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Fifty years after the allied air assault on Truk sank scores of Japanese ships, the islands face a new danger. Agent Paul Gerhart and his team are assigned to investigate the threat, but are coerced into including a reluctant, high-strung marine ecologist, Keira Hall. She's intelligent, attractive, and temperamental. Diving the precarious World War II wrecks, the team encounters deadly resistance from within, and face more peril from a ruthless and powerful enemy.

When talks of secession gain traction in the Northern press, the son of an immigrant tenant farmer sees an opportunity to change his life. He enlists in the regular army, two months before the fall of Fort Sumter, and the start of the Civil War, and is assigned to the Third U.S. Artillery.He shares the terrifying realities of front line duty with new-found friends seeking the same adventure. After his hospitalization for treatment of wounds received in battle, he’s sent home to rec...

**PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “remarkable” (Ken Burns), “utterly absorbing” (Forbes) Civil War classic that inspired the film Gettysburg, with more than three million copies in print—now in a 50th anniversary edition featuring a new introduction by Jeff Shaara“My favorite historical novel . . . a superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant...

Buckle up! Max and her flock take on their most daring rescue mission yet in James Patterson's #1 bestselling Maximum Ride series.“One of the best storytellers of our time.” ―Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, the world's most popular YouTuberSomeone—or something—is decimating ships and sea life off Hawaii's coast, and Max and her flock find themselves sucked into the Navy's top-secret investigation of the catastrophe. Their objective: rescue Max's...

“[An] exciting read . . . [Jeff] Shaara returns to the U.S. Civil War in this first book of a new trilogy. . . . This novel is meticulously researched and brings a vivid reality to the historical events depicted.”—Library JournalNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSpring 1862. The Confederate Army in the West teeters on the brink of collapse. General Albert Sidney Johnston is forced to abandon the critical city of Nashville and rally...

Wil never planned to go home again.Plans change.Hired by one of the most powerful people in the Galactic Commonwealth to retrieve someone from Earth, a protected planet. A planet that no one in the Galactic Commonwealth is allowed to approach let alone land on.Wil has reservations, the crew wants more bacon. They take the job.Get in, grab the target, get bacon, and get out.Easy right?Wrong!Things go dow...

Michael Shaara reinvented the war novel with his Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels. Jeff Shaara continued his father’s legacy with a series of centuries-spanning New York Times bestsellers. Together at last in eBook form, this volume assembles three Civil War novels from America’s first family of military fiction: Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure.Gods and Generals traces th...

“The authors do not hold back.” —Booklist (starred review)“The palpable desperation that pervades the plot…feels true, giving it a chilling air of inevitability.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“The Shustermans challenge readers.” —School Library Journal (starred review)“No one does doom like Neal Shusterman.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)When the California drought escalates t...

The New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic The Killer AngelsIn this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War. Here is Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, a hopelessly by-the-book military instructor and devout Christian who becomes the greatest commander of the Civil War; Winfield Scott Hancock, a capt...

New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten's Meg: Primal Waters continues his thrilling action adventure series--the basis for the feature film The Meg, starring Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor.Eighteen years have passed since Angel, the Megalodon shark broke free of the Tanaka Lagoon and returned to the Mariana Trench. Meanwhile, Jonas Taylor-adventurer, has become Jonas Taylor, middle-aged father of two, overwhelmed by mountains of bil...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERContinuing the series that began with A Blaze of Glory, Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America’s long and bloody Civil War. In A Chain of Thunder, the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. There, in the vaunted “Gibraltar of the Confederacy,” a siege for the ages will cement the reputation of one Union general—and all but seal the fate of the rebel cause.

When Jesse McDermitt retires from the Marine Corps at age 37, he has no idea what he will do for the rest of his life. He only knows he doesn't want to spend the coming winter anywhere cold. His greatest skill is killing people from up to a mile away and he knows there aren't many job opportunities in the civilian world for that.Jesse also knows his way around boats and has an old friend living free and easy in the Florida Keys. Being an experienced diver and angler, he immediately...