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Kelly Robinson, a 24-year-old economics doctoral student, spent the day on a perilous climb to Abuna Yemata Guh, a 5th-century monolithic church carved into a sheer cliffside in Ethiopia. Inside, the chapel walls were covered with vibrant frescoes, their colors deep and rich, depicting serene biblical figures, saints, and angels. But then something happened that science couldn’t explain.

Left to die. She destroyed him. He lives for bittersweet revenge. Rebel barely survived the gut-wrenching betrayal from the woman he loved. Crawling into the bottle after she sold him out and cost his SEAL team their lives, he isn't sure he wants to go on. But when a beautiful girl resembling his ex begs him for help because someone is following her, he can't resist playing the hero one more time. Fighting his attraction to the gorgeous lookalike, Rebel follows the trail to an organ-smuggling cartel.

The Tomb of Eternity is the third and final part of the Immortality Arc and sees former Special Forces soldier Joe Hawke and the rest of the team face a lethal enemy who will stop at nothing in the epic hunt for the oldest secret in the world. As the struggle to discover the elixir of life draws to its furious conclusion, Hawke fights against the clock in a desperate search for the dark truth about not only the source of eternal life but also his wife's savage murder, and what he discovers shocks him to his core.

The next four years should have been easier, but with added experience, the counter missions become even more challenging. He is now juggling, family, work, school, military, and being a reaper. In the present his sister now knows the secret and is getting ready to save her brother. Building her own reaper force, she is ready to rebuild the organization her grandfather started after World War II.

My Life for Her is a story about the Vietnam veteran Rob Marrino, his family, and his partner in adventure Tex Larson. Everything is peaceful in the sleepy little town of Pikeville, but in the blink of an eye, Rob finds himself in the thick of things once more. This book is not only an action-packed thriller, it is also a story of love, undying faith, drama, and humanity. The new enhanced edition adds to the adventure, and brings it all together.

Thanks to Lynn Montoya, nicknamed Cruella Deville, the crew gets a bonus when she initiates a plan to lure the Muslim Brotherhood gang readying to be dispersed across the nation into a public trap. A successful sting leads out in spiraling directions with terrorist plots involving Alexi Fiialkov's container shipping line. Soon, the crew launches a rescue mission for Fiialkov's granddaughter, and entraps the architect of a weaponized anthrax threat. The kid gloves are off, and the bodies begin piling up.

Fallon Davis is on an island off the coast of Florida, trying to forget about her past and the man she loves. She’s living on the run with no hope of returning home. She has to stay one step ahead of her enemy at all times in order to keep those she loves alive. Then fate steps in, giving her the push she needs to convince her to stop running. In one brazen move, Fallon treks back to Portland, knowing her enemy - who happens to be her sister - could be watching and waiting for her to show up.

Book Five: Lawson Reed - The Gunners’ SEAL team trainer and best friend to Derrick Rebel. Book Six: Fiona Petit - A strong young woman whose life has been taken from her, and the one woman Theo Drake could not save. Book Seven: Theo’s Retaliation - Theo’s mind has been clouded from the moment he failed to keep his promise to set Fiona Petit free. His job of infiltrating a crime ring and becoming one of them has turned Theo’s once-happy demeanor dark. Now he has one purpose, and one purpose only...to find Fiona. If she’s still alive.

By the Sunday Times best-selling author of The Lie. Forbidden love, intimate betrayal and the devastating power of exposure drive Helen Dunmore's remarkable new title. London, November 1960: the Cold War is at its height. Spy fever fills the newspapers, and the political establishment knows how and where to bury its secrets. When a highly sensitive file goes missing, Simon Callington is accused of passing information to the Soviets and arrested.

Spring 1940. Kitty Williams has suffered more than her fair share of tragedy, but rather than wallowing, she's more determined than ever to do her part in the battle against Hitler. Stepping up her own war effort, Kitty leaves her hometown of Coventry and joins the Auxiliary Territorial Service (Women's Army - ATS), where she finds new friends in Di, Peggy and Mary but also new obstacles to overcome in both her professional and personal lives.

Dog is running for his life. Wrongly blamed for an attack on a child, the wolf fled into the wilderness to avoid human hunters. The last thing he wanted was to be shoved into someone else’s flight for survival.

Восхитительный и наполненный любовью роман о потерях и обретениях. Когда в 1940-м на Лондон начинают падать немецкие бомбы, Милли и Реджинальд Томпсон решаются на непростой шаг – отправить одиннадцатилетнюю дочь Беатрис в эвакуацию за океан. Здесь, в безопасной Америке, ей предстоит жить в чужой семье, пока не закончится война. Испуганная, обозленная на родителей, одинокая и потерянная, Беа прибывает в страну, которая так отличается от мрачного военного Лондона.

Una emotiva historia entre padres e hijos que une el presente con las trincheras de la guerra. Jota observa los camiones que entran y salen del mercado de frutas y verduras donde ha trabajado hasta su jubilación cuando, de pronto, sin comunicárselo a nadie, sube a uno de ellos en dirección a la frontera francesa. Va en busca de la tumba de Albert Ingham, un soldado británico que, con su amigo Alfred, combatió en la batalla del Somme, en 1916.

Major Hugh Dégaré never thought working a desk job could be worse than combat. But shortly after starting a new position in a bureaucratic military headquarters far from the front lines, he finds himself fighting to maintain his grip on reality. Amid sleepless nights and intense memories from his combat service, he does what he's always done - takes action. Afraid of being stigmatized by his chain of command, he turns to a psychologist and an estranged friend, Daryl, now an ex-soldier. Despite his best efforts, Hugh's rage continues to grow.

İkiz kardeşler, Amed ile Aziz... Etrafı dağlarla çevrelenmiş, savaşın tam ortasındaki isimsiz bir ülkede anne babalarıyla yaşayan iki çocuk. Dağların öte tarafında köpekler yaşıyor, yani düşmanları... Bölgenin savaşçı liderlerinden biri bir gün babalarını ziyaret eder ve kana kanla yanıt vermek için çocuklarından birini savaşta feda etmesini ister. Baba Zohal çıkışı olmayan bir ikileme düşer. Anne Tamara ise bu isteği kabullenemez. Üstüne üstlük Aziz kanser hastasıdır. Zaten ölüme mahkûmdur. Baba, biri hasta diğeri sağlıklı iki çocuğu arasında nasıl seçim yapar?