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Lily Crawford and Jeanie Taylor, from very different backgrounds, are firm friends from their childhoods in Kirkcudbright. They share their ambitions for their futures, Lily to be an artist, Jeanie to be a dancer. The two women's eventful lives are intertwined. In the years before the First World War, the girls lose touch when Jeanie runs away from home and joins a dance company, while Lily attends The Mack, Glasgow's famous school of art designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Selma Lagerlöf hade hunnit bli 33 år när hon debuterade med ”Gösta Berlings Saga”, och efter det levde hon sitt liv som en mycket produktiv författare som skrev flertalet välkända romaner och noveller. Idag räknas Lagerlöf som en av Sveriges främsta författare någonsin. Men vem var hon egentligen? Och vilka uppoffringar tvingades hon att göra för att tillslut bli den första kvinnliga ledamoten i Svenska Akademien? Litteraturvetaren och författaren Vivi Edström skildrar en av våra mest berömda och inflytelserika författares liv genom tiderna.

All work and no play makes Adeline Kendrick a dull girl, so when she heads to a casino resort for a friend's bachelorette weekend, she's ready to have a good time. Until she runs into Brendan Quinn, professional fighter and the one who got away - the one her family drove away - and things take a turn for the interesting. Running into his ex won't shake Brendan. Even if it brings up the old pain of loving her when she was only slumming. Even if she looks really good.

A child is stolen - gone but not forgotten. As Stella watches the police investigation unfold, she starts to ask a terrifying question. Where was her own mother that night?

A fascinating four-volume collection from the private journals of four distinguished historical figures, presented in a dramatised setting.

Called the most promising artist of his generation, handsome, modest, and affectionate, Richard Dadd rubbed shoulders with the great luminaries of the Victorian Age. He grew up along the Medway with Charles Dickens and studied at the Royal Academy Schools under the brilliant and eccentric J. M. W. Turner. Based on Dadd’s tragic true story, Mad Richard follows the young artist as he develops his craft, contemplates the nature of art and fame - as he watches Dickens navigate those tricky waters - and ultimately finds himself imprisoned in Bedlam for murder, committed as criminally insane.

Patrick Cusimano is in a bad way. His father is in jail; he works the midnight shift at a grubby convenience store; and his brother's girlfriend, Caro, has taken their friendship to an uncomfortable new level. On top of all that, he can't quite shake the attentions of Layla Elshere, a goth teenager who befriends Patrick for reasons he doesn't understand, and doesn't fully trust. The temptations these two women offer are pushing Patrick to his breaking point.

Glimmer Globe Theatre is thrilled to present Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: A Full-Cast Audiobook to mark our eighth annual production of this classic tale! This new audiobook production features the voices of 30 regional and local performers (including many Glimmer Globe veterans and newcomers) bringing to life every one of Dickens' characters as they appear in the original text. The production also features music by Rob Montecalvo and B.J. Baker, as well as sound effects, and perhaps some surprises along the way!

Isabella is a young émigré from the USSR who discovers her artistic talent as a way to cope with culture shock and escape from her traditional criticizing Jewish mother. Lost in America, Isabella searches for a true home all over the world. She lives in Paris and Rome, ventures out to Australia, returns to Russia in search for her tribe, all the while recording these new locales and her feelings about them with her brush. It is only after losing her passion under the strains of money, romance, and indulgence that she realizes that her painting practice has always been her home base.

Henriette Liebling ist unzufrieden mit ihrem Leben. Sie hat sich eingerichtet in der Ereignislosigkeit mit einem sicheren, aber langweiligen Job, einer schönen, aber sterilen Wohnung und einer netten, aber monotonen Beziehung. Ganz klar: Das ist nicht ihr "Lieblingsleben". Das ist höchstens Plan B. Und so steht sie vor der Frage: Wie wird man eigentlich erwachsen, ohne sich selbst aufzugeben? Und: Muss sie ihr Leben ändern - oder sogar sich selbst?

