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When her mum is taken into hospital, Pearl goes to live with a foster family. But all Pearl really wants is to be back with her mum on their narrow boat. And when her mum runs away from the hospital, Pearl knows she must go back to the boat to find her.

Mami ist gerade 39 geworden. Mit Schrecken blickt sie einer Zukunft entgegen, in der sie ständig gefragt wird, ob sie nicht auch mal zum Yoga für Fortgeschrittene kommen will, und wo auf Partys alle so tun, als hätten sie nach einem Glas Wein schon "ein Schwipschen". Aber Mami hat weder Lust auf einen praktischen Haarschnitt noch darauf, nur noch für ihre Kinder zu leben und auf dem Schulhof rumzustehen, während andere Mütter mit den jüngsten außerlehrplanmäßigen Aktivitäten ihres Nachwuchses angeben.

A city equal parts darkness and hope. A scarred city. An often violent one. But a resilient city, too. That's our Memphis. Like many cities we have a namesake - in Egypt, Men-nefer became Menfe became Memphis, enduring and beautiful, on the banks of the Nile. Centuries later, another continent, another people, another river: Memphis, Tennessee, the soul of the Mississippi Delta, was formed.

Harlem is perhaps the most famous, iconic neighborhood in the United States. A bastion of freedom and the capital of black America, Harlem's 20th-century renaissance changed our arts, culture, and politics forever. But this is only one of the many chapters in a wonderfully rich and varied history. In Harlem, historian Jonathan Gill presents the first complete chronicle of this remarkable place.

These stories were written one a day throughout January 2013. They were originally published on a blog called Gill’s January Stones. In fact, they were published in reverse order. The first one you hear here, When Physics Got Sick, was the last one to be written and originally published on January 31, 2016. Sometimes the stories would come right at the beginning of the day. Sometimes they would take a while longer.

Life was barely manageable after my mom was murdered three years ago. I wasn’t sure what my purpose was anymore. But then on my 21st birthday, I drank a little too much and fell from the roof of my nine-story apartment building. I died. Then...I un-died. Enter Hayden, my really bossy (and hot) guardian angel whose duty is to train me to be the next “Soldier of Light.” I’m pretty sure I’m the wrong person for this job, despite what Hayden thinks. Guess I’m stuck saving the dead.

Chapter six from "Life Bites" - this chapter takes a look at the darker aspects of life - and things that go bump in the night.

A collection of modern poetry and other written works from an English writer and narrator reflecting love, loss, happiness, humor, stories, anecdotes, situations, and observations that all set out to prove that life sometimes bites....

Chapter Seven from Life Bites - this chapter dispenses (good and bad!) advice for those willing to accept it.

Chapter one from "Life Bites" - this chapter takes a sideways glance at the lighter side of life.

Chapter two from "Life Bites" - this chapter conjures with the ups (and downs) of love.

Chapter five from "Life Bites" - a collection of adaptations and stories with darker and lighter themes.

Chapter three from Life Bites. This chapter deals with the intricacies and the ever-present ironies of life.

Chapter four from "Life Bites" - this chapter deals out a few odd observations and reflections.

Keen to move out of the elephant's stomach, that stew of gray mists called weather in Wales, Jean Gill offered her swimming certificate to a bemused Provençale estate agent and bought a house with good stars and its own spring water. Or, rather, as it turns out, a neighbor's spring water that is the only supply to the kitchen, which, according to the nice men from the Water Board, is emptying its dirty water directly and illegally onto the main road.... And there's worse....

In 1932, Hitler and the Nazi Party were threatening to take control of Germany, and there was a growing fear of another war. In the summer of that year, John and Annie Williams make their annual trip to visit their son's grave in the Flanders region of Belgium. Their son, Herbert Edward Williams, had been killed while fighting at the battle of Passchendaele in 1917. Erich and Martina Lehmann from Germany are also in Flanders to pay their respects to the memory of their son, Kurt, who died in the same campaign.

Our world is only the beginning... Cameron's father is dead and his inheritance is... rather unusual. He has power to world shift: travel between the Human and Daemonic realms and the Parallel - a void where the worlds meet. Between befriending werewolves and battling daemons, Cameron's new life is already pretty complicated, but things are about to get even more dangerous.

Cameron's life of shifting between the Humanian and Daemonic worlds is under threat. Two sinister figures want to destroy the Parallel - the void between worlds populated by daemons, dark creatures, old gods, and werewolves - and everyone in it. To save the Parallel, Cameron must make the ultimate sacrifice. But what is he prepared to lose?

A dog's life in the south of France. From puppyhood, Sirius the Pyrenean Mountain Dog has been trying to understand his humans and train them with kindness. How this led to their divorce he has no idea. More misunderstandings take Sirius to Death Row in an animal shelter, as a so-called dangerous dog learning survival tricks from the other inmates. During the twilight barking, he is shocked to hear his brother's voice but the bitter-sweet reunion is short-lived. Doggedly, Sirius keeps the faith. One day, his human will come.

Everyone knows that boys are falling behind in education. Largely left out of the discussion are parents of boys, who are most aware that their bright, eager sons hit an invisible wall somewhere near fourth grade, after which they become disengaged, discouraged, and disaffected. There are dozens of books on underachieving boys, but most parents brave enough to lift one off the shelf are instantly intimidated by the footnotes, graphs, case studies, and academic-speak addressed almost entirely to educators.