In a refugee asylum in the Swiss Alps, 12 people meet, all fugitives from the New World Order and the altered morale of the Third Millennium. All of them have obtained a dangerous knowledge that further on makes a normal life-style impossible. While awaiting the decision on their application to Switzerland, they exchange their different experiences until they are transferred to a leap in the dark.

The book contains 37 short-stories:A B-Mans NightmareHow the English Language got its strange TuneThe New Earl of BalmoreHow Are You, Today?A Matter of ConcentrationNightly DepartureThe Emperor's New RulesCalled to the BossNevaljashkaMy World-Famous ModestyPromotionIs there a Doctor on Board?Tale of the TieExplosive DepartureA Strange RewardDysthanasiaRudolph Rednose

Anaesthetist, you know what anaesthesia is?"YES" - You know too much. Read this book and see how little you knew."NO, and I don't care"- A general problem, further analyzed here in order to explain how anaesthetists lost touch with their basic concepts."NO, but I am interested" - A book for those who are not seeking simple answers to complex questions. This book is opening for neglected topics

In this book, we are concerned with our security agents, and if the tenor of this description is right, we are then dealing with the greatest terrorists, according to their accomplishments. In contrast, normal citizens are treated as their enemies, so far without justification since we tolerate their actions without noteworthy resistance. Ironically, if you redefine a terrorist from their destruction of civil rights, the biggest terrorists of our time will be found in various governments. ...

Return to Hougoumont is a graphic account of a defining moment in the Battle of Waterloo. Early on in this momentous battle French troops drove contingents of the Coldstream Guards from a pine wood and into the adjacent Hougoumont Farm where the main Guards contingent was dug in within the walls. For a brief moment there was a chance for the French to breach the North Gate, it was bloody and glorious. Death was indescriminate in this struggle and heroes decided the fate of many.Had...

It happened in the mystical magical Dark Ages in a Province called Kantine, ruled by Sakajians. Sakajian warlords vied for power, the mightiest of whom controlled even the King. Brotherhood was vague. Sisterhood was held only by the Priestesses of the Mist, who were nearly diminished.Kamara Lania is a priestess striving to unite the realm with the divine love. Meanwhile, a violent self-serving warlord, Kayenté Ketola, is acquiring dominion of the realm on ...

History professor and former FBI profiler Carolyn Masters moved to the moon to escape her past. It was supposed to be a new start teaching at Armstrong University in famous Armstrong City, a small town built underground on the moon. But she isn't there long before her colleague and Lunar Independence advocate is murdered. Now, she, along with Michael Cheravik, former Dallas homicide detective, must solve the mystery, save the earth from terrorists, and maybe exorcise the demons from their ...

Janette Oke has dreamed for years of retelling a story in a biblical time frame from a female protagonist's perspective, and Davis Bunn is elated to be working with her again on this sweeping saga of the dramatic events surrounding the birth of Christianity...and the very personal story of Leah, a young Jewess of mixed heritage trapped in a vortex of competing political agendas and private trauma.Caught up in the maelstrom following the death of an obscure rabbi in the Roman backwa...

Book 1 in the Refiner's Fire series. The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Caroline's eyes are opened for the first time to the men and women who have cared tirelessly for her. Her journey of maturity and faith will draw her into the abolitionist movement, where she is confronted with the ...

Bestselling Author Tracie Peterson Embarks on a New SeriesLeah Barringer's world is turned upside down when her brother brings home Jayce Kinicaid, the man who spurned her ten years ago. Part of an expedition to the Arctic, Jayce shocks Leah by inviting her brother along.Helaina Beecham arrives in Alaska to hunt down the man the Pinkertons have sent her to apprehend. But when Jayce Kincaid appears to have been in two places at the same time, Helaina wonders if there might b...

Heart of Darkness (1899) is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow's life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is "a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land." In the course of his travel in central Africa, Marlow becomes obsessed with Mr. Kurtz....

As a member of the North Cascades Smokejumpers, Alexia Allen always takes care of the equipment that keeps her safe. So when she nearly dies in a fire due to equipment failure, she knows something is up. Ordered to take time off while the investigation continues, Alexia makes a last-minute decision to recuperate at her mother's home and attend her high school reunion. Yet trouble seems to be following her, and within hours of arriving home she's involved with murder, arson--and a handsome ...