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Glory. Power. Legend. Come and Take Them. Martius flies above his army on the back of the great gryphon Avorian. No matter how hard they fight, Belgada spirals further into chaos. The traitor Paulus roams free. Princess Talia is adrift and lost. New enemies await behind every shadow. The Fifteenth Legion has a trial before it, and all the world is watching. With victory comes legend. With defeat, devastation. Can Martius find the strength to fight and the bravery to lead? Or are greater forces at work, pulling him and the empire toward darkness and disaster? The next chapter of Martius's ...

Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. In a book that explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today, Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the economic pyramid have set off "expenditure cascades" that raise the cost of achieving many basic goals for the middle class.

A gripping collection of outstanding American classic short stories by some of America's greatest writers: 'A Ghost Story' by Mark Twain; 'Pomegranate Seed' by Edith Wharton; 'Pigeons from Hell' by Robert E. Howard; 'Pickman's Model' by H. P. Lovecraft; 'The Adventure of the German Student' by Nathaniel Hawthorne; 'Absolute Zero' by Morgan Robertson; and many more.

A New Darkness Rises. The shock betrayal of General Zagros and his legion has shattered any foundation of peace for the Belgadan Empire. The Fifteenth Legion steps up for another trial, this one shrouded in shadow. Where one rebel falls, more flare into life. Air Captain Martius gives chase on the back of Avorian, General Gaius leads his legionnaires forward, and Talia ascends to a tenuous hold on her father's throne. Can she and her warriors save her empire? Or are they already spiraling toward further chaos and destruction? Martius must grow into the hero he longs to be, or see all that ...

Darkness falls. Evil returns. Belgada lies on the precipice of ruin. Even with the rebels under Zagros defeated and the Fifteenth Legion surviving their trials, further demons simmer from deep within the empire. A terrifying old danger arises from high in the Cyna Mountains, thrusting Air Captain Martius and Empress Talia into another struggle. War explodes as the gryphon riders flee north to the loyalist army. Martius and Avorian worry about their friends and allies and fret at what further schemes the rebel Paulus has waiting for them. The penultimate novel of the War Gryphon Saga is here...

In America's Great War, prominent historian Robert H. Zieger examines the causes, prosecution, and legacy of this bloody conflict from a frequently overlooked perspective, that of American involvement. This is the first book to illuminate both America's dramatic influence on the war and the war's considerable impact upon our nation.

Few U.S. presidents have captured the imagination of the American people as has Harry S. Truman. In this new biography, Robert H. Ferrell, widely regarded as an authority on the 33rd president, challenges the popular characterization of Truman as a man who rarely sought the offices he received, revealing instead a man who - with modesty, commitment to service, and basic honesty - moved with method and system toward the presidency.

Today's militaries are increasingly reliant on highly networked autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and advanced weapons that were previously the domain of sci-fi writers. In such a world, what can we do to decrease the chances of war? In Future Peace, Robert H. Latiff questions our overreliance on technology and examines the pressure-cooker scenario created by the growing animosity between the US and its adversaries, our thinly stretched global military, the capacity for technology to catalyze violence, and the American public's lack of familiarity with these topics.

Ten days after the end of World War II, a young American missionary was brutally murdered by the Chinese Communists in 1945. Grievously, John Birch’s parents were informed that he had been killed by a stray bullet. Robert Welch, founder of The John Birch Society, was determined that John Birch did not die in vain. Throughout the book, you’ll realize the significance that Birch’s life represented: communism vs. capitalism, freedom vs. tyranny, and Americanism vs. globalism.

"¡Vivir!" es un libro inspirador y poderoso que ofrece esperanza, orientación y apoyo a los hombres latinos sobrevivientes de trauma sexual. Escrito por un equipo de expertos con años de experiencia ayudando a sobrevivientes a sanar y recuperar sus vidas, este libro proporciona un enfoque integral para la sanidad que aborda los desafíos únicos que enfrentan los hombres latinos. Con un enfoque en el empoderamiento y la resiliencia, "¡Vivir!" ofrece herramientas y estrategias prácticas para superar los efectos del trauma sexual y reconstruir un sentido de autoestima y propósito.

The killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one of the most famous examples of lynchings in America. African American children in 1955 personally felt the terror of his murder. From the violent Woolworth's lunch-counter sit-ins in Jackson to the school walkouts of McComb, the young people of Mississippi picketed, boycotted, organized, spoke out, and marched, working to reveal the vulnerability of black bodies and the ugly nature of the world they lived in. These children changed that world.

You wanted the jolly fat man to bring Yuletide joy, but the season has gifted you with a heart breaker and a life taker—Badass Santa. Grab your eggnog and camouflage candy canes, strap on your bulletproof holiday stockings, and prepare for thrills and kills.

Jake Jackson was a legend in the Old West. His ability with a gun was unmatched. His name brought hope to the oppressed and sent shivers of fear up the spines of outlaws. Jake Jackson was equally as revered among the Comanche, where he was raised from an infant to become the Comanche Warrior, White Wolf. There were many songs sung around campfires in Comanche villages praising his fierceness in battle.

The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection contains 16 of the greatest science fiction works ever written.

Marriage isn't only the act of two people making their relationship open and lasting. It is the guarantee that two people make to one another to go into a bond that will always require a development from the two gatherings to remain intact. For some reasons, marriage these days is progressively stopped by separation.

A collection of eclectic poetry penned by three kings of Pulp fiction from the 1930s. Songs of Giants: The Poetry of Pulp is a collection of 26 poems by writers H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Robert E. Howard. Inspired by the illustrated book of the same name by artist Mark Wheatley.

The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Never more so than in this collection of 30 weird and macabre tales.

This is the seventh book in the saga of the exploits of United States Marshal Morgan Porter. He and his deputies changed the culture of lawlessness in the Old West. Ride with Texan Morgan Porter as he fights to tame the Old West. A lawless land. Outlaws, thieves, robbers, murderers run rampant. This is a frontier land in which a man must make a stand.

A lawless land. Criminals running wild. Murder is rampant. One man can solve the problems facing the Old West. That man is United States Marshal Morgan Porter. The name Morgan Porter is famous in the Texas lore of the Old West. The saga of his exploits as a US Marshal are legendary. Morgan Porter and his deputies changed the culture of lawlessness to one that was safe for law-abiding men and their families. Ride with Marshal Porter as he tames the Wild West.

Die Gruselkabinett Box 35 beinhaltet die Hörspiele Aus finsterer Tiefe, Die Ratten in den Wänden, Der Rabe, Runenzauber.