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A high-school state champion runner turned college dropout, Angela is working as a receptionist at an abortion clinic when a “heartbeat law” criminalizes most abortions statewide. In the ensuing upheaval, her boss is arrested for providing illegal procedures and the clinic is shut down. Angela has never been either an activist or a model employee. But she gets why her boss didn’t follow the rules. She decides to go on a hunger strike in the boarded-up clinic, to protest her boss’s arrest and everything that’s been lost.

John Quincy Adams is the missing link in the classical era of American history which began with the Revolution and ended with Emancipation. Between these bookends lies the absorbing yet overshadowed epic of a new nation spearheading liberty's cause in a world skeptical of freedom arriving at all, much less in slaver's garb. M. B. Zucker takes listeners back to that adolescent country in the care of an enigmatic guide, John Quincy Adams, heir to one president by blood and another, Washington, by ideology.

Vuelve Karin Smirnoff con una nueva entrega de la serie Millennium. Una serie de culto con más de 105 millones de lectores en todo el mundo. Lisbeth Salander y su sobrina Svala parecen tener un imán para los problemas: ahora Svala forma parte de un grupo de activistas que se opone a la reapertura de una mina. El conflicto está en punto muerto hasta que una periodista que investigaba el tema es asesinada. Salander y Svala deberán recurrir a Mikael Blomkvist y al hacker Plague para enfrentarse a un grupo que está dispuesto a recurrir a medidas extremas para defender sus intereses.

Pulitzer prize-winning author David K. Shipler’s fictionalized story of a Vietnamese interpreter, based on his own experiences as a war correspondent, brings back the tensions within Vietnam during the war, focusing on a local with close ties to American journalists and politicians.

It is a Tuesday evening in June when Ruth receives the phone call that all parents dread. Her daughter Daisy has been hit by a car during a deadly storm in Puerto Rico. How Ruth wishes she could tell Daisy she loves her. That she is sorry her own muddy feelings about Daisy's move to San Juan caused them to fight. What a waste of precious breath. Instinctively, it's her mother, Rafaela, Ruth wants to turn to. Rafaela whose own memories of growing up in Puerto Rico are becoming ever more vivid, as have her sudden flashes of forgetfulness.

Dr. Arman Pirouzi left Iran behind for a better life in the United States until he is reluctantly recruited by the CIA and returns to Tehran, where the ruthless IRGC hunts, tortures, and routinely kills spies and traitors with brutal efficiency. His mission: locate a critical asset, extract classified intelligence, and stop a war before it starts. His challenge: survive the most dangerous city in the world, where old friends become enemies, past loves are rekindled, and death waits around any corner. Capture means torture.

1950. Chief Inspector Troy learns that his sergeant has been conducting an affair with the known mistress of infamous London racketeer Otto Ohnherz. Troy is immediately intrigued by the mysterious origins of Ohnherz's second-in-command, Jay Fabian, who is a major contributor to all three British political parties and claims to have survived the concentration camps, yet lacks any identification beyond his word. Why would a refugee be trying to buy influence? So begins a novel of swapped identities in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, each chapter adding a new layer of intrigue.

Dorothea Dix, born in a dysfunctional nineteenth century family, was the least likely person to bring about major social change and alter the way the world thought of people who hear voices; the mentally ill. At the end of her life she recalls the triumphs and defeats in her fight to establish a place of caring and safety for them. and the asylum movement is born. It is only then that Dorothea realizes her biggest struggle was coming to terms with her own childhood.

Cole Sudden is an ace assassin for a secret C.I.A. unit that is shunned -- and feared -- by others in the Agency. The unit charges mobsters to eliminate turncaiots. The Agency looks the other way, as long as the money keeps flowing in. But when Sudden kills the wrong man, he becomes a target of the mobster who hired him. CRITCAL PRAISE "PULITZER-NOMINEE LAWRENCE DE MARIA HAS ANOTHER WINNER IN COLE SUDDEN, AN ASSASSIN WORKING IN AN OBSCURE C.I.A. UNIT EVEN THE AGENCY WORRIES ABOUT!” (John Crudele, New York Post); “A LAWRENCE DE MARIA TITLE GIVES YOU MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK THAN JUST ...

In pursuit of revenge, former French commando Rene Roccard embarks on a cause to assassinate underground leader Ruben Um that takes him from New York to Europe and Africa. Relentless on his heels is veteran American journalist Clement Coulther as they join a motley bunch in a journey of love and betrayal, fear and hope, damnation and salvation, war and death, redemption, and peace. Rene leads the bloody campaign by the Franco-Cameroonian army against the Ruben-inspired rebellion, a dirty war steals the innocence of bright-eyed Gavin by exposing the child to a world of power, glory, money, ...

