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In 1784, Englishwoman Amelia Latimer sails to the new colony of New Brunswick in faraway Canada. She’s to marry a man chosen by her soldier father. Amelia is repulsed by her betrothed, refuses to marry, then meets the handsome Acadian trader, Gilbert, a man beneath her in status. Gilbert must protect his mother, who was attacked by an English soldier. He fights to hold on to their property, to keep it from the Loyalists who have flooded the colony, desperate men chased from the South after the American Revolution.

Elsie Neufeld loves to sit on her porch and watch the children grow in the Mennonite community near Landmark, Manitoba, Canada. Returning to the area after moving to Paraguay for a time, Elsie is happy to be living on the wild rose dotted prairie of south-eastern Manitoba.

Duma is a boy born into the Himba tribe in Africa. He grows up learning his unique value…his “soul song.” Unfortunately, his village falls on hard times and the value of each individual’s soul song is threatened to be forgotten… until a magical tree whispers a sound which helps Duma remember.

All mermaids long for the magic of a human soul. Briony won't drown sailors to get it. She makes potions instead, earning a reputation as a witch and becoming a social outcast. When a little mermaid asks for a potion that can reunite her with the human she loves, Briony reluctantly agrees. But there is more to the mermaid’s plan than a quest for love. The more Briony interacts with the human prince the mermaid wants to claim, the more she suspects that he never loved the little mermaid at all.

French-Canadian soldier Napoleon proposes to lovely and charming Lea in Belgium during WWI, promising golden fields of wheat as far as the eye can see. After the armistice, he sends money for her passage, and she journeys far from her family and the conveniences of a modern country to join him on a homestead in Saskatchewan. There, she works hard to build their dream of a prospering farm, clearing fields alongside her husband through several pregnancies and even after suffering a terrible loss.

Fyra veckor har gått sedan det stora utbrottet, och det värsta tycks vara över. Dammet från blommorna har lagt sig som en mörk skugga över landet, men de smittade utgör inte längre något hot. De har slutat jaga och börjat dö. Men just som Sverige tycker sig se ljuset i tunneln kommer nästa obehagliga överraskning. Plötsligt täcks träden av löv i en nyans ingen sett förut - en onaturlig och intensiv röd.

En brutal misshandel skakar Falun när en känd företagsledare hittas blåslagen och bunden i sin egen bil. Han saknar ett öga och det är tveksamt om han ens kommer överleva. Mot alla odds vaknar han ändå upp, men till polisens stora frustration vägrar han att samarbeta. Vad är det egentligen han döljer? När fler offer upptäcks kopplas Hannah Järnerud från Faluns specialiststyrka Lundberggruppen in. Och ju längre in i utredningen hon kommer, desto starkare växer sig misstankarna mot en person hon själv har ett intimt förhållande med.

Viola växer upp med en missbrukande pappa. Hon är van vid att alltid vara på sin vakt, att alltid vara försiktig så att han inte ska bli arg, men trots att hennes pappa beter sig konstigt är Viola livrädd för att förlora honom. Hennes föräldrar skilde sig när hon var fyra år och sedan dess har Viola gjort allt i sin makt för att hennes pappa inte ska lämna henne. Men så börjar saker plötsligt förändras. Violas pappa verkar må bättre och han blir inte lika arg.

Die Denkmaschine begleitet ihren treuen Freund Hutchinson Hatch zur Eröffnungsfeier des Royal Palm Hotels in Miami. Die ausgelassene Stimmung dort wird bereits kurz nach ihrer Ankunft getrübt. Ein unheimlicher Fremder indianischer Herkunft verhängt einen Fluch über die Anwesenden und legt ihnen nahe, das Hotel sofort zu verlassen. Kurz darauf wird tatsächlich ein Toter gefunden, ermordet durch einen Tomahawk. Professor van Dusen glaubt indes nicht an Flüche, sondern an einen Mörder, der in dem Luxushotel ein perfides Spiel treibt.

Wayne McLair vs. Cody Roche - wer ist der bessere Meisterdieb? Ein Wettkampf um das mysteriöse Koboldgold soll darüber entscheiden, welcher Gauner den Meistertitel wirklich verdient hat. Die Inspektoren O'Neill und Ballantyne müssen zusammenarbeiten, um den beiden Gentleman-Gaunern die Stirn zu bieten. Währenddessen zwingt eine katastrophale Nachricht den Assassinen Henri dazu, neue Allianzen zu schließen.

