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Ramona loves sand volleyball but has a hard time being a team player. When she learns that the court will be destroyed by a plastic company, she must learn the importance of being part of a team.

Comedian Jake Lambert sits down with his favourite fellow comedians to discuss their dream dinner party guests. But there's a twist! They can only pick three: One alive. One dead. One fictional. Follow Jake on Twitter and Instagram @LittleLostLad and/or contact him at guestlistwithjake@gmail.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/guest-list-with-jake-lambert. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sechs Gräber platzten auf wie überreife, schwarze Früchte. Der Boden flog durch die Luft, die Erde riss auf, und Blumen und Sträucher wurden hinweggefegt. Die Särge wurden, wie von Geisterhand, ächzend aus der Erde geschoben. Die schmalen Frontseiten durchstießen hart den Boden und kamen wie kantige Ungetüme aus der Tiefe. Wie Geschosse griffen sie an. Ihr Ziel: Menschen! Zur gleichen Zeit lag Iwan Kunaritschew, im San Franzisko Kentfield Hospital, im Sterben. Die PSA im Alarmzustand und Larry Brent im Kampf gegen seinen tödlichsten Gegner: VAROX!

Die Leiche von der Krankenschwester wurde zugedeckt und abtransportiert. Larry Brent alias X-RAY 3 und Captain Yankins verständigten sich, sofort auf eine Großfahndung. Die Stadt erlebte den größten Einsatz ihrer Geschichte. Sämtliche Ausfallstraßen wurden abgeriegelt. Jeder Wagen, der die Stadt verlassen wollte, wurde von bewaffneten Beamten kontrolliert. Was für eine Bestie war für die Morde in der Stadt verantwortlich? Larry Brent in tödlicher Gefahr.

Layla loves playing basketball, especially with her best friend, Danika. Now, after spending most of the summer getting ready for tryouts, Layla is eager to move from substitute player to becoming one of the starting five. When tryouts finally arrive, Layla not only makes the main roster but she’s also chosen to be the team captain. All of her friends and teammates are excited for her. All, that is, except Danika who is jealous of her friend’s success. Layla soon discovers that being both team captain and best friends with Danika is no easy task.

Since Derek is the tallest kid on his basketball team, his coach decides to have him play center instead of Jason. Derek thinks this is a lucky break, until Jason stops passing the ball to him.

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life...

Communicate boldly and effectively like never before with the help and guidance of a #1 New York Times bestselling author and trusted Bishop. In Don't Drop the Mic, Bishop Jakes speaks to readers about communication and how the ways we speak and interact with others can be part of our everyday...

Galactic Animals is a podcast where hosts Jarid Watson and Jake Richmond embark on a lively journey through science, human behavior, and the odd wonders of existence and being alive. Blending sharp wit, curiosity, and genuine conversation, they tackle life's biggest questions with a down-to-earth spirit.

Divots & Skins is a golf podcast for everyday golfers who love the game, the grind, and the stories that come with chasing better rounds. Hosted by Jake and Brett from Upstate New York, the show covers amateur golf, local courses, tournament play, simulator golf, golf rules, the mental-game, and plenty of laughs along the way. We’re not pros. We’re just two golfers who love competing, talking golf, and trying to get a little better one round at a time.

The Jake Gardanier Show is where real conversations happen. No scripts, no filters—just Jake talking through life, stories, and the things people don’t usually say out loud. Some episodes are solo, some with guests, but every episode feels like you’re in the room. Funny, honest, and a little bold.

Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute force―the yakuza. Saigo, nicknamed “The Tsunami”, quickly realizes that even within the organization, opinions are as varied as they come, and a clash of philosophies can quickly become deadly. One screw-up can cost you your life, or at least a finger.

The rest of the world is not far behind as volcano after volcano erupts, spewing not just magma and hot ash, but monsters of impossible size out onto the battered and broken surface. These monsters are hellbent on getting to North America to do battle with the behemoth that has broken free of the Yellowstone super volcano. A battle that could tear the Earth apart. It is now up to Adrianna VanderVoort, an unknown entity that has been given control of all human interests on the planet, to figure out how to keep the world from complete destruction.

Federal Marshal Lu Morgan and her ragtag group of survivors and government agents fought hard to stay alive and defeat the massive monsters, but now a second eruption has sent even more deadly creatures flying up into the ash-cloud that covers the land. The US government, the survivors of the eruption, and a team of scientists must fight a new evil that falls from the sky and turns animals, and people, into grotesque creatures bent on killing every living thing in their path.

Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941, years in which he and Walt were jointly driven to elevate animation as an art form, up through Snow White, Pinocchio, and Fantasia.

In Backwoods Witchcraft, Jake Richards offers up a folksy stew of family stories, lore, omens, rituals, and conjure crafts that he learned from his great-grandmother, his grandmother, and his grandfather, a Baptist minister who Jake remembers could "rid someone of a fever with an egg or stop up...

Soldier of fortune Prophet Drews always worked alone - until Tom Boudreaux became his partner. But when Tom walked away three months ago, ostensibly to keep Prophet safe, Prophet learned the true meaning of being alone. Everyone knows that Prophet, a Navy SEAL turned CIA spook turned mercenary, can look after himself. Which means he must've driven his lover away. Even with half a world between them, Prophet can't get the man out of his head.

From America's master storyteller and writer of historical fiction comes the dramatic conclusion to the North and South saga. The Civil War has ended, but the Hazards and Mains have yet to face their greatest struggles. Even as the embers of old hatreds continue to burn in the heart of a nation torn apart by war, a new future in the West awaits a new generation of Americans seeking a life of their own - and a place to call their own.

Ever since superspy Cillian moved into Prophet's building, their game of Steal the Couch has been funny to Prophet but a thorn in Tom's side. Then Prophet gets bored one night during an ice storm and insists on playing another simple game with Tom: Truth or Dare. In exchange for one of Prophet's truths, Tom steals the couch one last time. But Prophet's truths are never easy - Tom should know that by now - and this one raises questions neither of them quite knows how to answer.

Two strangers, young men from Pennsylvania and South Carolina, meet on the way to West Point.... Thus begins this brilliant novel of antebellum America, spanning three generations and chronicling the lives and loves of two great family dynasties. The Hazards and the Mains are brought together in bonds of friendship and affection that neither jealousy nor violence can shatter - until a storm of events sunders the nation and brings the cataclysm of war!