They were sworn enemies. Rivals on opposite ends of every possible subject... Except for their lover. Rashida is caught in a spicy love triangle and worst of all they're both bad boys. How's a gal working at the Capitol building supposed to concentrate when she's being bombarded sexually from the Left and the Right? How will she choose? One man has a tough exterior and the other never lets her look behind the mask. She'll have to navigate her way through the only way she knows how, sexually.

For the last twenty-five years the kingdom of Khryterdon has known peace and prosperity. But now things seem to be falling apart. Murder during the royal jubilee, the disappearance of a duke and duchess, stolen artifacts, and a neighboring king who feels Khryterdon should pay for its sins. Some regard Khryterdon’s king as too weak, while others dread he is too powerful. And the beautiful and ruthless Duchess of Curlowen is masterfully spinning a web of her own. The Great Chain of Being links them all in a binding union…but can the chain be broken?

The final tale of The Johnnie & Sander Stories, much of The Case Officer takes place during the waning days of the Reagan years. An American CIA case officer makes contact with his East German counterpart, Franz Glastetter and launches a bid to bring down the Iron Curtain. That red-letter day reverberates some four decades later when a young, gay, CIA operative, Johnnie Allen, stumbles upon an unrealized Kremlin plot set to shake all of Europe: Putin's Russia plans to invade Ukraine. With the help of his boss, Marge; his man, Sander; and Sander's brother, Jannik, it becomes a race against ...

Ein ergreifender Roman über drei junge Schauspieler im Warschauer Ghetto von Bestsellerautor David Safier. Im Warschauer Ghetto 1942 erklingt aus einer kleinen Seitenstraße Musik, Gelächter und Applaus. Ein Theaterstück feiert Premiere, eine heitere Musikkomödie namens Die Liebe sucht ein Zimmer. Die junge Schauspielerin Sara wartet nervös auf ihren Auftritt. Mit leuchtenden Augen schaut sie vom Bühnenrand ihrer großen Liebe Edmund zu, wie er die Zuschauer in den Bann schlägt und sie ihr Elend vergessen lässt.

An American politician, frustrated with the inner workings of the political systems, demands dues be paid by Great Britain for the War of 1812. After being institutionalized and thrown out of office, he finds himself uncovering a plot no one would have ever imagined. This third release by Sir Wisely McDickens takes a different tone than his first two releases, but within this dramatic tail, you'll find much of the same humor that has made Sir Wisely a house hold name in the very household he resides in.

Un policía sin reglas. Una inspectora meticulosa. Un enemigo poderoso. Cuando despierten la ira del dragón negro, no habrá vuelta atrás. En la cultura china, los dragones se asocian con la buena fortuna. Excepto el dragón negro, que simboliza la maldad. Cuando a la inspectora Estela Domínguez le asignan el caso de cinco hombres que han sido ejecutados en lo que parece ser un vulgar ajuste de cuentas entre bandas locales, no imagina que acabará despertando la ira de un criminal cruel como un moderno dragón negro.

Lawless Hour is a gripping political thriller that explores the dark descent of a society under authoritarian rule. In a near-future America, the newly elected regime introduces a radical policy: an unimpeded hour of law enforcement power to "restore order." But as the night stretches on, it becomes clear that this is not a simple exercise in justice—it's a systematic purge targeting anyone deemed undesirable by the state's new laws.

A future history of the calling of the First U.S. Constitution Article V Convention to Propose Amendments by the man who might have started it all. Montgomery Blair Sibley details an alternative future arising from his lawsuit against Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan had the Circuit Court allowed his case to be heard. In the process, Sibley spills the beans on the D.C. Madam, Barack Obama's Birth Certificate and the curious role former Vice President Joe Biden played in closing down a real threat to Obama's road to the Presidency.

Set against industrial action that beset the NHS in the 1970's, the normal healthy camaraderie of the City Hospital is lost as the dispute sets nurse against nurse and doctor against doctor. Operations are cancelled, waiting lists spiral out of control and patient's lives are put at risk. Kate and Paul are saddened that so many of their colleagues are prepared to become involved. Hadn't they agreed to abide by the Hippocratic Oath with its simple message 'First do no harm'?

Could any of us ever imagine a day where Islamic terrorism didn’t exist? Probably not, because—in the real world—a percentage of followers from a major world religion has the singular goal to use chaos and barbarity in their quest to see the annihilation of the West and Israel causing fear in the hearts of many nations. Should the world just have to learn to live with that reality? The Muslim world needed someone to stand up to its madness. Throughout history the steps toward change has often begun with those of one individual. Who better than someone bred from that world to activate ...