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This story tells the tale of a boy with an Israelite father and a Canaanite mother. A young boy is caught between two worlds during the time of Samuel the Seer. In the first volume, he is captured by the Sea Peoples during a battle; he is enslaved and taken to the Philistine stronghold of Gath where he meets two young girls who will shape his future. All the while, he remembers his friend, a beautiful Canaanite girl, and wonders whether he will ever see her or his parents again. The journey continues in this volume.

Der hartherzige und habgierige Ebenezer Scrooge unterdrückt seine Mitmenschen und bezahlt seinem Sekretär nur einen Hungerlohn. In der Nacht vor dem Hl. Abend erscheint ihm der Geist seines verstorbenen Teilhabers Marley und mahnt ihn, sein Leben zu ändern. Marley schickt Ebenezer 3 Geister: den Geist der vergangenen, der jetzigen und der zukünftigen Weihnachten. Die Geister zeigen Mr. Scrooge seine einsame Kindheit und Jugendzeit, das armselige Leben seines Sekretärs und sein sinnlos böses Dasein.

Die Tage werden kürzer und das Laub wird bunt. Viel ist nun zu tun, um sich auf den Winter vorzubereiten. Die Igel sammeln eifrig Äpfel, Eichhörnchen Trixi vergräbt viele Nüsse und die Mäuse essen sich tüchtig satt. Doch statt Mittagsschlaf müssen alle an den Teich, um Frosch Franz zu helfen.

Es schneit und Isidor und seine Frau Isidora Igel halten Winterschlaf. Doch andere Tierchen müssen in Eis und Schnee nach Futter suchen. Auf dem Wiesengrund geht das Gerücht um, dass an den Weihnachtsbäumen der Menschen Futter zu finden ist und eine hungrige Expedition macht sich bei Mondschein auf den Weg.

Im grünen Wiesengrund wohnen viele kleine Tiere, die sich alle gut kennen. Igel Isidor & seine Frau Isidora, der Maulwurf, Frosch Franz und die Spitzmaus - alle begrüßen den Frühling und viele freuen sich schon auf Nachwuchs. Nur die Spitzmaus ist sooo schlecht gelaunt. Doch große Gefahr droht dem Wiesengrund, ein gefährlicher Jäger - eine Eule baut sich ein Nest. Gemeinsam schmieden die kleinen Freunde einen Plan, wie sie die Eule vertreiben können.

Die kleinen Tiere genießen den Sommer und dann kommt auch noch eine Stadtmaus zu Besuch - Flips Vetter Klecks möchte einmal das Landleben kennenlernen, doch Klecks hat leider ganz schlechte Manieren und alle Tiere auf dem Wiesengrund sind verärgert.

Niklas, Linus und Melissa - Mitglieder der Pfadfindergruppe "Pollution Police" - gehen in die Luft! Bei einem Rundflug über die Heimatstadt ihrer Freundin Sophie dürfen sie die Welt von oben entdecken. Doch nach der Landung erwartet die Freunde gleich das nächste Abenteuer: Sie sehen mit an, wie ein Flugzeug zur Notlandung gezwungen und ein Passagier entführt wird! Kann die "Pollution Police" auch diesen Fall aufklären? Bei einem Rätsel um Energiekonzerne und Stromausfälle müssen die Kinder buchstäblich Licht ins Dunkel bringen.

Un-Cabaret assembled the entire Emmy-winning writing staff of Sex and the City, each reading their own work for this special sold-out edition of Say the Word at The Knitting Factory in New York. Meet the writers behind the hit show and hear the individual voices that came together to create a cultural landmark.

On February 23, 1945, one of the most famous photographs in American history was taken atop Mount Suribachi, as five American soldiers began to raise an American flag. The picture, which most Americans are instantly familiar with, has come to symbolize the strength and sacrifice of America's armed forces, and though many realize it was taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima, much of the actual battle and the context of the picture itself have been overshadowed.

Presented in an irreverent fashion, Yogi teacher Sam Gupta takes beginners by the hand and gets them started in the practice of meditation. Using the techniques included in this audiobook, you will discover how easy it is to learn meditation and enjoy the positive benefits in your life.

