Military Violence

Eric Bongard has served his country faithfully for more than ten years. Leading a team of Rangers they're mission quickly turns from a hunt, to a rescue. Worse, it's a rescue of disabled children. But to do that, he has to break every rule in the book, knowing that he'll be court-martialed. He just has two goals. Get the children to safety and get back to the only woman he's ever loved. If he can do that, he'll be able to deal with whatever comes. Sophia Ann Redhawk has been in love with Eric since the fifth grade. He's always been somewhat shy, but lately he seems almost reluctant to ...

Dominic Quinn is settling into his life with RP after serving, what seemed, a lifetime in the Marine Corps. On one of his first assignments, he's sent to guard an actress in town for a movie premier. Initially, he dreads the detail, but it turns out that Livvi Downs is a lot more than meets the eye. She's funny, kind, smart, and sexy; seriously sexy. Their paths are not meant to cross again, except when Dom and his teammates see the news that she's in trouble, he can't help but worry about her. Leaping into action, he rescues Livvi from one fate, only to have to save her from another. Livvi...

What draws our species to war? What makes us see violence as a kind of sacred duty, or a ritual that boys must undergo to "become" men? Newly reissued, Blood Rites takes listeners on an original journey from the elaborate human sacrifices of the ancient world to the carnage and holocaust of 20th-century "total war." Ehrenreich sifts deftly through the fragile records of prehistory and discovers the wellspring of war in an unexpected place - not in a "killer instinct" unique to the males of our species, but in the blood rites early humans performed.

Patrick Fitch walked the matrimony aisle twice. And failed twice. He had no intentions of ever walking that long road again. When he was sent to rescue the granddaughter of one of Mama Irene's best friends, he thought it would be a simple extraction. But when is it ever simple with RP? Not only is she beautiful, but she's sexy as the day is long. When she kisses him inside an ancient Mayan temple, he can't believe she's the one he's supposed to rescue. It's never easy and this is no exception. He has to keep her safe and hopefully, not embarrass Mama Irene in the process. Easy. Not easy. ...

Adam Robicheaux has never loved any woman the way he loves Jane Wolfkill. Since she started her own pediatric practice in Baltimore, it feels as though she's slipping away. When his grandmother asks him to go to Baltimore and check on her, he never dreams that he'll find Jane in the fight of her life. He doesn't waste a second calling in the troops and getting her home, but there's an evil lurking around Belle Fleur and they need to find out who or what it is. Jane Wolfkill has loved Adam Robicheaux for as long as she can remember. When he was deployed he sent her the most beautiful letters...

Eric Ryan 'Chief' Stanton is ready to leave the SEAL teams, even if his brother isn't. Coming home means big changes for him, but he never expected one of those changes to include a scientist. A soil scientist. A beautiful, gorgeous, hot, sexy soil scientist. When Belle Fleur begins to show signs of literally slipping away, he and the team must figure out what's happening and the beautiful scientist just might be key to it all. Rachel Davis has always been the weird girl. Beautiful, smart, sexy, and loves to play in the dirt. Men find her perplexing, her mother finds her baffling. When she ...

Maverick Stanton and his friends are ready to plan their futures at home with friends and family. Just when he thought things would get easier, a woman's scream sends him to her rescue. He never guessed that she was already part of their greater family network. He also could have never guessed that what she was working on with G.R.I.P. could change the world in the worst possible ways. With his best friends by his side, Maverick will protect her and prevent others from getting to her discovery. Katelyn Smith has lived a strange life filled with private schools tucked away in the wilderness ...

Being born deaf would be seen as a detriment to most people, but Keith Robicheaux is not most people. His life has been filled with blessings since his rescue by his father, Alec Robicheaux. He's had the best life could offer and that includes, the best woman in the world. Unable to join the military, Keith chose to educate other deaf children, but trained with his father's team. Big, strong, and skilled in ways others can't comprehend, Keith finds himself in the middle of a child trafficking ring that brings back haunting memories for him. The only way to eradicate those memories, is to ...

Robbie Robicheaux is a true renaissance man. A soldier, a lover, an oil man, a dancer, and definitely a man who knows a great thing when he sees it. Falling in love with Carrie Pechkin is the easiest thing in the world. Realizing that he's the right man for her, was a little harder. Sometimes getting slammed in the face with the realization that you may lose the love of your life, changes your perspective. Saving Carrie is the only thing on his mind, other than finding the man who put her in the hospital. But Robbie is a Robicheaux, and every Robicheaux man knows that love will conquer all ...

Alexander Lemons is a Marine Corps scout sniper who, after serving multiple tours during the Iraq War, returned home seriously and mysteriously ill. Joshua Howe is an environmental historian who met Lemons as a student in one of his classes. Together they have crafted a vital book that challenges us to think beyond warfare's acute violence of bullets and bombs to the "slow violence" of toxic exposure and lasting trauma.

