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The New York Times Book Review calls Edgar Award winner James W. Hall a “master of suspense,” and this new high-stakes thriller shows why as Thorn embarks on a mission to save his newfound son.

Earth Liberation Front, known as ELF, is a loosely knit organization comprised of environmental activists scattered around the country. These extremists take a “by any means necessary” approach to defending the planet.

When her parents were murdered, Hannah Keller was 3,000 miles away, on leave from her job with the Miami Police Department. Her family's only survivor on that deadly day was Hannah's six-year-old son Randall. While fishing on the dock behind his grandparents' house, the boy glimpsed the killers, and later discovered his grandparents' bullet-riddled bodies.

Patrol woman Charlotte Monroe has cop instincts. Scratch that. There isn't a name for the intuition she possesses, something that borders on psychic, an ability to read people's faces and body language like the morning headlines - to size up their intentions and act before they do. But none of that prepares her for the stranger who shows up on her doorstep with a chilling warning for her husband, a mysterious note scrawled in Cherokee hieroglyphics and a promise of things to come: "You're Next."

Warfare in the sky for the first time in history! The French Lafayette Espadrille accepts Americans to serve as pilots before America's entry into World War I. James Norman Hall describes his frightening experiences flying over enemy lines and his soul searching when commanded to kill. He recounts his training in a French flight school, his friendships with other trainees and his crash landing in German territory.

A year ago Thorn's son, Flynn Moss, disappeared into the eco-underground, his only contact with Thorn a series of postcards chronicling his exploits. But a postcard arrives unlike the others, a call for help, Thorn jumps into action, setting off for North Carolina. But before Thorn arrives, he's intercepted by a federal agent who informs him he's too late - Flynn had been acting as an informant for the FBI, and when his traitorous acts were discovered, he was summarily executed.

Alexandra Rafferty works nights for the Miami PD, capturing all the grisly details of crimes scenes on film. She lives with her father, an ex-cop who is slipping into senility, and her louse of a husband, who spends his days dreaming about the perfect crime - and his nights with his mistress. A serial killer is leaving the bodies of young women twisted into strange symbols. Juggling crime photos, Alexandra realizes that the symbols are, in reality, letters of the alphabet -- and that they spell out her name.

James Norman Hall arrived in Paris with the intention of joining the Foreign Legion. After a chance meeting with the man who was to become his good friend, he suddenly found himself signing papers to serve in the Lafayette Escadrille, that corps of American adventurers who fought in the skies above France before the U.S. entered WWI. Hall kept a diary of his experiences and from it he extracted this narrative.

Returning from the horrors of World War I, James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They later co-authored "Mutiny on the Bounty". This is a love story. A travelogue and an adventure rolled into one.

Returning from the horrors of World War I, James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They later coauthored Mutiny on the Bounty. This is a love story. A travelogue and an adventure rolled into one.

All kinds of evolved life forms wash up on the beaches of Key West, just waiting for a chance to wreak havoc on the general population. Take Douglas Barnes, president of Barnes Waste Management, who gets his jollies by sending some amazing things into the outer atmosphere; or Dougie Barnes, who has a predilection for poetry, parrots and perversion. Into this haven for the insane waltzes Trula Montoya, a former TV actress with a secret, and Shaw Chandler, a disenchanted EMS worker on the scent of murder.

In an exotic blue-water locale where greed and criminality thrive, the mysterious disappearance of Thorn's boyhood friend Gaeton Richards, an FBI agent, entangles Thorn in a web of violence and intrigue that takes him from seamy local bars to glittering ocean villas. Then, when Gaeton's beautiful sister becomes Thorn's lover, he finds himself facing a jealous lunatic stalking her, a rogue government agent involved in a murderous scam, and an unforgettable underworld of petty crooks, amoral hired guns, and dangerous losers.

The D-Day Landings of June 6th 1944 took place on five beaches in Normandy code-named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. The Americans landed on Utah and Omaha. The British, Canadian, Polish and Free French landed on Gold, Juno and Sword. This is a summary account of the largest seaborne invasion of World War Two and explains the key points in the build-up

Unshadowed Thought was created to bring to the table, conversations that really matter. Topics and ideas that have big impacts on our lives that are often not spoken about, or are not spoken about thoroughly enough to enable people to make healthy decisions. The podcast will discuss medical harms and how we handle them individually and as a community. The host was injured by Transcranial Magnetic stimulation(TMS or rTMS). It will also cover how we can try and heal from those harms when we are often left untrusting of the institutions that harmed us in the first place.

Captain Bligh leaves London for Tahiti in charge of his crew on the Bounty. At sea he shows himself to be a brutal tyrant and cruel whilst enforcing discipline which includes flogging the men, cutting rations and over zealously working them too hard. On the return voyage, first mate Fletcher Christian, wonderfully played here by Orson Welles, leads the crew to mutiny and sets Bligh and his supporters adrift on a boat. What they did not count on is the Captain's return in this gripping tense drama.

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Just about sufficiently full of laughs and somewhere on the path to fascinating information about the mind, Private Practice Podcast is tantalisingly close to being exactly what you need to improve your own conscious state of mind. This is your super-ego telling you to join Dan Brown and James Hall on a quest to explore how the ideas in psychotherapy can be considered outside of the therapy room, leading to a more complex and enjoyable life. Your negative thought patterns might be telling you right now that it's not worth your time, but my moderate ones are saying this is by no means ...

James Allen Hall and Aaron Smith talk about their favorite poems and poets, interview amazing writers, laugh a lot, gossip, and get real about life and art.

I tredje del af Bounty-trilogien følger vi mytteristernes skæbne på Pitcairn-øen, hvor ni af mytteristerne, anført af Fletcher Christian, slog sig ned i 1790 sammen med seks indfødte mænd og tolv kvinder fra Tahiti. I 1808 blev deres skjulested opdaget og bekendtgjort for verden af kaptajn Mayhew Folger fra det amerikanske sælfangerskib Topaz.

Myteriet på Bounty är baserad på den historiska händelsen 1789, där en del av besättningen på det engelska fartyget H.M.S. Bounty med understyrman Fl Myteriet på Bounty är baserad på den historiska händelsen 1789, där en del av besättningen på det engelska fartyget H.M.S. Bounty med understyrman Fletcher Christian i spetsen begick myteri....etcher Christian i spetsen begick myteri mot sin kapten William Bligh.

Det er måske den mest enestående sørejse i søfartens historie, som kaptajn William Bligh gennemførte, da han i 1789 efter mytteriet på hans skib H.M.S. Bounty sammen med 18 besætningsmedlemmer blev efterladt midt ude på Stillehavet i en åben båd. I I kamp med havet er det underlæge Thomas Ledward, der beretter, hvordan kaptajn Bligh førte Bountys lille, ubevæbnede og overlæssede barkasse 4000 miles fra Venskabsøerne til Timor.