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From Ireland to Australia, past to present, a family saga of truth, lies, love and intrigue. Until you’re asked, you may never tell... Lucie Woods is honest, isn’t she? It turns out, like so many others, that she’s been lying to herself for a very long time. When an incident occurs at her children’s school, it sets in motion a string of events that sees her life torn apart at the seams. Karma acts fast, barely giving her a moment to breathe before delivering a string of gifts, if you can call them that. Bad things usually happen in threes, but when her misfortune reaches beyond this...

Welcome to the ultimate Scranton cookbook, where you will discover the flavors and history of one of Pennsylvania's most unique culinary destinations. This cookbook is a celebration of the rich and diverse food culture of Scranton, a city that has been influenced by its coal mining heritage, European immigrants, and even the famous TV show "The Office." The influence of "The Office" is undeniable, and fans of the show will be delighted to find recipes inspired by the characters and their favorite Scranton dishes. But this cookbook is not just about pop culture references. We delve deep into...

“So when was the last time you saw your father?” he asks. I look down at my hands as they fidget with the hem of my dress and say nothing. He sits on Oma’s (grandmother’s) bed in front of me and, reaching over, pinches my cheek with two fingers. In the tone of voice that adults reserve for talking to six-year-olds, he asks again, “Now, tell me Vivian, when did you last see your Papa?” I shake my head and say, “No, I haven’t seen him for a long time. I don’t know where he is.” The finger comes again, hooking my chin and forcing my head up and toward him. I look into the ...

He just wants to be left alone but his enemies have other plans Jens Schacht - also known as The Scorpion - is on the run. The French Government want him for murder and deserting from the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, the British Government also want him for wiping out one of their special forces units. Despite this, he secretly returns to Paris, hoping to settle down and live quietly with the love of his life. However, fate has decreed otherwise. A deadly encounter with the French Mafia puts Schacht and his fugitive partner, Siegfried Ritter, into the line of fire once more. In a relentless ...

Late one night, a man calls the local emergency line. He's in a cemetery, and he's just discovered a freshly dug grave marked with a wooden cross bearing his name. The dispatcher thinks it's the ravings of a drunk - until the police find the man's body the next day. What seemed like a morbid prank soon becomes a living nightmare for Berlin detective Jan Tommen. Recently reinstated to the force after a harrowing case's tragic conclusion, Jan enlists his friends.

A Cookbook with Lots of Oktoberfest Recipes for the German Beer Festival Whether you are German or not, Fall means Oktoberfest and lots of beer, parties and food! Oktoberfest is the worlds largest beer festival which is called a Volksfest or traveling funfair in Germany. The heart of these celebrations are in Munich, Bavaria, Germany where it is often called the Wiesn, after the colloquial name for the fairgrounds (Theresienwiese), but celebrations happen all over the world. Celebrations start in mid September and run through to October in Munich, however, in other places of the world, it ...

In the late summer of 1944, SS-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm ‘Willi’ Bittrich found himself in the Netherlands surveying his II SS Panzer Corps, which was in a poor state having narrowly escaped the defeat in Normandy. He was completely unaware that his command lay directly in the path of a major Allied thrust: the 17 September 1944 launch of the largest airborne and glider operation in the history of warfare.

Despite over a hundred deadly acts by far-right militants since the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, and the far right's attempts to obstruct transfer of power to a duly elected president on January 6, the FBI continues to deprioritize investigations into white supremacist violence, instead targeting marginalized groups. Noting that the FBI does not even compile accurate national data on white supremacist violence, German also exposes the continuing tolerance of overt racism in law enforcement, and police membership in white supremacist organizations.

No dictator lasts forever. North Korea is about to learn that the hard way Six months into the war, Germany’s assault on North Korea has stalled. Major allies, buckling under U.S. pressure, are withdrawing. Meanwhile, Pyongyang unleashes a wave of terrorist attacks inside Germany, leaving the public furious and the government on the verge of crisis. To end the deadlock, Berlin turns to Major Sophie Decker, ruthless head of Department 89, an elite military intelligence unit known for doing what others won’t. Her orders: take the war to North Korea’s doorstep—and make it hurt. But in ...

