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Carrie and her little brother, Jay, find a wounded soldier on their land after a battle which later became known as "The Battle Above the Clouds." Adam, a Union soldier, has been shot twice in the arm. Though Carrie is reluctant to take Adam to their cave where her family hides their livestock from both armies, she cannot turn her back on him. But her Aunt Lavinia, bitter over what Yankees have done to their land, urges Carrie to allow Adam to die. Carrie refuses, but cannot remove the bullets.

Leo has hidden a secret for 19 years. Those who know him see a handsome man who perfectly fits the alpha-male stereotype. His strength and muscular body intimidate men and make women swoon. His friends assume he's a complete stud - a belief Leo cultivates as much as possible. The Leo people think they know is an illusion. Leo is gay, a fact he's afraid to embrace. Society, his parents, and his church all agree that to be a man who loves men is to be an abomination before the Lord. For years, Leo has accepted this as fact.

A mysterious knight all in green arrives at King Arthur's court and issues a bizarre challenge. Gawain answers the knight - but at what cost? This new translation keeps all the poetic power of the original's extraordinary alliteration. One of the greatest stories of English literature from any period, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a magical, medieval combination of the epic and the uncanny.

Here are the extraordinary writings of a generation who fought through a war of unprecedented destructive power, and who had to find new voices to express the horror of what they discovered. The great names - Owen, Sassoon - are fully represented, but there are also many poems by lesser-known or unexpected figures, ranging from serving soldiers like Isaac Rosenberg and Richard Aldington to women such as Edith Nesbit and Vera Brittain.

Nearly 100 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind available. It covers a remarkable range, from the striking vision of Blake and Shelley and the insights of Keats to lighter but equally memorable verse by Tennyson, Donne, and Edward Lear.

In neun Vorträgen führt Karl Jaspers aus, mit welchen zentralen Problemen und Kategorien man sich auf dem Weg zu einem Sinn auseinanderzusetzen hat. Das Denken ist der Beginn des Menschseins, aber philosophieren beginnt an den Grenzen des Verstandes. Herausgegeben von Franz-Maria Sonner. Urheber- und Leistungsschutzrechte vorbehalten. Vervielfältigung und Verbreitung sind nicht erlaubt. Vermietung, Aufführung und Sendung bedürfen der schriftlichen Genehmigung des Senders.

Karl Jaspers hat Philosophie immer als im Leben tätig begriffen. Sie findet nicht nur im Hörsaal und am Katheder statt, sondern überall da, wo sich Defizite zeigen, die der Freiheit des Einzelnen, des Staatswesens und des Denkens im Wege stehen. Philosophische Praxis bewährt sich, indem sie sich dieser Probleme verständig annehmen und Lösungswege aufzeigen kann. Zunächst einmal führt Jaspers dies an seinem eigenen Lebensweg aus und behandelt dann zentrale Aufgaben der bundesrepublikanischen Nachkriegsgesellschaft, die er aus der Kritik von Missständen entwickelt.

Eine Auswahl von 10 der schönsten Geschichten des Wettbewerbs aus den Jahren 2001 bis 2006. Der plattdeutsche Schreibwettbewerb "Vertell doch mal" des NDR und Radio Bremen ist eine Erfolgsgeschichte. Bis zu 3000 Hobbyautoren beteiligen sich jährlich daran. Eine Jury wählt die 25 besten Geschichten zu einem jährlich wechselnden Thema aus. Diese werden bei der Preisverleihung von Schauspielern des Ohnsorg-Theaters gelesen.

Classic Poems for Boys comprises a delightfully varied set of over 20 poems for 5- to 10-year olds. From rousing favorites like Felicia Dorothea Hemans’ "Casabianca" and John Keats’ "A Song About Myself", to dreamy, thoughtful poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Rudyard Kipling, this is a collection to be treasured.

Pirates are everywhere—and they have been ever since boats were used as carriers. They are in stories ranging from Treasure Island through Peter Pan to Pirates of the Caribbean; they are in our imaginations with peg-legs, hook-hands, and parrots on their shoulders, saying "Aharr, me hearties!", and they continue to cause havoc in the Gulf of Aden in the 21st century.

Lemuel Gulliver, a slightly staid ship’s doctor, relates the tales of his astonishing travels. He encounters the tiny, warring Lilliputians; the giant, sceptical Brobdingnagians; the ludicrously intellectual Laputans; and the idealistic - if rather stolid - Houyhnhnms and their bestial servants, the Yahoos. An immediate best seller when it was first published in 1726, Gulliver’s Travels has remained a favourite ever since. It was an attack on the politics and society of Swift’s day, but it is also a polemical, inventive, surreal, vitriolic, and wonderfully imaginative masterpiece.

Nigel Dorking's parents are divorced, and his father has remarried and has two step-daughters. Nigel is a lonely, precocious child who idolises his absent father and longs to have more to do with him, but he has a bed-wetting problem and is anxious to hide the fact from his dad. That's not his only problem though: his mother is about to marry a man Nigel detests, a large, loud Scottish man called Gordon.

One of the most popular novels released in the 1920s on the hedonistic Jazz Age, Gentlement Prefer Blondes was declared "the great American novel" by Edith Wharton. Told from the point of view of a blonde flapper named Lorelei in the form of her diary, this novel follows her adventures around the world in search of a gentleman companion who can elevate her position within society. As Lorelei cycles through multiple men, she discovers things about herself and the way that she lives her life in retrospection....

An everyday vacation quickly turns into a nightmare of epic proportions. Two sisters must struggle to find the strength within themselves to survive as well as to save one another. When the world of Fae emerges on a rocky shore far from the Emerald Isle, all hell breaks loose. Two factions vie for the sister’s loyalties, one light, the other dark. Neither honest. 

With Chaos free in the world, Quinn finally faces the truth. She must kill the one she has spent her life trying to protect in order to save the world. But with the leader of the Tuatha against her, her own brother seeking her blood, and the world in upheaval, Quinn may not see the day that prophecy has claimed will come to pass. At least, not without a sword that no longer exists.

A new threat emerges as Chaos, an ancient deity, challenges not only the safety of the sisters but the safety of the world. A decision must be made: Do they save the ones they love or save the world from total destruction? The lines between allies and enemies blur as the danger rises, leaving no one without suspicion. As the worlds of the Fae and human collide the future has never looked so grim - or so damn impossible.

Trapeze audiobooks presents an extraordinary multi-voice tribute to one of Britain's most talented and most loved entertainers: Victoria Wood. This audiobook features narration from some of the extraordinary voices who worked with Victoria over her career: Susie Blake Richenda Carey Celia Imrie...

“Kraus gets under your skin with brutal, elegant efficiency. Necessarily horrifying, devastatingly timely.”—Kiersten White, New York Times-bestselling author of The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein and Slayer From New York Times-bestselling author Daniel Kraus comes a breakneck...

Discover the big ideas behind more than 90 of history's most important legal rulings and milestone laws - from the earliest civilizations to the 21st century. From the philosophical, religious, and moral codes of the world's earliest societies, such as the Law Code of Hammurabi and the Ten...

Older brother thinks he knows the rules to hide-and-seek. But little sister has her own idea of how to play. And the resulting confusion, compounded by a lively dog, is hilarious. Now available for the first time in full-color and reformatted as a My First I Can Read Book, Crosby Bonsall's...