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The Jemmin have interfered with humanity for the last time. The Metal Legion is going to fix that - or die trying. Join Major Xi Bao, Colonel Lee “Roy” Jenkins, and Captain Andrew Podsednik for intrigue and battle, fire and fury, and friends worth fighting for. New heroes emerge and old warriors fall in this last chance to save humanity.

The campaign of 1859 in Northern Italy was one of the first of the epoch-making, rapidly conducted wars that marked the latter half of the nineteenth century. It was, moreover, as has been pointed out by the author of Imperial Strategy, the “first war in Europe which conveyed some preliminary indication of what railways can accomplish.”

Criminals, police, military forces, and civilians practice martial arts which often utilize weapons. One major difference is weather or not the weapons are handled according to legal guidelines. This special anthology includes insightful writings that focus on aspects of martial arts as they are practiced and used by different people on both sides of the law. Certainly most practicing a martial art are doing so primarily for their health or as a sport. Perhaps they have an interest in self-defense, but often their practice methods are not realistic enough to be truely effective. For this ...

A short story from British Library Crime Classic Deep Waters. The character that made Bailey’s name is the medically trained detective Reggie Fortune, and he’s at his best in this short story investigating a murder and the disappearance of a nurse at a mysterious stately home.

I was supposed to fear dragons, not fall for a dragon-shifter. I was stuck in a bad trade deal with the cursebringer when Alaric rescued me. But he wasn’t just a hard bodied shifter, his integrity won me over. He showed me how the cursebringer was draining the dragons of their magic. It turned out that I held the key to saving them in my necklace. Unlike the cursebringer, who wanted me only for my power. Alaric saw me for who I really am, the guardian of the dragons. Could a human and a dragon-shifter be together? My body ached for his touch, but our time together was short lived. The ...

There is something quite special about this fine collection of tales of terror from the Sceptered Isle, each and every one crafted in the dead of the night by twisted, fevered minds, who have brought the darkest denizens of the blackest shadows crawling and slithering to life to terrify those brave souls amongst you who dare to listen.

Private investigator Mika Chalmers has no chance to decide whether or not she wants to start dating Eric Foresburg again with a murder on her desk. Georgie Howie, enforcer of the Irvine Buccaneers and Eric's teammate is the prime suspect in the murder of cross-town rival Dave Probst. He hires Mika to prove his innocence, but Mika is only after the truth. She knows three things: 1) Witnesses saw Georgie Howie beat Probst up outside a swanky Newport Beach bar right on Pacific Coast Highway just hours before he died but nobody knows why 2) Probst officially died of poison, not the assault ...

Having survived a series of terrifying attacks with the help of the beautiful and mysterious Morgan, Meg resolves to fight back. With the help of a small group of vampires and humans they endeavour to stand up and take back control!

First published in 1909, this book consists of a series of lectures, first given in Pullman Memorial Church, Albion, New York. The purpose of these lectures is to consider the origin and nature of the Ancient Mysteries and Modern Masonry and to show the relation which they bear one to the other. Chapters include The Egyptian, Hindu and Persian Mysteries, The Christian Mysteries, The Meaning Of True Initiation, Masonic History, and The Origin and History of the Knights Templars.

To save the universe Johnny Mayhem risked his life - over and over and over. He could travel anywhere mentally and enter the body of anyone on any planet. But if he stayed longer than 30 days, Mayhem died. An encounter with aliens had given him an extra-human power. But it had also put him beyond the pale of love and friendship forever.

The Korean Soul: A Collection of Poems by H. C. Kim explores themes and ideas that are of importance to Koreans around the world, such as the current stand-off between South Korea and North Korea. By hearing H. C. Kim's poems, the listener will be able to see through the soul of Koreans. These poems are powerful testimonies to collective experiences of a people who boast 5,000+ years of history.

The best of C.H. Mackintosh is a compilation of some of the most notable works. Mackintosh was so focused on the Person and Work of Christ and on His Word that you will note that underlying theme everywhere. Even when his words are stern, they are always gracious. This is the first in a series of the best of C.H.M.

The lights are just about to go out for good in my father's PI office when I get an unexpected call from the state penitentiary. My mother's only brother was sent up for robbery years ago, and now he needs Dad's help to get his daughter out of trouble. It's impossible for me to be sure that the pendant around Cousin Betty's neck is stolen, but one thing's for sure - she doesn't want to talk about where it came from.

Stu Morgan had a dream he shared with his best friend and former business partner, Ed Jones. Now retired from their Sasquatch expedition business, they would have all the time they needed to find Marcus Marshall's lost Glory Hole Mine, a gold mine lost since Marcus himself disappeared in 1877. Stu had a good idea where the mine might be, and, after many trips to Horse Tooth Mountain, he and Ed finally found the adit leading into what they hoped would be the Glory Hole. As it turned out, it was exactly that, and so much more.

Total Depravity: Poems bring together poems that explore love, passion, and human sensuality. The poems highlight sensual beauty in the mundane patterns of daily life and celebrate the beauty inherent in the feminine form. The collection contains metaphoric poems exploring feminine beauty and sensual expression in today's technological devices, such as the USB cord.

In reading through the prophetical books, you must have been struck at their singular variety. On looking a little more closely, you have at once perceived that every prophet has a manner and style peculiarly his own. Although God speaks through them all, yet they lose not their individuality or originality of character.

Thirty-four years have passed since Kevin Reynolds perpetrated the most heinous crime the citizens of Carver, Montana had ever witnessed in their small, alpine community. Now, Kevin's great nephew, Mitch, has found a bundle of old letters written by Kevin to his father in 2001, the year of Kevin's execution. His curiosity piqued, Mitch has recruited two of his good friends to hike up to the Blind Valley caldera and scout out the scene of the crimes of 1969 and to try to find the hidden cave where the old mountain man, Sam Elliott, once lived.

A sinister wizard. A mysterious teacher. A kingdom on the brink of collapse. In the ancient kingdom of Havenglade, a brutal enemy is ravaging the countryside making his way closer to Gradur Castle. An aging king seeks protection from a council of loyal wizards. A peasant girl finds herself at the center of it all after bonding with a magical crystal and absorbing its magical essence. After losing her parents, Laurena was given the chance of a lifetime to study wizardry under the mysterious and renowned teacher Unai.

Fighting aliens was bad enough. Can he outwit his own evil twin to save billions of souls? Zeke Travers is pulling his hair out. As if the strain of leading his crew wasn’t already overwhelming, he has to blind-jump his spaceship through dimensions in search of a fix for their broken drive. And while salvaging a derelict alien vessel for repair materials, the stressed-out captain is horrified to discover the other ship’s inhabitants were murdered by… his own team?

H.C. Witwer was an American short story author, most notable for his tales of basebasll and boxing. Witwer's obvious humor is brought to life by L.J. Ganser's excellent narration of this hilarious story of a boxer.