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Learn the history of the Spanish Inquisition with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. The Spanish Inquisition was a governing authority started by the crown in the late-15th century. It included a network of spies who worked across the state to ensure Spaniards conformed to the accepted behaviour of traditional Catholic subjects. t was relentless in ensuring Catholic orthodoxy within Spain. But why was Spain so self-conscious in ensuring a singular religious identity?

After witnessing his parents’ doomed love affair long ago, serial playboy Ash Younger decided that love was not meant for him. With his charm and good looks, he’s never lacked for beautiful women. He may push numbers as an accountant by day, but by night, he’s only interested in having a woman in his bed. Yet the night he encounters a mysterious - and gorgeous - widow who doesn’t immediately fall under his seductive spell, Ash realizes he wants her more than he’s ever wanted another woman. 

When aspiring actress Lucy Younger arrives on Hazel Island to film her first movie, she thinks she’s finally caught her big break. What could be better than spending her summer on a beautiful island while catching the attention of her mega-famous costar? Enter Carter Roberts: baseball player, playboy, and the most obnoxious, arrogant, and sexy man Lucy has ever had the misfortune to meet. Soon, Carter offers her a role she can’t turn down: play his fake girlfriend and make her costar wild with jealousy. 

Merciless and driven, billionaire Anthony Bertram built his company from the ground up, dedicating every waking moment to creating one of the most powerful corporations in the world. The last thing he has time for is romance. He almost lost everything when his first marriage fell apart. Disillusioned from his divorce, Anthony knows from experience that love only makes you weak. 

Curvy single mom and the wounded hero. Together in a brother's best friend romance. She's my best friend's little sister. A single mom who doesn't have time to waste on an older, wounded ex-mercenary. She's off-limits. And yet, I still moved to her hometown. I blame it on the job offer and the...

Im Märchenhörspiel Dornröschen trifft das beliebte Märchen der Brüder Grimm auf die zauberhafte Musik von Peter Tschaikowski. Erzähler, Schauspielstimmen und Orchester lassen Prinzessin, Spindel, Dornenhecke und den mutigen Prinzen lebendig werden. Zwischen Feenfluch, tiefem Schlaf und erlösendem Kuss begleitet klassische Musik jede Szene und führt Kinder sanft durch Spannung und Gefühl.

A meteorite is a mass of stone or metal which has reached the earth's surface from outer space. There are various names for a meteorite depending on where it is situated. While it is traveling in space, it is referred to as a "meteoroid". When it passes through the earth's atmosphere and produces a fiery streak in the sky, known as a "shooting star", it is called a "meteor".

My grizzly bear is one step away from snapping, and I feel like I'm losing my mind. He has one overwhelming obsession. Finding her. My mate. The one I'm destined to be with. Watching my siblings find their mates while mine never shows up is enough to kill a man. But just as I'm about to crack, she walks into my life, all soft curves and shy smiles. The second I smell her sweet, intoxicating scent, the beast goes quiet. We know she's mine. The torturous wait is finally over. All that's left to do is mark her. But there's a problem. I have a secret that's enough to make her stay away forever.

A Gaborone, capitale del Botswana, la signora Precious Ramotswe è molto rispettata: è la fondatrice della Ladies Detective Agency N. 1, la prima e unica agenzia investigativa del piccolo paese dell'Africa meridionale diretta da una donna. Suo padre avrebbe preferito che aprisse una macelleria...

Entre fondue, faux flirt et vrai danger, Billie va découvrir qu'au chalet, l'amour n'est jamais là où on l'attend. Billie, coiffeuse pétillante et malentendante, ne rate jamais son traditionnel séjour d'hiver à La Clusaz avec sa bande d'amis. Au programme : fondue, fous rires… et peut-être un (tout petit) plan pour séduire Tristan, le militaire aussi taciturne que canon. Mais cette année, rien ne se passe comme prévu. Son grand-père veut vendre le chalet familial adoré. Le village bruisse de rumeurs inquiétantes : un gang de bikers des neiges rôde.

Träume kennen keine Herkunft: die Geschichte eines unwahrscheinlichen Aufstiegs Mahmut Martin Yüksel wächst als Kind jesidisch-kurdischer Eltern in einem Dorf in Niedersachsen auf. Am Küchentisch fliegt eine bunte Mischung aus Sprachen hin und her: Georgisch,Türkisch und Kurdisch – und...

Becoming a godfather was a close second. Paul and Emily Clarke have been my best friends for over twenty years. We've gone through it all. We were the three musketeers. When my best friends are ripped from all of our lives, leaving behind a broken piece of themselves, I know it's up to me to put things back together.

Dante Marino’s the definition of beautiful destruction. Everything he touched, he destroyed...including me. We were friends. Then we weren't. He used me. Played me. Took every ounce of my affection and threw it away. He became my enemy, then risked everything to save me. Now, he wants me back, claiming he's changed - determined to make me his. Each vow, every possessive kiss, feels like he’s mine. But I can't forget that underneath his rock-hard body, seductive grin, and wicked promises, one thing will always remain true - he's my undoing.

 The Support Verses: Earliest Sayings of the Buddha is Christopher Carter Sanderson’s best English translation of the title of The Dhammapada, usually transliterated from its original language - Pali, a language older than Sanskrit. While some of the verses in it are in Pali, others have come to us only in Sanskrit. The Dhammapada could be considered the single most ubiquitous collection of the Buddha’s sayings in existence across all Buddhist traditions. 

Mount Everest is situated in the Himalayan Mountains, on the border between Nepal and Tibet. It is the tallest mountain in the world, standing roughly 29,029 feet above sea level. Every year, Everest gets taller by about half an inch. This is due to movements in the Earth's crust and two tectonic plates, deep beneath the Earth's surface, pushing together.

If you're watching a movie where a world-weary detective is having trouble with a "dame" or a "broad", and cigarette smoke is wafting through the scene - you're probably appreciating a bit of "film noir". Film noir literally means black film referring to both the look and the attitude of these movies.

Science fiction is a portal that opens doors onto futures too rich and strange to imagine. Fantasy takes us through doorways of magic and wonder. For more than a decade award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has sifted through tens of thousands of stories to select the best, the most interesting, the most engaging science fiction and fantasy to thrill and delight readers. 

Learn about the Seven Wonders of the World with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. Twenty-five hundred years ago, people began to talk about the wondrous structures they had seen in their travels around the Mediterranean. In 222 B.C., Philo of Byzantium wrote an essay called "On the Seven Wonders".

Esta saga da zona cacaueira, escrita na juventude de Jorge Amado em 1934, surpreendeu a crítica e os leitores da época pelo frescor de sua linguagem e pela crueza com que denunciava as duras condições de vida dos trabalhadores rurais do sul da Bahia. Segundo livro de Jorge Amado, Cacau é...

Hørespillet SoMe Syndflod Komedie af Ane Gudrun (Audioteater) Ni personer bliver fanget på et hotel i regnen. De er nødt til at interagere med hinanden og flettes derved ind i hinandens skæbner. Imens de er på hotellet, stiger vandmasserne udenfor vanvittigt. Personerne har alt for travlt...