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Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls - but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier - a move they think will keep him out of combat.

Mattie Engel is one of the rising stars at Private Berlin, and believes she’s seen the worst of people in her previous life with the Berlin police force. That is until Chris, her colleague - and until recently, her fiancé - is found dead, brutally murdered in an old slaughterhouse outside the city. The slaughterhouse is filled with bodies. But just as Private begin their investigations, the building explodes, wiping out all evidence of the crimes, and nearly killing Mattie and her team.

July 2012: The Games have arrived in London. Preparations have gone flawlessly and the stage is set for one of the greatest ever showcases of sporting excellence. But one man has a devastating plan. Having waited years for this chance, he is now ready for vengeance. When Sir Denton Marshall, a key member of the London Olympic organising committee, is found decapitated in his garden, Peter Knight, head of Private London, is called to the scene.

America's Greatest Asset. Robin Monarch, the CIA's top field operative, stumbles across a US governmental conspiracy during a mission in Istanbul. What he sees is enough to make him go rogue. He Is Now Its Greatest Threat. Monarch becomes an international fugitive, hunted by the powers wishing to buy his secret, and by those wanting it buried. Yet Robin Monarch is not perturbed: He has plans of his own. Think Bourne. Think Bond. think Bauer. Think Better.

An enemy emerging from the east. The US Secretary of State is abducted while conducting secret negotiations aboard a tanker in the South China Sea. 'Seven days' is her captors' warning. Seven days before she is beheaded, live on the internet. Seven days for Robin Monarch to save her. A Treachery tracing to the top. The CIA asset and master thief journeys into the underworld of Southeast Asia to locate and extract his target.

As a CIA operative, Robin Monarch was the US government’s most valuable asset. Nowadays, as a rogue international thief, he answers to only himself. So when Monarch finds himself in the darkest recesses of the Amazon jungle – very much against his own wishes – he is on unfamiliar terrain in more ways than one. Deep within the Brazilian rainforest lies a secret of incalculable value to mankind.

Der Weltbestseller aus den USA, basierend auf einer wahren Geschichte. "Unter blutrotem Himmel" ist die wahre Geschichte eines vergessenen Helden und zugleich die unfassbare Erzählung über einen jungen Mann und seine Tapferkeit in einem der dunkelsten Kapitel der Geschichte. Pino Lella will eigentlich nichts mit dem Krieg oder den Nazis zu tun haben - er ist ein normaler italienischer Jugendlicher, der sich für Musik, Essen und Mädchen interessiert. Dann schafft ein Bombenangriff in seiner Heimatstadt Mailand eine Wirklichkeit, die den jungen Mann über Nacht erwachsen werden lässt.

An anthology of short stories based upon/inspired by, and in loving homage to all of those great gore-fest movies and books of the 1980s (not necessarily based in that era, although some do ride that wave of nostalgia), the golden age when horror well and truly came kicking, screaming, and spraying blood, gore, and body parts out from the shadows.

En 1943, Pino Lella est un jeune Italien comme les autres : il aime la musique, les filles, et ne veut pas entendre parler de la guerre ni des nazis. Mais le temps de l'innocence prend fin lorsque l'appartement familial est détruit par un raid des Alliés sur Milan. Pino entre alors dans la clandestinité.

Dive in! Tex and Indi head to the pool for their swimming lesson, but worry that they forgot how to swim over the past year. Roy works hard in swimming class. A young girl believes she can swim across an inlet, but gets into trouble when the tide begins to carry her out to sea! A dolphin learns how to swim with a prosthetic tail, and Janet Evans, an Olympic champion, tells about how she faced her fears and won swimming competitions against strong opponents. Stories by Lissa Rovetch, Arlene Mark, Jillian Sullivan, Sharon Teper, and Janet Evans. 

Private, die renommierteste Ermittlungsagentur der Welt, beschäftigt auch in der Berliner Dependance nur die besten Agenten. Doch dann verschwindet einer von ihnen spurlos: Chris Schneider hatte zuvor eine persönliche Auszeit genommen - warum, wusste niemand. Das Private-Team um Mathilde Engel und Tom Burkhart erhält Hinweise auf ein verlassenes Schlachthaus bei Ahrensfelde, in dem Chris sich aufzuhalten scheint. Doch das Einzige, was sie finden, ist Chris' Peilsender.

London 2012. "Private", die renommierteste Ermittlungsagentur der Welt, wird beauftragt, sich um die Sicherheit der Olympischen Spiele zu kümmern...

Pino Lella no quiere saber nada de la guerra ni de los nazis. Es un adolescente italiano obsesionado con la música y las chicas, pero, en la Milán de 1943, sus días de inocencia están contados. Cuando la casa de su familia es destruida por los bombardeos, Pino se une a una red clandestina que ayuda a los judíos a escapar a través de los Alpes, y se enamora de la bella Anna. Con la intención de protegerlo, sus padres lo obligan a alistarse en el ejército alemán y con solo 18 años es reclutado como chófer del general Hans Leyers, la mano derecha de Hitler en Italia....

Pino Leila non vuole avere niente a che fare con la guerra e tantomeno con i nazisti. Cresciuto a Milano, è un adolescente come tanti altri, appassionato di musica, cibo e... ragazze. Ma è il 1943 e il conflitto mondiale pone bruscamente fine ai giorni dell'innocenza. Quando la sua casa viene rasa al suolo dalle bombe alleate, Pino viene mandato in montagna, si unisce a un'organizzazione che aiuta gli ebrei a fuggire attraverso le Alpi e si innamora di una giovane e affascinante vedova, Anna.

In late March 1944, as Stalin’s forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel must make a terrible decision: Do they wait for the Soviet bear’s intrusion and risk being sent to Siberia? Or do they reluctantly follow the wolves--murderous Nazi officers who have pledged to protect “pure-blood” Germans? The Martels are one of many families of German heritage whose ancestors have farmed in Ukraine for more than a century. But after already living under Stalin’s horrifying regime, Emil and Adeline decide they must retreat from their land with the wolves they despise.