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An empowering guide to understanding the diverse and personal ways that God communicates with us all—regardless of physical abilities—from the founder of Deaf Motherhood and her twin hearing sister. Twin sisters Janet, who is Deaf, and Jennifer, who is hearing, thought they knew everything...

Catherine (Kitty) McMullen ist siebzehn Jahre alt, rastlos und rebellisch. Sie hegt einen Groll auf den neuen Ehemann ihrer Mutter Kate und sehnt sich nach Geschichten über ihren leiblichen Vater, den sie nie kennengelernt hat. Als ihre geschwätzige Tante enthüllt, dass er ein wohlhabender Gentleman war, wächst Kittys Unzufriedenheit mit dem dreckigen, verarmten Jarrow. Sie tritt eine Stelle in der Wäscherei des Arbeitshauses an, wo sie noch unmittelbarer mit den Schrecken und Demütigungen der Armut konfrontiert wird.

Ein tröstlicher Roman, der an kalten Tagen wärmt wie eine gute Nudelsuppe. Jeden Morgen, noch bevor die Sonne aufgeht, öffnet Ah Hock die Fensterlädchen, entzündet ein Räucherstäbchen und bereitet gemeinsam mit seiner Frau die beste Nudelsuppe der Stadt zu. Anis, Kreuzkümmel, Galgantwurzel und das rauchige Aroma des Holzofens sind nur einige der geheimen Zutaten des Rezepts, das von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben wird. Nur Ah Hocks Sohn hat kein Interesse an der Familientradition.

Myths and legends form the foundation for all cultures. The Greek and Roman myths were early tales created to explain the world and are now inextricably woven throughout music, art, film, theater, literature, politics and daily life. Thousands of years old, these myths continue to inspire and intrigue. Myth: Dreams of The World, keeps these stories vibrant with new recordings by an intriguing array of artists including Iggy Pop, George Clinton, Lori Carson, Suzanne Vega, Lemmy, Jaron Lanier, and more.

1922: Sophie e Tilly sono cugine ma anche grandi amiche. Sophie è orfana dall'età di sei anni, da quando i suoi genitori, mercanti di tè, morirono improvvisamente in India. Da allora è stata cresciuta da una zia di Edimburgo. Tilly invece ha vissuto una vita protetta a Newcastle, per questo il suo matrimonio a sorpresa con James Robson, noto per essere uno scapolo incallito, sorprende tutti. Così come la sua decisione di seguirlo in India. Anche Sophie partirà alla volta dell'India, insieme a Tarn, l'affascinante ed enigmatico uomo di cui è innamorata.

Adela Robson è una studentessa che sogna di calcare il palcoscenico, in un’India in cui l’impero è prossimo alla morte. Quando scappa dalla scuola con Sam Jackman, sa che sta andando incontro a una nuova vita. Ma quello che il futuro ha in serbo per lei non è ciò che Adela immaginava. Anni dopo, a Simla, la sede estiva del governo del Raj, Adela può abbandonarsi a ogni tipo di divertimento che la società degli anni Trenta è in grado di offrirle.

India, 1905. Clarissa e Olive Belhaven vedono minacciata la loro vita e la loro piantagione di tè dai debiti del padre alcolizzato. Wesley Robson, uno sfacciato e giovane imprenditore, si offre di salvare la piantagione in cambio della mano di Clarissa, ma il padre rifiuta. Quando l'uomo muore, le sue figlie sono costrette a tornare in Inghilterra dallo zio e lavorare nel suo pub a Newcastle. Clarissa è sconvolta dalla povertà che la circonda e non sopporta la cugina. Decide quindi di lasciare il pub e di fare da governante per un gentile avvocato.

Con la fine della seconda guerra mondiale, Libby Robson lascia l’Inghilterra per raggiungere la casa in cui ha trascorso l’infanzia, in India, e il suo adorato padre, James. La folgorante bellezza dell’Asia la conquista subito: il brusio vivace di Calcutta, il profumo dei giardini di Assam... Ma una terribile minaccia si nasconde dietro l’apparente bellezza e tranquillità. Il Paese è sull’orlo di una rivolta e i giorni del dominio britannico sembrano contati. In quanto proprietario di una piantagione di tè, James incarna l’odiato regime coloniale.

