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An irreverent kid is saved by flying. From a single-engine Cessna 150 to the captain’s seat of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, he commits his career to serving others within his field. Captain Tom is at the pinnacle of his profession, traveling the globe, a social media influencer, and a health and fitness advocate. One night his life comes to a screeching halt when an undiagnosed heart defect triggers sudden cardiac arrest. After twenty minutes of CPR and seven defibrillator shocks, he is miraculously revived.

Step into the tumultuous world of 1922 Ireland, a nation on the brink of civil war. In this thrilling tale of daring and cunning, a band of IRA pirates set their sights on what could be the greatest heist of all time. As the IRA splits into two opposing factions, an audacious plan takes place in Cork. The target? A Royal Navy ship laden with 120 tonnes of arms and ammunition. The stakes? The very future of Ireland itself.

Una de las más brillantes e irreverentes farsas del autor, una sátira orgiástica donde el horror arranca carcajadas y en la que nadie se salva del ridículo, ya sea de izquierdas o de derechas, ecologista o partidario de la energía atómica, esposo fiel o donjuán irredento: ¡temblad, temblad, malditos! En esta novela, Wilt vive con su mujer, la inefable Eva, entregada a sus sucesivas pasiones alternativas, medicinales, nutritivas, religiosas, etc., y con sus temibles cuatrillizas...

Contratado por la Universidad de Oslo para supervisar unas excavaciones arqueológicas que se están llevando a cabo en el monasterio de Vaerne (Noruega), Bjørn Beltø es testigo de un hallazgo único. Se trata de un cofre de más de dos mil años de antigüedad que contendría un manuscrito que podría cambiar el curso de la Historia. Beltø, procurando evitar que el cofre caiga en las manos innobles de unas personas que se escudan tras una fachada académica, huirá de Noruega; su periplo le llevará de Londres a Oriente Próximo, para culminar en Rennes-le-Château, Francia.

FANTASY ET INTRIGUES COMPLEXES, REPLONGEZ DANS L'UNIVERS PALPITANT D'ADRIEN TOMAS ! La guerre fait rage entre les pays de la Coalition et le puissant empire de Tovkie. La duchesse Dragomira Antonov a réuni à Vérémise tous les puissants de ce monde pour le conseil de la Dernière chance. Les États de la Coalition sont considérément affaiblis tandis que l'empire brille par sa supériorité aérienne et technologique. Mais la duchesse a un plan.

Dague est voleur et espion. Il vit de cambriolages et de petits larcins. Alors qu'il est en mission de surveillance, il assiste à l'agression de Mira, une étrangère qui a fui son pays suite à un coup d'Etat. L'adolescente est archiduchesse, poursuivie par un tyran qui veut l'épouser et s'accaparer ses talents. Car elle fait partie des mécanomages, des sorciers capables de combiner leurs pouvoirs à de savants montages d'ingéniérie mécanique. En sauvant Mira, Dague est blessé, et les deux jeunes gens sont d'abord contraints de se cacher. Mais l'aristocrate est déterminée.

This work is a collection of fictional observations by the narrator as he travels around the countryside of southern New South Wales and Victoria in the 1880s. He presents the life of the various rural dwellers, including bullock drivers, squatters and itinerant travelers, and also attempts to convey the accents of Irish, Scottish and Chinese personalities he encounters. This tale provides insight into the stories and hardships of rural dwellers in Australia in the latter half of the nineteenth century, as well as the narrator’s own philosophy of life.

La endiablada capacidad de crear conflictos de Wilt, llega en esta novela a sus más altas cotas de peligrosidad. En los lavabos del Politécnico donde es profesor aparece muerta por sobredosis la hija de un distinguido lord británico. Una inmejorable oportunidad para que el amargado inspector Flint reavive sus ansias de venganza, tras su fracaso en el caso de la muñeca hinchable. Entretanto, Wilt atraviesa una difícil situación financiera: sus repulsivas cuatrillizas acuden a una costosa escuela especial para niños superdotados, por lo cual se ve obligado a hacer horas extras.

