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1) The women
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"When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps...
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"In Honor Betrayed, Dr. Mic Hunter probes beyond the headlines to reveal the reality of sexual abuse in the military. The culture of the military's training is to turn recruits into those who follow orders without question. Honor Betrayed describes in detail the gross realities of the hostile, uber-masculine, dehumanizing environment our young men and women confront. Most vulnerable to sexual abuse are minorities-particularly women and homosexuals....
3) Invasion
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Swordworks and Miro Books
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English
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'Invasion' is the first instalment in the epic new 'Time War' series that throws futuristic supersoldiers enter an alternate history where they must fight the ultimate enemy in a world that is entirely alien to them. The year is 2074. War has raged for twelve years, and biological weapons have decimated much of the world's population. Many have suffered degrees of mutation. Faced with dwindling human resources, both sides turn to genetic experiments...
4) No Mercy
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Jonathan Grave thrillers volume 1
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English
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Reprint Edition.
"The launch of a really exciting series." --Joseph Finder
"No Mercy will leave you breathless." --Harlan Coben
When those inside the corridors of power need help outside the law, they know who to call. Jonathan Grave, covert rescue specialist, always gets results. No names. No feds. No trace evidence.
When an Indiana college student is abducted, Jonathan and his team of ace operatives unravel...
"The launch of a really exciting series." --Joseph Finder
"No Mercy will leave you breathless." --Harlan Coben
When those inside the corridors of power need help outside the law, they know who to call. Jonathan Grave, covert rescue specialist, always gets results. No names. No feds. No trace evidence.
When an Indiana college student is abducted, Jonathan and his team of ace operatives unravel...
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"Created with an insightful heart and an activist's drive. Cilla's writing denotes a deep sense of personal responsibility for the veterans of the Iraq War." -Paul Haggis, Writer/Director, In the Valley of Elah, Crash, Quantom of Solace, Million Dollar Baby "Fascinating ... vividly recounts one of the most tragic true stories to emerge from the Iraq War ... eloquent, disturbing, and haunting." -Mark Boal, journalist and screenwriter of The Hurt Locker...
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Jessica James
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource
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English
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No name in the annals of the Civil War conjures a more romantic and awe-inspiring image than that of Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby of Virginia. The epitome of the Southern cavalier, Colonel Mosby was a charismatic officer whose small band of partisans outwitted and outfought the Union army on the fields and farmlands of northern Virginia. So great was the panic inspired by this one officer's military ingenuity, so prominent was the threat...
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A diverse group of contributors offer different perspectives on whether or not the different experiences of our military and the broader society amounts to a "gap"-and if the American public is losing connection to its military. They analyze extensive polling information to identify those gaps between civilian and military attitudes on issues central to the military profession and the professionalism of our military, determine which if any of these...
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Cooper Square Press
Pub. Date
2000.
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1 online resource (876 pages)
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English
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"As the U.S. Army's Chief of staff through World War II, George Catlett marshall (1880-1959) organized the military mobilization of unprecedented number of Americans and shaped the Allied strategy that defeated first Nazi Germany, then Imperial Japan. As President Truman's Secretary of State, and later as his Secretary of Defence during the Korean War, Marshall the statesman created the European Recovery Act (known as the Marshall Plan) and made possible...
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Second Chance Publications
Pub. Date
2012
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1 online resource (109 p.)
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English
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"Ghosts of Gettysburg" is the first volume in Mark Nesbitt's popular book series. A combination of history and mystery, this volume focuses on the early ghost-lore of Gettysburg. Included are the timeless stories of the woman in white, the surgeons of Old Dorm, the ghosts of Devil's Den, the Blue Boy, and other infamous spectres who wander the Gettysburg battlefield. This volume in the "Ghosts of Gettysburg" book series was first released in October...
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Algonquin Books
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2012
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1 online resource.
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English
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"The Americans didn't simply outlast the British, nor was the war just a glorified guerrilla action with sporadic skirmishes, says W. J. Wood. Americans won their independence on the battlefield by employing superior strategies, tactics, and leadership in the battles of Bunker Hill, Quebec, Trenton, Princeton, Saratoga, and Cowpens, among many others. Here in this groundbreaking book are detailed accounts of attempts by commanders to adapt their forces...
11) Damage Control
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Jonathan Grave thrillers volume 4
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English
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A hostage crisis in Mexico turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse in this international thriller by the New York Times bestselling author.
