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Childless couple Robin and Wendy have developed an obsession with Mayfield - the model village they've built in their garage. However, running a model village is slightly more complicated than they expected, especially as they live next-door to Derek, a former superstar salesman who is struggling with the erratic side effects of mental health medication, and Maureen, who is always getting involved in get-rich-quick schemes.

Aufruhr in der Familienresidenz des stellvertretenden Verteidigungsministers: Mordanschlag auf die Tochter des Hauses. Ein Eindringling wollte sie mit einem Dinosaurierknochen erschlagen. Aber wie ist er in ihr fensterloses Zimmer gelangt, zumal auch die Tür verschlossen war? Ein Kriminalfall ganz nach dem Geschmack von Auguste Dupin! Zusammen mit seinem Freund und Chronisten Edgar Allan Poe nimmt er sich des Rätsels um das "gelbe Zimmer" an.

Astra Bishop loves her job as a reiki master. There's only one problem. She believes one of her clients is stealing her energy. She gets a bad vibe, and Astra is all about vibes and energies. So when the elderly woman holds her up at gunpoint, Astra is caught between her feelings being vindicated that she knew something was off, and fearing for her life. It's not like she can defend herself against the little old lady!

As the world struggles with the coronavirus, a nefarious secret society consisting of powerful global elites are conspiring to rule the entire planet through an authoritarian world government in which they control everything from the banks to the media. They achieve this by owning 99% of the world's wealth. They come from ancient family bloodlines and pass down their power from generation to generation. For thousands of years, they have been doing this with one goal in sight - complete and total supremacy on Earth. This is the darkest, untold tale of the war to control the masses.

I thought the only woman I ever loved died in a car crash... Until I found her ten years later - a miracle. Her memory is missing, but it doesn't matter. I’ve reclaimed her heart, and we're going to be married. But my enemies are gunning for her. They know what she means to me. Can I destroy them and protect her before it's too late?

I have secrets - old, ugly ones that can destroy the fragile bond between me and Ivy. So I stay silent, feel them fester and eat at me. But Ivy's ignorance isn't anyone's bliss. It's making her vulnerable to our enemies. And my keeping the secrets is nothing less than a betrayal. When she finds out, I might lose the only thing I've ever wanted...Ivy's love.

This radio dramatization of the classic movie, which also starred Brian Donlevy and Robert Preston, originally aired on October 26, 1942.

Some of the cast and production team are interviewed about their roles and the making of the 1997 hit film The Full Monty. Interviews with Hugo Speer, Simon Beaufoy, Petter Cattaneo, Ulberto Pasolini and Jill Taylor. Listen to find out about the cast's first reaction to the script, first auditions, how the script developed before filming and where the idea for the film actually came from. Includes many more fascinating facts and insights from such a funny, successful and widely known film!

Some of the cast and production team are interviewed about the making of huge 1996 hit film Trainspotting. Interviews with Danny Boyle, Robert Carlyle, Kave Quinn, Rachel Fleming, Masahiro Hirakubo and Brian Tufano. Listen to opinions on what Danny Boyle is like as a director, how decisions were made about the film and how the music played a bit part. Includes more fascinating facts and insights from such a hugely successful and well-known film!

The story of Jamie Bérubé’s journey to adulthood and a meditation on disability in American life Published in 1996, Life as We Know It introduced Jamie Bérubé to the world as a sweet, bright, gregarious little boy who loves the Beatles, pizza, and making lists. When he is asked in his...

An inspiring and dramatically paced introduction to the prophet and founder of the Bahá’í Faith, The Story of Bahá’u’lláh presents in a clear narrative style the life of the prophet from his birth into a wealthy and noble family, through his transforming spiritual experience while incarcerated in the infamous subterranean dungeon, the Black Pit of Tehran, followed by decades of harsh and increasingly remote exile ending with incarceration in the prison city of Acre, Palestine (now Israel).

