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Sail into the Mississippi Sound with Bienville, the Frenchman covered in serpentine tattoos. Meet the heroes of the Sound: fearless Father LeDuc, who faced down Yankee pillagers; the wild woman of Horn Island, who could shoot as well as any man; Joseph T. Jones, the baron who willed Gulfport into existence; and Ray Nosaka, who fed his body to the dogs of war, all in service of his country. Glimpse a school of the Sound's own patron fish, the striped...
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Valiant Entertainment
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2022
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They asked for war. Hell give them death.
Deep within the far reaches of space, the dogs of war have found Aric of Dacia. Conscripted into an alien army and forced into combat, Aric must enter an alien battlefield unlike any hes faced before. His only hope for survival is also the source of his greatest rage the living suit of armor known as X-O Manowar.
Can Aric still embrace the violence within? Get ready, because the most brutal fight in...
83) Dread murder
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In the court of King George IV, Major Mearns---an old dog of war and veteran of Willington's army---is the guardian of Windsor Castle. Some would call him a spy; he calls himself a "watcher." Working with his close friend, the resourceful Sergeant Denny, the pair maintain a cool facade behind which they go about their duties quietly and unnoticed.
Unnoticed, that is, until the day Mearns receives a parcel containing a gruesome surprise: a pair of...
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Magic. Power. War. Morrígan had been separated from her powers for far too long. But thanks to the foolish actions of several immortals, she is in control of herself again. Though the need to avenge herself burns within her, she needs to do something first: regain her full strength. Walking through a city destroyed by the Warp, causing strife as far as she goes, another need builds within her… Cry 'havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war! Laughing...
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In peacetime cartoonists are a diverse collection of individuals with their own styles and projects, but when the trumpets of war blow it is like unleashing the dogs of war. Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and Mussolini were a gift for them and, as this collection shows, one they weren't about to turn down. This book shows that humor was one of the key weapons of war, with countries using cartoons to demoralize their opponents and maintain morale....
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Taskmaster volume 1
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Taskmaster has murdered S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Maria Hill! Or at least that's what the whole world thinks. Now the greatest spies in the business are hunting him down and won't stop until the Taskmaster is dead - or can clear his own name! So begins a globe-spanning adventure that will send ripples through the Marvel Universe's espionage community. Taskmaster's next target? Phil Coulson! But Coulson isn't alone in Washington D.C. - he's got the entire Squadron...
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X-O Manowar volume 8
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Besieged!
War has returned to the world of Gorin - but, this time, the planets ravaged armies face a threat from the stars, not within! Now, as the intergalactic assault reaches a critical peak, it falls to Gorin's newly coroneted emperor, Aric of Urth, to fortify not just a kingdom, but an entire world! With his sentient armor to aid him, the earthborn warrior once known as X-O Manowar will confront the conquering force known as the Mono Men on...
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This poetry collection, appropriately dedicated in derision of all the cloned dictators in Africa, is marked by the acerbic irony of the macabre poet on various themes emphasizing Africa's dilemma past and present. The titles tell the whole story, from the confusion and contradictions of The Rabble, idiots called leaders claiming to liberate the people from mental slavery when they, pseudoleaders, are begging for a re-colonization, to Predators and...
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The Complete Saga of the 18th-Race Series in One Omnibus Edition
We are not alone!
In exploring and colonizing the galaxy, humanity discovers evidence of eighteen sentient species. Seventeen of them had not developed interstellar travel. Those were destroyed by the species that did reach the stars. That space-faring eighteenth annihilated the human colony on the Semi-Autonomous World Troy.
A Marine Force Recon platoon sent to investigate is wiped...
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Valiant Entertainment
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2022
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Besieged!
War has returned to the world of Gorin but, this time, the planets ravaged armies face a threat from the stars, not within! Now, as the intergalactic assault reaches a critical peak, it falls to Gorins newly coronated emperor, Aric of Urth, to fortify not just a kingdom, but an entire world! With his sentient armor to aid him, the earthborn warrior once known as X-O Manowar will confront the conquering force known as the Mono Men on...
92) Kill Notice
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DC's psychopathic killer just singled out the only detective with the skills to outmatch his twisted game.
"Devious, fast-paced and packed with relatable characters." -Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Dogs of War.
A new kind of hero emerges on the streets of Washington. Kate Bowers is gritty, compassionate, and deadly. Her battle scars constantly remind her of the friends she lost in combat. Now one of DC's top homicide detectives,...
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Equatorial Guinea is a tiny country roughly the size of the state of Maryland. Humid, jungle covered, and rife with unpleasant diseases, natives call it Devil Island. Its president in 2004, Obiang Nguema, had been accused of cannibalism, belief in witchcraft, mass murder, billion-dollar corruption, and general rule by terror. With so little to recommend it, why in March 2004 was Equatorial Guinea the target of a group of salty British, South African...
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Fight to save the one you love...or watch the world you know destroyed by the AI designed to protect it?
Major General Christopher Droan is no stranger to a dramatic crises. But after surviving a traumatic past haunted by deep rooted scars and lingering questions about his father's distrust for technology, he's ready to embrace being assigned to a desk job.
If only things were so simple...the calm doesn't last long as tragedy strikes Precinct 117...
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Robert I. Burns, S. J. is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His many books include Negotiating Cultures and Jews in the Notarial Culture.
This fourth volume in Robert Burns's celebrated series on the warrior King Jaume the Conqueror's Kingdom of Valencia describes the crucial years of 1270 to 1273, a period during which Jaume continued his consolidation of political power for future territorial expansion. Here in...
96) A Time for Tears
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The history of World War II contains millions of stories for it affected millions of lives. A Time for Tears examines the lives of three: Andre from Soissons, France, Daniel from Topeka, Kansas, and Rachel from Paris. The swirling hurricane of this war catches them in a tangle of events and emotions.
Andre Jabot a teenage French aristocrat, is enraged by the killing of his young brother as the Nazis blitz the nearby village of Soissons. He swears...
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Captain Benjamin Tupper spent a year in Afghanistan in an Embedded Training Team, tasked with training, leading in combat, and mentoring the Afghan Army to victory against the brutal Taliban. Writing and recording from a remote outpost, Tupper's dispatches were posted on the blog The Sandbox and broadcast on NPR, bringing vivid snapshots of America's longest ongoing war to a wide audience back home. Here, he takes us inside the intricacies of the...
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A British journalist muses on his life and canine-related topics while walking his dog, in this book inspired by his popular newspaper column.
If you are accompanied by a dog, you can talk to anyone, and anyone can talk to you-about anything.
After being dismissed from his job as a radio presenter, Edward Stourton had plenty of time to walk his English Springer Spaniel, Kudu, in London's Battersea Park. Stourton found himself contemplating...
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The balance between human and Dragon rests on the shoulders of a young pilot on her first mission.
Dawn Redding. An Admiral of the World Crisis Committee, she stands on the threshold of the life she gave everything for. She only needs to bring in the galaxy’s first outerworld outlaw. Howard Carver. The legacy left behind by his family holds the key to facing humanity’s greatest threat, the far-flung lifeforms known as Dragons. Rick Miller. A...
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2022
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THEIR WORLD BECAME HIS WAR!
New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (DIVINITY, Mind MGMT) is joined by master storytellers Toms Giorello (BLOODSHOT REBORN), Doug Braithwaite (ARMOR HUNTERS), Clayton Crain (RAI), Ryan Bodenheim (The Dying & The Dead), and more, in a deluxe edition hardcover of the Eisner Award-nominated first year of the series named one of the year's best by SYFY Wire, ComicBook.com, IGN, and many more!
Deep within the...