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Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves, read by actors Frances Sternhagen, Robert Sean Leonard, Keir Dullea, Joanna Gleason, Harold Gould and Joanne Woodward. A native couple's rocky college love affair lasts a lifetime in Do You Know Where I Am by Sherman Alexie. In Karen E. Bender's Eternal Love, a mother nervously chaperones her retarded daughter's honeymoon.

In five autobiographical vignettes, Charlayne Woodard tells the moving and inspirational tale of her African-American family through three generations of love, struggle, and triumph.

Perley’s elder brother, Rubin, who manages the Triple-G Ranch decides to try breeding some Hereford cattle with the ranch’s longhorns. He asks Perley to deliver the contract for the Herefords, a simple task. But nothing ever remains simple when Perley is involved. And for the reluctant fast gun, it means a nightmare journey through hell itself . . .

Quand Ellen Ripley retourne enfin sur Terre, c'est pour découvrir que LV-426, la planète sur laquelle l'équipage du Nostromo est pour la première fois entré en contact avec les terribles/monstrueux Xenomorphes, a été rebaptisée Acheron. Protégés par un régiment de Marines coloniaux, les colons essaient de terraformer la planète balayée par les tempêtes. Au-delà des conditions de vie extrêmes et des combats journaliers imposés par ce nouveau monde, l'espoir et l'humanité demeurent.

One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays is here performed by The Marlowe Society with Anthony Jacobs, Corin Redgrave, Paul Scofield and many other very fine actors. The story itself follows on from that of Shakespeare’s Richard II (also available in this series) and begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildon against the Douglas late in 1402 and ends with the defeat of the rebels at Shrewsbury in the middle of 1403.

In "The Sandman: Akt III", dem dritten Teil der New York Times-Bestseller-Hörspielsaga leiht Andreas Fröhlich ein weiteres Mal Morpheus, dem Herrscher der Träume, seine Stimme und vervollständigt damit das wahrscheinlich beste Ensemble für eine Hörspielproduktion, die es je gab. Dirk Maggs, der preisgekrönte Vorreiter auf dem Gebiet von Hörspielproduktionen, inszenierte die von Neil Gaiman ("Good Omens") geschriebene DC Graphic Novel-Erfolgsserie und erschuf ein weiteres, äußerst eindringliches Hörerlebnis.

It is a time of restoration. Ten millenia have passed since the solar flares devastated the planet Earth and now humanity has come home to reclaim and rebuild. But scientists at Mombassa Station are about to resurrect a deadly menace that was once destroyed. A menace that will stretch from the depths of the African continent, to the ancient and decaying Nerva Beacon still orbiting high above. Can a small group of Gene-techs hope to survive the rush of Race Memory?

Vampire Hunter D continues his quest to overcome the interstellar evil brought to earth by the ultimate Noble, the terrifying renegade vampire Valcua! Wielding a sword that can cut through the fabric of space and time, Valcua has a score to settle with the bloodline of humans responsible for his exile. The family has enlisted D to protect them from Valcua's wrath, and the vampire hunter might be their only chance at survival.

Jamie MacCallister remembers the Alamo—especially one brave frontiersman who died fighting there. Now the fallen veteran’s granddaughter needs Jamie’s help. She’s found a letter written by her grandfather with a map to the spot where Alamo legend Jim Bowie supposedly hid a fortune in silver and gold. Jamie never believed the story. Countless treasure hunters had scoured the area and come up empty handed. But his friend’s granddaughter is convinced it’s hidden where no one has ever dared to search—deep in the heart of Comanche country.

Texas, USA. Die deutsche Auswanderin Susanne Bender betreibt hier mit ihrem Mann eine gut laufende Abtreibungsklinik, die sie zur Zielscheibe religiöser Fanatiker macht. Auf dem Wochenmarkt erhält sie einen Anruf. Am anderen Ende ist ein unbekannter Mann, der sie durch das Visier eines Scharfschützengewehrs beobachtet.

