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The mayor of Oberarschenberg collects welcome gifts for a refugee family in a box. Unfortunately, not everyone in the village is as welcoming to the refugees as the mayor would like. The carpenter entrusted with building the box maliciously hides a bomb under a false bottom. The mayor carries the box through the village and asks for gifts for the new arrivals—sometimes with more success, sometimes with less.
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For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers, in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, before the the lights go out forever.

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.