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Ancient secrets. Hidden danger. A lost masterpiece. Darwin Lacroix seeks a tranquil year in Paris guest lecturing at the esteemed École du Louvre, but fate has other plans. Beneath the museum's grandeur lie secrets of a murky past. A clandestine group formed in the Age of Enlightenment secretly controls the collections. During the wars, its unscrupulous curators conspired to squirrel away booty, cutting out the rightful owners. Billions in art: bought and sold for private gain. When French authorities pressure Darwin to expose the group’s dark agenda, he pushes back. But he soon ...

Fifty-five of the most powerful warships humankind has ever developed. Thirty-five allied alien vessels. One man who just might be humanity’s last hope. The admiral has restored Jonathan Dallas to the captaincy of the USS Callaway, also placing him in direct command of the new alien allies that joined the battle group after the destruction of the Elk homeworld. When the combined fleet begins making its way back to human space, they encounter a new threat to both of their races. As the death toll rises, Jonathan must come to terms with the fact that Earth might not exist anymore. "Welcome ...

In his long-awaited debut book, Author Jamar Camper asks the powerful, controversial question on everyone's mind, "Has political correctness culture gone too far?" To the point he suggests, it has cheapened the way people interact with each other. He explores why people's self-belief has dipped to all-time lows living in modern society. He points out that despite high salaries and living with the most advanced technology, societal depression and suicide rates are at all-time highs. He encourages the reader to completely ignore society's social pressures to become the best versions of ...

Unlock the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to grow your affiliate marketing business and take your online sales global with The 2024-2025 Beginner's Guide to AI in Affiliate & Network Marketing. Whether you're a newcomer or an experienced marketer, this book offers actionable strategies to simplify your marketing efforts and maximize your results using the latest AI tools. Learn how to sell your products online worldwide using AI, and discover easy AI product marketing strategies that will help you reach customers around the globe. This guide will walk you through how successful ...

We live in an era of rapid transformation, where the capabilities of machines grow daily, and artificial intelligence (AI) redefines the boundaries of possibility. What once seemed confined to science fiction—machines diagnosing diseases, creating art, or engaging in conversation—is now part of our daily reality. This revolution, however, is not just technological. It is human. As AI evolves, it forces us to reevaluate what makes us valuable, irreplaceable, and profoundly human.

Author Leo Lyon Zagami uses the Illuminati’s internal documents and reveals confidential and top-secret events. His book contends that the presence of numerous Illuminati brotherhoods and secret societies—just as those inside the most prestigious U.S. universities such as Yale or Harvard—have always been guides to the occult. From the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO)’s infiltration of Freemasonry to the real Priory of Sion, this book exposes the hidden structure of the New World Order and the occult practices of the various groups involved with it, including their connections to the ...

Join Jigi Brown on this naughty, funny, and incredibly adventurous journey as he bonks his way through Europe and learns to make the most of every moment. A diehard romantic, a perfect gentleman and an awkward engineering graduate student, Jigi Brown has never understood why black socks don't go with running shoes or why being too respectful and nice seems to be a turn-off for the ladies. After giving up on love and intimacy, Brown embarks on a solo two-month backpacking trip across Europe. On his first night in Paris, Brown meets Emma, a spontaneous and irreverent leukemia survivor, who ...

In the months after Pearl Harbor, the California coast was wide open to invasion by Japanese forces. A woman-led German, Italian and Japanese spy ring went into action, sabotaging American military efforts and spying on the U.S. Naval maneuvers off the West Coast. An aging Nob Hill gossip columnist with a World War I espionage background was recruited to hunt the Axis Powers' spies. The ragtag band of American counter-intelligence agents develop and run an operation that stops a Japanese invasion.

In an increasingly dystopic world, where governments create fear through crisis propaganda in an attempt to gain total control, David trips into power. This nineteen-year-old billionaire computer genius develops the most secure bitcoin in the world, destroying the monopoly previously held by the world’s elite power players. Now he’s got almost as many enemies as he has bitcoin credits, and they’re out for blood. As his enemies draw closer, taking their rage out on David’s family, David is confronted with his need for something – someone – to lean on. In his desperation, he turns...

It's 2050 and the start of the football renaissance. A revolutionary player development technology becomes the centrepiece for world sporting domination. Will the technology fall into the hands of rogue nations? When Gunnar Grimsson's player identification drone goes missing on the outskirts of Iceland's Reykjavik airport, foul play and subversion are to blame. Ambitious nations bent on dominating world football at all costs embark on a mission to steal the revolutionary technology. Will Gunnar have the clout to protect his proprietary invention from his adversaries? He may stand a chance ...

