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In "The Tale of Tom Kitten", three cats must wash and dress for tea. However, when their mother is grooming him, young Tom Kitten is very naughty and scratches her! How will his mother punish Tom for being so naughty?

In The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, or The Roly-Poly Pudding, Tom Kitten is a young cat who lives with his mother and sisters in a house overrun with rats. When Tom Kitten stumbles into the home of a rat, Samuel Whiskers, and his wife Anna Maria, Tom Kitten faces the unsettling prospect of getting turned into a their dinner pudding.

Dana Catrell wakes from a drunken stupor in time to see an ambulance pull into her neighbour's house a few doors down. Celia Steinhauser has been murdered. But Dana was at her house only a few hours ago. Celia wanted to show her a photo - a photo of Dana's husband with another woman.... Dana has blank spots about what happened to the rest of the afternoon: especially the difference between what actually happened and what she imagines has happened, with dream and reality becoming blurred....

The Live a BIG Life! story is for all women. Whether she is a doctor, stay-at-home mom, teacher, pilot, retiree, writer, architect, public servant, entertainer, waitress, caretaker or judge, every woman is a work in progress.

In this memoir, Joan speaks with wisdom and clarity to every woman in every walk of life, tackling the multi-faceted ever-changing roles of today's woman with candor, wit and straight talk.

Here is a full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. Soak up the atmosphere of ancient Rome. Decide for yourself whether Caesar's power and ambition was a threat to the Republic, and whether assassination can ever be justified.

Inner Peace for Busy People is perfect for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the pressures of work, finances, children, and other modern-day stressors. Through stories encompassing spirituality, science, and humor, Joan gives you easy-to-learn skills to help you change your attitude and regain a sense of balance and harmony!

Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades. When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in heaven, Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays - on the sponsor's dime, of course. Classic films now become audiobooks, with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's This Gun for Hire starring Alan Ladd and Joan Blondell.

When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in heaven, Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays - on the sponsor's dime, of course. Classic films now become audiobooks, with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's The Perfect Specimen starring Errol Flynn and Joan Blondell.

The Shrigley Abduction is a compelling narrative, a story of deception and the lure of 'high society', with a strong Byronic character at its heart. Wakefield was sentenced to three years in Newgate, an experience which profoundly affected him. Upon his release he founded the New Zealand Company and became principally responsible for the colonisation of that country, where he is now a prominent figure. Ellen, on the other hand, died in childbirth at the age of 19.

Un grupo de viejos camaradas son convocados a una cena. Un día estuvieron unidos por un luminoso, aunque confuso, proyecto común: la revolución. Ahora, tantos años después, hacen repaso de sus existencias. Las voces se suceden, matizan y contradicen unas a otras para tejer una tupida red de vidas cruzadas que se traban en un juego de contrapuntos revelador de las trampas de la memoria.

In this insightful dialogue, Joan Z. Borysenko, Ph.D., reveals the seven pathways to God that are characteristic of the modern mystic. This audio program is dedicated to bringing people together for the good of all beings on every plane of existence, and is the essence of what Borysenko and Chopra stand for!

The curtain rises on Cherry Tucker’s debut as a high school set designer at the posh Peerless Day Academy. Cherry’s been hired for an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, but the drama director is hoping Cherry can also turn the spotlight on a malicious social media bully who’s sending poisonous texts to the faculty. The director’s got his own drama to hide, and the phantom texter seems eager to spill school secrets. When the principal’s secretary commits suicide, Cherry suspects foul play.

For those who love country-fried cozy mysteries filled with action, quirky characters, and a side of romance, you're going to love the trouble-magnet portrait artist and amateur-sleuth Cherry Tucker. From The Wall Street Journal bestselling and international award-winning author Larissa Reinhart and read by the fabulously funny Joan Dukore.

Doses of concentrated thrills and pure, raw excitement are delivered directly on the heels of the most explosive musical theme in radio - a crashing rendition of Mussorgsky's "Night On Bald Mountain". Produced and directed by William N. Robson, Norman MacDonnell, and Antony Ellis - and featuring stories by Rudyard Kipling, Ambrose Bierce, and more - Escape is capable of chilling spines as expertly as it accelerates heartbeats.

In "The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit," a bad rabbit steals a carrot from a good rabbit and scratches him in the process. When a hunter mistakes the bad rabbit for a bird, the bad rabbit inadvertently receives his just desserts.

Perhaps the first great and truly "American" poet, Walt Whitman's writing reflected the idealism and turbulence of the mid-19th century. His poetry broke new stylistic ground with its unconventional meter and rhyme schemes, yet celebrated democratic values, the beauty of nature, and the complex variety and vitality of American life.

The size and stability of the American middle class were once the envy of the world. But changes unleashed in the 1960s pitted Americans against one another politically in new and destructive ways. These battles continued to rage from that day to now, while everyone has fallen behind economically except the wealthy. Right-wing culture warriors blamed the decline on the moral shortcomings of "other" Americans - black people, feminists, gays, immigrants, union members - to court a fearful white working- and middle-class base with ever more bitter "us vs. them" politics.

Christy Naylor's life is wrenched apart when her mother dies and her father's crazed reaction is to gamble. He wins a fish farm in a game of poker and uproots them from their suburban lives, to live on a couple of watery fields. Unsettled and unsure of himself, Christy is 17, suffocating and suffering.

Marsella, 1973. Una oleada de terrorismo racista sacude toda Francia. Su epicentro es Marsella y su objetivo los inmigrantes argelinos. En seis meses, más de cincuenta son abatidos a tiros, a veces incluso en plena calle, con total impunidad. El comisario Théo Daquin, joven, parisino, elegante, culto, homosexual y sin prejuicios, lucha por encontrar a los culpables a pesar de las presiones de los magistrados, la prensa y los políticos.

Marsella, 1973. Théo Daquin, un investigador precoz, brillante, atractivo y homosexual, deja el Líbano para ocupar el puesto de comisario en Marsella, la capital mundial del tráfico de heroína. Se encuentra con una ciudad ensangrentada por los ajustes de cuentas entre matones y la estrecha relación entre los políticos y los traficantes de drogas y armas. Incluso los diferentes cuerpos policiales están en plena guerra: se espían, se chantajean entre ellos y proliferan las asociaciones semiclandestinas.