The thrilling first book in a new series, Operation Joktan is a suspense-filled page-turner that illuminates the blessing Israel is to the world.
A nerd must fight powerful spirits and aliens all vying for the secret power of his “family jewel,” so who better to fight alongside him than his high school crush and a spirit granny?!
A woman in a man's world.An enemy she never saw coming.Police officer Kate Murphy thought she'd left her tumultuous past behind when she married Matt, but nothing could be further from the truth.As problems and deceptions pile up both at home and at work, a disturbingly high number of animal deaths begin to spread in and around Boston. Kate will have to unravel a web of lies and connect the dots to solve the case and regain control over her life.If you like dramatic police procedurals with characters who grow and become stronger as the story progresses, then you'll love this fast-paced yet emotional mystery.
To prove his innocence, she'll have to believe the impossible.Officer Kate Murphy's uncle is like a father to her. When he's arrested for murder, she's his only hope.After a few off-the-record conversations with Luke, an awkwardly attractive forensic technician, Kate knows something doesn't add up. And when a host of politicians and homeless people begin to die all over the Northeast, Kate suspects they're somehow connected to her uncle's case.To prove the innocence of the man who took her in after her parents were murdered, Kate must make an incredible leap of faith. But she's not prepared for the stunning discovery that calls everything into question.The Last Hope is a gripping standalone thriller with some sci-fi elements and a dash of romance. If you like mind-bending whodunits, sizzling sex scenes, and tenacious heroines, then you'll love this unconventional police procedural.
Three young women living in very different worlds brought together by one small child and her supernatural secret. When this child becomes angry, it takes an entire town to control the fangs and claws of her dark protector.
Time itself is threatened? and it's up to the History Monks to save it in Terry Pratchett's bestselling Discworld® seriesEverybody wants more time. Which is why, on Discworld, only the experts can manage it?the venerable Monks of History who store it and pump it from where it's wasted, like underwater (how much time does a codfish really need?) to places like cities, where busy denizens lament never having enough of it.While everyone talks about slowing down, one young horologist is about to do the unthinkable. He's going to stop. Well, stop time, that is, by building the world's first truly accurate clock. Which means esteemed History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd have to put on some speed to stop the timepiece before it starts. For if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, time?as we know it?will end. And then the trouble will really begin . . .
The New York Times bestselling author of Always imagines life on Boat Street, a floating community on Seattle's Lake Union, home to people of artistic spirit who for decades protect the dark secret of one startling night in 1959. Fleeing an East Coast life marred by tragedy, Ada Santorini takes up residence on houseboat number seven on Boat Street in search of inspiration and new opportunities. When she discovers a trunk left behind by Penny Wentworth, a young newlywed who lived on the boat half a century earlier, she is immediately drawn into this long lost story. Ever-curious, Ada longs to know her predecessor's fate, but does not suspect that Penny's mysterious past and her own clouded future are destined to converge...
The electrifying Pike Logan series continues as the Taskforce-a top secret team that exists outside the bounds of U.S. law-races to stop a terrorist hit....A shadowy trail leads the Taskforce to Egypt-where an attack leaves one member dead and another barely alive. Veteran warrior Pike Logan and his young partner, Jennifer Cahill, are forced to helm the increasingly convoluted and dangerous mission: a mission that tests both Jennifer's ability to justify her actions, and Pike's tenuous ability to stay in control. Sifting their way through the opposing plots of two terrorist organizations will turn out to be the least of their problems when a weapon of unthinkable power touches American soil-the only country in which Taskforce members are forbidden to operate, and the only country that Pike Logan may be unable to save....
Elise Sabato is proud of her husband, Brad, for serving his country...and grateful when he returns home to her. But the traumatic brain injury he suffered in Iraq has turned him from a thoughtful, brilliant, and patient man into someone quite different....someone who requires more care and attention than Elise can give while working in a demanding law firm. And when Brad ends up on his family's farm, hundreds of miles away, she wonders where their marriage is headed. Elise must decide between the life she always wanted and the life she seems to be living…until she finds inspiration in the most unlikely of places: a lovable dog named Jones who teaches her that when the best-laid plans take unexpected turns, sometimes you end up right where you were meant to be.
