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In book one of this series, a unit of the Seventh Cavalry is on a mission over Afghanistan when their plane is hit by something. The soldiers bail out of the crippled plane and come down in Southern France and they’re 2,000 years in the past where Hannibal is taking his elephants over the Alps to attack the Romans. In this second book they must attempt to rescue three astronauts who have come down from the ISS in a Russian Soyuz escape capsule. They are stranded on a mountain above Saravejo, about 800 miles away

When Anddor Shallau is invaded by the Russnori army, Sikandar’s tribe is driven into the remote Alcina Sahar, sometimes called The Devil’s Playground. Sikandar and Monica return to the desert where they come into conflict with the invading army.

A unit of the Seventh Cavalry is on a mission over Afghanistan when their plane is hit by something. The soldiers bail out of the crippled plane, but when the 13 men and women reach the ground, they are not in Afghanistan. Not only are they four thousand miles from their original destination but it appears they have descended 2,000 years into the past where primitive forces fight each other with swords and arrows. The platoon is thrown into a battle where they must choose sides quickly or die.

A misdialed phone number brings Donovan to Sandia’s front door. He thought he was to teach Braille to a blind person, but she thought he was a disability attorney. When Donovan learns of Sandia’s and her grandfather’s dreadful circumstances, the Braille lesson is forgotten and he embarks on a mission to help Sandia solve the several dilemmas that threaten to overwhelm her.

Land for the nation of Tranquility has been purchased. Monica and Sikandar, along with the others, begin to establish a new society and build the pipeline to bring seawater to the Sea of Tranquility 2.0.

Monica, Harry and Caitlion try to find a way to communicate with the Jamori nomads they left behind in the Safandel Desert. While working hard to complete their senior year of high school, they’re also finishing the details on their plans to gain funding for the Sea of Tranquility 2.0 project. As Monica works two jobs to pay for her journey back to the desert, Sikandar is searching for her, but neither of them is aware of what the other is doing.

In this third book of the series, in the year 226 BCE, Hannibal is assigned the task of training 60 elephants for war. These elephants will then be transported across the Mediterranean Sea to Iberia, there to be used in battle against the indigenous people. Liada and Tin Tin Ban Sunia are instrumental in the care and training of Obolus, the largest of the war elephants. In Andalusia, a kingdom in southern Iberia, the young Imilce Adriana Lucia Argantino, the Oretana Princess, leads a shelter life of luxury. She knows little about the world beyond Almodóvar Castle, but her adventurous ...

The discovery of gold in Georgia in 1829 and political pressure from the southern plantation owners demanding more land for cotton production, caused unscrupulous politicians to force native Americans from their ancestral lands. The Treaty of New Echota was signed in December 1835. It was an agreement between the American Federal Government and a small number of Cherokee men. For the sum of 5 million dollars the Cherokee Nation ceded all their lands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean, to the U. S. Government. The great majority of the Cherokee people knew nothing of the treaty...

What happens when a couple on a small tuna boat encounters a supertanker on a collision course with their disabled craft? Jasmine and Kave shout and frantically wave their arms but there appears to be no one on board the huge ship as it plows directly toward them through the choppy North Atlantic.

This is the story of my life as a young girl following Hannibal and his army from Carthage in North Africa to Iberia, and then over the Alps toward Rome. I never reached Rome, but then neither did Hannibal. I left him after the battle of Trebbia, taking with me his last remaining elephant, Obolus, and my friend, the slave girl, Tin Tin Ban Sunia. This book recounts the first month of our long journey.

October 1932. At the beginning of the Great Depression, schools and universities all over America were cutting back, and even closing their campuses. Raji and Fuse, like so many other young people, were to be cut adrift. Having concentrated on nothing but academics for the past four years, they weren’t prepared for the brutal economic realities of a world sinking into misery and hopelessness.

A man returns to Thailand after a 50-year absence. When he was in Bangkok on leave from the Vietnam War, he met a girl and fell in love. After returning to the battlefield, he was critically wounded and shipped to a hospital in San Diego. After recovering from his injuries he goes back to Bangkok looking for Chayan, but she’s not there.

Catalina Saylor is allowed to work in Qubit’s Incubator on probation for 30 days. If she proves her idea within that time, she will be allowed to stay and try to obtain a patent on her device. Qubit’s Incubator is a work place for bright people with good ideas who have no resources to develop their ideas. If they are accepted, they will be provided with a workspace, equipment, and other benefits for 30 days. If they are not successful within that time, they will leave with nothing.

The Dragonfly and Monarch are tiny drone aircraft designed to resemble actual insects. They can flitter around military installations and terrorists’ camps without being noticed while they collect video data about these installations and the people in charge. On their first mission over an isolated stretch of desert, their remote pilots, one American and one Russian, are drawn into a strange struggle to survive. In their attempt to retrieve their disabled drones, the pilots discover a shocking secret about themselves.

Autumn Willow is a grad student at MIT. In her spare time, she co-pilots her grandfather’s B-17, a restored WWII bomber. Sasha Brezhnev is a pilot for the Russian Air Force flying the SU-57 fighter jet. She’s assigned seek-and-destroy missions over the Safandel Desert in central Anddor Shallau, where terrorists are covertly working to destroy the country’s democratic government. Rigger Entime is an engineer working on a CIA project to develop a tiny drone aircraft to be used in surveillance and possibly carry out assassinations of terrorist leaders.

A dying man tells his great granddaughter that he has signed a "Do Not Resuscitate" document, giving instructions for medical personal to let him die if he’s determined to be brain-dead. He’s invited on a long journey that he thinks is taking place in his subconscious mind as his body is being kept alive against his wishes.

La regina d`Inghilterra ha 93 anni. Il processo di insediamento di un nuovo monarca è già in fase di organizzazione. Suo figlio, il principe Carlo, è l`erede apparente. Tuttavia, qualcuno sta tentando di modificare la linea di successione. Ci sono oltre 140 persone in fila per diventare monarca. Se il Principe Carlo fosse per qualsiasi motivo, incapace di ascendere, allora il prossimo in linea, Principe William, diventerebbe Re.

Rajiani Devaki (Raji) is a girl of 13 from India. On a cold December morning in 1925, Vincent Fusilier (Fuse) finds Raji sleeping in his parents' barn. He thinks she's a vagrant and tells her she has to go. She doesn't understand English and doesn't know where she is, having recently escaped from a house in Queens, New York, where she had been held for the past nine years as an indentured servant.

Raji is accepted to the prestigious Octavia Pompeii Academy. She and Elizabeth Keesler are the only girls in the student body of one hundred cadets. They must endure the derision and taunts from 98 boys who would like nothing better than to see the girls out of school. In addition to the contempt of the male students and the high academic standards set by the instructors, they must also conform to the strict disciplinary code enforced by the indomitable Elvira Gulch, Director of Development.

阿里昂·桑德斯(Ariion Sanders)是一名残疾少女，她受到了在纽约市监狱遇到的一名无家可归者的启发。这名男子名叫卡梅伦·利特尔哈特·圣劳伦斯，他因银行抢劫罪被捕，但由于没有确凿的证据，法官被迫释放了他。笨手笨脚的银行抢劫犯的赃物被偷了，他们认为是卡梅伦拿走了。在他们绑架卡梅伦后，阿里昂密谋了一个拯救他的计划；然而，她的计划却出了差错，她发现自己陷入了大麻烦中。