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The complicated history of the Saxton house has been long forgotten. Few in the town of Cypress Creek even remember the house and what had occurred inside its walls decades before. In the present time, author Rob Hooper and his wife, Janet, are looking for a quiet place to live. The grandiose, isolated Victorian-style relic is everything they could want. A mysterious, widowed owner offers them a deal that can't be passed up. But they quickly discover that some things are too good to be true.

La realizzazione dell’interpretazione dei versi dell’Inferno di Dante Alighieri è nata grazie alla passione per la Letteratura Italiana da parte di vari attori che hanno fatto da corollario, facendosi corpo, voce, riso, pianto e preghiera di tutti i personaggi della Divina Commedia.

Being a traveler, Aditya's life revolves around meeting locals, exploring the world, and helping people in any way possible. Aditya meets his contrast in Zinnia, who prefers stability in life, while staying as a tenant in her mother’s house. His adventurous way of living life is challenged when he develops strong feelings for Zinnia, who considers his way of life as a prolonged hobby. While helping Jacqueline, an emotionally distraught girl, into shaping her life in a new way, he realizes he feels lost, for the first time in his life, without Zinnia.

In this biography, Plutarch states that Tiberius Gracchus was known more for his virtue than for his achievements. Tiberius’ virtue, and thus his legacy, lies in his actions as a reformer. Himself a plebeian leader, he sought to aid the poor by giving them some of the land belonging to wealthy landowners. These reforms shook the Roman world and led to his assassination, making Tiberius a martyr for working-class people and the politicians who fight for their rights.

Left for dead by an assassin I called a friend, I wake in the most unlikely of scenarios—stranded more than five hundred years in the past on the world of Akilo. Thankfully, I'm not alone. Smoulder was waiting for me, the little doom-bunny having missed me almost as much as I missed her. Turns out she's been tagging along with a figure straight out of Akilo's legends, the warrior Queen Uthica. While helping said legend with her quest, I thrive under her tutelage, bringing my spells to a whole new level.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE PRODUCED BY SEAN BAKER. Oh, the places a whore will go: Strip clubs, four-star hotels, stinking basement apartments, luxury cottages. A striking memoir by Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin documents Andrea's sex work career in lush photography and powerful words—in all...

Captain Cross, Doktor Petrova und Lieutenant Larik fliegen mit der MÖBIUS zur Heimatwelt der Zukunftsrebellen, um die geretteten Offiziere nach Hause zu bringen. Doch die Sternennation steht kurz vor der Auslöschung durch die Ash'Gul'Kon. Admiral Pelsano will helfen, aber das Parlament billigt keinen Einsatz. Das Ende scheint unausweichlich. Unterdessen sieht sich die Republik mit der Rückkehr des letzten Gefangenen sowohl einer innenpolitischen Krise als auch einer humanitären Katastrophe gegenüber.

"German Liebe" fragt sich: Wie liebt Deutschland? Um Antworten zu finden, reist Reporterin Andrea Hanna Hünniger quer durch Deutschland: Sie schaut in Schlösser, Schlafzimmer und Gotteshäuser. Sie trifft Menschen, die auf die unterschiedlichsten Arten lieben oder über die Liebe nachdenken. Gemeinsam mit Teresa Sickert und Daniel Hirsch wagt sie mit "German Liebe" eine Vermessung der Gefühle und Lebensmodelle unabhängig von Alter, Milieu und Klischees.

Oscar Wilde's Salome was originally published in French in 1891 and translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas. This one-act play, a sinister tale of a woman scorned and her vengeance, has become a landmark of Decadent literature. The play tells the biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the dance of the seven veils.

Generations of children have learnt from nursery rhymes how to count, tell the time, name different colours and shapes – all sorts of things. Here’s a clever new collection with lots of surprises. Traditional songs such as ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’, ‘Jack and Jill’ and ‘Mary had a Little Lamb’, new versions, and some original rhymes chosen or written by popular children’s book presenter and writer Mark Macleod, all set to music. The perfect audio collection for the whole family to enjoy!

Publius Cornelius Tacitus (c. 56 to c. 120 AD) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire, and considered to be one of the greatest Roman historians. Five works ascribed to Tacitus have survived. The surviving portions of his two major works, the Annals and the Histories span the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus, in 14 AD, to the years of the First Jewish-Roman War, in 70 AD.

Before his assassination, Julius Caesar named his great nephew Gaius Octavius as his successor. In this excerpt from The Twelve Caesars, Roman biographer Suetonius tells the life story of Octavius, who took the name Augustus when he became emperor. While Augustus did have a military career, Suetonius focuses on the dramatic details of Augustus’ personal life, making this biography more gossip-filled than its contemporaries.

Nano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscale - the infinitesimal realm of proteins and DNA where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet - and introduces listeners to the rapidly evolving nanotechnologies that are allowing us to manipulate the very building blocks of life. Sonia Contera gives an insider's perspective on this new frontier, revealing how nanotechnology enables a new kind of multidisciplinary science that is poised to give us control over our own biology, our health, and our lives.

A Blue no le gusta ser Blue. Se conformaría con ser normal, aunque el mundo se esfuerce en recordarle que no encaja en esa definición. Jake no está seguro de ser feliz siendo Jake. Así que, cuando comienza a cruzarse con versos por el instituto, los va recogiendo y, sin darse cuenta, acaba embarcándose en la misión más loca de su vida: encontrar a la chica que los ha escrito.

Matt is running from a life that he no longer wants, and he’s found a solution. By logging in to the newest game, Livia, he gains chances that he can’t get anywhere else. Matt chooses to cut out a new life for himself on the edge of civilization, by venturing to the frontier town of Tallrock. As soon as he gains his class, the newly minted Cycle Mage has one goal: farming.

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Im Supermarkt lernt Judith, Mitte Dreißig und Single, Hannes kennen. Kurz darauf taucht er in dem edlen kleinen Lampengeschäft auf, das Judith führt. Hannes, Architekt, ledig und in den besten Jahren, ist nicht nur der Traum aller Schwiegermütter - auch Judiths Freundeskreis ist restlos begeistert von diesem zielstrebigen Mann, der nur sie im Kopf zu haben scheint. Aber nach und nach empfindet sie seine ständigen Liebesbeweise und seine intensive Zuwendung als erdrückend. Er verfolgt sie bis in ihre Träume, und wenn sie aufwacht, wartet er schon wieder auf sie, um ihr Gutes zu tun...

Travis Sterling has escaped a life of slavery and has attained incredible magical potential, but he is still vulnerable. What’s more, inheriting Odin’s mantle has automatically earned him a slew of enemies. But now that Trav has power and freedom, he needs a plan. What’s more, he must explore who he is and what he is becoming.

In "La società della performance", Maura Gancitano e Andrea Colamedici proseguono la linea tracciata da Guy Debord con "La società dello spettacolo" e da Byung-Chul Han con "Psicopolitica", rivelando come la condizione dell'uomo contemporaneo sia strutturata per sostituire al mondo l'imitazione del mondo, all'espressione di sé l'esibizione di sé, alla narrazione lo storytelling, alla ricerca del senso della vita la ricerca di un livello sempre maggiore di benessere e visibilità.

It has taken some adjustment, but Nita Graus has made quite a home for herself among the crew of the Wind Breaker. Under her skillful care it has become one of the only airships to stay aloft without the continuous repair and oversight of the vile and manipulative fug folk. Word of her adventures with Captain Mack, Gunner, Lil, Cooper, and Wink has made the whole crew into living legends among the residents of the mountain towns of Rim.