30 Tage vor Verbüßung seiner Haftstrafe wird Marc Adam in das neue Hochsicherheitsgefängnis in Magdeburg verlegt, genannt Der Kerker . Hier regiert Anstaltsleiter Dr. Seifert mit eiserner Faust. Immer wieder gerät Marc dort in gefährliche Auseinandersetzungen. Nach dem Mord an einem Mithäftling fällt der Verdacht deshalb sofort auf ihn. Marc hat bald das Gefühl, sich selbst nicht mehr trauen zu können. Denn es fällt ihm zunehmend schwerer, zwischen Wahn und Wirklichkeit zu unterscheiden.

Mike Daisey is a fierce storyteller, one minute hilarious, the next minute sweet, with a fine-tuned ear for digression. He circles in on his uneasy subject matter, closer and closer, until he exposes the raw heart. The New York Times calls him "the master storyteller" and he has been compared to Garrison Keillor, Spalding Gray, and David Sedaris.

After a tornado uproots her from her home in Kansas, Dorothy and her beloved dog, Toto, are whisked away to the strange and magical Land of Oz! Landing in Munchkin Country and accidentally killing the Wicked Witch of the East, Dorothy and Toto embark on a quest to find the only person who can help them return home: Oz, the Great and Terrible Wizard.

Mortals fall, Ascended rise, and Gods consume. The planar energy crisis is now fact; proof written into the very air of the Nexusplane. For the first time in immeasurable history, the eternally luminescent Realm of the Gods knows night. Everything has changed…The Council continues to operate as it doesn’t; with seemingly no consideration to those outside itself. Within its labyrinth of bureaucracy, officials and agents play their petty games. Not even they can tell if their actions bear any relevance to the imminent threat.

En el año 2040, la humanidad dio un giro inesperado en su camino evolutivo. Eva, la primera de los sosias, personas idénticas a otras que comparten su apariencia, pero no su identidad, se ve obligada a embarcarse en un viaje lleno de peligros y revelaciones, con la lucha por el poder, los avances tecnológicos y la búsqueda del perfeccionamiento humano como telón de fondo, en medio de una sociedad que ya no es la misma. Sosias es una novela con mucho ritmo, casi cinematográfica, de las que no te deja respirar, y que cuando lo hace, es para tocarte el corazón.

The demise of Earth was followed by a period in which there was, effectively, no such thing as the human species; a period in which humanity suddenly found itself released from its heritage, with genetic manipulation and vast tracts of space separating the survivors from everything they’d once been.

Lieutenant Colonel Richard MacBlair has appeared out of thin air. Idina Moorfield has far more questions than the few answers her Uncle is willing to give her. He wants her to wait and she’s tired of waiting. Does she have a choice? Not really when Uncle is also your boss. Why is he trying to ignore their family connection? Has he been helping her from the sidelines all along? Someone is gunning for Idina and has her in its sights. She just doesn’t know who or what it is.  

The Kerrigans have fought long and hard to carve out their own piece of heaven on the Texas frontier. And when evil comes knocking at their door, with guns blazing, there'll be hell to pay...It begins with a simple act of kindness—and ends in a shocking night of violence. A homeless family shows up on Kate Kerrigan's doorstep, seeking refuge from a vengeful rancher's wrath. Seeing their desperation—and fear—the West Texas matriarch welcomes the family into her home.

Corrigan is a throwback; a misfit; a starship captain with the heart of a seafaring mariner. His skills as an engineer and navigator are unparalleled. He's just not terribly good at being human. Perhaps that's why he plies his trade between the rim-worlds and the Vega Station with only a Clockwork Robot for company. But when his estranged daughter goes missing on the wreck of a starliner, Corrigan is faced with a stark choice - leave her to die, or attempt a rescue that would surely destroy his relationship with her forever.

Drawing upon his childhood memories of West Texas, artist, musician, and writer Terry Allen has created this magical, multi-layered evening in the tradition of Southern story-telling. As Allen explains, “Dugout is a love story; an investigation into how memory is invented."