Thirteen Hours To You


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For seventeen years I'd lived in Adalita, Pennsylvania, a town that took pleasure in my torment and refused to leave me as anything but broken. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Four months ago, I left. ⠀⠀⠀I'd driven thirteen hours to Everlee Falls, ⠀⠀⠀Georgia, to live with my Gamma for senior year. I'd moved to give myself the chance to fall in love with a life that I'd missed out on for far too long.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀I'd expected to find hope, ⠀⠀⠀I'd hoped to find freedom, ⠀⠀⠀but I'd never expected him.⠀⠀⠀I was too damaged to recognize the beginning.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀But all it took was a moment, and he was positive he'd invade every one of mine. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀If I pushed, he pulled. If I ran, he followed.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀I was his fate.⠀⠀⠀Meekai was my north star.⠀⠀⠀I was what he chose to remember.⠀⠀⠀He was a goodbye my soul refused to forget.⠀⠀⠀*Trigger Warning: Please be warned, this duet includes scenes of sexual assault and sensitive subject matter.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀




Thirteen Hours


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Can you fall in love in thirteen hours? It's her birthday but lonely workaholic Dana Watts is at the office late, drafting a proposal. The very last interruption she expects comes in the form of the most beautiful breasts she has ever seen. These belong to an incredibly hot woman, who is standing in front of her, stripping to music. Laurel Stanley performs strip-o-grams to pay her way through school. She has never encountered a more ungrateful recipient than Dana. The uptight project manager makes it clear that she is furious to be distracted from her work by the gift a colleague sent and equally appalled by Laurel's occupation. After Dana is rude and insulting, and insists on escorting Laurel from the building, the two women take an elevator ride that changes everything. Stuck with each other for thirteen long hours after the elevator breaks down, they discover how wrong first impressions can be and how right two strangers can feel together. Can everything change in less than a day? Dana and Laurel set out to discover if their passionate elevator encounter can mean more in this fast-paced, erotic story of lust, loneliness, fantasy, and desire.




13 Hours


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The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 Hours presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to repel the attackers and protect the Americans stationed there. Those men went beyond the call of duty, performing extraordinary acts of courage and heroism, to avert tragedy on a much larger scale. This is their personal account, never before told, of what happened during the thirteen hours of that now-infamous attack. 13 Hours sets the record straight on what happened during a night that has been shrouded in mystery and controversy. Written by New York Times bestselling author Mitchell Zuckoff, this riveting book takes readers into the action-packed story of heroes who laid their lives on the line for one another, for their countrymen, and for their country. 13 Hours is a stunning, eye-opening, and intense book--but most importantly, it is the truth. The story of what happened to these men--and what they accomplished--is unforgettable.




Thirteen Hours


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Your home was the one place you felt safe. Now it’s your prison. You were invisible. Now your every move is monitored by masked strangers. You looked after your mum, your best friend. Now you barely know her. Everything can change in thirteen hours.




Thirteen Hours


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A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick! Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger Award 2010 They killed her best friend. Now they are chasing Rachel Anderson through the streets of Cape Town. The young tourist doesn't dare trust anyone - except her father, back home in America. When he puts pressure on the politicians, they know that to protect their country's image, they must find Rachel's hiding place before the killers. So Benny Griessel - detective, maverick and father of teenagers himself - has just 13 hours to crack open a conspiracy which threatens the whole country.




Thirteen Hours


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Winner of the Barry Award for Best Thriller [2011] Winner of the 2009 ATKV Prize for Suspense Fiction (South Africa) Finalist for the 2010 CWA International Dagger Shortlisted for the 2011 Boeke Prize Shortlisted for the 2011 Sunday Times Fiction Award Finalist for the 2011 Macavity Award––Best Mystery Novel Finalist for the 2011 Barry Awards––Best Thriller FINALIST 2012 – Dutch Crimezone Thriller Awards An unputdownable thriller from South Africa's #1-bestselling crime writer. Some would call Detective Benny Griessel a legend. Others would call him a drunk. Either way, he has trodden on too many toes over the years ever to reach the top of the promotion ladder, and now he concentrates on staying sober and mentoring the new generation of crime fighters — mixed race, Xhosa and Zulu. But when an American backpacker disappears in Cape Town, panicked politicians know who to call: Benny has just thirteen hours to save the girl, save his career, and crack open a conspiracy, which threatens the whole country. A potent, suspenseful thriller, and a brilliant portrait of life in the country that will host the 2010 World Cup.




Thirteen Days to Midnight


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You are indestructible. Three whispered words transfer an astonishing power to Jacob Fielding that changes everything. At first, Jacob is hesitant to use the power, unsure of its implications. But there's something addictive about testing the limits of fear. Then Ophelia James, the beautiful and daring new girl in town, suggests that they use the power to do good, to save others. But with every heroic act, the power grows into the specter of a curse. How to decide who lives and who dies? In this nail-biting novel of mystery and dark intrigue, Jacob must walk the razor thin line between right and wrong, good and evil, and life and death. And time is running out. Because the Grim Reaper doesn't disappear. . . . He catches up.




The 13th Hour


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Nick Quinn is in jail, accused of the murder of his beloved wife, Julia. The police say they found the murder weapon, with his fingerprints, in the trunk of his car. Nick is confused, grief-stricken - and completely innocent. Then a gray-haired gentleman visits Nick in the interrogation room and offers him a talisman that allows Nick to go back in time, one hour at a time, for twelve hours. Nick has the ability to save Julia, but failure would lead to a far greater catastrophe.




Thirteen Hours To Fly


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Thirteen hours to fly is philosophical collection of poetry and prose that serves as a beautiful and resonating souvenir. filled with ethereal illustrations by Scharlay Winstenna. The author divides this book into three parts; first seven hours, next five hours and lastly the thirteenth hour, that have the respective narratives of time and flights of the soul through confusing haze, halted growth, seeking a revival and reminder for every soul about the enigmatic complexities conjured by the human heart, subconscious brain that ultimately lead to the destruction of their subtle souls. Consequently, arriving at a phase of human nature that explores itself through agony, embracing of uncertainty and difficult times, realizations, self development and growth, change, power and eventually the resiliency of oneself that comprehends only one thing that our nature of the soul may be delicate but it's entirely invincible. The book is further divided into the last part where it explores the bewildering notions of love, nerve wrenching emotions and affections that destroy the wings of our souls where it starts flying blinding towards what it is attracted by. It also comprehends that everything is illusionary when one flies beyond the secret skies of love to find something that has no source but a harsh fall. Lastly, the book ends with serving several messages which comprehend the notions of time and finally finding the real kind of revival. About the Author: Schone Bethal is a young philosophical writer, and a poet from Pakistan, also a photographer, editor, a university student and an active social entrepreneur running a small scale enterprise called Angels to the rescue Pakistan which aims at helping people and permeate awareness of mental health. Schone started writing poetry when he was in his early teenage time and with the passage of time when he had the affinity and fantasy for exploring profound human nature and it's depiction and relation with photography through which his further writings and poems were inspired and influenced. He has written columns and poems for local magazines and contributed in a famous youth and art magazine called Andaaz magazine with a philosophical article that also had the narratives of nature with a relation of our lives.




The Thirteenth Hour


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When her dying aunt gives her a magical pocket watch, twelve-year-old Rosemary, as she begins to dream, enters a fantastical place where each hour of the watch takes her to a different world--until the class bully steals the watch, and Rosemary must gather the magic from all twelve worlds to rescue a boy she does not even like.