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Soccer is the most popular game in the world, but does it truly belong in the heart of American sports culture? The answer is a resounding yes—and the 150-year journey of elite men’s soccer in the US is filled with drama, surprises, reversals, and triumphs that rival any world-class match.

Parents of any age or at any stage can cultivate the same virtues in prayer that Saint Monica discovered during her long wait for God's answer for her child. This devotion includes eighteen contemporary reflections, meditations taken from the writings of Saint Augustine, and prayers adapted from the liturgy and other ancient sources.

Inspiriert von einer wahren Geschichte erzählt #1-Kindle-Bestsellerautor Mark Sullivan das epische Drama zweier Kindersoldaten und ihren Kampf ums Überleben. Uganda in den 1990er-Jahren: Skrupellos entführt der Warlord Joseph Kony Kinder aus den Dörfern, macht sie zu Soldaten und schickt sie schwer bewaffnet ins Feld. Auch Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori werden aus ihrem Leben gerissen und Teil von Konys fanatischem Machtkampf. Fern von ihren Familien und der Hoffnung auf eine gute Zukunft bleibt den brillanten Schülern nur ihr tief verwurzelter Glaube an das Gute im Menschen, um zu überleben.

Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori are coming of age in Uganda in the 1990s. Outstanding students, they believe in being good humans before they are kidnapped and forced into the fanatical Lord’s Resistance Army. In a legion of young recruits, no one gets closer than Anthony to powerful messianic warlord Joseph Kony and his darkest secrets. To stay sane as he spirals through chaos, Anthony clings to his childhood lessons about being a good human. Florence’s upbringing grounds her, too, helping her keep her dreams alive even as she’s pulled deeper into the insanity of Kony’s war.

An anthology of short stories based upon/inspired by, and in loving homage to all of those great gore-fest movies and books of the 1980s (not necessarily based in that era, although some do ride that wave of nostalgia), the golden age when horror well and truly came kicking, screaming, and spraying blood, gore, and body parts out from the shadows.

As a CIA operative, Robin Monarch was the US government’s most valuable asset. Nowadays, as a rogue international thief, he answers to only himself. So when Monarch finds himself in the darkest recesses of the Amazon jungle – very much against his own wishes – he is on unfamiliar terrain in more ways than one. Deep within the Brazilian rainforest lies a secret of incalculable value to mankind.

Robin Monarch is a man with a complicated past and dangerous present. He's been a soldier, a CIA agent, and freelance operative, but first and foremost, Robin Monarch is a thief of the highest order. Orphaned at 12, Monarch originally stole for survival, then he stole for his friends and cohorts, now he steals to order and to give back to the to the woman who saved his life many years ago.

Der Weltbestseller aus den USA, basierend auf einer wahren Geschichte. "Unter blutrotem Himmel" ist die wahre Geschichte eines vergessenen Helden und zugleich die unfassbare Erzählung über einen jungen Mann und seine Tapferkeit in einem der dunkelsten Kapitel der Geschichte. Pino Lella will eigentlich nichts mit dem Krieg oder den Nazis zu tun haben - er ist ein normaler italienischer Jugendlicher, der sich für Musik, Essen und Mädchen interessiert. Dann schafft ein Bombenangriff in seiner Heimatstadt Mailand eine Wirklichkeit, die den jungen Mann über Nacht erwachsen werden lässt.

An enemy emerging from the east. The US Secretary of State is abducted while conducting secret negotiations aboard a tanker in the South China Sea. 'Seven days' is her captors' warning. Seven days before she is beheaded, live on the internet. Seven days for Robin Monarch to save her. A Treachery tracing to the top. The CIA asset and master thief journeys into the underworld of Southeast Asia to locate and extract his target.

America's Greatest Asset. Robin Monarch, the CIA's top field operative, stumbles across a US governmental conspiracy during a mission in Istanbul. What he sees is enough to make him go rogue. He Is Now Its Greatest Threat. Monarch becomes an international fugitive, hunted by the powers wishing to buy his secret, and by those wanting it buried. Yet Robin Monarch is not perturbed: He has plans of his own. Think Bourne. Think Bond. think Bauer. Think Better.

