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Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict—and 18-year-old Mererid 'Mer' is well-acquainted with both. As the last living water diviner, she can manipulate water with magic—a unique elemental power many would kill to possess. For years, Mer has been running from the prince who bound her into his service—and forced her to kill thousands with her magic. Now, all Mer truly wants is a safe, quiet life, far from power and politics. But then Mer's old handler—the king's spymaster—returns with a proposition.

Ein wunderschöner Liebesbrief von Gott! Es gibt jede Menge spannender Geschichten in der Bibel, aber eigentlich erzählen sie alle zusammen eine ganz große Geschichte. Sie handelt von Gottes wunderbarem Rettungsplan für seine Kinder. Und dieser Plan dreht sich von vorne bis hinten um Jesus. Jede einzelne Geschichte flüstert seinen Namen... Diese Folge beinhaltet die Geschichten: "Zachäus", "Gleichnis: Der verlorene Sohn", "Mit Tränen gewaschen", "Das letzte Abendmahl", "Jesus in Getsemane", "Kreuzigung", "Auferstehung", "Himmelfahrt".

A powerful allegorical tale about humanity and dignity and the ease with which we can justify brutality. Two mysterious strangers appear at a hotel in a small country town. Where have they come from? Who are they? What catastrophe are they fleeing? The townspeople want answers, but the strangers are unable to speak of their trauma. And before long, wary hospitality shifts to suspicion and fear, and the care of the men slides into appalling cruelty.

A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from North Africa to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old by his father and stolen away to Berlin. With nothing but her maid’s uniform and a knife stashed in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers – some generous, some exploiting – to guide her passage north. These strangers tell of their encounters with a quiet, mysterious woman in a blue coat – each account a different view of the truth, a different truth.

Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip is a modern tragedy set on a tiny copper-rich tropical island embattled by internal strife. After the trouble starts and the soldiers arrive on Matilda's island, there comes a time when all the white people have left. Only Mr Watts remains, and he wears a red nose and pulls his wife around on a trolley; the kids call him Popeye behind his back. But there is no one else to teach them their lessons and no books left to learn from - except for Mr Watts' battered copy of Great Expectations, 'by my friend Mr Dickens'....

Ein wunderschöner Liebesbrief von Gott!Es gibt jede Menge spannender Geschichten in der Bibel, aber eigentlich erzählen sie alle zusammen eine ganz große Geschichte. Sie handelt von Gottes wunderbarem Rettungsplan für seine Kinder. Und dieser Plan dreht sich von vorne bis hinten um Jesus. Jede einzelne Geschichte flüstert seinen Namen... Diese Folge beinhaltet die Geschichten: "Geburt Jesu", "Johannes der Täufer", "Jesus in der Wüste", "Die Erwählung der Jünger", "Jairus' Tochter", "Das Vaterunser", "Die Bergpredigt", "Unwetter auf dem See", "Die Speisung der 5.000".

Es gibt jede Menge spannender Geschichten in der Bibel, aber eigentlich erzählen sie alle zusammen eine ganz große Geschichte. Sie handelt von Gottes wunderbarem Rettungsplan für seine Kinder. Und dieser Plan dreht sich von vorne bis hinten um Jesus. Jede einzelne Geschichte flüstert seinen Namen... Diese Folge beinhaltet die Geschichten: "Flucht aus Ägypten", "Mose und das Rote Meer", "Die Zehn Gebote", "Jericho", "Davids Salbung", "David und Goliath", "Davids Geschichte", "Naamans Geschichte".

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Award, 2007.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2007.
Bougainville. 1991. When the villagers' safe, predictable lives come to a halt, Bougainville's children are surprised to find the island's only white man, a recluse, re-opening the school. Pop Eye, aka Mr Watts, explains he will introduce the children to Mr Dickens.

The new, enthralling supernatural thriller from Stephen Lloyd Jones, following his highly acclaimed debut The String Diaries. High in the mountains of the Swiss Alps Leah Wilde is about to gamble her life to bring a powerful man an offer. A promise. Leah has heard the dark stories about him and knows she is walking into the lion's den. But her options are running out. Her rare lineage, kept secret for years, is under terrible threat.

