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The Last Day of the War
Written by Judith Claire Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2005
Price: $14.00
Yael Weiss, eighteen years old and looking for adventure, finds it in the library one day when she discovers a packet of guns meant for Erinyes, an Armenian organization set on avenging their people’s massacre by the Turks in 1915. While the weapons make her nervous, Dub Hagopian, the young Armenian-American... Read more >
Written by Judith Claire Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2005
Price: $14.00
Yael Weiss, eighteen years old and looking for adventure, finds it in the library one day when she discovers a packet of guns meant for Erinyes, an Armenian organization set on avenging their people’s massacre by the Turks in 1915. While the weapons make her nervous, Dub Hagopian, the young Armenian-American... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Acts of Faith
Written by Philip Caputo
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $11.99
Philip Caputo’s tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with treacherous moral blindness. There’s the entrepreneurial American pilot who goes from flying food and... Read more >
Written by Philip Caputo
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $11.99
Philip Caputo’s tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with treacherous moral blindness. There’s the entrepreneurial American pilot who goes from flying food and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Pretty Birds
A Novel
Written by Scott Simon
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $11.99
The universally respected NPR journalist and bestselling memoirist Scott Simon makes a dazzling fiction debut. In Pretty Birds, Simon creates an intense, startling, and tragicomic portrait of a classic character–a young woman in the besieged city of Sarajevo in the early 1990s.
In the spring of 1992, Irena Zaric is a star... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Scott Simon
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $11.99
The universally respected NPR journalist and bestselling memoirist Scott Simon makes a dazzling fiction debut. In Pretty Birds, Simon creates an intense, startling, and tragicomic portrait of a classic character–a young woman in the besieged city of Sarajevo in the early 1990s.
In the spring of 1992, Irena Zaric is a star... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Night Over the Solomons
Stories
Written by Louis L'Amour
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $5.99
They're freelance pilots and full-time troubleshooters for democracy. They're men like Steven Cowan, Mike Thorne, and Turk Madden who face danger every day of their lives and fight like tigers for what they believe in. With the world on the brink of war, they're on the front lines, wherever there's action... Read more >
Stories
Written by Louis L'Amour
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $5.99
They're freelance pilots and full-time troubleshooters for democracy. They're men like Steven Cowan, Mike Thorne, and Turk Madden who face danger every day of their lives and fight like tigers for what they believe in. With the world on the brink of war, they're on the front lines, wherever there's action... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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Weapons of Choice
A Novel
Written by John Birmingham
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $7.99
On the eve of America’s greatest victory in the Pacific,
a catastrophic event disrupts the course of World War II, forever changing the rules of combat. . . .
The impossible has spawned the unthinkable. A military experiment in the year 2021 has thrust an American-led multinational armada back to 1942... Read more >
A Novel
Written by John Birmingham
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $7.99
On the eve of America’s greatest victory in the Pacific,
a catastrophic event disrupts the course of World War II, forever changing the rules of combat. . . .
The impossible has spawned the unthinkable. A military experiment in the year 2021 has thrust an American-led multinational armada back to 1942... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Paco's Story
A Novel
Written by Larry Heinemann
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $13.95
Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated. When a medic finally rescues Paco almost two days later, he is waiting to die, flies and maggots covering his burnt, shattered body. He winds... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Larry Heinemann
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $13.95
Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated. When a medic finally rescues Paco almost two days later, he is waiting to die, flies and maggots covering his burnt, shattered body. He winds... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Homecoming
A Novel
Written by Natasha Radojcic
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $12.95
Halid, a young Muslim “war hero,” returns home from the Bosnian War. Although his village was spared heavy combat, it has been ravaged by years of privation and heartbreak, and by the blood politics that continue to boil.
The community is tight-knit and lively, as it has been for hundreds of... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Natasha Radojcic
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $12.95
Halid, a young Muslim “war hero,” returns home from the Bosnian War. Although his village was spared heavy combat, it has been ravaged by years of privation and heartbreak, and by the blood politics that continue to boil.
The community is tight-knit and lively, as it has been for hundreds of... Read more >
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Washington and Caesar
Written by Christian Cameron
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $14.00
Inspired by a little-known historical fact—that American slaves fought alongside the British in the Revolutionary War—this epic novel tells of a Mount Vernon slave who joins a Loyalist black regiment charged with defeating his former master on the battlefield.
The year is 1773. A new slave arrives at George Washington's Virginia estate... Read more >
Written by Christian Cameron
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $14.00
Inspired by a little-known historical fact—that American slaves fought alongside the British in the Revolutionary War—this epic novel tells of a Mount Vernon slave who joins a Loyalist black regiment charged with defeating his former master on the battlefield.
