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In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive.

At seventeen, Alice Marble has no formal tennis skills and no coach. What she does have is an ability to hit the ball as hard as she can and a strong desire to prove herself. With steadfast determination and one sacrifice after another, Alice plays her heart out on the courts of the rich and famous, at national tournaments, and—the greatest of them all—at Wimbledon, rising to be one of the top-ranked players in the world.

Natale in Scozia, il periodo dell’anno che esalta la bellezza di questa terra selvaggia, punteggiata di distillerie di whisky e di guglie e castelli che ne fanno il tripudio del gotico. Ma i sussulti di un indipendentismo che ha origini antiche scuotono la struttura portante del Regno Unito, con il rischio di un referendum che rappresenterebbe un pericoloso precedente. Allie Burns, giovane reporter del Clarion, un quotidiano di Glasgow, sta tornando a casa in treno dopo le vacanze quando si imbatte in qualcosa di inaspettato: un parto in una carrozza.

Get ready for an exhilarating ride with "Honor Amongst Tides: Snakes in the Garden". Set in the chaotic aftermath of the American Revolution, this book is filled with unpredictable plot twists, spies, sword duels, ancient treasures, and a forbidden love affair that will keep you on the edge of your seat. The main character, a former teenage medical orderly turned spy during the war, is entrusted with a demanding mission to dismantle a surging pirate menace that endangers the fragile new country.

I never allowed emotion to disrupt my life before, but my plans all fly out of the window as soon I’m caught by her big round eyes, gleaming into mine. One glimpse of her heart-thumping curves and my pulse starts to hammer. Irina’s scent smokes into my head and curls around my memory. I can’t think of anything else until I have claimed her for my own. Forever.

Twelve stories, twelve big, Bad Russian men who know exactly what they want. Twelve steamy tales, each one a delicious chase of a criminally hot, powerful older man, driven by irresistible obsession as he discovers, stalks, and fulfills an innocent American girl, his one and only, the woman of his dreams.

1967: Vier junge Menschen zwischen Verrat, Spionage und dem Kampf um die Demokratie. Sechs Jahre nach dem Mauerbau lernt die erfolgreiche Dolmetscherin Emma auf einem West-Berliner Senatsempfang die aus dem Ostteil der Stadt geflohene Sängerin Irma Assmann kennen. Als sie ihrer Zwillingsschwester Alice von der Begegnung erzählt, wird diese hellhörig. Alice recherchiert als Journalistin in der Studentenbewegung und steht in Kontakt mit verschiedenen Fluchthilfe-Organisationen.

Skrupellose Saboteure wollen den Mars-Flug der Androklus-Rakete verhindern. Der französische Geheimdienst hat einen Tipp bekommen, dass ein anonymer Auftraggeber eine Klimaanlage bauen ließ, die sich beim Abschuss der Mars-Rakete automatisch abschaltet. Das würde den sicheren Tod des Astronauten bedeuten. In letzter Sekunde greift Lennet ein - der fähige, junge Geheimagent des FND.