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      <title>The Life of Objects by Susanna Moore</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307388827&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307388827&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307388827&quot;&gt;The Life of Objects&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=21133&quot;&gt;Susanna Moore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 256 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - War; Fiction - Literary | &lt;b&gt;$15.00&lt;/b&gt; | June 4, 2013 | 978-0-307-38882-7 (0-307-38882-4)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Berlin, 1938. When Beatrice, a young Irish Protestant lace maker, is whisked away from her dreary life to join the household of Felix and Dorthea Metzenburg, she feels like she&amp;rsquo;s landed in the middle of a fairy tale. Art collectors, and friends to the most fascinating men and women of Europe, the Metzenburgs are part of a world where there is more to desire than she ever imagined. &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;However Germany has launched its campaign of aggression across Europe, and, before long, the conflict reaches the family&amp;rsquo;s threshold. Retreating to their country estate, the Metzenburgs do their best to ignore the encroaching war until the realities of hunger, illness, and Nazi terror begin to threaten their very existence. In searing and emotional detail, &lt;i&gt;The Life of Objects &lt;/i&gt;illuminates Beatrice&amp;rsquo;s journey from childhood to womanhood, from na&amp;iuml;vet&amp;eacute; to wisdom, as a continent collapses into darkness around her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>World War Z: The Complete Edition (Movie Tie-In Edition) by Various</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780804165730&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780804165730&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780804165730&quot;&gt;World War Z: The Complete Edition (Movie Tie-In Edition)&lt;/a&gt; An Oral History of the Zombie War&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=48807&quot;&gt;Max Brooks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Read by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=172128&quot;&gt;Various&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Abridged Compact Disc&lt;/b&gt; | Random House Audio | Fiction - Horror; Fiction - War | &lt;b&gt;$25.00&lt;/b&gt; | June 4, 2013 | 978-0-8041-6573-0 (0-8041-6573-4)&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;World War Z: The Complete Edition (Movie Tie-in Edition): An Oral History of the Zombie War&lt;/i&gt; is a new version of Max Brooks' episodic zombie novel. The abridged versions of the original stories are now joined with new, unabridged recordings of the episodes that were not included in the original (abridged) version of the audiobook. These additional episodes feature a star-studded cast of narrators to coincide with the upcoming release of the film. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;New narrators include Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, &lt;i&gt;Spiderman&lt;/i&gt; star Alfred Molina, &lt;i&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/i&gt; creator Frank Darabont, rapper Common, Firefly star Nathan Fillion, &lt;i&gt;Shaun of the Dead'&lt;/i&gt;s Simon Pegg, and members of the casts of &lt;i&gt;Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes&lt;/i&gt; and more! Max Brooks will be reprising his role as The Interviewer. &lt;br&gt;The original abridged edition, released in 2006, won an Audie Award for Best Multi-Voiced Performance. Original cast members include Alan Alda, Mark Hamill, Carl &amp;amp; Rob Reiner, and John Turturro. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In this new classic of apocalyptic fiction that feels all too real, the Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. The documentary-style oral history records the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Featuring five more hours of previously unrecorded content, this full-cast recording is read by F. Murray Abraham, Alan Alda, Ren&amp;eacute; Auberjonois, Becky Ann Baker, Dennis Boutsikaris, Bruce Boxleitner, Max Brooks, Nicki Clyne, Common, Denise Crosby, Frank Darabont, Dean Edwards, Mark Hamill, Nathan Fillion, Maz Jobrani, Frank Kamai, Michelle Kholos, John McElroy, Ade M&amp;rsquo;Cormack, Alfred Molina, Parminder Nagra, Ajay Naidu, Masi Oka, Steve Park, Kal Penn, Simon Pegg, J&amp;uuml;rgen Prochnow, Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner, Henry Rollins, Jeri Ryan, Jay O. Sanders, Martin Scorsese, Paul Sorvino, David Ogden Stiers, Brian Tee, John Turturro, Eamonn Walker, Ric Young, and Waleed Zuaiter.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;copy;2006 Max Brooks (P)2012 Random House&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Chain of Thunder by Jeff Shaara</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307990884&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307990884&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307990884&quot;&gt;A Chain of Thunder&lt;/a&gt; A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=71683&quot;&gt;Jeff Shaara&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 848 pages | Random House Large Print | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - War; Fiction - Adventure | &lt;b&gt;$28.00&lt;/b&gt; | May 28, 2013 | 978-0-307-99088-4 (0-307-99088-5)&lt;p&gt;Continuing the series that began with &lt;i&gt;A Blaze of Glory,&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America&amp;rsquo;s long and bloody Civil War. In &lt;i&gt;A Chain of Thunder,&lt;/i&gt; the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. There, in the vaunted &amp;ldquo;Gibraltar of the Confederacy,&amp;rdquo; a siege for the ages will cement the reputation of one Union general&amp;mdash;and all but seal the fate of the rebel cause.