The Butterfly Box_A SASS Anthology

The Butterfly Box_A SASS Anthology

Anthology

War / Military Fiction / History

Free your imagination as you delve into this eclectic mix of healing tales from eight authors, just as different as their stories. Lift the lid and take a peek inside The Butterfly Box.Authors includeKate Vine Brooke May KM Neuhold Rebecca M. Gibson Tricia Copeland Eleanor Lloyd JonesRiann C. MillerKatie Fox
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The Liberty Incident Revealed

The Liberty Incident Revealed

A. Jay Cristol

History / War / Military Fiction

Cutting through all of the controversy and conspiracy theories about Israel's deadly attack on the USS Liberty in June 1967 at the height of the Six Day War, Cristol revises his well-regarded book about the event with a complete, in-depth analysis of all of the sources, including recently released tapes from National Security Agency. When the first edition of The Liberty Incident was published in 2002 there remained many unanswered questions about Israeli Air Force audio tapes intercepted by the NSA. Some alleged they would prove that the Israeli attack was premeditated. Cristol's successful Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the National Security Agency, while resulting in the release of those tapes, has been greeted by anti-Israel sources insisting that the NSA tapes are fraudulent and are part of a larger conspiracy to deceive the American public!After a quarter of a century of intensive research in Israel and the U.S., researching all relevant archives from...
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Forest Mage ss-2

Forest Mage ss-2

Robin Hobb

Science Fiction & Fantasy / History / Mystery

This is the second book in the brand new trilogy from the author of the "Tawny Man" trilogy, following on from the bestselling Shaman's «Crossing». The King's Cavalla Academy has been ravaged by the Speck plague. Hundreds of cadets and instructors have been lost to the disease, and even the survivors may never fully recover. Many have been forced to relinquish their military ambitions and return to their families to face lives of dependency and disappointment. As the Academy infirmary empties, Cadet Nevare Burvelle also prepares to journey home, to attend his brother Rosse's wedding. Far from being a broken man, Nevare is hale and hearty after his convalescence. Instead of growing rake — thin like the other plague victims, Nevare has put on weight. In fact, he just can't stop putting on weight, no matter how much he exercises or how little he eats. To make matters worse, his nights are haunted by dreams of the voluptuous Tree Woman, dreams in which his Speck self betrays everything he holds dear in his waking life. Has the plague infected him in ways far more mysterious than the merely physical? Despite his fears, Nevare will journey back to Widevale in high spirits, in full expectation of a jubilant homecoming and a tender reunion with his young and beautiful fiancee, Carsina. But his life is about to take a dramatic, unexpected and shocking turn; and soon he may be forced to choose sides, between civilized Gernia, his ancestry and upbringing and the magical, sensual world of the Specks.
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The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard

Fantasy / Horror / History

SUMMARY: Here are Howard’s greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions. Some of Howard’s best-known characters–Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among them–roam the forbidding locales of the author’s fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to remote jungles in Africa.The collection includes Howard’s masterpiece “Pigeons from Hell,” which Stephen King calls “one of the finest horror stories of [the twentieth] century,” a tale of two travelers who stumble upon the ruins of a Southern plantation–and into the maw of its fatal secret. In “Black Canaan” even the best warrior has little chance of taking down the evil voodoo man with unholy powers–and none at all against his wily mistress, the diabolical High Priestess of Damballah. In these and other lavishly illustrated classics, such as the revenge nightmare “Worms of the Earth” and “The Cairn on the Headland,” Howard spins tales of unrelenting terror, the legacy of one of the world’s great masters of the macabre.
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Harlan County Horrors

Harlan County Horrors

Anthology

War / Military Fiction / History

Product DescriptionIn the black heart of coal country, malevolent spirits and unearthly creatures slip from the shadows into the minds and hearts of men. Young women, twisted by pain, call for love and revenge by the light of the moon. A dead dog by the side of the road is more than it seems. In Harlan County, Kentucky, the supernatural and the mundane mingle in the depths of the earth, filling the mines with powerful forces that draw people down and corrupt from within.
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States

An African American and Latinx History of the United States

Paul Ortiz

History / Nonfiction / Race

An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rightsSpanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and "Jacksonian democracy," and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms American history into the story of the working class organizing against imperialism.In precise detail, Ortiz traces this untold history from the Jim Crow-esque racial segregation of the Southwest, the rise and violent fall of a powerful tradition of Mexican labor organizing in the twentieth century, to May 1, 2006, International Workers' Day, when migrant...
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The Deluge

The Deluge

Adam Tooze

History

From our generation's foremost economic historian, a searing analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermathIn the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle: The heart of the financial systemshifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and material reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economicand political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrial fabric.A century after the outbreak of fighting, Adam Tooze revisits this seismic moment in history, challenging the existing narrative of the war, its peace, and its aftereffects.From the moment the United States enters the war in 1917 to the precipice of global financial ruin, Tooze brings into new precision the world remade by American economic and military power. Tracing the ways in which countries came to terms...
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt

No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt

Doris Kearns Goodwin

History / Biographies & Memoirs / Nonfiction

RetailWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for HistoryNo Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines—Eleanor and Franklin’s marriage and remarkable partnership, Eleanor’s life as First Lady, and FDR’s White House and its impact on America as well as on a world at war. Goodwin effectively melds these details and stories into an unforgettable and intimate portrait of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and of the time during which a new, modern America was born.Presents a detailed portrait of the daily life of the president and his wife during World War II, a period when the beginnings of modern America were formulated.
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Sketches of Desire: Prequel to the Art Models Club Series

Sketches of Desire: Prequel to the Art Models Club Series

Amanda Meadows

Feminism / Nonfiction / History

The Erotic, Emotional, and Entertaining Prequel to the Hot New Adult Romance Series Amber couldn't help herself. She felt as though her perfect half was out there waiting on her. As she thought of the mysterious gorgeous stranger, she felt kind of weird. She knew it didn't make any sense, but she felt like she might have just missed out on meeting the love of her life. And if she had, was she destined to meet him? Amber Holloway is a smart and pretty high school senior who is used to making her own way in life. She studies hard and works long hours at an after school job to save for college. It leaves her little time for anything else, but she dreams of being an art major. She knows that college is her best path out of the miserable circumstances at home. While Amber really doesn't have time for a boyfriend, she desires meeting the love of her life. Hunter Webb has every advantage in life. He is from a loving and supportive family, he is smart, handsome, and a talented artist. Hunter is also fabulously wealthy, but he was raised to be down-to-earth, respectful of everyone, and is loyal to his lifelong best friend, who most consider to be from the “wrong side of the tracks.” Hunter expected that his senior year of high school would be the year that everything came together and found the right girl to date and take to senior prom. Senior year isn't exactly what either Amber or Hunter imagined. But a near chance meeting has each wondering about the other. Can the son of a billionaire and a girl from the town trailer park find each other? Sketches of Desire is the hot Prequel to the Art Models Club series of New Adult Romance
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