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An F-14 aviator takes his readers into the cockpits, ready-rooms, and bunkrooms of today's Navy to show what it's like to fight in a time of so-called peace. From the opening chapter where a Tomcat fighter squadron's commanding officer botches an intercept of a hostile Iranian F-4 to the final uplifting scene, his novel reveals the inner workings of the military as only an insider can. It is a thriller without an airshow groupie's pretense, a fighter...
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A story of courage, fear and defiance based on the authors own personal experience. A Pack Horse Called Rachel is the remarkable tale of a young woman, half Jewish, caught in the extraordinarily brutal world of France in 1944. Rachel moves through the pages of the book with her faithful dog Nourse, touching lives as her work with the Maquis based in the Auvergne takes her perilously close to danger on a day to day basis.The story is based on personal...
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SITUATION ROOM is book #3 in the bestselling Luke Stone thriller series, which begins with ANY MEANS NECESSARY (book #1), a free download with over 60 five star reviews! A cyberattack on an obscure U.S. dam leaves thousands dead and the government wondering who attacked it, and why. When they realize it is just the tip of the iceberg-and that the safety of all of America is at stake-the President has no choice but to call in Luke Stone. Head of an...
4) Kara Kush
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In December of 1979, Soviet tanks rolled across the borders of Afghanistan, beginning a period of barbaric aggression that triggered a turning point in modern history. Idries Shah's brilliant novel chronicles the courageous 10-year resistance of the Afghan people, an epic story of triumph over tyranny that deserves to be immortalized.
Kara Kush is the definitive story of freedom fighters. It is a story of patriotism-in-action, mobilized and fuelled...
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Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq.
"The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss.
In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when...
"The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss.
In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when...
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A WONDERFUL, ESCAPIST, NOSTALGIC READ'- RED MAGAZINE: An enthralling debut novel of romance, wartime glamour, and adventure in the skies. Inspired by the brave young women who flew fighter planes across Britain in World War Two, New Year's Eve, 1940: Evie Chase, the beautiful debutante daughter of an adoring RAF Commander, gazes out at the sky as swing music drifts in from the ballroom. With bombs falling nightly in London, she resolves that the coming...
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Londinium is burning. Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, newly appointed governor of Roman Britain, is charged by an increasingly unstable Emperor Nero with a difficult task-the untamed island on the fringes of the empire must earn a profit. To do so, Suetonius pursues the last of the Druids into Wales and, along the way, subdues the fractious Celtic chieftains who sit atop a fortune in gold and rare metals. Meanwhile, in the provincial capital of Londinium,...
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From the author of the acclaimed The Curiosity comes a compelling and moving story of compassion, courage, and redemption. Deborah Birch is a seasoned hospice nurse whose daily work requires courage and compassion. But her skills and experience are tested in new and dramatic ways when her easygoing husband, Michael, returns from his third deployment to Iraq haunted by nightmares, anxiety, and rage. She is determined to help him heal, and to restore...
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An epic story of a nation--and a family--divided by fate, love, loyalty, and war. . .
America, 1861. Battle lines have been drawn between the North and the South, pitting state against state--and brother against brother. For the three young sons of Ohio State Senator Clay Bell, the Civil War would change not only their lives, but the destinies of future generations.
Jacob Bell, the eldest, defies his father's wishes to run the family law practice...
10) Jackals' Revenge
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The sequel to THE BLACK JACKALS is set in the turmoil of the eastern Mediterranean in 1941, with the Brits struggling to hold their line in Greece against the powerful German and Italian forces. Peter Lamb and his men are halted in their retreat to England and forced to join the British forces holding the pass at Thermopylae. But their tough experiences in France have not prepared The Jackals for the savage hand to hand fighting through the mountains....
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The Sky Worshippers: Women Who Change The Trajectory And Strength Of Genghis Khan And His Mongol Empire."An epic novel that pulls back the veil on the tumultuous life and times of Genghis Khan, the Mongol leader who was intent upon becoming the ruler of the world. Breathtaking in scope, honest and raw, The Sky Worshipers reveals life in the orbit of the conquerors." –Kristine Morris, Foreword Reviews★★★★★ The story, told in three parts,...
12) Under Fire
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Under Fire (1916) is a novel by Henri Barbusse. Written from notes taken while Barbusse was serving in the First World War, the novel was quickly, recognized as, a powerful tale of perseverance and comradery in the face of unspeakable suffering. Intended to promote the cause of pacifism, Under Fire is deeply critical of the rich and powerful men whose inability to live peacefully, leads time-and-again to the sacrifice of countless human lives. "Each...
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Knights of Abador is the first instalment of the Tales of the Knights Xemplar trilogy. It tells the story of Lucian, a 17- year-old farm boy who accidentally witnesses the kidnapping of Princess Rhiana of Abador by the blood-lusting Galyaks. But he arrives at the walled-city to tell of what he has witnessed to find High King Ocwan having been deceived into thinking it was the neighbouring Huskenbachs that have taken his daughterhas already set sail...
14) Let Me Live
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Is written in a provocative and bold manner. That no child is truly safe from society's immoral people and the lethal underworld which they have created.The truth about reality.... Intriguing, characters who battle emotions, fight their mental demons against cultural context, challenges of love and human fragility.
Work of fiction in which prevailing social norms that govern our world are dramatized through their effect on characters by strong feminist...
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This is the tragi-comic love and war story of Reginald (British nobility) and Vivian (Austrian Countess), who meet at the 1908 Paris Air Show and become lovers. When World War I broke out in 1914, they each became fighter pilots for their respective countries. This book describes the unusual and unique adventures they have had separately and together, both during the war and afterwards. When the war ends, they get together in the United States of...
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One night, little Gary Alter woke up only to witness his older brother, Jay, running away. Jay had been acting weird lately, but not to that extent. Mr. and Mrs. Alter weren't too happy about the runaway when they found out and it stirred up some trouble between the married couple. Good thing Gary doesn't live with his parents anymore. As a child, he was sent to live with his wealthy and kind Grandparents. He was finishing his last year of medical...
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History records that in 1588, the vast Spanish Armada was defeated by the English navy. The English set many of their own ships on fire, then sent the ships at the enemy, scattering them. The Spanish fleet were forced to attempt the dangerous return to Spain via the north of Scotland. Battered by violent winds, even further losses were visited upon the already badly beaten fleet, smashed by the waves and run aground on the shore.
But what if the...
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Robert Sidney Bowen, Jr. (1900- 1977) was a World War I aviator, newspaper journalist, magazine editor and author. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died of cancer in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the age of 76. Bowen is best known for his boys' series books written during World War II, the Dave Dawson War Adventure Series and the Red Randall Series. He also worked under the name R. Sidney Bowen and under the pseudonym James Robert Richard. Included...
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Ce livre est une compilation d'ouvrages courts de G. G. Vega, un écrivain roman de la République du Paraguay, contient dix ouvrages, liés à des questions telles que la corruption, le trafic de drogue, les guerres, qui sont des questions essentielles liées à la violence. Les valeurs extrêmes se heurtent de front contre les excès, les abus et les violations des droits d'autrui, et des représailles sont déclenchées pour contenir ces abus....
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"There's a tricky twist in Mike's new book The War You've Always Wanted, and that hits home with me." -Capt. Dale Dye, Combat Correspondent, USMC (Ret.) Author, Actor, and Filmmaker
"...takes you deep into the frustration and horror of the Vietnam War through the eyes of characters you won't soon forget." -Terry Golway Author of I Never Did Like Politics and So Others Might Live
Pat Dolan's father has a box. In it are treasures from Jimmy Dolan's...
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