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Der Zweite Weltkrieg aus Sicht einer Jugendlichen, faszinierend und eindrücklich geschildert! Die bekannte Theaterpädagogin Rosmarie Metzenthin erlebte mit ihren Eltern - Mutter Zürcherin, Vater Elsässer-Deutscher - und ihren vier Geschwistern den Zweiten Weltkrieg in Deutschland. Ihr authentischer Bericht aus der Sicht einer damals 12- bis 17-Jährigen fasziniert durch seine kritische Schilderung einer Kindheit und Jugend im Schatten des Deutschen Reichsadlers. Das spannende Zeitbild der Tochter wird ergänzt durch Tagebuchaufzeichnungen der Mutter, welche sich zwischen ihrem Heimatland und der Familie in Deutschland stets hin- und hergerissen fühlte.

Vorlesebuch für einen spannenden Advent! Eva ist schon groß, sie ist vier Jahre alt und geht in den Kindergarten. Zusammen mit ihrer älteren Schwester Sara fiebert sie Weihnachten entgegen. Denn Weihnachten ist klasse, findet Eva, und die Zeit davor ist auch wunderbar. Vom Laternenumzug an Sankt Martin über Oma Annes Geburtstag, den ersten Advent und Nikolaus bis hin zum Krippenspiel am Heiligen Abend ist immer etwas los in Evas Familie. Und endlich kommt der große Tag und bringt einige Überraschungen mit sich.

In diesem von Marlies Wenzel zum Leben erweckten Hörbuch erfährt man die schwierige Lebensgeschichte der Autorin Jetta Schapiro-Rosenzweig in Litauen während dem zweiten Weltkrieg. Sie berichtet wie ihre Familie nach dem deutschen Einmarsch und die folgende Auflösung des Ghettos aus den Augen verliert. Ihr Ehemann wird ins KZ gebracht, während sie selbst mit ihrer jungen Tochter flüchten kann. Von nun an wandert sie von Ort zu Ort und gibt sich als Nichtjüdin aus.

Sophie Langes Roman geht von einer Situation aus, wie sie Clara Viebig in ihrem "Weiberdorf" aus dem Jahre 1900 geschildert hat. Vor dem Hintergrund eines Eifeldorfes, das sich über ein Jahrhundert hin entwickelt, wird Frauenleben von 1900, 1933, 1966 und 1999 geschildert. Wir erleben den Wandel, den die Frauen und mit ihnen ihre Position in der Gesellschaft durchgemacht haben - endend mit einer Vision dessen, was Frauenwunsch und Frauenkraft in Gemeinschaft mit ihren Partnern erreichen kann. Packend und fesselnd werden die einzelnen Begebenheiten erzählt.

Elizabeth Holtzman has been a principled leader and a persistent voice for equality and accountability since she became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress in 1973, which she remained for 42 years. The Case for Impeaching Trump establishes the requirements for impeachment as set out by the Constitution and proves that President Trump’s actions have already met those requirements. Holtzman makes the definitive, constitutional case that Trump can be impeached - and the process should start now.

During 1958, with a predominantly male workforce, societal norms dictate women should be compliant, fashionable housewives. To Ariadne Winter, the sole tradition she aims to embrace is that of being fashionable. Amidst the ambiance of Ivy Tree Inn, where she's been dispatched as a writer for Ladies' Lifestyle magazine, her focus wavers as she grapples with an interview assignment concerning a Hollywood starlet on the cusp of royal matrimony—an event hailed as the "Wedding of the Century."

Lucy Stone is thrilled about her youngest daughter Zoe's engagement to Chad, a rising minor league baseball player with dreamy eyes and plenty of Southern charm. Yet there’s no denying the whirlwind romance has turned Lucy’s life upside down in more ways than one—especially when she learns about Chad’s complicated background and close ties to Tinker’s Cove. The secrets and rumors are enough to send her investigative reporting instincts into overdrive . . .

Pregnancy loss can be devastating, regardless of whether it is early or late in pregnancy or in the short period after a baby is born. In many instances, similar emotions are experienced when a couple learns that their fertility treatments were unsuccessful. Here, well-known psychologist Amy Wenzel applies the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy, a thoroughly researched approach for treating mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and stress-related disorders, to the experience of reproductive loss.

