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Mark Stoneman

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Worlds of Consumption

Color is a visible technology that invisibly connects so many puzzling aspects of modern Western consumer societies—research and development, making and selling, predicting fashion trends, and more. Building on Regina Lee Blaszczyk’s go-to history of the “color revolution” in the United States, this book explores further transatlantic and multidisciplinary dimensions of the topic. Covering history from the mid nineteenth century into the immediate past, it examines the relationship between...

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Mark L. Stoneman

Driving Around, Waiting to Get Blown Up is a war story for people who don't read war stories.It candidly describes what the occupation of Iraq was like for one officer tasked with keeping his soldiers alive while also protecting the Iraqi people he was responsible for. It captures the daily routine for many of the American soldiers who served during Operation Iraqi Freedom: driving from village to village, talking to the local people, and waiting for the i...

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Jim Muyres, Alexandra Corden Franklin, Chad Lutz, Meredith Johnson, Stephanie Paige, Luis Heard, Michael Hatcher, Charles Miller, Samuel Normington, Alexander Fanning, Brenda Nicholas, Clinton Lovejoy, Amye Hartfield, roger craik, Teodor Nihtianov, Mark Stoneman, SUZANNE SCHULTHEIS, Romina van Maaren, N. S. Davis, Harold Dozier, Suzanne Eaton, J Woltz, Porshia Franklin, Cindy Phan, Matthew Vargo, Chana Miller, Gregory Baker, Giuseppe Sloan, Lisa Kendrick, Kate MacDonald, Bruce Spang, Breton Lalama, Krystal Mossbarger, Lisa Poff, Kiki Legge, Jessica Meurett, Mikado Black, Leah Milenkova, Emily Jacko, Tiffinie Alvarez, Maryanne Carroll, Geoffrey Aitken, Tatiana Khalyako, David Yingst, Tamara Nicholl-Smith, Alia Clark, Nathan Lim, Zeel Patel, Rupert Pip, Prachatorn Joemjumroon

Poets Choice is a poetry book publishing brand registered and having its head office in Mumbai, India. We are on the verge of setting up our offices in USA as well.We have been around since 2010.Our writers hail from over 48 countries across the world. To view the complete list visit our website.We welcome book reviews on our website – www.poetschoice.in . Books can also be ordered directly from our website.Now, video and audio reviews can be sent across to ...

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Nathaniel Fick

The New York Times bestseller that "provides a close-up and often harrowing look at Fick's service both in Iraq and Afghanistan" ( U.S. News & World Report).If the Marines are "the few, the proud," Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick's career begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth. He leads a platoon in Afghanistan just after 9/11 and advances to the pinnacle—Recon— ...

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Charles de Lint

Yellow Dog is a short story set near de Lint's fictional desert town of Santo del Vado Viejo, where his novels The Mystery of Grace and The Painted Boy take place, and where some of his recent short fiction has been set.Ernie Grant is a decent guy, a bit of a desert rat who works at a scrap yard where he has to put up with racist comments from his crass, bullish boss. The boss works by night as a self-proclaimed Minuteman protecting the U.S. borders from the influx of illegal Mexic...

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Carolyn Ferrell

A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionA finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut NovelIntroducing an extraordinary and original writer whose first novel explores the intersections of grief and rage, personal strength and healing--and what we owe one another.Fern seeks refuge from her mother's pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwin finds salvation in the music of Prince much to her ...

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Clint Palmer, Robert Macklin

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Hachette Military Collection

The true story of Australia's SAS and the soldier who was there from the start.Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed from its fledgling beginnings into the highly trained, specialised fighting force it is today. He is an insider with the long view and this is his unique story of life in the SAS.As a bush kid in the Northern Territory of Australia, growing up in a one dog mining to...

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Bathroom Readers' Institute

Quick fiction for readers on the go!Quick fiction for readers on the go! Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Presents Flush Fiction is a tantalizing collection of 88 short-short stories custom-picked for the Bathroom Reader aficionado. We scoured the nation for talented writers and asked them to send us their best quick reads. The result: mysteries, horror, sci-fi, adventure, plenty of laughs--and a few gasps--in these startling short stories. They’re li...

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Mike Guardia

A riveting true story of tank warfare in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm under the command of Captain H. R. McMaster.As a new generation of main battle tanks came onto the line during the 1980s, neither the United States nor the USSR had the chance to pit them in combat. But once the Cold War between the superpowers waned, Iraq's Saddam Hussein provided the chance with his invasion of Kuwait. Finally the new US M1A1 tank would see how it fared against the vaunted...

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Britta Badour

A powerful debut collection from an award-winning artist, public speaker, and poet.Trillium Book Award for Poetry, FinalistGerald Lampert Memorial Award, ShortlistPat Lowther Memorial Award, ShortlistRaymond Souster Award, LonglistWith propulsive, intimate stylings and an eye toward Black liberations, pop culture, sports, and familial fractures, Wires that Sputter

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Rick Atkinson

From Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Rick Atkinson (The Liberation Trilogy) comes an eyewitness account of the war against Iraq and a vivid portrait of a remarkable group of soldiers."A beautifully written and memorable account of combat from the top down and bottom up as the 101st Airborne commanders and front-line grunts battle their way to Baghdad.... A must-read."—Tom BrokawFor soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the r...

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WritersCorps

Through poetry we tell the world who we are, where we're from, what we love, what we think, how we feel, and why we hope.With a foreword by hip-hop artist and celebrated urban poet Common, Tell the World is a stunning collection of poems by teens who have taken part in workshops run by WritersCorps, a national alliance of literary arts programs for youth.Their words represent the thoughts, hopes, and dreams of teens everywhere, offering bo...