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From monsters to witches and ancient libraries to lost islands, The Life Fantastic seeks to trace the origins of ideas, their surprising paths, and unexpected ways in which they interact and manifest throughout history. By digging around the roots of literary genres, popular stories, and ancient myths, Noa propels the listener back and forth through time, from high to popular culture, from art to politics and religion, on a journey to ever-expanding horizons. This is an invitation to explore the collective subconscious of Western culture.

Jenny has brought us her first book of poetry. She writes about life in ways that make us feel she is writing just for us.

Much of our physiological hardwiring still dates back to when we were cave people. The human body hasn't evolved to our 21st-century, stress-filled lifestyles, and we're paying the price—we're dEvolving. The Resiliency rEvolution is your stress solution. Rather than letting stress diminish your life, you can become more resilient to it. Using your primitive hardwiring to your advantage, you can learn how to recover from stress more quickly and raise your threshold for it. Utilizing realistic and manageable tactics, you'll soon be on your way toward a more resilient life.

Die gutsituierte Familie McTavish wird Opfer einer grauenvollen Tragödie. Bei einem Brand kommt der junge Sohn Evan ums Leben. Holmes und Watson geraten zufällig an den Ort des Geschehens, können aber nicht mehr helfen. Holmes ahnt, dass hier einiges nicht mit rechten Dingen zugeht.

Nanny ohne Berührungsängste mit britischen CEOs gesucht! Anwalt Gabriel Chase ist einer der erfolgreichsten Geschäftsmänner Londons. Doch seine ganze Aufmerksamkeit gehört seiner vierjährigen Tochter. Für Beziehungen oder so etwas wie Liebe hat der alleinerziehende Vater keine Zeit! Wäre da nicht Autumn Lumen, die Frau, die er nicht mehr aus dem Kopf bekommt. Zum Glück ist Autumn nur für einen Auftrag ihrer Firma in London und bald auf dem Rückweg in die USA.

Entdecken Sie in dieser Ausgabe 6/2022 von "Spotlight Audio" die spektakuläre Berglandschaft der Sierra Nevada in Kalifornien. Ebenfalls in dieser Ausgabe: Der Leiter des Internationalen Komitees vom Roten Kreuz in Ägypten und außerdem hilfreiche Tipps, wie Sie in schwierigen Situationen effektiv zuhören und sich selbst ausdrücken können. Englisch lernen mit "Spotlight Audio". Inhalt: Audio-Download inkl. Booklet mit allen gesprochenen Texten zum Nachlesen und zweisprachigem Glossar (PDF-Format), Sprache: Englisch.

Chloe Watson is just starting to get used to her inter-dimensional career, her covert relationship with the boss, and her life as a cross-dimensional traveler when a last-minute promotion, a galaxywide tournament, and an unexpected stowaway manage to throw a wrench in her status quo. Unless she can sort out a string of parallel abductions, deal with an infestation of Lemurian bedbugs, and get her local pet-store associate back home before the woman blows the whistle, everything Chloe has going for her will be history.

In der Ausgabe 7/2022 von Spotlight Audio erfahren Sie, wie London sich auf seine Vergangenheit besinnt und gleichzeitig eine grünere Zukunft anstrebt. In "Poetry Corner" vergleicht William Shakespeare seine Geliebte in bunter Bildersprache mit dem englischen Wetter. Und in "A Day in My Life" lernen Sie einen Ziegenzüchter auf der hawaiianischen Insel Maui kennen. Englisch lernen mit Spotlight Audio. Inhalt: Audio-Download inkl. Booklet mit allen gesprochenen Texten zum Nachlesen und zweisprachigem Glossar (PDF-Format), Sprache: Englisch.

Welcome to Arthur Smith's 26-bedroom mock-Tudor manor house, in the heart of international Balham. Behind his front door are a plethora of prodigiously talented performers, all ready and eager to entertain. There's jamming in the kitchen, laughter in the lounge and poetry on the landing - and a whole lot more fun and frolics going on upstairs...

Riley James couldn't have loved her adoptive parents more if she had been their biological daughter. They had never hidden the fact that she was adopted, and as she got older, so grew her curiosity about the parents who gave her life. So with the blessing of her mother and father and dire warnings from her friend, Lisa, Riley sets out on a journey of discovery and travels south to Brisbane to find her birth mother. Maggie is thrilled to meet Riley, but her husband is overseas on business, and she wants to tell him about Riley first before telling the rest of her family.