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; In May 1863, after months of hard and bitter combat, Union troops under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant at long last successfully cross the Mississippi River. They force the remnants of Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton&amp;rsquo;s army to retreat to Vicksburg, burning the bridges over the Big Black River in its path. But after sustaining heavy casualties in two failed assaults against the rebels, Union soldiers are losing confidence and morale is low. Grant reluctantly decides to lay siege to the city, trapping soldiers and civilians alike inside an iron ring of Federal entrenchments. Six weeks later, the starving and destitute Southerners finally surrender, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces on July 4&amp;mdash;Independence Day&amp;mdash;and marking a crucial turning point in the Civil War.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Drawing on comprehensive research and his own intimate knowledge of the Vicksburg Campaign, Jeff Shaara once again weaves brilliant fiction out of the ragged cloth of historical fact. From the command tents where generals plot strategy to the ruined mansions where beleaguered citizens huddle for safety, this is a panoramic portrait of men and women whose lives are forever altered by the siege. On one side stand the emerging legend Grant, his irascible second William T. Sherman, and the youthful &amp;ldquo;grunt&amp;rdquo; Private Fritz Bauer; on the other, the Confederate commanders Pemberton and Joseph Johnston, as well as nineteen-year-old Lucy Spence, a civilian doing her best to survive in the besieged city. By giving voice to their experiences at Vicksburg, &lt;i&gt;A Chain of Thunder&lt;/i&gt; vividly evokes a battle whose outcome still reverberates more than 150 years after the cannons fell silent.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;PRAISE FOR JEFF SHAARA&amp;rsquo;S ACCLAIMED CIVIL WAR NOVELS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Gods and Generals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Powerful . . . Though the story of the Civil War has been told many times, this is the rare version that conveys what it must have felt like.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;Chicago Sun-Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Compelling . . . a work of vivid drama and skill.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The Dallas Morning News&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;The Last Full Measure&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;&lt;i&gt;The Last Full Measure&lt;/i&gt; is more than another historical novel. It is rooted in history, but its strength is the element of humanity flowing through its characters. . . . The book is compelling, easy to read, well researched and written, and thought-provoking. . . . In short, it is everything that a reader could ask for.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Chicago Tribune&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Masterful . . . These characters come alive as complex, heroic, and flawed men.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Baltimore&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;Sun&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;A Blaze of Glory&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Brilliant . . . riveting . . . a work to be embraced.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Bookreporter&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Dynamic portrayals [of] Johnston, Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>World War Z (Mass Market Movie Tie-In Edition) by Max Brooks</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770437404&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780770437404&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770437404&quot;&gt;World War Z (Mass Market Movie Tie-In Edition)&lt;/a&gt; An Oral History of the Zombie War&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=48807&quot;&gt;Max Brooks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 432 pages | Broadway | Fiction - Horror; Fiction - War | &lt;b&gt;$9.99&lt;/b&gt; | May 28, 2013 | 978-0-7704-3740-4 (0-7704-3740-0)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Now a major motion picture&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. &lt;i&gt;World War Z&lt;/i&gt; is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, &amp;ldquo;By excluding the human factor, aren&amp;rsquo;t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn&amp;rsquo;t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as &amp;lsquo;the living dead&amp;rsquo;?&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Eyewitness reports from the first truly global war&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;I found &amp;lsquo;Patient Zero&amp;rsquo; behind the locked door of an abandoned apartment across town. . . . His wrists and feet were bound with plastic packing twine. Although he&amp;rsquo;d rubbed off the skin around his bonds, there was no blood. There was also no blood on his other wounds. . . . He was writhing like an animal; a gag muffled his growls. At first the villagers tried to hold me back. They warned me not to touch him, that he was &amp;lsquo;cursed.&amp;rsquo; I shrugged them off and reached for my mask and gloves. The boy&amp;rsquo;s skin was . . . cold and gray . . . I could find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Dr. Kwang Jingshu, Greater Chongqing, United Federation of China&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;&amp;lsquo;Shock and Awe&amp;rsquo;? Perfect name. . . . But what if the enemy can&amp;rsquo;t be shocked and awed? Not just won&amp;rsquo;t, but biologically can&amp;rsquo;t! That&amp;rsquo;s what happened that day outside New York City, that&amp;rsquo;s the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldn&amp;rsquo;t shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! They&amp;rsquo;re not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid!&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Todd Wainio, former U.S. Army infantryman and veteran of the Battle of Yonkers&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Two hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming all life on Earth.