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Sowjetunion, 1961: Major Alexander Vasin, Agent des KGB, wird mit einem Spezialauftrag in die isolierte Stadt Arsamas-16 geschickt. Er soll dort den mysteriösen Tod des jungen Physikers Fyodor Petrov untersuchen. In Arsamas-16 herrscht höchste Geheimhaltungsstufe, denn dort wird gerade die Testzündung der größten Wasserstoffbombe der Welt vorbereitet. Bei seinen Ermittlungen stößt Vasin auf eine Wand des Schweigens. Was versuchen die Forscher zu verbergen?

Moskau, 1962. Alexander Wassin ist der Top-Agentenjäger des KGB. Als es gilt, einen Maulwurf im Kreml aufzuspüren, kommt nur er dafür infrage. Während die Spannungen zwischen Chruschtschow und Kennedy zunehmen und die Kubakrise auf ihren Höhepunkt zusteuert, ahnt Wassin nicht, dass das Schicksal der Welt bald vom Erfolg seiner Mission abhängt - und von der Geduld des Kapitäns einer sowjetischen U-Boot-Flotte, der weit unter dem Meer auf die Befehle seiner Kommandanten wartet, zu denen er den Kontakt verloren hat.

Michael Owen's new autobiography will enable him to open up about his football life for the first time and set the record straight once and for all. It promises to make for an explosive listen and one of the most hotly anticipated football books of the year. The legendary striker published his first book, Off the Record, in 2004 but feels he didn't have a voice during his playing days, and now, six years after hanging up his boots, he can finally lift the lid on what really happened during his career.

22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observations. In these six series, taken from BBC Radio 3's The Essay, an array of novelists, poets, journalists and biographers chart the varied and inspiring walks they have taken around Britain and elsewhere. Here are treks taken at daybreak and after dark; in winter and in spring; in the footsteps of the past; and - in the case of Robert Macfarlane - along the ridges of the South Downs.

For centuries England has always had a leading and admired reputation for its poets and poetry. In this volume we explore those born in the West Midlands who created such revered, enduring and respected verse.

This podcast is filled with the always relatable farm problems, hunting issues and the nitty gritty of how hard farming is. The podcast is curated by Owen Murray and brought to life by Michael Murray and joined by the occasional guest.

Fulfilling her mom’s dying wish, Maisy goes to live with her dad on the Citadel, a fancy name for an ore processing plant built into the side of an asteroid. There, she discovers the terrible truth.

Your Nerdy Obsession podcast will excite, educate and examine hobbies or pursuits that preoccupy the guests time. The definition of nerdy is an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit. The definition of obsession is an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person's mind.

Building perspective can only happen from understanding multiple points of view. This podcast aims at helping people grow through reinterpreting the reality we experience.

The JuntoCast is a monthly podcast about early American history. Each episode features a roundtable discussion by academic historians, Ken Owen, Michael Hattem, Roy Rogers, and guest panelists, exploring a single aspect of early American history in depth. The JuntoCast brings the current knowledge of academic historians to a broad audience in an informal, conversational format that is intellectually engaging, educational, and entertaining.

Mitchell Irwin isn’t the sort of a man who believes in second chances. Once upon a time, this respected Shakespearean actor sold his soul to Hollywood in exchange for fame and fortune. Ignoring a warning to be careful what you wish for, he has become a cynical, world-weary celebrity searching for escape from rumors of another scandal. He finds sanctuary in a remote little fishing village populated by artists, poets, and fishermen who don’t know who he is.

“Does the past change the future or does the future change the past?” Romance. Suspense. Mystery. Set in the Ireland, early 1970s. Strangely, for more than a year, photo-journalist Natalie McKenna has been dreaming of another woman’s life. This no-nonsense 30-year veteran of armed conflicts arrives in Ireland prepared to document “the troubles” in Northern Ireland, but totally unprepared to fall in love with a man she was predestined to meet.

An aquaponic system basically involves a troika of organisms that live in harmony and support each other. You have the fish that create the ammonia, the bacteria that feed on this ammonia and turn it into nitrites, and the plants which benefit from the nutritious water and can also be converted into fish food and a source of ammonia. You are basically creating a balance and self-sustaining eco-system that can produce everything you and your family need to have a nutritious and balanced diet.

Do you ever feel like you cannot understand what you are reading? Or, that you feel like reading takes up much of your time even when it's actually not supposed to? Well, maybe, it's high time that you learn how to read faster, or in other words, learn the technique of speed reading. Speed reading denotes collective techniques that are used to help you read faster while still being able to understand what you are reading. Back in the day, education specialists and psychologists used devices called tachiotoscopes to determine how fast people read.

What if good & evil were related? We first meet our hero in a mountain top village where the peace is bound come to an end... "The grass dances in the warm breeze in celebration, back lit by the waning light of an afternoon sun. Today is special. After a long drought, the thirst is finally quenched with the blood of a dove. A lone crow picks at the dying dove. It stands on the dove's broken wing, pinning it down with its crude, reptilian feet."

Maisy and her friends have been expelled from the Citadel, a corporate-owned station at the edge of known space. Now they’re limping their way toward a newly discovered planet aboard the Oro Zapato, a “colony ship” that is nothing more than a badly damaged freighter held together with duct tape and good intentions.