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A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love and vanishing illusions.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world's great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel. A masterpiece on many levels, it transcends the boundaries of a gripping murder mystery to become a moving account of the battle between love and hate, faith and despair, compassion and cruelty, good and evil.

Gosport, 1943. Rita, Amelia, Ruby and Dorothy are all doing their bit to help Britain win the war. Their work at Priddy's munitions factory, is dangerous and gruelling, but undoubtedly necessary. However, when an explosion at the factory almost kills several of the workers, the girls decide it's time to find another way to contribute. Amelia sees an advertisement in the Evening News, seeking Hop Pickers in Kent, accommodation provided. Weeks later, they leave Gosport, ready for a new adventure.

A stolen US army drone. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert. A secret stash of deadly chemicals. Each is a threat to the stability of the world but individually are problems that can be overcome. In the diplomatic arena though, everyone will have a different way of dealing with such a threat. And when those in charge disagree and refuse to back down, it will kick off an international chain reaction with potentially catastrophic consequences: a world edging closer to war....

In 1989 Afghanistan, a Russian platoon fought a desperate battle against Afghan warriors, racing against time to bury a devastating secret that demanded the ultimate sacrifice. Now, in the present day, a veteran turned arms dealer is poised to unleash apocalyptic consequences. As he prepares to sell the ultimate doomsday weapon to a radical Iranian commander, only the elite vigilante force PRIMAL can prevent global catastrophe.

Reeling from her last knock-down, drag-out with Japan’s mighty combined fleet – the Kido Butai – USS Enterprise limps back to Pearl Harbor for repairs and refitting. And like the battle-hardened warriors who live and work inside her, this gallant lady will return to the fight even stronger… but it can’t happen too soon.

These historical fiction stories take the listener on a journey into the most tragic time in our history—the Civil War. Arranged along a rough timeline of the period, they cover a broad area of mood and events and range from a young man’s escape from an outlaw gang in Missouri to join a North Carolina regiment back home, to the discovery of Lee’s lost orders by a Union sergeant, to a boy too curious about war, to a young woman who has dressed like a man to join her brother in the war, to enemies who become friends over a fishing hole.

The lawyer and former Special Forces Tier 1 operator pursues a terrorist mastermind from Oregon to Mexico, suspecting he's involved when radiation is detected in California.

John Milton s’efforce de se racheter après sa carrière de tueur à gages pour les Services secrets britanniques. Il cherche désespérément à réparer ses erreurs et à réécrire son passé sanglant. Il se retrouve en Louisiane – au cœur du bayou et parmi les ravages de Katrina – avec une dette à payer. Isadora Bartholomew, qui a sauvé la vie de son partenaire, a besoin d’aide. Joel Babineaux, un magnat de l’immobilier, a décidé de saboter l’association qu’elle a fondée pour reconstruire le quartier du Lower Ninth.

The fifth title in Griff Hosker's Soldier of the Queen series.

Fuyant ses propres démons, John Milton part faire un trek dans le Michigan avant de débarquer dans la ville de Truth. Il ne cherche pas les ennuis mais les ennuis eux le trouvent. Il va devoir affronter un policier qui n’a aucune idée de qui il a en face de lui, ni du danger que Milton représente. Milton est méchamment blessé après avoir été trahi. Seul et sans arme, il s’enfuit dans les lointaines montagnes du Porc-Epic, avec plusieurs hommes à ses trousses. Ses ennemis croient pouvoir le retrouver. Ils commettent une erreur et, avec Milton, c’est déjà une de trop.

Laurel, at eleven, was conscious of being happy. She was almost afraid of it. 'I'll never be as happy again. When I'm quite old, as old as 30, I'll come back to this bit of Eastbourne. I'll come on the same day in June and remember me now. ' The four Wiltshire children live a comfortable middle-class English life. But as WWII overtakes the country, the family, like so many others, slowly disintegrates. Told from the perspective of the children, Saplings is 'immensely readable . . . a dark inversion of the author's best-known book, the children's classic Ballet Shoes' (Sunday Telegraph).

The US Navy is pushed to its limits as China’s growing fleet casts a long shadow over the Pacific. Both nations are locked in a deadly race for control of Taiwan’s advanced semiconductor technology, the key to global dominance. The stakes are nothing short of war. Rear Adm. Will Cole thought his battles were over. With decades of hard-fought service behind him, he was ready to hand over the reins to the next generation of “fighting Coles.” His children are primed to carry on the fight in their own ways, from the cockpit of an F-18 to the merchant ships that fuel the economy.

When poverty strikes, an ageing farmer is forced to make a heartbreaking choice: relinquish his oldest son in the hope of appeasing the gods or see his family face certain starvation. And so it follows that young Lucius Ulpia Porcianus is sacrificed to Rome. Embarking on his new life, Lucius travels to Ancona to enlist in the legion. Accepted into the army of Pompey, the young recruit soon finds himself engulfed in the civil war between Sulla and the Marians. As a callow youth, torn from the land of Picenum, can Lucius put his days as a pig farmer behind him and embrace life as a legionary?

Protected by corrupt government officials, this self-proclaimed king rises to power in the Middle East. To find and stop the shadowy terrorist monarch, the Director of the CIA entrusts the kill order to the Agency’s top covert operations team.

While pursued by both cartels, Eden discovers Christina, an undercover CIA officer long believed to be dead. Her plan to exfiltrate the undercover officer back to the US escalates the blood feud raging between the cartels. Wanted by both cartels, Eden must determine Christina’s true motivation: is it to return home to the US, or is she a double-agent for the cartel run by her lover?

When Carver finds out that Rich Polaski, a man he served with in the SEALS, is on an NSA watch list, he goes to warn him out of a sense of duty. He arrives in the small town of Bickham, Illinois, a spotless town with almost zero crime, no chain stores, and an aesthetic from a time long past.

Second Lieutenant Theodore "Caveman" Loomis is about as useful as a football bat. Fresh out of ROTC and obsessed with dinosaurs, he’s failed more Army schools than he's passed. But when his platoon is tapped for a high-stakes training op in the swampy wilderness Fort Polk, partnered with shadowy corporate contractors from Zeiss Defense Technologies, everything goes sideways fast.

Ninety-six hours. That's all the time they have. In Afghanistan, the Taliban have taken U.S. soldiers and U.N. peacekeepers hostage. While a politically savvy U.S. Senator, JOHN CARTER, navigates a treacherous landscape of local politics and a brewing government conspiracy, a Delta Force team led by the experienced SFC EDWARD HERNANDEZ races against the clock on the ground. Facing brutal firefights and the constant threat of death, Hernandez and his team fight their way towards the hostages, while Senator Carter's investigation reveals a shocking truth that puts everyone in greater danger.

Marco and the Deuces are deployed on the front lines of a war with the Ringer Clans, a collection of brutal warriors who blame MEC for the mutant attacks on their worlds. In a series of costly, epic engagements, Marco finds himself in the middle of a biological arms race as each side tries to develop the perfect soldier. But Marco, Hotshot, Meatball, and his other comrades try to be true to themselves as the war, and the serum they’re forced to take, erodes who they are.