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Newly Revised & Polished Edition. Some bonds cannot be broken. Some secrets were never meant to be kept. When blacksmith's daughter Thea Ironwood is selected to attend the prestigious Crown's Talon Academy, she's thrust into a world where bloodlines determine destiny and dragon riders rule. No one expects her to succeed – least of all Imperial instructor Riven Skyblade, whose cold disdain makes it clear commoners don't belong among the elite. Everything changes at the Claiming Ceremony when Skyriss – a rare silver-blue dragon who has rejected countless noble candidates – chooses Thea....

In the dark days immediately after 9/11, the CIA turned to Dr. James Mitchell to help craft an interrogation program designed to elicit intelligence from just-captured top al-Qa'ida leaders and terror suspects. A civilian contractor who had spent years training U.S. military members to...

The Complete Idiots Guide to World War II features coverage of the fateful D-Day invasion, a critical timeline of major WW II events, and a WW II timeline highlighting the crucial and most important events of the war. It also includes details about major battles on land, in the air, and on the...

Deaths resulting from interactions with the US criminal legal system are a public health emergency, but the scope of this issue is intentionally ignored by the very systems that are supposed to be tracking these fatalities. In order to make a real difference and address this human rights problem, researchers and policy makers need reliable data.

After successfully breaking the Confederate siege at Chattanooga near the end of 1863, William Tecumseh Sherman united several Union armies in the Western theater for the Atlanta Campaign, forming one of the biggest armies in American history. After detaching troops for essential garrisons and minor operations, Sherman assembled his nearly 100,000 men. In May 1864, he began his invasion of Georgia from Chattanooga, Tennessee, where his forces spanned a line roughly 500 miles wide.

Some curses don't kill you. They just make sure you die alone. On her eighteenth birthday, Sage Thornwood’s life fractures with a single lie. One moment she’s ending a relationship. The next, she’s smelling rot where there should be truth. Before she can make sense of it, Sage is swept into Hallowmere Academy, a hidden world where magic is currency and every word carries weight. There, she discovers she’s inherited a dangerous legacy – one that makes trust impossible and isolation inevitable. But when everyone feels like a threat, one person doesn’t. Lysander: distant, ...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of the American male author whose time has now come again.

Vanity Madonna Brown was a beautiful smart girl until her innocence was taken away by the very people that were supposed to protect her. She could not count on the crack addicted mother that she once loved, the junkie grandmother whom she had barely seen sober, or the drug dealing uncle that she looked up to. All that she had was her three cousins, who were more like her siblings. Vanity's life brightens when she meets Carlos. Will Carlos be her savior or will he contribute to her downfall? While this series is fictional, the story contained within is not. This is someone's story. This ...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of the North American male author whose time has now come again.

Newly Revised & Polished Edition. The only thing more terrifying than a dragon’s roar is its silence. Fifteen months after the Battle of the Forge, Thea Ironwood is trying to build a lasting peace as the realm’s first Metal-Speaker, but the silence from the Eastern Coalition suggests the conflict is far from over. When a diplomatic mission reveals dragons stripped of their free will, turning ancient, intelligent beings into hollow biological machines, Thea recognizes the terrifying signature of an enemy she thought was destroyed. Dr. Malachite has survived the fires of the Spire, and he...

Filled with real-life case examples, Estate Planning for the Healthy, Wealthy Family combines a positive attitude, deep psychological insight, and "hard" financial know-how for passing on money between family members while keeping relationships and values intact.

The bestselling romance, crime thriller and ghost story rolled into one! He was looking for a woman of spirit. He found her... Toby Turner didn’t expect to stumble upon the remains of a human skeleton, washed down from the cliff top by a recent landslip. He runs a small bookshop in the quiet seaside town of Lyme Regis in Dorset. His life’s not quite on track; his bookshop’s not doing too well, for one thing, and he’s not sure his relationship with his girlfriend-cum-fiancé Trisha is going anywhere either – at least, nowhere she would like it to go. Toby takes a walk along the ...

