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The bestselling novel featuring the "wonderfully epic hero"
("People") who inspired the hit film "Jack Reacher. "
Skilled, stealthy, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is the perfect man
for the job: to assassinate the vice president of the United
States. Theoretically. The head of a high-level Secret Service
security detail wants Reacher to find the holes in her system--and
fast. A group of desperate men already has the vice president in
its sights. And it will stop at nothing to realize its objective.
The assassins have planned well. But they never planned on Jack
Reacher.
See Jack Reacher now in his first major motion picture
"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLERS
by
MICHAEL SHAARA and JEFF SHAARA
THE CIVIL WAR TRILOGY
GODS AND GENERALS
THE KILLER ANGELS
THE LAST FULL MEASURE
"Brilliant does not even begin to describe the Shaara gift."--"The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution"
The runaway international No.1 bestseller that launched Tom
Clancy's spectacular career - became a blockbuster film - and
introduced Jack Ryan. THE HUNT IS ON... Silently, beneath the chill
Atlantic waters, Russia's ultra-secret missile submarine, the Red
October, is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want
her back. With all-out war only seconds away, the superpowers race
across the ocean on the most desperate mission of a lifetime.
Winner - 2013 Eric Hoffer AwardSilver Winner - 2013 Benjamin
Franklin Award. Historical FictionBronze Winner - 2013 eLit
AwardsFinalist - 2013 Book of the Year Award by ForeWord
MagazineFinalist - 2013 International Book Award A typhoon brings
the renowned karate master Chojun Miyagi into the life of young
Kenichi Ota, who must prove himself before he can enter the
master's inner circle. As once-peaceful Okinawa prepares for war,
master and student venture to China in search of the deepest
meaning of karate. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the tides of
war turn against Japan and an American invasion fleet approaches
Okinawa. Kenichi is conscripted as a runner for the Japanese
general staff and finds himself in the epicenter of the Battle of
Okinawa. In the aftermath, he must fight again to rebuild the
shattered hopes of his people and to preserve his master's art of
karate.
Caleb's father is serving with Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys as
the long-anticipated open war against the British rages up and down
the length of Lake Champlain. Between his duties on the family farm
and constant worry about his father's safety, the young man's
attentions are already fully occupied when a fateful encounter with
an unlikely neighbor changes everything. Pulled into new intrigues
and new friendships, Caleb finds himself on a path that changes his
life - and which will affect the outcome of the whole war.
*SHARPE'S ASSASSIN, the brand new novel in the global bestselling
series, is available to buy now* Portugal, 1811 Captain Richard
Sharpe's renegade ways leave him discarded by his regiment and
waging a war against a private Portuguese enemy - one fought
through the burning, pillaged streets of Coimbra. Forced to retreat
across treacherous terrain, the British army prepare vast defences
at the Lines of Torres Vedras - their greatest secret and their
last hope of stopping the French reaching Lisbon. And risking
everything to re-join his regiment, and lead the army into battle
once more, is Sharpe . . . 'A master storyteller' DAILY TELEGRAPH
January, 1918: Franz Becker, a high-scoring, decorated ace, rejoins
his fighter squadron in Flanders. He has been fighting since
October 1914, and is suffering badly from the strain of war.
Imperial Germany is almost finished, strangled by the Allied
blockade, its people starving. The country is running out of men
and resources, but there is one last chance to win the war: Russia
has made peace and the Americans have yet to arrive. Franz and his
fellow pilots know they have to fight on, no matter how outnumbered
they are, otherwise the enemy will be in Germany. The Spring takes
a heavy toll of the top aces, and Franz knows that it will soon be
his turn to go to the Great Army. His close friend Karl von Leussow
is at home in Brandenburg, on convalescent leave after being shot
down and badly wounded the summer before. Franz misses him
desperately, but believes Karl to be safe. He can only hope that
they will meet again, "after the war"...whenever that may be.
Spring turns to Summer and every German offensive fails, with
terrible casualties. The Allied aircraft are ever more numerous,
the new pilots are barely out of school, and most die within a
couple of weeks. The ranks of the Great Army continue to grow. How
many more men will die before peace is made?
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War Lord
(Paperback)
Bernard Cornwell
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Decoration for Valor follows the lives of three people during the
turbulent, early 70s. As the Vietnam War drags on, many in the
United States are angry- or indifferent about the war and with the
soldiers who fought it. A twenty-year old soldier is wounded in
Vietnam and returns home crippled. He is sent to Walter Reed
Hospital and goes on to a Veterans hospital to challenge his
physical disabilities and his self doubts. While in this hospital,
filled with men who have faced war and disfigurement, he attempts
to work through the psychological demons that plague him. A young
nurse completes her tour of duty and returns home with her own
scars of war to a husband that no longer knows her. A 21-year old
student nurse prepares to go to Vietnam while facing the
discouragement of her peers. These three lives intersect and each
learns how to triumph over their past, their present, and their
uncertain futures. Cassilly brilliantly cuts to the human side of
one of the most controversial wars in American history. His book is
a stunning tribute to American soldiers, their loyalty to each
other and their determination to reclaim their lives, told through
memories, dreams and stories. It is an accurate and chilling
account of the social and emotional climate that these young men
and women encountered upon their return and during their service.
