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A history of war and warfare from ancient to early modern times, The Patterns of War Through the Eighteenth Century explains not only what happened in warfare but why war in a certain time and culture took on distinct and recognizable patterns. Larry H. Addington discusses the development in weapons and tactics, methods of logistics, and characteristics of generalship. He shows how the changing patterns of war during this long span of history paved the way for those that would emerge.

In Los Angeles, FBI counterterrorism agent Quinn Traynor receives an urgent call from CDC agent Madeline Hamilton. She’s discovered the first victim of a lethal, unfamiliar virus. Their joint investigation uncovers an imminent bio-terror attack, and their only hope is to identify the terrorists carrying the disease. With just two days remaining before it’s too late, the FBI and the CDC race to prevent a pandemic. The ensuing nightmare will hit closer to home than they ever anticipated, and one of them will pay an unimaginable price for protecting the country.

Eighteen months have passed since New York City was destroyed and Jack Dreyden is still crisscrossing the nation, going after stray demons, only he isn't taking them on as a necromancer dealing in the currency of stolen souls. No, Jack is battling as a sorcerer using his own soul to power spells that he is just beginning to master. Jack thinks that he is the hunter, hot on the trail of his cousin, Robert Montgomery, but in truth, he is being played.

The Roman Empire is the most famous in history, and the center of the far-reaching empire's activities were located in the Forum, a low area between the Capitoline and Palatine hills in Rome. The topography held a great deal of significance for Romans, and consequently so many layers of myth were laid on top of the landscape and buildings that it is difficult to separate legend from actual historical fact.

The Outer Worlds are engulfed in conflict. The Solar Assembly are preparing to send troops to intervene, a move which threatens to thrust the entire Solar System into civil war. On Mars, Emile Chandraskher and his Formist Faction, are preparing the final stages of their decades-long plan for ultimate control. In the midst of this, an unlikely group of dissenters and misfits emerge. And they have a score to settle!

Thirty years ago, Carter Springer left behind Devondale, a sleepy neighborhood in Lexington, Kentucky, for a big-city life in Atlanta. But he didn’t just leave behind his family - he also left behind his friends, a group the adults of the neighborhood once referred to as the Devondale Five. They were legends back then. They ran the neighborhood. They were inseparable. Until Carter abandoned them.

When it comes to the entertainment world and movie business, few names are as recognizable as Walt Disney, a versatile writer, producer, director, artist, and voice actor who literally turned his name into a billion-dollar business. Whether it was through the creation of iconic cartoons like Mickey Mouse or America's favorite theme parks, Disney and his assorted businesses have entertained countless numbers of people across the globe, particularly young kids.

In Hitler's Generals in America, Derek R. Mallett examines the evolution of the relationship between American officials and the Wehrmacht general officers they held as prisoners of war in the United States between 1943 and 1946.

K9 specialist JW North is an expert at sniffing out criminals. Now, as a U.S. Marshall and member of the Serial Criminal Task Force, he’s about to face his most dangerous and disturbing case yet. Together with his “big dog” Ares and his new partner Ben Kellum, North is on the trail of the Truck Stop Killer, a vicious serial killer who has left a swath of murdered prostitutes across the United States.

After Earl’s bride vanishes in the Smoky Mountains on their honeymoon, the former navy SEAL is certain she’s been abducted. Worse, a storm has washed away any potential evidence, and with nothing to go on, the park rangers call off the official search. Then another woman disappears in the same area. Can one last lead help Earl find Morgan before he loses her forever?

At the dawn of Creation, when Satan rebelled against God, one angel was caught in the middle. As an angel of Heaven’s worship choir, Malachi spends his days in song, yet he yearns for a more exciting role. He aspires to join the Morning Star Legion, an elite corps of warrior angels. Seemingly unattainable, his dream flickers in the distance—until God ignites a new Creation. While stars erupt across the ever-expanding cosmos and whispers swirl of a place called Earth where strange new life abounds, Malachi is finally offered a chance to achieve his long-sought ambition.

Victor McCain, God's bounty hunter, learns what it's like to be the one targeted for death. With a $10 million bounty on his head, assassins are finding their way to Louisville to try to collect on the contract of a lifetime, including Black Ice, the world's top killer. But he is not alone. An old foe has returned from the dead to seek revenge on Victor by destroying those he holds dear, including a new love.

Tracking and killing demons is all part of the job for the Hand of God, Victor McCain, God's bounty hunter. In this fast paced sequel to The Hand of God and The Watchers, Victor learns facing his inner demons may be deadlier than the real ones. Turning to the bottle to drown out the memories of a lost love, he begins to take risks which could get him killed.

Victor is closing in on his brother Mikey, who cost him his soul and stole the woman he loves. Soon he discovers his brother's "back up" plan: to unleash beings chained in the darkness from the early days of man in order to bring about the annihilation of the human race. With the help of fellow bounty hunter Winston Reynolds, computer geek Kurt Pervis, and the enigmatic Brother Joshua, Victor is ready to spring his trap and rescue the lovely Samantha when it all goes sideways.

Historians tell us that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died of a stroke in Warm Springs, Georgia. Operation Storm King tells of a shocking, yet entirely plausible alternative version, an audacious Nazi raid to kidnap FDR from West Point.

After a career-ending injury forces Hans Pepperman to lose his spot on the 1936 Olympic boxing team, he trades his athletic aspirations for a degree in mechanical engineering and secures his dream job working for the famous Willy Messerschmitt. Tasked to solve the stalling issues of the BF109 fighter plane engine, Hans finds himself smack in the middle of the Abwher Intelligence Service’s radar. Pro-Germany but anti-Nazi, he reluctantly agrees to help flush out the spy leaking secret information on the BF109 engine to foreign agencies.

In the third volume of The Morpheus Series, the paranormal “Curse of Morpheus” has taken over the mind of a powerful politician in Chicago. Determined to wipe out his enemies, the crafty politico starts attacking them by infiltrating their nightmares. Thanks to the uncanny phenomenon known as “Somnambulistic Telepathy", a side effect of the terrifying Curse, the Windy City kingpin is able to creep into his victims’ dreams and sow the seeds of their very real self-destruction.

The Surgeon’s Curse starts in an Atlanta sleep lab, when a PhD researcher discovers to her horror that a curse-driven maniac has learned how to sneak into other people’s nightmares and destroy them while they sleep. Powered by “The Curse of Morpheus”, the serial killer uses his paranormal gift - known as somnambulistic telepathy - to invade a sleeper’s nightmares.

Chicago, May 30, 1956: On a quiet corner in a working-class immigrant neighborhood, a heavy suitcase is discovered on the sidewalk late at night. Inside is the body of a young boy, naked and hacked into pieces. Two hard-drinking Chicago detectives are assigned to the case: Hank Purcell, who still has flashbacks 10 years after the Battle of the Bulge, and his partner Marvin Bondarowicz, a wise-cracking Jewish cop who loves trouble as much as he loves booze.

When David Collier returns home from combat in Vietnam, he discovers that he’s been cursed with the uncanny ability to invade other people’s nightmares. Even worse, the curse of Morpheus (the Greek god of dreams) empowers its victims to kill others after sneaking into their dreams. To stop him, pioneering sleep researcher Alix Cassidy must find a way to shut down the corrupt VA psychiatrist who’s been treating Collier and allowing him to kill, while both murderer and victim dream.