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When a legendary old gunslinger finally meets his Maker in some godforsaken West Texas town, Stringer heads to the scene for what he thinks is a routine story. But when he gets to Comanche Woe, it turns out he's landed in the middle of a dust storm of trouble. It's open season on wanted men. A wily varmint called Buckskin Jack Blair has crowned himself Marshal. And murderous vigilantes and bounty hunters are crawling out of the woodwork. When the bullets start flying, Stringer can't tell the outlaws from the lawmen…

Dead men don't tell tales. Neither do dead women or children. And when their corpses have been dryin' out in the desert sun for fifty years, there's nary a whisper left of what happened. So when the six Mojave mummies are found near Esperanza, it's up to Stringer to get the story. But someone in Esperanza wants him to just plain git.... First there's that invite to butt out, signed with a skull. Then the town welcome wagon wants to give him a buckshot bouquet.

A BBC Radio 4 bittersweet romantic drama by award-winning writer Lou Ramsden, starring Kathryn Hunt and Nicholas Boulton, originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 15 April 2011. Hazel (Kathryn Hunt) spends her life describing plays for visually impaired people. But when she starts to describe the real world to her new friend Davy (Nicholas Boulton), is she giving an accurate picture of the world around her?

Everyone knows that Salton's Sink is the driest patch of greasewood in the whole damned Colorado Desert. So when a slick land syndicate promises cheap water to a pack of greenhorn settlers, Stringer is more than a mite suspicious.

Even a newspaperman with Stringer MacKail's brand of courage knows you can't cover a stalemated miners' strike without getting on somebody's fightin' side. But that won't stop Stringer from trying to get some ink on the gold miners' sit-down out in Cripple Creek. Unfortunately, the only word he's heard so far is vamoose. Seems the Mine Owners' Association doesn't take kindly to pesky reporters, and would like to put Stringer out of commission-for keeps. That is, if Big Bill Heywood and his Federation of Miners don't do it first....

When Mary Lou Quinlan’s beloved mother, Mary Finlayson, dies, her family is bereft - until Mary Lou searches for her mother’s "God Box", her private cache of notes to God on behalf of family, friends, and strangers. To Mary Lou’s amazement, she finds not one but 10 boxes stuffed with hundreds of tiny petitions that span the last 20 years of her mother’s life.

Note by note, Mary Lou unearths a treasure of her mother’s wishes and worries and insight. Mary asked God for everything from the right flooring for her daughter’s home to a cure for her own blood cancer.

Koda was a good little bear and he always listened to his Mother and she told him not to wander away because he might get lost. Koda snuck away while she was in the water looking for a fish for him. Then he saw the butterflies and he followed them into the forest he wanted to know where they were going. He wanted to play with his new friends. After chasing them further away from his Mother, he was tired of chasing them so he laid on the grass.

After the release of his new book, entitled War on the Middle Class, Lou Dobbs details the ways that our middle class is being oppressed by the government, big business, and special interest groups - and how to fight back. In an intense political discussion, with topics ranging from immigration to free trade, Dobbs explains that we must get back to the roots to which this nation was founded to re-establish our values as Americans.

Usually it takes Stringer a little while to rile folks in a new town. But no sooner does he step off the train in Tulsa, than some sidewinder is doing his best to turn Stringer into yesterday's news. The hot story in Tulsa is the oil boom. It seems you can't dig a grave without hitting black gold. And Stringer's there to write the story. But MacKail's never seen such a sorry assortment of low-down, hornswoggling bushwhackers. Because, as Stringer well knows, where there's money, there's outlaws and lawyers....

The way Stringer sees it, some cuss hard-up for a laugh planted that news tip about Tombstone being flooded, because that dusty town is about as dry as they come. But Stringer sure as hell ain't laughing when his newspaper boss sends him to Arizona to root out the truth. And the fast-gun that's trying to kill him, ain't kidding.

Through these seminars, attendees learned how to apply the principles of Think — Grow Rich in various investment disciplines, from Property Investment to FOREX Trading to Stock Market Investment and Trading as well as other financial instruments and strategies. Although the seminars were held in Australia, the strategies apply globally. This program reveals how to maximize your investment returns by trading in the FOREX markets - the biggest market on earth.