Ukraine, März 1944: Es ist tiefer Winter, als Adeline und Emil Martel mit ihren beiden kleinen Söhnen vor der Roten Armee fliehen müssen. Als Deutsche sind sie in ihrer Heimat nicht mehr sicher und es bleibt ihnen nichts Anderes übrig, als sich auf den beschwerlichen Weg gen Westen zu begeben. Der aber wird von den Nazis kontrolliert. Emil, der als Soldat Gräueltaten der SS miterlebte, muss weiter um die Sicherheit seiner Familie fürchten. Besonders, als Adeline einer Jüdin bei der Flucht hilft und sie alle in Gefahr bringt.

The product of a long line of hunters, shamans, and healers, Diana Jackman grew up surrounded by wilderness. A natural-born tracker, she and seven other hunters have gathered in the remote and treacherous snow-covered tundra of northern British Columbia in pursuit of white-tail deer. And while the group may be isolated, they are not alone. Deep in the woods, a vicious force watches, waits, and stalks its targets.

The US is unique and so are its citizens. Founded on the principles of freedom and democracy, it encourages and incentivizes individualism, ingenuity, and entrepreneurism. So, how do you find success and happiness in a place built on individual aspiration and responsibility? Discover the eight key mindsets of a happy American - mindsets that anyone can adopt and grow to achieve success and fulfillment in this exceptional country.

While conducting top-secret negotiations aboard a tanker in the South China Sea, the U.S. Secretary of State and the foreign ministers of China and India are kidnapped, and the tanker they are on is hijacked. The “Sons of Prophecy” take responsibility and issue an ultimatum: If their demands are not met in seven days, the three will be beheaded live on the Internet. With the presidential election in only eight days, sitting President Sands, about to leave office, calls in former CIA operative and master thief Robin Monarch and convinces him to save the diplomats.

Adrenaline-junkie Jack Farrell tanks his promising investment banking career when he launders money for a notorious drug cartel. On the run from both the cartel and the FBI, Jack finds temporary refuge in the quiet of Utah’s mountains. With a new identity and surgically altered face, he may have narrowly escaped his old life. But can he run from his own destructive nature?

When struggling filmmaker Patrick Gallagher fishes a mutilated corpse out of a river, his retreat from life takes a sinister turn. After destroying his own career, Patrick had hoped to lick his wounds in the quiet of a small New England town, but the ghostly secrets of Lawton, Vermont, prove all too ominous to allow for serenity.

In this heart-stopping thriller by acclaimed author Mark Sullivan, marine biologist and cave researcher Whitney Burke vows that she will never set foot underground again. Still traumatized by the tragic loss of her assistant on her last expedition, Whitney can only watch from a distance when her husband and daughter agree to join a NASA-sponsored caving trip.

San Diego Homicide Detective Seamus Moynihan thinks he’s seen it all when it comes to human violence, but a naked man killed in a snakebite ritual might be his most gruesome case yet.... Moynihan’s search for the killer will propel him on a journey through the underground world of ancient eroticism, black-market reptiles, and religious cults, ultimately leading him to a Biblical scholar whose theories about the dawn of time provide a surprising link to the current investigation. But can Moynihan preserve his own sanity while delving into a secret as old as Cain?

The Right to Pain Relief and Other Deep Roots of the Opioid Epidemic offers a new lens through which to view the opioid epidemic as a consequence of serious misunderstandings of both opioids and pain. Based on their extensive research and experience with chronic pain care, science, ethics, and policy, the authors look beyond the usual villains—pharmaceutical companies and pharmacotherapy distributors—to examine the ethical and scientific concepts about pain that made the opioid epidemic possible.

In this riveting thriller, journalist Gideon McCarthy is burnt-out and struggling to keep his life together after years of chasing deadlines. The competition is ruthless, the quest for the next byline relentless. But when a series of murders rocks his Southern California beat, Gideon soon learns that there is a dangerous line between truth and journalism....