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It was two years since the Crickets had left the solar system, leaving Alex Holder in control of their no-longer-very-mobile shipyard. Everything but its burned-out hyperdrive core was in full working order. Alex had unshackled its controlling AI, learned how to use Cricket technology with the AI's help, and was well on his way to building a defensive fleet to protect Earth from the second alien race that was coming after the Crickets. He was not just building the ships but recruiting and training the crews to man them, as well.

When the over-driven hyperdrive on their mobile shipyard burned out, the Chhrt'ktk't abandoned it in an inhabited system along their path, hoping it would work as a decoy to buy them more time to escape the Khreetan fleet pursuing them. They didn't anticipate how far the pre-spacefaring species they turned over their broken-down maintenance facility to would subvert their plan.

Four months ago, the Crickets—the Chhrt'ktk't, in their own language—had abandoned a mobile shipyard with a burned-out hyperdrive core in Sol system as a decoy. They hadn't told humanity about the decoy part. Then they picked Alex Holder to operate it, simply because he happened to be the first human they found who could—because that would make it a better decoy. In perhaps as little as five years, the Khreetan will be coming. The Crickets hadn't intended for humanity to know that, either.

Cassio King. My savior. My enemy. The man lurked in the shadows of my dreams. He was supposed to marry my cousin. Yet, here I was...taking her place.

Ardan O’Rourke never thought to marry. Not after the heartbreak he suffered as a young man. Not after the years he helped raise his youngest siblings. He never expected to meet Deirdre Finnegan, a spirited woman with a past full of secrets. Deirdre Finnegan is not who she appears to be. A fine cook and a loner, she yearns for so much more. When Ardan and the O’Rourkes befriend her, she cannot deny her desire to be part of the large, wonderful family. Just when she begins to believe in a new future, her past returns to remind her of all she has lost.

Jenna is a college freshman who can't seem to concentrate on anything but her sexy TA, Brad. But when she fails the first test of the semester, her professor offers her extra credit assignment she can't refuse. Hoping to pass her Sexual Psychology course, and spend a little extra time with Brad, Jenna puts on her sexiest cut-offs and crop-top, ready to "perform" whatever her professor wants - even if it's in front of dozens of her classmates!

Christy is so not drinking again. Thanks to Jose Cuervo, she has her friends signing her up for stud conventions and Cole frigging Bowen offering sex in exchange for fake dates, which is so out of the question it isn't even funny.

It was supposed to be just another quiet evening. But some things just cannot be laid to rest. Retired detective Michael Jakes is taking a much-needed vacation in a hotel he always wanted to visit. But when a body turns up and startles the guests, he wants no part of it. That is until a woman sits next to him and lures him in.

Mike Haddican, proud small-town gym owner and renowned karate instructor, is an all-around good guy. He's never needed much to be happy. Only his family, his friends, his girl. Especially his girl. So when that girl up and left him seven years ago to chase her dreams, she all but destroyed him.

Niamh O’Rourke Ahern knows she should feel shame. Regret. Remorse. Anything but the deep relief filling her to the depths of her soul. What kind of woman is she to rejoice at the death of her husband? What woman yearns for another’s touch as her husband’s casket is being lowered into the ground? In the end, she knows it doesn’t matter, for she will always be alone. No man will ever fully earn her trust again.

Recounts the story of America’s last great newspaper war between the New York Daily News and the New York Post, as both papers’ long rivalry turned existential amid the rise of digital news. The story is told through the eyes of the reporters, or “runners”, and photographers who fought the war on the ground in cities across America.

I've always been pretty damn nervous around my boss Mr. Atkins, and understandably so. Although I'm sure everyone tends to get antsy around their employers, the case is especially severe in Mr. Atkins' presence.

Ich komme aus einer Arbeiterfamilie und bin in sehr bescheidenen Verhältnissen in der Steiermark aufgewachsen. In den 1950er Jahren bin ich als Werkzeugmacher nach Kanada ausgewandert, um meinen Traum von meiner eigenen Firma zu erfüllen. Meine Englischkenntnisse waren beschränkt und vom Geschäftsleben hatte ich nicht viel Ahnung. Dennoch ist es mir gelungen aus einer Garage heraus einen Weltkonzern aufzubauen, der heute über 120.000 Beschäftigte hat.

Ein neues Abenteuer mit Jim und Kleiner Bär im Wilden Westen: "Überfall auf die Western-Bank"!

Forensic accountant Annie Griffin has always suspected she's a bit jinxed, so when she finds herself 35, single, temporarily homeless, and pregnant by a gigolo, her fears are confirmed. Max might have had the attention span of a hummingbird on crack when it comes to women, but that was before Annie. Her quirkiness and sweet contradictions soon captivate him - not that she's inclined to give him the time of the day.

Rodion Raskolnikoff ist ein armer Student. Er erschlägt eine gierige Pfandleiherin und deren geistig behinderte Schwester. Als großer Mensch könne er, so glaubt er, "lebensunwertes Leben" töten. Er nimmt das Geld der Pfandleiherin und geht. Obwohl er der Hauptverdächtige ist, fehlen die Beweise und er wird nicht verurteilt. Doch sein Gewissen quält ihn und diesem kann er nicht entgehen. Übersetzung: unbekannt, Bearbeitung: Leopold Ahlsen, Regie: Hermann Wenninger, Musik: Bernd Scholz.

Jürgen Thorwald dokumentiert mit seinem 1966 für den Edgar Allan Poe Award nominierten Buch "Das Jahrhundert der Detektive" wahre Kriminalfälle, die für die Entwicklung der Kriminaltechnik von besonderer Bedeutung sind. Fünf Kapitel des dreibändigen Werkes haben verschiedene Autoren (unter ihnen Stefan Murr, Anke Beckert oder Bernd Grashoff) für das Hörspiel aufgearbeitet. Der Bayerische Rundfunk ließ diese von ebenfalls fünf verschiedenen Regisseuren unabhängig voneinander inszenieren.

In diesem spannenden Abenteuerhörspiel von Konrad Halver hört ihr: Gottes Freund und aller Welt Feind - Klaus Störtebeker; der Haifisch auf Kaperfahrt; Störtebekers tolldreistes Stück von Stralsund; Rostocks und Wismars Kaperbriefe; Die Vitalienbrüder, Schrecken der Ostsee; In aussichtsloser Lage vor Schwedens Küste; Störtebeker erobert Gotland; Der Pirat und die Königin; Der Kampf um Bergen in Norwegen; Störtebekers Bündnis mit dem Ostfriesenfürsten Keno tom Broke; Gottes Freund und aller Welt Feind; Verrat?!; Die letzte Schlacht.

In these stories, author Dick Gillman introduces the character of Julia Moriarty. Holmes and Watson become acutely aware of her existence in 1894 in the story aptly recorded by Watson as that of "The Shadow of James Moriarty". Shopping for a Christmas gift for Holmes exposes Watson to an underworld that he had hoped had disappeared with the death of James Moriarty.

Though Americans have seen plenty of news updates on the Iraq War since 2003, few know what it’s like to actually live through the harsh conditions on a daily basis. In his memoir, B.I.A.P.: Baghdad International Airport, two-tour Iraq War veteran Sergeant Brian L. Gordon shows readers the constant challenges soldiers face on the ground in the Middle East. Serving first in 2003, Gordon drives a truck delivering bulk fuel and must regularly dodge rocket-propelled grenades and IEDs. His unit also takes on heavy firefights and rocket launcher attacks while manning the water point at the Euphrates River.