Twenty years ago, a young girl was brutally murdered, her body left in an abandoned shed in the Scottish Highlands. Her killer was never caught. Now, another girl has vanished from the same remote village of Kinloch Rannoch, and DCI Ross Fraser and his team are sent to find her. A dogged, methodical investigator with no taste for theatrics, Fraser builds his cases piece by piece. But with no sightings, no suspects, and the clock relentlessly ticking, he begins to fear the same killer has struck again—and that it’s only a matter of time before another body is found.

Charles Darwin's foremost biographer, Janet Browne, delivers a vivid and accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human. A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of the Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling into question the belief in a Creator with its description of evolution through natural selection. And Darwin's seminal work is nearly as controversial today.

When the badly beaten body of Henry Donaldson is found locked in the old jail at the Telford Bridge in Dunkeld, Forensic Psychologist Dr Chrissy Ferguson is relieved. Now he’s been found, she can continue her downward spiral in peace. Determined to walk away from the case and put some distance between herself and lead investigator, DCI Ross Fraser, Chrissy battles to suppress the gnawing suspicion that Henry's assault conceals darker truths. When the forensic team uncover long buried remains in the old jail, Chrissy can’t ignore her instincts.

In the spirit of An Immense World and Soul of an Octopus, an award-winning neuroscientist and veteran horse trainer illuminates the mysteries of equine cognition and behavior, told through the moving story of her own extraordinary bond with a horsenamed True North. The bond between horses and...

A runaway at fifteen, Tia Walsh lost herself amid the squats and the gangs in the inner city. Years later she’s come to Coorah Creek seeking a new start. Sergeant Max Delaney senses that everything about Tia spells trouble. But that trouble is not all of her own making, and the dangerous past she tried to leave behind is hot on her heels.

An unforgettable memoir from New York City’s first female lifeguard chief, this coming-of-age story plunges into the rough-and-tumble, sun-soaked world of Rockaway Beach in the 1970s and 1980s. The first time I ever saw a lifeguard get horned was in the summer of 1974. So begins the singular...

Hosted by Janet Szabo, The Straight Stitch explores sewing, quilting, and related fiber arts. Weekly episodes feature interviews with makers, highlight what is new and noteworthy in the world of sewing, and delve into what's on Janet's cutting table and under the needle.

Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a "lucky" bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle Pip didn't specify if the bottle brought good luck or bad luck. . . . BAD LUCK: Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, has run up a gambling debt of $786,000 with mobster Bobby...

Discover romance across America with Janet Dailey's classic series featuring a love story set in each of the fifty states. Ever since her mother's death, Tisha Caldwell's father has treated her like a prisoner. Although she's twenty years old, he expects her to be as chaste as a child, flying into rages whenever she comes home late from a date, or when he suspects she's been kissing some boy. When he sees her arms wrapped around the suave Roarke Madison, Tisha's father decrees they must be wed.

AN ALL-NEW UNABRIDGED RECORDING NARRATED BY LORELEI KING! Discover where it all began—the first “snappily written, fast-paced, and witty” (USA TODAY) novel in the beloved Stephanie Plum series featuring a feisty and funny heroine who “comes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air”...

Eager to make a real difference, English nurse Katie Brooks has travelled halfway around the world to work on an air ambulance in outback Queensland. She was prepared to be a fish out of water, but she hadn’t anticipated how challenging the isolation would be. And she’d certainly never expected to be rescued on day one by Scott Collins: Coorah Creek’s prodigal son, who might just be the best thing about the town. Meeting Katie is the one bright spot in Scott’s reluctant return to his childhood home. He has nothing but bad memories of growing up.

Elizabeth Tudor learned resilience young. Declared illegitimate after the execution of her mother Anne Boleyn, she bore her precarious position with unshakable grace. But upon the death of her father, King Henry VIII, the vulnerable fourteen-year-old must learn to navigate a world of shifting loyalties, power plays, and betrayal.