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Storm in the night.
Thunder like mountains blowing up.
Lightning licking the navy-blue sky.
Rain streaming down the windows,
babbling in the downspouts.

On August 23, 2008, Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped outside Mogadishu in Somalia. The kidnappers’ demand was simple: pay millions or Amanda would be killed.

Index of shipwrecks. History from the time of the landing of the Spaniards and Captain Cook.

There's always a new land at the top of the Faraway Tree. Will it be the Land of Spells, the Land of Treats, or the Land of Do-As-You-Pleas- e?

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes.

Includes: The twelve-forty-five -- Pennies -- Trees -- Stars -- Old poets -- Delicatessen -- Servant girl and grocer's boy -- Wealth -- Martin -- The apartment house -- As winds t

Special Agent Pendergast assists NYPD Lieutenant D'Agosta in the investigation of a number of killings that ultimately prove to be messages from his wife's kidnappers.

The sixth Discworld novel, Wyrd Sisters features three witches: Granny Weatherwax; Nanny Ogg, matriarch of a large tribe of Oggs and owner of the most evil cat in the world; and Magrat Garlick, the

Two ex-IRA hitmen are employed by British Intelligence to counteract a Russian-backed hired assassin operating in France and England.

International blockbuster best-selling author Diana Gabaldon sends a World War II RAF pilot through a stone circle to the time of her Outlander series in “A Leaf on the Winds of All Hall

1942, the Cape of Good Hope. Returning from a secret mission to the Far East an Italian submarine is attacked by British aircraft and fatally damaged.

Can Doctor Who defeat the evil forces controlling the giant robot before they execute their plans to blackmail or destroy the world?

sabella walked right into my first scene in Singapore. I hadn't worked out much about her when I started, but she showed me clearly what she was like.

Neal shares the details of her life in which she has experienced not just one miracle, but many.

Here's the set up: A burnt-out political aide quits just before an election - but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out.