First there was Nauti and Wild. Now, New York Times bestselling authors Lora Leigh and Jaci Burton go one step further. Can you take it?#1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh returns to the relentlessly scorching backdrop of her Nauti Boys series with an all-new novella of a man—bad to the bone—and the one woman who knew he was trouble. That's why she couldn't let him go.New York Times bestselling author Jaci Burton once again blisters the asphalt with an all-new novella in her Wild Riders series. A hot biker craves a life of passion and danger—and finds it with the woman he's sworn to protect.
NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE JAMIE MARKS IS DEADPart thriller, part ghost tale, part love story, One for Sorrow is a novel as timeless as The Catcher in the Rye and as hauntingly lyrical as The Lovely Bones. Christopher Barzak's stunning debut tells of a teenage boy's coming-of-age that begins with a shocking murder and ends with a reason to hope.Adam McCormick had just turned fifteen when the body was found in the woods. It is the beginning of an autumn that will change his life forever. Jamie Marks was a boy a lot like Adam, a boy no one paid much attention to-a boy almost no one would truly miss. And for the first time, Adam feels he has a purpose. Now, more than ever, Jamie needs a friend. But the longer Adam holds on to Jamie's ghost, the longer he keeps his friend tethered to a world where he no longer belongs . . . and the weaker Adam's own ties to the living become. Now, to find his way back, Adam must learn for himself what it truly means to be alive.Praise for One for Sorrow"Christopher Barzak's sympathy and humor, his awareness, his easeful vernacular storytelling, are extraordinary, and his mournful, unforgettable teenagers drive us deep into the land of the dead practically before we've even fastened our seatbelts."-Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn "An amazing, original debut from an amazing, original writer. One for Sorrow may be the most haunting ghost story I've ever read."-Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club "An uncommonly good book with brains, heart, and bravery to spare. Readers who don't find themselves in sympathy with Barzak's characters were never adolescents themselves."-Kelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners "An honest and uncanny ride through the shadows between grief and acceptance. This is how real magic works."-Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies and Extras
The celebrated author of Clockers delivers his most compelling and accomplished novel to date.A white woman, her hands gashed and bloody, stumbles into an inner-city emergency room and announces that she has just been carjacked by a black man. But then comes the horrifying twist: Her young son was asleep in the back seat, and he has now disappeared into the night.So begins Richard Price's electrifying new novel, a tale set on the same turf--Dempsey, New Jersey--as Clockers. Assigned to investigate the case of Brenda Martin's missing child is detective Lorenzo Council, a local son of the very housing project targeted as the scene of the crime. Under a white-hot media glare, Lorenzo launches an all-out search for the abducted boy, even as he quietly explores a different possibility: Does Brenda Martin know a lot more about her son's disappearance than she's admitting?Right behind Lorenzo is Jesse Haus, an ambitious young reporter from the city's evening paper. Almost immediately, Jesse suspects Brenda of hiding something. Relentlessly, she works her way into the distraught mother's fragile world, befriending her even as she looks for the chance to break the biggest story of her career.As the search for the alleged carjacker intensifies, so does the simmering racial tension between Dempsey and its mostly white neighbor, Gannon. And when the Gannon police arrest a black man from Dempsey and declare him a suspect, the animosity between the two cities threatens to boil over into violence. With the media swarming and the mood turning increasingly ugly, Lorenzo must take desperate measures to get to the bottom of Brenda Martin's story.At once a suspenseful mystery and a brilliant portrait of two cities locked in a death-grip of explosive rage, Freedomland reveals the heart of the urban American experience--dislocated, furious, yearning--as never before. Richard Price has created a vibrant, gut-wrenching masterpiece whose images will remain long after the final, devastating pages.
Though unalike as snowflakes, sisters Patricia Anne and Mary Alice share a sympathetic heart for their distraught cousin Luke -- known affectionately in his boyhood as "Pukey Lukey," because of his penchant for getting sick in moving vehicles. Luke is desperate to hunt down Virginia, his wife of forty years, who has run off with a housepainter/snake-handling preacher named "Monk." And the sisters have graciously agreed to accompany their stricken kinsman on his search...in Luke's car, of course.But, while practical "Mouse" and flamboyant "Sister" are unable to find their runaway cousin-in-law among the asp-loving faithful on Chandler Mountain, they do manage to stumble upon the corpse of a pretty young redhead who was prematurely sent to her eternal reward. And before you can say "anaconda," they are hot on the serpentine trail of a killer who'd like nothing better than to sink a pair of poisonous fangs into two meddling Southern sisters!
