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Tief im Dunkelwald entdecken die Decoxe Manni und Lilo ein geheimnisvolles Portal, das aus einem Regenbogenlicht gemacht zu sein scheint. Noch nie zuvor haben sie so etwas gesehen! Als sie wagemutig hindurchschlüpfen, finden sie sich plötzlich in einem Märchenland wieder. Was für zauberhafte Wesen mögen ihnen hier begegnen? Und gibt es hier auch blaue Fliegenpilze? Neugierig machen sie sich daran, dieses magische Land zu erforschen.

Als Polizist Mark Engel einen kleinen Jungen alleine im Kaufhaus aufgreift, glaubt er zunächst noch an einen klaren Fall von Kindesvernachlässigung. Und das auch noch kurz vor Weihnachten. Doch als er Simon nach Hause bringt und dort auf Tim Würth trifft, ist plötzlich alles anders. Denn Tim braucht dringend Hilfe, und Mark weiß von der ersten Sekunde an, dass er für diesen Job wie geschaffen ist. Eine zuckersüße Gay Romance Weihnachtsgeschichte.

Though many women would jump at the chance to spend a few days at a tropical resort with Cole Barrington, publicist Paige Brooks already fell for the handsome movie producer's charm once, and she has no intention of letting herself get burned a second time. Unfortunately, Cole is one of her company's best clients, and when Paige is tasked with ensuring his trip to a celebrity charity event goes well, she vows to put the past behind her and act like a professional.

Busy concentrating on family issues, Jimmy hasn't taken a new case in nearly three months, and when a call comes in from Philip Connelly, who wants proof that his wife, Myra, is cheating, Jimmy is torn. Take the case or say no. He rejects it, only to learn a week later that Philip has been found dead in a park on Staten Island. The police believe it was suicide, but Myra - a self-admitted adulteress - is convinced he was murdered.

The only daily paranormal podcast you will ever need! We cover the weirdest of the weird and only the most obscure stories make the cut!

This is a remarkable selection of writings of Edward Carpenter who championed a new kind of science for the future. Edited by David Christopher Lane.

In a world rife with conflict and tension, how does a great power prosecute an irregular war at a great distance within the context of a regional struggle, all within a global competitive environment? The question, so pertinent today, was confronted by the British nearly 250 years ago during the American War for Independence. And the answer, as this book makes plain, is: not the way the British, under Lieutenant General Charles, Earl Cornwallis, went about it in the American South. Southern Gambit presents a closely observed, comprehensive account of this failed strategy.

Las Vegas really is unique in so many ways. One of them is that its history, which is short but intense, can be told through the birth and demise of the resorts that dot the Strip, the rise and fall of its casino industry titans. This brief history of the Las Vegas Strip presents every casino hotel built along Las Vegas Boulevard South, the most celebrated and most visited stretch of asphalt on Earth, starting in 1941 with the El Rancho Vegas.

Following a youth mission trip that reinforced his faith and taught him to hear God, Ed Carpenter spent years in business and building a family. Facing many challenges and struggles over time, it was the ability to hear God that guided his path to well-being and success. This book is designed to help listeners find truth, meaning, inner peace, and contentment by learning to establish and maintain an intimate connection with God.

In the climax of The Antiarch Trilogy, nothing will stop the Advisor from launching his newest deadly weapon against Axiom. Still undercover as an Enforcer, Finn must lead the rebellion growing inside Antiarch if he has any chance of saving the city.

Being an Enforcer is tough. Being an undercover spy for the resistance group, Axiom, is even harder. Not having the people you love know the truth is killer. When fellow Enforcer, Marissa, pursues Finn, he discovers she has the information he's looking for. This leaves him with an impossible choice: stay true to Piper and ruin the mission or betray the girl he loves and save the city.

There's no denying that our workplaces are more diverse than ever. Age, race, gender - there are so many different perspectives and experiences being brought to the table. And the best employees and leaders know that harnessing the power of these differences will build stronger teams, ideas, and organizations. But how do we do this? If we all think, feel, and act so differently, how do we get anything done?

An old man crawled down the Ozarks from Elsinore to Gideon. He was dying and wanted to find his son. Six-year-old Sybil sat braiding the hair of a doll while the old man yelled his sad story through her window. Spit shot through the gaps of his missing teeth and splattered against the glass. But in rural Missouri, that was no excuse for a lack of hospitality.

When the Magistrate of the Rhakotis District must solve a dubious crime involving a wretched family of Alexandrian nobility without the help of Heron - the greatest inventor the city has ever known - he learns the true horror of family curses.

They adore her in Manhattan. They worship her in Hollywood. They idolize her in the liberal media. But out in the real world are those of us who see through her lies about her husband, reject her socialist economics, and despise her radical social agenda. We are the members of what Hillary Clinton described as a "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy", and at VRWC headquarters, we've been keeping a file on her.

In an opulent honeymoon suite in Watch Hill, Rhode Island’s most desirable wedding venue, 29-year-old Callie Holt is spending her wedding night lying in a bathtub shoveling down a pizza; her expensive white dress now splattered with sauce and her groom passed out in the next room. With her seven-hour-old marriage already imploded, Callie turns to the place of record–her phone–sifting through the photographic evidence of the past year to pinpoint where it all went wrong.

The Spiritualist Academy's motto is 'Learning Together on the path to Great Mediumship'. This show is about us all learning more about Mediumship Mechanics, What it means to be a Medium and even How to become a Medium as well as all things Spiritualist and Spiritualism. -- Where to start, how to improve and how to go further. Hosted by Oliver Carpenter-Beale

Magic and madness don't always run hand in hand, but there's a reason they call it the Touch. Delaney Green is one of them that don't burn, not that no one ain't never tried. After her mama tried and failed to murder her for pulling on the future like it was a piece of string, Del has spent her whole life in a mental institution for her own safety. And everyone else's. No one wants to see what might happen if she goes cracked. When a dozen young women turn up burned to a crisp, local folks are quick to point the FBI straight at Del.

Despite her powerful magic, Marquese Enid d’Tancreville must flee her homeland to escape death at the hands of the Theocratic Revolution. When a Theocratic warship overtakes the ship bearing her to safety, Enid is spared capture by the timely intervention of the Albion frigate Alarum, under the commend of Commander Rue Nath. These circumstances make for an odd alliance, and Enid finds herself replacing the Alarum’s recently slain sea mage. Now an officer under Nath’s command, Enid is thrust into a strange maritime world full of confusing customs, duties, and language.

The Final Warning is an arresting and timely contemporary thriller from a master story-teller. Steeped in conspiracy, diverse characters and an incredibly deft knowledge of American consciousness, it is at times disturbing, at others heart-warming, at times light-hearted and at others unbelievably significant. As an insidious plot threatens to bring the world's most powerful country to its knees, the besieged president of the United States of America dares not reveal that American freedom is hanging by a tether.