Military Engineering

The ongoing adventures of the Marathon, a gunship with a crew long on exotic creatures and short on common sense. They (almost) always get the job done. Eventually. Lost is the seventh book in the Marathon series, an action-packed carnival ride of a space opera that will leave you breathless.

With the fate of the world in their hands, will they make the right choice? The fate of humanity hangs in the balance as the world is thrown into turmoil by the arrival of the aliens. With governments struggling to decide whether to cooperate with the alien offers of salvation, the team must race against time to convince the world to support the aliens in defending Earth from the Musmahu, snakelike offspring of the Old Gods. As they fight to protect the planet, the team must also confront a new enemy, an unknown force with the power to control the Musmahu and potentially unlock the secrets ...

Threat Multiplier takes us onto the battlefield and inside the Pentagon to show how the US military is confronting the biggest security risk in global history: climate change. More than thirty years ago, Sherri Goodman became the Pentagon's first chief environmental officer. Indeed, for much of the twentieth century, the Department of Defense (DOD) was better known for containing the Soviet nuclear threat than protecting the environment.

Already faster and more powerful than the last 17 species that they have destroyed or subjugated, the Krall have set their sights on humankind. After testing humans on their future home world of Koban and finding them worthy opponents, the Krall start a war of slow extermination with the rest of humanity. The war is intended to last generations as they apply their own version of "natural selection" to cull their weaker warriors in combat, purifying the Krall gene pool with their finest warriors for breeding.

Each year nearly four million people visit Yellowstone National Park—one of the most popular of all national parks—but few know the fascinating and complex historical context in which it was established. In late July 1871, the geologist-explorer Ferdinand Hayden led a team of scientists through a narrow canyon into Yellowstone Basin, entering one of the last unmapped places in the country. The survey’s discoveries led to the passage of the Yellowstone Act in 1872, which created the first national park in the world.

When an electrical engineer from one of America’s premier tech companies disappears inside the San Francisco International Airport before an overseas flight, air marshal Seth Walker is called in to investigate. With the clock ticking down and questions multiplying at every turn, Walker can’t afford to fail: the lives of all two hundred thousand passengers inside SFO may hang in the balance. As he races through crowded concourses, desperately searching for clues, Walker can sense this is no routine missing-persons case.

On the battlefields of the future, death is not the end for a soldier. The Revenant Program collects badly wounded soldiers broken by war and converts them into unthinking, unfeeling cyborg weapons. Their bodies are immune to pain, their minds impervious to fear and doubt. All controlled by a neural implant called the Imperative. They are the ideal force for any mission too deadly or too difficult for normal men. A force that answers to the darkest corners of the military.

Haleck Cain fights free of a failing life pod only to learn the space station he doesn’t recognize is in a degrading orbit. Battling for basic survival, he quickly realizes nothing is as it should be. He’s alone, damaged, and surrounded by new enemies. Ten years have passed and the civilization he helped build is in ruins. Cain’s search for his friends will take him to the most dangerous parts of Maglan and reveal a secret he never suspected.

Damaged beyond repair, Halek Cain turns to the one person who can rebuild him from the ground up. Will it be enough to face the mad general sending a clone army after him? Ultimate victories take ultimate sacrifices, and this time defeat means annihilation. Cain and his friends must find their way to Oroth, locate Elise and her ragtag army of desperate heroes, and face a dark threat no one understands. He has come a long way since death row. This will be his greatest challenge yet.

The Shadows have taken over half of the system, and Karin is the only one who can fight back. Genetically engineered from birth, Karin Makos’ powers have made her the Alliance’s most wanted person. With her sister still missing and only a cryptic notebook left behind for clues, the mystery of her past is going to take a lot more time and resources than they have to unravel it. And there’s a bigger problem looming.

In search of answers to both his past and his future, Hal and his newly formed crew must overcome obstacles unlike anything they’ve ever seen. Hal needs repairs, and there’s only so many places a Reaper can find them. Far across known space, hidden inside an uncharted slip tunnel, a hidden Reaper facility may hold the answers Hal needs. But the Union would rather the dead stay buried...and they’ll kill to keep their secrets.

This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world. To be sure, environmental factors such as topography and weather powerfully shaped the outcomes of battles and campaigns, and the war could not have been fought without the horses, cattle, and other animals that were essential to both armies.

Jasmine Crump is willing to risk everything to save everyone. She’s even willing to risk her newest ship, and she’s a sweetie. But an Admiral has got to do what an admiral has to do! Cody’s War: Flight Of The CRUMP. Book 6 in Cody's War

BY MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER JASPER T. SCOTT CHAOS IS COMING… Cade Korbin finally has more credits than he knows how to spend. He also has the alien entity known as “Alpha” and the power of the swarm on his side. Deciding to leverage his good fortune, Cade starts his own guild dedicated to hunting the galaxy’s crime lords and the corrupt authorities that shelter them. Meanwhile, tensions are simmering along the border between the Alliance and the Coalition. A ceasefire was declared, but both sides are bitterly licking their wounds. Cade’s plans are interrupted when he learns of a ...

The ongoing adventures of Taggart and his motley crew of family, friends, and on-again, off-again enemies as they try to stop a cataclysmic disaster from befalling the galaxy. Fallen is the fifth book in the Emberling series, an action-packed carnival ride of a space opera that will leave you breathless.

Adam awakened after decades of suspended animation with a genetically enhanced body and an implanted A.I. named Nan. He was now endowed with boundless potential but unrealized potential is of little benefit. With Nan's help he overcame many challenges but his greatest and most dangerous challenge was fighting and defeating a gang of slavers. He realized that one victory was not the end of the issue and his goal became permanently ending this evil organization that threatened the very survival of the fragile remnants of humanity. In order to accomplish this he would have to fully realize his...

Under threat of destruction or servitude to the Empire, facing the fleets of the Ragnar, Finth, and Thack Delos, and the larger force of the Thandol, Mirikami prepares the Federation for all-out war. The Planetary Union, allied with the Federation, receives a squadron of new technology Federation Scouts equipped with gravity controlled weapons. They conduct a preemptive strike on a Thandol base. The emperor blames it on the Federation, unaware of the PU's existence, and orders simultaneous attacks.

In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quietly pursuing ordinary, separate lives in Paris. After the German invasion and occupation of France, each joined the Resistance to help liberate the country from the Nazis and ascended to prominent, dangerous roles. After the war and through twists of circumstance, they became friends, and through their passionate determination and rare talent they emerged as leading voices of modern literature and biology, each receiving the Nobel Prize in their respective fields.

Together again, and ready to bring the system to its knees. Karin Makos has spent the last two months running from one thing or another - but all that's about to change. Her sister's back, and Nomiki's ready to grab their problems by the horns, throw them on their backs, and rip into them with her modified carbon steel blades. With the backing of the Fallon Empire and a promising new lead, the two are determined to reach down into the mystery of their past and pull out its secrets, once and for all.

Rob lives by the maxim that there's no such thing as over. And something's certainly not over for him. An unknown, unseen enemy is stalking him, with tragic consequences for his son and ex-wife. As Rob and Mike close ranks to protect their families, they find themselves up against industrial espionage, two warring scientists, and a blood feud that won't end until somebody pays with their life. Their best hope of putting the past to rest forever could lie in the unique genetic skills of a runaway teenager.