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On June 13, 1966, men of the 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marine Division were stationed on Hill 488. Before the week was over, they would fight the battle that would make them the most highly decorated small unit in the entire history of the US military, winning a Congressional Medal of Honor, four Navy Crosses, 13 Silver Stars, and 18 Purple Hearts - some of them posthumously.

A deeply personal memoir of the private Ray Charles - the man behind the legend - by his eldest son. Ray Charles is an American music legend. A multiple Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist, and singer with an inimitable vocal style and catalog. Now his eldest son, Ray Charles Robinson Jr., shares an intimate glimpse of the man behind the music, with never-before-told stories. Going beyond the fame, the concerts, and the tours, Ray Jr. opens the doors of his family home and reveals their private lives with fondness and frankness.

Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he reveals his life story unsparingly, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life.

This collection of classic horror stories is sure to give you goose bumps, raise the hair on the back of your neck, and put some fright in your night. Includes Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper by Robert Bloch, Coin of the Realm by Charles L. Grant, Something Had to be Done by David Drake, The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner, The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury, Calling Card by Ramsey Campbell, The Words of Guru by C.M. Kornbluth, and Passengers by Robert Silverberg.

The definitive biography of the world's most renowned monarch and richest woman, and of her controversial husband, H.R.H. Prince Philip.

Born in a one-horse East Texas town near the end of World War II, the author experienced some of the worst the Jim Crow South had to offer. But, taught to read by his mother when he was four, and raised by a fiercely independent grandmother, he never fell prey to the stereotypes that others tried to apply to him, Black or White, insisting instead of defining himself and charting his own course. From pig farm to palace to Pentagon, a journey that could not been imagined when the doctor in a smalltown clinic cut the umbilical cord on July 5, 1945.

After Alan Fortune and his friends create an accident in which her husband is badly burned, Matilda Rowe takes control of his company and his scheme of political intrigue and decides to play her own deadly game. Living off the grid, and constantly looking over their shoulders, Alan and his friends have to use their wits to stay one step ahead of a woman who is out to prove that the female of the species truly is deadlier than the male. But they are not the only targets in Matilda’s crosshairs. And, when they do finally meet, she has a surprise for them.

In 1875, Indian Territory, in what is now the state of Oklahoma, was a haven for thieves, swindlers, and murderers, all trying to escape the reach of the law. When President U.S. Grant appointed Judge Isaac Parker judge of the Western District of Arkansas, which included the territory, Parker was intent upon bringing fugitives to justice. He authorized U.S. Marshal James Fagan to hire 200 deputy marshals to help police the 4,500 square mile lawless territory. Among those deputies was Bass Reeves. Born a slave in 1838, Reeves had spent the Civil War as a runaway in Indian Territory, and ...

Africa is on the threshold of a changing global environment, with intense competition between those who are part of the so-called Western, liberal, American-led global order and a range of states, illiberal to autocratic, who wish to supplant that order that has been in place since the end of World War II with one that is more to their liking. Living on the youngest continent, Africans find themselves courted by representatives of both blocs. Few understand the significance of this competition or, for that matter, Africa itself. Few know what to do with Africa’s abundant resources, human ...

The first volume in a series giving a fictionalized account of the life of Bass Reeves, a feared lawman in Indian Territory in the late 1800s. Included in this volume are 'Bass and the Preacher,' The Marshal and the Madam,' and 'Renegade Roundup.'

An anthology of short stories of spaceships, aliens, and the outer worlds by classic Science Fiction authors, from the Golden Age to the New Wave Era. This compilation includes stories by William Bender, Jr., Ray Bradbury, G. Gordon Dewey, Charles E. Fritch, Edward W. Ludwig, James V. McConnell, Stanley Mullen, Robert Silverberg, Jerry Sohl, Henry Slesar, and L.J. Stecher Jr.

Ninth US Cavalry First Sergeant Ben Carter and his special detachment are assigned to find geologist, William Heatherton, and his team of researchers, believed lost somewhere in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico Territory. In their search, they encounter a strange boy, alone in the mountains, who talks of a mysterious prophet who seeks pilgrims for the hidden city of Eden to protect them from the Army of Satan, and the boy’s teachings have led him to conclude that Ben and his men are the vanguard of that army. Is the boy, Moses, delusional, or is there truth in his tale of a ...

Ten-year-old Daniel Waterford and his family join a wagon train heading for Oregon, a grueling experience for the hardiest of people and a boring one for a young boy. The journey is fraught with peril for Daniel, but by the time they arrived in Trinity, their new home, Daniel has aged far beyond his years. Travel with Daniel as he faces unimaginable challenges, and experience the Wild West as it really way, not the way movies and popular TV has led us to believe.

This is not your ordinary memoir. The author looks at his life through the lens of stories he's told his children and grandchildren for years. Over seven decades of life, not in a recitation of things he did or people he met but of incidents that left a lasting impact on him in the form of stories that hopefully transport the reader back in time. These are not stories of the authors life, but stories from that life. Tales that tell of a journey from a place of deprivation and outhouses to privilege and state houses. One man's journey to realize the American dream.

A tale of suspense and international intrigue. Thriller set in fictional country of Dagastan that tells of shadowy group of senior American officials who manipulate events that put lives at risk. A gallant group of junior officers set out to thwart their evil plans.

Born a slave, Bass Reeves never learned to read or write English, but he spoke six Native American languages and when he became one of the first African American deputy U.S. marshals west of the Mississippi River, he carved out a name for himself as one of the most feared lawmen in Indian Territory. Enjoy volume 3 of more adventures of the man known as the Indomitable Lawman. Fictional but historically accurate tales of a man who in a 30-year career brought in over 3,000 fugitives and despite dozens of gun battles with outlaws was never wounded.

Born a slave, Bass Reeves never learned to read or write English, but he spoke six Native-American languages and could recall everything someone read to him. Thus, when he became a deputy U.S. marshal working in Indian Territory, he would memorize dozens of arrest Warrants and wanted posters. In thousands of arrests during his 30-year career, he never arrested the wrong person.In Volume 2 of Bass Reeves: The Indomitable Marshal, follow him in more of his amazing adventures.

INTRODUCING HARRY HOOKER! Harry Hooker is a great private investigator—when he’s sober, but when he’s hired to find a man’s missing fiancée, he finds himself immersed in an environment that taxes his self-discipline in ways it has never been tested before. A crooked banker, cozy with an enigmatic and secretive Russian, seems to be the key to finding the missing woman, but Harry has a problem; how to get past a team of hard-core Russian toughs armed with assault rifles. All of this he has to do with no backup beyond an eager motel owner who thinks it’s all a great game.

Taking Charge Effective Leadership for the Twenty-first Century In the turbulent twenty-first century we need enlightened leadership more than ever before. In board rooms and command centers, from the White House to each state house, we need leaders who are focused on getting the job done. In this second edition of the author’s second book on leadership and management you will find principles and techniques based on his more than half a century of service in the military and as a diplomat, combined with the common-sense philosophy from a rural East Texas upbringing under the tutelage of ...

Former US Navy officer Colin Worth and pirate captain Elizabeth Parker, after a grueling campaign in the Caribbean against the English forces fighting the Americans during the War of 1812, have sailed around the southern tip of South America, seeking a peaceful home somewhere in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean. They quickly discover, though, that life in the 'peaceful' ocean is just as chaotic and dangerous as it had been in the islands. From Tahiti to Australia, and then on to China, which is suffering under the heels of western forces who have brought the dreaded drug opium to the ...