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The day after the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, Murphy joins the US 1st Infantry Division, the Big Red One, and soon volunteers for the newly formed US Rangers. He takes part in the bloody attack on the French Channel port of Dieppe. The furious German defense results in hundreds of Allied deaths, yet Murphy makes it back to continue training for the invasion of France, codenamed Operation Overlord. Their orders are to land at Omaha Beach, scale the cliffs, and destroy the gun batteries at Pointe du Hoc.

A new warlord, Malik Khan, has appeared inside Afghanistan. A common bandit and a thief, but clever enough to cloak his rampage of murder and pillage under the mantel of Islam. He takes a hospital in a remote area as his base of operations, a former stone built military post perched on a hilltop and said to be impregnable. Safe behind his walls and with the medical staff held hostage, he is free to continue his campaign of robbery and murder unmolested.

PFC Eddie Hawkins, a Browning .50 gunner based in Afghanistan, has a reputation as a man who shoots first and shoots straight. His Humvee is commanded by Sergeant Dan Jones, the platoon leader. Leading a training mission into a dummy Afghan village, things go disastrously wrong after a foul-up by an intelligence major. As if it couldn’t be worse, the officer intends to make amends for his mistake and leads them back into the heart of the enemy.

Au Cap, Benny Griessel et Vaughn Cupido, de la brigade des Hawks, sont confrontés à un crime déconcertant : le corps d'un ancien membre de leurs services, devenu consultant en protection personnelle, a été balancé par une fenêtre du Rovos, le train le plus luxueux du monde. Le dossier est pourri, rien ne colle et pourtant, en haut lieu, on fait pression sur eux pour qu'ils lâchent l'enquête. À Bordeaux, Daniel Darret, ancien combattant de la branche militaire de l'ANC, mène une vie modeste et clandestine, hanté par la crainte que son passé ne le rattrape.

Do you believe in ghosts? Energies of the dead? Do you believe in Heaven and Hell? Have you ever gone to a funeral and felt like the deceased was with you? Lights flicker. Cool air rushing towards you. Things being knocked off your counter. A TV remote that is buried under a stack of papers flies out and falls apart on the floor. Innocent happenings that cannot be explained away by science. Any of the above things could be your loved one.

When former New York Times journalist Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a 20-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis in the United States, he expected to hear that things were hectic. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being overwhelmed, where do you think you are? Koeppel asked. Meyer’s grave reply - 100 - was merely the cusp of the crisis that would soon touch every part of the globe.

It is the first century BC. Cleopatra, the third of the pharaoh’s six children, is the one that her father has chosen to be the next queen of Egypt. But when King Ptolemy is forced into exile, Cleopatra is left alone to fend for herself in a palace rife with intrigue and murder. Smart, courageous, ambitious and sensuously beautiful, she possesses the charm to cause two of history’s most famous leaders to fall in love with her. But as her cruel sisters plot to steal the throne, Cleopatra realizes there is only one person on whom she can rely—herself.

Eddie Hawkins is the cupola gunner on a Humvee based in Afghanistan. He has a reputation as a man who shoots first and shoots straight, until things start to unravel. Ordered to accompany a combat engineer to give covering fire while he clears a dangerous highway of IEDs, a brutal, bullying master sergeant gives him the wrong route. The result is a debacle, American lives are lost, and they blame Hawkins. Held in contempt by his crew, the next operation offers him a chance to put things right. Except the same master sergeant has command of his platoon.

Die Geschichte von Bella und Edward ist weltberühmt! Doch bisher kennen Hörer*innen nur Bellas Blick auf diese betörende Liebe gegen jede Vernunft. In Biss zur Mitternachtssonne erzählt nun endlich Edward von ihrer ersten Begegnung, die ihn wie nichts zuvor in seinem Leben auf die Probe stellt. Denn Bella ist zugleich Versuchung und Verheißung für ihn. Der Kampf, der in seinem Innern tobt, um sie und ihre Liebe zu retten, verleiht dieser unvergesslichen Geschichte einen neuen, dunkleren Ton.

"Herzlich willkommen, meine Damen und Herren, Sie nehmen teil an einem Banküberfall!" Eine Gruppe Gangster in Clownskostümen dringt bewaffnet in eine Glasgower Bankfiliale ein. Doch die schwarzhumorigen Ganoven sind nicht nur auf fette Beute aus, sondern bieten ihren Geiseln auch eine waschechte Show – Theatervorführung inklusive. Polizistin Angelique de Xavia soll dem skurrilen Spektakel ein Ende bereiten – und trifft dabei auf Zal, den Anführer der Verbrecherbande. Obwohl beide auf verschiedenen Seiten kämpfen, entspinnt sich eine Romanze zwischen ihnen.

