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A voyage across the ocean becomes the odyssey of a lifetime for a young Irish woman…. Inspired by true events, The Girl Who Came Home poignantly blends fact and fiction to explore the Titanic tragedy's impact and its lasting repercussions on survivors and their descendants.

Do you walk in a room to organize and find yourself paralyzed and overwhelmed? Do you find yourself spending money on organizing solutions that don’t work? Do you feel like you put in effort but never make any progress? Or maybe you know exactly what you want to do, and yet for some reason, you just can’t get started? Would you like to have less stress to have a more free life? Organizing isn’t easy. But it doesn’t have to be impossible.If you’ve been struggling with organization in your home and in your mind, it doesn’t mean you're lazy or lethargic. It just means it’s time to try working with your brain instead of against it.

On a cold December afternoon in 2013, Hazel Gale was declared the English ABA Boxing Champion. On paper, this wasn't her greatest success in sport, nor was it even her best-fought bout. But as her hand was raised that day, Hazel felt a surge of alien emotion. She wasn't sure whether it was happiness, pride or just a good old-fashioned sense of achievement. But it was new. Looking back, she can tell you that what she'd felt upon winning up until that day had been shame. This time, she owned the triumph.

Successful writer Vashti Williams longs for romance. Unfortunately, she has given up on finding an honest man. Still heartbroken over the one man who betrayed her, Vashti has promised herself that there will be no more Nathaniels. But after she receives an assignment to travel to St. Croix to write an article on an up-and-coming male model, she suddenly realizes he is the man she had a brief affair with while vacationing in Spain five years earlier

1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling’s home for all of her 22 years. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems and plays. 1938: Newport, Rhode Island. Nineteen-years-old and pregnant, Matilda Emmerson has been sent away from Ireland in disgrace. She is to stay with Harriet until her baby is born. As a deadly hurricane approaches, two women, living a century apart, will be linked forever by their instinctive acts of courage and love.

The intertwining of the personal life along with the professional life of a Doula shows the frailties and strengths of being a woman. Learning to understand and accept our inner landscape is an adventure, one that requires great strength and courage to be able to look into the less desirable shadows of ourselves and embrace it all. By doing so we can become whole beings capable of standing strong and true, able to hear the voice of our own intuition and be brave enough to listen.

Dulcie Bodsworth was the unlikeliest serial killer. She was loved everywhere she went, and the townsfolk of Wilcannia, which she called home in the late 1950s, thought of her as kind and caring. The officers at the local police station found Dulcie witty and charming, and looked forward to the scones and cakes she generously baked and delivered for their morning tea. That was one side of her. Only her daughter Hazel saw the real Dulcie. And what she saw terrified her.

More than two decades after serving as a juror on the high-profile seven-month murder trial, People v. Erik Galen Menendez, Hazel Thornton updates her book, Hung Jury, with a new preface and a postscript essay of observations about the Menendez brothers’ second trial. Includes psychological commentary by Lawrence S. Wrightsman and Amy J. Posey and legal commentary by Alan Scheflin.

The new rich and compelling novel from the author of The Girl Who Came Home. Perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Rachel Hore. Dolly Lane is a dreamer, a downtrodden maid who longs to dance on the London stage, but the outbreak of war takes everything from her: Teddy, the man she loves - and her hopes of a better life. When she secures employment as a chambermaid at London's grandest hotel, The Savoy, Dolly's proximity to the dazzling guests makes her yearn for a life beyond the grey drudgery she was born into.

When Kinley Chandler abruptly lands in medieval Scotland, there isn’t much she’s leaving behind. With her body shattered and her military career over, Kinley has resigned herself to death. But in the past, all that changes. Lachlan McDonnel, the laird of a clan of immortal highlanders, can hardly believe his good fortune. Not only does the mysterious lass save his life, she awakens his heart in a way he’d thought no longer possible. But the druid spells that allow Lachlan’s clan to live forever have a dark side as well.

"De russiske kampmaskiner brager, angstsveden pibler, soldater svajer og danser under beskydning som vanvitttige marionetdukker. De falder - og sneen under farves rød som i et slagtehus. Det er arktisk vinter på Østfronten, en tysk straffebataljon er sendt ud for at kæmpe mod de russiske tropper. Her tæt på skoven er soldaterne krøbet i skjul og holder vejret. Hvis de overlever, vil de blive sendt videre til det østtyske fængsel Torgau, hvor desertører, fanger, og enhver anti-nazistiske følelse bliver undertrykt med vold og magt, tortur og sult."

