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Living in New Zealand, Jack Gee thought he was safe. The isolated country had always provided a sense of security. When a virus begins to spread across the globe, he is on a hiking trip in the mountains, blissfully unaware. A message from his wife Dee alerts him to the viral threat that turns humans into apex predators with one purpose - to kill. The country collapses as Jack races to get home, and when he finally does make it out of the mountains he finds his peaceful life has been shattered. Banding with other survivors, they must quickly learn how to survive in this new world.

To repay a debt to an old friend, Breed vampire and former Hunter, Razor, has been drone surveilling a remote Colorado cabin for nearly a year, never imagining the beautiful woman he's become obsessed with from afar is anyone but his friend's lover, Laurel Townsend. When his mission turns urgent and Razor is tasked with retrieving Laurel from imminent danger, he arrives only to find the cabin destroyed and the woman inside brutally murdered. Vowing lethal justice against those responsible, Razor's hunt collides with free-spirited Willow Valcourt, Laurel's identical twin sister.

Richard Coulter is a man who has everything. His beautiful new wife is pregnant, his upstart airline is undercutting the competition and moving from strength to strength, his diversification into the casino business in Macau has been successful, and his fabulous Art Deco house on an Irish cliff top has just been featured in Architectural Digest.

When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger - these are some of the luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamín Labatut thrusts the listener, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence.

On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling more than 1,200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned their attention on a small outpost at Rorke's Drift. The battle that ensued, one of the British Army's great epics, has since entered into legend. Throughout the night 85 men held off six full-scale Zulu attacks at the cost of only 27 casualties, forcing the Zulu army to withdraw. 

Mumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, one of the world's most exclusive luxury hotels. With a deep understanding of the region and its politics and a narrative flair reminiscent of Midnight in Peking, journalists Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy vividly unfold the tragic events in a real life thriller filled with suspense, tragedy, history, and heroism.

Rain slicked streets, riots, murder, chaos. It’s July 1992 and the Troubles in Northern Ireland are still grinding on after twenty-five apocalyptic years. Detective Inspector Sean Duffy got his family safely over the water to Scotland, to “Shortbread Land”. Duffy’s a part-timer now, only returning to Belfast six days a month to get his pension. It’s an easy gig, if he can keep his head down.

For generations, the great palaces of Britain were home to living histories, noble families that had reigned for centuries. But by the end of the nineteenth century, members of elite society found themselves, for the first time, in the company of arrivistes. Their new neighbors—from chorus girls to millionaire greengrocers to guano impresarios—lacked lineage and were unencumbered by the weight of tradition. In The Power and the Glory, historian Adrian Tinniswood reconstructs life in the country house during its golden age before the Great War.

📖 Part 1 of 10 – The beginning of the serialised story about the curse of the Rosetta Stone This is the first part of an ongoing novel in the classic serial format. Click here for the trailer: https://youtube.com/shorts/wWak9h-3FKM London, 1882. A mysterious cry for help from Belgravia. An ancient artefact that casts long shadows. And a detective facing his darkest case yet. Arthur Kensington, a brilliant Egyptologist, has disappeared without a trace. What Scotland Yard dismisses as the disappearance of an eccentric academic immediately alarms Sherlock Holmes. For Kensington was on the...

Jack Gee, hiking the New Zealand mountains, is blissfully unaware of the Hemorrhage virus sweeping the world. A desperate message from his wife, Dee, alerts him, and he must return to Hamilton. On the way, he is captured by flesh-eating Variants and taken to their meat locker. To escape, he will need to draw on all his experience as an outdoorsman, but first, he must find the will to survive. Surrounded by Variants, Dee is trapped in her Hamilton basement with a group of survivors. With Jack missing, and dwindling food supplies, she must leave the basement, her only defense a katana.

As a Breed warrior and the son of the Order's founder and commander, Darion Thorne is an exacting tactician and a lethal combatant, yet nothing can prepare him for the catastrophic act that forces him to step to the helm of the Order as its leader. With their adversaries growing bolder and more brazen with every strike, Darion knows he must take the war to them before it's too late to stop them at all. Yet of all their enemies, the one most dangerous for Darion is Selene. Determined to recover four powerful crystals stolen from her ages ago, Selene will go to any lengths to have them.

Zoe's boss is a force to be reckoned with. And Zoe has had a crush on Gwen Fudala for the last three years. In a twist of events, Zoe drunkenly ends up on the phone with Gwen while in a compromising position. But it sparks a wildfire that neither can put out. Still, something isn't right. Gwen is being stalked. Vowing to let nothing happen to her boss, Zoe winds up tangled in the stalker's game. Unable to see which way is out and loyal to a fault, Zoe sticks by Gwen's side through thick and thin. Can they navigate a relationship under the watchful eye of a perpetrator?

Imagine a future where we grow houses rather than build them. Where smartphones are living, clothing has opinions, and all human knowledge fits into a speck of DNA. A world where disease is a thing of the past, and the human lifespan is dramatically extended. To achieve this, says Adrian Woolfson – founder of the genome writing company Genyro – we must transform biology into a predictive, programmable engineering material. That means decoding the generative grammar of DNA: the language of life itself. We will then be able to author genomes – and, if we choose, even rewrite our own.

The definitive biography of the father and son who reshaped the ancient world. "Brings to life the full drama of ancient history." —Wall Street Journal Alexander the Great's conquests staggered the world. He led his army across thousands of miles, overthrowing the greatest empires of his time...

Standing for Light and Truth is a collection of Adrian Rogers’ best-loved sermons to challenge Christians to stand for God’s light and truth. Learn the causes of America’s moral darkness and the destiny of those who turn away from the light, and get insight and guidance to help you live with integrity to shine his light in a world growing dim.

Transform your life with the ancient wisdom of Stoicism, a practical philosophy that has helped countless individuals overcome life’s challenges and find purpose. Whether you’re overwhelmed by modern stress or seeking a deeper understanding of timeless teachings, this 2-in-1 guide offers everything you need to build resilience, achieve inner peace, and master the art of Stoic living.

Saylor McGinnis is newly engaged to the man of her dreams, and she's moved halfway across the country to be with him. But the dream turns sour, and her anxiety takes over when she no longer belongs. Desperate to find her footing, Saylor joins a local dance studio in an attempt to make friends. She never expects that one dance, or more specifically, her new dance instructor, will change her life in such drastic ways.

By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the establishment of Zululand, The Zulus at War is an important and readable addition to this popular subject area. It describes the violent rise of King Shaka and his colorful successors under whose leadership the warrior nation built a fearsome fighting reputation without equal among the native tribes of South Africa.

First-generation wealth creators have a priceless opportunity to lay the groundwork for lasting family wealth and avoiding what is known in the field as the "Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves" phenomenon. In this book, preeminent wealth management experts and seasoned entrepreneurs Robert Balentine and Adrian Cronje of the storied wealth management firm Balentine LLC help listeners think through, in a very personal way, what it takes to build a meaningful legacy and best support future generations.

¿Estas cansado de no saber cómo hablar con una chica? ¿Te paralizas cuando te acercas a la mujer de tus sueños? Aquí tienes un libro que no tiene paja y se va directo al punto que a ti te interesa. Este es un libro para de una vez por todas, perder el miedo que le da a los hombres acercarse a las mujeres. Con estos consejos podrás: - Hablar con cualquier mujer - Aumentar tu autoestima - Crecer tu red social - Aplicarlos desde el día 1 Ya no hay excusas para no poder estar con ella. Ya no hay excusas para estar solo. Empieza a leer ya este libro para aplicar los mejores consejos de ...