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It is 1943. Two huge German guns in the grim, impregnable fortress on a huge beautiful island off the coast of Turkey are having a devastating impact on Allied shipping and preventing the evacuation of hard-pressed British troops from the nearby island of Kheros. The Germans are poised to...

Veronica Cavanaugh’s grasp on the world is slipping. Her latest round of fertility treatments not only failed but left her on edge and unbalanced. And her three-year-old daughter, Elizabella, has a new imaginary friend, who seems much more devilish than playful. So when Veronica’s husband fails to return home from a business trip, what’s left of her stability begins to crumble. Given her family’s history of mental illness, and Elizabella’s insistence that her daddy is dead, Veronica starts questioning herself.

There are hundreds of casinos in Las Vegas, and Billy Cunningham knows how to rip off every one. His scams are a thing of beauty - so perfectly orchestrated that onlookers believe he and his crew are winning fair and square. In a town where bosses will kill to protect their profits, Billy can't afford to make mistakes, but even the best-laid plans can go wrong...

Wilson Dowling is the Overseer, a man transported from the year 2081 to carry out a series of vital missions encoded in the Dead Sea Scrolls. His latest assignment had seemed simple enough - to lead the American explorer Hiram Bingham to Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas. However, he discovers that history has gone dramatically off course. The Golden Cube of the Sun God - safely hidden at Machu Picchu for hundreds of years - has been stolen.

A year after having been reactivated as a spy, Matt Helm receives a message from his ex-wife asking for his aid. The threat is an enemy agent named Martel, disguised as a mob hit man. To protect his family, Helm must remove the threat before his own children pay the ultimate price. Originally released in the era of the James Bond novels, the Matt Helm novels were considered grittier and more realistic than Bond, garnering them critical praise and ardent fans.

Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by a single moment when their fathers met in the bloody and chaotic battle for the island. Only Earl Swagger survived. More than 60 years later, Yano comes to America to honor the legacy of his heroic father by recovering the sword he used in the battle. His search has led him to Crazy Horse, Idaho, where Bob Lee, ex-marine and Vietnam veteran, has settled into a restless retirement and immediately pledges himself to Yano's quest.

A breathtaking discovery at the top of the world . . . A terrifying collision between modern science and Native American legend . . . An electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child. Two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle lies Alaska’s Federal Wildlife...

Four United States presidents have been assassinated—in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963—each murder seemingly unrelated and separated by time. But what if those presidents were all killed for the same reason: a clause in the United States Constitution—contained within Article 1, Section...

Mark Hawkins, former park ranger and expert tracker, is out of his element, working onboard the Magellan, a research vessel studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But his work is interrupted when, surrounded by 30 miles of refuse, the ship and its high-tech systems are plagued by a series of strange malfunctions and the crew is battered by a raging storm. When the storm fades and the sun rises, the beaten crew awakens to find themselves anchored in the protective cove of a tropical island...and no one knows how they got there.

Jungle-skilled, silent, and lethal, he had killed for the Viet Cong and then for the Americans. He had watched helpless as his two eldest daughters were raped and killed by Thai pirates. Now, all that was behind him. Quiet, hard-working, and unassuming, he was building up his South London take-away business - until the day his wife and youngest daughter were murdered by an IRA bomb. That was when the Chinaman, denied justice, decided on revenge...and went back to war.

The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.

Accomplished storyteller Nevada Barr captivates fans with her tightly-woven plots, vibrant descriptions, and believable characters. In this thrilling mystery, her resourceful sleuth, middle-aged park ranger Anna Pigeon, travels to northern California where she joins the forces battling an out-of-control forest fire.

After four trips to the Sahara and extensive historical research, David Ball crafted this sweeping adventure novel spanning two continents and 15 years. Set against a backdrop of the crumbling French Empire’s attempts to colonize the Sahara Desert, Empires of Sand follows the lives of two cousins who are raised as brothers but destined to become enemies. It is 1870, and France is at war with Prussia.

Ein alter Mann in Trauer. Die Kinder wollen ihn zu sich holen, doch er verschließt sich. Nachbarn hören Streitgespräche. Ist es nur eine Altersdepression oder steckt mehr dahinter? Mia Wagner ist erst unsicher, doch schnell wird klar: Das ist wieder so ein Fall.

لمحاولات لاتزال مستمرة والأمل في النجاة لم ينتهِ بعد.. يقرر رجل غامض التصدي لهذا الوحش الآدمي، يقوم بتكوين فريق خاص لمطاردة "جادو" والكشف عن هويته، فريق من أصحاب المهارات الخاصة التي تميزهم عن سائر البشر. نبدأ معهم مغامرة مثيرة وغامضة للكشف عن تلك الأسئلة المرعبة..

Mystiska till synes vattentäta paket har hittats av allmänheten på flera platser längs Ölands västra kust. I samma veva hittas en död ung man iklädd våtdräkt på stranden på nordvästra sidan av Öland. De fynd som görs av våra sjöpoliser gör att flottan kopplas in. Snart blir man på det klara med att två attackdykare från främmande makt tagit sig iland på Öland, en är bevisligen död, men var är den andre och vad är hans uppdrag? Röjdykarbefälet Camilla Emilsson ställs inför det hon övat i hela sitt vuxna liv, att möta och ta sig an ett yttre militärt hot.

When a ruthless crime syndicate kidnaps and enslaves beautiful young women, one victim fights back. She manages to enlist the help of PRIMAL, a covert vigilante team that operates where governments fear to tread. With cutting-edge technology and razor-sharp combat skills, PRIMAL lays siege to a medieval-era castle, the syndicate's fortress of cruelty. As the notorious Yakuza close in, PRIMAL must confront not only the criminal underworld but also content with one operative's personal vendetta.

Aún obsesionado por la desaparición de su hermana pequeña, Amy, hace más de veinte años, la vida de Joseph Bridgeman se ha derrumbado. Cuando un amigo lo convence de consultar a la hipnoterapeuta Alexia Finch para que lo ayude con su insomnio, Joseph descubre de manera accidental que puede viajar en el tiempo. Su primer viaje solo lo lleva unos minutos atrás, pero su nueva habilidad le devuelve algo que no ha sentido durante mucho tiempo: la esperanza.

医者を目指しつつ、女としての幸せも諦めたくないおいちは、飾り職人・新吉との結婚を決意する。しかし祝言の当日、『浦之屋』という商家で毒物混入事件が……。

In the Inupiaq village of Wainwright on the Arctic Ocean, two teenagers discover a frozen body in the permafrost wall of their family’s cellar. They recognize the face through the ice. It is the face of a young woman who went missing—two years ago . . . In South Dakota, Arliss Cutter searches for answers surrounding his brother’s mysterious death. But his visit only raises more questions without any leads. Until he returns to Alaska—and learns that his brother had something in common with the frozen body in the ice cellar.