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Ten-year-old Miranda Stevens approaches the fifth-grade classroom with trepidation. She must face the same snobby classmates that she met when she came to Montana at the end of the last school year to attend this small rural school, and worst of all, Christopher Bergman, the classroom bully who takes special delight in making Miranda's life miserable. Friendship, loyalty, courage, and lesson's learned the hard way are all part of Miranda's story as she lives with her grandparents on their dairy farm. If only she had a horse of her very own, she thinks, nothing else would matter.

Un recorrido histórico por los aspectos del arte y la sociedad azteca más destacados. La historia de sus dioses, sus templos, costumbres, mitos...

When Matt Reed returns from Vietnam, eager to get back to the Wyoming family ranch and forget the horrors of war, he finds the ranch stripped of livestock and his father a mere shadow of his former self. The new bank president, Paul Pringle, is a former high school nemesis and the man who married Matt's girlfriend after Matt was sent to a distant and unpopular war. Determined to foreclose - and gain access to the Reed Ranch's rich mineral deposits - Pringle gives Matt a very short time to raise a whole lot of money.

Are there "public arguments-reasons that can be given that do not presuppose agreement on religious grounds or common religious commitments that can guide our thoughts and actions, as well as our laws and public policies? In Ten Universal Principles: A Brief Philosophy of the Life Issues, Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer sets out, in a brief, yet highly understandable and lucid style, 10 basic principles that must govern the reasonable person's thinking and acting about life issues.

Hace veinte años, en un campamento de verano, cuatro adolescentes se adentraron de noche en el bosque. Dos fueron hallados asesinados y a los otros dos no volvieron a verlos nunca más. Para cuatro familias la vida cambió para siempre. Dos décadas después, está a punto de cambiar otra vez. El luto de Paul Copeland, fiscal del condado de Essex, Nueva Jersey, por la muerte de su hermana apenas comienza a remitir.

El embarazo es un momento especial en la vida de la mujer en el que se dan muchos cambios de forma acelerada. El cuerpo va adaptándose para acoger y permitir el desarrollo de una nueva vida que crece día a día, pero también cambia la mente de la madre, que se prepara para proteger y cuidar a su bebé. Un proceso en el que es normal que surjan dudas y temores.

A pesar de su apariencia de verdad objetiva, científica e indiscutible, la economía está plagada de falsedades. Sus medias verdades o patentes mentiras, sin embargo, no se dicen por error ni por gusto, sino para causar un determinado efecto en quien las escucha. En nuestro tiempo, ese efecto es evidente: justificar y propiciar la mayor concentración de ingresos y riqueza en unas pocas manos y hacer que la gente se resigne al silencio mientras se restringen sus derechos y se le impone un modelo económico, además de injusto, ineficiente.

Un crimen enigmático. Una conspiración para derrocar al califa. El secuestro de un niño de diez años. Y el hallazgo de una primitiva versión del Corán distinta de la oficial, que podría hacer temblar los pilares de la religión islámica. Acompaña a Theobald, un monje cristiano venido de Occidente, en su viaje a la Bagdad del siglo IX, capital del califato abasí y epicentro mundial del saber y la cultura, mientras trata de esclarecer un extraño asesinato en el que se verá involucrado de forma accidental.

In this captivating 10-part series, Melvyn Bragg brings all his enthusiasm, experience and expertise to a subject that has enthralled him his entire life: the importance of the North in shaping the United Kingdom. Joined by special guests, he charts the ebb and flow of Northern power and influence, examining how one smallish geographical region came to have such an enormous effect on our culture worldwide: from science and philosophy to music and sport.

Durante su estancia en Nueva York (entre 1929 y 1930), Federico García Lorca escribió "Poeta en Nueva York", su poemario más famoso. Lorca se sintió profundamente impresionado por la forma de vida de la sociedad norteamericana y desde que llegó a Nueva York empezó a sentir un odio creciente por el capitalismo y la industrialización de la sociedad moderna. Le parecía repulsivo el degradante trato que la mayoría blanca daba a la minoría negra.

