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In corrupt Russia, an erratic Vladimir Putin is determined to forge his country into a formidable superpower once again. He intends to redraw the map of Europe, and will go to impossible extremes to realize his fantasies -- including shooting down a civilian airliner packed with tourists bound for China. Kremlin scientists have developed a radical new weapon that could forever alter modern warfare. NATO, locked in a tense standoff over Ukraine, Poland,...
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When an Indiana orphan makes a telepathic connection with Sage Alexander's great-grandfather, Arthur, whose soul has been missing for more than 150 years, it gets the attention of the Angelic Response Council. Rescuing Arthur Alexander's soul, which is trapped within a dragonhead of Remus, a mythical Typhon who resides within the Prince of Envy's dark realm castle, will be a deadly task. Compounding the problem is Philip Alexander, Sage's mentally...
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The crack of a rifle brings the Senator down. Standing nearby, Judge Warren Alexander tries to save him, but it's too late, the wound too severe. With few leads in the Senator's murder, life in Washington eventually resumes a normal pace. So does Judge Alexander, until his wife is arrested for the crime. But it doesn't make any sense. His wife isn't a killer. Still, the FBI's new evidence is overwhelming and he, alone, believes in her innocence....
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Alexander's two brothers have money in their pockets. All he has are bus tokens. It isn't fair. He had money last Sunday when his grandparents gave them each a dollar. Now it's all gone. At first he was saving the money for a walkie-talkie. But saving money is hard. He bought gum with some of the money, but when it stopped tasting good, he had to buy more. Good-bye 15 cents. Then Eddie offered to rent him his snake for an hour, and he couldn't pass...
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Alexander's dad has a new job a thousand miles away, so now his family has to move. Alexander would rather have poison ivy. Maybe he could live with the Baldwins and their dog. He's always wanted a dog. How can he leave Rachel, his favorite baby-sitter, who taught him to stand on his head and whistle with two fingers (but not at the same time)? And his best friend Paul, who's like a brother, except that he doesn't call Alexander "puke-face" like his...
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Descended from humans and angels, fourteen-year-old Sage Alexander has the power to see and fight the demons, vicious half-humans, and evil creatures of myth and legend that prowl the earth, invisible to human eyes.
The Seven Princes of Hell, the seven deadly sins-Greed, Sloth, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Wrath, and Pride-all breathe their sin into weaker human ears and take those willing souls for their own, as they have for centuries. And now Mammon,...
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For Sage Alexander, life was forever changed when he realized that the Angelic embodiments he could always see, the magnificent heavenly powers that he possessed, and the destiny he had always been told he had to fulfill were all real and true, and that his promised powers were necessary to defeat the Seven Princes of Hell.
After saving his father from the clutches of Greed incarnate and destroying Prince Mammon, Sage has come to realize his place...
9) Steel Heart
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With the Hope Diamond locked around her throat, Jesse Alexander finds herself in the unfortunate position of being a walking national treasure. With the Starfall stone poised to pulse and flood the world with more of its magic, she must figure out how to remove it before she becomes its pawn yet again.Unfortunately, the stone has a mind-and plans-of its own. Add in a determined tiger, a wolf out for revenge, and an ultimatum to find her clan's missing...
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Alexander Thorsson is a frustrated ex-football player and a cashiered Air Force officer, now living life out of a suitcase as an airline pilot. He always thought he'd amount to something more the people of the galaxy think so too. The Galactics have watched Humans for thousands of years; Humans are the most physically powerful, most adaptable and most brutally brilliant sentients in the galaxy. However, when Alexander the Great boasted that his conquests...
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Baby T can't fall asleep.
The Tinster barks all day.
And Mummy's sister is travelling yet again.
But what about Daddy?
Daddy is always running somewhere.
Rushing to work, to a meeting or to catch a taxi, a train or a plane.
Join Alexander in his latest colorful quest to find the answer to the puzzling question: Do Daddies have ants in their pants?
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Ein schwergewichtiger Krimi aus dem schönen Emmental.
Der alternde Box-Champion Hammer-Joe betreibt einen Boxclub im Emmental. Eines Tages verschwindet Magdalena, seine beste Schülerin. Die Polizei kümmert sich nur verhalten darum, denn Magdalena kommt aus schwierigen Verhältnissen – sie wird schon wieder auftauchen. Joe aber befürchtet Schlimmes und beauftragt einen Privatdetektiv. Nach ersten Erfolgen eskaliert die Situation, und Hammer-Joe...
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Cawnpore is retaken, but they have come too late to stop the slaughter-the relieving British soldiers can only stare at the ill-sited, poorly-defended entrenchment and shake their heads, wondering why. One of only two survivors, Colonel Alex Sheridan is numb. His wife and newborn son lie dead. But now he must join General Havelock's force of barely a thousand men as they fight their way through to the besieged garrison at Lucknow.
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General Havelock's Moveable Column-a force of barely a thousand men-has fought its way through to the heroic garrison defending the Residency in Lucknow. They must hold firm until the relieving force reaches them. Colonel Alex Sheridan volunteers for a dangerous mission, but is captured. He is soon called upon to fight a much more personal war-assassination of the very man who ordered the deaths of his wife and child!
15) Own the Scrawny
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It's bad enough doing something stupid, and worse in front of the entire school, horrible if it's posted online, and a complete disaster if it goes viral-but it's the comments that might just send you over the edge... Alexander's the target of online trolls-thanks to one viral video, people everywhere have something bad to say about what he looks like, what he wears, and how he acts. With so many people calling him a loser, a mutant and a moron, he...
16) The Sepoy Mutiny
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The sepoys, native soldiers serving in the British army, are massing in response to a prophecy predicting the end of the reign of the British East India Company. Alexander Sheridan-in command of a scratch cavalry force of civilian volunteers, unemployed officers and loyal Indian soldiers stands against atrocities on both sides of the conflict, judging all by their merit rather than by the color of their skin or the details of their religion.
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Readers asked and Sophronia listened! Be sure to check out the updated editions of this Christian Steam Pulp series! Unified point of view and softened dialect should make for a superior steam and gear experience! Tea and mechanicals all around!
Florizel repairs pipes and runs the Bohemian Club until his adventuring past hurtles headlong into his dull, respectable present. A gypsy beauty with a bizarre request and a disappearing conveyance convinces...
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Ten years make for a mighty cold trail but Sluefoot Sue still finds a clue on the backtrack that fuels her desperate hunt for the deadliest quarry of all. Sue needs to fire up the Clockwork Catfish and find allies no one expected if she means to solve the secret of Treasure Island's Black Spot.
Having the lifelong love and respect of husband and family hasn't prepared her for the deadly agenda of women determined to end inequality by savage means....
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Granny has won yet ANOTHER prize for her fantastic garden.
"Granny really has green fingers," sighed Mummy. Mummy's nails are very green. Daddy's toes are wrinkly and green. Baby T is green all over. And the neighbor is definitely going green! But what about Granny?
Join Alexander in his latest colorful quest to find the answer to the puzzling question,
"Do grannies have green fingers?"
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Unfairly forced out of the army for insubordination, Alexander Sheridan leaves Britain and his former life behind to command a unit of the East India Company. Despised by the aristocratic generals of the regular army, Sheridan and his corps of volunteers must face both the rigors of combat and the treachery of men who should be allies in the heat of the deadly battles of the Crimean War.
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