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Greg Iles – Collection: Black Cross, 24 Hours, Third Degree

BLACK CROSS: It is January 1944. The whole world awaits the Allied invasion of Europe. But in England, Winston Churchill has learned that Nazi scientists have developed Sarin―a horrifying new weapon that could turn the tide for Hitler. Only a desperate gamble can avert disaster. Two men―a pacifist American doctor and a fanatical Jewish assassin―must embark on a murderous mission into the heart of Germany. Their target: a human hell where Jews fuel Hitler’s last hope for victory.

24 HOURS: Will Jennings is a successful young doctor in Jackson, Mississippi, with his whole life ahead of him. He has a thriving practice, a beautiful wife, and a young daughter he loves beyond measure. But Will and his family are being watched by a con man and psychopath. A man whose life’s work strikes at the heart of every family’s nightmare: the unstoppable kidnapping.

THIRD DEGREE: Laurel Shields awakens to find that her husband, Warren, a prominent local physician, is not in bed with her. She locks herself in the master bath, opens a home pregnancy testing kit, and fearfully tests herself. PREGNANT, announces the digital readout. Laurel quickly hides the evidence. She is not sure who the father is. So begins the most terrifying day in the history of a marriage, one that in less than five hours will make the Shields house the vortex of a nerve-wracking siege.

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Self University: The Price of Tuition Is the Desire to Learn : Your Degree Is a Better Life

From the search for meaning to creating your own credentials, Self-University is a liberating, life-centering experience.

From the text:

The caterpillar is condemned to crawl, but the butterfly has the potential to soar above with an all-inclusive view of the world. As humans we complete our caterpillar stage when we reach mature physical growth. If we are to soar like the butterflies, we must do so through the development of our minds.$Q$ Charles D. Hayes