The story of a starry-eyed performer who dreams of performing with the Rockettes, F--ker, The Christmas Mouse, is a heart-warming and ludicrous tale of holiday dreams come true.

Rev. Dr. Steve Burt, the Congregational minister known as The Christmas Story Pastor, has been sharing his emotional holiday stories - modern parables revealing the true meaning of Christmas - for 40 years in print and in read-aloud programs. Millions have heard him read his stories on radio and television, with millions more seeing them in Family Circle or the Chicken Soup for the Soul books.

This, the first book in the series, Adum’s Kronicles, is a historically based, theological fantasy, that follows Adum, Reyna, and Frederick, purveyors of the Truth, as they march through time planting seeds and notions into the minds of some of the most influential people to ever walk the Earth. However, this thought provoking adventure is really about the love, passion, and romance between one man, and one woman, whose love is so profoundly deep, it spans eons.

Jayne Marks is questioning the choices she has made in the years since college and is struggling to pay her bills in Manhattan when she is given the opportunity to move to Paris with her wealthy lover and benefactor, Laurent Moller, who owns and operates two art galleries, one in New York, the other in Paris. He offers her the time and financial support she needs to begin her career as a painter and challenges her to see who and what she will become if she meets her artistic potential.

This is the story of Jalena Mathesin. Hurt over losses in her young life, she turns to the street for comfort and solace. Her devastating actions place her family in a dangerous situation causing her abandonment. While dealing with past hurts, addiction and the loss of her father, she ends up doing a lot of things against her upbringing, but finds that reconciliation is always a prayer away.

Living a very humdrum existence, Charlie McGuire feels confined by the overwhelming pressures of life. In an effort to maintain a tranquil existence on the home front, he works hard running a successful bakery, caters to his wife's materialistic values, and struggles to keep his spoiled children at bay. He dreams of escaping the boundaries of his mundane world but gets more than he bargained for when he awakes on a desolate island in the middle of nowhere.

Januar 1948. Der Absturz eines erfahrenen Piloten sorgt für ein reges Aufsehen am Militärflughafen von Fort Knox in Kentucky. Eine Maschine des Typ Mustang P-51 ist aus unerklärlichen Gründen abgestürzt, obwohl ihr Pilot eine beträchtliche Anzahl Flugstunden aufzuweisen hatte und sogar für seine herausragenden Leistungen im Kampf um die Normandie hoch ausgezeichnet war. Niemand glaubt an einen Fehler des Piloten. Seit einiger Zeit häufen sich die Gerüchte, das Jagdflugzeug sei durch Fremdeinwirkung zum Absturz gebracht worden. Doch wie viel Wahrheit steckt hinter dem Gerede der Leute?

A local hero, Dr Wayne Phillips, dies because the equipment that could save him is being used to help Bob Merrick, a spoiled rich man who has wrecked his speed boat. Dr Phillips gave selflessly and in secret to many people and causes, which Merrick now takes up too. However his efforts end in failure and also alienate Dr Phillips' widow, Helen, with whom he is besotted.

The summer of 1967, at a decaying house in the heart of Suffolk: an artist is painting a portrait of 13-year-old Maisie and her elder sisters, beautiful Julia and bookish Finn. Maisie embarks on a portrait of her own: she begins an account of her family and of her village friend Daniel Nunn, a young man she idolises, whom she watches over the chasm of a class divide. This is the summer when the three sisters' lives will irrevocably, and terribly, change.

Diese wunderschöne Sammlung von Siegfried Lenz' Weihnachtsgeschichten ist für alle, die sich an gemütlichen Winterabenden verzaubern lassen wollen - oder sich rund ums Jahr nach eben jenen Abenden sehnen. Neben seiner beliebten Weihnachtsgeschichte "Das Wunder von Striegeldorf", die von zwei Männern erzählt, die alles daran setzen, die Feiertage nicht in ihrer Zelle verbringen müssen, beinhaltet dieses Hörbuch zwei weitere Erzählungen, die den risikoreichen Job des Weihnachtsmanns und die Schönheit aber auch Gefahren von zugefrorenen Seen thematisieren.