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Mrs Pringle, the lugubrious school cleaner, has always been a favourite character in the Fairacre series. Here we trace Maud Pringle's life from childhood visits to the village from her Caxley home.

He'd faced down danger multiple times, but now Pentagon liaison Evan Pike had to deal with the ultimate confrontation. Telling Megan Randall that her late husband had been murdered by his own government was difficult. Keeping their association strictly about business, however, was proving impossible. Especially once Megan's life was put in jeopardy.

After the death of Emily Davis, school teacher and well-loved member of the local community, many of those who knew her cast their minds back to days past and to their memories of Emily. Dolly Clare mourns her loss deeply but remembers with joy and warmth the long friendship they shared. She is joined in her reminiscences by Jane Draper, who started her teaching career under Emily’s guidance, and by those further afield - from London to America.

A weight-losing recipe sends a portly Victorian housemaid literally sky-high. Mrs Next-Door, the queen of copycats, drives her patient neighbour mad with rage; the tragic tale of the ghost of Fairacre; the touch-and-go romance of Elsie Parker. In Over the Gate, Miss Read, the village schoolmistress, continues to remember odd incidents and excellent stories and to retell them with characteristic grace and compassion.

It is the early 60s and Ann, who is Jewish, and Ty, who is Black, are college students excited to meet each other's families. Along the way they encounter potentially violent racially charged situations as their parents cope with children in the forefront of changes yet to come. Ty and Ann learn about their lovers' community and families as they struggle with the interracial relationship. And we, the listeners, have a window into exactly how far we've come in the last half century in America. Or have we?

When Vera decides to travel to an old house in the New England countryside for a month-long escape from some devastating news about her daughter, Cassie, she has no idea her life is about to change forever. It begins innocently enough—peeling the old wallpaper from the walls as a favor to the house’s owner. What she discovers underneath—written in India ink on the very walls of the house by a woman named Beth, in 1919—is the beginning of the reader’s unsettling crossing into the unknown world underneath the paper.

50 Things to Know About Birds in Oklahoma by Kevin Flanagan offers an approach to enjoying and appreciating birds that most books on birds in the state of Oklahoma overlook. Most books on birds tell you to how to identify birds and may provide very generalized range maps. Although there's nothing wrong with that, this book takes an approach of exploring both the state’s wonders and its avian residents. In this book, you'll discover favorite places to visit and enjoy birds and their environment.

This book is all about one of the potent diseases which is the Influenza. It has been quite popular for the past few decades, with a series of researches and experiments being conducted on it. Influenza is a Latin word means "to influence" and is basically an infectious or a contagious disease primarily caused by the RNA viruses belonging to the family Orthomyxoviridae that affects the birds and mammals exclusively. Get more info here.

This book provides a useful tool for examining the individuals with PTSD. The AS-PTSD scale can be used as a guideline for interviews of individuals with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of combat action in modern warfare that differs from traditional linear warfare.

Anna Lacey had spent most of her 20 years on her Essex farm. Her doting parents, rural friends and country childhood had not prepared her for the shock of relocation to a raw new neighbourhood for her first year as a teacher. But Anna was gifted with the abilities to make friends and to learn as she taught.

Covert CIA operative Stephanie Liuzzi is supposed to be in Rio on her first vacation in years. A last minute mission request sends Stephanie jetting off to Venice, Italy. It's a simple mission: pick up the information from an Italian asset, come back home, and head off on her much-needed vacation.

Reeling after being left at the altar, Paige Graham seeks comfort in her secluded cabin. But there's someone sleeping in her bed - a sharp-eyed, sexy stranger who claims to have no memory. While a little digging reveals John's true identity, Paige knows there's more to his past...and more to her feelings.

Kassidy Spence thought she was just making a typical Friday night commute home. Turns out she was about to dance with the devil. Her unwanted ability to sense demons once tore her world apart and she refuses to let it happen again. But a hot new self-help book changes everything. Some who read it leave on a mysterious journey only to turn up dead; even stranger, they died smiling. Kass fears the author has sinister intentions, and even worse, a demonic alliance.

Während in Deutschland der Konflikt zwischen BND und Verfassungsschutz eskaliert, deckt Anna Gudwin die Strategie von Stephen Thaus im Kampf um die Weltherrschaft auf: Er überzieht die Erde mit einem Guerillakrieg, dem die Nationen machtlos gegenüber stehen. Als Anna vom Verfassungsschutz kaltgestellt wird, zieht sie auf eigene Faust los, um den skrupellosen Anführer der SVIA zu stellen. Dieser lockt sie in eine Falle in der chilenischen Atacama-Wüste - während er mit einem finalen Anschlag die gesamte Führungsriege der Welt auslöschen will.

Stephen Thaus, das teuflische Gehirn der SVIA, verfolgt Anna Gudwin bis in ihre Träume. Zu Recht, denn seine Silicon Valley Intelligence Agency bedroht die Welt mit einem Virenkrieg. Mit Hilfe von Tom Hellebrandt gelingt es Anna, in der chinesischen Stadt Wuhan in das streng bewachte Labor einzudringen, wo an diesem Virus geforscht wird. Um Thaus zur Strecke zu bringen, beschließt Anna, die wichtigsten Mitglieder der SVIA auszuschalten. Über das Spielerparadies Macau führt sie der Job nach New York.

The middle kid between her two brothers, whom everyone calls Big and Little, Emma is just medium. Big thinks he's the coolest kid on the planet now that he's 10. He doesn't want to play with LEGOs or play anything with Emma anymore. And everyone thinks Little is adorable, even when he picks his nose and eats it!

Discover how to develop your highest connection with God and stay in communion with the Divine. Former psychotherapist and pastor, Gwen Wellington shares a wealth of motivational advice and inspirational wisdom. Based on her intimate life experiences, career challenges, and personal life struggles throughout her commendable life, Gwen demonstrates how to find empowerment in God's word throughout the toughest life situations.

Some sickness you hear about every day. Some illnesses you rarely hear about or come across. Some things like allergies to the cold or semen or exotic disorders or diseases.

Cassidy Clarke once climbed the world's highest mountains, but after an unexpected illness ends her career she's back in her hometown, broke and hoping for a little luck. But the townsfolk aren't exactly putting out a welcome mat for the woman who once snubbed them in the media, despite her apologies now. Mitch Anders knows someone has set up camp on the grounds of his plant nursery, and he's surprised to find his sexy high school crush ducking questions about where she's staying. Though he's sworn to stop cleaning up other people's messes, Mitch offers Cassidy a job and a place to stay - his place.

Rumors of Aurelia Popkiss's death have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, she and her crew have been drifting through the big black, scavenging to survive since the day she "died". Yet after years of being on the wrong side of less than favorable odds, they never thought that finding a young girl stowed away on their ship would prove to be among the worst things to happen to them. From the moment Aurelia finds Kateryn concealed in her cabin, Auri knows she's hiding something. But even Aurelia can't imagine the true reason for the stowaway's sudden appearance in her life.