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Winter was supposed to be a time for Ard to relax and train; instead, he finds himself repairing a ruined city. The battle at Faylin has made waves, and people are starting to have expectations for Ard and, more importantly, for Gwen. The Elder Trial is set, and Ard heads back into the den of vipers that is the capital. While his mother prepares to become an Elder and take over House Aldis, Ard is plotting and planning to ensure he doesn't get caught up in Carmilla's machinations this time around.

Bradley Adams, a former Army veteran, and prepper, is swept up in a web of lies following a politically motivated work place shooting. When martial law is declared, his life descends into a series of nightmares from which there may be no escape. This is the story of a man dedicated to defending his family, his home, and his country.

Stepping out from the Dungeons of the Divine, Hui Yue found himself in a world unlike anything he had ever seen before. This was a dog-eat-dog world where he had to fight to prove his worth. With Lan Feng by his side, Hui Yue continues his adventure, soaring toward the heavens, towards the world where people will sing songs about his achievements and fear his overwhelming strength.

With his evil plot to eradicate Christians from Africa underway, Abu Yusuf, the Nigerian terrorist leader of Boko Haram, knows he has struck gold with the kidnapping of American pastor Paul Rowland. And now he’s threatening more bloodshed if the U.S. doesn’t give in to his every demand. Deciding the U.S. can no longer sit idly by with the rise of Christian persecution around the world, President Schumacher says it is time to act. And with the retirement of the Secretary of State, the President knows Alexandra Julian is the right person for the job of securing the pastor’s release. But...

You’ve survived midnight attacks by drunken soldiers, frightened Mormon settlement guards, marauding White Indians, vandals, and mean-spirited pranks. Someone kidnapped your wife in broad daylight. While you rode to her rescue, the kidnapper shot your Warrior husband. Connal Lee despaired. Everything had gone wrong in peaceful, post-war 1859. Connal Lee bent over his fallen husband, trying to stop the bleeding. A hulking brute of an ex-soldier, one of the men arrested and punished for shooting up Connal Lee’s homestead, attacked him from behind. They fought fiercely. Read the dramatic ...

December 7, 1941. America reels from the attack on Pearl Harbor. Battleships burn... Thousands dead... The United States Navy prepares for vengeance in the Pacific. But while the nation turns its eyes west…Germany strikes from the east. Hitler and Admiral Dönitz unleash their U-boats along America's Atlantic and Gulf coasts, targeting Allied shipping with ruthless precision. Merchant vessels vanish. Crews are lost. Panic spreads.

Dashing career soldier and ladies' man, Captain Daniel Rawson, happily accepts the Duke of Marlborough's dangerous undercover mission to find a missing spy - a Dutch tapestry-maker's beautiful daughter Amalia, unaware of her father's espionage role, is fearful for her safety. It's up to Daniel to find her father and put Amalia's mind at rest.

The second novel in a brilliant new Napoleonic series from acclaimed historian Adrian Goldsworthy. Second in the series begun by TRUE SOLDIER GENTLEMEN, the story takes our heroes through the winter snows as Sir John Moore is forced to retreat to Corunna. Faced with appalling weather, and...

Walt Whitman experienced first-hand the ravages of the Civil War as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals of Washington D.C. During that time, he filled notebooks with "impromptu jottings" that became the basis of two works: Drum-Taps, a collection of 71 poems, and Memoranda During the War, an intimate diary of his experience tending to the sick and dying during the war. These two historical works are presented here, narrated by acclaimed actor Bronson Pinchot.

The sequel to the bestseller “War Paint” Bear, Ty Fisher, and Jarel Wade team up in a new action-packed adventure. When the trio of mountain men catch wind of a Sioux plan to ambush the annual Fur Rendezvous supply wagon train, they spring into action. They know if the goods are lost, not only would it cost the lives of fifty men accompanying the wagons, but devastate the trappers counting on the much-needed supplies. Hoping to avoid the brewing conflict Bear arranges a meeting with the Sioux war chief, Hump. Bear learns the Sioux are being given guns by none other then “Red” ...

The Civil War is seen anew, and a great American family is brought to life, in Robert Roper’s brilliant evocation of the family Whitman. Walt Whitman’s work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound effect on the way he saw the world. Much less well known is the extraordinary record of his younger brother George Washington Whitman, who led his men in 21 major battles almost to die in a Confederate prison camp as the fighting ended.

Medal of Honor recipient Jack H. Lucas’s classic memoir of his heroics at the Battle of Iwo Jima—with a foreword by Bob Dole and reissued to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the battle in 2020. On February 20, 1945, the second day of the assault on Iwo Jima—one of the bloodiest...

It is the year 1896 and time is being ripped apart along with the very fabric of space, as portals into the past open and close around the world. Young Elizabeth Swanson must determine if the scientific experiments of her late parents are responsible for what is transpiring. If it is not stopped, the Earth will be destroyed and, like the proverbial stack of falling dominoes, so, too, will the cosmos.

King Ashoka was a fearsome conqueror in ancient India. After seeing the destruction and death from his battles, he decided to forgo war and institute peace and Buddhism in his kingdom. Learn about his peaceful reign and the lasting changes he created in India.

This is a story about a young man, Ben, who is a tourist guide for Yellowstone National Park. While on vacation in the park, he wanders into a “restricted” area and is trapped under an avalanche. As the hours' pass, due to the extreme pain, he fades in and out of consciousness, and near death, he is rescued by an Indian Chief and his daughter, who, unknown to others, lives in the restricted area of the park. Because Ben had earlier befriended the Chief, he takes him to their village deep in the mountains, where he and his daughter nurse him back to health. Because of Ben's interest in ...

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.

Ruby Weaver's curly red hair isn't the only thing that sets her apart from her Amish community in 1863. Twenty-eight and single, Ruby doesn't believe a woman needs to be married in order to be happy. Her ailing friend Lovinia Fischer, however, has other ideas and wants Ruby to promise to marry her husband after she dies. Never imagining she'd have to fulfill that vow, Ruby agrees. And she's not the only one. Lovinia has extracted a similar promise from her husband, Gideon. 

On the eve of World War II, a divided nation faces an uncertain future. Only one American in four favors becoming involved in world affairs. Labor strikes have slowed production, and the Japanese threaten stability in the Pacific. Against this backdrop of uncertainty Reverend James Dunn must somehow offer comfort to those near to him, yet at the same time try to deal with his own personal struggles. As war draws nearer, Reverend Dunn becomes aware this war will change everything.

In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood through the late 1950s, when his book The Tin Drum was published. During the Second World War, Grass was drafted into the Waffen-SS. Taken prisoner by American forces, he spent the final weeks of the war in an American POW camp. After the war, Grass resolved to become an artist and moved to Paris, where he began to write the novel that would make him famous.

The prairie fires that sweep the grazing lands, the coming of white men with their guns and diseases, and the quick slaughter of the vast buffalo herds leave Running Fawn's Blackfoot tribe with little choice but to take up residence on the assigned Reserve. All her life, Running Fawn has known only contentment, but now what will become of her hopes and dreams?