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For a gardener blessed with a green thumb, Savannah Collins’s life sure seems like it’s all thorns, zero roses. She has no job, no relationship, and no place to live. With nothing but a car full of plants and her new rescue kitten, Savannah heads to Bloom, North Carolina, to spend the summer with her beloved Aunt Eleanor, a retired librarian. Her aunt shares her love of literature with the Finders Keepers Library, located in her beautiful garden, where anyone can stop by to pick a book or leave a book.

Weilan erzählt von einer Technik, mit der man Kräfte eines Gegners auf diesen zurücklenken kann. Zac ist begeistert. Mit dieser Fähigkeit könnte man den gefährlichen Wasserdrachen besiegen. Er überredet Weilan, ihm diese Technik heimlich beizubringen. Doch Evie bekommt Wind davon und glaubt, es wäre mehr zwischen Weilan und Zac.

Mimmi muss Karl im Meerespark helfen und hat alle Mühe, ihr Geheimnis vor ihm zu verbergen. Und Ondina und Weilan hängen nach missglückten Mondring-Übungen von Evie buchstäblich in der Luft. Ondina und Weilan erkennen, dass sie ihre Unstimmigkeiten überwinden müssen, um das Problem gemeinsam zu lösen.

Zac hat seinen Test in Biologie verhauen und überredet Weilan, einen geheimen Zaubertrick anzuwenden. Damit kann sie ihre guten Biologiekenntnisse in sein Gedächtnis übertragen. Leider funktioniert der Trick nicht so wie geplant und es kommt zu merkwürdigen Veränderungen bei Zac und Weilan. Erst sind nur ihre Frisuren vertauscht, doch die Transformation geht weiter.

May 1875: Mary Todd Lincoln is addicted to opiates and tried in a Chicago court on charges of insanity. Entered into evidence is Ms. Lincoln’s claim that every night a Savage Indian enters her bedroom and slashes her face and scalp. She is swiftly committed to Bellevue Place Sanitarium. Her hauntings may be a reminder that in 1862, President Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakotas in the largest mass execution in United States history. No one has ever linked the two events - until now.

If Sam Winchester was the illustrated lady in a traveling sideshow in the 1900s, he'd be Hazel Finnegan. Hazel has a power, and with that power, a responsibility. She hunts down the things that go bump in the night, and once she kills them, traps them into her skin via magical tattoo transference. Then she can call upon the monsters she's vanquished to help her take out other baddies. But she might be in over her head this time.

The idea of starting your own business is exhilarating and inspiring. It's one over 30 million Americans pursue. But being the significant other of an entrepreneur is not so glamorous. Boundaries between work and home disappear. Personal savings and business funds become intertwined. You can feel like a single parent as your spouse travels, works late hours, and answers calls and emails 24-7.You may even sacrifice a career or move your home for the sake of the business.

Amy Lyndon is tired of being the Poor Little Rich Girl of Shenandoah Falls. In her prominent family, she's the ordinary one - no Ivy League education and no powerful career. But when her father tries to marry her off, she knows it's finally time to stand up for herself, despite the consequences. Now that she's cut off from the family fortune, her first challenge is to fight her attraction to her handsome new boss.

Recently hired to serve in the palace stable in the great city of Alure, Dale discovers a dark secret to the fabled city and vows - even at the risk of losing his new post - to free the mystical creatures held captive inside the city's walls.

Always the savior and never the saved, a frustrated young prince longing for true love decides to reverse the roles of hero and damsel. He locks himself in a tower to await the day a princess will at long last come to his rescue and bring him true happiness. But who, or what, does this self-appointed damsel really need rescuing from?

Some people aren't meant for happily ever after. And Deborah Standridge is one of them. When she called off her wedding to the perfect man to pursue her passion as an architect, she didn't mean to hurt anyone. But Deborah saw her chance to finally make her own dreams come true, and she took it, setting in motion a tragedy that has haunted her ever since. Now, as one of Denver's most successful architects, Deborah has avoided love at all costs...until Daniel Parker walks into her life.

Polly always finds refuge in painting. But when the beautiful landscapes of the Maine island where she spends her summers leave her uninspired, she questions the life she's been living for the past 30 years. Will the reappearance of an old, seemingly successful friend be the spark Polly needs to get back on track, or will it derail her even further?

Frankie Chasing Bear is caught between cultures. She wants to raise her son Harold to revere his Lakota heritage, but she knows he will need to learn the white man's ways to succeed. After the untimely death of her husband, Frankie joins the US Government's Relocation Program and moves to Arizona. There she begins sewing a Lakota Star pattern quilt for Harold with tribal wisdom sung, sewn, and prayed into it. A bed without a quilt is like a sky without stars, but neither the quilt - nor her new life - comes easily to Frankie.

After a chance meeting in 1981, Lily Fialka confronts the defining time of her life: 1943-45 in Los Alamos, when her physicist husband, Peter, worked on the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project - a time of isolation, hard work, temptation, and loneliness yet exhilaration and triumph; when great breakthroughs were made but lives felt narrow; when loyalty was paramount, but the need for secrecy created unbearable tension.

Die beiden Delfin-Trainer Chris und Karl werden vom Chef des Meeresparks zur Insel Mako geschickt, um dort mit einer Wärmbildkamera nach Spuren des ominösen Seeungeheuers zu suchen. Dabei stoßen sie im Mondsee auf Ondina, die sich schnell noch unsichtbar machen kann. Die Wärmebildkamera zeigt aber Hinweise auf ein lebendiges Wesen.

Vor Mako taucht eine unbekannte Meerjungfrau auf und befreit eine andere Meerjungfrau aus einer Notlage. Es ist Weilan, die aus Shanghai angereist ist und eine Weile bei Rita wohnen wird. In der darauf folgenden Vollmondnacht halten die Meerjungfrauen ihre Vollmond-Zeremonie ab. Doch plötzlich werden sie von einem furchterregenden Wasserdrachen bedroht.

From scream queens to femmes fatale, horror isn’t just for the boys. Gothic media moguls Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence, authors of The Science of Monsters, and cohosts of the Horror Rewind podcast called “the best horror film podcast out there” by Film Daddy, present a guide to the feminist horror movies, TV shows, and characters we all know and love. Through interviews, film analysis, and bone-chilling discoveries, The Science of Women in Horror uncovers the theories behind women’s most iconic roles of the genre.