Retired SAS Major Joe Slater, together with his partner, Dr Sarah Grainger, and the Russian billionaire, Andreas Kolzaidy, have attracted the attention of the British, American and Russian militaries with their AI-enhanced upgrades for elite soldiers. However, Joe is not satisfied with simply becoming a contractor to the world's military. He and those closest to him have the full AI enhancement, not the standard package they sell to Special Forces teams. His mission is to keep the brilliant Dr Grainger and Andreas safe, but Joe dreams of doing more. When Sarah becomes interested in robotics...

Ben Robicheaux has made it his personal mission to work his way through the female population. He was doing just fine until he met a woman trying to get away from a wet t-shirt contest. Normally, he’d be pushing her onstage with the other women, but something about this one makes his heart stop, his head fuzzy, and his gut do the right thing. Even though he’s waved goodbye, he’s praying she’ll walk back into his life. He just never dreamed she’d walk back into his life needing help from him again. Only this time, it’s life or death. Harper Miller was warned about men like Ben ...

Luke O'Hara is struggling to overcome the guilt associated with the suicide of his teammate and friend, Garcia. Rory Baine, his fellow teammate with REAPER understands and is helping him to work through some of his emotions. When they're selected to take down the man responsible for Garcia's suicide, neither expects to meet the women that will change their lives. Lucia Salavado is a tiny dynamo of pure sex that sets O'Hara's heart racing. Piper Colley is the one mark on Rory's perfect record. Both women will change their lives forever...but can they survive the dark, seedy world of Aquinos?

“Silenced No More: Voices of Comfort Women” weaves the unforgettable stories of the suffering voiceless with themes of forgiveness, conciliation, and unflagging hope, together with the author’s own investigative journey into a tapestry that will open your eyes to one of the largest human rights tragedies in the 20th century: hundreds of thousands of girls and women were trafficked into Imperial Japanese military sex slavery before and during World War II. History infects the present and determines our future. It is this untold history that the author explores. The author, S.J. (Sylvia...

Wes Jordan was one-third of the Jordan triplets. As a Navy SEAL, he'd encountered every type of bad guy out there. The one thing that always kept him grounded was knowing that he would go home to Virginia Divide. When she started to become distant, he suspected something was wrong, but he never suspected she was going to run off and risk her life in an African nation at war. He also never suspected that she would walk away from him. One thing she didn't know, a Jordan doesn't go away that easily. Virginia Divide was finishing her residency and ready to make her decision to go home and ...

Devin Parker joined the military trying to escape the tremendous guilt surrounding his mother’s death. He never expected to find happiness and family in doing so. He was big, strong, and on one of the most respected teams. Stepping on that IED seemed the end of any chance he had for happiness. Except when the girlfriend of a former teammate showed up at his door. Now, he’s sitting at Belle Fleur, finding his place in the world once again. Feeling more prepared every day to move forward, he’s starting to feel settled. Until Dani MacMillan walks into his life. Danielle ‘Dani’ Marie ...

Paxton Pechkin is finally home for good. After a stellar career as a Navy SEAL, he finds himself staring at a very familiar face. He'd always felt that Deanna was the one that got away, although he was responsible for letting her go. This time, he wasn't going to allow her to go anywhere without him. After suffering a horrible beating, Dee hides away in a place that Pax knows all too well. Finding her, loving her, is the easy part. Figuring out what the hell is happening off the coast of San Diego is something very different. Deanna Trehorn has loved Pax since they were children. She ...

Ersula J. Ore scrutinizes the civic roots of lynching, the relationship between lynching and white constitutionalism, and contemporary manifestations of lynching discourse and logic today. From the 1880s onward, lynchings, she finds, manifested a violent form of symbolic action that called a national public into existence, denoted citizenship, and upheld political community.

Will 'Bogey' Humphrey finds himself just a few hours from the home he left when he joined the Navy. He never got to say goodbye to his grandmother and he's left more than a few things unsaid and undone. He thought he'd make a quick trip to say a final goodbye and see who might still be hanging around. He never thought he'd get pulled into saving the one woman he should have never left in the first place. Helping Alice comes naturally for Bogey, loving her comes easy. Saving her and her family's ranch might be a little harder. Alice Evans has no one to turn to. Her sister is dead of an ...

Once, Tomas Piety looked after his men, body and soul, as best he could. Then those who ran his country decided his dark talents would better serve in the corridors of power. Crushed by the power of the Queen's Men and with the Skanian menace rising once more on the streets of Ellinburg, Tomas Piety is forced to turn to old friends, old debts and untrustworthy alliances. Meanwhile in the capital city of Dannsburg, Dieter Vogel is beginning to wonder if the horror he has unleashed in the Martyr's Disciples might be getting out of control.