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A young wife becomes obsessed with the wallpaper in the room of her holiday home in The Yellow Wallpaper. A man is tormented by the embalmed hand of his deceased uncle in The Beast with Five Fingers. For the protagonists of these three supernatural stories, ghostly terror lurks beneath the surface of ordinary life, and reality can all too easily fray at the seams.... Evocatively read by three of our finest actors, and with atmospheric music, these eerie, enthralling tales are perfect listening for dark winter nights.

A few years ago I was asked if I'd like to make a documentary on the Mekong River, travelling from the vast delta in Vietnam to the remote and snowy peaks of Tibet. Up until that point, the farthest east I'd been was Torremolinos, in the Costa Del Sol....

In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian Bryan Ward-Perkins argues that the "peaceful" theory of Rome's "transformation" is badly in error. Indeed, he sees the fall of Rome as a time of horror and dislocation that destroyed a great civilization, throwing the inhabitants of the West back to a standard of living typical of prehistoric times. Attacking contemporary theories with relish and making use of modern archaeological evidence, he looks at both the wider explanations for the disintegration of the Roman world and also the consequences for the lives of everyday Romans.

This story is told as a series of journal entries from a woman who is on forced rest as a treatment for hysteria following the birth of her child. As was common in the time, she is forbidden from any work or "strenuous" tasks and is left to sit alone most of her days without mental stimulation, trapped in a room and a marriage that are not fulfilling her. The woman's isolation and mental state cause her to believe that there is a woman stuck in the wallpaper of her room.

You're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers, edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins. Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or Kwanzaa, there's something here for everyone. So curl up by the fireplace and get cozy. You have twelve reasons this season to stay indoors and fall in love.

Naima is a talented painter of traditional alpana patterns, which Bangladeshi women and girls paint on their houses for special celebrations. But Naima is not satisfied just painting alpana. She wants to help earn money for her family, like her best friend, Saleem, does for his family. When Naima's rash effort to help puts her family deeper in debt, she draws on her resourceful nature and her talents to bravely save the day.

From a grandmother worried that her children are losing their Indian identity, to a daughter wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair, to a granddaughter social activist fighting to preserve Bengali tigers, Perkins weaves together the threads of a family growing into an American identity. Here is a sweeping story of five women at once intimately relatable and yet entirely new.

Whether you know it or not, you're a leader. Maybe that's not news; you're used to taking charge. But if you're like many people, you have yet to discover your potential as a man or woman others follow in pursuit of a vision--a compelling, infectious vision that grips people and draws them alongside you to fulfill it.

This practical look at sexual purity is written directly to teens in a frank, accessible, and totally honest style to help them make decisions for sexual integrity. When Young Men Are Tempted discusses factors surrounding sexual temptation and presents a strategy to encourage and assist young men to lead morally pure lives. Author Bill Perkins offers success stories as well as testimonies of false solutions.

For 25 years, millions of Americans watched Jack Perkins on NBC News as a correspondent, commentator, and anchorman. People were familiar with his face, his bearing, and his rich, reassuring bass. Yet at the age of 52 and at the height of his career, Jack Perkins disappeared from the public eye and moved with his wife, Mary Jo, to a bare-necessities cabin on an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine. This isolated home they came to call Moosewood was the setting for Jack and Mary Jo’s spiritual awakening.

A century ago, the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time, with its own rules and language. The trouble is most of us can't speak it. This is damaging democracy. Dangerous agendas are hidden inside mathematical wrappers; controversial policies are presented as 'proven' by the models of economic 'science'. Government is being turned over to a publicly unaccountable technocratic elite. The Econocracy reveals that economics is too important to be left to the economists

Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist horror story scandalised 19th-century readers with its portrayal of a woman who loses her mind because she has literally nothing to do.

Train. Car. Plane. Boat. Feet. He'll get there. Won't he? Stranded in the middle of nowhere, a 15-year-old boy's attempts to get somewhere make for absorbing listening.

In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, Debbie Pelbry wishes something would happen. So do her friends in their small hometown of Seldem. And things do happen: They meet new people (people with possibilities), they learn to do new things (like play the guitar or drive a car), and they spend time with one another (at picnics and pig roasts, on roofs and in driveways). In this lyrical, funny, and gentle novel, a group of teenagers begin to find themselves.

Direktor Michael Müller-Lenz handhabt Verfehlungen auf besondere Weise: Wer einer Abmahnung entgehen oder sich gute Noten »verdienen« will, kann dies durch Körpereinsatz tun. Für die geile Leonie hat er sich etwas ganz Besonderes ausgedacht.

Zehn scharfe, originelle Geschichten lassen den Puls höher schlagen. Dauergeile Frauen lassen ihrer Lust mit Studenten, Lehrern, Chefs, Angestellten oder auch mit dem eigenen Geschlecht freien Lauf und wollen befriedigt werden. Männer, die auf üppige Kurven stehen, nehmen sich, was sie begehren. Dabei kommt es nicht darauf an, wo es passiert, ob mit Mund, Hand oder Strap-on. Hauptsache, alle kommen auf ihre Kosten.

Leon ist scharf auf die heiße Janina, die in der Tanzschule arbeitet. Doch sie beachtet ihn mit ihrer überheblichen Art überhaupt nicht. Als er dann einige Jahre später Chef einer Postfiliale ist und sie sich als Angestellte bei ihm bewirbt, hat er sie in der Hand. Endlich kann er sich für ihre Missachtung damals rächen. Um den Job zu behalten, muss sie sich scharf anziehen und ihm zu Diensten sein...

Als Stefan am Weihnachtsmorgen beobachtet, wie die süße Anna auf dem Parkplatz ausrutscht und sich den Fuß verstaucht, eilt er ihr sofort zu Hilfe und bringt sie zur Notaufnahme. Ihre dankbaren Eltern laden ihn spontan zum Weihnachtsfest ein und bieten ihm auch an, im Haus zu übernachten. Anna nutzt die Chance, sich bei ihm auf ihre Weise für seine Hilfe zu bedanken, und ist überrascht von seinem Stehvermögen.

Da das örtliche Schwimmbad wegen Umbauarbeiten geschlossen hat, bietet Personalchef Alex der attraktiven Auszubildenden Emma kurzerhand an, ihr Schwimmtraining im Haus seines Freundes zu absolvieren, das er gerade bewohnt. Ihren heißen Körper im Bikini zu sehen, verlangt ihm alles an Körperbeherrschung ab. Dann zieht sich Emma auch noch aus und präsentiert ihm schamlos ihre sexy Kurven.

Seine Chefin Karin in ihren knappen Röcken und engen Blusen ist supersexy. Nur zu gern würde Julian es ihr besorgen. Doch bevor es dazu kommt, kündigt sie und sie verlieren sich aus den Augen. Umso erfreuter ist er, als sie sich eines Tages an anderer Stelle wieder begegnen. Ein zweites Mal will er sich die Chance nicht entgehen lassen. Doch er muss sie gar nicht lang bitten.