Es gibt jede Menge spannender Geschichten in der Bibel, aber eigentlich erzählen sie alle zusammen eine ganz große Geschichte. Sie handelt von Gottes wunderbarem Rettungsplan für seine Kinder. Und dieser Plan dreht sich von vorne bis hinten um Jesus. Jede einzelne Geschichte flüstert seinen Namen... Diese Folge beinhaltet die Geschichten: "Schöpfung", "Adam und Eva", "Die Arche Noah", "Der Turmbau von Babel", "Gottes Versprechen an Abraham", "Abraham und Isaak".

Then she lifts the Fish up from the bassinet and holds him out to me. ‘Go on, take him.’ And to the Fish she says, ‘This is your uncle.' I manage to clap my hands either side of the fish bundle. But I feel like I am holding an expensive glass. Once you’re told not to drop it, all you can think of is the glass shattering across the floor. When the baby is born in a shabby caravan at a beach campground, it’s clear he is not like other babies. But the family will try hard to protect and love and accept him. Perhaps all the more to make up for letting his troubled mother down.

Instinctieve moederliefde. Dat is het enige waar Ines haar doorzettingsvermogen uitput en zich door niets of niemand laat tegenhouden om haar ontvoerde zoon weer in haar armen te mogen sluiten. De Tunesische Ines komt via Italië illegaal Europa binnen om naar Berlijn af te reizen. Onderweg ontmoet ze mensen waarbij ze genoodzaakt is om hun te vertrouwen, ze is inmiddels helemaal alleen. Door de mysterieuze verhalen van deze vreemden, moet Ines zelf de waarheid proberen te achterhalen. Maar of dat haar naar haar zoon zal leiden, is nog maar de vraag.

Podcast about Norberto Keppe’s Analytical Trilogy

A new sensation grips London – a poisoner who strikes without a trace, leaving victims mad with terror...and then dead. Is there a cure for the Black Terror? To find out, Wild Boy and Clarissa must catch the killer. Their hunt will lead them from the city's vilest slums to its grandest palaces and to a darkness at the heart of its very highest society.

An imaginative, tight, edge-of-your-seat supernatural thriller which follows an historical mystery through to its nail-biting contemporary conclusion. The String Diaries. A jumble of entries, written in different hands, different languages, and different times. They tell of a rumour. A shadow. A killer. The only interest that Oxford Professor Charles Meredith has in the diaries is as a record of Hungarian folklore ... until he comes face to face with a myth.

London, 1841. A boy covered in hair, raised as a monster, condemned to life in a travelling freak show. A boy with an extraordinary power of observation and detection. A boy accused of murder; on the run; hungry for the truth. Behold the savage spectacle of Wild Boy.

This is a story about a woman. And the truck driver who mistook her for a prostitute. The old man she robbed and the hunters who smuggled her across the border. The woman whose name she stole, the wife who turned a blind eye. This is the story of a mother searching for her child. This is a story you cannot stop thinking about.

Brought to you by Penguin. Everyone thinks she's dead. Turns out she went undercover. An edge-of-your-seat reverse heist thriller about a teen spy who must outsmart a team of criminals in order to free a building full of innocent hostages . . . and herself. Masterfully weaving together the...

Op het tropische eiland Bougainville midden in de Stille Oceaan is het allesbehalve paradijselijk. Er woedt een brute burgeroorlog, maar de dertienjarige Matilda laat zich meeslepen door het hoopgevende verhaal van Pip. Haar leraar, meneer Watts, is de enige witte man die nog op het eiland te vinden is en hij leest de kinderen iedere dag voor uit de klassieker Great Expectations van Charles Dickens. Helaas raken de dorpsbewoners allesbehalve betoverd door de avonturen van Pip. Hoe kan een literair meesterwerk zulke verstrekkende gevolgen hebben?

In the middle of summer, omnipresent heat radiates as a group of elderly people are remembering their youth. The story focuses on two sisters, Leokadia and Helena, who live together in a retirement home not far from Warsaw. These are not ordinary stories they are sharing, because both of them were imprisoned as children in Auschwitz during World War II.