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;General Travis D&amp;rsquo;Ambrosia, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Chain of Thunder by Jeff Shaara</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345527387&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780345527387&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345527387&quot;&gt;A Chain of Thunder&lt;/a&gt; A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=71683&quot;&gt;Jeff Shaara&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 592 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - War; Fiction - Adventure | &lt;b&gt;$28.00&lt;/b&gt; | May 21, 2013 | 978-0-345-52738-7 (0-345-52738-0)&lt;p&gt;Continuing the series that began with &lt;i&gt;A Blaze of Glory,&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America&amp;rsquo;s long and bloody Civil War. In &lt;i&gt;A Chain of Thunder,&lt;/i&gt; the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. There, in the vaunted &amp;ldquo;Gibraltar of the Confederacy,&amp;rdquo; a siege for the ages will cement the reputation of one Union general&amp;mdash;and all but seal the fate of the rebel cause.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; In May 1863, after months of hard and bitter combat, Union troops under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant at long last successfully cross the Mississippi River. They force the remnants of Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton&amp;rsquo;s army to retreat to Vicksburg, burning the bridges over the Big Black River in its path. But after sustaining heavy casualties in two failed assaults against the rebels, Union soldiers are losing confidence and morale is low. Grant reluctantly decides to lay siege to the city, trapping soldiers and civilians alike inside an iron ring of Federal entrenchments. Six weeks later, the starving and destitute Southerners finally surrender, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces on July 4&amp;mdash;Independence Day&amp;mdash;and marking a crucial turning point in the Civil War.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Drawing on comprehensive research and his own intimate knowledge of the Vicksburg Campaign, Jeff Shaara once again weaves brilliant fiction out of the ragged cloth of historical fact. From the command tents where generals plot strategy to the ruined mansions where beleaguered citizens huddle for safety, this is a panoramic portrait of men and women whose lives are forever altered by the siege. On one side stand the emerging legend Grant, his irascible second William T. Sherman, and the youthful &amp;ldquo;grunt&amp;rdquo; Private Fritz Bauer; on the other, the Confederate commanders Pemberton and Joseph Johnston, as well as nineteen-year-old Lucy Spence, a civilian doing her best to survive in the besieged city. By giving voice to their experiences at Vicksburg, &lt;i&gt;A Chain of Thunder&lt;/i&gt; vividly evokes a battle whose outcome still reverberates more than 150 years after the cannons fell silent.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;PRAISE FOR JEFF SHAARA&amp;rsquo;S ACCLAIMED CIVIL WAR NOVELS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Gods and Generals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Powerful . . . Though the story of the Civil War has been told many times, this is the rare version that conveys what it must have felt like.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;Chicago Sun-Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Compelling . . . a work of vivid drama and skill.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The Dallas Morning News&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;The Last Full Measure&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;&lt;i&gt;The Last Full Measure&lt;/i&gt; is more than another historical novel. It is rooted in history, but its strength is the element of humanity flowing through its characters. . . . The book is compelling, easy to read, well researched and written, and thought-provoking. . . . In short, it is everything that a reader could ask for.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Chicago Tribune&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Masterful . . . These characters come alive as complex, heroic, and flawed men.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Baltimore&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;Sun&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;A Blaze of Glory&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Brilliant . . . riveting . . . a work to be embraced.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Bookreporter&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Dynamic portrayals [of] Johnston, Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Chain of Thunder by Jeff Shaara</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345527400&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780345527400&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345527400&quot;&gt;A Chain of Thunder&lt;/a&gt; A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=71683&quot;&gt;Jeff Shaara&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 592 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - War; Fiction - Adventure | &lt;b&gt;$13.99&lt;/b&gt; | May 21, 2013 | 978-0-345-52740-0 (0-345-52740-2)&lt;p&gt;Continuing the series that began with &lt;i&gt;A Blaze of Glory,&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America&amp;rsquo;s long and bloody Civil War. In &lt;i&gt;A Chain of Thunder,&lt;/i&gt; the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. There, in the vaunted &amp;ldquo;Gibraltar of the Confederacy,&amp;rdquo; a siege for the ages will cement the reputation of one Union general&amp;mdash;and all but seal the fate of the rebel cause.