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Commodore Straker faces new enemies as neighboring interstellar empires decide his New Republic is a growing threat. A two-front war develops, and the Liberator must face both the Mutuality and the Hundred Worlds. Even as the fighting rages, the mysterious Opters are on the move. They make a diplomatic effort to reach out to Straker - but can he trust the Hive Masters? Will they help or stab him in the back?

Sons of Jupiter is book three in the Luther LaMotta Series and follows Out of the Frying Pan. Luther and Frankie have settled in Oklahoma City, but trouble follows them where ever they go. Luther starts a Good Samaritan group based on the New York Guardian Angels, however, some of the people he has recruited as his fellow organizers have other, less than legal plans for the SoJ. Luther Unwittingly finds himself locked in a bloody turf war with the biggest crime element in OKC. Someone is going to die a horrible death and lives will be changed forever.

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The Last Jewish Gangster: The Middle Years starts in 1968 with Hardy sentenced to 12 years in the world’s most dangerous prison in Mexico after taking the rap for his mother’s counterfeiting scheme, hoping to have finally earned her respect. Once he’s released from prison, Hardy returns to Brooklyn and tries to go straight, but drifts back into a world of crime. He gets Sammy “the Bull” Gravano to join his crew to pull major heists like kidnapping drug lords for million-dollar ransoms and robbing cop bag men. To evade the law, he goes to Europe and ends up in Israel.

Sai cosa succederà a 100 individui che iniziano anche all'età di 25 anni e che credono di avere successo? All'età di 65 anni, solo cinque su 100 ce la faranno! Perché così tanti falliscono? Cosa è successo alla scintilla che c'era quando avevano 25 anni? Che ne è stato dei loro sogni, delle loro speranze, dei loro progetti... e perché c'è una così grande disparità tra ciò che queste persone intendevano fare e ciò che hanno effettivamente realizzato? Questo è... Il segreto più strano.

In 1944 Brooklyn, newborn Michael J. Hardy was rejected by his mother so she could run with gangster Bugsy Siegel, Hardy's godfather. Shirley Rook quickly rose to the top of the criminal ranks. As the queen of New York City crime, she laundered mob money, ran the city's largest bookmaking operation, and handed payouts to dirty cops, politicians, and judges. To win his mother's love and respect, Hardy became a fearless gangster.

William Benet Sterling and his best friend Jacob (Jake) Brown grew up together on small farms on the Kansas prairie. Their future as farmers seemed simplistic, comfortable, inevitable, and boring. The day they rode into the sleepy town of Manhattan the air was electric. The famed Seventh Cavalry and it's dashing war hero commander, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer were going to parade along Denison Street in front of Kansas State University. The crowd fell silent as the commanding sound of a drum roll spilled into the street demanding undivided attention.

In questo audiolibro troveri raccolti 4 Bestseller che ti indicheranno la via che ti condurrà alla massima espressione di te stesso ed a vivere la vita che vuoi veramente vivere. Non esiste abbastanza tempo per perderlo in un lavoro che non si ama e seguire una strada che non si sente propria. Tutto parte dalla Mente e dal Pensiero: un singolo pensiero, o immagine mentale, ripetuto nel tempo, diventa parte di se stessi e del proprio essere.

The Breakers find a new home among the stars: Utopia. An engineered planet that is vast beyond comprehension with plenty of room to grow. They set up trade routes and work as mercenaries for their supplies...but trouble lurks. Pirates strike their merchant lanes. Key personnel are captured and enslaved. Straker is called upon to do something, and thus a new conflict is set in motion.

Da die Opters und die Kristalle ihre Invasion der Republik unbarmherzig fortsetzen, steigt die Zahl der vernichteten Schiffe und gefallenen Soldaten weiter an. Die Kristalle wurden durch einen Sieg der Republik momentan aufgehalten, obwohl der Blutzoll enorm war, während die Opters weiterhin in einem erschreckenden Tempo schwach verteidigte Systeme erobern. Strecher und Engels müssen neue Technologien entwickeln und verzweifelte Maßnahmen ergreifen, um die außerirdische Bedrohung aufzuhalten.

Die Republik, die Opters und eine seltsame kristallartige Rasse unbekannten Ursprungs treffen in einer Reihe titanischer Schlachten aufeinander. Strecher setzt Tausende von Schiffen der Republik ein, erkennt aber bald, dass er technologisch unterlegen ist. Da ein konventioneller Sieg unmöglich ist, versuchen alle Seiten die wichtigsten Welten der anderen zu zerstören. In dieser chaotischen Lage gibt es Verräter. Strecher erkennt, dass der schlimmste Feind der ist, den man als Verbündeten betrachtet hatte...

