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The Associate is at it again. His intent? To carry out the most daring raid ever against one of the largest gold mines in the world. Deep in the forests of Ghana, drone technology, so out of place its almost alien, crushes the hardened defenses. What follows is a game of cat and mouse through the jungle. The theft is so vast that the president can't ask even his most loyal allies to recover it. And so he turns to Max. Max and his team of highly trained specialists are people he thinks he can trust.

England, 1422: Owen Tudor, a Welsh servant, waits in Windsor Castle to meet his new mistress, the beautiful and lonely Queen Catherine of Valois, widow of the warrior king, Henry V. Her infant son is crowned king of England and France, and while the country simmers on the brink of civil war, Owen becomes her protector. They fall in love, risking Owen's life and Queen Catherine's reputation, but how do they found the dynasty that changes British history - the Tudors?

Reggie was a society girl, a castoff wife, soon-to-be divorcee, stolen away from Earth, a victim of her own bad choices. Little did she know that one mistake would lead her onto a journey of finding her own happy ever after with a serpentine species of aliens on a strange matriarchal jungle planet. Giant spiders, gargantuan lizards, scrambled green eggs for breakfast. Life had suddenly got a lot more interesting. 

Weikart reveals the startling and fascinating truth about the most hated man of the 20th century: Adolf Hitler was a pantheist who believed nature was God. In Hitler's Religion, Weikart explains how the laws of nature became Hitler's only moral guide - how he became convinced he would serve God by annihilating supposedly "inferior" human beings and promoting the welfare and reproduction of the allegedly superior Aryansin accordance with racist forms of Darwinism prevalent at the time.

When an oil tanker is hijacked by a novice band of Somali pirates, it's a near impossible problem to solve in one of the most remote and dangerous places on earth. A team of negotiators, security, and maritime experts are called in with one job to do, save the lives of the crew. Can this "A-team" of experts do so? Can they prevent a massive environmental disaster, rescue the ship, and its hundred-million dollar cargo? There are reputations to be made, or lost....

Leaving your job is easy - except when your job was assassination. Book 1 of the Masterton Files finds Jonathon Michael Masterson trying to retire in the hills of Kentucky where he is challenged by an old friend, an old issue, and a series of antagonists hell-bent on capturing or killing him. To survive and protect his girlfriend, Abby, he must use wit, wile, and weapons to overcome all obstacles and solve his friends time sensitive issue in the process. Fast-paced action, twists and turns, and a lot more wait for you in Vengeful Son!

On September 1, 1939, the Germans invaded Poland, setting off a rising storm of violence and destruction. This was the start of World War Two. For Anna and Jan Kopernik, the loss is unimaginable. Anna's father is deported to a death camp, and Anna must flee to Belgium where she joins the Resistance. Meanwhile, Jan escapes with the battered remnants of the Polish army to Britain. When British intelligence asks him to return to Poland on an underground mission to contact the Resistance, Jan seizes the chance to search for his missing wife.

Returning from the dead, Duncan reestablishes control as the nation’s spiritual leader. Sent south to persuade Alexis and the Kingdom’s tarrac to return, he manages instead to drive her farther away, creating a rift between them and in the process, making an enemy - to both himself and Gambria. With the King believed lost at sea, Queen Guina declares him dead and finally marries Father Konrud, the man she truly loves, elevating him to Lord Chamberlain. Yet her throne is far from secure, for events in the south threaten to split the kingdom.

For Thor to live, Thunder Hunter must die. A thousand years, that's how long I've been hunting the Fallen Ones that escaped Freya's field. One-hundred and ninety-five down, five to go. Just five disgusting evil spirits until I die and Thor's thunder will be returned to him. Nothing will stand in the way of me completing my mission, not even the woman who claims to be a descendant of Freya. I will kill the next Fallen One, no matter what.

Umuosmar - the once peaceful kingdom of the dwarven lands has now become the central point of contention in an ongoing power struggle between ogres, giants, elves, and their newest and most deadly enemy - the cyclopes. The false demon woman who operates under the guise of an elven goddess has been released from her prison and now seeks full power over the kingdom. War-torn and ravaged - friendships shall be tested, alliances broken, and only a handful will live to see the light of day once more.

An obedient boy lives day after day in what should be paradise, until a curious new arrival with a thirst for knowledge changes everything. This is the story of Adam and Eve, written as their journal. Experience life through the eyes of the first man and woman on earth, struggle with them as they make the choice that would change the course of history, and share in their celebration as they find the true meaning of paradise. 

When a dwarf with no claim to the throne manages to overthrow the kingdom and take over, an unlikely hero steps forward and challenges his rule to the throne. Will the hero succeed - or will his defiance lead to the entire kingdom's downfall as ogres, giants, dragons, spell casters, and more converge against the kingdom and start one of the greatest wars in all of times existence?

A Sting in the Tale is the sort of book to listen to if you appreciate humor. However, if you are need of a humor transplant then, perhaps, this is not the book for you. This fully authorized memoir of Sting and Jim Berryman's time together is, indeed, a hilariously, eye-wateringly funny listen. Just imagine a P.G. Wodehouse book, and substitute Jeeves and Bertie Wooster with Sting and Jim and you'll have the right picture!

After losing her husband in a violent car crash, Rachel King and her two young sons venture to Arrowhead Lake to heal. When Rachel discovers that Great Woods Timber is planning to clear-cut this beautiful wilderness, she enlists the help of Lilly Bowman and her mysterious father, chief and shaman of the Wabanaki nation.

A spate of brutal murders occur in and around the small town of Thussock. The bodies of the dead - savagely mutilated, unspeakably defiled - are piling up with terrifying speed. There are no apparent motives and no obvious connections between the victims, but the killings only began when Scott Griffiths and his family arrived in Thussock....  

Haunted by the ghosts of war, Erik Lokton has spent years traveling alone in the Southlands, hunting for answers to the nature of his identity as a Sahale, a dragon kin. Visited by visions of a fiery wrath that is one day to be brought upon the world, Erik also seeks to unravel the mystery of the Four Horsemen, enforcers of a mysterious Cosmic Counsel which is, by all accounts, unstoppable.

He was about to be tried for treason. His gay lover had been ordered to kill him. He was trying to evade a clever inspector from the Privy Council as well as the Black Plague. And he had hired a bumbling actor named Shakespeare to front for his writings. It was obviously time for Christopher Marlowe to fake his own murder.

The spaceship destroyed, his family murdered, Duncan finds himself stranded on a planet circling Wolf 359. The only other survivor is a beautiful gladiator named Alexis. Together, they encounter a civilization whose past reaches back only 1500 years. Their fortune stumbles from the start when Alexis is immediately forced to fight the nation’s berserker, who underestimates his opponent and pays dearly for it.

Four puzzled husbands. Five mischievous young wives. Justin Burke's secret sweeps through their homes to restore domestic tranquility. Justin Burke's family had a long and distinguished reputation for domestic tranquility. His father, and his father before him, believed a good spanking properly delivered was the secret to a happy marriage. He hadn't had the opportunity to introduce it to his new bride, so when he returned from a business venture to wild tales of how his wife had infiltrated the gentlemen's club in his absence, he could not put it off a moment longer.

Reveling in the adoration of a nation charmed by their new High Priest, Duncan begins setting the Temple house in order. Unfortunately, his contentment is short lived. Failing to account for a paranoid king jealous of this stranger’s sway over the people, and an entrenched corruption within the Temple - not to mention a scheming senior prelate furious at being denied the high priesthood - Duncan is quickly caught up in the game of power, and just as quickly condemned to die in the wastelands, in the hope that the desert sands will eradicate any memory of the former wizard.