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During the week of Dr. Agnes Stacey’s daughter’s wedding, each of the 11 attendees in the small family gathering brings their own simmering tensions. Agnes’s uncle, Professor Malcolm Miller, has harbored a family secret since Agnes’s parents died in a car crash when she was a young girl. Dr. Joseph Bradshaw, who married into the family, has nursed a private obsession with Agnes since his brief stint as her therapist. Agnes herself is returning to her ex-husband’s home for the first time, just as she’s trying to extricate herself from a potent new love affair.

Die Rolle des Osmanischen Reiches in der Weltgeschichte – von einem kleinen türkischen Fürstentum zu einer globalen Supermacht – ist unbestreitbar. Über sechs Jahrhunderte lang war das Reich das wohl stärkste muslimische Imperium der Welt und beherrschte seine Rivalen in Europa und Asien über viele Jahre hinweg.

The power grid could fail tomorrow. Are you ready to keep your family alive? This book contains the steps that took me from a clueless city dweller with zero survival skills to complete off-grid self-sufficiency in less than 18 months. The key? The "Off-Grid Mastery System" – combining wilderness skills, homesteading techniques, and crisis preparedness.

This book contains the exact steps that took me from being a city dweller with zero survival skills to becoming a self-sufficient master of both urban and wilderness environments in less than six months. Want to know the biggest difference between those two time periods? A comprehensive understanding of survival techniques adaptable to any situation. The problem is—most people don't know how to effectively prepare for and navigate through crisis situations, whether in bustling cities or remote wilderness. I wrote this book to solve your survival preparedness problem.

Scientists tell us that ninety-six percent of the universe is unexplained dark matter and dark energy. Also, they admit that no unifying “theory of everything” exists in physics. This shaky foundation is the basis of modern thinking about the cosmos and Earth’s place in it. Something big seems to be missing. Thus, we’re left with no choice but to question the “consensus” cosmological model. Are we really flying through space on a spinning ball within an expanding universe, while free-falling around the Sun—all as a consequence of a “Big Bang” that supposedly occurred 13.8 billion years ago?

In the ghetto, the last 50,000 Jews await their fate, but, unlike those who preceded them to the death camps, these Jews are prepared to fight. Jan Kalisz, Kripo investigator and Resistance double-agent, has promised to supply them with weapons. But how will he fulfil his vow? The murder of a German officer appears to provide an opportunity.

Are you looking for the perfect way to study for your upcoming Life in the UK Test in 2024 or 2025? Do you wish you could pass first time, and become a British Citizen? Maybe you just want to settle in the United Kingdom with "indefinite leave to remain"? Whatever your motivation is to stay in the UK - whether for love, work, or family - we get it. The problem you have is - the test is HARD. And many people fail first-time round. This comprehensive guide was created to guide you through passing the exam as fast & painlessly as possible.

In 1933 Cuba, a deadly game of cat and mouse unfolds. An IRA sharpshooter, driven by vengeance and a relentless mission, has Winston Churchill in his crosshairs. But just as the assassin is about to strike, Churchill's tenacious bodyguard, Walter Thompson, intervenes, forcing the killer into the shadows. Years later, amid the fiery rain of the German Blitz on London, Thompson locks eyes with a ghost from Havana—the very same assassin. But now, the stakes are higher.

Life in a small town can suck. Everyone knows everyone else’s business and it can feel like there are no secrets. I’ve managed to keep one though. I’m in love with Ford Miller. I have been since I was a kid, but I never knew how he felt so I kept it to myself. When I started to work for him, keeping that secret became harder. Then my grandma comes back to town, determined to set me up with someone. I know she’s just worried about me, but that doesn’t mean I want her playing matchmaker. So, I come up with a plan. Now, I just need to convince Ford to go along with it.

Hellenic Gendarme, Major Mikhail Remis is a man in demand. Feared as much by fellow officers as the criminal underworld, Remis grapples with his own sense of rough justice. When the body of Mossad undercover agent, Konrad Tafel is found deep in the Balkan Mountains, Remis is ordered by his veiled, powerful master, Manolis Callas to clear up yet another unwanted mess. Within hours the policeman is drawn into a web of lies and corruption and finds himself on the trail of a vicious killer.

