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When quiet high schooler Sara Beth Parker disappears in the night from her home in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Detective Angela Cole is assigned the case. A black woman in a department full of white men, she’s made a career for herself working harder and being better than the badges beside her. But when leads begin to dry up and her own peers start to question whether Parker was taken or simply ran away, Cole feels herself being pushed to the edge. And when an old colleague introduces her to Jackson, she’ll break her own rules and place any hope of finding Sara Beth in his hands.

Iryna Fingerova erzählt so bewegend wie authentisch vom Leben einer jungen ukrainischen Hausärztin in Deutschland, während in ihrem Heimatland Krieg herrscht. Von ihrer Trauer, ihren Schuldgefühlen, ihrer Wut und Resignation, bis hin zu dem Versuch, das eigene Leben weiterzuleben, die Ereignisse zu akzeptieren und vielleicht persönlichen Frieden zu finden. Mira Zehmann ist Hausärztin, Mutter, Ehefrau. Sie stammt aus einer jüdischen Familie in Odesa, vor Jahren hat sie zusammen mit ihrem Mann die Ukraine verlassen, um in Deutschland ihr eigenes Leben zu leben – für sich und ihre kleine Tochter.

Ian Hale was once the deadliest operator of a top-tier private security firm. But after walking away from that world for good, he has no intention of going back. Or so he thinks. When word reaches Hale of an orphanage caught in the crossfire of a brutal South Sudanese civil war—a war he feels partly responsible for starting—there's no chance he won't answer the call. But what starts as a rescue mission quickly turns into something far more dangerous.

The crushing weight of guilt. A dangerous journey across wild and rugged terrain. Will Kevin and his friends make it to Republic? Grief engulfs Kevin Richardson, his soul torn by gut-wrenching loss. Haunted by a broken promise made years earlier, Kevin now faces the daunting wilderness of...

As World War II reaches its final, desperate throes, Captain Edward Hume and his battle-hardened squad of bomb disposal experts—The Kaboom Boys—move methodically through the shattered remnants of Europe. While working to maintain steady hands and unwavering focus, they neutralize the silent killers left in war's wake, each defused bomb a small victory against chaos.

From a former Russian army officer comes a raw and unflinching look into the shadows of modern conflict. The Rogue's Confession follows the lives of those caught in the world's most dangerous corners: Russian mercenaries facing ambush and betrayal in the Central African Republic, sailors battling pirates and conspiracies in the Gulf of Guinea, and a defector seeking revenge.

Murphy's 14th book is equal parts military thriller and suspense, as well as a psychological investigation into Operator Syndrome, and the mind of those elite-level soldiers who have to navigate it. This book is written for both entertainment and education.

A nursing orderly in the WAAF, Ruby Morris is keen to stick with her friends Holly and Meg when they volunteer for the air ambulance, and soon all three are moved to RAF Starsden on the outskirts of London. Nervous not only at flying during wartime but also being responsible for life-or-death decisions, Ruby works hard to overcome her fears, helped by her new friendship with pilot Flight Sergeant Laurie Foster. When it seems like Laurie and Ruby could become more than friends, he starts to blow hot and cold, and she worries her feelings aren't reciprocated.

The Vice President of the United States, who has created a highly covert counterterrorist team he calls Terminus, has offered retired counterterrorist operative Bruce McGowan the job as its director. With the assistance of the National Security Advisor, Bruce must now staff the team with four trusted operatives with whom he has a history. Their mission? Respond on an emergent basis to annihilate any threat that surfaces anywhere in the world, which will usually entail total extermination.

This audiobook is a sweeping, time spanning journey through the hidden emotional terrain of American service — from the quiet rituals of modern deployments to the mud choked battlefields of the Civil War and the dust heavy compounds of Afghanistan. Across eras, landscapes, and uniforms, these stories reveal the private moments of courage, fear, and connection that never make it into history books.

È il '94 quando il ragazzo riceve la chiamata per la leva obbligatoria. Nel '96 il tenente Lovoci salpa da Brindisi, a bordo della San Giorgio per la Bosnia, in «missione di pace» convinto di tornare in Italia col suo plotone al completo. L'orrore della guerra, la paura delle bombe, la fame e la morte lo cambieranno per sempre. Terminata la missione i soldati tornano a casa, qualcuno sceglie di ripartire, altri di riprendere le abitudini di un tempo. E Matteo, che da Villari era partito con grandi ideali, lascia Sarajevo con nessuna certezza, tranne una: la pace è un'utopia.

"Everything you want in a story" declares Helen Paris, the acclaimed author of The Invisible Women's Club, and indeed, this captivating historical novel weaves together threads of love, loyalty, and revolution against the haunting backdrop of World War II London. "Immersive...

Born and raised on the family farm didn't give Collin and his brother David time for much else than daily chores. They entered high school as social misfits. Without regard for football players and their cheerleader girlfriends, Collin felt the wrath of several bullies. The brothers retaliated. The family farm was vandalized forcing a fight between Collin's father and the father of one of the bullies. Two classmates fall for the brothers. One is sincere about the farm and David. The other has a different life planned.

Stell dir eine Welt vor, in der alle elektronischen Systeme versagen und die Gesellschaft im Chaos versinkt. Würdest du überleben? Die Wölfin ist der packende Endzeit-Thriller, der dich mit jeder Seite tiefer in eine gnadenlose Realität zieht und deinen Puls rasen lässt. Die ehemalige Fallschirmjägerin Kathrin befindet sich auf einem Lehrgang, als plötzlich die Welt, wie sie sie kennt, zusammenbricht: Ein mysteriöser Ausfall sämtlicher elektronischer Geräte und Systeme stürzt die Gesellschaft in Anarchie.

Sammy Mountjoy is an artist who has risen from poverty to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is captured as a German prisoner of war, threatened with torture and locked in a cell of total darkness. He emerges transfigured by his ordeal, realising how his choices have made him the author of his life, interrogating religion and rationality, early loves and formative beliefs - and questioning freedom itself.

France, 1942. Orphaned sisters Léa and Rose live under the increasingly oppressive German occupation in Orléans. Times have been tough since their mother died - all they have left is each other - but practical Léa does her best to take care of Rose, the daydreamer. Then Léa loses her job, just as Rose has a sudden and heart-stopping encounter with André, a handsome young French fugitive, that changes her life forever.

The bustling army base at Vindolanda lies on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world. In just over twenty years time, the Emperor Hadrian will build his famous wall. But for now defences are weak as tribes rebel against Rome, and local druids preach the fiery destruction of the invaders. It falls to Flavius Ferox, Briton and Roman centurion, to keep the peace. But it will take more than just a soldier's courage to survive life in Roman Britain.

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As the war turns in Britain’s favour, Brin confronts old and new enemies and discovers someone close to him is a British traitor. Jameson finally breaks free of the torturer, Anton Ziegler, but is he walking into even greater danger when the SS takes him captive and extradites him to Berlin? MI5 continues to groom its double-cross agents in the lead up to Britain’s greatest deception against Germany, while the Germans use a legion of British traitors in their propaganda war against Russia.

The Garrett Family faces an alarming situation. War is declared and they're in the thick of it. On the border between the Confederacy and the Union, Maryland families live on both sides of their brand-new, disconcerting border. Friends and neighbors are forced to take sides. The listener witnesses unrest in California and conflict in Arizona. Back East, green soldiers flock to their flags and tragedy strikes at the Union debacle, Ball's Bluff.