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In this episode, Art has a psychic race through downtown LA with barely an animal maimed. Also, another daring rescue takes place, this time from a deserted theatre. However, there is a shortage of otters and a horrifying revelation....

In this episode, a trip to Hollywood is planned for the Art Hardwicke Story to be filmed - but first there’s a visit to the docks, involving fisticuffs. Furthermore, a crazed film director is appointed, and a munchkin is waylaid.

In 1930s New York, the hot sensation of the cabaret circuit is urbane illusionist Art Hardwicke, whose stage name - Supermind - hints at his real-life mentalist powers. In this episode, there is a last-minute intervention and a bout of fisticuffs save the day. The Nazi plotters are captured and forever locked away...or are they?

In 1930s New York, the hot sensation of the cabaret circuit is urbane illusionist Art Hardwicke, whose stage name - Supermind - hints at his real-life mentalist powers. In this episode, there’s foul play on the college campus, with the brainy Professor Fen Vaytell. Furthermore, a night-time excursion to investigate leads to dire consequences.

In 1930s New York, the hot sensation of the cabaret circuit is urbane illusionist Art Hardwicke, whose stage name - Supermind - hints at his real-life mentalist powers. In this episode, Art’s flight is diverted and a daring escape must be made with parachutes and salmon canapes. Meanwhile, in Hollywood, the Brain Drain weapon is smuggled onto set.

“Ford’s overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to those readers wise enough to allow the past to inform the future. Of Blood and Sweat is a myth-busting work of genius that will stand as the last word on this vital...

Kristen Parker's imagination has always been bigger than reality. Other than the three real life friends from her youth, she prefers to spend her time with the characters in her head. And dating? Who needs a boyfriend when you've got Captain Deke Wolfe? Unfortunately, writer's block is sinking its claws into her well-structured life. Her agent thinks a month-long getaway to a mountain resort might solve Kristen's problems.

It’s 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and 15-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine’s father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church - a community that Justine at times finds stifling and terrifying. But Justine does her best as a devoted daughter, until an act of violence sends her on a different path forever.

Knowing how to transform conflict is critical in both our personal and professional lives. Yet, by and large, we are terrible at it. The reason, says longtime mediator Chad Ford, is fear. When conflict comes, our instincts are to run or fight. To transform conflict, Ford says we need to turn toward the people we are in conflict with, put down our physical and emotional weapons, and really love them with the kind of love that leads us to treat others as fellow human beings, not as objects in our way.

Longing for a new life in the country, former television executive Lizzie Harrington settles on the vineyard south of Blackpeak Station, bringing with her some glamorous guests - none more so than the dazzling actor Richard Bourne, who Lizzie has been having a secret love affair with for years. But in the hills beyond Lizzie's boundary fence lives a very different sort of man. Could one unforgettable encounter be about to change her life?

“Powerful memoir. . .Ford’s thought-provoking narrative tells the story of African-American pride and perseverance.” –Publisher’s Weekly (Starred) “A masterful storyteller, Ford interweaves his personal story with the backdrop of the social movements unfolding at that time, providing...

As its neighbors muster for war, the city-state of Kantor clings desperately to neutrality. Suraan, the queen regent, is beset on all sides, her son Rahuul still too young to take the throne. As his elder sister and guardian, Adaali’s only purpose is to protect Rahuul from would-be usurpers. But dark forces are at play from within and without, and she must seek help from the most unlikely of places - or be consumed by the war of the gods that threatens to destroy the very fabric of her world.

Archaeologist Clare Hills is struggling to finance her recently established university research institute along with her long-time friend, Dr David Barbrook. When Professor Margaret Bockford finds the Hart Unit work with a housing developer in the Cotswolds, the pair are hardly in a position to refuse. There is just one catch: the previous site director, Beth Kinsella, was found hanged on-site, surrounded by mutilated wildlife.

Australia's most baffling homicides and mysterious missing persons' cases are uniquely explored in this stunning true-crime book in which you the reader are invited to play armchair detective. Featuring 18 infamous cases, Unsolved Australia unearths a host of jaw-dropping new evidence via...

Can you catch a killer or find a missing person? Australia is 'the lucky country'. But not for everyone. Unsolved Australia: Lost Boys, Gone Girls tells thirteen stories of people whose luck ran out in the most mysterious of circumstances. It's a journalistic deep-dive into Australia's dark...

The short stories written during and about World War I are often overshadowed by the excellent verse of the War Poets. Yet the short story is perhaps their equal in other ways. Within these succinct little time capsules of words are captured ideas, attitudes, feelings and life that are expressed in a few minutes just as movingly, imaginatively and tellingly as in any other form. Some of these stories will be familiar, but some may not. From Virginia Woolf to Katharine Mansfield and John Buchan to C. E. Montague, various writing styles try to make sense of this world at war.

March, 1942: new mother Alice Milward is itching to return to her job as a shop assistant at Liberty’s. Despite her husband still being missing in action, Alice is determined to give baby Arthur the best possible start. She soon settles back into the rhythm of life on the shop floor, and the Liberty Girls rally to help keep everything on an even keel. But when the American GIs start swarming into London, there are more complications to come. And each of the Liberty Girls has their own impossible storm to weather.

Jamie Fords stærke debutroman er en uforglemmelig kærlighedshistorie og en stærk fortælling om et ukendt hjørne af Anden Verdenskrig. Solgt i mere end en million eksemplarer på verdensplan og har ligget over to år på New York Times’ bestsellerliste. Seattle, 1986: Henry Lee slutter sig til en menneskemængde uden for Hotel Panama, der engang var den japanske bydels vartegn. Hotellet har været lukket i årtier, men nu har den nye ejer gjort et fund i kælderen: en række ejendele, der blev opmagasineret af japanske familier, kort før de blev sendt til interneringslejre under Anden Verdenskrig efter angrebet på Pearl Harbor.

Following the recent death of her husband, Clare Hills is unsure of her place in the world. When her former university friend Dr David Barbrook asks her to help him sift through the effects of deceased archaeologist Gerald Hart, she sees this as a useful distraction. During her search, Clare stumbles across the unpublished journals detailing Gerald's most glittering dig. Supposedly destroyed in an arson attack, she cannot believe her luck. Finding the Hungerbourne Barrows archive is every archaeologist's dream....

In an incredible 25-year career as a homicide detective, Ron Iddles' conviction rate was 99 percent. Yet that only partly explains why Iddles is known to cops and crims alike as 'The Great Man'. Tough, inventive and incorruptible, stoic in the face of senseless horror yet unafraid to shed tears for a victim, Ron has applied his country cunning and city savvy to over 320 homicide cases - some of them the most infamous, compelling and controversial crimes in the nation's history. To the victims of crime, Ron is both a shoulder to cry on and an avenging angel.