Joe Cassilly served in Vietnam as a Ranger in the U.S. Army. He
obtained a psychology degree from the University of Arizona and a
law degree from the University of Baltimore. Mr. Cassilly taught
law at a community college, served as a criminal prosecutor and has
been the State Attorney of Harford County, Maryland from 1982 to
the present. He received the prestigious honor of Outstanding
Marylander with a Disability, and this year was elected President
of the National District Attorneys Association. He lives with his
wife, Diana in Benson, Maryland. Decoration for Valor is his first
novel.
An action-packed military thriller for fans of Chris Ryan and Andy
McNab. Navy SEALs Crocker and Mancini are on a training exercise in
Las Vegas when a moment of relaxation is interrupted by a violent
altercation between hotel security and three businessmen claiming
to be Chinese diplomats. They attempt to stop the fleeing
businessmen, but soon realise that they may not be who they claim
to be. That same night Las Vegas goes dark - someone has hacked
into the Nevada Power Company system and shut down the entire city.
As chaos reigns the businessmen make their escape. When Crocker and
the rest of SEAL Team Six attempt to track them down, they find
themselves drawn into a North Korean plot that combines cyber
warfare and the theft of black market nuclear weapons. As darkness
reigns, the squad is the last hope of preventing a conspiracy that
could have catastrophic international consequences.
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Les Miserables
(Hardcover)
Victor Hugo; Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood; Introduction by Ken Mondschein
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"The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes
the darkness." "So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth,
books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use,"
says Victor Hugo in the preface of his famous novel. Certainly, Les
Miserables is French history recounted through the personal stories
of its main characters. The tale offers philosophical insight on
the good deeds that can happen even amidst ignorance and poverty.
This handsome leather-bound volume is a beautiful addition to any
classic literature library with specially designed endpapers,
gilded edges, and a ribbon bookmark so you will never lose your
place.
Whitney Terrell's remarkable novel of the Iraq War, The Good
Lieutenant, literally starts with a bang, as an operation led by
Lieutenant Emma Fowler goes spectacularly wrong. Men are dead -
one, a young Iraqi, by her hand. Others of the casualties were
soldiers in her platoon. And the signals officer, Dixon Pulowski.
Pulowski is another story entirely - Fowler and Pulowski have been
lovers since they first met at Fort Riley in Kansas . . . From this
conflagration, The Good Lieutenant unspools backward in time as
Fowler and her platoon are guided into disaster by suspect
informants and questionable intelligence, their very mission the
consequence of a previous snafu in which an American soldier had
been kidnapped by insurgents. We hear the voice of Lieutenant
Fowler but also those of jaded career soldiers and Iraqis both
innocent and not so innocent. Ultimately, as all these stories
unravel, Terrell reveals what can happen when good intentions
destroy, experience distorts, and survival becomes everything.
*SHARPE'S ASSASSIN, the brand new novel in the global bestselling
series, is available to buy now* Spain, June 1812 In the beautiful
city of Salamanca, Captain Richard Sharpe must hunt down and
safeguard Britain's most valuable spy, 'El Mirador', before he's
silenced by France's deadliest assassin - even at the risk of his
own life. In the shadowy world of Salamanca's high society, where
secrecy blurs the lines between friend and foe, it seems that other
figures are out to destroy the British. Whilst outside the city's
walls, the armies gather for one of the biggest battles of the war
- and risking everything for victory, even betraying one he loves,
is Sharpe . . . 'A master storyteller' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'One of the best fantasy novels of the year' Novel Notions
'Probably my favourite book of the year' The Chronicler 'One of the
best books I've read this year' Starlit Book The sequel to the
darkly fantastic WE ARE THE DEAD: with more unflinching action, A
FOOL'S HOPE sees Jia's revolutionaries dig in their heels as they
learn that wars aren't won in a day. War takes everything. From
Tinnstra, it took her family and thrust her into a conflict she
wanted only to avoid. Now her queen's sole protector, she must give
all she has left to keep Zorique safe. It has taken just as much
from Jia's revolutionaries. Dren and Jax - battered, tortured, once
enemies themselves - must hold strong against their bruised
invaders, the Egril. For the Egril intend to wipe Jia from the map.
They may have lost a battle, but they are coming back. If Tinnstra
and her allies hope to survive, Jia's heroes will need to be ready
when they do. With more bone-crunching action, tough choices and
impossible odds, fans of Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence and Ed
McDonald will find something to love in this series. * * * * * * *
* * * THE LAST WAR Book One: We Are the Dead Book Two: A Fool's
Hope Book Three: Until the Last
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