The slight breeze in the air was another problem. I had hoped to light the match and toss it down but now I had to get close to the gas with the flame. This was incredibly foolish, impossibly dangerous. I could just as easily blow ...
Her other friend Mary is anti-Nazi, but has secrets of her own to conceal. Some Irish people are Nazi sympathisers, some reluctant collaborators, and some fighting with the resistance, so it’s hard to know where to turn.
An American man on the same ward as me had been in a coma for over a year. The hospital believed that the best course of action was to turn off the life support machine, but his family were deeply religious and believed that he should ...
The bishop wrote a letter to the director of St Paulo VI in Dili asking him to accept me, so the following day I went to see Father Aurio Gusmao but he was angry with me because he said I should have asked him before I went to see the ...
Lieutenant Joseph Capelli, an enemy of the state, fights to save the United States and its citizens from an alien virus that turns humans into Chimeran killing machines.
In 1944, after the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, half of Britain is occupied by enemy forces, and Sarah Lewis, a young farmer's wife, awakens to find that her husband has disappeared, along with all of the men from her ...
A North Carolina woman dies of a flesh-eating bacterial disease. Thousands of people in West Africa are suffering from cholera. And antibiotics are rapidly becoming less and less effective at...
Tec explores the conditions necessary for resistance, including favorable topography, a supply of arms, and effective leadership, and dedicates the majority of the book to the stories of those who stood up and fought back in any way that ...
“This is the most comprehensive and best account of resistance I have read. It addresses the story with scholarly objectivity and an absolute lack of sentimentality.
Some of these resistance movements were entirely home-grown, others supported by the Allies. Like no other book, Resistance shows the reader just how difficult such actions were.
An electrifying thriller starring Captain Jean-Luc Picard set in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A timely and passionate call to action for engaging with our current political moment, from the Grammy-nominated and multiplatinum singer-songwriter and New York Times bestselling author Tori Amos.
The "New York Times"-bestselling author of the Ascendence Trilogy tells the extraordinary story of a Jewish girl's courageous efforts to resist the Nazis during the occupation of Poland.
When their friend Henri's parents disappear and Henri goes into hiding because of his Jewish ancestry, siblings Paul and Marie must convince the French Resistance that even children can help in their fight against the Germans. Original.
Resistance is a tender but tragic love story, told with the same narrative grace and keen eye for human emotion that have distinguished all of Anita Shreve's cherished bestsellers.
This is the indelible story of how American women transformed their own lives, vanquished Trump, secured unprecedented positions of power and redefined US politics decades to come.
The story continues to her time as a hungry artist in Los Angeles to the subsequent three decades of her formidable music career.
From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams, a highly charged, stunningly original work of fiction–a passionate response to the changes shaping our country today.
This story will challenge you to consider your future is it shaped by fate, or do your own choices create the pathway that shapes your true destiny?
The first graphic novel from international bestselling crime novelist Val McDermid, Resistance is the story of a mysterious illness that sweeps through a British music festival and beyond, and the journalist who must rush to find the source ...