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Join three of Catholicism’s leading biblical scholars in exploring the Gospels of Matthew, John, Luke, and Mark. Learn25 listeners have long gained knowledge and spiritual fulfillment from our biblical studies offerings. Now, featuring four illuminating courses from beloved scripture experts, this bundle offers close readings of the four gospels and places the texts in meaningful conversation with one another.

In Tracie Peterson's tale of love and suspense, 24-year old Cassandra works for a wealthy Philadelphia widow who treats her with grandmotherly kindness. But Cassie's 1857 life takes an unexpected turn when a Boston investigator asks her to pretend they're courting so he can get closer to a murder suspect - her employer's own son.

Immerse yourself in a collection of calm bedtime chronicles, featuring serene meditation narratives and mindful voyages meticulously crafted to ease the burdens of stress, insomnia, overthinking, and anxiety.

Boy: Novak turns 20 and takes a bus from New York to the end of the line, Flax Hill, Massachusetts. Here she finds Snow, a mild-mannered and deeply cherished girl. Snow displays a certain inscrutability that's simply harmless, until Boy gives birth to Snow's sister, Bird. When Bird is born Boy is forced to re-evaluate the image Snow's family have presented to her, and Boy, Snow, and Bird are broken apart.

What would you do if your son suddenly disappeared in Syria, and you had no idea what had happened to him? Would you contact the FBI? The State Department? Pray? Would you Google “What to do if your son disappears in Syria”? When the unthinkable happened, the answer, in the case of Ann Goodwin and her husband Tag, was: all of the above. Their 30-year-old son Sam, who was attempting to become one of the few people in history to travel to every single country on the planet, vanished in a supposed safe-zone run by the Kurds on the Turkish border.

Con l’azienda in bilico e l’Europa sconvolta dalla guerra, Nicole Clicquot trasforma la sua determinazione in genio. Nelle cantine di Reims perfeziona la tecnica del remuage, l’invenzione che renderà limpido e brillante lo champagne e cambierà per sempre l’arte del vino. Sfida i blocchi commerciali, inganna i confini e porta le sue bottiglie fino alle corti di Russia, conquistando il mondo con il suo coraggio e la sua visione.

Milano. L’architetto Mirella Bonetti trova un geometra morto assassinato in un ufficio del Comune e dà l’allarme. Anche se la polizia avvia l’inchiesta Mirella e la sua amica Anita conducono una indagine parallela, aggirandosi su un vecchio furgone per Milano e dintorni, con il loro linguaggio colorato, innaffiato dagli immancabili bianchini. Le due si rendono presto conto che tra i progetti vagliati dal geometra (buonanima) ce n’era uno che presentava... strane caratteristiche.

Milano 2006, un uomo lascia un’agendina nera su una panchina della stazione Certosa. Anita, che attende il treno al binario opposto, lo nota: è calvo e ben vestito, sembra guardare verso di lei, quasi a inviarle una muta richiesta di aiuto. Anita si decide, scende nel sottopassaggi, recupera l'agenda e rimane invischiata in un altro caso di omicidio per cui chiede l'aiuto dell'amica Mirella. Tra una cenetta e un aperitivo (e i numerosi “bianchini”) tocca ancora alle due squinzie milanesi spingersi fuori città sul vecchio furgoncino alla ricerca di indizi… ma soprattutto di guai.

Rimasta vedova troppo presto, Nicole Clicquot si trova sola in un mondo dominato dagli uomini. La morte di François spegne i sogni d’amore, ma non il fuoco che lui ha acceso in lei: la passione per la terra e per il vino. Mentre la Francia è travolta dalle guerre napoleoniche, Nicole osa ciò che nessuna donna ha mai fatto, prendere in mano l’azienda di famiglia e guidarla con coraggio, difendendo il nome Clicquot da chi la vorrebbe al suo posto: silenziosa, docile, dimenticata.

Milano, Cimitero Maggiore, all’improvviso tra le tombe iniziano a passeggiare personaggi che dovrebbero risiedere nei loculi. Zombie? Niente affatto, e ci vuole poco ad Anita Valli per capire che gatta ci cova. Forse l’agenzia di pompe funebri Legno di Pero ne sa qualcosa? Come è possibile che persone morte e sepolte vadano a zonzo così? E chi c’è nella tomba al posto loro? Insieme all'inseparabile amica Mirella, Anita avvia una nuova indagine strampalata che porta le due squinzie di via Gallarate ad occuparsi di clochard invisibili, sepolture sospette e baristi troppo gentili.

