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**NOW AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING CHRIS PRATT** It has been two decades since 9/11. The enemy has been patient. The enemy has been learning. The enemy has been adapting. The enemy is ready to strike again . . . A new president offers hope to a country weary of conflict. He’s a young...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Tom Clancy's Line of Sight by Mike Maden, read by Scott Brick. Jack Ryan Jr is in an assassin's sights . . . Sent to the Balkans on an analytical mission, Jack Ryan Jr visits Sarajevo to meet Aida, the girl whose eyesight his mother saved in the war...

The thrilling climax to one of the most eagerly awaited series since The Hunger Games and Twilight. I've started dreaming of Portland again. Like a monster from one of the ghost stories we used to tell as kids, the past has been finding its way in. It bubbles up through the cracks when I'm not...

Maxine was made to do one thing: die. Except the minor non-player character in the world Riley is building makes her own impossible decision - veering wildly off course and exploring the boundaries of the map. When the curious Riley extracts her code for closer examination, an emotional relationship develops between them. Soon Riley has all new plans for her spontaneous AI, including bringing Max into the real world. But what if Max has real-world plans of her own?

Luna Canning vertraut Zahlen, nicht Menschen. Als Finanzermittlerin erkennt sie jeden Betrug – aber seit ihrer Scheidung lässt sie niemanden mehr an sich heran. Nate Warren hat beim FBI gelernt, Lügen zu durchschauen. Aber die Frau, der er an einem regnerischen Morgen den Kaffee aus der Hand schlägt, ist ein Fall für sich.

The wrenching and unforgettable third and final book in Bree L. Mina's viral Westin Legacies series, a novel about how fate can tear us apart but love will always bind us, perfect for fans of Kandi Steiner, Lucy Score, and Kat Singleton...

Nightmare nuptials in the Pacific Northwest. A December wedding planner on the edge. And a football star making a playful connection in a swoony grumpy-meets-sunshine short story by Elizabeth Stephens. Just as wedding planner Emery Pettis is challenged by the most insufferable couple who ever...

The members of S-Squad are looking for a break from their run of cold climate travails. So when a seemingly simple mission in Amazonia comes their way, they are looking forward to some welcome warmth.

Two brothers speed toward their fate in a tightly wound short thriller about the gritty underside of the American dream. Billy Miller was supposed to be a champion. But his dream skidded away when he went over the handlebars of his motorcycle and barely learned to walk again. Now he’s stranded...

Take a journey on a giant raft with Joam Garral down 800 leagues on the Amazon. Garral, a Brazilian, lives on a thriving fazenda (plantation) in the Peruvian frontier with his loving family. But his daughter's imminent marriage to a Brazilian army surgeon compels him to return to his homeland to face the dark secrets of his past. Will his love and dedication to his family help him in his struggle to right injustice? Will a strange encoded message be deciphered in time to save him?

When one thinks of the classic adventure-story authors of the pulp fiction era, H. Rider Haggard, Talbot Mundy, and Rafael Sabatini may come first to mind. But Arthur O. Friel's stellar contributions - particularly his stories featuring Lourenco and Pedro, two workers on a rubber-tree plantation in the Amazon Jungle. Their adventures in the Amazon's mysterious back-country certainly deserve honorable mention. Here are tales of peril and last-minute rescue, brutal savages and men of honor, snake-worshipping armies and half-ape Lost Races-and many more!

Karlsruhe, 1884. Nach einem verheerenden Unglück in ihrer Möbelfabrik bleibt der Familie Berger nur ein Ausweg: der Aufbruch in eine ungewisse, jedoch vielversprechende Zukunft in der fernen Kolonie Neuguinea. An Bord der Prinz Heinrich verlassen sie die vertraute Heimat. Doch je weiter das Schiff gen Osten fährt, desto stärker kommen verdrängte Wünsche ans Licht, schwelende Konflikte brechen auf. Hedwig, gefangen in einer lieblosen Vernunftehe und gesellschaftlichen Konventionen, beginnt zu ahnen, was echte Leidenschaft ist.

