Young Adult Military

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. Captive is the sixth book in the Marathon series, an action-packed carnival ride of a space opera that will leave you breathless.

Japan 1945. Taro is a talented violinist and a kamikaze pilot in the days before his first and only mission. He believes he is ready to die for his country, until he meets Hana. Hana hasn't been the same since the day she was buried alive in a collapsed trench during a bomb raid. She wonders if it would have been better to have died that day, until she meets Taro. A song will bring them together. The war will tear them apart. Is it possible to live an entire lifetime in eight short days?

The club owner, a grumpy billionaire, is my brother's best friend. But when I audition at his club, he doesn't recognize me. He can't take his eyes off me and beckons me closer. I walk to him, the man every woman desires, every inch of me feels aflame. I need money for my next meal, but I’m hungrier for him. At night, his eyes, his touch—it's like he reaches right into my soul. Since then, forbidden emotions have ignited with every stolen glance. Unexpectedly, I find out there's some shady stuff going down at the club. My hidden pregnancy forces me to uncover his secrets. I’d walk ...

What makes a country fall to a dictator? How are authoritarian leaders - strongmen - capable of killing millions acquire their power? How are they able to defeat the ideal of democracy? And what can we do to make sure it doesn't happen again? By profiling five of the most notoriously ruthless dictators in history - Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Saddam Hussein - Kenneth C. Davis seeks to answer these questions, examining the forces in these strongmen's personal lives and historical periods that shaped the leaders they'd become.

The continuing adventures of the survey starship Yellowjacket after an alien force larger than any in living memory sweeps through the worlds of the Engel Empire. Note: The Stars Dark series is an homage to thrilling pulp sci-fi of yesteryear. If you're interested in hard science fiction look elsewhere. But if you're looking for action-packed adventures on strange worlds with even stranger aliens, this series is for you!

As Albert Slater lays his wife to rest, his raw pain mixes with old scars from the First World War. That pain has stayed with him throughout his life, but protecting his children’s innocence, he has kept it from them. He decides to write his story for them to read when he joins his wife in heaven. He writes about his training, his first action and how he endured the rest of the war. He also tells how he settled back into sedate rural English village life, with support from his friends and his love of cricket. ‘From the Mud’ is one man’s story and his way of keeping the memory of his...

Book Overview: Joe McKenna is a woman lieutenant in the US Army's Special Forces. All her life, she has known nothing but the military and its implacable discipline. But after losing almost her entire unit in an attack in Afghanistan, Joe is questioning her future. While she is recovering to recharge her batteries, fate throws the irresistible little Maïa into her path, along with her grandfather Anton Vassily and their bodyguard Vlad. While they are getting to know each other in a New York tea room, armed assailants burst in and seriously injure the grandfather and Vlad. But when they try...

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 Star is the fourth book in the Marathon series, an action-packed carnival ride of a space opera that will leave you breathless.

Captain Masters and the crew of the Honor continue to take the fight to the Nazuc, but disturbing links to Earth are throwing up more questions than answers. Even with new allies, the odds may be too great to stop what has begun... Forever Enemy is the third book in the Honor in Exile series, which features plenty of aliens, action, and the worst—and best—of humanity.

The continuing adventures of the survey starship Yellowjacket after an alien force larger than any in living memory sweeps through the worlds of the Engel Empire. Note: The Stars Dark series is an homage to thrilling pulp sci-fi of yesteryear. If you're interested in hard science fiction look elsewhere. But if you're looking for action-packed adventures on strange worlds with even stranger aliens, this series is for you!

The continuing adventures of the survey starship Yellowjacket after an alien force larger than any in living memory sweeps through the worlds of the Engel Empire. Note: The Stars Dark series is an homage to thrilling pulp sci-fi of yesteryear. If you're interested in hard science fiction look elsewhere. But if you're looking for action-packed adventures on strange worlds with even stranger aliens, this series is for you!