For too many professional women it’s not just the glass ceiling holding them back; it’s the sticky floor, too. This may be your experience. You’ve advanced to a specific level in your career, but now you’ve stalled. In Climbing the Spiral Staircase, author Leanne Meyer shares specific, actionable strategies that will help you build the career you aspire to have. This audiobook will help you gain control of your career by reclaiming the passion and ambition with which you began.

A battalion-strength ISIS force commanded by a former French Foreign Legionnaire, a convert to Islam, is massed just inside Pakistan. The plan is to enter the country by means of a bridge across a fast-flowing river. Their target: a nearby American base. SEAL Petty Officer Tony Chase and his compact fire team is assigned to blow the bridge and stop them entering Afghanistan.

Auf die Freundschaft?! Drei Freunde Ende zwanzig: Insa, Hannes und Nico sind gemeinsam in einem friesischen Kaff aufgewachsen und auch nach ihrer Flucht aus der Provinz beste Freunde geblieben. Sie sind unzertrennlich und erzählen sich alles - eigentlich. Doch plötzlich häufen sich die Geheimnisse voreinander. Ihre Zukunftspläne scheinen nicht mehr zusammenzupassen: Hannes will zurück ins Dorf und die Werkstatt seines Opas übernehmen, Nico hat sich in eine Frau verliebt, die ein Kind erwartet, und Insa treibt weiter orientierungslos vor sich hin.

Two mysteries, one from her far distant past of over 70 years ago and one for the future and a dire prediction from her grandniece Glinda, a psychic, that will affect not only Spookie and its inhabitants, but the whole world. Mysterious bones are unearthed in the ground behind Luke’s Hardware Store, and Frank and the sheriff are determined to find out whose bones they are, and how the victim died - even though whatever happened occurred over 70 years ago.

Planet Erde, irgendwann in der Zukunft. Eine neue Spezies, die so genannten "Seelen", hält fast alle Menschen besetzt...

Wir leben in einer Zeit, die gezeichnet ist von Kälte und Egoismus, vom Auflösen traditioneller Strukturen und Lebenswelten, von politischen und wirtschaftlichen Umwälzungen und vom Verlust religiöser oder spiritueller Führungen. Je medialer, globaler und virtueller unsere Welt wird, desto größer wird die Sehnsucht nach Sicherheit, Schutz, Liebe, Wärme und Vertrauen, desto mehr sehnen wir uns nach Geborgenheit.

Joe runs into a hidden punji trap, and the poisoned stakes deal him a hammer blow. A dustoff back to Da Nang and a long stay in the hospital puts him out of action, and the only consolation is the pretty nurse who attends to his wounds. When he is released, his platoon is in the field, and they give him a temporary posting to another platoon about to fly out to the Laotian border to check out a rumored convoy of vital supplies, weapons, and ammo for the VC.

"Tonio, Sie sind hart wie Stein, wenn Sie treffen wollen." Agnes E. Meyer. Sie war seine Gönnerin, er war ihr Briefpartner von 1937 an bis zu seinem Tod 1955. Obwohl Thomas Mann von der nahezu grenzenlosen Bewunderung erheblich profitierte, die ihm Agnes E. Meyer entgegenbrachte, sah er ihre Hilfe bisweilen als störende Einmischung in sein Leben. Im Gegenzug erwartete Agnes E. Meyer ein gewisses Maß an Aufmerksamkeit und nahm für sich das Recht in Anspruch, ihn zu kritisieren und ihm Ratschläge zu erteilen.

Loin du faste des palais et de la presse à scandale, ce livre audio nous permet de retrouver la femme telle qu'elle était, humaine, fidèle en amitié, ouverte aux réalités du monde. Grace a toujours su donner l'image de la perfection. Actrice, elle a tourné avec les plus grands d'Hollywood, princesse, elle a joué son rôle à la tête de Monaco, côtoyant les puissants de ce monde.

During World War II, the Waffen-SS officer who set Vietnam on fire in Devil's Guard - The Real Story began his startling military career in the Russian slaughterhouse of the Eastern Front. It is February 1943 in the snowy wastes around Kharkov. Stalingrad has fallen and a resurgent Soviet army is pushing the German forces back. The newly commissioned officer takes up his posting with Deutschland Regiment, SS Division Das Reich, part of von Manstein's Army Group South.