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Part four in the new Roman pirate series of novellas from the Sunday Times bestselling authors Simon Scarrow and T. J. Andrews. AD 25. Across the treacherous waters of the Adriaticum, rival pirate ships and Roman squadrons battle for control. Only the strongest can survive ... In the dangerous...

The 1611 King James Version was a revision of multiple English Bibles from the 1500s: Tyndale’s Bible, Coverdale’s Bible, Matthew’s Bible, Taverner’s Bible, the Great Bible, the Geneva Bible, and the Bishops’ Bible. The 1611 King James Bible translators stated in the Preface that they knew others would revise their work too (1) as more manuscripts came to light and (2) translators had a better understanding of biblical Hebrew and Greek. How many versions of the King James are there? Eventually, five different editions of the King James Version were produced in 1611, 1629, 1638, ...

If the North Had Won the Civil War is two alternate history novels in one. The modern story follows Stonewall Jackson "Jack" Sawyer, a history professor in the modern-day Confederate States of America, and his alternate history "If the North Had Won the Civil War" in a nation where publication of his book is a criminal offense. The story gives the listener a look at a nightmarish modern-day Confederacy where any person with a drop of black blood in his veins is denied basic human rights and confined to a "Preserve".

A journey to a faraway world… With mankind on the brink of economic collapse, a population growing at an unmanageable rate and a limited supply of natural resources, there is only one place we can look to for our future… the stars. A deep space mining tug is sent to HD 85512 B, an Earth-like planet codenamed New Dawn, to begin a mission that will eventually see the relocation of humanity. …but will they survive?

Allen's new dream job may end up becoming his worst nightmare. His new employer: a mysterious government agency tasked with protecting the world from out-of-control artificial intelligence and other technological threats. His first assignment: hunting down and disabling an abomination of science, technology, and the paranormal known as The Necromaton.

Fears that Trump’s embrace of “America first” would lead the United States to turn its back on the world have proved groundless. But there is still space for a future leader to convert the slogan into a concrete program of enlightened action to ensure the safety of the United States without engaging in needless wars.

Part five in the new Roman pirate series of novellas from the Sunday Times bestselling authors Simon Scarrow and T. J. Andrews. AD 25. Mighty Rome is reclaiming control of the pirate-haunted seas, endangering the livelihoods of the pirate crews. Despite their hard-won fighting skills, the...

Successful businessman Andrew Rafkin is on a two-day sport fishing trip off the Mexican coast with friends and relatives. During rough weather and talk about the dangers of commercial fishing, his friends ask him to tell them about his adventures as a fisherman, when he was a teenager. Andrew launches into his tale of high adventure with some background about his Croatian family and community-all West Coast fishermen. Out of school for the summer he decides to make some money working on his father's commercial tuna fishing boat, the Western Ace, now unloading its latest catch at the ...

Ten years after the end of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, a career Foreign Service officer, Thomas J. Corcoran, set down in writing his thoughts on the history of US State Department policy during America's involvement with South Vietnam. Like many Americans of his generation, he was perplexed by the failure of America to achieve its goals in South Vietnam. As an ambassador and with over thirty years of diplomatic experience he brought to his analysis a long and rich personal experience with events in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

During the Cold War, the United States preferred to husband, rather than expend, its military power. The idea was not to fight but to defend, deter, and contain, a cold peace infinitely preferable to nuclear cataclysm. When US policymakers strayed from this principle, attempting to unify the Korean Peninsula in 1950 or deploying combat troops to Vietnam in the 1960s, the results proved unhappy in the extreme.

Wilderness survival is one of the most overlooked set of skills in society today. We spend so much time learning how to master computers, machines, geometry, etc. But those skills won't do much good if you are trying to preserve your life in the wilderness. From having the ability to find water to having the ability to start a fire, there are many important aspects to wilderness survival. Over the years, many people have gotten lost in the woods and became stranded there. Many of these incidents ended with fatalities. A person who has had time to prepare will be in a much different ...

