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A dream ten-day honeymoon in Venice! What could possibly go wrong? Well, for Metro Detective Rich Vitelli and his new wife, Pam, just about everything!First, the wife of Pam's friend, Calvin Iams, is abducted from their Venetian hotel. Then Iams gets word that unless he cooperates in the theft of millions of dollars' worth of contemporary art, his wife, Donna, will be killed. And so, a grand scheme begins to play out: a plan masterminded by Vi...

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PRAISE FOR SILENT WARRIORS"It would be impossible for one book to adequately tell the individual stories of the nearly 16, 000 submariners who battled in the Pacific theater during World War II. Collectively, they served on 263 submarines and made 1, 472 war patrols while taking that fight to the Japanese. They paid a high price: 52 lost boats and 3, 482 dead submariners. Silent Warriors effectively uses the fictional exploits of one such subm...

The year is 1941. Shortly after the United States declares war on Japan in response to Pearl Harbor, Japan's Tripartite Treaty allies, Germany and Italy, declare war on America. The United States finds itself in a two-theater war. President Franklin Roosevelt sets as America's first priority the defeat of Nazi Germany, electing to wage a more-or-less holding war in the Pacific. In the beginning, the only force opposing the Japanese onslaught i...

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Wusstest du, dass eine Giraffe sich die Ohren auslecken kann? Und dass Astronauten in Staubsauger pinkeln? Dass Orangen eine Kreuzung aus Pampelmuse und Mandarine sind und ursprünglich grün waren? Dass Ketchup früher Medizin war und Seegurken nicht mit Salatgurken verwandt sind? Und dass es Fische gibt, die auf Bäumen leben? Oder dass es für Barbie ein lebendes Vorbild gab und blaues Blut tatsächlich existiert? 321 vergnügliche und überraschen...