They were on a mission trip to Mexico to help with earthquake recovery. But in Ciudad Juarez, the busload of well-meaning adults and teenagers became hostages. The ransom demands of their captors are explicit: deliver three million dollars—with zero involvement from law enforcement—or...
They were on a mission trip to Mexico to help with earthquake recovery. But in Ciudad Juarez, the busload of well-meaning adults and teenagers became hostages. The ransom demands of their captors are explicit: deliver three million dollars—with zero involvement from law enforcement—or...
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Trine Day
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource (304 pages)
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English
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One of the most explosive and hidden secrets in U.S. history - one that has never been previously told, Remember the Liberty explores how a sitting U.S. president collaborated with Israeli leaders in the fomentation of a war between them and their Arab neighbors. A war that would ensure a victory for Israel, and include the acquisition of additional land. This book will finally identify the real cause of the vicious attack on a U.S. Naval ship. After...
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Cooper Square Press
Pub. Date
2001.
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1 online resource (328 pages)
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English
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"A major event in both America's history and the European wars of the nineteenth century, the War of 1812's Battle of Plattsburgh saw the largest invasion ever of a foreign military into the United States, as the British army and navy, fresh from victories against Napoleon, attempted to conquer Lake Champlain and its shores. Their plan was to seize control of key waterways and port cities, a move that would cripple America's defenses. Outnumbered...
14) The Rock
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Cool Gus Publishing
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1 online resource.
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English
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"From NY Times Bestselling Author of the Area 51, Nightstalkers and Atlantis Series, Bob Mayer. The power beams shifted across the color spectrum as the levels were increased. The spere slowly began to change its own shade, the etch-black gradually changing to gray then fading away until an image appeared, incongruous among the technology and power of the cave: an aircraft hangar, the edges abruptly cut off where they met the edge of the power of...
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World View Forum
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource (155 pages)
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English
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"Featuring a selection of essays written as recent major political developments were unfolding, this collection contends that the Pentagon's vulnerability lies in the contradictions of the capitalist system that created the monstrosity that is the U.S. military machine. Timely and honest writings discuss topics ranging from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and the events in Libya and Syria to the ongoing role of Wiki Leaks. The book evaluates...
16) Hostage Zero
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Jonathan Grave thrillers volume 2
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English
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"Reprinted Edition"Gilstrap Is A Master Of Action And Drama." -Gayle Lynds Hostage rescue expert Jonathan Grave goes where the government can't. An innocent man has been shot and two young people are missing. But tracking them down is just the beginning. To keep them and his covert team alive, Jonathan plunges into the heart of an ugly secret whose insidious path reaches from one of the world's most remote places into the highest corridors of power--and...
17) Omega Sanction
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"Bob Mayer is a West Point Graduate, former Green Beret and NY Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of Factual Fiction. Over four million books sold. Translated into over a dozen languages. "Sizzling, first-rate war fiction." Macon Beacon. The most frightening weapon ever invented can be unleashed by a single person. And now, they have chosen her. On the border between Croatia and Bosnia, a killer practices his art on UN Peacekeeping...
18) Omega Missile
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Black Ops volume 3
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Cool Gus Publishing
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource.
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English
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"Bob Mayer is a West Point Graduate, former Green Beret and NY Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of Factual Fiction Over four million books sold. Translated into over a dozen languages. A nuclear holocaust is just a button away-and someone's about to push it. The secret-the ultimate weapon, a missile that carries no warhead, just a doomsday system that can will launch every nuclear device in the US arsenal. No overrides. No...
19) The Line
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Black Ops volume 1
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Cool Gus Publishing
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1 online resource.
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English
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"West Point Graduate, former Green Beret and NY Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of Factual Fiction Bob Mayer Over four million books sold. Translated into over a dozen languages. They killed Patton when he opposed them. They've cowered Presidents into going to war. For more than half a century, a secret organization of Army officers known as The Line has been covertly manipulating US Policy. Now, in a political climate rife...
20) The Gate
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Black Ops volume 2
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1 online resource.
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English
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"In the skies above, the planes were consumed by the fireball. Out at sea the Russian Admiral in charge of the flotilla streaming for Hungnam at flank speed was left to wonder at the mushroom cloud that rose up over the shore." A deadly weapon, built by the Japanese during World War II has been hidden and forgotten about at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge for decades. Forgotten no more, Lake, a covert operative for the US is now on a race against...
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