DE TELEGRAAF, HOLLAND: "SVEN HAZEL ER EN FREMRAGENDE FORTÆLLER." "Heide giver et hyl fra sig, springer op I luften og lander på den anden side af grøften, hvor han glider igennem mudderet som en bulldozer. Vores kampvogn begynder at bakke for fuld kraft. Porta har tydeligvis også fået øje på djævelskaben, som ligger der fremme og lurer for at sprede død og lemlæstelse. Ingenting rygtes så hurtigt, som når fortroppen er stødt på de frygtede miner. Der bliver pludselig stille.

NOUVELLES LITTERAIRES, FRANKRIG: "SOM ET BLÆNDENDE REALISTISK DRAMA OPRULLER HAZEL DEN POLSKE HJMMEHÆRS OPSTAND" Rygtet går, at de skal overføres til Warszawa. Heide, som altid ved besked, hævder, at helvede er løs derovre. Der snakkes om tysk tilbagetrækning på Østfronten. Tusinde britiske faldskærmstropper er landet og polske soldater strømmer til inde fra skovene. Men den polske hjemmehær er allerede dødsdømt.

RAMAR-GAN, ISRAEL: "DEN SIKRE SANS FOR DRAMATISK ANTITESE HAR GJORT SVEN HAZEL TIL EN NY HEMINGWAY." "Mindst en bataljon af flammekasterkampvogne svinger rundt som en flok sindssyge vildsvin. Lange, ildrøde flammetunger hvæser ud fra tårnene og forkuller alt levende. Ud fra "GPU-fængslet" strømmer stimer af røde fanger. En spærreild af utrolige dimensioner hamrer ned bag tyskerne.

Det er bidende koldt, 38 kuldegrader. Stalingrad vinteren 1942-1943. En isnende vind fejer over sletten og slynger iskrystaller mod vores ansigter. Vi marcherer forbi tusindvis af stivfrosne lig. Foran kolonnen marcherer SS-generalen tavst og indelukket. Han er gal. Det er vi for laengst klar over. En fanatiker som ønsker at dø I kamp. Og SS-generalen ønsker at tage så mange som muligt med sig I døden.

NEUE ZEITUNG, TYSKLAND: "PÅ HØJDE MED HOMERS FREMSTILLING AF KAMPEN OM TROJA" Monte Cassino, det hellige kloster nordvest for Napoli. Tyskerne har bygget massive forsvarsstillinger. Slaget om Monte Cassino I vinteren og foråret 1944 bliver et ubeskriveligt helvede for både forsvarere og angribere. De allierede saetter alt ind af fly, artilleri, panser og infanteri fra mange nationer. De tyske styrker bliver anført af de bedste elitetropper. Heriblandt 27. Panzerregiment - strafferegimentet.

Vigie Marocaine, Marokko: "Overgår sine forgaengere intet nyt fra Vestfronten og farvel til våbnene". Lillebror lander på baglugen af kampvognen. Det rene selvmord. Han tømmer maskinpistolen ind I vognen. Lynhurtigt hopper han ned og med et mesterkast slynger han en håndgranat ned gennem den åbne luge. Den tunge vogn roterer vildt, knuser nogle briter under larvefødderne, før den brager ud over skråningen. Der eksploderer den I et inferno af ild.

LA NOTTE, ITALIEN: "DENNE ROMAN INDEHOLDER I AL SIN BRUTALITET EN DRAMATISK SKØNHED". Blodige partisankampe raser på Balkan. Håndgranater regner ned over gaden. Fra tagene slår en kraftig maskingeværild ned I jægerbataljonen. Jamrende kryber sårede soldater I dækning. Molotovcocktails eksploderer med hule drøn, og den brændende væske sprøjter ud over mennesker og materiel. "Partisaner, stammer majoren skrækslagen og hopper ud af vognen.

"Porta kæmper for at holde den tunge kampvogn mellem de marcherende soldater. Et øjebliks uopmærksomhed, og han vil tromle et helt kompagni ned. En kæmpe ildkugle slår ned I buskene foran vognen. Pansersoldaterne kaster sig på hovedet ned fra vognene og søger dækning. Med skræmte øjne og bankende hjerter ligger de I solen og venter på døden. En kæmpe mur af ild stiger op mod himlen. "Stalinorgel", mumler Heide bange. Porta speeder motoren op.

En specialkommando fra strafferegimentet iført russiske uniformer erobrer fire russiske T-34-kampvogne. Fjernopklaring langt bag de russiske linjer i Kaukasus. Året er 1942. Time efter time ruller kampvognene østover. Flere gange bliver de anråbt af russiske afdelinger. Vi følger soldaterne i deres desperate kamp for at finde tilbage til de tyske linjer. Afstandene er store, vennerne er få, og døden er altid lige i haelene.