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Erwin Biener had a comfortable middle-class life as a child in Hungary until the Nazis arrived. He and his mother had to go through terrible times, first under the Nazis and then under the Soviets before they were able to escape and reach Canada. This book relates some of the scenes and horrors he experienced and the difficulties he and his mother faced when they finally made it to Canada.
Allison Bentley is a successful IT Consultant with an old-fashioned accounting firm in Chicago. She is also gay. She causes anger in some partners by her criticisms of the firm's obsolete technology and business practices and she is fired. She joins another firm and begins to take business from her old employers. They become increasingly frightened of her actions and the damage she is doing to the firm's business and the partners start to take action but find themselves descending a dangerous path to that can only lead to one bloody conclusion.
Mark and Anna meet the day before their thirteenth birthday when Mark moves to a new school. They discover more and more about each other and realise that they must be twins, adopted by different parents. But they also learn that they have unusual powers that show that they are not human. Eventually they learn of the two hundred year old war that has been fought on Earth by two groups from their home planet who were marooned on Earth by a space accident involving the ship that brought them. They learn that their natural parents have been kidnapped by a group that has gone rogue in its quest for wealth and that they are the only ones who can rescue them. Mark and Anna must draw on all their extraordinary powers and their courage to sort out this terrible mess.
Time travel is impossible, but a team of well-funded geneticists discovers that human DNA contains a full visual and aural record of every second of our lives and this can be retrieved and displayed. Then they discover that the DNA also holds a similar record of every one of our direct ancestors and this allows us to look back in time through the eyes of previous generations. Amazing discoveries are made, some old beliefs shattered, new historical truths discovered. Massive changes start to appear in what it means to be human and all of society will change irrevocably.
On retiring as a pilot from the Royal Air Force, Scott Mcintyre is invited to join a British group of agents known as the Mongoose Section. This group is tasked with protecting VIPs from international assassins and to hunt down these killers. One such killer, Mustapha al Yaffi had murdered Scott's parents and sister in a botched operation in Spain and Scott is eager to join Mongoose Section. But on hunting for al Yaffi all over the world. Scott finds that everything he learns about his target, his family and even himself is nothing that he could ever have expected.
Two soldiers returned from the wreckage of World War II and made themselves the richest men in America. They founded and have led a group of some of the most powerful men in the USA who plan a coup to take over the country and run it as a dictatorship for their own ends. A specialist group of highly secret and dedicated agents discovers the plot and starts trying to uncover the full scope of what is being planned and who is behind it all. But nobody, not the agents, nor even the members of the "New America Society" know the real details of the old men's plan and just how destructive it could be. As the day of the coup draws near, the members of "Task Force Five" must work frantically to prevent the catastrophe.
Rose Good's family from Ukraine and Poland endured all the horrors of the war in Eastern Europe and ended up in a Displaced Persons' Camp in Germany, one family among millions of lost people after WW11. Rose was born in that camp, her father died while she was still a baby. After years of being moved around camps in Europe, Rose and her mother were able to make it to Australia and lived in another series of camps until Scheyville - the last of the camps.
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