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Suave, unflappable and ambitious, veteran politician Charles Bannister knows his way around the corridors of power. As chief whip, he's adept at keeping MPs in line and squashing potential scandals—aided by his brother-in-law, MI6 Agent Henry Colvil, who whispers useful titbits of information in his ear. His position seems invincible—but nothing is forever, and when the tides of politics turn, Charles finds himself under threat. In these six series, we follow his fortunes and those of his close friend Home Secretary Dougal Baxter. Together, the duo rise, fall and rise again.

In the fourth book of the adventures of Aurelia, our girl begins her mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and goes to a land she doesn't know among a people she has only ever heard about. She experiences moments of insight, moments of humor, moments of inspiration, and moments of heartbreak as she navigates the world, and has some interesting and teaching moments in her quest to become whom she was always meant to be.

In the third book of Aurelia's Diaries, our girl is on her own, living with her best friend and enjoying the freedoms of being an "adult". She experiences joy and heartache, silliness and seriousness, heartbreak and happiness, inspiration and despair, romance...and terror. Cheer her on as she heads straight into her long awaited mission for the church.

In this part of the series, Aurelia faces new challenges as she adjusts to a new city, new school, new family, and new friends. She faces whole new challenges as her dating life becomes more complicated. And why is she afraid that one of her best friends may become related to her? What does she realize about the romance she had in the first part?

Dive into the diary of a teenage girl, raised by a widowed father, as she navigates school, work, friends, and a dating life. See her grow into an intelligent and beautiful young woman, who is starting to figure out what she wants from life. Based on the fact that the author always wanted to have a daughter with his wife, this is a speculation as to what that daughter might have been like.

Three billion people died the day the Veech appeared. Forced to reconcile with the world-shattering fact that humanity isn’t alone in the cosmos, the resulting war for the future of mankind shaped humanity’s destiny and challenged it to grapple with its place in the universe. For the men and women who survived Invasion Day and the devastating war that followed, their stories paint a picture of the everyday struggle and experiences of the regular folk who carved out a living at a time when the very future of our species was uncertain.

Die Anschläge auf das aus insgesamt sieben Gebäuden bestehende New Yorker World-Trade-Center haben die Welt verändert. Zwei Türme stürzen ein. Vier Flugzeuge sollen an diesem verhängnisvollen Tag insgesamt zum Absturz gebracht worden sein. Doch - was war es wirklich, das die Welt mit so dramatischen Bildern für immer erschütterte? Ein Terroranschlag? Eine fatale Inszenierung? Der Hacker T-Rex kommt einer schier unfassbaren Intrige auf die Spur, von deren Folgen sein verstorbener Hacker-Kollege Tron gesagt haben soll, dass man einst vielleicht froh sein werde, wenn stattdessen "nur zwei Türme" einstürzten.