Marcus, son of Senator Decimus Varitor, is a decanus in the Roman cohort in Jerusalem. His tribune hints at a promotion to centurion if Marcus can bring in Barabbas. There are really only two things Marcus really wants—to be a centurion and to win the love of an Egyptian girl. When Meskhanet is sent to Rome on a slave ship and Marcus is captured by the very brigand he’s supposed to apprehend, those hopes may both evaporate faster than a small puddle under the hot desert sun.“Anne Ba...

A small, white-and-gold, nameless feral kitten longs for a name of his own. His cat family can't think of one for him. He's taken in a house by a farm lady who already has two kittens, Molly and Morris. When her husband comes home, she shows him the kitten, and between them, they come up with the purr-fect name, "Maybe."

On a typical drive home from work, Jim Mullens stops at a store to pick up a couple of items. A young teen mother with a baby stops him and asks if he would give her enough to buy milk for the infant. His heart goes out to this too-young mother. She looks to be about his daughter Jillian’s age, but she’s as pale as a newly bleached sheet, and the baby is crying. He finds out she had just given birth and had been ejected from her parents’ home. Jim dials 9-1-1 on his cell and wa...

daughter from slave runners, and he’s also the man who has fallen in love with the graceful and resilient woman.Joanne craves solitude in which to mourn. Senator Decimus Varitor returns to Rome with reluctance, bound to the senate for too many more years. However, he can only tolerate being away from her for a time. Decimus searches for her in the wilds of Israel where she hides from the world.She leaves the camp, not knowing she and her friend Rebecca will never live there...

With a moniker like Wednesday Miracle Blessing, you would think she’d want to name a baby something like Jane or Joe. But no; Wendy called the foundling “Merry Christmas Blessing.” She didn’t realize the world—and one very special paramedic—had been paying close attention.

A sudden death sends the Mullens family into an abrupt and vicious downward spiral that threatens Jillian’s life and affects everyone around her. One of Jillian’s former friends plots against her. Finances push the family nearer the brink of bankrupty. Her father contemplates suicide. A doctor worries that her catatonic state could become permanent. It will take more help than doctors and friends can provide.Is God too busy to work miracles in modern times? Because it begins to look...

Jillian isn't too crazy about having to go to summer school, but she’d missed too much school while she’d been in the hospital, catatonic. Still, summer school might not be too bad. Aiden was there too. Besides, they had a cool new teacher for the history class, newly out of college, Miss Reece. The teacher has this neat idea for the history class to put a float in the Fourth of July parade. They meet on Saturdays to build it, and Jillian’s dad and Aiden’s mom help too. This might be the b...

The Hollywood Playhouse Box Set is a unique compilation of 14 Oscar winning films specially adapted from the original screenplays & performed for the radio by many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience. Re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcastCASABLANCA with Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid BergmanTHE MALTESE FALCON with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre & Sydney Greenstreet

Granddaughter of renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Anne Baxter, born in Michigan City, IN, (May 7, 1923 - December 12, 1985) was a star of Hollywood films, Broadway productions, and television series. She won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award and a Golden Globe in 1947 for The Razor's Edge, was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar in 1951 for All About Eve, and received an Emmy nomination in 1969. The following is from an interview in 1985.

Mr Punch Presents: ALL ABOUT EVE, the 'Oscar Winning' story of the self-effacing and ambitious actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) who cleverly manipulates her way into the life of ageing Broadway star Margo Channing (Bette Davis). This venomous depiction of show business and backstage life has become a classic story of ambition and betrayal and one of Hollywood's all-time masterpieces. “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!”This high-qua...

The ‘Oscar Winning’ story of the self-effacing and ambitious actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) who cleverly manipulates her way into the life of ageing Broadway star Margo Channing (Bette Davis). This venomous depiction of show business and backstage life has become a classic story of ambition and betrayal and one of Hollywood's all-time masterpieces. “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!”“A Superb Hollywood Playhouse” The IndependentThis high-quality a...

Travis Miller has a machining job, a cat named Elwood, and a pathetic love life. The one bright spot in his existence is the handsome guitar player he sometimes passes on his way home from work. But when he finally gathers the courage to speak to the man, Travis learns that former novelist Drew Clifton suffers from aphasia: Drew can understand everything Travis says, but he is unable to speak or write.The two lonely men form a friendship that soon blossoms into romance. But communi...