Whereas the settings for the first two books in The Adventures of Archibald and Jockabeb series were inside the United States, the third book shifts to Brazil. When the two brothers fly south to visit their Uncle Charlie, a retired Merchant Marine who’d travelled all over the world before putting down roots in the Amazonian Rainforest, they have no idea what lies ahead. As the boys and their uncle travel further up river toward a remote village inhabited by the Minauri tribe and its wise old shaman, Hutano, the mood shifts and takes on a more foreboding nature.

Bleibt in den Unruhen des Kampfs der Fürsten Raum für das eigene Glück und für Gerechtigkeit? Die Fortsetzung der bewegenden Das Gold der Weiden-Reihe von Martha Sophie Marcus. Summerburg 1179: Um ihren Hof zu retten, heiratet der Pferdezüchter Micha seine Ziehschwester Sibilla. Doch wenig später erklärt der herzogstreue Burgvogt Micha zum Verräter. Schweren Herzens muss er mit seiner Frau den geliebten Hagenhof verlassen, wo er nach dem gewaltsamen Tod seiner Familie Zuflucht fand. Als berittener Krieger schließt Micha sich den Gegnern Herzog Heinrichs des Löwen an.

When her company discovers a remarkable hidden message in the dreaming brains of her subjects, Dr. Amanda Meron unknowingly invites disaster unto her company. The clues seem to be pointing her to one of the remote places on the planet: The Amazon Rainforest. When Harvey "Ben" Bennett gets a hint that the nefarious organization he's been searching for has turned up in Brazil, he and his new girlfriend Juliette Richardson race to the jungle to discover what they're after—and hopefully stop them.

Copilots Msizi and Tariro are testing a newly constructed wormhole jump that presumably leads to unsettled habitable worlds. Then an explosion sends them off course, far from where they started and with little chance of ever making it back. Now they’re stranded on their new home for the diaspora. It’s called Malcolm X-b. But they’re beginning to wonder how many light-years from civilization they really are.

On the colony planet of Terra Nova, Carrera has achieved his revenge, destroying those who had destroyed his life by killing his wife and children in a terrorist strike. And, with this help of his second wife, he has thwarted an attempted coup that would have restored the rule of the oligarchy and undone his hard-won victory. But his fight is not over yet.... The problem of the Tauran Union's control of the Transitway between Terra Nova and Earth remains, as does the problem of the nuclear-armed United Earth Peace Fleet, orbiting above the planet.

Finden die Bergers ihr Glück? Das große Finale der Familiensaga von Bestsellerautorin Tara Haigh. Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, Neuguinea, 1904. Auch nach dem Umzug in die neue Kolonie hält die Familie Berger zusammen. Hedwig führt mit ihrem Vater Gustav eine Schreinerei, ihre Schwester Anna hat mit ihrem Kâte-Mann Raba ein florierendes Kopra-Geschäft aufgebaut.

Jacqueline »Jax« Simon ist perfekt ausgebildet für ihren gefährlichen Job als private Ermittlerin. Doch niemand hat die schöne Engländerin, die weltweit im Einsatz ist, auf eine Familienkrise in der Heimat vorbereitet. Der Bruder verhält sich seltsam, die Eltern reden nicht mehr miteinander. Haben sie vor irgendetwas Angst?

FBI-Agent Leo Grant beobachtet in Las Vegas den Prozess gegen einen Mafiaboss. Der attraktive Agent hat die »Familie« des Täters fest im Visier. Doch er ist nicht der Einzige, der sich für den brisanten Fall interessiert: Immer wieder kreuzt eine junge Frau seinen Weg, die Leo so rätselhaft wie faszinierend findet. Als auf ihn geschossen wird, rettet sie ihm das Leben, wird dabei aber selbst schwer verletzt.