Cole Black detesta il Natale con tutto sé stesso: niente luci, niente biscotti, niente canzoncine né auguri. A Kringletown, dove lo spirito natalizio è legge, vorrebbe solo passare l'inverno per conto suo. Peccato che i suoi piani vengano mandati all'aria dal ritorno in città di Storee Taylor, sua storica nemesi dai capelli rossi fuoco, che si trasferisce nella casa accanto per prendersi cura della zia Cindy, vera icona natalizia della città. E, come se non bastasse, decide anche di partecipare al concorso locale in onore della zia.

Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. Una ragazza astuta e selvaggia, la sua bellezza pari solo all'intensità del suo desiderio di fuggire. María sa che non potrà essere altro che un premio, o una pedina, nei giochi degli uomini. Ma quando un'affascinante sconosciuta le offre un'alternativa, a guidare la sua scelta è la disperazione. E giura che non avrà rimpianti. Una storia che parla d'amore.

The Diary of Anne Frank is read and loved by children throughout the world. Yet few of those readers know what life was really like for the young Jewish girl before and after she wrote her famous diary.

Written in a lively yet sympathetic style, Anne Frank’s Story follows Anne Frank from her birth in Germany and her happy childhood in Amsterdam through the years she and her family spent in hiding from the Nazis, to her imprisonment and eventual death in the concentration camps.

Here’s the deal: chronic stress, anxiety, trauma—it’s all taking a toll on your nervous system, whether you realize it or not. And if left unchecked, these problems will get worse, not better. We’re talking about constant fatigue and a total breakdown of your physical and mental health. Not exactly the life you had in mind, right? But what if you had a roadmap—a proven blueprint—to actually heal your nervous system, so you can finally feel calm and in control again?

It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia and Drayton are catering a formal tea at a hot-air-balloon rally. But as the sky turns gray and the clouds start to boil up, a strange object zooms out of nowhere. It is a drone, and it appears to be buzzing around the balloons, checking them out. As Theodosia and Drayton watch, the drone, hovering like some angry, mechanized insect, deliberately crashes into the balloon next to them. An enormous, fiery explosion erupts, and everyone watches in horror as the balloon plummets to the earth, killing all three of its passengers.

Rejoins Mickey, Donald et tous leurs amis dans cette collection de six histoires qui font revivre les grands classique de L'île au trésor, Les Quatre Filles du docteur March, Robin des Bois, Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, Frankenstein et Don Quichotte dans de nouvelles version audio immersives avec une narration captivante, les voix originales, des effets sonores, ainsi qu’un accompagnement musical. Laisse-toi enchanter par le monde fantastique de DISNEY.

When Park Ranger Anna Pigeon answers a call to historic Mt. Locust, once a producing plantation and inn on Mississippi's Natchez Trace Parkway, the last thing she expects to encounter is a naked and very dead man. His body bears what looks like the brutal scars of an S&M ritual gone terribly wrong. When the deceased turned out to be the brother of a candidate for the office of local sheriff, a host of cover-ups, hidden agendas, old allegiances, and buried secrets begins to emerge.

On November 28, 1921, the head of the Bahá’í Faith, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, passed away. There were six Western believers in Haifa on the night of the ascension of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: Mr. John Bosch and Mrs. Louise Stapfer Bosch from Geyserville, California; Dr. Florian Krug and Mrs. Grace Krug from New York; and Fraulein Johanna Hauff from Stuttgart. All of them were there as pilgrims. The only other Western believer present in Haifa was Mr. Curtis Kelsey from New York, who was in Haifa to install electrical power plants to light the shrines of the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh.

You don't have to be an artist to use art for healing. In The Healing Power of Art, you will discover how to bring this natural healing power into your own life, even if you can draw only simple shapes and stick figures. With expressive-art therapist Barbara Ganim, you will learn how to access your own inner language of imagery - the key to healing with art.

Many experts have offered techniques on how to improve your own memory, but not how to influence other people's memory. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Impossible to Ignore is a practical step-by-step guide that will show you how to control the 10 percent that your audiences do remember by creating content that attracts attention, sharpens recall, and guides behavior toward a desired action.