Richard Bryan of Mt. Lebanon, Louisiana was the consummate idealist. He had a forward-looking outlook. Slavery was an anachronism. In 1856, five years before the war, he offered emancipation to all 97 on his plantation, hired a teacher, deeded land, shared profits, and encouraged entrepreneurs. The Civil War devastated the South, but the war never reached his home. When Union occupiers arrived in Mt. Lebanon a decade later, they were astounded to find Bryan's experiment fully implemented. Former slaves could not only "read, write, and cipher," they were landowners engaged in a trade, and some were even bilingual.Bryan's objective was to facilitate the "conveyance" of his peaceful society from pre-war to post-war America. He saw no reason why he could not achieve this goal. Union occupiers envisioned a plethora of beneficial propaganda, but Bryan declined to be used by aggressive new politicians who demanded his cooperation to further their agenda.After the Confederate surrender, Richard Bryan, his family, their hired hands, the people, and a wounded Yankee deserter his young sons had stumbled upon in the woods and brought home with them, found themselves at the mercy of a corrupt Governor, political hacks, petty tyrants, and remorseless convicts in military uniform. Not just rustlers but occupying troops would frequently raid farms. Often, they'd steal entire harvests. If you resisted the men in uniform, they might hang you and burn your place down out of spite.There was no legal recourse against the government. Food became scarce, hard money even more so. "Injun Grass" as it was known to those who smoked it, grew wild on their land. It was good quality, so they'd periodically harvest it and offer little poke bags of cannabis for sale to visitors who were passing through on the stagecoach. Occasionally they'd even sell some to soldiers. Every penny counted. They tightened their belts, quietly bartered for weapons, secretly manufactured ammunition, and killed in self-defense when they were faced with no other choice.Their joint goal was survival. Some of them would make itWhat transpired across the South might today be equated to legal, as well as militarized police brutality by occupying forces. The experience of all, regardless of color, who lived through this traumatic and tumultuous time in history, burned itself deeply into America's collective psyche.
Vale la pena di morire per un dipinto? Ispirato a fatti realmente accaduti, un indimenticabile racconto su come amore, coraggio e sacrificio possono salvare il patrimonio di un Paese. Italia, 1943. Elena Marchetti lascia a malincuore la propria professione di curatrice d'arte in una Milano bombardata dagli Alleati, per fare ritorno dalla propria famiglia a Urbino. Per lei è pronto un ruolo a fianco di Pasquale Rotondi, Sovrintendente regionale alla cultura: assieme a lui, Elena proteggerà opere d'arte provenienti da tutta Italia, fino a quel momento tenute nascoste nella relativa sicurezza delle campagne. Durante una festa in famiglia, Elena incontra Luca, un caro amico di infanzia. Un evento sconvolgente, determinato dalle azioni degli occupanti tedeschi, rafforzerà la loro relazione, tanto che i due inizieranno a progettare la loro vita insieme. Quando si sparge la voce che i tedeschi stanno trafugando opere d'arte italiane, Pasquale escogita un piano audace per salvare gli inestimabili dipinti in proprio possesso. Elena e Luca saranno costretti a fare una scelta coraggiosa: decideranno di lanciarsi in questa missione impossibile, per salvare il patrimonio culturale italiano?
A heinous crime was reported that day. Mariane was still shocked and could not believe what happened. She didn't expect the person she respected all her life she trusted and loved the man who did the disappearance of the person she's been longing to see for a long time. Will she be thankful for her being audacious? because of her audacity, she met the one who fill the love which her parents did not grant her. How did the tragedy affect their family and their lives?"You don't even care"! Mario often hears them telling him. This is who they thought Mario is. They grew up together but it seems they don't have each other, what secrets do they keep from each other? The story is about multiple types of love oh if it is love, what kind of love does each character in the story have? cruel love owing to greedy love. Love that impels some children longing for the love of their parents. A forbidden love that people know is not allowed and yet they do it. Can we blame them even though we know they have their reasons or does it make sense? Regret is always the last thing and this is exactly what Ryan was going through at that time. But can his repentance take back all his sins, he ruined the lives of his children, particularly his son Marlon because he loves his father he forgot his own needs and even his dreams but all his support for his father was a waste? With everything that happened, they are now FACING THE PAIN OF REALITY.
