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A lot can happen on the way from one place to another, especially when an overnight flight makes for an unexpected romantic encounter between strangers seated together; a trucker finds life beyond the ranch where he grew up; and a bored Midwestern housewife tries to escape Kansas City.

Gracious Lies, is a collection of five delightfully unsettling short stories that take a lingering peep behind the net curtains of everyday life, love and marriage. In Hand, Foot & Finger, imperious Leonard and his pale wife Audrey head once again to Aunty Lynne’s West Country guesthouse. Can Audrey endure another week of toil on the beautiful beaches of Weston-super-Mare?

Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning were united not only as man and wife, but also as writers who shared and debated ideas, values, and literary craft.

Darfur, Sudan. 2009. Two doctors employed by NGOs stumble across a strange metallic cylinder, which has been embedded for perhaps millions of years in desert rock. Mystified by the object, they gather four of the world’s leading experts in science and technology a computer scientist, a physicist, a biochemist, and a genetic researcher and head to London to study it thoroughly. The six have barely begun running tests on the cylinder, when they suddenly disappear telling family members not to go looking for them.

Mortimer Morrison ist Inhaber der magischen Zoohandlung. Er liebt Tiere und weiß eine Menge über ihr Verhalten, ihre Lebensräume und allerlei Besonderheiten. Außerdem hat er bei seinen Reisen um die Welt viele persönliche Gedanken und Beobachtungen gesammelt, die er nun mit allen Kindern teilen möchte. Mr. Morrison führt interessante, kluge und witzige Gespräche mit seinen Tieren, damit die Fans von Die Schule der magischen Tiere endlich erfahren, warum Kängurus niemals rückwärts hüpfen und was Chamäleons normalerweise am liebsten fressen (genau: kein Spaghettieis!).

Classic Love Stories 2 read by Joanna David & Edward Fox. Wonderful readings of stories centred around the theme of love, including works by classic writers like Rudyard Kipling and John Galsworthy.