Del 2: Kärlekens mörker. Tillsammans med sonen Albert kan hon äntligen leva i lugn och ro. Mannen som plågat dem är borta ur bilden. Under en sensommarkväll med grillning i trädgården lär hon känna sina nya grannar. De blir vänner och en kväll följer hon med till ett dansställe. Där blir hon uppbjuden av en trevlig man. Kort därpå börjar en ny medarbetare på hennes arbetsplats. Det är han, mannen från dansen! Hon faller för Rickard med de varma ögonen och de blir snabbt ett par. Lyckan är fullständig när de väntar sitt gemensamma barn. Men när deras dotter föds blir Rickard som förbytt.

En kall höstdag. Regndroppar som öser ner på altantaket. Hon värmer sina händer runt koppen med nybryggt kaffe och medan hon lyssnar på regndropparna som faller mot altantaket undrar hon hur mycket en människa ska behöva stå ut med? Var går gränsen för misshandel och psykisk tortyr? Hon är en ensamstående mamma när drömprinsen Jonas dyker upp på nätet. Kort efter deras första möte flyttar han in och allt känns bra, tills han visar sitt rätta ansikte - som kvinnomisshandlare och våldtäktsman.

November 1963: Amerika befindet sich in Schockstarre. Präsident Kennedy ist gerade in Dallas erschossen worden. Auch den sonst nie um ein Wort verlegenen Frank Guidry macht die Nachricht sprachlos. Einige Tage zuvor hat er seinem Boss, der Mafiagröße Carlos Marcello, einen Gefallen getan und unweit des Tatorts ein Auto abgestellt. Ein Fluchtwagen, wie es nun scheint. Da Frank weder verhaftet, noch als Mitwisser zum Schweigen gebracht werden will, muss er die Stadt schnellstmöglich verlassen.

"Max Werner kam neben eine junge Russin zu sitzen, die er zum ersten Mal sah, - ihren langklingenden Namen überhörte er bei der Vorstellung, doch wurde sie von den anderen einfach als Fenia oder Fénitschka angeredet. In ihrem schwarzen nonnenhaften Kleidchen, das fast drollig unpariserisch ihre mittelgroße ganz unauffällige Gestalt umschloss und eine beliebte Tracht vieler Züricher Studentinnen sein sollte, machte sie zunächst auf ihn keinerlei besonderen Eindruck."

Adine ist in Paris Künstlerin geworden. Nun wirft sie einen Rückblick in ihre Vergangenheit und erkennt in ihrer Beziehung zu ihrem Jugendfreund Benno "wieviel weniger unser Leben von dem abhängt, was wir bewusst erfahren und treiben, als von heimlichen, unkontrollierbaren Nerveneindrücken." Mit der Einsicht, dass die "Liebesleidenschaft wie die letzte und äußerste Einsamkeit" ist, offenbart sich ihr das Machtverhältnis zweier Liebender in dem stets eine Unterwerfung verborgen ist.

An uplifting comedy drama about the life, loves and misadventures of wheelchair user Maz. Nicknamed Tinsel Girl by her best friend Lisa because of her sparkly view of life, wheelchair user Maz is one of life's eternal optimists. She has just turned 30, only to become all too aware that not only is she single but also disabled. Her degenerative disease means she now has to use a motorised wheelchair, which isn't exactly the sexiest accessory a girl can have!

In A Prairie Devotional, former child actress Wendi Lou Lee, who played Grace Ingalls on the TV show, is an ideal source of unique stories and spiritual insights that give listeners a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the hearts and souls of the series’ beloved characters.

Noviembre de 1963.

Se le acabó la suerte a Frank Guidry. A la sombra del prominente capo de la mafia, Carlos Marcello, la combinación de encanto, inteligencia y astucia de Guidry lo lleva los primeros puestos del negocio. Pero todo cambia repentinamente cuando una horrible tragedia golpea al mundo: John F. Kennedy es asesinado a tiros en la plaza Dealey. Guidry había estado en Dallas menos de dos semanas antes, cumpliendo una tarea para Carlos, y no puede evadir la creciente sospecha de que está involucrado en el asesinato más escandaloso de la historia.

Visiting Beijing in January 2020 to see his dying grandfather, the Canadian journalist Ethan Lou unknowingly walks into a state under siege. In his journey out of China and - unwittingly - into other hot zones in Asia and Europe, he finds himself witnessing the very earliest stages of a virus that will forever change the world as we know it.