An explosives expert. A savage cartel. Can he stop their deadly dealings and survive a relentless killer?Ryan Weller relishes his new black-ops career, taking down terrorist scum. So when the former Navy bomb-disposal tech catches wind of a notorious arms dealer running under the radar, he races into action to sink his next shipment. But with a Russian mercenary determined to collect the two-million-dollar bounty on his head, he may be deep-sixed just as things explode.Despite the target on his back, Weller and his team mount an undercover mission at sea to stop a massive weapons cache from falling into the hands of a brutal Haitian dictator. Between an assassin hot on his heels and a vessel full of vicious mercenaries, the only way left for him to end the terror might be to go down with the ship.Can Weller stop an international arms trade before he's sent to a watery grave?Dark Ship is the second book in the pulse-pounding Ryan Weller thriller series. If you like patriotic heroes, Caribbean adventures, and high-stakes combat, then youll love Evan Graver's explosive tale.
Louisa Torres knows there's trouble at the sound of the first gunshot. The town has more than its share of violence, but gunshots are rare. Dr. Maxwell Baer offered her a life-changing deal decades ago. No matter how many strings he kept adding to the deal, it was the best thing that ever happened to her. The moment the doctor disappeared, that deal was in jeopardy, leaving her life hanging by a thread. Sheriff Watkins is the latest of a long line of sheriffs trying to keep control in the chaotic little town. His disappearance normally wouldn't be that surprising since school teachers and sheriffs rarely stay in town very long. But Sheriff Watkins and his daughter both disappear within days of each other. The duo had been in town less than two weeks and the Sheriff abandoned his SUV in the alley outside the doctor's office. The signs are too much for Louisa. She steals the SUV and leaves town.Agent Winslow arrives on the scene a day later with Agent Jennings who will do anything to make a name for herself and Agent Armstrong whose star is fading faster with every glass of bourbon he pours on the job. The ragtag team makes sense at first for a tiny little town like this. But it shouldn't be this hard to find a doctor and a sheriff in a town of four hundred people. As the search drags on, Winslow realizes that Doctor Baer has some powerful enemies back in Washington and whatever he has been doing to these people hasn't made him any friends here either.As the bodies begin to pile up, Agent Winslow realizes he'll be lucky to get out of Ketch's Basin alive.
This story is the story around us. It doesn't matter to us until this incident happens in our house. We often get surprised once we hear, see or read such incidents in newspapers, magazines and through television but then soon forget. This story is also a story of two lovers which have ended somewhere in the pages of history. Both wanted to spend their lives in the thrill of their love. But the social fabric does not allow them to do so. Then those situations are created where in order to save themselves, they have to do that work, reading which anyone's soul will tremble. How can a daughter do this to her family. Can anyone kill a small child of 6 months? No one can be in danger from a small child. But what happened? Eventually seven members of the family lost their lives. What will happen to this loving couple? Will the society accept their child born in jail?
Thomas Glavinics großer Roman über die Liebe Während einer Expedition zum Gipfel des Mount Everest erinnert sich Jonas zurück an sein Leben - an seine außergewöhnliche Kindheit mit seinem Zwillingsbruder Mike und seinem Freund Werner, an seine Reisen durch die ganze Welt und an die Momente mit seiner großen Liebe Marie, die sein Leben verändert hat. In »Das größere Wunder« erzählt Thomas Glavinic von magischen Begegnungen, großen Freundschaften und tragischen Schicksalsschlägen, von einem Baumhaus in Norwegen, einer einsamen Insel und dem Aufstieg auf den höchsten Berg der Welt. »Ein Schlüsselwerk seines Schaffens [...], ein großes Buch über die Angst und die Einsamkeit, über die Liebe und die Freiheit.« Tobias Becker, SpiegelOnline
