietor of a mysterious vacation destination exclusively for the filthy rich.

Cassie Morgan has run away. After seven years spent waiting for her mother to return, she flees her dreary boarding school and sets out to find her. But the world outside her school is full of hidden magic and children have been going missing. With the help of a talking cat and a flying broom, Cassie escapes to the enchanted village of Hedgely. There she will begin her training in the practical skills of witchcraft with the Hedgewitch, who watches over the Hedge, the vast forest that marks the border between England and Faerie.

Hasta el momento, en todos los casos que yo he relatado, las investigaciones de Poirot se iniciaron partiendo del factor central, ya fuese crimen o robo, y fueron siguiendo un proceso de deducciones lógicas hasta llegar a la solución final. En los acontecimientos que ahora voy a relatar, una curiosa cadena de circunstancias tuvo su principio en ciertos incidentes aparentemente triviales que atrajeron la atención de Poirot y culminó en los siniestros sucesos que constituyeron uno de los casos más extraordinarios.

Nos hallamos en el siglo XX y ante un mundo que ya no tiene secretos, en el que no quedan tierras por descubrir ni mares por surcar. Países cuyos nombres, en la anterior generación, eran apenas conocidos, se encuentran hoy sojuzgados por Europa, sirviendo a sus necesidades. Los barcos se remontan, actualmente, hasta las fuentes del Nilo, que durante infinidad de tiempo se buscaron en vano. Las cataratas Victoria, que un europeo contempló por primera vez hace medio siglo; producen ahora energía eléctrica.

Invitados por Japp, Poirot y Hastings deciden pasar el fin de semana con él en la pequeña localidad rural de Market Basing. Mientras disfrutan de un buen desayuno, son interrumpidos por un agente de la policía local, que le pide ayuda a Japp con un problema: Walter Protheroe, el solitario propietario de una gran mansión local, Leigh House, ha sido encontrado muerto en su casa. Supuestamente se ha suicidado, pero el médico local sostiene que es imposible.

La acción se desarrolla inicialmente en un estudio de cine en el cual Redburns el jefe de la productora es conocido por su mal temperamento y por ser una persona antipatica. Redburns es encontrado muerto en su residencia y ahora hay que encontrar al culpable, pero no es facil. Debido a su caracter varios son los sospechosos entre ellos se ven involucrados 2 estrellas de su ultima pelicula el señor Walt quien fue despedido por el mismo Redburns y una actriz muy famosa Valerie Sinclair quien es vista en la escena del crimen.