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It is 1896, and 19-year-old Pearl Owens wants adventure. To fulfill her dream, Pearl is on her way to the Yukon with her cousin, Emma, to write articles and do illustrations about the woman and men who are looking for gold in the north. Sam Owens, Pearl’s cousin and Emma’s brother, is in the Yukon searching for gold with two friends, Gordon and Donald. After five years of barely making a living at gold panning, Gordon and Donald have decided their quest is futile, and it is time to return home. But Sam wants to stay a while longer.

Der Londoner CEO Nathan Cove lebt für seinen Job und verbringt fast seine gesamte Zeit im Büro oder in Meetings. Trotzdem mangelt es dem attraktiven Geschäftsmann nicht an weiblicher Gesellschaft. Doch dieser Lebensstil hat seinen Preis, denn nun hat Nathan den Ruf, ein "Player" zu sein - was den erfolgreichen Briten sehr stört. Um die Gerüchte um seine fehlende Professionalität zu zerstreuen, erklärt Nathan sich dazu bereit, eine junge Reporterin davon zu überzeugen, dass er trotz seines Rufs als Frauenheld seinen Pflichten als CEO nachkommen kann.

The youngest child of the local doctor and evangelical preacher, Annie Baldwin was expected to work hard and not protest. George Richardson, the underage Doctor Bernardo boy, orphaned and shipped to Canada a few years earlier, is loaned to the Baldwins to help bring in the hay. The Great War brought a lot of changes to life, even in the back woods of Ontario. In spite of the differences in their social standing, George and Annie fell in love. When George departed for France, he promised to return to her when the war was over. Like so many others, Annie waited and hoped.

Kate Ballantyne's life was cruising along very nicely. No highs. No lows. Just the way she liked it. She had a good job and a casual relationship. Then Patsy Maclean had a 60th birthday and Kate learned her entire family would be attending the party, including her younger daughter, Ashley. As an orphaned 10-year-old, Kate's young life had been turned upside down when she was sent to live with her aunt in the historic gold mining city of Charters Towers. For the quiet and lonely Kate, the extroverted Ashley Maclean had been her salvation.

Faced with financial ruin and the loss of her good name, Rose Chadwick decides to make a new start for herself and her young daughter Hannah in the rough-and-tumble gold rush town of Barkerville, British Columbia. However, making a new life is not so easy when it’s built on lies. Viscount Harrison St. John knows he’s expected to marry well to bolster his family fortunes. Instead, he leaves England to pursue riches in the gold fields of a town in the wilds of Canada. Will dark secrets from Rose’s past keep them apart? Or will they find love, happiness, and a new life together?

As you listen on, you will come across struggle, survival, disappointment, and hope. You will laugh, and you will cry; you will reflect, and you will remember, but most importantly, you will learn, grow, and be transformed by the stories of these resilient women. When a small group of career women met at a Let’s Grow Sip & Paint event in January 2020, they joked that 2020 was the only time they were all going to have 20/20 vision, and they should embrace it and create a legacy for the new decade.

In the Dirty Thirties, jobs were hard to come by. Having lost her father and her home in southern Alberta, Tilly McCormack is thrilled when her application for a position as a chambermaid at the prestigious Banff Springs Hotel, one of Canada’s great railway hotels, is accepted. Tilly loves her new life in the Rocky Mountain town and the people she meets there. Local trail guide Ryan Blake is taken with Tilly’s sparkling blue eyes and mischievous sense of humor and thinks she is just the girl for him.

At 9 a.m. on Wednesday 13th July 1955, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to hang in Britain. Convicted of shooting her unfaithful lover, David Blakeley, in cold blood, as he stood by his sports car on Easter Sunday—the calm and dignified court appearance of this mother of two young children and the furore that accompanied her sentence, ensured that this trial was to have a memorable place in the annals of British justice.

Divorced and struggling, middle-aged Kim is hanging on by her fingernails. When her elderly mother invites her to move home to Florida, to the lush island of her childhood, Kim is tempted. She could spend time with Mom, start her dream business, and craft the perfect new life. On the other hand, Mom has a masters in manipulation, and there’s a reason Kim fled to California in her youth. But, she’s too mature and experienced now to fall into the same family drama.