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Nachdem Polly von ihrem Verlobten sitzen gelassen wurde, kommt ihr die Möglichkeit in Italien einen Beitrag für eine Kunstsendung zu drehen, mehr als gelegen. In der Toskana wird sie nicht nur von Sonnenschein begrüßt, sondern auch von der Künstlerin Liv, die vor Energie und Lebensfreude nur so sprüht. Laue Sommerabende, Pasta, Vino und endlose Gespräche - plötzlich sieht das Leben wieder ganz anders aus!

Love that says something, instead of just looking like it. Love you can always trust to feel like home. For both of them, it’s something that has always been just outside of their peripheral, something to be observed rather than experienced. A depth of feeling reserved for people who were “into” that, those with a different outlook, those more...deserving. Until their paths cross.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the government launched its ‘Everyone In’ programme, aiming to house the homeless through lockdown. The Prince Rupert, a four-star hotel in Shrewsbury with four poster beds and suits of armour, was asked to play their part and host 33 rough sleepers. This is the story of how the hotel owners and rough sleepers—many of whom had been out of housing for decades—spent months locked in together and wound up transforming each other’s lives.

Johanna Spyri ist eine der erfolgreichsten Schriftstellerinnen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ihr Buch "Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre" gehört zu den meist verlegten und übersetzten Klassikern der Kinder- und Jugendbuchliteratur. Über die Autorin selbst weiß man relativ wenig, da sie fast alle persönlichen Dokumente verbrannte. Die Briefe, die dennoch erhalten blieben, lassen darauf schließen, dass Johanna Spyri oft an Depressionen litt. Das Schreiben wurde für sie zum Ausweg aus persönlichen Krisen. Regie: Carola Preuss. Eva Christina Zeller wurde 1960 geboren und ist eine deutsche Lyrikerin, Autorin und Rundfunkjournalistin.

Dessert connects us heart-to-heart like almost nothing else. It brings us together in good times and bad, celebration and solace. Desserts mark big milestones and small wins and create indelible memories of comfort and joy. And Christina Tosi, the founder and CEO of Milk Bar, believes it can save the world.

Women are powerful and can be rational thinkers under pressure. They can also be devious and vengeful. A woman is not just a ball of emotion. Women can fight, they can protect, and they can win. These eight stories of women kicking ass, standing tall, and refusing to be victims are Tiffany’s opposition to the tropes of true crime. With stories from five genres including paranormal, adventure, sci-fi, romance, and crime fiction, you are sure to find a story you love.

Everyone is a stranger at some point, right? Pulled by an explicable, undeniable thread of...something...Nick and Noah find themselves keen on becoming more. Hashtags and flights, and late-night text sessions lead to a connection neither has experienced, or expected. Beyond the shiny veneer of social media, further than the shallow depths of a good selfie, down to the real, for real stuff that relationships are made of...Can Nick and Noah actually reach their prematurely awarded goal?

FBI Agent Joe Roberts and his fiancée, Dr. Madeline Pierce, must track down a rage-producing nano-drug before it devastates the nation, in this fourth book of The Chemical Attraction Series. Staying in Detroit with the FBI, Madeline works to develop an antidote from the confiscated journals. She clashes with the women from Joe’s past. In West Michigan, Joe hunts for the bio-weapon. With a history as a player, he’s worried his relationship with Madeline is at risk. Working apart, they attempt to focus on the threat.

After that disappointing and sudden end to what had been a promising career, Mei rewarded herself with a long, relaxing vacation in the outback to celebrate her gender reassignment and her new start in life. The first stop on her journey turned out to be a little backwater planet called Deanna....

When a heist goes terribly wrong and the binding spell holding 17-year-old Neva's powers at bay is shattered, the half-human thief knows she's in trouble. Neva has always hidden her Da'Valian heritage while working risky jobs to make a name for herself and serving at her family's tavern, but she won't be able to hide much longer.

“What a joyous childhood we had!” wrote Princess Alice, the second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. These were no mere words and it was a sentiment shared by many of her siblings. Far from being the tyrannical or neglectful parents presented so often by the sensational press, Albert and Victoria devoted themselves to their children, doing their utmost to secure their happiness while preparing them for a future of personal fulfilment and service to their people in a rapidly-changing world.

Who lived to regret her "deathbed" confession? Was Amelia Dyer mad or wicked? Why did the judiciary look compassionately on women who committed infanticide? Among over 80 women whose stories appear in this book, some were tragic; some were evil; some were mad; and several were undoubtedly innocent of the murders for which they were hanged.

"One hundred and twenty Marines wounded. Eighteen dead. All for one lousy hill". Based on her father’s letters to his parents throughout the Forgotten War, author Christina Thompson has produced this work of historical fiction to pay tribute to Navy corpsmen by remembering their service to their brothers and their country. Imagining her father had guarded his parents from the carnage of war, Christina elaborates on what could have happened while staying true to the dates and experiences her father shared in his actual letters.

She would like nothing more than for him to make the move from British Columbia to Tennessee. But he has to decide if the chemistry they have will blossom into something that will last long enough for him to rationalize moving across the continent. Will they allow distance to separate them or let their hearts speak louder than their circumstances as they kiss under the New Year’s Eve fireworks?

No one gets a second chance at first love...right? Shyann Riggs had dreams bigger than her small town could hold. Now she’s back in town and itching to get the family farm ready to sell. Too bad the only help available comes in the form of her first love - the man whose heart she shattered when she left...Garrett Dixon never expected to see Shyann again. He certainly never thought she’d show up on his doorstep, asking for help. Now all he has to do is figure out if he wants to help her sell her last tether to home...or convince her to stay.

It all started at our small private school, Hidden Shores Academy, on the first day. The new kid was texting as he came down the stairs. His longboard slipped out of his fingers, smacking me right in the face. Of course, he ended up in almost all my classes. No matter what I do, he keeps finding ways to talk to me. But I’m not interested in him. I’m trying to stay focused on my position as head editor of my high school’s newspaper. I have dreams to chase. I’m applying for a journalism scholarship. I don’t have time for a know-it-all boy like Justin.

Rafiq misses his friends from Pakistan, and a boy at school makes fun of his name. It is not easy being an immigrant in America. Rafiq knows he’s safer in “the land of the free”, yet he is homesick. When he receives a fancy pen for his birthday, he discovers his new best friend, a talking pen.

When Hanna and Jack receive an ultimatum from the only investor in their struggling tea supply company, they must learn how to employ Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with radical focus to get the right things done. Using Hanna and Jack’s story, Wodtke walks listeners through how to inspire a diverse team to work together in pursuit of a single, challenging goal, and how to stay motivated despite setbacks and failures.

Broken. A word typically ascribed to fragmented, useless things - not people. A word most would easily impose upon a woman like Dacia, knowing she’s been through the kind of things that are meant to leave a person fragmented. A word that comes with pre-conceived notions, judgements...limitations. None of which she embraces, or accepts.

At a Christmas tree lighting in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, a barefoot, thinly clad young woman runs up to a mounted police officer, frantic and begging for help. She tells the officer her name is Caroline Hanson. But that can’t be. Caroline Hanson vanished into thin air 10 years ago. When Detective Mena Kastaros is informed that the victim in one of her first cases as a detective has reappeared, she battles emotions she’s tried futilely to ignore for nearly a decade.