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Michael has travelled a long way from his boyhood under the endless skies of the Midwest. His retirement is peaceful, if solitary. But one day there is a visitation: a mysterious car on the seafront, and a package delivered. From its contents, Michael understands that he has been commissioned to undertake a final journey. As Michael makes his way deep into a distant desert—a strange and liminal landscape that lies between hell and redemption—he undertakes another journey, into long-suppressed memories.

It is December; Christmas is approaching and the magic of one of Europe’s most beautiful cities beckons. A father looks for himself in the past, struggling to deal with a recent divorce, his teenage son in tow. A single, selfless mother accompanies her only daughter and friends for a weekend-long bachelorette party. And a husband treats his wife to a birthday weekend away, somehow heightening her anxieties and insecurities about age, desire, and motherhood.

Retrouvez dans cette compilation les titres suivants : Fifolette et le goûter enchanté; La chasse au trésor de la fée Fifolette; Le petit ogre cherche un ami; Le petit ogre et ses copains d'école; Zouk à l'école des sorciers; Zouk contre mister Ogre. Depuis 1972, Les Belles Histoires est le magazine préféré des 4/8 ans : contes initiatiques, histoires d'ogres et de sorcières, aventures sur terre comme sur mer, voyages dans des mondes imaginaires, il y en a pour tous les goûts.

La vie du petit ogre n'est pas gaie. Chez lui, ça sent la chair fraîche et l'ennui. Mais, un jour, le petit ogre va à l'école. Et le voilà qui découvre le plaisir de plonger dans les livres, et qu'il y entraîne ses parents... Dès lors, tout va changer : chez lui, ça ne sent plus la chair fraîche, mais le clafoutis !

La sorcière Pichnouille est bête et très méchante : elle transforme les bébés en microbes, elle fait voler les chiens et courir les escargots. Ses voisins ne savent plus comment échapper à ses mauvais tours. Un matin, Séraphin décide de se débarrasser de Pichnouille. Armé de tout son courage, il va livrer un combat extraordinaire à l'intérieur même du corps de la redoutable sorcière ! Une aventure comique et fantastique pour frissonner... de plaisir !

Von Beruf Fotograf sieht Tom die durch den Winter zum Erliegen gekommene Welt um sich herum wie durch die Linse seiner Kamera. Schon immer hat er sein Leben auf diese Art betrachtet, und so ist es nicht weiter verwunderlich, dass er es anhand von Fotografien erzählen kann. All diese Bilder kommen ihm nun in den Sinn: das erste Foto, das er von seiner Frau geschossen hat, die Aufnahmen von Familienfeiern, die ihm seinen Lebensunterhalt sichern, und diejenigen, die er stets zu machen geträumt hat, Fotos jenseits der gängigen Sehgewohnheiten.

With 19 spells at various clubs in the Football League, Jon Parkin has cut an instantly recognisable figure in English football for the past 20 years. At 6'4", and weighing in as one of football's heavyweights, Parkin has played more than 600 games during his time with Barnsley, Hartlepool, York, Macclesfield Town, Hull City, Stoke City, Preston, Cardiff, Doncaster, Huddersfield, Scunthorpe, Fleetwood, Forest Green, Newport County and back to York, where he is currently top scorer. This is his no-holds-barred life story.

In this exquisite and sensitive new novel, David Park explores the complicated relationship between poet and spouse through three luminous characters: Catherine Blake, wife of William Blake, 19th-century poet, painter, and engraver; Nadezhda Mandelstam, whose husband, Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, died in a transit camp en route to Siberia during Stalin’s rule; and Lydia, the wife of a fictional contemporary Irish poet, who looks back on her husband’s life in the days just after his death.

In a classroom of sandwiches, four students stand out with their homemade, culturally specific lunches. But before they can dig in and enjoy their favorite foods, their lunches are spoiled by scrunched noses and disgusted reactions from their sandwich-eating classmates.

Storytelling is our obligation to the next generation. Conversations transmit culture, values, and ethos. In each episode, DP, the campus pastor of Voyage College Church in Chicago, interviews people in his relational circles, to discover, cherish, and pass down essential stories of how we've chosen to live out Christian life in our day and age. Have questions you want answered or topics you want covered on the podcast? Let me know on this form: https://bit.ly/dpod-ama

Storytelling is our obligation to the next generation. Conversations transmit culture, values, and ethos. In each episode, DP, the campus pastor of Voyage College Church in Chicago, interviews people in his relational circles, to discover, cherish, and pass down essential stories of how we've chosen to live out Christian life in our day and age. Have questions you want answered or topics you want covered on the podcast? Let me know on this form: https://bit.ly/dpod-ama

Therapy in the Hands of the Lord is a place where I discuss connections between the gospel of Jesus Christ and mental health. Each week, I take modern gospel references and connect them to evidence-based psychotherapy. My goal: destigmatize mental health and share the love of Christ. Follow me on Instagram: @therapy.handsofthelord