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ONE DAY, YOU'RE A VALUED EMPLOYEE OF THE COMPANY … THE NEXT DAY, YOU'RE BEING PUSHED OUT THE DOOR.What happens when your secure corporate job suddenly becomes precarious? Book editor Sarah Morris finds herself in this predicament when the company she has served for twenty-one years is reorganized. Sarah's boss gives all the company's book editing projects to freelancers and a pet employee, unofficially demoting Sarah, who must spend her days tagging...
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Mugen Genshi was born as an Evitan, a human whose inner glow meant he had a great destiny in front of him. He had spent the first decade of his adult life ignoring his destiny, instead choosing to test his fighting prowess against any monster he could find, the more dangerous the better. When the peaceful village he was raised in is attacked by Devils and his adoptive father is killed, Mugen finds the responsibility of leadership suddenly thrust upon...
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These men never back away from danger-and always fall hard for love in Cover Six Security, an explosive new series from USA Today Bestselling Author Lisa B. Kamps.Derrick "Chaos" Biggs lives mostly in the shadows, tethered by nothing more than a deep-seated code of honor and the knowledge that his actions are for the greater good. A failed mission forces him to walk away from his former life and he finds a new purpose working with Cover Six Security....
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The choices they make will be their greatest curse. Nadine We're exiled from our coven and are being hunted by the Imperium Council, but this is far from over. To find the remaining Oaken Wands and release the witches from the wrath of the priestesses, we'll have to go to hell and back- literally. But hellfire is the least of our problems. If I'm prepared to do what's right by the coven, I'll have to decide if I want to make a deal with our worst...
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Persian Empire volume 17
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The empire was stable under Darius II, but his passing presented a new challenge to the empire. Experience the crucial moment when, after Artaxerxes II took power, his brother Cyrus orchestrated a revolt. Feel the suspense as the two brothers clashed in a great showdown at Cunaxa, fighting for the kingship.
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Gwen thought what happened in Vietnam stayed in Vietnam, but when Chuck came to Minter, the flood gates opened and the secrets she thought would never be told came to the forefront.When Cuck came to Minter the last person he expected to see was Gwen. As soon as he saw Gwen's daughter, Chere, he knew she was his daughter but did she know it as well?
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A collection of poems that carry the writer and the reader with their music and wisdom into life's complications, especially when you grow up during a devastating war that pits neighbors against each other. Dziho-Sator is a young Bosnian woman writing in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. She writes powerful, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic poems about being a child of war, becoming a woman, and interacting with family and friends. She is a professor...
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The Greatest Generation meets Bloods in this revealing oral history of the unrecognized contributions of African American veterans.
Award-winning journalist Yvonne Latty never bothered to find out the extent of her father's service until it was almost too late. Inspired by his moving story -- and eager to uncover the little-known stories of other black veterans, from those who served in the Second World War to the War in Iraq -- Latty set about interviewing...
10) Steven Pressfield's The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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This is a Summary of Steven Pressfield's The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative BattlesA succinct, engaging, and practical guide for succeeding in any creative sphere, The War of Art is nothing less than Sun-Tzu for the soul. What keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do? Why is there a naysayer within? How can we avoid the roadblocks of any creative endeavor-be it starting up a dream business venture, writing...
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Three caravans have vanished traversing the Cowcheanne Way. The legendary Tahsis platoon, warriors thought by most to be invincible, are dispatched to investigate and are never heard from again. Rumours of native uprisings and bandit armies grow wilder and more widespread every day, while the more devout whisper about the return of the Horde, a mythic foe from ages past.The truce between the warring Kael-tii and Ashai nations is put to the test when...
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Most Americans remember the New Deal as the crucible of modern liberalism. But while it is most closely associated with Roosevelt's efforts to end the Depression and provide social security for the elderly, we have failed to acknowledge one of its most enduring legacies: its war on crime. Crime policy, Anthony Gregory argues, was a defining feature of the New Deal.
“New Deal Law and Order” follows President Franklin Roosevelt, Attorney General...
13) The Alien's War
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Across Uoria secrets are being revealed as Lila, Maxim, and Creia continue to dig into the past to understand what happened on the planet years before, and what might happen if they don't work to stop it. As they finally unveil who has captured Creia and why, they realize that they need to leave Uoria in order to have a chance to save it.On Earth Samira and Ty are excited to have finally reached their wedding day, but when the ceremony does not go...
14) The Ratings War
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Grayman chronicles a daring and disturbing experiment to decisively end the tenacious threat of global terrorism. A group of powerful corporate and political players lever a desperate world to create a multinational force of "surgical" strike teams, authorized to cross borders and pursue targets with impunity; armed with advanced weapons, technology and armor; and directed by a cutting-edge artificial intelligence. But more than simply employing high-tech...
15) The Tide of War
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Rayne is an orphan who discovers he has a mysterious power lying dormant within him and he may be the last of his kind.After being taken in and trained as a warrior, he begins to learn more about his power and harness his abilities.Meanwhile, a ruthless king in a far off land plots to invade Rayne's hometown, laying everything to waste over resources he believes could be put to better use.Time is running out and it's up to Rayne to form alliances...
17) War of the Khons
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In a distant future, the world is under the tyrannical rule of the evil overlord Enzo and his army, along with the mad scientist Mezro. Three brave heroes – Mary, Paul, and Joe – rise up to challenge their oppressors. Armed with makeshift weapons, they embark on a perilous mission to infiltrate Enzo's stronghold and take down his empire. However, a tragic turn of events leaves Paul badly injured, and he is left for dead as Mary and Joe make their...
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In the spring of 1957, Jacob Versteeg is graduating from high school at the top of his class. Quite an accomplishment for a guy who spent his young childhood in a German concentration camp. When the war ended, he was adopted by Huub Versteeg, a kind fellow POW at Bergen-Belsen who had taken him under his wing. For ten years Jacob grew up in Chicago surrounded by the love of his new family, including Danny and Anya McClain and their two young children....
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"I am The Blood Baron!" In this world, multiple private military companies use the tension of war to sell their new weapons for field testing. But one such company had started its own war. In its laboratories, a young boy was born with experimental nanites in his blood. And now he is known as Baron. The last survivor of a group of powerful individuals called the Titans. A great war between the Titans and those who called themselves the Hero's Army...
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The Tempi Princess - The Semean War is part two of the saga of Mara Solon, the first female member of the Tempi warrior brotherhood and is part of the overall Belfortian Chronicles. The story takes place on a planet named Belfort long before the birth of Earth. Mara has achieved her goal, she is now a full member of an elite warrior society. Now a threat has emerged, a threat greater than any since the planet Belfort was born. A great war has come...
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