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In the desolate outback town of Finnigans Gap, police struggle to maintain law and order. Thieves pillage opal mines, religious fanatics recruit vulnerable youngsters and billionaires do as they please. Then an opal miner is found crucified and left to rot down his mine. Nothing about the miner's death is straight-forward, not even who found the body. Homicide Detective Ivan Lucic is sent to investigate, assisted by inexperienced young investigator Nell Buchanan.

A dead river. A dying town. A killer's secrets.... In an isolated country town ravaged by drought, a charismatic young priest opens fire on his congregation, killing five men before being shot dead himself. A year later, journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend to write a feature on the anniversary of the tragedy. But the stories he hears from the locals don't fit with the accepted version of events. Just as Martin believes he is making headway, a shocking discovery rocks the town.

Gorn Nagurski is a retired cop, he married into money, and he is pretty sure everybody is out to kill him. His position as a security consultant takes him to Kingston, Jamaica. Life is good. Until he discovers terrorists are skulking around his island. Gorn is not happy. He calls on a secret network of retired and active duty police, military, and intelligence officers to step in and help thwart a potential terrorist attack. The result is gunfights in the streets, shoot-outs in the Caribbean Sea, and a full scale war in California. Good times, except... everybody is trying to kill him.

On a bright sunny day in Port Silver, ex-Journalist Martin Scarsden misses a call from his girlfriend, Mandy. Checking his voicemail later, all he hears is her terrified scream before the phone cuts off. Back at the house, he finds a policeman unconscious on the floor and Mandy gone. So starts a twisting tale of intrigue and danger, as Martin probes the past of the woman he loves, a woman who has buried her former life deep. And for the first time, Mandy finds denial impossible, now that the body of a man has been discovered - a man to whom she was engaged to marry.

The gun was never supposed to go off. When a drug dealer assured twenty-nine-year-old Ron Hammer and his brother-in-law that they could make some quick easy money, they were intrigued. He promised them that when a local grocer delivered a bag of money to his store to cash Friday paychecks, they only needed to show him a gun and he’d hand over the bag. But high on meth and dulled by liquor, they ended up in a scuffle with their target, and the gun accidentally fired. And when Phillip Robinson rushed from the shelves he’d been stocking to investigate the commotion at the front of the ...

Michael Hammer shows companies how to prosper in today’s world of slow growth, fierce competition, and enormously powerful customers. The winners in this extraordinarily difficult environment—companies like IBM, Duke Power, Progressive Insurance, and GE—succeed through superior operations. Their costs are lower and their quality higher than their competitors’; they get new products to market faster and they provide better customer service. How do they do it? Through near-fanatical attention to the basics of business, and by managing these basics in new and creative ways.

Spank Me Disgraced ex-cop Gleason runs an elite fetish and sex club known as Discreet Hosts serving the richest and most powerful citizens of LA. When famous action film star Darren Cross is kidnapped, all fingers point to Gleason. Why? Because everybody hates his guts… Even his own attorney, Beauregard O. Gilpenny. Gleason’s only option is to solve the case himself, even though a renegade mercenary force, numerous crazed celebrities, and the LAPD are determined to take him out in the process. Luckily when you have the dirt on the highest icons of society, a belt fed machine gun, and...

Manny Ansar and Iyad Ag Ghali had little in common - one was a politically connected intellectual, the other a rebel waging war on behalf of his nomadic people in the middle of the Sahara. They did share one thing, though: a passion for Mali's desert blues, a haunting mix of traditional music infused with the influence of Elvis Presley, Bob Marley, and Jimi Hendrix.

Elle a vingt-cinq ans et tout pour être heureuse : après des études brillantes, elle a intégré la direction marketing d'un grand groupe international, et vient d'emménager dans le studio de ses rêves. Pour que son bonheur soit parfait, il lui reste deux choses à accomplir : trouver l'amour et se mettre à écrire. Il a 50 ans, c'est un écrivain confirmé. Pour son nouvel opus, mi-tendre, mi-ironique, il souhaite rester anonyme. Et si l'une était le personnage inventé par l'autre ?

