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Originally published in 1927, Ole Edvart Rolvaag's ‘Giants in the Earth’ is a classic Norweigian-American immigration novel. Ole Edvart Rolvaag was a Norwegian-American novelist and professor who became well known for his writings regarding the Norwegian American immigrant experience.‘Giants in the Earth’ follows a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America.

1999. The Kosovo War is at its height. A brutal conflict between the Yugoslav and Kosovo armies soaks the land with blood. Harrowing reports of ethnic cleansings and mass executions echo from the front lines. Under the orders of NATO, a small team of SAS soldiers are inserted into the Kosovo Liberation Army ranks to help tip the scales of war, but what they find is worse than they imagined.

Darcy has always emulated his wise and honourable father, George Darcy. But following a sinister act of betrayal by a former family friend, his father rejects his most benevolent principles. When Georgiana forms a friendship with Miss Elizabeth Bennet, Darcy convinces his father to allow the association to continue. However, Elizabeth soon presents a thorny problem: she entices Darcy as no other lady has before, and with his father's current outlook, he would not approve of her as a daughter-in-law.

When Captain John Banks and his squad are sent to investigate a derelict Nazi base in Antarctica, he expects to find only ice and dead men. But there is something in the domed hangar bay that has been waiting for decades for release.

A new threat looms over Garik Castle, forcing Bane and Alruna to once again defy the odds to defend the realm. Their quest begins with finding the key to unlocking the Fug and uniting the fractured clans. As the war between gods intensifies and the end of days draws near, the fate of mankind rests in the hands of a mortal.

The Memory of an Elephant is an epic saga told by an aging African elephant as he makes a last, perilous journey to find the humans who rescued him as an orphan some fifty years ago. Interwoven with his narrative are the tumultuous lives of the family who raised and then lost him.

They double-crossed him and left him for dead. Now they're going to wish they made sure ... Solomon Church is a ghost. An ex-SAS trooper living in self-imposed exile, his fragile existence relies on one thing: that everyone thinks he's dead. Ten years ago, a mission to take out a tyrannical warlord in the DRC went sideways and his own brothers-in-arms turned on him. Now, the past has come calling, and the events that transpired in the African town of Maroua are echoing all the way to number 10 Downing Street.

Just as "flipping" is purchasing an asset with a short holding period with the intent of selling it for a quick profit rather than holding for a long-term appreciation, "slow flipping" is the process of flipping a property as slowly as possible. This book explains the need to understand what wealth means on a personal level. It highlights that one needs to think of one's ideal day and put a cost on whatever is needed to make that day happen. And with that in mind, one's goal has to be written down to create a guideline for the slow-flipping journey.

You never want to ruin a really good dramatic exit. When you flee home on a cyborg horse the exact second you turn eighteen, you don’t really expect to go back to the place you fled from, you know? But sometimes your old life hits you from behind. Sometimes you spend years away from home, killing dangerous people who had the bad luck to get infected by a lungful of ghostfog, only to find out that your dad, the king, is dead, and now your siblings are ordering you back home for a high stakes family reunion.

The DS Tomek Bowen Series are fast-paced crime fiction stories featuring DS Tomek Bowen. The first three full-length books in this gripping series are brought together for the first time in this great value boxset.

Bane, Alruna and Garik knights, embark on a perilous journey to the Empire on a quest to find and bring home a lost hero. Fraught with danger in the unforgiving land, they find themselves amidst a rebellion. As the stakes grow higher and the challenges more desperate, they must overcome the will of Gharl himself.

Born on the gallows, the corpse of his mother swinging from the rope above, the villagers brand him The Bane of the North and leave him out for the Fug to claim - a deadly fog ruled by Draugr - Viking warriors that had long ago fallen in battle. They didn’t expect to find him the next day, tattooed with the mark of an ancient god.

Constantinople, 1097. As an insignificant thief in the underbelly of Constantinople, Daniel wants to matter, to be known. After a botched job forces him to flee the city, he is swept up among the thousands of crusaders as they depart for the Holy Land on their mission to retake Jerusalem. Their first obstacle: Nicaea, an impenetrable city of stone walls and high towers, impervious to assault and immune to siege.

When a young influencer is found dead in an Edinburgh graveyard, the contents of her last video provide an enigmatic, if not downright cryptic, view of the woman's last moments. DI Grant McKenzie cannot shake the feeling that the woman was trying to communicate more than a historical tale to her followers. Did she know what was about to happen? As more influencers fall prey to the same killer, the DI and his team face a heart-stopping race to find an evil psychopath who sneaks up on preoccupied prey; the person the press has named The Gimbal Killer.

When Captain John Banks and his squad are sent to investigate a zoo in Siberia, he expects to find tigers, bears, maybe elk. But there is something there that is new, yet very, very old.

Briarhill to Brooklyn is a work of creative nonfiction, in which I tell the story of my Irish family’s journey from County Galway on a coffin ship named Cushlamachree. Their destination was Brooklyn.

Six months after surviving deadly assassination attempts and failing to stop the World Trade Center tragedy on September 11, 2001, the former Army Ranger turned cybercrime investigator is a hunted man, broken and scarred. Yet as China and the US stand on the brink of catastrophic war, Maxx is thrust into a desperate mission: unite with a bitter rival and stop a vengeful ex-DARPA scientist to halt the chaos that could shatter the world—and beyond.

Maxx King is a former Army Ranger turned cybercrime investigator trying to get his life back on track when he has an unexpected confrontation with a ruthless Chinese spy. Struggling to understand the escalating violence, he discovers a clandestine US-China conflict centered around a device of unknown origins with the power to trigger massive natural disasters.

Curiosities opens with a present-day amateur historian, Anne, who describes her unexpected discovery of five seventeenth-century manuscripts that, astonishingly, tell the same strange story from vastly different points of view. The five manuscripts spin this tale: after the Plague descends upon a village in England, two small children, Joan and Thomasina, are the only survivors.

Fitzwilliam Darcy is a successful young barrister with a bright future. His late uncle has guided his career, made him his heir, and even selected a bride for him—sight unseen—whom he’ll meet and marry upon her majority. Who could have predicted that making the acquaintance of Miss Elizabeth Bennet in Meryton would throw those careful plans into disarray? Elizabeth Bennet doesn’t know what to make of “Fitz” Darcy, who intrigues and draws her notice like no other.