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A U.S. scientist assigned to a CIA-run, covert, overseas assignment goes missing. Meanwhile, while in Manhattan to ring the NY Stock Exchange bell, Cris De Niro is asked by the scientist's father, a childhood friend of his, to investigate. De Niro and The Watchman Agency soon uncover a secret Iranian-Russian alliance with deadly intentions. Iranian bio-terrorism, Russian espionage reaching into the White House, and the prospect of Iran emerging as a nuclear power are the threats.

Former hedge fund manager, billionaire Cris De Niro and his new counter-terrorism firm, The Watchman Agency, just prevented a nuclear attack on the city of Las Vegas, but not without cost. Charley Santappia, the Agency's vice president of operations sacrificed his life to save the city. While at Santappia's funeral, a remorse-filled De Niro announces to his shocked staff that he needs to decide whether he wants to continue with their mission.

With his wife Maxine out of town, Artie Cohen is alone in Manhattan when his nephew Billy Farone is released from the young offenders institution where he has been since he stabbed Heshey Shank to death. Artie is the one Billy wants to come home tohes family and hes the only person Billy cares about; Artie wants desperately to believe that Billy is OK.

As the King's young cousin, an admired scholar living in Italy, it falls to Reginald Pole to make the case for Henry's divorce from Katherine of Aragon. And it falls to the hapless Michael Throckmorton - the younger son of an impecunious titled family - to become Thomas Cromwell's messenger to Pole in Rome.

Desperate to save the world, two immortals choose to be reborn as mortals, wiping away all memory of their divine existence. But even as Cayden and his twin sister, Avery, make the ultimate sacrifice, other gods are plotting against them. At the point of birth, divine intervention and powerful, ancient magic are called upon to snatch their souls from the dying flesh of a princess's poisoned womb.

A woman flees the hospital even as her infant son is breathing his last breaths. An aging construction worker comes to grips with the end of the only life he's ever known. A deadbeat father meets his son for the first time, only to be blindsided by the boy's birth defect. A man steals a corpse in order to give his father the burial he wanted.

During his years in the majors, Floyd Patterson had pitched for everyone - Oakland, Cleveland, Cincinnati, even the Marlins. Now he's an Anchorage Lumberjack, and no one, perhaps not even Patterson himself, has any idea what the hell he's doing toeing the rubber in Alaska's Moose League. But when Jennifer Tisch of the Anchorage Daily News goes looking for a story, she soon learns there's much more to the tough-talking, hard-drinking Patterson than meets the eye.

Whit and Wisty Allgood have sacrificed everything to lead the resistance against the merciless totalitarian regime that governs their world. Its supreme leader, The One Who Is The One, has banned everything they hold dear: books, music, art, and imagination. But the growing strength of the siblings’ magic hasn’t been enough to stop the One’s evil rampage, and now he’s executed the only family they had left.

The world is changing - the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now kids are disappearing. For 15-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside-down when they are hauled out of bed one night, separated from their parents, and thrown into a secret compound for no reason they can comprehend. The new government is clearly trying to suppress Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Being a Normal Teenager.

With searing intelligence and great sensitivity, the poems of Kelly Caldwell—many addressed to Cass Donish, her partner in the years before her suicide at thirty-one, swim through a complex matrix of transformations: mental illness, divorce, gender transition, and self-discovery. But they wrestle, too, with the poet’s painful relationships with her family of Christian missionaries, who refused to affirm her identity.

Stolen Moments of Love follows the story of Sophie Hayes, a talented photographer who feels trapped in a stagnant relationship and a monotonous life. When an unexpected assignment takes her to a quaint coastal town, Sophie hopes to reignite her passion for photography and rediscover her purpose. What she doesn't anticipate is the mysterious and captivating Ethan Cole, a traveler with a past full of heartache and secrets.

Close Your Eyes & Look tells the story of Micah, a timeless dreamer who journeys within on a magical path to success beyond his wildest imagination. The story of Micah's journey teaches us about the invaluable wisdom of walking by faith and following our hearts to make our dreams come true.

In Londongrad, by far Nadelson's most ambitious novel to date, Artie Cohen is faced with a murder that strikes at him personally and will ultimately place his best friends life in his hands as it challenges his own loyalty.

In a playground in Brooklyn, Artie is led to a dead girl tied up in duct tape on a childrens swing. He soon realizes the killer murdered the wrong girl - the intended victim was Valentina Sverdloff, Tolya's daughter, long adored by Artie.

This is a story about our planet Earth. It’s in a very fragile state, and we as adults and our children need to do what is in our power to restore it to good health so that future generations will be able to enjoy this beautiful planet we call home.

Faultier Charlie wohnt in einem kleinen, aber sehr gemütlichen Haus in einem wunderschönen malerischen Wald, weit weg von allem und jedem. Aber einsam ist er keineswegs. Sein allerbester Freund Fuchs Henry wohnt in einem ebenso kleinen, feinen Haus genau nebenan. Charlies Haus hat eine Veranda aus Holz mit einer Tür und einem Fenster. Außerdem hat es einen Korridor mit unzähligen Ecken, in denen sich im Laufe der Zeit alles mögliche ansammelt. Es gibt ein gemütliches Wohnzimmer mit Sofa und Sessel.

The Mediterranean diet isn’t a “diet” so to speak, but a way of living.

"One evening in a swamp there was a big slimy frog who, out of nowhere, decided to go for a jog. He fastened his laces as he grinned through his braces ans started jogging along...." A quick story about a frog that jogged.

The gunman simply known as McKibbon, a legend in the mob wars of the early twentieth century has slipped into an uncomfortable retirement in unlikely Pittsburgh. But it is 1936 and America and in the midst of the depression the East's best young men have moved away seeking work so an old adversary, Pittsburgh mobster Edgar McFaul, has a job for him.

Jackson Bower has a lot on his mind lately. His younger brother hasn't been the same since his mother's death. His father's drinking is out of control. Then there's Jackson's girlfriend and the grief that ties them together even as it threatens to drive them apart. He distances himself, hoping for a little perspective at the family lodge. But when their father gets drunk and dangerous, he and his brother escape into the woods.

Julius genießt seine Sommerferien. Da taucht ausgerechnet sein Klassenkamerad LCD auf. Der ist eine echte Nervensäge! Als dann eine teure Uhr verschwindet und das Zimmermädchen Schlotti zu Unrecht verdächtigt wird, müssen Julius und seine Freunde Detektiv spielen. Dabei hilft Quentin kräftig mit - und stellt dabei das Leben von Julius wieder gehörig auf den Kopf.