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; In May 1863, after months of hard and bitter combat, Union troops under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant at long last successfully cross the Mississippi River. They force the remnants of Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton&amp;rsquo;s army to retreat to Vicksburg, burning the bridges over the Big Black River in its path. But after sustaining heavy casualties in two failed assaults against the rebels, Union soldiers are losing confidence and morale is low. Grant reluctantly decides to lay siege to the city, trapping soldiers and civilians alike inside an iron ring of Federal entrenchments. Six weeks later, the starving and destitute Southerners finally surrender, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces on July 4&amp;mdash;Independence Day&amp;mdash;and marking a crucial turning point in the Civil War.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Drawing on comprehensive research and his own intimate knowledge of the Vicksburg Campaign, Jeff Shaara once again weaves brilliant fiction out of the ragged cloth of historical fact. From the command tents where generals plot strategy to the ruined mansions where beleaguered citizens huddle for safety, this is a panoramic portrait of men and women whose lives are forever altered by the siege. On one side stand the emerging legend Grant, his irascible second William T. Sherman, and the youthful &amp;ldquo;grunt&amp;rdquo; Private Fritz Bauer; on the other, the Confederate commanders Pemberton and Joseph Johnston, as well as nineteen-year-old Lucy Spence, a civilian doing her best to survive in the besieged city. By giving voice to their experiences at Vicksburg, &lt;i&gt;A Chain of Thunder&lt;/i&gt; vividly evokes a battle whose outcome still reverberates more than 150 years after the cannons fell silent.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;PRAISE FOR JEFF SHAARA&amp;rsquo;S ACCLAIMED CIVIL WAR NOVELS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Gods and Generals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Powerful . . . Though the story of the Civil War has been told many times, this is the rare version that conveys what it must have felt like.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;Chicago Sun-Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Compelling . . . a work of vivid drama and skill.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The Dallas Morning News&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;The Last Full Measure&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;&lt;i&gt;The Last Full Measure&lt;/i&gt; is more than another historical novel. It is rooted in history, but its strength is the element of humanity flowing through its characters. . . . The book is compelling, easy to read, well researched and written, and thought-provoking. . . . In short, it is everything that a reader could ask for.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Chicago Tribune&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Masterful . . . These characters come alive as complex, heroic, and flawed men.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Baltimore&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;Sun&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;A Blaze of Glory&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Brilliant . . . riveting . . . a work to be embraced.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Bookreporter&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Dynamic portrayals [of] Johnston, Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Chain of Thunder by Paul Michael</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780449008652&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780449008652&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780449008652&quot;&gt;A Chain of Thunder&lt;/a&gt; A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=71683&quot;&gt;Jeff Shaara&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Read by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=60113&quot;&gt;Paul Michael&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Unabridged Compact Disc&lt;/b&gt; | Random House Audio | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - War; Fiction - Adventure | &lt;b&gt;$50.00&lt;/b&gt; | May 21, 2013 | 978-0-449-00865-2 (0-449-00865-7)&lt;p&gt;Continuing the series that began with &lt;i&gt;A Blaze of Glory,&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America&amp;rsquo;s long and bloody Civil War. In &lt;i&gt;A Chain of Thunder,&lt;/i&gt; the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. There, in the vaunted &amp;ldquo;Gibraltar of the Confederacy,&amp;rdquo; a siege for the ages will cement the reputation of one Union general&amp;mdash;and all but seal the fate of the rebel cause.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; In May 1863, after months of hard and bitter combat, Union troops under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant at long last successfully cross the Mississippi River. They force the remnants of Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton&amp;rsquo;s army to retreat to Vicksburg, burning the bridges over the Big Black River in its path. But after sustaining heavy casualties in two failed assaults against the rebels, Union soldiers are losing confidence and morale is low. Grant reluctantly decides to lay siege to the city, trapping soldiers and civilians alike inside an iron ring of Federal entrenchments. Six weeks later, the starving and destitute Southerners finally surrender, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces on July 4&amp;mdash;Independence Day&amp;mdash;and marking a crucial turning point in the Civil War.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Drawing on comprehensive research and his own intimate knowledge of the Vicksburg Campaign, Jeff Shaara once again weaves brilliant fiction out of the ragged cloth of historical fact. From the command tents where generals plot strategy to the ruined mansions where beleaguered citizens huddle for safety, this is a panoramic portrait of men and women whose lives are forever altered by the siege. On one side stand the emerging legend Grant, his irascible second William T. Sherman, and the youthful &amp;ldquo;grunt&amp;rdquo; Private Fritz Bauer; on the other, the Confederate commanders Pemberton and Joseph Johnston, as well as nineteen-year-old Lucy Spence, a civilian doing her best to survive in the besieged city. By giving voice to their experiences at Vicksburg, &lt;i&gt;A Chain of Thunder&lt;/i&gt; vividly evokes a battle whose outcome still reverberates more than 150 years after the cannons fell silent.