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Extinction Rebellion (XR, for short) is an emergency response. Politics as usual, governments, as usual, have let down the peoples of the world in an extreme way: We are on course for eco-driven societal collapse, and we are extinguishing other species very rapidly. We could even end up making ourselves extinct. XR suggests that when your government is driving you and your family over a cliff, it is no longer a legitimate government. Rebellion against it is permitted - indeed, it is required. But XR is insistent that such rebellion must be nonviolent.

Flynn was one of the elite, a highly trained sniper in the British army who was proud of his skills and lived by a strict moral code. But even the best can crack when the stress becomes intolerable and now he’s on the rampage bearing a grudge and carrying an arsenal of stolen weapons. He believes that good soldiers are being killed because governments go to war over oil. In his twisted mind, anyone who drives a gas guzzling four by four is the enemy and deserves to die. As he carves a trail of terror and death across the country, the authorities are closing in.

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Be careful what you wish for when you say you want someone to love you to death. Such is the warning by Alexander Kuprin, issued in this beautifully written and poignant story.

In the final story of the Summer Palace Series, Wiley Breuder uses his influence to relocate his family to their original destination and find themselves at Cavalier House in Saxony. This pivotal story takes place during The Great. Northern War involving Sweden, Russia, Poland, and Saxony. Entire villages are crushed, countries shift allegiances, and borders change at the whim of the invading forces.

It’s 1698. Paul has gone after a boy taken by slave traders and is befriended by a young Janissary who teaches him valuable lessons in life with and without a saber. Katia makes a fateful decision to follow her uncle to her newly discovered homeland while Wiley and Pavel search for his son. Wiley learns, from his daughter who escaped the treachery at Brumal Castle, the fate of his beloved wife who was taken to Hungary under false pretenses. Blanche incurs problems of her own when she’s pursued by the enemy. They must travel the length of the Ottoman Empire to rescue her.

That our ecological future appears grave can no longer come as any surprise. And yet, we have so far failed, collectively and individually, to begin the kind of action necessary to shift our path away from catastrophic climate collapse. In this stark and startling little book, Rupert Read helps us to understand the direness of our predicament while showing us a metaphor and a method a way of thinking by which we might transform it.

Christmas chaos hits Josiane. All she want to do is get to her family's Christmas Eve dinner for once on time. Instead, she gets stuck in her office's elevator with a tall stranger in the dark. When she meets Carsten will Josiane find that holiday romance may come in the strangest places?

Renegade patriot Harry Lampeter is called back into service by MI6. The Franco-German alliance has occupied the island of Guernsey and plans to invade England. They try to pass their action off as a peacekeeping operation but they have built steam launchers for their flying bombs, high altitude observation balloons for targeting, and "Big Bertha", an enormous gun situated on the French coast that can bombard London.

The 15 years from 2020 to 2035 could be the most turbulent of human history. Revolutions are gathering pace in four overlapping fields of technology: nano, bio, info, and cogno, or NBIC for short. In combination, these NBIC revolutions offer enormous new possibilities - enormous opportunities and enormous risks. Rapid technological change tends to provoke a turbulent social reaction. Old certainties fade. New winners arrive on the scene, flaunting their power and upturning previous networks of relationships.

Civil war ravages the country. The economy collapses. A plague spreads like fire, and pollution darkens the sky. This is the toxic world of Robert Ashton. A wasteland of broken dreams, death, tech, and mutants. But he is not alone. He and his partner navigate life underground, where it is safer. Society has buckled, and working as a smuggler, Robert builds a criminal life to keep the two of them fed. But nothing lasts forever, and he is forced to return to the surface when the underground suffers a brutal military raid. What he discovers shocks a man who thinks he cannot be shocked anymore.

Two years ago, Simon, a revolutionary from the Arcadis space station, fled to Earth. The alien planet he finds is backward and primitive. While Simon struggles to adapt, his newfound friend Anna guides him through life in the new world. One day, a mysterious explosion in the sky compels them to take the journey of a lifetime. Across the new frontier, they run into the Father and his fanatical cult of murderers and zealots, who will stop at nothing in their search for "the Vessel". In a desperate race against time, Simon and Anna battle to stop a conqueror from finding the key to tyranny.

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Jamie Scott is a war machine. Well, he used to be one until they made him hand in his papers and collect early retirement from the Royal Marines. But he's always been a Green Beret. It's all he knows. It's the only way he can truly function. And he knows for a fact that life out there in the civilian world is no picnic. He doesn't have a choice though. Soon enough, he's booted from the brotherhood and out into the big bad world, a world he hardly recognizes anymore.

As a plant chemical biologist, Aiven, always has her mind on her work. When her co-worker talks her into going out for a night of fun, Aiven reluctantly agrees. Coleman just wants to spend the night with a pretty girl and forget about the brutal underworld where he's an undercover cop. Neither expect death to be waiting around the corner.

The novel follows yet another 'trial' of UBI, the results of which will determine whether or not a countrywide rollout will be pursued. Political intrigue, a smidge of romance, some kitchen-table entrepreneurship, and a smattering of social enterprise & Responsible Anarchy all blend to take you on a journey with the mix of characters as they navigate an opportunity that is of course not what it seems on the surface.

After six hundred years, the Mednohail Empire lusts for a dominion where the sun never sets. The Mednohail grow restless, ashamed of their loss against the Heokolon Empire thirty years ago. Fueled by insatiable wrath and a greedy thirst for salt, the Empire looks east once again, seeking to spread the scourge of its gods across the world. Roused by a new age of steel and weaponized sin, General Brónmal leads Mednohail’s endless legions east. Driven by the rage of a brutal upbringing by a failure father, he takes up the duty for glory and penance, seeking to surpass his family’s legacy.

When Nick Sullivan is sent to Uganda for a routine assignment, he doesn’t expect trouble, but news of his arrival has preceded him and someone wants him dead. His enemies are powerful people and in a country where life is cheap, he is soon fighting to survive. He doggedly battles on, refusing to acknowledge the danger, but when his stubbornness causes the death of an innocent woman, he has no choice but to concede defeat and return to Britain. Eaten up with guilt, he sets himself the task of finding out who betrayed him and bringing them to justice.

Nick Sullivan expects to be bored when his boss sends him on a routine surveillance operation but things aren’t what they seem. He soon discovers that the man he has been assigned to follow is a small player in a chain of ruthless criminals selling counterfeit drugs to the National Health Service. Nick vows to stop their evil trade but there are fortunes to be made and the men involved will do whatever it takes to protect their lucrative scam. But Nick is stubborn and even when they almost succeed in killing him, he doggedly stays on the case.

It is titled "The Merchant", a fictional story about the most inspiring sea masters of all time. The man who owned a thousand-ship fleet and almost all the gold in the world faces a cunning conspiracy plotted by underworld crime lords, pirates and traitors to bring him down after winning the most powerful King, the Red King, on their side by exposing the Queen's love to the Merchant.