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Eddie Hawkins is part of a four-man crew, the cupola gunner on a Humvee in Afghanistan. His job, firing the .50 caliber Browning. His mission, to protect his buddies and kill the enemy. He’s also the newest and youngest member of the team. The guy they won’t listen to, even when he’s saying something important. Why listen to the kid who can’t shoot straight? At least that’s what they keep telling him. Until the day he sees something so vital he forces them to listen and they have to take notice. Eddie saves countless Coalition lives, and nothing will ever be the same again.

Die Hugenottenverfolgung und das furchtbare Geschehen der Bartholomäusnacht des Jahres 1572 in Paris bilden den historischen Hintergrund dieser Novelle. Im Mittelpunkt steht die alle konfessionellen Gegensätze überbrückende Freundschaft zwischen einem jungen Katholiken und einem Schweizer Calvinisten.

Across the brutal killing fields of Afghanistan, an operation is under way to prevent a Taliban massacre. In the middle of the battle, US Navy SEAL Lieutenant Kyle Nolan uncovers a threat that could tear the nation apart. A powerful cleric named Mullah Tarzi has vowed to lead the Taliban in a new war. His plan is to dispatch his fighters and suicide bombers countrywide to reignite the country in a brutal conflict. Only when he has stained the Afghan soil with blood can he feel he has earned the title he craves. The undisputed leader of Afghanistan.

Zwei ganze Wochen ist Scarlets Großmutter nun schon verschwunden. Entführt? Tot? Die Leute im Dorf sagen, sie sei sicher abgehauen. Dann trifft Scarlet einen mysteriösen Straßenkämpfer – Wolf. Er fasziniert sie; doch kann sie ihm trauen? Immerhin: Die reißerischen Berichte über Cinder und das Attentat auf Prinz Kai hält Wolf ebenso wie sie für Quatsch.

Lenny (Elyas M'Barek), der fast 30-jährige Sohn eines Herzspezialisten, kann vor allem eines: feiern, Geld ausgeben und nichts tun. Als sein Vater ihm die Kreditkarte sperrt, hat er nur eine Chance, sein altes Leben wieder zurückzubekommen. Er muss sich um den schwer herzkranken, 15-jährigen David kümmern. "Dieses bescheuerte Herz" basiert auf dem Roman von Daniel Meyer und Lars Amend.

Wie ein knurriger General mit Hilfe einer menschlichen Schwäche zwei Liebende zusammenbringt, davon erzählt diese amüsante Geschichte. Mit Musik von Gabriel Fauré.

Private Joe Walker and Third Platoon run into an ambush, and this is no ordinary ambush. Waiting for them is a North Vietnamese armored unit. This is a place where no armor should exist for a long, long way. And Third Platoon has no way to engage enemy tanks. Yet they have a radio, and all it needs is a quick call to Da Nang to call in a squadron of fighter bombers. Until the radio is damaged, and the tanks are coming on fast.

Rookie Joe Walker, 3rd Brigade, 7th Air Cavalry, was finding life in Vietnam tough. The war is building into a major conflict, yet despite his efforts, he feels like a square peg in a round hole. He can’t shoot straight, missed the bayonet course, and nothing ever goes right. He can throw a mean grenade, but the army made him a rifleman, and they’re determined to make sure he can shoot straight. Or else.

Chronic overachiever Prudence Daniels is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrogant residents of her coastal town. Her dreams of karmic justice are fulfilled when, after a night out with her friends, she wakes up with the sudden ability to cast instant karma on those around her.

Seit dem Tod seiner Mutter, einer gefürchteten Piratin, fristet der junge Walker ein trostloses Dasein in den Scherbengruben von Antigua.

Grace Williams isn’t looking for complications because, really, isn’t life complicated enough? She’s a single mom with four children. She has unresolved issues with her ex-husband. Her sister nags at her about going to church. Her kids are not perfect. And neither is Grace. She has hang-ups about organized religion, she is overwhelmed by suppressed guilt and grief, she is judgmental, and she can’t control her hair.

Die Einsamkeit Siziliens birgt düstere Mythen und Legenden. Raubtiere jagen menschliche Beute in den Hügeln. Raubtiere, die sich hinter der Maske verfeindeter Mafiaclans verbergen. Als eine Tragödie Rosa aus New York nach Italien führt, ahnt sie nicht, dass sie viel mehr ist als nur ein Mädchen auf der Flucht. Bis sie Alessandro begegnet. Seine kühle Anmut, seine animalische Eleganz faszinieren und verunsichern sie. Nach den Gesetzen der Mafia müsste er ihr Todfeind sein – doch dann stoßen sie gemeinsam auf das uralte Geheimnis ihrer Familien.

Welche Rolle spielen die Klassiker heute? Rüdiger Safranski im Gespräch mit Michael Krüger und Martin Meyer - Live aufgezeichnet im Literaturhaus München. Goethe und Schiller, Hölderlin und Nietzsche: Wie steht es um die Klassiker? Wie bewähren sie sich in einer Zeit, die einstige Gewissheiten unserer Kultur radikal in Frage stellt? Welche Rolle spielen sie noch auf dem Theater, für die private Lektüre? Fragen, die man am besten Rüdiger Safranski stellt.

SEAL Petty Officer Rod Cooper is the youngest son of a retired Navy hero, Master Chief Larry Cooper. His brother Daniel is a scholar and an academic, and to the horror and dismay of his family, he converts to Islam. To make things worse, he travels to Afghanistan to teach in a madrassah, the religious schools that are a production line for Taliban terrorists. The new mission handed to Rod Cooper’s Team is tough. A better word to describe it would be "suicide". Their brief, to go behind enemy lines and locate and pinpoint a new and powerful Taliban combined arms warband.

Dude, you're a dad now! Picking up where From Dude to Dad left off, author and founder of the popular Diaper Dude parenting brand Chris Pegula dives into the first two years of parenting and furthers his deeply held belief that you don't have to lose yourself when you become a father. Once again...

The Renegades Trilogy continues, in this fiercely awaited second installment after the New York Times-bestselling Renegades by Marissa Meyer, author of the Lunar Chronicles. Time is running out. Together, they can save the world. But they each other’s worst nightmare. Nova’s double life is...

It happened suddenly. Overnight. Inside Spring Lakes Assisted Living, seven residents - 69 years of age - died mysterious deaths. Only, they aren’t really dead. Their bodies remain still, their staring eyes void of life. Yet, their hearts continue to beat, their lungs fight for oxygen, and somewhere within their petrified bodies, their souls cling to life.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The critically acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling epic, a saga of land, blood and power, follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the oil booms of the 20th century. Eli McCullough is just twelve years old when a...

The Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s army of powerful and vengeful fanatics, have bought a large consignment of uranium ore. The man behind the project, Colonel Ali Hatami, harbors an ambition to restart the country’s stalled nuclear program. His avowed intent, to turn the soil of his country’s enemies into flaming, smoking pyres. SEAL Petty Officer Rod Cooper’s fire team is handed a tough assignment, to assault the vessel carrying the uranium and destroy the shipment. Yet nothing goes to plan.

From the author of Harry's Game - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick I'll shoot a policeman every day until you arrest the murderer of Hanneke Sloet. Shortly after the South African Police Services receive this threatening email, a policeman is shot by a sniper...