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How to keep you and yours safe from the perils of the modern world. In today's increasingly hostile climate, people are anxious about how to keep themselves safe. Chris Ryan is an expert in dangerous situations, and here he tells you how to keep yourself and your family safe from the perils of modern urban life.

We Germans takes the form of a letter written by the now 90-year-old soldier to his grandson, telling him of his experiences in the war and his grappling with the extent to which he feels guilt and shame about his own behaviour and the behaviour of Germany. The novel is interrupted at various points by the grandson, who offers his own perspective on his grandfather. 

Georges Salines lost his daughter, Lola, in the attack on the Bataclan Theatre in Paris on 13th November 2015. Azdyne Amimour lost his son. Both were aged 28. Lola was one of the 90 victims, Amimour's son one of the attackers. From his meeting with Azdyne Amimour, an unprecedented dialogue emerged. Georges Salines carries the memory of his daughter and many other victims, while Azdyne Amimour seeks to understand how his son was able to commit acts which he condemns without appeal. Driven by mutual curiosity, the two tell their stories and unfold the story of 'their' 13th November. 

Sir David Frost, who died suddenly in August 2013, was the only person to have met and interviewed every British Prime Minister since Harold Wilson as well as seven Presidents of the United States. Other world leaders he interviewed included Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Putin, Henry Kissinger, Benazir Bhutto, Shimon Peres, Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu.

The soldiers of one of the world's most famous fighting forces, the Paras, tell the gripping story of the regiment in their own words. Published to coincide with 75th anniversary of its formation, this is the definitive history of the iconic Parachute Regiment, told through the voices of more than 200 of the soldiers themselves.

He died in the darkness, surrounded by friends. They found him at sunrise, on Venice's most popular beach. His throat had been cut, his tongue removed. Captain Kat Tapo suspects a ritual murder with Masonic roots. The brotherhood won’t give up its secrets to a policewoman - but Kat won’t give up the hunt.

Als Biggi, Jessica und Steve in die Ferien fahren wollen, geht alles schief. Nach einer Autopanne begegnet ihnen ausgerechnet Oberpuschel Dolly und ihr chaotischer Cousin Barry. Beim Versuch, Steves Auto aus dem Graben zu ziehen, gibt auch Barrys Schrottkiste ihren Geist auf. Es bleibt ihnen nichts anderes übrig, als am einsamen Unfallort die Nacht im Zelt zu verbringen. Doch am nächsten Tag sind die beiden Jungs verschwunden.

Ausgerechnet auf der Achterbahn lernt Biggi den schüchternen Patrick kennen. Patrick verliebt sich sofort in sie, und in der Disco stellt sich heraus, dass er ein absoluter Tanz-Star ist. Biggis großer Schwarm Steve beginnt langsam eifersüchtig zu werden, denn bisher war er ein totaler Tanzmuffel. Um Biggi zu imponieren, beschließt Steve, mit ihr in die Tanzschule zu gehen. Doch als er den Tanzlehrer sieht, flippt er aus!

Biggi und ihr Schwarm Steve freuen sich auf ein Wochenende zu zweit im Landhaus. Doch die Idylle wird jäh gestört, als Biggis Erzfeindin Dolly auftaucht. Es kommt fast zu einer Katastrophe, als die Hütte plötzlich in Flammen steht. Dolly wittert ihre Chance, bei der Presse groß rauszukommen.

Das Motto eines Schreibwettbewerbs der Schülerzeitung heißt: Romantic Love. Biggi möchte auch teilnehmen und kommt auf ungewöhnliche Weise zu einer unwahrscheinlichen Story. Dolly ist eifersüchtig auf Biggis Erfolg und schickt ein riesiges Überraschungspaket.

Als Biggi regelrecht ins Glück stolpert und die Bekanntschaft mit einem Filmregisseur macht, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse. Oberschnuspel Dolly versucht natürlich mit allen Mitteln, Biggi aus dem Rennen zu werfen. Auch Freundin Jessica würde ganz gerne ein großer Star werden ... aber wird sie ihre beste Freundin dafür austricksen? 

After the decimation of his Legion on the killing fields of Isstvan V, the primarch Corax sanctioned an accelerated implantation process to create new Raven Guard - a process subverted in secret by his enemies. But in spite of their horrendous mutations, the warriors of the Raptors still stand ready to do their primarch's bidding. When a watch-pack of Space Wolves legionaries arrives unannounced, it falls to Lieutenant Navar Hef to greet their warlike kinsmen and decide whether or not they might be hiding flaws of their own....

A spookily prescient espionage thriller from one of the masters of the genre, first published in 1980. What if the Soviet Union gained control over the US presidency? SIS agent James Mackay fears that this may already be happening when he realises the newly elected president's press secretary is a former Communist radical with links to the KGB.

9th November 1989, East Berlin, the day the Berlin Wall will fall: Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi agent, is now in the fading twilight of his career. Twenty five years earlier: a physicist, Johannes Held, had been sent by the East Germans to infiltrate a US military operation in the American desert. Held had unknowingly fathered a child there, a fact Zeiger was aware of, and when he returned and refused to divulge what he had learned despite being tortured, Zeiger strangely became a sort of friend. But he would still betray him, a treachery that haunts him to this day.

1912. Released from the Secret Service, Wiggins sets out for New York and his lost lover, Bela. But after an altercation on board, he finds himself among the low-life of Britain's poorest city, Dublin. Wiggins falls in with gangster Patrick O'Connell and is soon driving the boss' girlfriend around town. Molly wants O'Connell to support her Irish nationalist cause and then they go to find them in America. Finally, Wiggins can solve the mystery of Bela - and meet his old mentor, Sherlock Holmes, in a story of escalating intrigue, danger and violence.

Thirty-five years after the publication of A Very British Coup, former Labour MP Chris Mullin has written a compelling and timely sequel. In a near-future, post-Brexit Britain, the fault lines forged in the white heat of the referendum have become entrenched features of British political life. Britain's standing in the world has steadily diminished as its problems have grown. Into the maelstrom steps Fred Thompson, former aide to left-wing Prime Minister Harry Perkins and his successor as MP for Sheffield Parkside. 

During a time of political disruption and rising antinuclear sentiment, MI5 discovers that an extremist fringe group, Action Against Austerity, appears to have links to an established political party while planning sabotage using something or someone called Deep Blue. Banned from investigating British political parties, the head of MI5 seeks advice from Charles Thoroughgood, his opposite number in MI6.

Einfühlsame, lustige, politische, satirische, zum Nachdenken anregende, traurige Lyrik. Gedichte zu vielen Themen des Lebens.

The Abduction has begun…. The teenage daughter of a US soldier disappeared in Venice last night. Now clues are appearing on anonymous website Carnivia.com - and the police are always one step behind. Kat Tapo of the Venice Carabinieri and US intelligence analyst Holly Boland are working together to find the girl, but the race to save her will uncover a conspiracy that powerful men will kill to keep hidden.

Despite the many films and television programmes over the decades since the end of the Second World War that portrays our allied heroes as grown-up men and women, the Battle of Britain was in the main actually fought and won by teenagers. The average age of an RAF fighter pilot was just 20 years old. Many of the men and women who designed and built their planes were even younger.