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Every day, a young girl is disheartened by the things in her neighborhood: the trash on the streets, the graffiti on the walls, and the homeless woman that sleeps in a box. When she learns the word "beautiful" at school, she sets out to find "something beautiful" in her surroundings. In her search, this little girl learns to see beyond the barren ugliness of her environment to find beauty in her friendships, her family, and herself.

Bei einem Spaziergang im Watt machen der Lehrer Lasse und sein elfjähriger Schüler Villads im dichten Nebel einen grausamen Fund: Im festen Sand des Meeresgrundes steckt die Leiche eines Mannes. Es ist Lykke Teits erster eigener Fall - endlich darf sie die Ermittlungen in einem Mordfall leiten. Dass sie den Toten kannte und er sich verfolgt fühlte, verschweigt sie. Da die Leiche im Watt auf der Grenze zwischen Dänemark und Deutschland gefunden wurde, wird ihr Rudi Lehmann aus Flensburg zur Seite gestellt. Die beiden sehr ungleichen Ermittler verstehen sich auf Anhieb.

Here is a version of your favorite Bible bedtime stories, where you and your children and grandchildren can listen to all of the stories together in a delightfully interactive manner. You can even join the voice actors and act out the parts

Balancing the short term and the long term is a perennial struggle, but new developments put boards squarely at the center of this dilemma and in need of guidance. Much of the $14 trillion of assets that firms like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street manage is now held in index funds, creating a huge class of permanent institutional investors. These so-called passive investors (unlike activist investors, passive investors don't have power to exit the fund) own almost 60 percent of the Fortune 500 - and they have found their voice.

From starting their businesses in their parents' garage or in a small apartment to making a difference in the DTC world, these brand founders are sharing with you the story of how they made it and what keeps them motivated every day in this crazy ecommerce industry.

A Thousand Cuts is a candid exploration of one of America's strangest and most quickly vanishing subcultures. It is about the death of physical film in the digital era and about a paranoid, secretive, eccentric, and sometimes obsessive group of film-mad collectors who made movies and their projection a private religion in the time before DVDs and Blu-rays.

1 Peter 3-5: Audio Lectures features scholar and Pastor Dennis R. Edwards teaching through the book of 1 Peter in 17 engaging and challenging lessons. Based on Edwards' 1 Peter commentary in the Story of God Bible Commentary series, lessons explain and illuminate each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible's grand story. Edwards offers an engaging and probing introduction to the entire book of 1 Peter, guiding listeners in creatively and faithfully living out the Bible's message in today's context.

In a moment of senseless violence, Malcolm Vaughn’s life is ripped away from him, leaving his wife and child to make sense of the shattered existence that remains. Sarah, a lab scientist and Malcolm’s widow, retreats into herself, refusing to return to work when even the most mundane activities require enormous effort. Malcolm’s son, Harry, just eight-years-old, goes cold, detaching from the grief that is rippling around him. Meanwhile, Vietnam vet Deckard Jones, Malcolm’s best friend, is forced to come to terms with yet another loss.

On November 18, 1944, the end of the war in Europe finally in sight, American co-pilot Lieutenant Lee Lamar struggled alongside pilot Randall Darden to keep Bottoms Up, their B-24J Liberator, in the air. They and their crew of eight young men had believed the intelligence officer who, at the pre-dawn briefing at their base in southern Italy, confided that their mission that day would be a milk run. It was not....

Holmes takes on a case involving the theft of imitation pearls and a silver-plated tea service, while Watson considers the whole investigation a waste of time.

Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own. He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely surviving. But Nubs's life changed when he met Marine Major Brian Dennis. The two formed a fast friendship, made stronger by Dennis's willingness to share his meals, offer a warm place to sleep, and give Nubs the kind of care and attention he had never received before.

Trevor Sullivan ist in Gefahr! Der todkranke Ex-Leiter der Inquisitionsabteilung wird auf Anordnung des Secret Service verlegt - ohne das Wissen von Dorian Hunter. Donald Chapman folgt Sullivans Spur zu einer zwielichtigen Schönheitsfarm auf den Orkney-Inseln. Doch dann reißt die Verbindung zu Chapman ab.

Doctor Watson tells of an encounter with Professor Moriarty that left him hating cabbages.

The world’s most famous sleuth returns in The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - a radio show which aired in the USA from 1939-1950, most famously starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. In later seasons, Holmes was played by Tom Conway and John Stanley, and Watson was played by Alfred Shirley. Episodes from 1939 through 1943 were written or adapted by Edith Meiser from the books of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Hobart, 2022: a city with a declining population, in the grip of a dark recession. A rusty ship sails into the harbor and begins to unload its cargo on the site of the once famous but now abandoned Gallery of Future Art, known to the world as GoFA. One day the city’s residents are awoken by a high-pitched sound no one has heard for two generations: a factory whistle. GoFA’s owner, world-famous billionaire Dundas Faussett, is creating his most ambitious installation yet. He’s going to defeat technology’s dominance over our lives by establishing a new Year Zero: 1948.

A murder arrest thrusts Brick and Samantha into the heart of a perplexing investigation. Making allies along the way, they attempt to thwart a murderous drug smuggler. As the prime suspect is haunted by bloody visions of his best friend, the lives of Brick’s family members hang in the balance.

The Burden of Isis, being the laments of Isis and Nephthys, translated from the Egyptian by James Teackle Dennis, was first published in 1910. This edition is from a reprint in 1918. Includes "The Laments of Isis and Nephthys", "The Chants", and "Hymn to Osiris-Sokar".

An urban couple are on a getaway to visit her father at his vast rural estate. But when they arrive, they find him missing and a local Indigenous man staying there instead. They ask him to leave . . . and with a click on your device, you choose what happens next. When it’s revealed that the colonial rights to this entire property are actually up for grabs, you must continue to decide how the story unfolds. Inheritance is an interactive audio-drama specially adapted from the award-winning and published stage play, replete with all of the same humor and suspense as the live production.

My Friend Voldemort is a podcast for emotionally mature adults; the objective is to repair American public discourse by providing insight into political conflicts between right-wing and left-wing politics that result from a lack of authentic dialogue in today's public sphere. This podcast follows Neil Postman's (1985) argument that television's entertainment-driven nature would transform public discourse into entertainment, leading to a decline in thoughtful and informed public conversation. Postman saw this as a significant threat to democracy, as it would lead to a lack of critical thinking ...

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was a radio show which aired in the USA from 1939-1950, most famously starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Episodes from 1939 through 1943 were written or adapted by Edith Meiser from the books of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From 1943 onward, most shows were written or adapted by the team of Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher or Green and Leslie Charteris who replaced Meiser who left the show over her disagreements with a sponsor over the amount of violence in the program.