Two decades ago, the United States invaded Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to fumigate a rat's nest of international terrorists. And then it left. Now the Taliban are teetering on the edge of a fresh civil war, and a new breed of militants is growing out of the fertile ground of chaos. One group makes the Taliban regime look like kindergarten teachers by comparison. It's known as Islamic State Khorasan. Brutal, violent, and bent on using the failed state of Afghanistan as a launching pad for global mayhem.

As a coalition of species and planets fights to unseat the Imperium, Will, the only human on the Coalition War Council, is put forward as an unlikely poster boy for galactic harmony. His unremarkable home world and its unimportant species—humans—have come to the aid of a greater galaxy they didn't even know existed. With each battle won, breaking the shackles of the Imperium seems not only possible but inevitable… until old grievances and simmering rivalries spring up among the Coalition.

Now in possession of all 24 God-walker coins along with the lost codebook, Captain Gunnar McConnell and his crew have successfully pulled off the greatest heist in the galaxy, creating fools of the Aloysian council. Their defiance comes with a price—Now, with extravagant bounties on their heads, they have fled to Leekins Arc, a planet in the far reaches of the Zedar system. Here, they plan to regroup, build a fleet of God-walkers using the detailed plans within the ancient codebook, and begin their search for the twenty-two remaining Keepers before the Aloysians beat them to it.

I’m back in Broken Arrow and trying to get my life together. Things seem to be going according to plan. I have a new job and it’s been great to be around my best friend, Nara, again. There’s just one thing missing. A partner. I’ve never dated before, but I’ve imagined my Prince Charming coming for me ever since I was a kid. He was always tall and charming, a true gentleman. Basically, everything that Caden Michaels isn’t. So, why can’t I stop thinking about the growly biker?

After a near-fatal stroke and a separation, amidst a global pandemic, Rick Van Noy decided to go for a paddle. In Borne by the River, he charts the story of discovery, and healing that came from this solo canoe journey. Paddling two hundred miles on the Delaware River to his boyhood home just upriver from Trenton, New Jersey, Van Noy contemplates his fate and life, as well as the simple joy of sitting in a small boat floating down a large river with his dog, Sully.

A wild bull on the field, a fly ball caught by a train conductor, a pitcher taking the mound barefoot—Minor League Baseball has been played across the country in cities large and small for more than a century, and there are thousands of entertaining and improbable stories to tell from it.

Embrace the life-changing magic of homegrown health while saving on grocery bills and achieving gardening success, even if you're a beginner! Are you yearning to reconnect with nature and cultivate a greener, healthier life? Overwhelmed by the complexities of starting a vegetable garden? Dream of creating a lush, productive garden in your backyard or small apartment balcony but hesitant about the investment required?

Unlock the cultural obsession with high-stakes robberies in Heist, a collection of the world's greatest real-life break-ins. From the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's famous art heist to the disappearance of the Marie Antoinette watch, these 100% true stories will have you on the edge of your seat--and double checking the locks on your doors!

Tatort: Nordsee. Mord auf einer Bohrinsel! Weit draußen auf der Nordsee wird ein ganz besonderes Luxushotel eröffnet: Die ehemalige Bohrinsel Nordplate, aufwändig umgebaut zum “Nordseetraum.” Zehn Gäste sind zu einem exklusiven Abendessen geladen, als einer von ihnen - der Staranwalt Martin Gensheimer - tot im Maschinenraum aufgefunden wird. Das Ermittlerduo Gabriel Behrens und Merle Winter soll herausfinden, wer der Täter ist - ein schwieriges Unterfangen, denn ihnen bleiben nur 24 Stunden Zeit, bis die Funkanlage wiederhergestellt ist und ihnen der Fall entrissen wird.

Vietnam, 1966. A US Airborne platoon is pinned down in Phuc Tuy Province. A deadly ambush leaves multiple casualties, forcing a desperate withdrawal. With bullets slamming into the Hueys, one is forced down only for the soldiers salvation to be a convoy of Australian APCs. As the dust clears from the battlefield, the ruthless Viet Cong local officer, Lieutenant Vu Van Thinh hunts for intelligence on his enemies. Amidst the debris of war is one man, a mortally wounded soldier desperate for help.