The year is 1773. A new slave arrives at George Washington's Virginia estate... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Execution
Written by Colin McDougall
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $8.95
The great Canadian novel of the Second World War in Italy, winner of the 1958 Governor General’s Award
Lieutenant John Adam, recovering from wounds sustained in the Italian campaign of 1943, faces a terrible dilemma when he finds that one his men, a volunteer, is to be executed, shot by his comrades... Read more >
Written by Colin McDougall
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2005
Price: $8.95
The great Canadian novel of the Second World War in Italy, winner of the 1958 Governor General’s Award
Lieutenant John Adam, recovering from wounds sustained in the Italian campaign of 1943, faces a terrible dilemma when he finds that one his men, a volunteer, is to be executed, shot by his comrades... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Homeward Bound
Written by Harry Turtledove
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 28, 2004
Price: $7.99
The twentieth century was awash in war. World powers were pouring men and machines onto the killing fields of Europe. Then, in one dramatic stroke, a divided planet was changed forever. An alien race attacked Earth, and for every nation, every human being, new battle lines were drawn. .
HOMEWARD BOUND
With... Read more >
Written by Harry Turtledove
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 28, 2004
Price: $7.99
The twentieth century was awash in war. World powers were pouring men and machines onto the killing fields of Europe. Then, in one dramatic stroke, a divided planet was changed forever. An alien race attacked Earth, and for every nation, every human being, new battle lines were drawn. .
HOMEWARD BOUND
With... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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The Year of the French
Written by Thomas Flanagan
Introduction by Seamus Deane
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2004
Price: $19.95
Written by Thomas Flanagan
Introduction by Seamus Deane
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2004
Price: $19.95
In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebellion, Wolfe Tone. Briefly they triumphed, raising hopes among...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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To the Last Man
A Novel of the First World War
Written by Jeff Shaara
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $27.95
Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power.
Spring... Read more >
A Novel of the First World War
Written by Jeff Shaara
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $27.95
Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power.
Spring... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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To the Last Man
A Novel of the First World War
Written by Jeff Shaara
Read by Philip Bosco
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $13.95
Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power.
Spring... Read more >
A Novel of the First World War
Written by Jeff Shaara
Read by Philip Bosco
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $13.95
Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power.
Spring... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
To the Last Man
A Novel of the First World War
Written by Jeff Shaara
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $9.99
Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power.
Spring... Read more >
A Novel of the First World War
Written by Jeff Shaara
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $9.99
Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power.
Spring... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The King Is Dead
Written by Jim Lewis
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $13.95
Returning a hero from the battlefields of World War II, Walter Selby settles into a charmed domestic life in Memphis. But in a few brief moments, Walter sees his life and his world fracture and split apart, driving him to commit a terrible crime.
Many years later, Frank Cartwright ponders his... Read more >
Written by Jim Lewis
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $13.95
Returning a hero from the battlefields of World War II, Walter Selby settles into a charmed domestic life in Memphis. But in a few brief moments, Walter sees his life and his world fracture and split apart, driving him to commit a terrible crime.
Many years later, Frank Cartwright ponders his... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Shoulder the Sky
A Novel
Written by Anne Perry
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $11.99
In the firmament of great historical novelists, Anne Perry is a star of the greatest magnitude. First there were her acclaimed Victorian mysteries, sparkling with passion and suspense. Now readers have embraced this bestselling new series of World War I novels–which juxtapose the tranquil life of the English countryside with the... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Anne Perry
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $11.99
In the firmament of great historical novelists, Anne Perry is a star of the greatest magnitude. First there were her acclaimed Victorian mysteries, sparkling with passion and suspense. Now readers have embraced this bestselling new series of World War I novels–which juxtapose the tranquil life of the English countryside with the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Force Protection
Written by Gordon Kent
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $6.99
From Rules of Engagement to Hostile Contact, Gordon Kent has captivated readers with novels that combine authentic portrayals of global secret operations with the passions that go with them: the yearning for family and peace, the deceptions of agents in the field, and the extraordinary risks the bravest and best will... Read more >
Written by Gordon Kent
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $6.99
From Rules of Engagement to Hostile Contact, Gordon Kent has captivated readers with novels that combine authentic portrayals of global secret operations with the passions that go with them: the yearning for family and peace, the deceptions of agents in the field, and the extraordinary risks the bravest and best will... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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Return Engagement (Settling Accounts, Book One)
Book One of the Settling Accounts Trilogy
Written by Harry Turtledove
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $11.99
Harry Turtledove’s remarkable alternative history novels brilliantly remind us of how fragile the thread of time can be, and offer us a world of “what if.” Drawing on a magnificent cast of characters that includes soldiers, generals, lovers, spies, and demagogues, Turtledove returns to an epic tale that only he could... Read more >
Book One of the Settling Accounts Trilogy
Written by Harry Turtledove
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $11.99
Harry Turtledove’s remarkable alternative history novels brilliantly remind us of how fragile the thread of time can be, and offer us a world of “what if.” Drawing on a magnificent cast of characters that includes soldiers, generals, lovers, spies, and demagogues, Turtledove returns to an epic tale that only he could... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Siege of Krishnapur
Written by J.G. Farrell
Introduction by Pankaj Mishra
Format: Trade Paperback, 376 pages
On Sale: July 31, 2004
Price: $15.95
Written by J.G. Farrell
Introduction by Pankaj Mishra
Format: Trade Paperback, 376 pages
On Sale: July 31, 2004
Price: $15.95
Winner of The Booker Prize.