Lilas vit avec Paul. Elle a trente ans. Elle est heureuse. Un jour, Paul lui dit qu'il voudrait un enfant. Mais Lilas n'en veut pas : elle n'a pas la fibre à ça, sa vie est bien assez remplie. Pourtant, un jour, Lilas changera d'avis... Lou et Lilas est l'histoire d'une révolution : celle qui survient dans la vie d'un couple à l'arrivée du premier enfant. Tendre, pudique et touchant, ce récit singulier prend sous la plume de Béatrice Hammer des allures de conte universel.

Do you feel as if you are stagnated in your trading business? Do you wish to make money while you sleep, travel, or lounge on the beach? Well, to understand how to do it, you need to listen to this book from start to finish. It teaches beginners the basic strategies to master forex trading.

Ein kniffliger Fall für Inspector Morse. Das kleine englische Städtchen Woodstock ist stolz auf seine historischen Gebäude und die edlen Pubs, in denen angeblich schon die frühen Royals zu Gast waren. Kaum einer erliegt nicht dem Charme von altehrwürdigen Mauern und schicken Hotels. Doch die heile Fassade bekommt deutliche Risse, als im dunklen Hinterhof des "Black Prince" die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden wird.

When André Bamberski's daughter died 30 years ago, he was helpless to save her. Suspicions of murder began to surround her stepfather, a German doctor named Dieter Krombach, but Bamberski could only hope the truth would prevail. But when the authorities gave up their pursuit, he knew he had to act. So against the odds, Bamberski embarked on an obsessive quest to capture and punish his daughter's killer. In this riveting true story by Joshua Hammer, a father travels to the limits of law in search of justice.

The wake of war leaves marks that don’t always look dramatic from the outside. Inside, a tempest of trauma rages. Consumed by darkness and depression in the aftermath of war, Ewa Reid-Hammer’s story is the journey of a terrified child’s transformation to adulthood. With reflections on the emotional wounds left not only on herself, but those close to her, Reid-Hammer’s account depicts the complexities of survival and self-recovery in the face of distress. From horror to healing, her story reveals the truth of what it is to be a child of war.

Do you need a more strategic and financial way to protect your portfolio and maximize your investment in trading? Then, you need to get into options trading. This audiobook gives you a way to start off and progress way better than any other book you will come across.

Kat and Sara cover Hallmark Mysteries, for those who want to escape to an airbrushed fantasy world, but still need some semblance of a plot to pretend to follow. Join us if you love your murder stories to be rated an easy G.

Léna n'a que 3 ans lorsqu'elle rencontre Mélodie, une jeune fille blonde dont le violon chante comme personne. Cette rencontre va bouleverser son existence. Passionnée par cet instrument, Léna décide d'apprendre à en jouer. Cette vocation précoce ne se dément pas : loin de disparaître, sa passion grandit avec elle. Années et violons se succèdent, jusqu'au jour où sa vie bascule.

The Perimenopodcast was created to start a dialogue about the complexities of your hormonal changes. We'll give you information and resources to start a conversation with your doctor, with friends and with those close to you. With this podcast, we can cast some light and predictability on a wildly unpredictable time.

Meet Rose. Rose is a strong female and successful business owner, living in the sex-positive capital of Amsterdam, and turning heads everywhere she goes. Rose has an enviable life, filled with glamorous parties, extravagant dinners, and wonderful friends who share in her joy. Rose seems to have it all.

Welcome to MISSION MADE, a podcast about faith, family, fitness, and leadership. Hosted by Kyle Hammers, I believe Colossians 3:23 to be the heart of this podcast: "whatever you do, do it as if unto the Lord". So, whether you are hitting the WOD of the day, leading in your family, or even brushing our teeth for that matter...this verse invites us into a MISSION. We are all MISSION MADE, on purpose for a purpose to make His glory known in all that we do. I am stoked that you are here! Let's get to it. #MISSIONMADE