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Everyone Knows But You
A Tale of Murder on the Maine Coast
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- A Ryan Tapia Novel
2024
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An FBI agent finds himself in the insular world of a fishing village on the Maine coast where the rules are different—sometimes lethally so.After his wife and two children are killed in a car crash, Ryan Tapia starts a new life in Maine. But his first case there is a puzzling oddball—the corpse of a fisherman washes up on federal land, while the man’s boat drifts into waters that are part of an Indian reservation. Ryan quickly learns the nuances of Maine life as he...
Churchill and Orwell
The Fight for Freedom
2017
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**A New York Times bestseller!A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike.**Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history...
The Generals
American Military Command from World War II to Today
2012
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**A New York Times bestseller!An epic history of the decline of American military leadership—from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell.**While history has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—it has been less kind to the generals of the wars that followed, such as Koster, Franks, Sanchez, and Petraeus. In The Generals, Thomas E. Ricks sets out to explain why that...
Waging a Good War
A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
2022
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#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world.“Ricks does a tremendous job of putting the reader inside the hearts and souls of the young men and women who risked so much to change America . . . Riveting.” —Charles Kaiser, The GuardianI...
First Principles
What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
2020
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New York Times BestsellerEditors' Choice —New York Times Book Review"Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country." —James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) & 26th Secretary of DefenseThe Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling auth...
Fiasco
The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005
2006
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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • One of the Washington Post Book World's 10 Best Books of the Year • Time's 10 Best Books of the Year • USA Today's Nonfiction Book of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book"Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essential reading." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times"The best account yet of the entire war." —Vanity Fair
2011
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It's 2011 and as the world inches closer to the 2012 Convergence, Tim Christenson, an addicted street thug attempts to rob the wrong man... Forced into a journey of epic consequences by the enigmatic Kuthanaga, Tim learns of the devastating fate in store for all of humanity and must come to terms with the sins of his past. Kuthanaga claims he will save one billion humans. The only problem: There's nearly seven billion on the planet.
Escape on the Pearl
The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad
2009
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The largest mass escape of fugitive slaves in American history is thrillingly chronicled in this "readable . . . valuable account" ( Kirkus).On the evening of April 15, 1848, nearly eighty enslaved Americans attempted one of history's most audacious escapes. Setting sail from Washington, D.C., on a schooner named the Pearl, the fugitives began a daring 225-mile journey to freedom in the North—and put in motion a furiously fought battle over slavery...
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- Bestselling Military History
2007
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The bestselling, compelling insider’s account of the Marine Corps from the lives of the men of Platoon 3086—their training at Parris Island, their fierce camaraderie, and the unique code of honor that defines them.The United States Marine Corps, with its proud tradition of excellence in combat, its hallowed rituals, and its unbending code of honor, is part of the fabric of American myth. Making the Corps visits the front lines of boot camp in Parris Island...
Anything for You, My Lady
Finding Home, #0
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- Finding Home
2021
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What good are riches without freedom?Lady Virginia Sackville would rather read a book alone than attend yet another superficial high society party with her controlling mother. She steals snatches of freedom where she can find them until one day she meets Ralph Clifton, an injured naval lieutenant with a charming smile.Ralph didn't recognize the pretty young woman as a peer of the realm when he flirted with her, but he does notice the effect she's had on his heart. When he l...
The Gamble
General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq
2010
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Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks’s #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq—The Gamble is the next news breaking installmentThomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005 as only he can, examining the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon wi...
Freddy Anderson’S Home
Book 1
2015
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Ten-year-old Dr. Freddy Anderson is a super genius capable of using his mind in incredible ways. After he is orphaned, the president grants him land near a military base and issues an order for an admiral to keep an eye on him. Even as he is relentlessly tailed by a Navy Seal, Freddy attempts to start over with a new family. Sadly, his journey is not easy as he is bullied, shunned, and loved by few. But what his adversaries do not know is that Freddy is a determined boy with amazing healin...