Europa ist mit einem grausamen Krieg an seiner Grenze konfrontiert und steht dreißig Jahre nach Wiedervereinigung und Maastrichter Vertrag am Scheideweg. Ulrike Guérot und Hauke Ritz beleuchten in ihrem Essay „Endspiel Europa“ die Entwicklung der Europäischen Union seit 1992 und besinnen sich auf die ursprünglichen europäischen Werte und Ziele: ein souveränes Europa und eine kontinentale Friedensordnung.

Investment funds with great performance and potential often fail for one simple reason—the enormous challenge for investor relations and fundraising professionals to raise the necessary capital to make the fund profitable. The only book to tackle this critical issue, Marketing Alternative Investments builds on the experiential wisdom and best practices from numerous thought leaders in the industry and provides a comprehensive look at investor-centric marketing and fundraising strategy.

Cuban-American TV reporter Rebecca Menendez's success comes from playing by the rules. When she's kidnapped by a fierce and intensely handsome man who needs her help, however, all of those rules seem pointless. Nothing could have prepared her for being taken hostage . . . or the irresistible reward if she complies: information about her long-thought dead father.

As Norah King surveys her family land in Iowa in 1880, she is acutely aware that it is all she has left, and she will do everything in her power to save it—even if that means marrying a man she hardly knows. Days before her wedding, Norah discovers an injured man on her property. Her sense of duty compels her to take him in and nurse him back to health. Little does she realize just how much this act of kindness will complicate her life and threaten the future she's planned.

The Concordia sisters, owners of the One Woman's Junk consignment shop, are up to their eyeballs in trouble as they try to help their friends, solve a murder and plan a wedding. All while managing not to kill each other, offend any of their wacky clientele, or wreck their own love lives.

The psychic powers of the Concordia sisters are increasing, but so is the body count. (You'd think this was Cabot Cove or Midsomer instead of Sarasota, Florida.) Amanda and her sisters are on the hunt for a treasure buried by their godmother, Letty. A moody ghost, their quirky fellow shop owners, and an overworked police detective all play a part in them unraveling the mysteries of Letty's life and untimely death. But can Amanda keep her family safe as they barrel, like a bull in a consignment shop, toward a showdown with the person responsible for Letty's murder?

Running One Woman's Junk consignment shop, with its constant stream of quirky characters stopping in, is a lot for Winnie and her sisters Bea and Amanda to contend with. So is dealing with each other.

In the months she's been in Shipton, new neighbors moved in across the street from her Philly home. Now, Ava has nothing against vampires. But when people in the neighborhood start turning up with bite marks and Uncle Wade goes missing, she can't help but to check into the newbies in the hood. One of the fanged ones isn't happy with Ava poking around and tries to scare her off the case. But he is no match for two necromancers, a tiger-ghoul, and a sheriff/hunter.

Necromancer trainee, bookseller, novel writer Ava Harper is settling into her new life with friends and her houseguests. And she definitely isn't thinking about a certain hunky sheriff who pops in unannounced at every turn. And mostly ignoring her devilish new neighbor, a lingering Christmas present from herself. She has bigger things to worry about. Like learning her newly woken powers. And convincing her house that she isn't selling it so it will stop scaring off any visitors.

In this revolutionary work - a landmark that signals the true beginning of feminist medicine - a doctor, a philosopher, and a scientist prove that by postponing marriage and motherhood, women have accelerated the aging process, resulting in earlier menopause and, ultimately for thousands, earlier death. In Sex, Lies, and Menopause, they offer strong evidence that the use of synthetic hormones leads to cancer and advise women to turn to natural hormone-replacement therapy to help them elevate their estrogen level for greater energy, libido, and intellectual capacity.

The weather is beautiful, work is slow, and her canine colleague could use a walk. What better day for Megan to take Brigit to the Fort Worth Zoo, where they can let loose and witness the law and order of nature unfold? But what begins as a fun field trip turns serious when a pair of rare hyacinth macaws named Fabiana and Fernando goes missing. Is the new custodian, a gentle soul who happens to be an ex-convict, to blame? Or is something far more sinister afoot? The birds are worth thousands of dollars, and the list of people on the premises who might have stolen them is long.

When a friend offered author Corin Grillo a session of angel healing, Grillo was doubtful. But she was also a burnt-out psychotherapist, depressed and threatened with foreclosure. Grillo walked out of that initial reading with renewed energy and a rare-to-her sense of calm, peace, and hope. She soon learned that angels were powerful warriors ready and waiting, 24/7, to hear from us. Grillo discovered the ways that indigenous peoples and the faithful of all major world religions have called on benevolent beings, sent from God/Source/Creator, to aid humans.