From the bestselling author of 'Max', a psychological thriller and mystery - a short story of the First World War Two First World War veterans stare daily out across a contemporary wasteland at each other, both from different social classes, both bound by their wartime experiences. 'Rabbits' is a small window onto the ties that bind and the things that divide. Approx 9 Kindle pages Also published on Kindle: 'The House of the Wicked' a Victorian murder mystery set in Cornwall and France in the 1880s; and Pressure Cooker,a story of love, friendship and redemption

The Hollywood director Dominic Sena (Gone in Sixty Seconds, Swordfish) has approached the author about turning The Soul Fixer into a movie set in northern Canada. Susan and Paul Carmichael’s world is devastated when a small-time burglar and drug addict, Eddie Hull, brutally murders their only child, young student Becky Carmichael. Consumed by grief, they both struggle to come to terms with their tremendous loss. Their fragile relationship under mounting pressure, Susan begins to have dreams about her daughter. She is convinced these are not ordinary dreams; Becky is calling out to her for...

200,000 downloads and rising... With his acknowledged individual storytelling expertise, D. M. Mitchell pens yet another taut psychological thriller with a difference that twists and turns to its deliciously devious and unexpected conclusion. Discover for yourself why D. M. Mitchell is being hailed as one of the most exciting new writers of thriller and supernatural tales in the UK. It began with a funeral… Mickey Craddick had long been the town of Overthorpe’s Mr Big – a man with his dirty finger in all sorts of dirty pies, from drug-pushing to extortion and blackmail. But now he is ...

From the top 100 Kindle bestselling author of 'Max' and 'The House of the Wicked' - 'Pressure Cooker', a treat for lovers of a character-driven story with a spattering of dark thriller. Join the 200,000 + people who have downloaded D. M. Mitchell. From reviews of Pressure Cooker: 'All of his books are so original and his style of writing is so smooth and descriptive that I am there right in the middle of the story. I found every book and short story impossible to put down (I have read everything I can lay my hands on) 'A fine read. Never predictable. Crisp action. Thoughtful without being ...

‘After the Fall’, D. M. Mitchell’s newest thriller, goes deep. Very deep… 5-star praise for After the Fall: "This book keeps you on the edge and wanting more." "Excellent, exciting and original." "This book is the best I have read." D. M. Mitchell has been compared to Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Ruth Rendell, M. R. James, Linwood Barclay, Umberto Eco, the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens and many others. His novel The Soul Fixer has been optioned for a Hollywood movie in conjunction with the famous director Dominic Sena (director of Gone in 60 Seconds, Swordfish etc). Discover for ...

In the first of D. M. Mitchell’s powerful trilogy, a ninety-five-year-old man makes his way into the main offices of The London Gazetteer, a popular newspaper, with an appointment to see Nicholas Harvey, the chief editor. The old man, Ronald Seaton, has a book with him – The Ashenby Incident – written by Nicholas Harvey a number of years ago. It concerns the mysterious bombing of the small East Coast Yorkshire village in 1944, an incident which wiped out most of the village’s inhabitants. But Harvey isn’t interested in what the old man has to say. At least, not until the pensioner...

Over 200,000 downloads... With his acknowledged individual storytelling expertise, D. M. Mitchell pens yet another taut psychological thriller with a difference that twists and turns to its deliciously devious and unexpected conclusion. Discover for yourself why D. M. Mitchell is being hailed as one of the most exciting new writers of thriller and supernatural tales in the UK. From reviews of Mouse: D.M. Mitchell is extremely talented, he is gifted with the ability to transport the reader in such a way as to make it possible for the reader to visualise the book as though you are there ...

250,000 downloads and rising... With his acknowledged individual storytelling expertise, D. M. Mitchell pens yet another taut psychological thriller with a difference that twists and turns to its deliciously devious and unexpected conclusion. Discover for yourself why D. M. Mitchell is being hailed as one of the most exciting new writers of thriller and supernatural tales in the UK. From reviews of Silent: It rivals anything Stephen King has ever written. I loved this book, it had a great story line, the ending was a shocker!!!!! I love mysteries, and this author is tops on my list!!! This ...