For the many millions of headache sufferers and fans of Mary Roach, Siddartha Mukerjee, and Ed Yong, a deeply reported, sometimes harrowing, and frequently humorous journey into the author’s own excruciating headaches, and the science behind these surprisingly mysterious disorders that may, finally, offer relief.

The car world is full of fascinating characters, but few have a story to tell quite as remarkable and inspirational as Tom Hartley. Walking out of school at the age of 11, unable to read or write, Hartley set up his own business buying and selling cars. From that moment on he defied logic and ripped up the rule book on his way to the top. Today he runs one of the most successful independent family run luxury, performance and classic car businesses in the world, and has built up an unrivalled reputation as 'The Dealmaker.'

Each tale captures a haunting atmosphere, with elements of suspense, tragic histories, and supernatural encounters.

"America at the Crossroads: Parallels with the Roman Empire’s Fall" explores the economic, military, political, and social factors that contributed to the collapse of the Roman Empire, drawing comparisons with modern-day America.

Auge um Auge – Kugel um Kugel! In nur vierundzwanzig Stunden verwandelt sich Victors Urlaub in eine Todesfalle. London: MI5, die russische Mafia und der brutale Gangsterboss King John – sie alle jagen nur ein Ziel: Victor! Denn der gefährlichste Mafiaboss Londons wurde in seiner eigenen Suite ermordet und nicht viele sind zu so etwas fähig. Doch Victor, der beste Auftragskiller der Welt, denkt nicht daran zu fliehen. Denn es gibt eine Schuld zu begleichen. Mit Blut. Viel Blut!

Sully is the best climber in the village. He can scale the Twisted Sister’s tangled branches and clamber up Double Trunker with ease. But when new kid Nottingham shows up and astonishes everyone with his climbing skills, Sully’s status is under threat and there’s only one way to prove who’s best. Sully and Nottingham must race to climb the last unnamed tree. Whoever makes it to the top will become a legend. But something spiteful and ugly has reared its head in Sully … Is it worth losing everything just to reach the top?

As the brutal Second World War stretches on with no end in sight, life for ordinary Dutch people in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands is fraught with peril and hardship. There is very little to eat and the population lives under the constant threat of arrest and enslavement. After the murder of her beloved uncle and the capture of her brother by the Germans, Edda is determined to do anything she can to help the resistance fight back against their oppressors. But what can a teenage girl do and how much risk is she willing to take?

The Second World War is finally over and Yossi, Leo and Mordecai are among three hundred children who arrive in the English Lake District. Having survived the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, they've finally reached a place of safety and peace, where they can hopefully begin to recover. But Yossi is haunted by thoughts of his missing father and disturbed by terrible nightmares. As he waits desperately for news from home, he fears that Mordecai and Leo – the closest thing to family he has left – will move on without him.

Crime novelist Raymond Chandler meets philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in a remote corner of County Galway in 1948. As the two notoriously-reclusive men develop an unlikely friendship, they stumble into a conspiracy that involves former Nazis, the US House Un-American Activities Committee, and a cat belonging to the widow of William Butler Yeats.

Mehr und mehr Feinde. Eine tödliche Stadt. Und wie wird Michael Nexus überleben, wenn kein klarer Weg zu seinen Zielen führt? Michael kommt in Nexus an, aber der Fortschritt gestaltet sich schwieriger als erwartet. Es wimmelt an Fraktionen, Loyalitäten wechseln, und es ist schwieriger denn je, die Wahrheit von den Lügen zu trennen.

Cada vez que el profesor Henry Wilt entra en el aula del centro politécnico, algo se rompe en su interior. Con el regreso a casa cada día tampoco llega la paz, sino tan solo la constatación de que su vida es una derrota continua. Y, sin embargo, algunas de las mejores carcajadas de la literatura contemporánea las hallará el lector en estas páginas.

Tom Hood was born on the 19th January 1835 at Lake House, Leytonstone just outside of London, the son of the famed poet Thomas Hood. Hood began writing at Oxford and first published soon after his arrival there. Much of his work is humourous or for children (which his sister co-authored) but he also wrote novels, two books on English verse composition and short stories as well as many pieces for magazines and periodicals. Hood was also a talented artist and illustrated several of his father's comic verses.