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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Reader's Digest Soldier Stories is a chronological retrospective of the best military pieces Reader's Digest has run, from World War I through the war in Iraq. Featuring stories from the battlefield to the home front, this inspiring collection honors the men and women of America’s armed forces and...
A Chance in Hell
The Men Who Triumphed Over Iraq's Deadliest City and Turned the Tide of War
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
The riveting account of how one brigade turned Iraq's most violent city into a model of stability
Colonel Sean MacFarland's brigade arrived in Iraq's deadliest city with simple instructions: pacify Ramadi without destroying it. The odds were against him from the start. In fact, few thought...
The God Effect
Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
The phenomenon that Einstein thought too spooky and strange to be true
What is entanglement? It's a connection between quantum particles, the building blocks of the universe. Once two particles are entangled, a change to one of them is reflected---*instantly---*in the other, be they in the...
Alexander the Great
Lessons from History's Undefeated General
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
When the Oracle of Delphi told Alexander the Great that he was invincible, it was right.
The son of the great King Philip II of Macedonia, Alexander was educated by Aristotle and commanded a wing of his father's army in the victory over the Thebans and Athenians at the Battle of Chaeronea—all...
Ireland's Pirate Trail
A Quest to Uncover Our Swashbuckling Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Bloodthirsty buccaneers and buried treasure, fierce sea battles and cold-blooded murders, Barbary ducats and silver pieces of eight.
Des Ekin embarks on a roadtrip around the entire coast of Ireland, in search of our piratical heritage, uncovering an amazing history of swashbuckling bandits,...
God's Bestseller
William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible--A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The English Bible--the most familiar book in our language--is the product of a man who was exiled, vilified, betrayed, then strangled, then burnt.
William Tyndale left England in 1524 to translate the word of God into English. This was heresy, punishable by death. Sir Thomas More, hailed as...
Miracle at Sing Sing
How One Man Transformed the Lives of America's Most Dangerous Prisoners
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2005
In 1919, Lewis E. Lawes moved his wife and young daughters into the warden's mansion at Sing Sing prison. They shared a yard with 1,096 of the toughest inmates in the world-murderers, rapists, and thieves who Lawes alone believed capable of redemption. Adamantly opposed to the death penalty, Lawes...
Ungrateful Daughters
The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In 1688, the birth of a Prince of Wales ignited a family quarrel and a revolution. James II's drive towards Catholicism had alienated the nation and his two staunchly Protestant daughters by his first marriage, Mary and Anne. They are the 'ungrateful daughters' who usurped their father's crown and...
The Officer's Wife
A True Story of Unspeakable Betrayal and Cold-Blooded Murder
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
A MAN IN UNIFORM
He was a captain in the U.S. Air Force. She was a psychologist in Fayetteville, North Carolina. On the surface, Marty and Michelle Theer appeared to be the perfect married couple. But no one knew of the double life Michelle was leading. Tired of spending one too many nights apart...
by Dick Couch, George Galdorisi, Tom Clancy
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
A New York Times bestseller!
Tom Clancy's Op-Center is back with this new thriller written by the New York Times bestselling authors of Tom Clancy's ACT OF VALOR and featuring a chilling, ripped-from-the-headlines scenario.
Before 9/11 America was protected by a covert force known as...
The Secret Life of Josephine
Napoleon's Bird of Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
The bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette and The Last Wife of Henry VIII returns with an enchanting novel about one of the most seductive women in history: Josephine Bonaparte, first wife of Napoleon.
Born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, Josephine had an exotic...
Dear Pussycat
Mash Notes and Missives from the Desk of Cosmopolitan's Legendary Editor
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Dear Pussycat:
Some of us find it easier to say in a letter whatever it is we want to express -- love, rage, outrage, affection, resentment, enthusiasm, a request to do a chore -- than we do person to person or even phone to phone. I've been writing letters, somewhat successfully I think, since...
The Lost Fleet
A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against the Confederate Navy and Arctic Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Arctic disasters, rogue whales, ambush by Confederate ships--the true saga of one captain's struggle to survive the demise of the Yankee whaling fleet
It's the mid-ninteenth century and the American whaling fleet is struck by one hammer blow after the other. Yankee whalers are contending with...
by Dick Couch, George Galdorisi, Tom Clancy
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Tensions flare in Northwest Asia and Op-Center races to prevent World War III in this chilling, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller from the authors of the USA Today bestseller Out of the Ashes.
When a team of assassins murder a high-ranking North Korean general and his family in their sleep,...