This book takes a different approach to learning. It deals with human motivation and creating the right mind-set that will drive you rapidly to your language learning goal. It is presented in simple language that most anyone can easily understand and apply. It was written for the first-time foreign language learner looking forward to a fulfilling experience and for those who have already engaged in learning but have lost their motivation and are ready to give up.

Packed with carefully-researched historic background information on a country that was literally torn between Naziism and anti-Naziism, this is a gripping story by dark fiction author Rabbit Warren about a time that most Austrians would sooner forget. Everyone in the remote alpine village of Gletschberg am Brenner in the Austrian Tyrol seems to profit when Hitler becomes Chancellor in Germany, whilst its only hotel, the “Berghof”, celebrates with a massive firework display and an oompah-oompah band. The hotel is owned by the Nazi sympathetic mayor of the village, Herr Kratzkopf, whilst ...

Becoming German tells the intriguing story of the largest and earliest mass movement of German-speaking immigrants to America. The so-called Palatine migration of 1709 began in the western part of the Holy Roman Empire, where perhaps as many as 30,000 people left their homes, lured by rumors that Britain's Queen Anne would give them free passage overseas and land in America.

This story is based on real-life events. Some character names and locations have been changed. Marcel is a famous French singer. Brooding, rough-and-ready and from the wrong side of the tracks, he arrived in Paris in 1934 and was discovered singing in the streets by Gérard, one of the city’s leading impresarios. When the story opens it is 1944. Paris is under the Nazi jackboot and Marcel is star attraction at Gérard's nightclub, Levalle's, the most celebrated in town. When Gérard is murdered, Marcel's already complicated life falls apart. He ends his relationship with Lucienne, his ...

In a South American jungle, perched precariously above a raging river, the secret detonator for a WW2 Nazi nuclear weapon lies undisturbed inside a long lost airplane. Its discovery ignites a race to grab the bomb and cover up another terrible secret: a written accord giving Europe to Hitler. A treaty that would tear apart the NATO Alliance. The CIA recruits salvage expert Morgan Fox to recover the pilot, the plane and the bomb. But a rogue CIA operative threatens to expose everything, sell the treaty, destabilize the region and all of NATO. Will Morgan and his team recover the plane in ...

Start speaking German in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Beginner - German, a completely new way to learn German with ease! Beginner - German will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your German friends.

Do you want to master German? Do you like urban fantasy novels? Are you tired of reading boring textbooks in order to learn German? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, this is a book you should consider. We introduce a one-of-a-kind learning tool that will enhance your comprehension, improve your German vocabulary and grammar, and let you enjoy an urban fantasy novel.

We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions. These are the words of Adolf Hitler. He and the National Socialist German Worker’s Party –the NAZI– were a SOCIALIST Party. Then who told us that Hitler and the NAZI were Fascist? Joseph Stalin, the mass murderer of the USSR, said so. And the rest of ...

In Nazis in the New World, Aaron Gillette presents vivid narratives and personal accounts to reveal the unknown history of Nazi German exchange students sent to America in the 1930s. After receiving the Gestapo's stamp of approval, they were instructed to use their charm and charisma to promote the Third Reich. Some also served Hitler as covert operatives against the United States.

Germans, either by nationality or ethnicity, made their mark on the United States in the late Ninteenth and early Twentieth Centuries in the two decades leading up to World War I. Taking up mostly agricultural pursuits, some settled in Southwestern Michigan, and Berrien County in particular. Where did they come from? How did they get to Michigan? What difficulties did they face? Emma Waldheimer and Freddie Fenstermacher were of the first generation born in the United States. They grew up in German farming families. A chance meeting at a fruit market near the beginning of the Great ...

Marc E. Nonnenkamp has published five (5) books about the German-speaking navies of the world, the four (4) most recent books through CreateSpace in a first and a second edition of a two-volume series. The first edition of the series was released in 2011 and this new second edition has been published in 2015. The books have been read by more than 72,000 people from 187 countries on all 6 inhabited continents. The first edition featured 60 black & white illustrations in two volumes, whereas the second edition has 270 color illustrations (where the original illustrations were made in color). ...