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Terror stalks the campus of a Minnesota university, where two professors working on classified military research have been brutally murdered. Student Karen Butler fears for her life after her adviser is killed, realizing she's the only one left with detailed knowledge of a new nerve gas defense system plus a terrible nanotech weapon. Karen and her boyfriend, Jack Nelson, a member of the elite military group Eagle Squad, play a dangerous game with an enemy who claims the secrets belong to them. As the pressure mounts, the pair are terrorized by an implacable foe that means to kill them, once it has what it wants. <P> New York Times bestselling author Steve Perry says: «Murder and mayhem and assorted skullduggery skulk through Glass's latest novel, Eagle Squad, and he lays it out with his usual entertaining style and offhand expertise. Jack Nelson and Karen Butler find themselves in the middle of something they don't understand, though as it becomes more clear to them, they realize just how dangerous their lives have become. A first-rate thriller from Jim Glass!»

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The year is 1978. Rudyard «Rudd» Kipling Six is a pilot and Vietnam war hero. Aloha Blaze is what her friends call «Your basic karate expert, sky-diving entrepreneur pilot, drop-dead gorgeous, four-point-zero student.» Together, they begin a stormy, steamy love affair that flares red-hot and grows even hotter. But time and circumstance intervene. Aloha flirts with a star quarterback and a mysterious Marine named Buddy, while Rudd encounters the lovely French tennis champion Colette and an English professor named Amanda. Aloha can fly circles around any man, whether in an airplane or otherwise. But there's trouble in the Florida skies…and on the ground. A grand romance of two strong-minded individuals finding themselves–and each other!

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Этот текст – сокращенная версия книги Юрия Сигова «Сингапур. Восьмое чудо света». Только самые ценные мысли, идеи, кейсы, примеры. О книге Сингапур поражает новейшими технологиями и древними традициями, сочетанием хай-тека и фэншуя, принципов современного бизнеса и уроков конфуцианства. За несколько десятилетий крошечный остров превратился в поражающий воображение город-государство, который приманивает не только праздных туристов, но и влиятельных бизнесменов со всего мира. Его жители обеспечены и счастливы. За Сингапуром – будущее, но каким оно будет? И может ли наступить такое будущее в других странах? Зачем читать • Проследить впечатляющий путь маленькой страны к большому успеху. • Увидеть «азиатское зазеркалье» глазами нашего соотечественника. • Узнать оборотную сторону «сингапурского чуда». Об авторе Юрий Сигов – журналист, писатель, бывший пресс-секретарь главы Миссии ООН в Южной Африке, посетивший более 150 стран мира и написавший об этом два десятка книг.

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Harry Perrivale's expedition into the African jungle is destined to be singularly ill-fated. Accompanied by native bearers, his wife Rita, and trader Caleb Moon, he hopes to find the legendary lost city of Akada. Moon has a treasure map that had once belonged to an earlier explorer who'd met his death twenty years before. But Moon has plans to kill Perrivale, abduct Rita, and keep the gold and ivory of Akada for himself. Then the party encounters a giant white man, Anjani, who speaks only the native dialect of the tribe with whom he has lived all his life. Who is this strange man, and how did he come to be there–and what is his connection with Akada? A thrilling jungle adventure in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, now reprinted for the first time in six decades!

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Anjani returns! in this direct sequel to The Gold of Akada, Rita Perrivale, widow of an English explorer, goes back to the coast of West Africa. Having inherited her husband’s fortune, she spares no expense on this new venture to loot the legendary lost city of Akada of its treasures. But Rita had only survived the disastrous first expedition because of the help of Anjani, a white man of immense strength and stature who had been brought up in the jungle by a native tribe. Now Rita hopes to be reunited with Anjani, but she has reckoned without the danger posed by his treacherous twin brother, Tocoto, who is contesting Ajani for the supremacy of the Dark Continent; and of the beautiful Mea, the ruler of Akada's ancient sister city. Will Anjani survive the myriad dangers of unknown Africa? Another thrilling jungle adventure in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs!

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Jimgrim and a Secret Society originally appeared in the classic pulp magazine Adventure, in the August 10, 1922 issue. It is part of Mundy's series featuring James Schuyler Grimm, better known as Jimgrim, a British agent. In this volume, he resigns from the British military service to take a job (along with his friends Jeff Ramsden, Narayan Singh, and Jeremy Ross) as a freelance agent combatting criminals who threaten world peace.

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Light-skinned newcomers are changing the Land of the Three Tribes. Dark-skinned Satha and her husband Loic are torn asunder. With the Creator's aid there is hope they will be reunited and find their mutual destiny, even if it means losing the love and respect of their families, clans, and tribes.

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The fifth issue of Adventure Tales salutes pulp legend Achmed Abdullah, popular writer in the pulp magazines in the early 20th century, with two long stories – «Their Own Dear Land» and «The Remittance Woman.» Many of his stories deal with ex­otic locales, usually Oriental. But even his Occidental tales are of interest, well written and fast paced, often with an unexpected twist or two. Also included are «The Mid-Watch Tragedy,» a Jimmy Lavender detective story by Vincent Starrett, and «The Pearls of Paruki,» by J. Allan Dunn. Another great issue!

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The journey continues, there in Heaven, and now need to find a way back home to the Home ship, things to learn, finding lost loved ones and more

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they steal an ancient book about a secret race of people who live in caverns under the north pole, it has a twist of time travel, lost love, and death, some parts will put a smile on your face and then a tear in your eyes

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