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The magic of ballet is evoked in these enchanting stories presented with many musical excerpts from the works themselves. Jenny Agutter, who before turning to acting was a dancer, presents the stories of two French ballets - Giselle and Coppelia - and the three great ballets by Tchaikovsky, in engaging style. A perfect introduction to the ballet.

In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees in Sussex when a young woman literally stumbles onto him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern, twentieth-century woman proves a deft protégée and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective.

Jenny Offill’s heroine, referred to in these pages as simply “the wife”, once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes - a colicky baby, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions - the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts.

A wonderful collection of classic children's tales, all narrated with heart-warming delight. Featuring "Sleeping Beauty", "The King's Son", "The Travels of Tom Thumb", and "The Story of Hickory, Dickory, Dock".

Irish writer Maeve Binchy was one the best-loved and most successful authors of her time. Her bestselling books sold over 40 million copies worldwide, and were translated into 37 languages. This comprehensive anthology of her finest fiction, as heard on BBC Radio, demonstrates all the warmth, wit and compassion that made her so popular.

Miranda Cheever has been blessed with many things, but great beauty is not among them. Still, when she meets Viscount Tuner, she knows she is meant for him. As the years go by, fate is as kind to Miranda as it is harsh on the Viscount. He's skeptical about love with good reason - but he may be falling for Miranda

An anthology of over 60 classic love poems, read by some of our finest actors. Love has always been the supreme inspiration for poets, whether romantic or platonic, reciprocated or unrequited. This collection contains a range of the very best love poems, including Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress", Keats' "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and Byron's "So We'll Go No More A-Roving" - as well as several sonnets from the master himself, William Shakespeare.

Imagine if it was possible to have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise, eat meat without killing animals, have babies without the need to bear them, and choose the time of our painless death. Life would be better, right? All over the globe, people are trying to make this a reality. They want to use technology to solve the thorniest problems of humanity. But what if these ‘problems’ are the very things that make us human?

Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense - or for middle-aged men of 35, long past the age of marriage. True love can only be felt by the young, of course. And if your heart is broken at the age of 17, how can you ever expect to recover from the passionate misery that fills your life, waking and sleeping?

"I write this sitting at the kitchen sink" is the first line of a novel about love, sibling rivalry, and a bohemian existence in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Cassandra Mortmin's journal records her fadingly glamorous stepmother, her beautiful, wistful older sister, and the man to whom they owe both their isolation and poverty: Father. The author of one experimental novel, and a minor cause celebre, he has since suffered from writer's block and is determined to drag his family down with him.

Elizabeth Roffe, only child of one of the world's richest men, has it all; beauty, intelligence, innocence and youth. But when her father dies, she discovers that she has inherited not only his vast pharmaceutical company, with offices and factories all over the world, but also an unspeakable terror that threatens to destroy the business. As she struggles to save the company that took her family four generations to build, she realizes that she herself is the target of an unknown assassin.

Was bist du bereit zu tun, um die zu beschützen, die du liebst? Die junge Hexe und Gerichtsmedizinerin Daphne ist erschüttert: Ihr Chicagoer Hexenzirkel wird von einem Mörder heimgesucht, der eine moderne Hexenjagd veranstaltet und ihre Freundinnen bei lebendigem Leib verbrennt. Um den Unbekannten aufzuhalten, muss sie wohl oder übel mit dem charmanten FBI-Agent Steven Rhys zusammenarbeiten, auch wenn sie sich der seltsamen Anziehungskraft, die sie in seiner Nähe spürt, lieber entziehen würde.

Das Feen-Festival. Heute feiern wir das große Feen-Festival in Kitty Fee’s Garten. Es gibt jede Menge Karusselle und Spiele und sogar einen Feen-Blumenwettbewerb, an dem alle Feen teilnehmen. Die kleine Luli-loo möchte so gern die Blumenkrone gewinnen, um endlich auch eine richtige Fee zu sein. Doch dafür muss Luli-loo zuerst ein bisschen über sich hinauswachsen, damit auch ihre kleine Blume ÑUpsi“ noch größer und schöner werden kann.

Gabby, ich habe die Kätzchen geschrumpft! Gabby und Pandi wurden von Meerkatzes Zaubertrank geschrumpft. Um den Zauber rückgängig zu machen, müssen sie jetzt vor allem die richtigen Zutaten finden. Mission zum KATZ-turn. Bereit für ein Abenteuer durch die Katz-mosphäre? Gabby und Pandi fliegen zum Planeten Katz-turn, da Ratkatz dort auf der Suche nach leckerem Käse hängen geblieben ist.

Das Doodle-Buch. Gabby entdeckt ein Buch, das auf jeder Seite dieselbe Kritzelei enthält. Im Puppenhaus verleihen die Gabby-Katzen den Zeichnungen ihren ganz eigenen Touch. Der Cupcake-Baum. Der Cupcake-Experte Kuchi hilft Gabby und Pandi beim Schrumpfen eines riesigen Cupcake-Baumes, um Ratkatz und die Gabby-Katzen vor der Überwucherung zu retten.

This is a land of long memory and hidden corners, a land that had known Vlad the Impaler, a land from whose churchyards the shades creep. When Queen Marie calls, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are as dubious as they are reluctant. But a young girl is involved, and a beautiful queen. Surely it won't take long to shine light on this unlikely case of what would seem to be strigoi? Or, as they are known in the West...vampires.

Audie Award, Humor, 2016. In Furiously Happy, number-one New York Times best-selling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.

Fluffy Fluffenstein. Gabby und ihre Freunde wollen der glamourösen Popsängerin Fluffy Fluffenstein vor ihrem großen Konzert auf die Sprünge helfen. Abra-KATZ-Dabra! Als ein winziger Zauberhut ins Puppenhaus geliefert wird, beginnt für die Nachwuchsmagierin Baby Box ein aufregender Tag. Ihre Freunde helfen ihr bei einem Zaubertrick.

Four years ago, Nick held Emily hostage, but he escapes the law and pursues her again. In a desperate flight from Nick’s clutches, Emily crashes into Zach, an intriguing Scotsman. Identity Lost is a tale of survival, not only in Emily’s childhood home, but survival in nature’s harshest elements. Interwoven in this story is her quest to uncloak the big family secret and discover her real father. But he’s not the man she imagined. Just the opposite, and the evidence is shocking.

Der friedliche Sternenhimmel über Irland täuscht. Schon in seiner ersten Nacht wird der deutsche Hobbyastronom Peter Kaufmann rüde gestört. Verwahrlost und völlig verängstigt präsentiert sich die neue Obermieterin Aoife und jagt sogar der sonst so gelassenen B&B-Besitzerin Emily Byrne Angst ein. Als Peter ein Foto der verwirrten Alten in einer Vermisstendatenbank entdeckt, eilt Betreiberin Sophie Whelan sofort zur Stelle. Doch auch die 29-Jährige hat etwas zu verbergen! Als Aoife erneut untertaucht, ist mit ihr nicht nur die Lösung eines jahrzehntealten Familiengeheimnisses verschwunden – sondern auch Emily.