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Terra, the human girl raised by aliens, is back on Earth. but not for long. It's been two years since Terra returned to Earth. It had seemed like such a good idea at the time...Get to know her real parents. Attend high school with actual humans. But Terra's world has been anything but ordinary. Across the galaxy, her alien homeland is in grave danger...A death planet. A mysterious prophecy. And a society warped beyond all recognition. Terra's adoptive father and friends desperately need help. If Terra knew this, she'd be on the first spaceship away from Earth. But she doesn't.

Abducted from Earth as a baby by a well-meaning alien, Terra has grown up far across the galaxy on planet Fnrr. Terra has always known she was different. Her skin isn’t grey. Her eyes are a weird blue color. She has... ears. And now, Terra is starting high school. A daunting prospect, even without being the only human in class.

In today's dollar-dominated financial system, changes in U.S. monetary policy can have immediate and significant global effects, wrecking economies and toppling regimes. As a result, for many countries monetary sovereignty is nothing but a dream.

Israel - at least the largely secular and progressive version of Israel that once captured the world’s imagination - is over. Although that Israel was always in some ways a fantasy, the myth was at least grounded in reality. Today that reality has changed, and the country that has replaced it is profoundly different from the one its founders imagined almost 70 years ago. Since the last elections, in March 2015, a number of slow-moving trends have accelerated dramatically.

On April 9, Israeli voters will go to the polls to decide whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deserves to continue serving in that office with three corruption cases pending against him.

When he turns 65 years old, grumpy old Harold's strenuous life grows even worse. His future may last only five years. He just got divorced and is broke, and, what's worse, he meets fusspot old George outside the courtroom. He, too, just got divorced. They rent a four-bedroom flat together with dull mate Michael. Lively George decides to rob the Mafia, with the help of Michael. Harold does not want to steal on principle. However, when Harold discovers they stole a suitcase full of newspapers instead of money, he gets angry.

Tess is driving through a rainy road in the mountains when she hits a car parked on the road. In the distance, she sees a deformed man pulling a woman in the woods. She follows the man to an isolated cabin where she discovers that he's holding numerous women captive. Unable to get help, Tess uses the survival lessons she learned as a soldier in Afghanistan to attempt to rescue the women...and herself.

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a mix of stand-up, sketches, and songs, along with Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn, and Marcus Brigstock, in an hour-long download-only special. This compilation features the highlights from the last five years.

This abridged audio edition of the Diaries, read by the author, conveys even more directly than the Diaries themselves the achievements, conflicts, and dramatic events in a unique political life.

Born into a family with a strong, radical dissenting tradition in which enterprise and public service were combined, Tony Benn was taught to believe that the greatest sins in life was to waste time and money.

When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for "a new Bretton Woods" to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of 44 nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for enlightened globalization.

In 1943, in the midst of the brutal, hard-fought Solomon Islands campaign between the Allies and the Japanese forces, Lieutenant Billy Boyle receives an odd assignment. He’s sent by the powerful Kennedy family to investigate a murder in which PT skipper (and future president) Jack Kennedy has...

Sixteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho crime authors! This captivating collection of short mysteries and crime capers - which features New York Times best-selling authors, Crime Writers Association Gold and Diamond Dagger winners, and Edgar Award nominees - contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season.

Europe, 1944: Captain Billy Boyle and his friend Lieutenant Piotr “Kaz” Kazimierz are sent to neutral Switzerland to work with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), investigating Swiss banks that are laundering looted Nazi gold. The US and Swiss governments are about to embark on...

Winner of the New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the American Academy of Diplomacy Douglas Dillon Award Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize in Literary Nonfiction From the author of Battle of Bretton Woods comes a “brilliant...

May 1944: Captain Billy Boyle is convicted on spurious charges of black market dealings—stripped of his officer’s rank, reduced to private, and sentenced to three months’ hard labor. But Billy is given an opportunity: if he takes on the incredibly dangerous mission of investigating a set...

En vinterdag i 1972 findes den unge enlige mor Alice Hansen myrdet i en baggård i Minefeltet i København. Den omsværmede Alice efterlader sig en lille søn, Jack. Morderen findes aldrig. Jack vokser op hos sine bedsteforældre. Alt er mørke og tavshed. Han er optaget af at finde sin far, men bliver langsomt opslugt af 80'ernes blå melankoli med hvad det indebærer af stoffer og punkattitude. Han ender på Nørrebro som fordrukken forsanger i et støjrockband, inden han igen bryder op, og fordufter ud i det blå.

DE DØDE OG DE LEVENDE er en roman om krig og kaerlighed, om skyld, forraederi og begaer. Den følger en gruppe modstandsfolk i København 1943-50. Deres hemmeligheder, løgne og drømme. Stilheden efter kampen, den svaere fred. I 1943 ligger besaettelsen tungt over Danmark. Det unge kaerestepar Ebbe og Karen er sammen med nogle andre jurastuderende gået ind i modstandsarbejdet. Lederen, faldskaermsagenten "Herbert", presser dem til stadig farligere aktioner.

"Røven fuld af penge, og en pik i laser. Men ingen medaljer for lang og tro tjeneste." Efter mange år i udlandet slår den udbrændte forretningsmand Giovanni Baltzer sig ned i København, hvor han kort studerede som ung. Baltzer har købt et falleret antikvariat i en anonym sidegade. Det perfekte gemmested, hvor ingen kommer forbi, og lyset aldrig falder ind. Men timeglasset er ved at løbe ud, og fortiden tager i døren. Baltzer er ligeglad.

In the 14th Billy Boyle mystery, US Army detective Billy Boyle and Lieutenant Kazimierz travel into the heart of Nazi-occupied Paris on a dangerous mission: ensure a traitor to the French Resistance unwittingly carries out a high-stakes deception campaign. August, 1944: US Army detective Billy...