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London, April 1942. US Navy Commander Anthony Romella is handpicked to serve under the US Embassy’s Naval Attaché in London. Working with the top secret British Special Operations Executive at Bletchley Park, Tony is clandestinely deployed to a French resistance cell near the German U-boat base at Lorient.

Lieutenant Commander Anthony “Tony” Romella, US Navy is a specialist in the field of communications intelligence. Little did Tony know that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor would have such a direct impact on his career and life. He is urgently ordered from his comfortable duty in Washington, DC to an assignment at Bletchley Park, the British communications intelligence center.

This is a top-quality audiobook of G. K. Chesterton's biography of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Brought to you by Penguin. No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium. When gifted young knight Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a place on the Round Table, he quickly discovers...

'AN EXCEPTIONAL READ' - Motor Cycle News 'STUART BARKER IS TO WRITING WHAT VALENTINO ROSSI IS TO RIDING [...] A MUST-READ FOR ALL BIKE NUTS' - DAILY MIRROR 'At high speed everything becomes more difficult and more beautiful. When you're racing at 180mph, the semi-bends become bends, the little...

A daring mission in the depths of the Norwegian forest awaits Commander Tony Romella in the fall of 1942. Tasked by the British Special Operations Executive to gather intelligence relative to Hitler's race for a secret weapon, Tony leads a team of radio intelligence operators on a harrowing Top Secret mission. But the return trip to London proves just as dangerous as the mission itself. Tony quickly finds that being back in London does not guarantee safety, and soon he is entangled in the search for dangerous spies operating in the heart of the Allies' intelligence community.

Bloomsbury presents Stealing Hitler's Rocket, written and read by Guy Walters. 'As vivid and enthralling as the story deserves… recounted with a quiet restraint that makes it all the more devastating' The Telegraph Adolf Hitler’s plan to break British morale during the months after the D-Day...

Commander Tony Romella takes a small team on what is expected to be a routine one month trip to Casablanca, Morocco. Their mission is simply to provide a temporary Top Secret special intelligence communications center to support U.S. members of a high level Allied war planning meeting. An easy mission quickly goes awry. Only two months after the Allied assault and occupation of Casablanca (Operation TORCH), the city remains a hotbed of Vichy and German sympathizers and spies. One unexpected event leads to another. Things get dicey, with life threatening situations, shots fired and dead bodies.

Casey Whitmore was born beautiful —and he’s spent a lifetime turning beauty into power. The golden-haired son of two physicians, Casey escapes into the art world, where talent and charm carry him from provocative affairs with his professors to the glittering heights of New York society. As a jewelry designer whose pieces gleam in Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus, he builds a world of swans, benefactors, and high-fashion intrigue —leaving behind lovers as easily as last season’s collection. But reinvention comes at a cost.

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's great tragedies, and in this study guide we analyse the key meanings and subtleties within the play. We discuss the main protagonists, the key themes and the context and break down the core scenes so that you have all the necessary facts and arguments at your disposal. Written by Catherine Hartley and Stella Vassiliou, both of whom have master's degrees in English literature from Cambridge and Oxford Universities respectively.

Whether we like it or not, work is central to our lives. Most of us define ourselves by our work; it gives us a purpose, it enables us to maintain our lives, our homes, our nourishment, our recreational pursuits and it puts us often among like-minded people who share and appreciate our skills...

A meditation on the importance of atheism in the modern world - and its inadequacies and contradictions - by one of Britain's leading philosophers. 'When you explore older atheisms, you will find some of your firmest convictions - secular or religious - are highly questionable. If this prospect disturbs you, what you are looking for may be freedom from thought.' For a generation now, public debate has been corroded by a narrow derision of religion in the name of an often very vaguely understood 'science'.

Long ago the world fell into twilight, when the great empires of old consumed each other in sorcerous cataclysms. In the south the Star Towers fell, swallowed by the sea, while the black glaciers descended upon the northern holdfasts, entombing the cities of Min-Ceruth in ice and sorcery. Then from the ancient empire of Menekar the paladins of Ama came, putting every surviving sorcerer to the sword and cleansing their taint from the land for the radiant glory of their lord.

New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft is back with the newest adventures of Jordan, Drew, Liam, and all the characters that fans first met in New Kid, winner of the Newbery Award and the Coretta Scott King Author Award! The gang from Riverdale Academy Day is heading to Paris, for an...

At a Manhattan rec center pool on 54th Street, lonely thirty-year-old writer Pete Henshaw becomes captivated by a lean, golden-haired swimmer with luminous gray eyes—Mark Markum, twenty-three and effortlessly radiant in and out of the water. What begins as silent admiration turns into a novel born of longing, courage, and possibility. Told in alternating first-person voices, *Chlorine Blue* is a tender, intimate romance about being truly seen—and finding the nerve to dive into love instead of just writing about it.

The System has arrived. Soon, magic will permeate the entire planet, society will be disrupted, and Dungeon-spawned monsters will walk the Earth. A few lucky people — or unlucky enough to become merely the first die horribly - have been given the honor of becoming Exemplars and given System-provided power to either help or torment their fellow humans. This is one of their stories.

It is the early 1600s and the City of London sees Queen Elizabeth living out her dying days as Scottish King James waits in the wings to take to the throne. Meanwhile, in Southwark, along the south bank of the River Thames, Master Hardy Drew, Constable of the Bankside Watch, maintains law and order amongst the cut-throats and smugglers, in the taverns and brothels, as well as with the gentlefolk, who flock across the river to enjoy the latest plays by Shakespeare and Jonson.

A quick listen, Hitchcockian thriller about survival, corruption, and the price of silence. In 1950s Connecticut, David Ashford inherits a sprawling manor and its darkest secret: a spiral staircase that descends into darkness, and a family curse that has claimed three lives in two years. When David discovers his late uncle's hidden chamber beneath the house, he uncovers a blackmail operation far more sinister than he imagined. His uncle isn't dead. And he's been waiting.

In this fascinating deep dive into the evolution of monetary systems around the globe, Nik Bhatia takes us into the origins of how money has evolved to function in a “layered” manner. Using gold as an example of this term, he traces the layers of this ancient currency from raw mined material, to gold coins, and finally to bank-issued gold certificates. In a groundbreaking manner, Bhatia offers a similar paradigm for the evolution of digital currencies.

Days before the birth of his first son, writer and academic John M. Hull started to go blind. He would lose his sight entirely, plunged into darkness, unable to distinguish any sense of light or shadow. Soon, he had forgotten what his wife and daughter looked like. In Notes on Blindness, John reveals his profound sense of loss, his altered perceptions of time and space, of waking and sleeping, love, and companionship. With astonishing lucidity of thought and no self-pity, he describes the horror of being faceless, and asks what it truly means to be a husband and father.