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Il y a 30 ans, les Super-Vilains se sont soulevés et ont tué tous les héros. Enfin, tous les héros qui comptaient. Seul survivant des Avengers, Hawkeye (Olivier Marchal) est maintenant une bête de foire, revivant le pire jour de sa vie pour un public qui paie pour voir ça. Il est bourru, brisé et perd la vue, mais il y a toujours en lui cette volonté d'être un héros et de prendre sa revanche en l'honneur de ses amis. Et il est prêt à faire ce qui doit être fait : se débarrasser de toutes les personnes responsables de la mort de ceux qu'il aimait le plus.

Openly gay Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa’aka is faced with a new murder that comes dangerously close to his personal life. About a year and a half has passed since the flames engulfed Waahila Ridge State Park at the end of Mahu Fire. During that time, Kimo and fire investigator Mike Riccardi dated for about six months, but with Kimo so visible and Mike in the closet, the pressures on them increased to the point where their relationship ended. When a fire breaks out at a shopping center Kimo's father used to own and a young boy is killed, they are forced to work together.

Mahu Surfer, the second book in my Mahu Investigations mystery series, sends gay Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa’aka back to his surfing past. His new boss asks the former competitive surfer to go undercover on Oahu’s North Shore to find the killer of three surfers. The catch: He can't tell any of his family or friends that he has returned to the force, causing him to lie, when he has just come out of the closet and begun to tell the truth about his life. In his return to the North Shore, Kimo discovers trouble in paradise.

Where They Were Then: Sportscasters brings you 15 unique, hilarious, and inspiring stories of how TV's top sportscasters went from nowhere to the national spotlight. Be shocked and amazed by what your favorite sportscasters had to endure early in their careers. Be inspired by the doubts, fears, and hurdles they overcame en route to the top. Above all, be entertained by anecdotes delivered in the unique styles of some of the nation's most talented broadcasters. Some were fired. Most considered other jobs or careers. But all put in the hard work and pushed forward.

As World War II nears its end, the last elements of the German Army struggle to survive. Sergeant Peter Dietrick of the Third Platoon knows the war is lost, but he must fulfill his duty to his country despite dwindling supplies and support from Germany. Trapped between advancing American troops and Nazi SS units instructed to arrest or execute retreating troops, Dietrick and his soldiers engage in a hardened battle of survival against the freezing, desolate landscape and the will to live.

One of Tennessee’s most talented big-city detectives leaves the tough streets of Memphis and smashes into a small town’s deep and dark secret. This quaint, sleepy little town appears normal on the surface, but Danny Acuff (a prior force recon marine) senses there’s a lot more going on than meets the eye. Before it’s all said and done, there will be dead cops and two former Special Forces soldiers trying to kill Danny. He may have left the war zone of Afghanistan behind him, but Danny Acuff is about to enter a new one.

Did you know President Obama coached his daughter’s basketball team? While serving as President? Did you also know that he got destroyed in a previous election run, which most people have no idea about? These secrets, and so much more, are available in this short work that will both educate and inspire. Learn how Obama found his calling, how he mastered speaking (he didn’t start out very good), and how he overcome so many obstacles, including the crushing election defeat mentioned above. Number 44 is part biography, part self-help, all inspiration.

One Plus One is ABC TV's weekly long-form interview show, where hosts have an in-depth conversation with prominent figures from around the world. ABC presenters Kurt Fearnley, Barrie Cassidy and Stan Grant sit down with personalities and storytellers from Australia and around the world, to talk about their work, life and what makes them tick.

Mahu Fire begins as openly gay Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa’aka attends a local charity event in support of gay marriage. When a bomb disrupts the gala, Kimo, his family, and friends are thrust into a deadly contest between good and evil. A wave of religious fundamentalism sweeps through O’ahu, at the same time as violence against gay and lesbian-owned businesses is on the rise. Coincidence? Kimo doesn’t think so. Working with hunky fire inspector Mike Riccardi, Kimo digs through the ashes to discover a motive for the attacks, as well as who is behind them.

