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When Sammy leaves his sister Jazzy safely tucked inside their beloved Catillac to fetch fresh mouse livers from the flea market, a sudden break-in changes everything. A burglar smashes the window, steals the car, and speeds away with Jazzy trapped inside. Alone, terrified, and carried deep into the shadows of a dangerous chop shop, Jazzy must summon every ounce of bravery just to survive. Back at the market, Sammy refuses to stand by. With the help of Officer Fuzz, a determined cab driver named Big Cat, and a growing circle of caring people, he launches an urgent search across the city.

The dead do not rest till they get what they want. You have arrived in the hills. In here, you are surrounded by dense, menacing forests, enveloped in a deadly silence... You never know what lurks here in the cold, dark night. Do not walk alone after sunset in the hills. A beautiful woman in white haunts the Lonely pathways, looking to enchant and ensnare men... All the people who died in accidents here... They say you hear their screams at night. And the deserted lodges sitting amidst lush greenery and calm streams...

We've all seen movies that claim to be 'based on a true story', but have you ever wondered how accurate they are? That's what we'll find out as we compare Hollywood with history.

Jon Hamm leads an all-star cast that includes Kate Mara, Ana de la Reguera, John Slattery, and Bradley Whitford in the riveting true story behind the making of the one American movie the FBI never wanted you to see.

Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and unable to begin writing her next book, Delphine meets L. L. is the kind of impeccable, sophisticated woman who fascinates Delphine - a woman with smooth hair and perfectly filed nails and a gift for saying the right thing. Delphine finds herself irresistibly drawn to her, their friendship growing as their meetings, notes and texts increase. But L. begins to dress like Delphine, and, in the face of Delphine's crippling inability to write, L. even offers to answer her emails, and their relationship rapidly intensifies.

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This is where I'm supposed to tell you about myself but I do that in the first episode, Episode 4. I will tell you this though, I make a lot of mistakes, and I'm proud of that. I'm uploading my first podcast unfinished because I know if I don't, I'll take forever picking an intro, editing ALL the "uhms, annnnnddsss, and mother f**ke*s." out of it. So here it is; empathize with me, laugh at me for being so dramatic, call me a clown! Just tell me something :) Here's to a New Hope! comebackid

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Everybody loves a good story!Hi my name is Evan and I am so excited that you are here. One of my favorite things in life is asking people about their stories, their experiences, their lives, what makes them who they are. We all have a story. Something that makes us unique. So, here we talk about people's real life true stories and learn more our own stories!

A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column—now a Netflix original series “Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”—Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal As a...

The second book in the treasured Little House series, Farmer Boy is Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved story of how her husband, Almanzo, grew up as a farmer boy far from the little house where Laura lived. The nine Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique...

Mallorca – die Insel der deutschen Träume. Aufstieg, Ruhm, Reichtum – oder der tiefe Absturz … Auf Mallorca ist alles möglich. "Based on a true Story – Die Könige von Malle" erzählt die unglaublichen Geschichten von vier Menschen, die sich zum Königsthron der Insel kämpften: Hasso Schützendorf, der von einer Todeszelle zum mallorquinischen Multimillionär aufgestiegen ist. Jürgen Drews, ein Schlagerkönig, für den Schlager der Alptraum war. Tolo Cursach und Miguel Pascual, zwei Gastro-Könige in einem Machtkampf, der in einem der größten Justizskandale Spaniens endet. Und ...

Der Journalistin Ellie ist nichts so wichtig wie Gerechtigkeit. Mutig spricht sie auch unbequeme Wahrheiten aus. Niemand ahnt, warum sie so leidenschaftlich für diejenigen kämpft, die keine Stimme haben. Warum sie Beziehungen meidet. Warum sie sich abrupt von ihrer ersten großen Liebe Louis getrennt hat. Seit ihr als Kind sexualisierte Gewalt angetan wurde, ist Ellies Herz in tausend Teile zersplittert. Mit jedem Tag, den sie ihren eigenen Weg geht, setzt sie es wieder ein Stück zusammen.

Alea liebt ihren Plus-Size-Körper, die Freiheit, sie selbst zu sein. Das verbreitet sie auch auf ihrem Body-Positivity-Account auf Social Media. Die Resonanz ihrer Follower bestärkt Alea, mit ihrer schwierigen Vergangenheit Frieden zu schließen. Aber es ist ein wackliger Frieden, den sie nur aufrecht erhalten kann, indem sie im realen Leben niemandem wirklich nahekommt. Das gilt insbesondere für Männer wie Titus, die Körper optimieren, anstatt Menschen zu akzeptieren, und damit für all das stehen, was Aleas Leben früher zur Hölle gemacht hat. Und doch ist Titus plötzlich da. In ihrer WG.

New Episodes Every Saturday!Everything you’re about to hear, actually happened. The story of Lance and shelly is…remarkable. Remarkable because they’re an entirely average couple. They’re the people you wait in line with at Walmart or walk past at the post office. They’re you and me. With one exception: they were completely honest with each other from the start about what they really want. Ever wonder what your sex life might be like if you really leveled with your partner? (Let’s find out)

Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality in her home. When social services jeopardize her safety, condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit of safety and justice, Brooke battles a broken court system that pushes to keep her father in the home.

Fourteen-year-old Sam Snyder thinks he is going on a short vacation to visit his godfather. Instead, his adoptive mother drops him off at a Baptist reform school in the backwoods of Missouri. Surrounded by razor-wire fences, violent at-risk youth, and oppressive staff, he quickly realizes that he's not in California anymore. Between fistfights, fire-and-brimstone sermons, and falling in love with a girl who he's never even spoken to, Sam struggles to keep his unbridled tongue and teenage lust in check in hopes of an early release.

Our prisons and mental hospitals are filled with tragic stories like Tuesday Storm's. Her early childhood was riddled with torturous "games" and violent physical attacks. She was isolated from the rest of her family, locked in an attic with nothing but a bare bed and a bucket for a toilet, and fed just enough to be kept alive. The experts say it's next to impossible to find the soul's light in a dark past like Tuesday's.

Not about boats. Dissecting movies Based on a true story. If you're like me, every time you watch a movie that's Based On A True Story (B.O.A.T.S.) you forever wonder just how closely the adaptation followed the original story. Well, let's find out! I'll do the reading and have my smart and funny friends on to discuss these films and see how true to life the Hollywood versions are. Come on in!

The sixth book in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s treasured Little House series, and the recipient of a Newbery Honor. The town of De Smet in the Dakota Territory is hit with terrible blizzards in the hard winter of 1880-81, and the Ingalls family must ration their food and coal. When the supply train...