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London, 1942. Despite the raging war, spirited 18-year-old Nellie Morris lives a quiet life in the tight-knit East End community of Bethnal Green. Her family and friends all tease that she will marry air raid warden Billy, the boy next door who’s always been sweet on her. The arrival of Ray, a handsome American airman stationed nearby, causes Nellie to question everything she thought she knew about her future. Nellie’s newfound happiness is short-lived when a tragic accident occurs during an air raid.

Toufiq A. Siddiqi was born in Hyderabad, India, and studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge University, England. He received his Ph. D. in Nuclear Physics from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany. In 1967 he and his wife Ulrike emigrated to the United States where he continued his research at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. During this time, he began to shift his focus from physics to environmental sciences, driven by the developing public environmental awareness at that time.

For three hundred years we told ourselves a comforting story about science. Knowledge, we said, grows the way a coral reef grows: patiently, one true fact cemented onto the last, the whole edifice rising steadily toward a complete and final picture of the world. Then in 1962 a soft-spoken physicist who had wandered into history handed us a different story, and the comfortable version never fully recovered.

I thought I was too smart to fall for a lie. Painful events had blinded me and left me vulnerable. The lie hid so close to the truth my desperate heart barely perceived the danger that loomed up ahead. I ignored every warning. It seemed so perfect and wholesome. It seemed like the perfect place to raise kids. There would be no more betrayal and heartbreak because these relationships would withstand any storms. That’s what was promised. This was the fulfillment of all my searching. It promised to end my quest for “more of God.” But thirty years of longing ended in more despair.

If you’re a fan of post-apocalyptic comedy, gritty dystopian sci-fi, and absurdist adventures like Fallout or Idiocracy, you’ve found your next obsession. In the gleaming mega-city of United America, John Mason is a glitch in the system. While the elite sip tranquility lattes topped with seaweed foam and serotonin, John is just trying to survive the mandated perfection. By day, he scrubs glass towers; by night, he hunts for his sister, Lily—swallowed by the cracks of paradise five years ago. Then he snaps. One alcohol-fueled mistake leads to a one-way ticket to the wasteland.

From old Easter traditions, to close calls in planes, caribou and moonshine: Enjoy seniors and storytellers share about life in Labrador back in 'Them Days...

After a storm strips everything away, faith is tested not by answers —but by presence. Colocho, a wandering sheep shaped by earlier grace, now faces a harsher landscape where pain lingers long after the skies clear. Jude, a young man rebuilding his life in the aftermath of loss, must learn to walk forward without understanding why. As their paths unfold through wind-worn fields, quiet acts of mercy, and the ache of unanswered questions, both discover that endurance is not found in certainty —but in staying near the Shepherd. A modern coastal story of faith and endurance.

Inspired by the music of Hozier, S.J. Pehrson’s debut novel drops you right into the action and refuses to hold your hand throughout. "I hold no grudge, Clancy Parrows. That word is too small. What I hold is a promise. A promise stained with the blood of every Mariner, their names carved into the very stone I am left with where once I had a heart." The war never ended for Alvi Daine. Haunted by the voices of his traumatic past, he is left alone to share his space with only ghosts.

Discover the astonishing story of Mumbai, the city that never truly sleeps and never fully lets go of those who experience it. In What’s So Special About Mumbai?, travel writer Barnaby Sorrens takes listeners deep into the heart of India’s most electrifying metropolis, uncovering the history, energy, contradictions, beauty, and emotional intensity that make Mumbai unlike any city on Earth. This is not simply a travel guide filled with landmarks and tourist recommendations.

The heroine of The Harmony Project returns in a story of risk and revenge that asks the question…WHAT DOES A MULTIPLE HOMICIDE, A KIDNAPPING, AND A CLONE HAVE IN COMMON? Kelli Freeman has been in hiding for seven years. The Agency, the secret organization that tried to kill her, believes she is dead. Though safe under witness protection, Kelli can’t contain her desire to reclaim her life and avenge the death of her best friend. When Kelli opts to go it alone and set her plan of retribution in motion, she gets swept up in a chain of events that puts her back on the Agency’s radar.

Twin Kindred Burns Hot and Shines Bright are inseparable—not only are they best friends, but each has lost the sibling half of their natural pair-bond. Haunted by grief, they are determined to forge the rare, coveted Twin-Bond together even though they aren't brothers, and finally call a shared bride to complete their fractured existence. They find her on the Mother Ship: Noelle. A captivating, curvy, mature woman running from a desperate past, she’s there to lecture on various Earth holidays.

The Marines called it Starvation Island. The Imperial Japanese Army called it the Island of Death. The battle for Guadalcanal, which began in August 1942 and took six months to complete, saw the 1st Marine Division effectively cut off and under constant siege with few supplies. Marked by hunger, disease, massed nighttime bayonet charges by the enemy, and constant shelling and bombing, the campaign proved a turning point in the war.

In the violent aftermath of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, a photojournalist arrives to learn the fate of the Witch Doctors, a fabled Army occult warfare unit. Holly believes her father, reported missing in action, ran this mysterious outfit that sought to weaponize black magic to win the War on Terror.

In this classic trilogy, a mysterious disease strikes millions and drives them to attack, overpower, and infect. Others continue to mutate, becoming horrific monsters. In a dying America, survivors ranging from soldiers to scientists to average people struggle on the razor's edge of survival. Each must ultimately choose how far they’ll go to survive and what they’re willing to lose to save humanity. This is a brutal vision of the apocalypse like no other. Will humanity survive the end of days?

In the ruins of a West Virginia town, a band of survivors count their losses, after a horrific battle to secure a pure sample of Infection. With humanity facing the possibility of extinction, the Army wants to use the sample to build a doomsday weapon against Infection. One scientist hopes to control Infection; another believes she can cure it. And, outside the fort’s walls, a lone survivor offers a new way to survive what’s coming. Each will choose how far they’ll go to survive, and what they’re willing to lose to save humanity.

Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). In the early 1960s Carter became a secret adviser to George Wallace and wrote the Alabama governor's infamous 1963 inauguration speech vowing "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."

25 unflinching stories and essays from the front lines of the radical mental health movement Overmedication, police brutality, electroconvulsive therapy, involuntary hospitalization, traumas that lead to intense altered states and suicidal thoughts: these are the struggles of those labeled...

Our resilient hero, Forest, will endure. His life isn't easy, and his survival will be equally challenging, but he is a survivor, and we wouldn't have it any other way, would we? Fasten your seatbelts as we set course for THE DARK OF YOU, the intense narrative of Paul's unique story. This intriguing man isn't just Forest's enigmatic partner, he's the force holding Forest’s darkness at bay, masterfully balancing the war of light and darkness within the man we’ve come to love. 

How to heal relationships, mend rifts with loved ones, and balance the demands of sobriety with the need for family connection An empowering guide for recovering addicts and alcoholics from an author with lived experience and professional expertise In Rebuilding Relationships in Recovery, Janice...

In today's marketplace, establishing an LLC (Limited Liability Company) is often considered the golden ticket to business freedom. But setting up and running an LLC isn't just about filing some paperwork; it's about understanding the intricacies that govern different business structures, mitigating risks, and capitalizing on opportunities.