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;PRAISE FOR JEFF SHAARA&amp;rsquo;S ACCLAIMED CIVIL WAR NOVELS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Gods and Generals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Powerful . . . Though the story of the Civil War has been told many times, this is the rare version that conveys what it must have felt like.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;Chicago Sun-Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Compelling . . . a work of vivid drama and skill.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The Dallas Morning News&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;The Last Full Measure&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;&lt;i&gt;The Last Full Measure&lt;/i&gt; is more than another historical novel. It is rooted in history, but its strength is the element of humanity flowing through its characters. . . . The book is compelling, easy to read, well researched and written, and thought-provoking. . . . In short, it is everything that a reader could ask for.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Chicago Tribune&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Masterful . . . These characters come alive as complex, heroic, and flawed men.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Baltimore&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;Sun&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;A Blaze of Glory&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Brilliant . . . riveting . . . a work to be embraced.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Bookreporter&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Dynamic portrayals [of] Johnston, Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>A Chain of Thunder by Paul Michael</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780449008669&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780449008669&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780449008669&quot;&gt;A Chain of Thunder&lt;/a&gt; A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=71683&quot;&gt;Jeff Shaara&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Read by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=60113&quot;&gt;Paul Michael&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Unabridged Audiobook Download&lt;/b&gt; | Random House Audio | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - War; Fiction - Adventure | &lt;b&gt;$30.00&lt;/b&gt; | May 21, 2013 | 978-0-449-00866-9 (0-449-00866-5)&lt;p&gt;Continuing the series that began with &lt;i&gt;A Blaze of Glory,&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America&amp;rsquo;s long and bloody Civil War. In &lt;i&gt;A Chain of Thunder,&lt;/i&gt; the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. There, in the vaunted &amp;ldquo;Gibraltar of the Confederacy,&amp;rdquo; a siege for the ages will cement the reputation of one Union general&amp;mdash;and all but seal the fate of the rebel cause.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; In May 1863, after months of hard and bitter combat, Union troops under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant at long last successfully cross the Mississippi River. They force the remnants of Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton&amp;rsquo;s army to retreat to Vicksburg, burning the bridges over the Big Black River in its path. But after sustaining heavy casualties in two failed assaults against the rebels, Union soldiers are losing confidence and morale is low. Grant reluctantly decides to lay siege to the city, trapping soldiers and civilians alike inside an iron ring of Federal entrenchments. Six weeks later, the starving and destitute Southerners finally surrender, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces on July 4&amp;mdash;Independence Day&amp;mdash;and marking a crucial turning point in the Civil War.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Drawing on comprehensive research and his own intimate knowledge of the Vicksburg Campaign, Jeff Shaara once again weaves brilliant fiction out of the ragged cloth of historical fact. From the command tents where generals plot strategy to the ruined mansions where beleaguered citizens huddle for safety, this is a panoramic portrait of men and women whose lives are forever altered by the siege. On one side stand the emerging legend Grant, his irascible second William T. Sherman, and the youthful &amp;ldquo;grunt&amp;rdquo; Private Fritz Bauer; on the other, the Confederate commanders Pemberton and Joseph Johnston, as well as nineteen-year-old Lucy Spence, a civilian doing her best to survive in the besieged city. By giving voice to their experiences at Vicksburg, &lt;i&gt;A Chain of Thunder&lt;/i&gt; vividly evokes a battle whose outcome still reverberates more than 150 years after the cannons fell silent.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;PRAISE FOR JEFF SHAARA&amp;rsquo;S ACCLAIMED CIVIL WAR NOVELS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Gods and Generals&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Powerful . . . Though the story of the Civil War has been told many times, this is the rare version that conveys what it must have felt like.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;Chicago Sun-Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Compelling . . . a work of vivid drama and skill.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The Dallas Morning News&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;The Last Full Measure&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;&lt;i&gt;The Last Full Measure&lt;/i&gt; is more than another historical novel. It is rooted in history, but its strength is the element of humanity flowing through its characters. . . . The book is compelling, easy to read, well researched and written, and thought-provoking. . . . In short, it is everything that a reader could ask for.