A police officer desperate to save lives.A reckless pirate captain looking to self-destruct.By dating colleagues, Robin Hall had broken the cardinal rule at work, and now that mistake is following her around like a buzzing bee. Robin wants an escape, but she'd promised her friends she'd join them at the Tall Ships festival. While desperately searching for them, a handsome but disheveled man spouts crazy details of a historical world, and she's determined...

Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation. After the war, the famed Monuments Men (and women) recovered several hundred thousand pieces from the Germans' makeshift repositories. Well publicized restitution cases, such as that of Gustav Klimt's luminous painting featured in the film Woman in Gold, illustrate the legacy of Nazi looting in the art world today. But what happened to looted art that was never returned...

New York Times–Bestselling Author: His wealthy family drove them apart once. Can the successful pilot and the single mom ever trust each other again? His voice is familiar. Overpowering. Sexy. But he can't be the man she loved. Because Matt Harper is dead . . . Julia Espinoza fell for Matt Harper despite his reputation and the social gulf between them. Then he broke her heart and went to Afghanistan with the Air Force-where, she later learned,...

Revenge and risky decisions, plunder and passion on the high seas. Captain Mack and his first mate Jake Raw enjoy everything that life on the high seas has to offer in between their mission of revenge on the corrupt governor of Antigua. When they team up with a desperate widow on a mission to avenge her husband's untimely death, this pair of pirates find her to be an unexpected treasure. Blythe is an irresistible beauty whose bountiful body makes...

Der Dortmunder Arzt, Dr. Michael Beyer, ist überrascht, als ihm ein eigenartiges Erbe zuteilwird. Eine Patientin hat ihm allerhand Plunder auf ihrem Dachboden hinterlassen und dazu einen Brief mit einem vermeintlich gefährlichen Auftrag. Dem soll er sich mit der Enkelin der Verstorbenen, Eva Maybaum, stellen. Gemeinsam wagen sich die zwei an die Lösung des Rätsels, dessen Ursprung in den 1970er Jahren liegt. Aber je weiter sie sich der Wahrheit...

Hunting kraken from balloon ships is something Miles Darkling only dreams about. He's never traveled by floating castle, or plundered shipwrecks, or sought treasure with a giant buccaneer. All he knows is school, books, and tests. But when he is elected to compete in a pirate's trial South of Antarctica, his wildest dreams become reality. He is taken to a place of unbelievable wonder and danger where he finds not only friends, pirating sports, and...

Get the Summary of Frederic Bastiat's The Law in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat is a treatise on the principles of justice, property, and individual rights as they relate to the law. Bastiat argues that the law has been corrupted from its original purpose of protecting these rights into a tool for legal plunder, where the law is manipulated to benefit a select few at the expense of...

The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism. From Haussmann's attempts to use urban planning to rid 19th-century Paris of workers revolution to the contemporary metropolis, including urban disaster-zones such as downtown Detroit, Merrifield reveals how the urban experience has been profoundly shaped by...

In April 1945, Soviet forces descended on Berlin in the final phase of the war in Europe. The fighting was fierce as soldiers fanatically loyal to the Nazi party - and those afraid of the vengeance their opponents might enact - sought to stave off the end of the regime as long as possible. Even as it became clear that defeat was inevitable, Hitler and his subordinates determined to fight to the bitter end, resulting in a bitter, brutal end to the...

For fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden comes the tale of Olaf Tryggvason and his adventures in the battle-scarred kingdom of Wagria. It is AD 972. Olaf Tryggvason and his oath-sworn protector, Torgil, are once again on the move. They have left the Rus kingdom and now travel the Baltic Sea in search of plunder and fame. But a fateful storm, lands them on the Vendish coastline in a kingdom called Wagria (present-day Holstein). There, they...