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Scorched Earth is the first book to chronicle the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment, where, even today, more than 3 million people-including 500,000 children-are sick and dying from birth defects, cancer, and other illnesses that can be directly traced to Agent Orange/dioxin exposure. Weaving first-person accounts with original research, Vietnam War scholar Fred A. Wilcox examines long-term consequences for...
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Scorched Earth is a powerful dystopian novel that cross two timelines. It is a story of love, war, hate and survival. Heading home, IT specialist Craig Buffett, steps out of an elevator and into a forest thirty years in the future. He encounters a world foreign to him. Vast, devastated landscapes reach to the horizon, littered with broken glass and twisted metal. Genetically modified creatures roam the land existing on human blood. A youth drug that...
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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
Nick and David meet at school in South London and soon become inseparable, united by their love of music. In their late teens, they form a band, Orfée. At the height of their fame in the early 1980s, David commits an unforgiveable act of betrayal and the band breaks up. Years later, down on his luck, Nick discovers by chance he has a daughter. And,...
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He took everything from her: her family, her homeland, and her future. She'd give anything to forget him.
Two days ago Eren Tristram made his way back into Abeni's life- if only for the designated week preceding his execution. With her performances to arrange and exhausting magical acts to perform, the last place her mind should be is on her first love, the man who took everything from her, led her down a path that saw her exiled from family and homeland-...
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When the alien Gardener invaded the agricultural world of Vasquez, only that planet was in immediate danger. Now humanity must be warned of possible attack and retired Marine Lieutenant General Colby Edson is the only man for the job. With his dog Duke, he jury rigs an alien ship and traverses the wormhole to New Mars, only to become trapped while more of the Gardener's soldiers invade and attempt to strip away all trace of humanity from the planet.But...
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What happens when Adam Cain-the Alien with an Attitude-gets really pissed off?
Hint: It ain't pretty.
The Scorched Earth in the title doesn't refer to the Human's homeworld. Rather it describes the path of death and destruction that Adam Cain burns on his way from Earth to the planet Juir as he seeks revenge for the killing of one of his closest friends. But there's more. Sherri and Arieel have been taken prisoner by the Juirean leader, with a date...
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In this gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Out of the Ashes, an Islamic extremist is on a quest for vengeance after his only son is killed and it's up to Op-Center to stop his lethal plot. General Bob Underwood-a special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL-is en route to the Syrian city of al-Bukamal when a rocket-propelled grenade strikes the side of his Humvee and the heavily armored convoy comes...
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Every century, the dungeon awakens and drags people from different worlds into a fight for their survival. Parth, a pro boxer, is one of the summoned hundred, displaced by the dungeon's latest awakening. After achieving the highest synchronization rate on record with a powerful magical artifact, he is thrust into the dungeon with a team of other isekai'd artifact wielders. He will fight men, beasts, and monsters, seeing just how far he can go. But...
10) Scorched Earth
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A single superheated zap from an invisible object in space literally vaporizes the Biobubble habitat scientists. More sizzling attacks are followed by eyewitness sightings of giant Cyrillic letters in the sky. As the White House and Pentagon hastily cover up in reflective tinfoil to ward off the deadly rays, Remo and Chiun are dispatched to Russia to stop these stealth attacks before World War III really scorches the planet. But clandestine Russian...
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Well, we did it. After a century of misuse and abuse, the earth had enough and is no longer inhabitable. In a desperate attempt for survival, the human race's only hope is to go underground. Survival is the name of the game, and her name is Style. Style is an unlikely hero, strong, beautiful and no-frills - come as you are. She is forced to return to the surface. Once on the surface, she not only has to survive a scorched earth, but she has to...
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The Incredible Hulk has beaten Red Hulk decisively and now Steve Rogers is here to give both behemoths a purpose! Red Hulk is tasked to deal with the deadly contingency plan left behind by Leader and M.O.D.O.K. But to do so, he'll need the help of Iron Man, Thor, Namor, A-Bomb and...his life-long enemy the Hulk!
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The prophetic author of the bestselling Government Zero, Dr. Michael Savage is back with his most urgent and powerful work. Listeners to Dr. Savage's top-rated radio talk show, The Savage Nation, know him to be an articulate and engaged spokesman for traditional American values of borders, language, and culture. Now, after eight divisive years of Barack Obama, Dr. Savage lays out an irrefutable case for how our nation has been undermined by terrorists...
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A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime The environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies has been a target and instrument of war for centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced populations, and the devastation of people's livelihoods and ways of life. Scorched Earth traces the history of scorched earth, military inundations, and armies living off the land from the sixteenth to the...
15) Run Boy Run
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FIRE FREED HIM FROM PRISON... AND ORPHANED HER.THEY'LL NEED EACH OTHER IF THEY'RE BOTH GOING TO SURVIVE. Zander Hollis lost everything when he was unfairly tried and convicted of a murder he knows in his heart he couldn't have committed. His wife refuses to speak to him because of it, and he worries that his son won't remember who he is when his seven-year sentence has been completed.After a deadly wildfire forces the emergency evacuation of the Coujee...
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IN THE EMBERS OF A BURNING AMERICA, BATTLE LINES ARE BEING FORGED.A NEW WORLD ORDER OF EXTREMISM AND ANARCHY IS THREATENING TO RISE. Zander Hollis is a man on the run... straight into the jaws of danger.Wrongly imprisoned but freed in the chaos of a massive wildfire, now sought by federal authorities for a string of murders he didn't commit, Zander seeks out the Defenders, an extremist militia group seeking to bring the government to its knees. The...
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German scholar J©œrg Baberowski is one of the world¿́¿s leading experts on the Stalin era, but his work has seldom been translated into English. This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad violence with which Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts Stalinism as a cruel and deliberate attack on Russian society, driven by ¿́¿totalitarian ambitions¿́¿ and the goal of modernizing and rationalizing a backward people. Baberowski takes a twofold...
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This book discusses in detail the experience of German warfare in the first World War, focusing specifically on the battle of the Somme. The Somme, together with other regions of northern France, had also lain under German domination. Its inhabitants had been rigorously suppressed and their possessions carted off as booty. Finally, during their 1917 withdrawal, the Germans had subjected the whole region to Operation Alberich, a retreat involving unparalleled...
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The first year of the Korean War was a tumultuous series of epic battles, ending in a legendary and harrowing retreat. In the summer of 1950, British and Australian troops were dispatched to fight with UN forces in the savage struggle against communism in Korea. After both triumph and tragedy while breaking out of the "Pusan Perimeter," 27th Brigade – the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Middlesex battalions, soon joined by the Royal Australians...