Sarah Meyer has lived a rather interesting life. Conjoined with a Demon that won't let go, she has been under the protective custody of the Sisters of San Francesco. Under the guidance of her mentor, Father Lucian, she helps solve some of the world’s most terrifying paranormal mysteries. These are her stories.

One of the definitive detectives of American crime fiction comes to radio - with a matchless mind, a relentless eye for detail, and just a bit of an attitude. That's Philo Vance - S.S. Van Dine's famous amateur criminologist of the 1920s and 1930s, ready for radio in the 1940s. Jackson Beck stars as Vance, with Joan Alexander as secretary Ellen Deering, and George Petrie as District Attorney Markham in 16 mind-challenging mysteries!

All 13 episodes of the classic role-reversal comedy starring Leslie Phillips and Jill Bennett. It's not easy being chauffeur to your ex-wife. Especially when she's wealthy and you're broke.... Leslie Duggan was once a high-flying property tycoon - but then came the 1980s property crash, which wiped out his business and left him broke. Down on his luck and desperate to earn a living, he takes a job chauffeuring his wealthy ex-wife, Caroline, who owns a successful mail order company and is very much on the up.

Diagnosticada con Bipolar 1 en 1999, Allison tomó medicamentos durante 20 años. A través de su fe en Dios, ha superado los síntomas del Bipolar 1 y ha estado libre de medicamentos durante más de un año. Nunca ha estado más feliz. Todo está encendido!!! Ese es el lema y ortografía de la Artista Marcial de la Fe, la pastora Allison Joan Hall, de 55 años. Tiene un Cinturón Negro en El Karate Kenpo y un Cinturón Azul en Taekwondo.

Distinguished guests nominate a great musician for BBC Radio 4's Great Lives For 20 years, Great Lives has been a linchpin of Radio 4, presented by Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock and Matthew Parris. In it, a household name is invited to choose one of their heroes to discuss...

Maizie Albright might have once played a (teenage) private investigator on TV, but she’s now living the (adult) part. Her (mother’s) name is on her business cards. Her (boss’s) appointment book is brimming with new clients. And her bank account has grown large enough to finally trade in her dirt bike for an actual new (pre-owned) vehicle. While the police begin their inquiries, Maizie starts her own case. She’s needling Black Pine’s wealthy do-gooders, threading through lies, stitching together clues, and ripping out false leads.

Juggling single motherhood and her job as deputy sheriff of Teton County, Sarah Barndollar hasn't lost hope of solving two cold cases of missing young women. When a third vanishes, all hell breaks loose - because, she's the illegitimate daughter of Texas scion Clay Blackthorne and the granddaughter of his mortal enemy King Grayhawk.

Climate change wiped out planet Earth in 2054. However, the richest and most powerful one percent of society did not hesitate to escape to a space station. But what would that new society become if classism and fascism were what prevailed among them at the time our world died?

Diagnosed with Bipolar 1 in 1999, Allison took medication for 20 years. Through her faith in God, she has overcome symptoms of Bipolar 1 and has been medication-free for over a year. She has never been happier. All is on! That is the spelling and motto of 55-year-old, recently ordained Martial Artists of the Faith, Pastor Allison Joan Hall. She holds a Black Belt in Kenpo Karate and a Blue Belt in Taekwondo. She taught high school Spanish and Art for Baltimore City Public Schools for 22 years from which illness forced her into early retirement.

Boomtown San Diego, in 1888, erupts in murder. Retired marshal and hero of the O.K. Corral Wyatt Earp is involved. What's really going on? Award-winning, best-selling mystery author James Musgrave takes issues from the present and turns them into ingenious puzzles for listeners to solve. In the 19th century, the same human foibles existed, but the problems happened at a much slower pace.