When the U.S. Supreme Court determines the fate of genetically engineered beings - whether they're humans or animals - humanity learns that the law is truly a double edged sword. Delisa provides a first glimpse of a problem that does not yet exist, but one day will. we infuse plants with animal DNA, animals with plant DNA. When we start doing it to humans, what do they become?

Lou Prophet loves to keep beautiful women company. But when the invitation comes from Miss Louisa Bonaventure, the Vengeance Queen, he finds himself intimate with hot lead instead of her warm female form. Louisa’s got him riding the brutal Mexican frontier chasing outlaws led by Tony Lazzaro, a notorious thief whose deadly weapon, Sugar Delphi, is a blind and blood-hungry pistolera.

The glaciers of the Sierra Nevada are melting, destroying the habitat of the mastodons, creating the rich land that will become California. The coastal people struggle to understand the changing world around them: their seer Sunchaser has lost his way to the Spirit World and mammoths continue to disappear. When a beautiful woman arrives, fleeing from her abusive husband, the people know what they must do - for if the Spirits are already taking the animals away, what will happen if they shelter a stranger?  

Sally has traveled to the silver-mining town of Goth, Colorado to open a restaurant with a friend. That's where she crosses paths with five bank robbers in a hurry to strike it rich. With the local sheriff lying dead in a pool of blood, Sally fights for her life while a frontier surgeon tries to work a miracle. Burning with fury, armed with a gun and a badge, Smoke Jenson goes on the hunt - a posse of one against a gang of outlaws more dangerous than he can know.

They're hanging Bobby Lee Cabot in Cloverdale, Nevada on Friday. Or so they think. Thursday brings Smoke Jensen to town. In another life, Bobby Lee was almost kin to Smoke, and guilty or not, Smoke will blast Cloverdale sky high if that's what it takes to set his old friend free. By midnight, Smoke and Billy Ray are riding hell-for-leather out of Cloverdale, and into a war between cunning railroad robbers and the organization sworn to stop them. Bobby Lee was working for the railroads until he was betrayed. Now, both men are pursued by deadly enemies on either side of the law. 

A beautiful woman, a powerful Mexican rancher, and an exotic new breed of cattle come to John Slaughter’s San Bernardino Valley ranch, along with the prospect of making a small fortune. While Slaughter’s men are out keeping the peace in Tombstone, an act of betrayal turns up the heat under his own roof, and a killer is stalking Slaughter’s wealthy Mexican guest. Indians suddenly savagely attack Slaughter’s ranch, but it is only the first shot in a bigger, blazing Arizona bloodbath.

The damsel is in distress, or so it seems to Conrad Browning. On his way across the wide, tall Utah territory to California, the Loner meets a beautiful Mormon girl on the run from a forced wedding - and the gun-toting faithful trying to hunt her down. But there are two sides to every story - and the ones you don't hear are the ones that can get you killed. The runaway bride has a little history of her own. Soon, the Loner touches off a storm of unholy gunfire, drawing blood from an outlaw and a death sentence from a patriarch. 

They met on the battlefields of Vicksburg. General Ulysses S. Grant, George Armstrong Custer, and the Rebel Johnny Yuma. Three men united by fate — in a nation divided by war — they were dedicated to freedom, driven to extremes, and destined for greatness.... Of the three, Johnny Yuma was the most elusive. A Confederate soldier during the war, he was about to play a key role in Grant’s victory for the Union, Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, and Custer’s deadly campaigns in the West.

Roberta Morris goes to the McCloud brothers seeking help in finding her uncle. He's gone missing in the Bitterroot Mountains while mining for gold. They are happy to oblige a pretty little lady who's all alone. But she's not alone. Frank Burdette and his gang are hot on her trail...and they know more than Roberta is letting on to the McClouds....

Boot Stoner spent 12 years of his life behind bars for stealing a horse and rustling cattle. Upon release, he adds murder and kidnapping to his criminal skills, slaughtering his own parents before exacting revenge upon the man responsible for his incarceration and abducting a young Creek girl his folks adopted. The best hope for stopping Stoner's bloody rampage in Oklahoma Indian Territory is the veteran manhunter, John Ward, deputy marshal.