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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Golden Buddha by Clive Cussler with Craig Dirgo, read by J. Charles. When Cabrillo and his ship are hired by the US government to find an ancient statue known as the Golden Buddha, stolen from the Dalai Lama in 1959, the stakes couldn't be higher...

Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misfit. As a result they share their small Vientiane house with an assortment of homeless people, mendicants, and oddballs. One of these oddballs is Noo, a Buddhist monk who rides out on his bicycle one day and never comes back, leaving only a cryptic note in the refrigerator - a plea to help a fellow monk escape across the Mekong River to Thailand. Naturally, Siri can't turn down the adventure.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Sacred Stone by Clive Cussler with Craig Dirgo, read by J. Charles. Tens of thousands of years ago: a fist of stone punches through the Earth's atmosphere and falls on the snowy wastes of Greenland - its deadly secret waiting to be found by man... The...

Clive Cussler's fifth Oregon Files novel, Plague Ship, pits Juan Cabrillo against a deadly adversary. In a Norwegian glacier during World War Two a Nazi officer makes an extraordinary discovery - the most legendary ship of all time . . . Sixty years later Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon...

The Silent Sea is the gripping seventh novel in Clive Cussler's Oregon Files series. December, 1941. Four brothers investigate the secrets of a treasure pit on a small island in the Pacific. But a sudden death and the coming war allow its secrets to lie forgotten. . . Present day. Juan Cabrillo...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Mirage by Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul, read by Scott Brick. In October 1943 a US destroyer vanished out of Philadelphia, the result of a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation. The story was considered a hoax - but...

Drake, Allie, and Spencer reunite in Emerald Buddha, the second Drake Ramsey adventure - a quest to locate the lost treasure of the Khmer Empire, secreted away in a hidden temple somewhere in Myanmar. But nothing is as it seems, and their archaeological expedition soon turns deadly when desperate factions target them in order to safeguard a secret that could topple the US government.

At 18 years old Simon Paul Sutton found himself in prison, with nothing but a life of drug dealing and burglary waiting for him on the outside. On his release, Simon vowed to escape. Making the decision to become an actor was the lifeline Simon needed. It led him to theatre school and then to acting in TV and films. During those years he began questioning his existence and asking the big life questions. Who am I? Why am I here? What is truth? And then love showed up and changed everything.

जयंतनगर में छोटे-छोटे बच्चों का क़त्ल हो रहा है, पर क़ातिल का कोई सुराग़ नहीं मिल रहा। पुलिस को लगता है कि ये एंटी-नैशनल लोगों का काम है, जो हिंदू-मुस्लिम एकता को तोड़ना चाह रहे हैं, जिससे जयंतनगर में लॉ एंड ऑर्डर की समस्या खड़ी हो जाए। शहर में NRC और CAA का विरोध हो रहा है। पुलिस को लगता है कि कोई ऐसा आदमी इस सिचुएशन का फ़ायदा उठना चाह रहा है, जिसकी पकड़ हिंदू और मुस्लिम दोनों ग्रूप में है। इधर सुगंधा की शादी को काफ़ी साल हो गए हैं पर उसे अभी तक बच्चा नहीं हुआ, इसलिए वह बच्चा पाने के लिए किसी भी हद तक जाने को तैयार है।

'Savage, brilliant, merciless and mad as hell' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A thriller's bones, a satire's glare, and a comeuppance story's anarchic spirit' NEW YORKER 'Lives up to the hype' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE Nathan says he loves me because I let him see me, and he knows how hard that is. He appreciates...

An intricately layered erotic thriller that reveals esoteric teachings on power, ritual, and channeling Includes dramatic insights into the first Christian heretics, such as Marcion of Pontus, and secret power rituals at work in the Vatican In this initiatic novel, bestselling author and...

A partially decomposed body of a young woman is discovered in a park in Pasadena, California. The woman was strangled but not sexually assaulted. The police suspect she might be a missing heiress who disappeared over a year ago, but dental records prove them wrong. But who is she? And is there a link between the heiress and this corpse? The celebrated detective Virgil Tibbs reshapes the known facts regarding these two women and discovers astonishing connections.

In the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Oregon Files series, Chairman Juan Cabrillo and his crew are hired by the US government to free Tibet from Chinese control... The Corporation, a group of highly intelligent and skilled mercenaries, under the leadership of Juan Cabrillo...

Sean Lincoln, an ex intelligence agent turned investigative reporter is approached by the beautiful Sarah Scott, a woman with a mysterious past and a story so incredible that if true will not only alter the perception of human history, but the course of humanity’s future.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters who has become one of America’s most inspiring Buddhist practitioners while locked in a cell on death row. Jarvis Jay Masters’s early life was a horror story whose outline we know too...

"Gyllene buddha" är den första delen i serien Oregonarkiven där vi får möta Cusslers nye actionhjälte Juan Cabrillo - fartyget "Oregons" mycket karismatiske kapten. Bara en man av Cabrillos kaliber kan förvandla ett gammalt lastfartyg till en flytande spioncentral utrustad med högteknologiska avlyssningsapparater och avancerade vapensystem - och bara han klarar de farliga uppdrag som "Oregons" besättning tar sig an.

Schnell kommt Amanda dort auf andere Gedanken: eine faszinierende Stadt, neue Bekannte, Einladungen bei der High Society, der Zauber Asiens, dazu ein stimmungsvolles Weihnachtsfest unter Freunden … aber der weihnachtliche Frieden wird jäh gestört, als ein erstes Opfer auf einer Weihnachtsfeier stirbt. Selbst unter den oberen Zehntausend von Hongkong ist niemand mehr sicher und so bleibt es nicht bei einem Toten. Langsam zieht sich das Netz zu und während Amanda sich – mal wieder – zwischen zwei Männern entscheiden muss, gerät sie selbst ins Visier des Mörders.

It is 1878, and Dr. Poppy Stamford has reluctantly rekindled her relationship with Sherlock Holmes. Though it has been almost four years since they parted on uneasy terms and while he continues to suppress his feelings for her, they are still intrigued and inspired - and frustrated - by each other. When her beloved uncle is arrested in relation to a series of murders near the British Museum, Poppy and the burgeoning detective set out to find the evidence to set him free.

Women are being murdered on campus. Thomas Yanter can't sleep, nor can he be certain that he's not the murderer. A model student with a secret, compromised past, Yanter's life is upended when the mysterious Tami of his high-school days resurfaces in his life, her presence drawing him ever closer to the epicenter of campus violence. Then, Yanter finds a pool of blood in a hidden underground passage and black pools his memory can't recover on the nights women were murdered. Is his obsession to find the true murderer - or his own true identity? Thomas is terrified that it might be both.

Heroically triumphing over her abusive ex who abducted their daughter, Luna, Diana Atestesso has to rise from the ashes. What more unlikely way to do that than to team up with her lost love, Finn, to build a bar named Sacred Hearts that unexpectedly becomes a haven for “freaks” of all kinds - a gonzo journalist, a drag-queen diva, a lesbian musical virtuoso, and Diana’s mentor, Selene, who embarks on an unexpected same-sex relationship in her twilight years? But not everyone joins the celebration.