Die Ereignisse in New Orleans spitzen sich immer weiter zu. Dracula kann nicht verhindern, dass er von seinem ärgsten Feind Van Helsing überwältigt und in das Zellengefängnis im Sheriffbüro gesperrt wird. Doch es gibt noch Hoffnung: Theodora Sachs ist Draculas Verbindung zur Außenwelt. Sie wird zu seinem verlängerten Arm. Währenddessen geschieht das Entsetzliche: Eine gefährliche Kreatur, die die Stadt bedroht, ist wieder erwacht und hat einen Weg in die Freiheit gefunden.

Zane Grey is considered the creator of the Western genre and remains its most popular author. The famous critic T. K. Whipple praised a typical Grey novel as a modern version of the ancient Beowulf saga, "a battle of passions with one another and with the will, a struggle of love and hate, or remorse and revenge, of blood, lust, honor, friendship, anger, grief—all of a grand scale and all incalculable and mysterious." This fourth Volume contains four more of his novels: The Light of Western Stars, The UP Trail, The Spirit of the Border and The Call of the Canyon.

Nine classic plays from the award-winning American dramatist, plus a selection of his poetry Eugene O'Neill’s revolutionary 20th century dramas changed the direction of American theatre, introducing European realism and experimental techniques to the US stage. He wrote more than 50 plays...

Victor Frankenstein, Theodora Sachs und Aleister Crowley gelingt es, Bruder Ares und Bruder Elias in eine Art Heilschlaf zu versetzen. Als die beiden Wachmänner daraus erwachen, sind sie sich sicher, dass es sich bei Frankenstein tatsächlich um einen Nachfahren des Äskulaps handelt. Kurzerhand lassen sie die Gefangenen frei und zetteln einen Aufstand an, der Tote und Verletzte mit sich bringt. Frankenstein gelingt es unterdessen, unbemerkt in den Raum zu gelangen, in dem das Bild aufbewahrt wird.

This bumper collection of the funniest anecdotes, jokes and stories from cricket's best-loved personalities proves that cricket is a funny game - even when rain stops play! In this special audio edition, you can hear not only the most popular stories told by five of the game's all-time great...

Die junge Adele Payton-Croxton findet nach dem Tode ihrer Tante Phoebe auf deren Dachboden ein Buddelschiff mit einer Botschaft darin. Ist der alte Kapitän Eugene Croxton, von dem sie noch nie gehört hat, tatsächlich ihr Vorfahr? Und hat er wirklich eine Schatzkarte in dem alten Buddelschiff versteckt? In kürzester Zeit hat sich eine illustre Schar von Interessenten eingefunden, die es auf den Schatz abgesehen hat. Und fast ebenso schnell kommt es zu einem Mord, und die Karte verschwindet ...

This final Boxed set of Zane Grey's novels features three of his most popular titles: The Border Legion, Betty Zane, and The Desert of Wheat.

Carter Roth, Angestellter in einer Firma für Unterwassertechnik, stürzt während der Arbeit von einem Gerüst und wird schwerverletzt in ein Krankenhaus eingewiesen. Doch war es tatsächlich nur ein Arbeitsunfall? Schließlich war Carter Roth schon zuvor in eine Reihe merkwürdiger Unfälle verwickelt. Auf Bitten der Schwester übernimmt Sherlock Holmes den Fall. Schnell wird klar, dass in der Firma etwas aufbewahrt wird, das von großem Interesse für den Zirkel der Sieben sein könnte.

Im Umfeld von Don Dino Margheriti braut sich etwas zusammen. Knapp überlebt er einen Anschlag. Kaum aus dem Hospital entlassen versuchen es seine Gegner erneut, diesmal mit blutigem Erfolg! Pikanterweise gibt es nur einen Überlebenden: Don Dinos Schützling Saverio Loffredo! Keiner glaubt so recht an einen Zufall, dass ausgerechnet der junge Emporkömmling das Massaker kaum verletzt überlebt hat! Auch Commissario Ferro fragt sich, ob Saverio hinter dem feigen Attentat steckt. Es regt sich massiver Widerstand gegen Saverio als Nachfolger, auch wenn dies Don Dinos Wille gewesen ist.