More chilling cold cases solved! Listen to the fascinating true crime stories that were solved years later thanks to modern technologies and investigation techniques. Solving a criminal investigation is never as simple as it looks on television. In this book, we will be looking into some of the highest profile criminal investigations that go years without being solved. These are known as cold cases. But this book will examine those cold cases which have been solved.

When it comes to retirement, people often say the same thing: “I’ll start planning when I’m older”, “My company will take care of me”, or “I’ll figure it out at some point.” They never do. Instead, they get lumped in with millions of other people who are suffering financially at an elder age when they should be living their best life. If you want to be stress-free, financially abundant, and free to live life on your terms during retirement, then this book is for you. This high income retirement book teaches you: Why retirement plans are critical How to leverage social ...

Depuis des années, Erik, le roi balafré du Royaume de l'Éternité, n'a qu'une seule obsession : se venger de l'homme qui a assassiné son père et le retient prisonnier. Jusqu'au jour où Livia, la fille de son ennemi, le libère involontairement. Ignorant tout de la rancune qui consume Erik et de la cruauté dont il est capable, la princesse devient malgré elle un pion de son plan machiavélique visant à reconquérir son royaume. Prêt à tout sacrifier et à écumer toutes les mers, rien ne semble pouvoir l'arrêter. Mais Livia n'est pas aussi facile à contrôler qu'il le pense.

After the Civil War, Johnny heads home to Texas to find the mother and sister of a close friend who died beside him in battle. What Johnny doesn't know is that a merciless saloon owner has staked his claim on the sister, and the brute doesn't plan to let her go.

When it comes to cold-blooded murder, nobody who is a part of civilized society can stand the thought that someone out there would actually get away with such horrendous crimes. We all want these wayward criminals to be caught and held accountable for their actions. This book demonstrates the lengths that some have gone to and the depths that they have plumbed just to make sure that the long arm of the law finally reached the barbaric perpetrators of unspeakable deeds and brought them to justice.

During the day when there is a break in the day’s labor or in the evenings when the sunlight is waning, stories are told from Texas porches. Although these are usually short stories, they can be long, and thus continued at the next porch sitting. They contain humor, sadness, suspense, mystery, philosophy, and instruction about the human condition and, in general, the journey of living. The storytellers find the rhythm of life for themselves, and the listeners hear valuable lessons and truth. Tales from the Texas Timberlands, Volume 1 celebrates this storytelling about East Texans with ...

In this post-apocalyptic anthology, nothing matters except survival. In a world full of humans pitted against each other, how can there be anyone left to trust? Features sixteen stories of survivors tragically struggling to live in societies turned upside down. Even when the end arrives, life finds a way. Stories by Kortney Gallagher, Stephen Scott Whitaker, Aaron P. Hansen, Anastasia Arellano, Robert Allen Lupton, Ryan Priest, S.O. Green, Peter VanGelderen, Kris Ashton, Wolfgang Potterhouse, Andrew Ronzino, Jarrett Mazza, Barend Nieuwstraten III, H.R.R. Gorman, and Douglas Allen Gohl.

In the summer of 1971, a psychology study at Stanford University morphed into a chilling demonstration of human behavior under the pressures of authority and submission. The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE), led by psychologist Dr. Philip Zimbardo, aimed to explore the psychological effects of power and control in a simulated prison. What began as a planned two-week study unraveled in just six days, as participants—ordinary college students randomly assigned as 'guards' or 'prisoners'—descended into extreme and often disturbing behaviors.

The Memory Experiment: A Mind-Bending Psychological Thriller About Memory Manipulation and Deadly Secrets How far would you go to protect the truth… if your own memories couldn’t be trusted? Kate Lawson thought she knew herself—until fragments of her past start surfacing in terrifying ways. Memories she doesn’t remember, decisions she doesn’t recall making, and people who claim she isn’t who she thinks she is. As reality twists around her, Kate discovers a chilling experiment designed to manipulate the mind itself. Haunted by memory manipulation, she must untangle lies, uncover ...