It’s a decade following WWI, in a small village of Nova Scotia. Maggie Conrad, a young war widow, lives with her father and younger brother, helping them manage a small store. After the sudden death of her father, Maggie finds their finances in shambles. Instead of moping around or choosing to "settle down", she decides to sell the store and relocate to the city in the hope of finding a job. Thus starts her adventure.

Dorothy Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in 1771, being one year younger than her brother William. After their mother died in 1778, they were separated and did not return to the Lake District until 1794, when they spent two happy months walking around the hills near Keswick, eventually settling down at Grasmere in 1799. The journals that Dorothy kept are remarkable for the detailed observations she makes of the surrounding countryside and people, often providing glimpses of poverty and suffering, as well as displaying her complete love affair with nature.

Regel Nr. 1 für einen Urlaub mit Freunden: Verlieb dich nie in den Gastgeber! Ein Sommer in den Hamptons, das klingt nach Strand, Eiscreme und Badevergnügen. Die Realität, in der Anna im Urlaub mit der Familie ihrer Schwester und deren Freunden gelandet ist, sieht leider anders aus. Annas Urlaubsbegleiter zanken über alles: ob die Kinder beim Essen fernsehen dürfen, ob rohe Zucchini giftig und Pools gefährlich sind. Allein ihr Gastgeber, der attraktive Bestseller-Autor Kilian Brand, hält sich aus allem heraus.

In 1784, Englishwoman Amelia Latimer sails to the new colony of New Brunswick in faraway Canada. She’s to marry a man chosen by her soldier father. Amelia is repulsed by her betrothed, refuses to marry, then meets the handsome Acadian trader, Gilbert, a man beneath her in status. Gilbert must protect his mother, who was attacked by an English soldier. He fights to hold on to their property, to keep it from the Loyalists who have flooded the colony, desperate men chased from the South after the American Revolution.

Elsie Neufeld loves to sit on her porch and watch the children grow in the Mennonite community near Landmark, Manitoba, Canada. Returning to the area after moving to Paraguay for a time, Elsie is happy to be living on the wild rose dotted prairie of south-eastern Manitoba.

På ett mentalvårdsmuseum i Dalarna får en anställd sitt livs chock när han upptäcker en naken och livlös kvinna i ett badkar. Inte långt därefter stormar kriminalinspektör Hannah Järnerud in på muséet tillsammans med en kollega. Det visar sig att kvinnan fortfarande är vid liv, men pulsen är nästintill obefintlig. Kommer hon överleva? Samtidigt som Hannah plågas av inre demoner kastar hon sig rakt in i en utredning som snart ska visa upp mänsklighetens allra grymmaste sidor.

Hannah Järnerud vid specialiststyrkan Lundberggruppen får ett nytt fall att lösa när en fasansfull upptäckt görs i Dalarnas största köpcenter. I Kupolens sopor hittas ett avlidet spädbarn och polisen står handfallna utan några ledtrådar. Det finns inga spår efter en eventuell förövare och några föräldrar har man inte heller lyckats lokalisera. Var finns barnets familj? Efter en längre tids sjukskrivning befinner sig Hannah plötsligt mitt i hetluften och hon får kämpa för att inte låta mörkret ta över.

Duma is a boy born into the Himba tribe in Africa. He grows up learning his unique value…his “soul song.” Unfortunately, his village falls on hard times and the value of each individual’s soul song is threatened to be forgotten… until a magical tree whispers a sound which helps Duma remember.

All mermaids long for the magic of a human soul. Briony won't drown sailors to get it. She makes potions instead, earning a reputation as a witch and becoming a social outcast. When a little mermaid asks for a potion that can reunite her with the human she loves, Briony reluctantly agrees. But there is more to the mermaid’s plan than a quest for love. The more Briony interacts with the human prince the mermaid wants to claim, the more she suspects that he never loved the little mermaid at all.

French-Canadian soldier Napoleon proposes to lovely and charming Lea in Belgium during WWI, promising golden fields of wheat as far as the eye can see. After the armistice, he sends money for her passage, and she journeys far from her family and the conveniences of a modern country to join him on a homestead in Saskatchewan. There, she works hard to build their dream of a prospering farm, clearing fields alongside her husband through several pregnancies and even after suffering a terrible loss.