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Allie Treadwell’s mystery senses are tingling...again. A death at her grandmother’s retirement community has the food blogger suspecting murder. And she’s not the only one. Allie’s neighbor Jeanie happened to have a “special relationship” with the deceased, Melvin Fleming.

Tessa Randolph is feeling defeated. On the outs with her boyfriend and suddenly without a job, she's scrambling to pay the rent. She doesn’t exactly have the kind of life she wants. Tessa needs a change. And the ability to afford the wet food her cat Pepper thinks she deserves at every meal. Against her better judgment, but without a better offer, Tessa takes a job from one of the scariest of bosses: her mother, who has a deadly sharp tongue. And just like that, she learns that the life insurance agency at the edge of Mist River isn’t what it seems to be.

Annabelle Kite has been given the most amazing mission…to search for new signs of life on other planets. Once found, she must capture the creatures in little pyramid-shaped objects known as ‘Trinkets’, so that she can take them back to earth for her grandpa to study at his observatory.

When Willow Brown was seven, she had her first vision. Her death played out like a movie. Her second vision came along shortly after that, when she predicted her father’s cancer diagnosis. Her mother always wanted her to hide her gift away. That’s what she called it, a gift. In one of Willow’s more recent visions, she saw her great aunt dying peacefully. What she couldn’t predicate was that Aunt Cora would leave her a house in Florida and a cat, forcing Willow to go back to her hometown to sort out affairs. But it turns out Aunt Cora is a little less dead than anyone thought.

"Macht" - darum geht's in der zweiten Reihe des "DomWort". Von Dezember 2021 bis März 2022 jeden Monat ein Vortrag im Trierer Dom, anschließend hier als Podcast-Folge, jeweils etwa dreißig Minuten. Was bedeutet Macht in diesen turbulenten Zeiten? Wie zeigt sie sich und wo sind Grenzen? Darüber sprechen die Bundesverfassungsrichterin Prof. Dr. Christine Langenfeld, der ZDF-Intendant Dr. Thomas Bellut, der Olympiasieger Richard Schmidt und Brigadegeneral Jens Arlt.

This tour begins at the train station and follows the route that Lincoln walked during the procession to the cemetery. We’ll walk the same streets that saw the Union retreat on July 1st and then the procession to the cemetery a few months later. Along the way, we’ll hear from many of the townspeople that witnessed the famous visit and we’ll stop at some of the places that hosted Lincoln and many of the participants in this historic gathering.

That's not how Ally had envisioned her day! First, her uncle turns out to be a genuine crook. Then she finds out that her dad didn't get killed years ago, but is the head of a powerful syndicate, hiding in Paris. In order to track him down, the seventeen year old interferes with his business, forcing him to resurface. Falling for the enemy wasn't part of the plan. Viktor doesn't just look hot.

Es ist nicht einfach, in eine neue Stadt zu ziehen, und noch einmal von vorn anzufangen. Mac, der neue Mann an der Seite von Milenas Mutter, macht alles nicht unbedingt erträglicher. Als wäre Milenas Leben nicht schon kompliziert genug, taucht eines Tages Macs Sohn Colin auf und versetzt nicht nur die Mädchen ihres Jahrgangs in Aufruhr, sondern lässt auch ihr Herz höher schlagen. Doch kann sie sich auf Colins Charme einlassen?

So hat sich Ally den Tag nicht vorgestellt. Erst entpuppt sich ihr Onkel als waschechter Gauner. Als nächstes entdeckt sie, dass ihr Vater nicht vor Jahren ums Leben gekommen ist, sondern der Kopf eines mächtigen Syndikats ist und sich in Paris versteckt. Um ihn aufzuspüren, mischt sich die Siebzehnjährige in seine illegalen Geschäfte und zwingt ihn aus dem Untergrund. Dass sie sich dabei in den Feind verliebt, war nicht geplant.

Author Christine Thomas, using diaries from the townspeople themselves, newspaper reports of the day, and the general gossip of the town, paints a vivid picture of those who lived here and survived the greatest battle on the North American continent. If you've walked the battlefield already, take this walk through the town and learn about the residents who called Gettysburg home, never realizing that their town would become the site of one of the most famous battles in history.

This important book offers a practical guide to understanding how Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) can be used in the classroom. Gardner identified eight different types of intelligence: linguistic, logical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Celebrating Every Learner describes the characteristics of each type of intelligence and follows up with ready-to-use lesson plans and activities that teachers can use to incorporate MI in their pre-K through six classrooms.

Can Reggie the Saxon, and his best friend Rufus the Eagle, defend their peaceful village from an evil foe? Even if this evil foe possibly loves carrots more than any rabbit could! Find out in this all-new exciting adventure, brought to you by the same creative team who wrote The Companionship in a Case Of O.C.D., Soap Box Derby, Wags Wd: Episode 1 The Beginning, and many, many, more!