Cage & Mars are back! Bravo company is trapped on a pristine world, ripe for colonization. Unfortunately, the humans weren’t the first species to arrive. Aliens with vastly superior technology have laid claim to the planet and Bravo company is in the fight of their lives. Help is on the way with more colony ships set to arrive in the system. Lieutenant Blake Cage must find a way to keep the platoon alive and his relationship with Felicity Mars a secret. Incursio is the second half of the Cage & Mars story. It is filled with action, and strategy, as the characters struggle to ...

💫High school drama meets forbidden love in this interstellar romance!💫 Senior year is tough. Crushing on a gorgeous, possibly unearthly outcast? That’s a whole new level of complicated! Sloane Masterson, high school newspaper reporter, has a knack for sniffing out stories that are stranger than fiction. When she’s not dishing out snark in her wicked cool column—Fright Night Babble—where she chats about cliches in horror films, she’s busy scooping her next big story. Her latest obsession? The enigmatic and swoon-worthy Hayden Lancaster. But Hayden’s not your average high ...

The continuing adventures of the survey starship Yellowjacket after an alien force larger than any in living memory sweeps through the worlds of the Engel Empire. Note: The Stars Dark series is an homage to thrilling pulp sci-fi of yesteryear. If you're interested in hard science fiction look elsewhere. But if you're looking for action-packed adventures on strange worlds with even stranger aliens, this series is for you!

The continuing adventures of the survey starship Yellowjacket after an alien force larger than any in living memory sweeps through the worlds of the Engel Empire. Note: The Stars Dark series is an homage to thrilling pulp sci-fi of yesteryear. If you're interested in hard science fiction look elsewhere. But if you're looking for action-packed adventures on strange worlds with even stranger aliens, this series is for you!

A thrilling account of the Cold War spies and spycraft that changed the course of history, perfect for listeners of Bomb and The Boys Who Challenged Hitler. Rife with intrigue and filled with fascinating historical figures whose actions shine light on both the past and present, this timely work of narrative nonfiction explores the turbulence of the Cold War through the lens of the men and women who waged it behind closed doors, and helps explain the role secret and clandestine operations have played in America's history and its national security.

IF THERE'S ONE THING ADAM ECKHART KNOWS, IT'S THAT HUMANS ARE TROUBLE. He should know. He is one. As captain of the Marathon, a cobbled-together ship crewed by aliens and androids scraping by on odd jobs at the outskirts of settled space, Adam has plenty to worry about without adding his own species to the mix. But when a pair of mortally wounded humans cross his path during a heist gone wrong, he finds himself compelled to save them. Big mistake. Because if there's one more thing Adam knows, it's that the universe never leaves a good deed unpunished. He and his crew are about to find out ...

Epic Sci-Fi drama meets pulse-pounding romance! Being hunted by alien mutants totally sucks. And the threat of imprisonment in a secret underground lab? Even suckier. Now that Sloane Masterson knows the truth about why Hayden’s been so secretive, she’s ready to put all that epic craziness behind her. Besides, Sloane’s got bigger problems to deal with, like protecting her family from Sector Thirteen and getting Hayden’s snobby parents to accept her as one of them. And what better way to win over Hayden's parents and evade Sector Thirteen than an intergalactic vacay with her smoking ...

MR Z. A NEW RISING SUPERHERO, book 2 THE JOURNEY BEGINS of an exciting series, The journey to save our planet Earth is just beginning, and it's not for the faint of heart, on an epic quest filled with danger, excitement, and mind-bending challenges. As the clock ticks, Mr. Z must race against time to find 8 bottles containing superpower liquid that hold the key to saving Earth from the clutches of the Evil Forces. From familiar landmarks to mysterious and fantastical places, Mr. Z's journey takes him across the globe, connecting the present, the past, and an imaginary world in ways you ...

It's 1986, and Jeff is an average 15-year-old: he thinks a lot about dating and he's trying his hardest to get a car. Conversely, the world around him feels crazy: the United States and the Soviet Union are at glaring odds, with their leaders in a standoff, and that awful word, "nuclear", is on everyone's mind. Then, boom - Jeff learns that he has brain cancer and it's likely terminal. Well, that puts a damper on his summer plans and romantic prospects, doesn't it? Jeff's family rallies around him, but they are fiercely complicated - especially Jeff's father....