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Chicago Tribune&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Masterful . . . These characters come alive as complex, heroic, and flawed men.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Baltimore&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;Sun&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;A Blaze of Glory&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Brilliant . . . riveting . . . a work to be embraced.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Bookreporter&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; &amp;ldquo;Dynamic portrayals [of] Johnston, Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>World War Z (Movie Tie-In Edition) by Max Brooks</title>
      <link>http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770437411</link>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770437411&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780770437411&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770437411&quot;&gt;World War Z (Movie Tie-In Edition)&lt;/a&gt; An Oral History of the Zombie War&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=48807&quot;&gt;Max Brooks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 352 pages | Broadway | Fiction - Horror; Fiction - War | &lt;b&gt;$14.95&lt;/b&gt; | May 14, 2013 | 978-0-7704-3741-1 (0-7704-3741-9)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Now a major motion picture&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. &lt;i&gt;World War Z&lt;/i&gt; is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, &amp;ldquo;By excluding the human factor, aren&amp;rsquo;t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn&amp;rsquo;t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as &amp;lsquo;the living dead&amp;rsquo;?&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Eyewitness reports from the first truly global war&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;I found &amp;lsquo;Patient Zero&amp;rsquo; behind the locked door of an abandoned apartment across town. . . . His wrists and feet were bound with plastic packing twine. Although he&amp;rsquo;d rubbed off the skin around his bonds, there was no blood. There was also no blood on his other wounds. . . . He was writhing like an animal; a gag muffled his growls. At first the villagers tried to hold me back. They warned me not to touch him, that he was &amp;lsquo;cursed.&amp;rsquo; I shrugged them off and reached for my mask and gloves. The boy&amp;rsquo;s skin was . . . cold and gray . . . I could find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Dr. Kwang Jingshu, Greater Chongqing, United Federation of China&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;&amp;lsquo;Shock and Awe&amp;rsquo;? Perfect name. . . . But what if the enemy can&amp;rsquo;t be shocked and awed? Not just won&amp;rsquo;t, but biologically can&amp;rsquo;t! That&amp;rsquo;s what happened that day outside New York City, that&amp;rsquo;s the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldn&amp;rsquo;t shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! They&amp;rsquo;re not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid!&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Todd Wainio, former U.S. Army infantryman and veteran of the Battle of Yonkers&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Two hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming all life on Earth.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;General Travis D&amp;rsquo;Ambrosia, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>World War Z: The Lost Files by Max Brooks</title>
      <link>http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780804164092</link>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780804164092&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780804164092&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780804164092&quot;&gt;World War Z: The Lost Files&lt;/a&gt; A Companion to the Abridged Edition&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=48807&quot;&gt;Max Brooks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Abridged Audiobook Download&lt;/b&gt; | Random House Audio | Fiction - Horror; Fiction - War | &lt;b&gt;$20.00&lt;/b&gt; | May 14, 2013 | 978-0-8041-6409-2 (0-8041-6409-6)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fans of Max Brooks&amp;rsquo; original abridged recording of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War will be thrilled to add this companion piece to their audio library. Offering listeners five hours of previously unrecorded content, World War Z: The Lost Files features 21 Hollywood A-list actors and sci-fi fan favorites performing stories not included in the original abridged edition.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Narrators of World War Z: The Lost Files are Academy Award&amp;reg;-winning director Martin Scorsese, Spiderman star Alfred Molina, The Walking Dead creator Frank Darabont, rapper Common, Firefly star Nathan Fillion, Shaun of the Dead&amp;rsquo;s Simon Pegg, F. Murray Abraham, Ren&amp;eacute; Auberjonois, Bruce Boxleitner, Nicki Clyne, Denise Crosby, Ade M&amp;rsquo;Cormack, Parminder Nagra, Masi Oka, Kal Penn, J&amp;uuml;rgen Prochnow, Jeri Ryan, Paul Sorvino, David Ogden Stiers, Brian Tee, and Ric Young. Max Brooks reprises his role as The Interviewer. &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;PLEASE NOTE: World War Z: The Lost Files offers the five hours of stories from characters not included in the original abridged recording, published as World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. Also available from Random House Audio is World War Z: The Complete Edition which offers these five extra hours of stories integrated with the original abridged recording.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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