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"…a fantastic anti-hero…positively Shakespearian in his moral complexity...If I could only recommend one book this year, it would be Heavy Duty People" – Vulpes Libris bookblog
Damage's club has had an offer it can't refuse, to patch over to join The Brethren MC.
But as the bikes rumble and roar across the wild Northern fells, what does this mean for Damage and his brothers? What choices will they have to make as they ride through the wind?...
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She awakens a passion he thought was gone. Showing her the love he feels without crossing the lines is not as easy as he thought.
Cai Taylor is confident, bold, and single-with two kids. His wife died eighteen months ago to the day, and he should be ready to move on, according to his secretary, who's been preparing him for a while to enter the dating world.
He's had his eye on Kate Windsor. She's saucy, artistic, and just her walking toward him...
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What do you know about your menstrual cycle?
Your menstrual cycle is your fifth vital sign - a barometer of health and wellness that is as telling as your pulse or blood pressure. Yet most of us see our periods as nothing more than a source of inconvenience and embarrassment.
The reasons for this are vast and complex and many are rooted in misogyny. The fact is, women the world over are taught the bare minimum about menstruation, and the messages...
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Heavy Burdens: Stories of Motherhood and Fatness seeks to address the systemic ways in which the moral panic around "obesity" impacts fat mothers and fat children. Taking a life-course approach, the book begins with analyses of the ways in which fatphobia is enacted on pregnant (or even not-yet-pregnant) women, whose bodies immediately become viewed as objects warranting external control by not only medical professionals, but family members, and even...
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This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator.
Husband and wife reunite in USA TODAY bestselling authors Debra Webb & Regan Black's sizzling Colby Agency: Family Secrets series!
When someone tries to kill security expert Sophia Leone on a dark road, she's rescued by her husband-a US army general she thought died a year ago. Suddenly, Frank Leone is back, very much alive, and insisting that someone is trying...
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L.A. attorney finds himself with a broken heart and thinks his life is over until he meets his soulmate from a different country, who has just experienced the same heart broken experience from her evil spouse. They are about to realize that the one thing that cost their spouses to abandoned them is also the one thing that will bring them together, "food".
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It's 1999 and Chris is living her dream: working at Vinyl Destination by day and fighting for (musical) justice by night in the world's coolest teen girl vigilante fight club, and playing in a band during her free time.
When the girls enter a Battle of The Bands, they learn that the shadowy corporate masters of the music industry plan to destroy the fledgling world of digital music and blame it on Y2K.
The critically-acclaimed team of writer Carly...
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Heavy Water War volume 6
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The Gunnerside team is ordered to sink the ferry carrying the heavy water facilities midway across the lake from Rjukan. Werner Heisenberg, knowing the heavy water is on its way, needs only 500 additional liters to succeed with the German atomic bomb.
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Heavy Water War volume 5
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The Americans launch a bombing raid on Rjukan against Tronstad's objections, but the only result is heavy civilian casualties. The Germans decide to move the entire heavy water facility to Germany, and the Allies plan a strike at the weakest link along the route.
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Heavy Water War volume 2
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Tronstad establishes contact with the War Ministry and a plan to destroy the Hydro facilities is drawn up. In Rjukan, new managing director Erik Henriksen is confronted with sabotage of the heavy water facility.
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Heavy Water War volume 3
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The Americans insist on bombing the heavy water factory, but Tronstad persuades the Allies to send in a team of Norwegians instead. In Germany, Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg promises a breakthrough in the development of a Nazi atomic bomb.
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Heavy Water War volume 4
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In Berlin, Werner Heisenberg is appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. The Gunnerside team succeeds in blowing up the Hydro factory, but the Germans mount a major search for the saboteurs and order an immediate rebuilding of the heavy water facilities.
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Heavy Water War volume 1
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April, 1940. Germany invades Norway and orders a doubling of production at the heavy water plant in Rjukan. Norwegian professor and reserve officer Leif Tronstad escapes to England to warn the Allies about what he believes is an effort to build a German atomic bomb.
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As China's policy decisions become increasingly significant as a bellwether of global economics, one of the nation's most prominent and long-serving diplomats comes forward to illuminate the powerful country's stance during some of the most important events of recent history. Tang Jiaxuan, born in 1938, served as a Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China from 1998 to 2003, and as the State councilor from 2003 to 2008. Tang Jiaxuan uses...