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As soon as Ava Kent spots Jed in her local rescue centre, she knows, just as much as he does, they are perfect for each other. It's love at first sight, and despite her husband's misgivings, she offers him a home. Not much is known of Jed, other than he is a stray picked up from the streets of Eastbourne, but he soon proves himself a loyal and loving companion - in fact, he's something of a lifesaver. When Ava suffers the traumatic birth of her first child alone at home, it's Jed that somehow escapes the house to find help.

Sixteen modern fiction superstars shine a startling light on the romance and pain of the infamous literary pair Heathcliff and Cathy. Short stories to stir the heart and awaken vital conversation about love.

Cztery kobiety spotykaja sie na wspólnej terapii. Kazda z nich miala inne, ale zawsze skomplikowane relacje z matka. To wplynelo na wybory zyciowe bohaterek. Karolina jest nauczona bezwzglednego posluszenstwa, Katarzyna byla zakonnica, z kolei Daria jest niechcianym przez matke dzieckiem, którym zajmowal sie ojciec, Lucja byla zas wychowywana na arystokratke traktujaca mezczyzn jako srodek do osiagniecia celu. Terapeutka wyznacza liste polecen do wykonania.

Kto nie zna historii powrotu do domu przed północą i straty pantofelka? Historia dziewczynki, która bardzo chciała iść na bal wraz ze swoją macochą i siostrami. Nie mogła, ale od czego ma się wróżki?

Jane Lloyd has loved her esteemed neighbor, Edgar Payton, since they were children. When Edgar’s father dies, leaving his eldest son the title of Duke, Jane’s younger sister, the beauty of the family, sets out to catch Edgar and grasp his fortune.

This is the story of an independent woman who is a model for our time—photographer Toby Molenaar. It begins in Holland during World War II, when her country is decimated by the occupying German army and she is literally left to starve. As a little girl, she learns to be self-sufficient—survival is the order of the day. Courage, indomitable spirit, an open mind, and accountability only to herself are the stuff of this fascinating and inspirational story.

Three children - Jerry (bossy), Jimmy (hungry), and Kathleen (sensible) - find themselves standing in front of a bejewelled princess in the garden of an enchanted castle. It is the first day of their summer holidays. Is she really a princess? And if she isn't, what about her ring which makes the wearer invisible?

Strategic Jaywalking is a playful yet sober assessment of how we might live and lead better by judiciously keeping our devices and policies on a leash and exercising a little more conscious thought and decision-making responsibility in our work and lives. It relies on something that nearly all of us were taught at a young age—how to safely cross a street, and yet, by idiot-proofing the experience via rules and technology (think painted crosswalks, beeping timers, and flashing red hands), we have, in many respects, made the process both slower and more dangerous.

Welcome to Tumble Town, where the shadows know your name. And that's not necessarily a good thing.

Faye Walters knows that today's women are sorted and stylish. They have the job, the house, the colour co-ordinated capsule wardrobe. They cope with the pressures of singledom, marriage and having kids with peanut allergies. And they all do it effortlessly, with nothing more than a women's mag and a poem by Pam Ayres to guide them. So why can't she pull it off?

To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, a select group of his family and most ardent admirers from the worlds of literature and entertainment, including Joanna Lumley and Simon Callow, gathered in Highgate Cemetery, burial place of many of the Dickens family, to hear readings from his work introduced by his great-great-grandson Mark Dickens and to discuss his life.

At the heart of Oxford University life, the Bodleian Library is one of the oldest working libraries in Europe with some of its reading rooms - the medieval Duke Humfrey’s Library and the circular Radcliffe Camera - immortalised in films, including The Golden Compass the Harry Potter franchise. With access to priceless archives including Jane Austen’s unfinished novel The Watsons, this documentary reveals how the Elizabethan diplomat Sir Thomas Bodley created this extraordinary library and how it flourishes as a modern institution.

The new goal for your life is to reinvent yourself, so you must be proactive. You must be solution-oriented to overcome obstacles. How can I have a vibrant sex life before and after my reinvented retirement? Has there been a decline in my sex life? Be honest with yourself. If the answer is yes, then what must you do to fix the issue? How can I live better, and are there treatments and medicines that can help me live my best? You should never settle for less.

Can you remember the utter delight of playing chase, flying a kite, or getting messy with a box of paints? As children, playing is how we make sense of the world and our place in it. Why then, as adults, do we forget how to play? Drawing on more than 20 years of neuroscientific research and clinical practice, psychotherapist Joanna Fortune has discovered that play is central to the human experience–and is the key to living a happier, joyful life.

Joanna Lumley reads "The Snow Queen". One day, a diabolical troll builds a mirror that shows everything that is beautiful as ugly and all that is good as evil. Delighted, the trolls decided to carry this mirror to heaven and mock the angels, but on their way the mirror breaks and shatters into hundreds of pieces that spread across the world. Some bigger pieces are turned into windows and others are made into spectacles, but some of tiniest bits get stuck into people’s eyes or in their heart, changing their life for ever.

Do czego jest zdolna zraniona kobieta? Opowieść o miłości i śmierci, o zdradzie i zemście. Zora Radke zajmuje się organizowaniem rozrywek dla znudzonych i bogatych ludzi, zwykle są one nielegalne i niebezpieczne. Ta praca to jej wybór, Zora lubi dreszczyk emocji i wielkie wyzwania, a z rozterkami moralnymi radzi sobie, tworząc własny kodeks etyczny. Pewnego dnia poznaje na przyjęciu u znajomej Sebastiana Dyzmę, aktora i muzyka, zakochuje się w nim. To moment przełomowy w życiu dziewczyny, nielegalna profesja zaczyna jej ciążyć.

All Hubert wants is an obedient wife that could zip her lip and be a pretty little homemaker. His Minnie sure is pretty, but she's as obedient as a feral cat! She's always mouthing off, breaking vases, and screaming about "her place" in a man's world. When she crashes his Rolls Royce Phantom II, that's the very last straw! Declaring his wife hysterical, Hubert takes her to the one woman that can cure any headstrong dame. Little does he know, Mrs. Wilson has zero interest in "fixing" Minnie and every intention of awakening her lesbian lust!

The fundamental purpose of the soul is to grow and expand, but if we all just keep growing and expanding without direction, the universe will continue to explode into greater chaos than it already has. Our unifying direction must be our own personal growth. We are capable of wielding powerful forces of light and guarding our galaxy against the forces of lower vibrations. To grow into this power, we must look within ourselves and cultivate love.

A hacker war—17 years in the making—erupts after GlobeCom takes over the world through human chip implants. As dozens of hacker strike teams around the world attempt to relieve GlobeCom of its iron grip on humanity through a coordinated attack on its data centers, Cy is gravely injured, and her husband is killed in the attack. At his funeral, Cy learns the hacker clans are now going after her secret spouse, a chief security officer from GlobeCom’s China hub who has been anonymously feeding the clans insider information to aid their cause.

Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of character (neither being particularly inclined to make friends with anyone else). But now, 30 years later, faced with a husband seeking immortality and Norma out of reach on a wave of professional glory, Susan begins to wonder whether she has made the right choices about life, love, work and, most importantly, friendship.