After ten years on the planet Tormst, Jake McDonald’s family has come to an impasse. The oldest son Brad, wants to return to Earth and discover what happened after more than a hundred years. A heated argument between Jake and his son ensues, and Brad leaves on the spaceship Phoenix with two other passengers. After several weeks of regret, Jake and Beth decide to follow Brad on a smaller, slower ship. When Jake and Beth arrive in orbit around Earth, there are no communications from radio or television. They land in Santa Barbara and find no people but instead a very diverse animal ...

Want to disrupt your retirement and leave the USA, either part-time or full-time for good? Everything you need to do is in this book, from figuring out how to get your mail, to domiciling in a tax-free state, to selling all of your stuff. This the How to Launch book of nomad life, full-time travel. You can leave the USA in less than a month if you want. Retirement can be full of change, excitement, and fascinating new experiences without breaking the bank. You can become: An intrepid explorer, A globe-trotting nomad, An endless adventurer. And you can: Eat delicious treats along the Danube,...

Boxed set of the complete Sons of Camelot series of Arthurian fantasy adventures, including: MEN OF EARTH (Book 1) History begets legends. Swords versus sorcery. Mortals cross paths with faeries. A high adventure of love, loss, treachery, and redemption. In the misty realm of Avalon, Rhys, a page for Morgana le Fae, is chosen to compete for a coveted spot as a Son of the Round Table. Trained in weaponry, he aspires to wield his skills for a greater cause. Eager to combat a northern threat, he must part with Naida, his forbidden faery love, who foresees ominous forces breaching the human ...

Lo mejor que se puede esperar en este mundo de cadáveres… es sobrevivir. Joni tiene que liderar un ejército de guardias en una batalla para evitar que el culto de Louis tome el control total del bloque y de la prisión. Pero ella guarda un secreto, y revelarlo podría destruir la motivación de su nuevo ejército para luchar. ¿Les cuenta la verdad y arriesga perder a los aliados que necesita para derrotar al culto? ¿O guarda su secreto, al menos hasta que el culto haya sido eliminado? Aunque eso signifique que su propio ejército se vuelva en su contra cuando finalmente revele su ...

In a world created by a wicked god, hundreds of people live in destruction and war. There is a war between races and slavery and no other god puts his hands in this world to help him. The protagonist reincarnated as an elf in this destroyed world, and elf is the most enslaved race, what will become of him now? After a disaster fell on our protagonist, another disaster come to end his peace, one more thing to affect him mentally? Or maybe just physical pain?

What would you do if you were mistaken for a world famous blogger because of your name? A light-hearted humorous romantic science fiction story. Monika, a shy nervous assistant librarian in a small English town is given notice of her redundancy because of spending cuts. Shortly afterwards she wakes up naked in a dentist's chair having been kidnapped by alien rodents disguised as Chinese dentists. After escaping in a stolen charity shop coat she gets arrested by a police officer whose sister bullied her at school and life goes downhill from there.

this book is a comprehensive guide that equips you with the knowledge and skills to harness the power of Terraform for efficient and scalable management of cloud infrastructure. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced practitioner, this book provides a step-by-step journey through the fundamentals and advanced concepts of Terraform. Discover the benefits of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and how Terraform simplifies the provisioning and management of infrastructure resources across multiple cloud providers. Learn how to write modular and reusable Terraform configurations, leverage ...

The Last Democrat: Joe Biden's Journey from Working Class to World Leader From bestselling political author Russell Knight comes an intimate, unflinching portrait of Joe Biden—the man, the president, and a symbol of an era that may be ending. Where History Meets Fiction: A Political Biographical Drama Inspired by True EventsWhat Readers Will Discover Step into the tense moments of the Situation Room during the Ukraine crisis. Witness the behind-the-scenes drama of historic legislative battles. Understand the deeply personal—and controversial—decision to pardon his own son. But The ...

How hostile external forces planned much of the chaos that has overtaken many within the Hip Hop generation and how creative urban youth can bring forward viable alternatives. The book examines hidden details of the lives and deaths of rap superstars and links their deaths to law enforcement agencies and other social-political factors.

After a gunshot wound knocks Garrett unconscious, he awakens to the knowledge that the danger isn’t yet over. Protecting himself and members of groups is paramount, but regaining his strength will prove to be his most difficult challenge yet. When an unexpected situation arises, the group knows they must pool their resources and rely on each other to overcome the evils and pain they’re soon to face. Will the group’s collective strength be enough to combat the danger?