Strecher und Engels sehen sich neuen Feinden gegenüber, da benachbarte interstellare Imperien ihre Neue Erdische Republik als zunehmende Bedrohung betrachten. Die Hundert Welten wollen ihre momentane Überlegenheit unbedingt ausnutzen und bereiten einen Gegenangriff vor. Während dieser Kampfhandlungen versuchen die mysteriösen Opters, aus dem titanischen Ringen zwischen den Imperien der Menschen einen Vorteil zu ziehen.

This is the third book that follows The Myth of the Anal Probe and Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear. In The Fat Lady Sings, the people of the planet Hale return to Earth and offer an ultimatum: Stop all forms of aggression and violence, or they will return in one year and obliterate Earth. Earthlings realize that at the end of that one year whoever is in control will rule the entire world forever. All countries start to jockey for position, and push each other out of the way.

It’s been five years since the end of the Hive Wars. Straker has handed over the burden of governing the Earthan Republic to civil authorities. This should be a happy time, as Straker and his most loyal soldiers retire to a planet and step off the galactic stage. Unfortunately, authoritarian forces within the Earthan Republic are still simmering with rage at his victory. Rumors reach Straker of a growing new Republic Fleet manned by state loyalists. Planets begin to fall under their influence and go dark. Even in retirement, they see Straker’s Breakers as a threat.

This sequel to The Myth of the Anal Probe tells the story of what happens to Mike after he returns to Earth. He and his best friend Peter start a movement that is aimed at freeing the masses from control of a corrupt government while at the same time making the world a better place to live. That is no small order.

Da es in ihrem Territorium nun ein Dutzend Rebellenplaneten gibt, nimmt die Gemeinschaft Dirk Strecher, den als Liberator bezeichneten Emporkömmling, endlich zur Kenntnis und versammelt eine enorme Flotte, um ihn zu vernichten. Strecher bereitet sich auf eine gigantische interstellare Schlacht vor, in der er keine Chance zu haben scheint. Seine kleine Enklave freier Planeten kann es nicht mit der Macht von tausend Welten aufnehmen. Seine Offiziere und Unterstützer erkennen das, und manche sind entmutigt.

Mike has been abducted by aliens in this irreverent examination of the alien abduction mythos. He awakens not knowing how he got where he is. Bob, a wisecracking “alien,” greets him. Bob looks exactly like a human being. After much questioning, Mike discovers that people from Bob’s planet have been abducting humans for thousands of years. As part of that conversation, Mike learns that the reason Bob looks so much like a human being is that Earth was seeded by Bob’s planet.

Kommodore Strechers Rebellion gewinnt an Stärke, aber die Zahl seiner Feinde wächst noch schneller – einige davon sogar im Inneren. Er, Loco und Engels müssen verzweifelte Risiken eingehen, um immer mehr Planeten zu befreien, angefangen mit dem uralten freien Sonnensystem Sachsen. Wenn sie bei Sachsen besiegt werden, enden die Befreiungskriege, bevor sie richtig begonnen haben, und die Menschheit bleibt versklavt. Kann eine mutige Gruppe von Helden die Flammen der Freiheit durch die Galaxis ausbreiten?

The Republic, the Opters, and a strange Crystalline race of unknown origin all meet in a series of titanic battles. Commodore Straker summons thousands of ships, but he soon learns he’s technologically outclassed by the enemy. With traditional victory impossible, the race is on for each side to destroy the key worlds of the other. Billions die, entire planets are destroyed. Even while the war rages, dark suspicions grow. There are traitors in the midst of the chaos. Straker realizes the worst enemy is the one you believed to be your ally....

Stoßtruppleiter Dirk Strecher ist der führende Mechgrenadier der Hundert Welten. Leutnant Johnny Paloco ist sein bester Freund und ständig witzelnder Kumpel. Die Elitepilotin Leutnant Karla Engels steuert ihren Landefrachter. Zusammen mit dem 1. Mechgrenadier-Regiment haben sie schon Dutzende von Gefechten gegen die Invasion der außerirdischen Hok hinter sich. Aber in der Schlacht um Corinth geraten sie in eine schreckliche Lage. Es gibt keinen Ausweg mehr.