Top crime stories from the Chesapeake Bay Tidewater Region, including accounts of historical murders 100 years ago. One such saga took place in Princess Anne, Maryland, when a mob of 5,000 overran a squad of State Troopers and plucked an accused rapist from jail and lynched him on the lawn next door to the home of the judge who had just made a passionate plea for the mob to go home.

I was nearly famous, but that is another story for my next autobiography. This is the true story of my reckless, adulterous, drunken life in the radio and record business, from rural Cape Breton Island to Nashville and Hollywood, as I attempted to discover the identity of two women that I desperately needed to find. One was my elusive birth mother and the other, the perfect angelic, sexy, wild woman of my dreams. My search through multiple marriages and shocking affairs ended with more surprises than I had anticipated.

The story of the Spanish Flu of 1918 is best told and understood from the newspaper reports of publications large and small from every corner of the United States. The news reports have been picked at random, with an emphasis on selecting news articles that told of effects in the rural, small towns, cities, army camps, navy yards, with armed forces deployed at sea and in France as well as on Indian Reservations.

Wing Pete is an investigator of all things peculiar and possibly paranormal. He finds himself drawn to an abandoned old mansion at the edge of a Louisiana swamp where a collection of professional ghost hunters have gathered to document the most intense haunting ever recorded. The present blurs with the terrifying past as a decades-old massacre is re-enacted before them, but this time the body count climbs even higher!

Their love for each other transcends firefights with hordes of demons from the pit, and in the end transcends death itself. Jake Donovan, a former soldier with PTSD struggles against his destitution, alcoholism, and near suicidal depression, as he rises to the occasion to protect his world, and more importantly, his family from the horrors of Hell itself.

You have to be the biggest and best to stand out. At least, that's what our culture seems to believe. However, as psychologist Dr. Leia Hughey points out, we are all special and deserving of love, even if we are nothing special. Through nonverbal communication with an ordinary horse, she and others were able to reveal unhealed psychic wounds and provide a context for change and transformation. Just people and horses. Nothing special, really, but what a difference it made!

Your legacy is more than your money and property. In this audiobook, you’ll discover powerful strategies to leave future generations the knowledge to build a successful life, including family stories, traditions, heirlooms, life lessons, and your own experiences. This book is the vision of a community of individuals who desire to preserve and pass on their legacy, fusing financial, legal, and legacy planning into a movement of positive cultural transformation.

Diamond Goldfish uncovers how business is a game. It's a guide for driving sales and deepening client relationships. Based on the Diamond Rule, over 150 case studies, and the science-backed framework of market force, the audiobook provides perspective and tools for winning in sales and client management.

Are you looking to stand out from your competition? Uhh, is that even a question? Of course, you are! Purple Goldfish 2.0 is not your ordinary business book. It fundamentally aims to change the paradigm of what we do in business and how we do it. It offers 10 ways to attract raving customers. Purple represents “a little extra” whereas the goldfish stands for “differentiation.” A Purple Goldfish is defined as any time a business purposely goes above and beyond to provide a little something extra to differentiate the experience and honor the relationship.

Shocked and utterly distraught by the news of his cousin’s suicide, Grove Mathews leaves his Georgetown apartment in the middle of a 1972 summer night to drive to the family homestead in Orange, Virginia. Throughout the trip, he is haunted by memories evoked by road signs. By the time he arrives, he has learned things about himself and his family that disgust him.

Rob is called to a hospital where he finally meets a man he has known all his life. The man begs to tell Rob "the rest of the story". The dying gentleman's tale takes Rob to a Chesapeake Bay town in Virginia, in 1931, to relatives and very dear family and friends he didn't know existed. He hears a saga that opens with the sweet charm of an old Disney movie, grows tense, becomes frightful, and ends tragically. Rob is left with a mission. Fix any mendable portion of the broken souls in the old man's wake.