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The Outer Worlds are engulfed in conflict. The Solar Assembly are preparing to send troops to intervene, a move which threatens to thrust the entire Solar System into civil war. On Mars, Emile Chandraskher and his Formist Faction, are preparing the final stages of their decades-long plan for ultimate control. In the midst of this, an unlikely group of dissenters and misfits emerge. And they have a score to settle!

Chicago, May 30, 1956: On a quiet corner in a working-class immigrant neighborhood, a heavy suitcase is discovered on the sidewalk late at night. Inside is the body of a young boy, naked and hacked into pieces. Two hard-drinking Chicago detectives are assigned to the case: Hank Purcell, who still has flashbacks 10 years after the Battle of the Bulge, and his partner Marvin Bondarowicz, a wise-cracking Jewish cop who loves trouble as much as he loves booze.

When David Collier returns home from combat in Vietnam, he discovers that he’s been cursed with the uncanny ability to invade other people’s nightmares. Even worse, the curse of Morpheus (the Greek god of dreams) empowers its victims to kill others after sneaking into their dreams. To stop him, pioneering sleep researcher Alix Cassidy must find a way to shut down the corrupt VA psychiatrist who’s been treating Collier and allowing him to kill, while both murderer and victim dream.

Garrison Chase has one shot left. Finally back on duty after a year-long suspension for insubordination, the black-ops-turned-FBI agent is desperate to prove he can be a team player. But he’s horrified when the first day of his assignment goes sideways after his house nearly explodes and the man he’s supposed to protect catches a sniper’s bullet.

When the first wave of pirated videotapes from the West reached the USSR in the second half of the 1980s, that stuff was naturally illegal. If you had money, you still watched it, of course, be it Commando, or The Godfather, or Emmanuelle, or whatever you were lucky to get. Maybe, you’d get arrested; maybem you wouldn’t.

For B-24 bomber pilot Al Lycoming, the mission was history in the making. For Women’s Airforce Service Pilot Vivian Wright, it was a chance to put her skills to the ultimate test...and share in the burden of combat. Dispatched to Benghazi on mysterious orders, Al Lycoming finds nearly 200 other B-24 bombers being assembled...and a top secret assignment that will catapult them all into seemingly impenetrable Nazi defenses.

In 1961, the United States government provided federal funding for a weather modification program called “Project Skywater". While Project Skywater was an open and honest attempt at unlocking meteorology's secrets for the benefit of mankind, it also hid a much darker purpose in the research and development of weather-based weapon technology through a covert government initiative called “Project Dusty Spider”. Their work led to the creation of the world’s first hurricane inducement bomb designated “Big Sister”.

The Earth is no more. Escaping the premature nova of Sol, humanity's last survivors flee their doomed home using an experimental drive that takes them to the far side of the galaxy. With 10,000 survivors, dwindling resources, and rapidly diminishing hope, the fleet is on the verge of breaking point. Gaia, their new home, offers one last chance of survival for the human race. But when Major Tom Merrick and Captain Juliana Curran lead the expedition to explore this new frontier, they learn that Gaia is a world fraught with peril and deadly secrets.

After Earl’s bride vanishes in the Smoky Mountains on their honeymoon, the former navy SEAL is certain she’s been abducted. Worse, a storm has washed away any potential evidence, and with nothing to go on, the park rangers call off the official search. Then another woman disappears in the same area. Can one last lead help Earl find Morgan before he loses her forever?

Months have passed since the incident on Titan. For Emile and the Formists, life is returning to normal now that their enemies have been dealt with. Or so they thought. On the Jovian world of Europa, a mysterious document has been released that threatens to reveal everything. The Jovian Manifesto, as it’s called, has the Outer Worlds up in arms and the Inner Worlds fearing a civil war.

Jeremiah Ward was just another convict, a disgraced investigator who once worked the Martian beat, now serving his sentence in a mining colony on Mercury. When a member of a powerful faction goes missing on Titan, Ward is given an opportunity he cannot pass up. In exchange for investigating the disappearance of this figure, he gets a clean slate and a second chance...Instead of investigating a missing person’s case he becomes embroiled in a centuries-old conspiracy and Ward comes to realize his one shot at redemption may cost him his life.

At the dawn of Creation, when Satan rebelled against God, one angel was caught in the middle. As an angel of Heaven’s worship choir, Malachi spends his days in song, yet he yearns for a more exciting role. He aspires to join the Morning Star Legion, an elite corps of warrior angels. Seemingly unattainable, his dream flickers in the distance— until God ignites a new Creation. While stars erupt across the ever-expanding cosmos and whispers swirl of a place called Earth where strange new life abounds, Malachi is finally offered a chance to achieve his long-sought ambition.

Data is a crucial commodity, increasing at an exponential rate. That Book on Big Data is a crash course covering big data, who’s using it, and its implications. From this audiobook you’ll learn definitions, techniques, and tools used by practitioners. Sampling the generators of data, and those hungrily consuming it, we dive into high profile use cases and those that fly under the radar. We’ll also consider personal implications of big data on everything (and everyone!).

Victor McCain, God's bounty hunter, learns what it's like to be the one targeted for death. With a $10 million bounty on his head, assassins are finding their way to Louisville to try to collect on the contract of a lifetime, including Black Ice, the world's top killer. But he is not alone. An old foe has returned from the dead to seek revenge on Victor by destroying those he holds dear, including a new love.

Thirty years ago, Carter Springer left behind Devondale, a sleepy neighborhood in Lexington, Kentucky, for a big-city life in Atlanta. But he didn’t just leave behind his family - he also left behind his friends, a group the adults of the neighborhood once referred to as the Devondale Five. They were legends back then. They ran the neighborhood. They were inseparable. Until Carter abandoned them.

The Nomad slaughtered his girlfriend and framed him for murder. Now, Billy Gamble, a drifter turned fugitive, will stop at nothing to find and exact his revenge on the sadistic serial killer traveling the world and sowing chaos wherever he goes. His search for the nomad will take Billy to the exotic islands of Thailand, the old colonial towns of Malaysia and into the darkest jungles of Borneo. But the real question is...who is hunting whom and why? To find the answers, Billy must delve into the mind of a madman and question his own sanity.

A history of war and warfare from ancient to early modern times, The Patterns of War Through the Eighteenth Century explains not only what happened in warfare but why war in a certain time and culture took on distinct and recognizable patterns. Larry H. Addington discusses the development in weapons and tactics, methods of logistics, and characteristics of generalship. He shows how the changing patterns of war during this long span of history paved the way for those that would emerge.

In Hitler's Generals in America, Derek R. Mallett examines the evolution of the relationship between American officials and the Wehrmacht general officers they held as prisoners of war in the United States between 1943 and 1946.

Dr. Jack Carter has spent the last 18 months in the care of his friend Dr. Martin Dyer, after waking from an amnesiac fugue state. His wife Sarah had disappeared while they vacationed, and suspicion had fallen on Jack, though he could remember nothing from their last days together. Jack's investigations into her disappearance had brought him face to face with unexplainable supernatural phenomenon, and Martin knew more about the strange happenings than he would admit.

When General Robert E. Lee fled from Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia in April 1865, many observers did not realize that the Civil War had reached its nadir. A large number of Confederates, from Jefferson Davis down to the rank-and-file, were determined to continue fighting. Though Union successes had nearly extinguished the Confederacy's hope for an outright victory, the South still believed it could force the Union to grant a negotiated peace that would salvage some of its war aims.