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Marcus Aquila and his patron Rutlius Scaurus have fought a superior enemy force to a standstill in Thracia, gaining the favour of the gods but paying a grievous cost in their family's blood. Battle-weary and mourning their losses, they are tasked with rooting out a spy ring operating in the lands into which their imperial master Severus's armies are advancing. Hunting down informers operating under the skilled and ruthless command of their sworn enemy Sartorius, spymaster to the usurper Niger, will not be easy.

Irish mafia from the streets of Dublin to the highest echelons of global organised crime and right into the heart of professional boxing. When a weigh-in turns into a gangland bloodbath, the tables begin to turn on the powerful Kinahan Organised Crime Group. But is it too late to tame the beast or can the law finally catch up with the mob? With a unique insight into the rise of mob and its reach into boxing through a tapestry of confidential informants and some too-close-for-comfort experiences, Tallant brings to life one of the most extraordinary stories in modern organised crime.

When a new empire rises, and old one must fall. After 16 years of bloody war against Rome, Hannibal Barca is on the verge of defeat. On the plains of Zama, Felix and his brother Antonius stand in the formidable Roman legions, ready to deliver the decisive blow. Victory will establish Rome as the pre-eminent power in the ancient world. But in northern Greece, Philip V of Macedon is determined to restore Alexander the Great's kingdom to its former glory.

Raven's secrets have shaped the woman she is: solitary and closed off. After being let down by the one person that should have always been there, Raven has built her walls up so high, nobody could possibly scale them. She takes care of herself. She has her own back. She might live surrounded by her brother's club, the Fallen Lords MC, but the family and brotherhood they preach is a load of crap and she isn't buying any of it.

The first hundred years of the American Mafia's existence would come to be seen as a golden age. From small-town Sicily to glittering Las Vegas, the mob had carefully expanded and consolidated their power until their influence touched almost every aspect of American society. But in the 1960s, everything changed. In CLASH OF TITANS, the second volume of former Mafia associate Louis Ferrante's groundbreaking Borgata trilogy, we discover for the first time the true scale of the conflicts that rocked the organisation between 1960 and 1985.

One empire will rise Flamininus of Rome and Macedonian King Philip's battle-hardened armies are on the march towards their final, climactic encounter. The other must burn. The outcome will decide the fate of Greece. But, on opposite sides, legionary Felix and Phalanx soldier Demetrios have more pressing concerns: staying alive long enough to taste glory....

Millions have died trying to shatter the enemy fortifications, and Private Callahan and his comrades are ordered to try again. But this time they have something new. Lines of heavy tanks, their engines revving, and the sky overhead filled with squadrons of fighter aircraft. Their task is to assault an impregnable fortified hilltop, manned by thousands of battle-hardened German soldiers, determined to contest every yard of ground.

Growing up in a remote corner of the Amazon, Pio, Maria, and Oita learned to hunt wild pigs and tapirs, gathering Brazil nuts and açaí berries from centuries-old trees. Then the first highway pierced through. Loggers and prospectors invaded, and they lost their families to terrible new weapons and diseases. Pushed to assimilate, they struggled to understand their new, capitalist reality. They ended up forging an uneasy symbiosis with their white antagonists - until a seam of diamonds erupted in their territory and decades of suppressed trauma burst out in a shocking act of retribution.

The Builder’s Hammer Jam hammer has gone missing! And no hammer means no Hammer Jam. Listen to Hammerless:the first-ever true crime podcast in a fantasy world and share your theories to find the hammer and save Hammer Jam. Together we’ll dig into suspects to help get to the bottom of who stole the Builder’s Hammer Jam hammer.

The year is 2038, America’s new President won with a simple, snappy campaign slogan: Kill the Rich. Now in office, his administration kicks off with a televised public hanging of Kim Kardashian, whose lip kits have poisoned a working-class city.

At the stroke of midnight, a devastating explosion at Black Tom Island, an armaments depot, rocks New York City awake; and so begins this story of two patriots in World War I, each willing to put his life on the line in order to achieve a glorious victory for his cause. Serving the Fatherland is Dr. Harold Schwartz, administrator of the prestigious Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital and a German spy. Along with his father, a dealer in lethal weapons and a lifelong friend of Kaiser Wilhelm, Schwartz is hell-bent on distracting the Americans from entering the war.

Auf spektakuläre Weise kommen zwei Tänzerinnen einer internationalen Bauchtanz-Show ums Leben. Schnell wird klar: es war Mord! Das ruft Chefermittler Zeki Demirbilek alias "Kommissar Pascha" auf den Plan: warum mussten die beiden jungen Frauen sterben? Handelt es sich um ein Beziehungsdrama oder steckt noch mehr dahinter? Zeki und das Team der Sonderkommission Migra schauen hinter die glamouröse Kulisse der Show und stoßen dabei auf jede Menge Lügen und Skandale.

Elle n’aspire qu’à une vie paisible et anonyme. Il est le parrain de la puissante Joukovskaïa, et il la veut, elle, pour épouse. Serveuse modeste, tout ce à quoi Kira Lyadova aspire c’est retrouver le calme de son appartement après une longue journée. Mais c’est sans compter sur cette réception où elle doit remplacer au pied levé sa collègue malade. Le richissime mafieux Vadim Nazarov doit choisir sa future épouse ce soir-là parmi les invitées triées sur le volet... Contre toute attente, il jette son dévolu sur Kira ! Il l’a décidé : c’est Kira qu’il veut, et ce que Vadim veut, il l’obtient.

Nouvelle édition à deux voix pour une romance encore plus intense ! Ceci n’est pas une dark romance. Ce n’est pas une histoire de maltraitance, ni de gangsters. Encore moins une histoire de sadomasochisme ou de violences conjugales. Il n’y a pas de victimes ici, seulement deux bourreaux : un enfoiré de playboy caractériel dont le riche papa s’échine à étouffer les scandales, et moi, une paumée notoire qui tente de racheter son salut par tous les moyens, quitte à se laisser écraser par tous.