A rash of killings threatens “The Way Life Should be” in Downeast MaineThe Downeast region of the Maine coast is known for its independent, hard-working people, its picturesque settings — and its seafood. But behind the thousand islands, the countless miles of coastline, and the postcard scenery, bad things are happening in Acadia National Park.Kendra Hale, fresh off a dangerous assignment in Miami, is brought in by the FBI’s Special Projects Group to assis...

M2S is a puzzle which incorporates 3x3 magic squares into a Sudoku matrix. It is a puzzle inside a puzzle. Magic squares are a 3x3 matrix where the sum of the rows, columns and main diagonals all add up to the same number. In the case of a 3x3 matrix, the sum of the number is 15. In Sudoku, where the rows and columns contain the numbers 1-9, the cells in the magic square matrix can be used as clues to aid in solving the larger Sudoku puzzle.

What if it all came crashing down?It started with the "Biggest" stock market crash in history. Banks shut down under the weight of their bogus investments, and the financial sector failed. People looked to the government to make it all better. They couldn't! Hyper-inflation, mass unemployment and infrastructure started to breakdown. The food trucks didn't show up at the stores and the shelves went empty.Things turned ugly fast when there was no pow...

Terrorists target Lady LibertyThe Hudson River and Long Island Sound provide historic, vibrant, and simply beautiful settings—until terrorists begin setting off dirty bombs along their shores. Kendra Hale and Ian Starbuck, special agents for the FBI’s Special Projects Group, are called in to stop the mayhem, uncovering a sophisticated network of jihadists whose goal is to render Manhattan uninhabitable. Nuclear waste is their weapon of choice, and they have the fin...

Blackmail on the High SeasKendra Hale and Ian Starbuck, agents for the FBI’s Special Projects Group and fresh from their recent case solving a string of murders on the Maine coast, are tasked with stopping a group of wreckers, modern-day criminal counterparts of 19th-century marine salvors. Technology is their weapon of choice and blackmail is the payoff. Can the duo stop a plot to destroy an iconic harbor on the New England coast?Filled with the action, ad...

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An original and thought-provoking text, Russian and Soviet History uses noteworthy themes and important events from Russian history to spark classroom discussion. Consisting of twenty essays written by experts in each area, the book does not simply repeat the conventional themes found in nearly all Russian history texts, anthologies, and documentary compilations. Rather, it showcases current thinking on Russian cultural, political, economic, and social history from the end of the sixteenth...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes, the consequences of which still resonate today, as Russia has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more—from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain."With searing clarity, Red Famine demonstrates the horrific consequences of a campaign to eradicate 'backwardness' when undertaken by a regime in...

Spanning the divide between Europe and Asia, Russia is a multi-ethnic empire with a huge territory, strategically placed and abundantly provided with natural resources. But Russia's territory has a harsh climate, is cut off from most maritime contact with the outside world, and has open and vulnerable land frontiers. It has therefore had to devote much of its wealth to the armed forces, and the sheer size of the empire has made it difficult to mobilise resources and to governeffectively, e...

A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his worldIt has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band seizes control of the country in the aftermath of total world war, the former seminarian ruthlessly dominates the new regime until he stands as absolute ruler of a vast and terr...

Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this crash. In a crisp, concise, unsentimental narrative, they employ three case studies–East Germany, Romania, and Poland–to illuminate what led Communist regimes to surrender, or to be ...

The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nation's history. Beginning with the period since 1945, he travels back in time to highlight the long-term themes and traditions which have influenced present attitudes.His evocative account reveals Poland as the heart of Europe in more than the geographical sense. It is a country where Europe'...