India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one of the finest British novels of the last fifty years.
Farrell's story...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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To the Last Man
A Novel of the First World War
Written by Jeff Shaara
Read by Paul Michael
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 8, 2004
Price: $34.50
Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power.
Spring... Read more >
A Novel of the First World War
Written by Jeff Shaara
Read by Paul Michael
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 8, 2004
Price: $34.50
Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power.
Spring... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Virtues of War
A Novel of Alexander the Great
Written by Steven Pressfield
Read by John Lee
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 8, 2004
Price: $20.00
I have always been a soldier. I have known no other life. So begins Alexander’s extraordinary confession on the eve of his greatest crisis of leadership. By turns heroic and calculating, compassionate and utterly merciless, Alexander recounts with a warrior’s unflinching eye for detail the blood, the terror, and the tactics... Read more >
A Novel of Alexander the Great
Written by Steven Pressfield
Read by John Lee
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 8, 2004
Price: $20.00
I have always been a soldier. I have known no other life. So begins Alexander’s extraordinary confession on the eve of his greatest crisis of leadership. By turns heroic and calculating, compassionate and utterly merciless, Alexander recounts with a warrior’s unflinching eye for detail the blood, the terror, and the tactics... Read more >
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To the Last Man
A Novel of the First World War
Written by Jeff Shaara
Read by Paul Michael
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 6, 2004
Price: $22.50
Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power.
Spring... Read more >
A Novel of the First World War
Written by Jeff Shaara
Read by Paul Michael
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 6, 2004
Price: $22.50
Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power.
Spring... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Zero Over Berlin
Written by Joh Sasaki
Translated by Hiroko Yoda and Matt Alt
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2004
Price: $22.95
1940. Hitler wants to rain death on London but he doesn't have the aircraft. Classified info about a new long-range plane -- the Japanese "Type Zero" -- intrigues Nazi generals who ask their Far Eastern ally for a few prototypes to study. But how to get the planes from Japan to... Read more >
Written by Joh Sasaki
Translated by Hiroko Yoda and Matt Alt
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2004
Price: $22.95
1940. Hitler wants to rain death on London but he doesn't have the aircraft. Classified info about a new long-range plane -- the Japanese "Type Zero" -- intrigues Nazi generals who ask their Far Eastern ally for a few prototypes to study. But how to get the planes from Japan to... Read more >
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Weapons of Choice
Written by John Birmingham
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $15.95
On the eve of America’s greatest victory in the Pacific,
a catastrophic event disrupts the course of World War II, forever changing the rules of combat. . . .
The impossible has spawned the unthinkable. A military experiment in the year 2021 has thrust an American-led multinational armada back to 1942... Read more >
Written by John Birmingham
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $15.95
On the eve of America’s greatest victory in the Pacific,
a catastrophic event disrupts the course of World War II, forever changing the rules of combat. . . .
The impossible has spawned the unthinkable. A military experiment in the year 2021 has thrust an American-led multinational armada back to 1942... Read more >
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Weapons of Choice
Book One of the Axis of Time Trilogy
Written by John Birmingham
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $7.99
On the eve of America’s greatest victory in the Pacific,
a catastrophic event disrupts the course of World War II, forever changing the rules of combat. . . .
The impossible has spawned the unthinkable. A military experiment in the year 2021 has thrust an American-led multinational armada back to 1942... Read more >
Book One of the Axis of Time Trilogy
Written by John Birmingham
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $7.99
On the eve of America’s greatest victory in the Pacific,
a catastrophic event disrupts the course of World War II, forever changing the rules of combat. . . .
The impossible has spawned the unthinkable. A military experiment in the year 2021 has thrust an American-led multinational armada back to 1942... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback and a
trade paperback.