Rache ist eine mörderische Triebfeder, besonders wenn übersinnliche Kräfte im Spiel sind.Auf seinem Weg hat sich Jason nicht nur Freunde gemacht. Die Organisation jagt ihn unerbittlicher als je zuvor und hat auch seine Freundin Julie ins Visier genommen. Gemeinsam mit den Zwillingen entscheiden sie sich, den Kampf ins Lager des Feindes zu tragen, damit sie und andere Begabte endlich in Frieden leben können. Mit von der Partie ist Charlie, der Geist von Jason Ex-Freundin.Dabei ahnen die Fünf nicht, dass sie eine Kette von Ereignissen auslösen, die sich auf die ganze Welt auswirken könnten, denn das Leben selbst droht sich in einem grausamen Netz aus Racheschwüren zu verstricken. Jason muss in seine ganz persönliche Hölle hinabsteigen, um gegen alte und neue Feinde für das Schicksal der gesamten Menschheit einzustehen. Kann er sich aus dem Netz der Rache befreien und verhindern, dass das Lied des Lebens seine letzte Note spielt? Oder wird die Welt in Flammen aufgehen?Band III - J.C. Smith
Ein Cold Case, der noch immer Tote fordert ¿Das muss ein schlechter Scherz sein, denkt die Hamburger Anwältin Theresa Sommer: Per Anruf wird sie aufgefordert, eine Lösegeldforderung an den exzentrischen Kunstsammler Klaus Schuhmann zu überbringen ¿ zahlt er nicht, soll ein überaus wertvolles Gemälde zerstört werden. Doch als der mysteriöse Anrufer nicht lockerlässt und Theresa mit ihrer neugierigen Tante Hedwig Nachforschungen anstellt, ahnt sie bald, dass es trotz ihrer Schweigepflicht als Anwältin besser wäre, Kommissar Lukas Kampmann einzuschalten. Denn sie geraten mitten hinein in die bizarre Welt des Kunsthandels, wo der schöne Schein einen tödlichen Preis verlangt ¿Der vierte Fall der Bestsellerreihe um die Anwältin Theresa Sommer und Lukas Kampmann, einen Kommissar mit besonderen Ermittlungsmethoden.
Die Blackwater-Saga gilt als eine der besten unheimlichen Erzählungen aller Zeiten. Ein über mehrere Generationen verteiltes Familienfresko. Die Publikation war ein solcher Erfolg, dass sie Stephen King (ein Bewunderer der Werke von Michael McDowell) dazu inspirierte, The Green Mile ebenfalls in sechs Bänden zu veröffentlichen. Blackwater ist anders als alles, was du je gelesen hast. Eine Familiensaga mit einer einzigartigen Atmosphäre schleichenden Grauens. Blackwater erzählt von dem verschlafenen Perdido in Alabama und den Schrecken, die Elinor Dammert über die Familie Caskey und die Stadt bringt. Blackwater Buch 6: Der Regen Die mysteriöse Saga der Caskeys endet: Eine neue Generation übernimmt die Macht. Doch selbst unvorstellbarer Reichtum kann die Familie nicht vor den Sünden ihrer Vergangenheit schützen. Längst vergessene Geheimnisse sprudeln an die Oberfläche des dunklen Flusses und beschwören einen Sturm herauf, wie ihn Perdido noch nie erlebt hat. Stephen King: »Ein Schriftsteller für die Ewigkeit.«
Die Blackwater-Saga gilt als eine der besten unheimlichen Erzählungen aller Zeiten. Ein über mehrere Generationen verteiltes Familienfresko. Die Publikation war ein solcher Erfolg, dass sie Stephen King (ein Bewunderer der Werke von Michael McDowell) dazu inspirierte, The Green Mile ebenfalls in sechs Bänden zu veröffentlichen. Blackwater ist anders als alles, was du je gelesen hast. Eine Familiensaga mit einer einzigartigen Atmosphäre schleichenden Grauens. Blackwater erzählt von dem verschlafenen Perdido in Alabama und den Schrecken, die Elinor Dammert über die Familie Caskey und die Stadt bringt. Blackwater Buch 5: : Das Vermögen Die Caskeys sind bereits die mächtigste Familie in Perdido und werden bald Erfolge erleben, die ihre kühnsten Vorstellungen übertreffen. Aber Wohlstand hat seinen Preis, und am Ende müssen sogar die Caskeys dafür zahlen. Und eine Frau versucht, dem unerbittlichen flehenden Ruf des dunklen Flusses zu widerstehen ... Stephen King: »Ein Schriftsteller für die Ewigkeit.«
Eine junge Frau gerät in die Fänge eines eiskalten Psychopathen und es entbrennt ein tödlichesSpiel aus Macht und Verführung. Zwischen Angst und lodernder Leidenschaft, zwischenWiderstand und gnadenloser Hingabe, steht sie vor einer schicksalhaften Wahl. Wird sie demEntführer, der ihre Sinne in einen gefährlichen Rausch versetzt, widerstehen können oder wirdsie dem geheimnisvollen Fremden auf Gedeih und Verderb verfallen?Eines ist jedenfalls klar: Bei diesem Spiel kann es nur einen Gewinner geben.
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