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The year is 1968: The Cold War is far from over, and nuclear annihilation is always only a heartbeat away. America is racing the Soviet Union to land men on the moon, a war is raging, and a pivotal presidential election looms on the horizon. A child of the early space age, Lieutenant Scott Ourecky joined the air force with aspirations of going to flight school.

December 1940. New Year’s Eve draws closer, but crowds will not be gathering on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral to celebrate. After a quiet Christmas, the area has suffered London’s most devastating air raid since the start of the Blitz and waves of incendiary bombs have burnt the heart of British book publishing to the ground. Detective Inspector John Jago finds a desolate woman sitting among the ruins of her family business and must break the news—her husband’s been found shot dead at their home in Soho.

One of the most desolate stretches of railroad in the West. Travelling along it is a crowded troop train, bound for the cholera-stricken garrison at Fort Humboldt. On board are the Governor of Nevada, the daughter of the fort’s commander and a US marshal escorting a notorious outlaw. Between them and safety are the hostile Paiute Indians – and a man who will stop at nothing, not even murder…

Letitia Carberry is not your ordinary spinster aunt. Letitia, Tish to her friends, entangles her friends Aggie and Lizzie into all sorts of adventures and scrapes from solving a murder, car races and camping, and horse trekking. Letitia Carberry is a force to be reckoned with.

"Der zehnte Heilige" erzählt von der gefährlichen Reise der Archäologin Sarah Weston aus der schroffen äthiopischen Wüste auf die Straßen von Paris, London und Texas. Sie riskiert alles auf ihrer Suche nach der Entzifferung einer längst vergessenen Prophezeiung, die den Planeten vor einer brutalen, drohenden Katastrophe retten kann. Doch ist die Wahrheit den Preis wert, den sie zahlen muss? Cambridge Archäologin Sarah Weston macht eine ungewöhnliche Entdeckung in den Bergen des alten äthiopischen Königreiches von Aksum.

In "Waterway Death," listeners are transported back to the tense atmosphere of 1939, on the brink of World War II. Arthur W. Phillips crafts a gripping spy story centered around a master German spy, referred to as Dr. Death, and his dangerous plans for a newly developed explosive. Narrated by the talented Mike Vendetti, this audiobook is filled with suspense, intrigue, and high-stakes espionage as a Canadian government agent races against time to stop Dr. Death before it's too late.