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Based on the format of the American TV show Saturday Night Live, this home-grown comedy production was an enormous success and bought recognition and fame to a great many performers, many of whom are now household names.

Most kids write stories. Only a few of them grow up to be successful authors. But before there was Carrie, there was Jhonathan and the Witchs. And before there was Rabbit Angstrom, Toyota Dealer, there was Manuel Cirarro, famous detective. Could we have seen the seeds of success in Stephen King's and John Updike's juvenilia? A funny and surprisingly informative gathering of childhood creations by today's most celebrated writers.

Merlin makes a new friend, a red fox, who invites him to his family home in the woods. On his way home, full of good food, Merlin has a rest by a pool. But this is no ordinary pool, and Merlin finds himself on an adventure in a magic land....

The Milkman is worried - his bottles keep disappearing! Merlin the Cat promises to investigate. When the culprits are found to be squirrels, Merlin and his friends uncover an even bigger problem - with the trees in the woodland being cut down, the squirrels are short of food. Merlin has to find a solution, and enlists the help of all the woodland animals to help him.

"Und was sollen wir durch die Luft werfen?" Dass es bei der Fish!-Philosophie nicht nur ums Fische-Werfen geht, zeigt Noch Mehr Fish! Denn hier lernen wir Firmen kennen, die auf unterschiedlichste Weise Spaß an der Arbeit mit einer positiven Einstellung verbinden, von Discokugeln im Call Center über Capuccino servierende Autohändler bis zum Dachdeckerlehrling, der seinen Chef coachen darf.

Die Geschwister Kate, Michael und Emma wurden als Kleinkinder von ihren Eltern getrennt. Auf dem Weg in ein neues Waisenhaus landen sie in dem Herrenhaus des geheimnisvollen Dr. Pym. Dort erfahren sie, dass sie ein magisches Buch finden müssen, wenn sie ihre Eltern wiedersehen wollen. Auf ihrer Suche treten die Kinder gegen finstere Gegner an, finden unerwartete Verbündete und beginnen, das Geheimnis ihrer Familie zu lüften.

Explore the secrets of the universe with selections from the works of three of the greatest scientific minds of our lifetime. Widely regarded as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking has delved into today's most important scientific ideas about the cosmos, expanded upon the rich history of scientific thought, and reveled in the complexities of the universe in which we live.

Celebrating 400 years of the King James Bible, 1611-2011, The Poetry of the Bible is a beautiful audiobook featuring some of your favourite verses with poetry to accompany them. Read by the distinctive British voice of Stephen John, this unique audiobook brings alive the majesty and beauty of the world's most famous book.

Als die drei Geschwister Kate, Michael und Emma in dem Herrenhaus des Dr. Pym landen, ahnen sie nicht, wohin sie diese Reise führen wird...

Nachdem es den drei Geschwistern Kate, Michael und Emma gelungen ist, das erste der Bücher vom Anbeginn aus den Händen des finsteren Magnus...

"Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of… romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you… Escape!" Radio Spirits is pleased to present 20 classic tales from one of radio's greatest action and adventure series. This collection will bring you tales of black pearls, headhunters, volcanoes, Nazi convoys and cargos of gold in exotic settings and locales - from South of the Border to Dutch East India, Paris, North Africa and points unknown!

These stories represent decades of collaboration between author David Niall Wilson and a wide array of talented authors. All have been professionally published - some have been reprinted and collected. All are the result of two muses meeting on paper. Meet a modern day Don Quixote, fighting Y2K bug nightmares, and striving to save the woman of his dreams. Learn how Edgar Allen Poe might have found his tales. Face off on a lonely mountaintop with Lovecraftian nightmares.

Our economy is hanging on to a thread printing trillions of paper dollars while the "value" of bitcoin exceeds $50,000. People are burning their cities and inciting riots while government officials do nothing and even more ridiculously, voting to remove their police departments. The threat of COVID-19 has closed economies, government offices, airports, and schools around the world. It's obvious we are living in treacherous times.

Imagine a slight change to our historical timeline where the Industrial Revolution heated up much quicker than expected. Technological marvels such as airships, trains, battleships, and submarines came into being much earlier. They were followed by steam-powered wonders such as mechanical men, flying ships, and even crafts capable of reaching the deepest fathoms of the sea or traveling to distant celestial orbs. That is the world where Sherlock Holmes and his Boswell, Dr. Watson find themselves in Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of Steampunk.

A podcast where we learn about our faith and share what it takes to live a Catholic Christian life through conversations and contemplations with my friend the friar, a Discalced Carmelite Priest.

People of faith need to be comfortable and intentional in two worlds—the world of the kingdom and the world of the commercial—blending and balancing their roles in each. Authors John C. Maxwell, Stephen Graves, and Thomas Addington identify the basic tools followers of Jesus should always have in their work toolbox: Calling, Serving, Character, and Skill.

Terrifying secrets from the past are revealed when a ghost hunter discovers a letter from his deceased mother. A lost young couple learns all is not what it seems when an elderly woman welcomes them into her remote outback home. And a guilt-ridden carpenter takes a journey into another dimension but is shocked by what follows him home.... Scare Street is proud to present a diabolical new collection of 17 ghastly stories. Each spine-tingling tale is a portal to a new world, the beginning of a seemingly endless voyage into fear and dread. 

Sherlock Holmes —the name immediately brings to mind an image of the great detective sitting in his rooms in 221B Baker street, his fingers steepled before his hawkish nose, his sharp grey eyes focused on the client who has brought a little puzzle for him to solve. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said when one reads the names of the other literary detectives of the time period, sometimes referred to as the rivals of Sherlock Holmes.