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In "Love Streams: The John Cassavetes Podcast," a filmmaker and a film studies scholar (who also happen to be married to each other) dig into the unforgettable films directed by John Cassavetes. Allison Radomski and John Roberts will unpack one movie per episode, so listen along and enjoy the conversations as they try to analyze some of the most beautiful, haunting, and downright complicated films ever made. Welcome to Love Streams!

Suburban soccer moms and soy latte-sipping men have no clue what these blue-collar men and women have to put up with on a daily basis. From chupacabras chewing the cable lines during the big game to zombie infestations boiling out from beneath that derelict double-wide on the other side of the trailer park, the heroes of It Came From the Trailer Park: Volume Two have their work cut out for them! Hold their beer, Romero and Hitchcock. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!

English Poetry, Volume 2 – An Introduction. The English language has grown into the Worlds pre-dominant spoken language. It’s estimated there are over one million words with which to do this. Its sources are rich and diverse, absorbing from other cultures and times without hesitation.

Dive into the eerie and fascinating world of horror with hosts from Creative Kill Productions. Each week, we welcome guests from the horror community - filmmakers, actors, supernatural enthusiasts, and more - to share their insights, favorite scary movies, and chilling real - life stories. But be warned: the unexpected always lurks in the shadows. Experience horror like never before with thought provoking discussions, surprising turns, and a uniquely immersive podcast experience.

Poetry can capture the imagination in a few short lines but narrative verse or poetry takes the form of telling a story, whether it be simple or complex in a longer form. Among the most ancient forms of poetry, it has widespread roots through almost every culture. In Volume 4 we bring you the classics 'The Eve of St Agnes' by John Keats; 'Flodden' by Sir Walter Scott; 'The Ballad of Agincourt' by Michael Drayton; 'Tam O'Shanter' by Robert Burns; and 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' by Robert Browning.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 55 vor Christus. Während die römischen Legionen an allen Fronten siegen, wird die Stadt Rom durch innere Machtkämpfe erschüttert. Crassus, Mitglied des Triumvirats und reichster Mann der Hauptstadt, versucht sich durch Bestechung der Caecilier die Unterstützung seiner ehrgeizigen Pläne zu sichern. Doch Decius Caecilius Metellus lehnt die Bestechung ab. Ein noch erbitterterer Gegner ist der Volkstribun Ateius, der die römischen Plebs gegen den geplanten Partherfeldzug aufwiegelt.

Classic Poems for Girls is a collection of over 25 funny, whimsical and moving poems for 5- to 10-year olds, designed to fuel the imagination. From the adventures of the Jumblies, who sail away in a sieve; to the sticky end of a girl named Matilda; to the courtship of a maiden who lived long ago, in a kingdom by the sea, there’s a poem to suit any feeling or mood. Seasoned Naxos AudioBooks readers Laura Paton, Anne-Marie Piazza, Benjamin Soames and Roy McMillan work their magic on the works of Edward Lear, Louisa May Alcott, Christina Rossetti, and many more.

Sandwiched between the placid fifties and the flamboyant seventies, the sixties, a decade of tumultuous change and stunning paradoxes, is often reduced to a series of slogans, symbols, and media images. In America in the Sixties, Greene goes beyond the cliches and synthesizes thirty years of research, writing, and teaching on one of the most turbulent decades of the twentieth century.

If you love axe-wielding barbarians, shape-shifting dragons, possessed toys, or cryptic assassins, then grab your traveling pack and join in the adventures.

In der mächtigen Römischen Republik herrscht Friede, nur in den Straßen Roms fließt das Blut. Als ein Bankier und ein Bauunternehmer ermordet aufgefunden werden, erkennt Decius Caecilius Metellus, der Kommandeur der hauptstädtischen Polizei, die bedrohlichen Zeichen einer Verschwörung, die ihre Wurzeln im Zentrum der Macht hat. Doch lässt er sich von keiner Drohung einschüchtern, sondern begibt sich in die Höhle des Löwen - und damit in höchste Gefahr...

Imagine a slight change to our historical timeline where the Industrial Revolution heated up much quicker than expected. Technological marvels such as airships, trains, battleships, and submarines came into being much earlier. They were followed by steam-powered wonders such as mechanical men, flying ships, and even crafts capable of reaching the deepest fathoms of the sea or traveling to distant celestial orbs. That is the world where Sherlock Holmes and his Boswell, Dr. Watson find themselves in Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of Steampunk.

Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still revered Supreme Court Justice and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the early 1950s before Jackson's untimely death, has remained unpublished for fifty years. Here is that newly discovered memoir.

You have been looking for this book for quite some time. Pick it up to begin a journey into the deepest depths of the human psyche and the darkest corners of the imagination. Dare to delve into the human psyche's unspeakable corners and passages with this chilling horror anthology collecting some of history's greatest English poems.

In the summer of 1998, FBI agent Bob Hilland reluctantly picked up the phone to call the famous psychic John Edward. Bob didn’t expect much from the call, but he was working on an unsolvable cold case and had nowhere else to turn. What Bob never imagined was that the call would lead to a shattering of all his preconceived notions, a huge break in the cold case, and an unlikely crime-solving partnership that spanned twenty-five years.

A fabulous anthology of some of the finest stories ever written.

A lawless land. Criminals running wild. Murder is rampant. One man can solve the problems facing the Old West. That man is United States Marshal Morgan Porter. The name Morgan Porter is famous in the Texas lore of the Old West. The saga of his exploits as a US marshal are legendary. Morgan Porter and his deputies changed the culture of lawlessness to one that was safe for law abiding men and their families. Ride with Marshal Porter as he tames the Wild West.

Wahlkampf in Rom: Decius Caecilius Metellus bewirbt sich um das Amt des Praetors...

Decius Caecilius Metellus kehrt nach Rom zurück, um seinem verstorbenen Verwandten Celer die letzte Ehre zu erweisen. Als das Gerücht aufkommt, Celer sei von seiner Frau Clodia vergiftet worden, forscht Decius nach und findet sich schnell in der geheimnisvollen Welt der Hexen und Wahrsagerinnen wieder. In dieser dunklen Welt steht sein Leben bald auf dem Spiel...

Das alte Alexandria - der faszinierende Schauplatz für den neuen Fall des unerschrockenen römischen Detektivs. Dankbar nimmt Decius Caecilius Metellus die Gelegenheit wahr, nach Alexandria zu reisen. Doch kaum dort angekommen, steckt er auch schon bis zum Hals in den Ermittlungen um den höchst merkwürdigen Tod eines jähzornigen Philosophen. Decius erkennt bald, dass hinter diesem heimtückischen Mord eine Verschwörung steckt, die das ganze römische Imperium bedroht ...

Decius Caecilius Metellus hat eine neue Aufgabe: Er ist er für alle Gerichtsfälle zuständig, in die Nicht-Römer verwickelt sind...