First Bull Run 1861
The South's first victory
Written by Alan Hankinson
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
At Bull Run, two inexperienced, ill-trained and poorly led armies clashed in the opening engagement of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Culminating in a stalwart defensive fight by Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson's Virginia Brigade, this is the story of the Confederacy's first victory. The author investigates the personalities of the principal commanders...
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The First World War
The war to end all wars
Written by Geoffrey Jukes
Format: eBook, 364 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.95
Raging for over four years across the tortured landscapes of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the First World War changed the face of warfare forever. Characterised by slow, costly advances and fierce attrition, the great battles of the Somme, Verdun and Ypres incurred human loss on a scale never previously...
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Five Classic Spenser Mysteries
A Catskill Eagle, Early Autumn, God Save the Child, The Godwulf Manuscript, Mortal Stakes
Written by Robert B. Parker
Format: eBook, 1360 pages
On Sale: June 17, 2013
Price: $29.99
“Robert B. Parker has taken his place beside Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Macdonald,”
The Boston Globe once wrote. But over the course of a legendary literary career, Parker single-handedly reinvented American detective fiction for the modern world with his irreverent, idealistic protagonist, Spenser. This exclusive eBook bundle brings together...
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The French Indochina War 1946-54
Written by Martin Windrow
Illustrated by Mike Chappell
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
The states of Indochina had been French colonies or protectorates since the 19th century. However, in March 1945 the Japanese interned all French troops and officials, and turned over all civil government to local authorities. The power vacuum caused by the Japanese surrender allowed the Viet Minh, a strong revolutionary organisation...
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The Generals
Written by Per Wahloo
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.99
From Per Wahlöö—co-author with his wife, Maj Sjöwall, of the internationally bestselling Martin Beck series of mysteries—comes a political satire, told as a court transcript, about the court-martial of a general gone rogue.
Time: the not too distant future.
Place: a small island in the temperate zone.
Scene: air-force headquarters. Corporal Edwin Velder...
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Girl, Interrupted
Written by Susanna Kaysen
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2013
Price: $9.99
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell...
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Going the Second Mile
Letting God Take You Beyond Yourself
Written by Mel Blackaby
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2013
Price: $9.99
Less Effort, More Joy What is the second mile? It’s the difference between living as a good person and enjoying life as a child of God. When you “do your best” for someone, you go the first mile. When God does
His best
through you, you experience the second mile. This...
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Gravelotte-St-Privat 1870
End of the Second Empire
Written by Philipp Elliot-Wright
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
Gravelotte-St-Privat was probably the hardest fought of all the battles of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). Attacked by superior Prussian forces from both the First and Second armies, Marshal Bazaine's French Army of the Rhine inflicted heavy casualties on the advancing Prussian's before finally being forced to retreat into the fortress city...
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The Grim Pig
Written by Charles Gordon
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $10.99
Modern management has come to
The World Beacon. This means that a new editor, Fred Morgan, has been sent to inspire everyone to get out and write newspaper stories that will matter to their readers, stories about their lives, their children, their careers – and cloth.
Cloth? Clearly, the new editor is...
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Gypsies of Britain
Written by Janet Keet-Black
Format: eBook, 56 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $7.95
This title tells the story of the Romany Gypsies in Britain. Where they came from, how they arrived. It explores their travelling way of life and their traditional occupations, including harvesting, making baskets, dealing in horses, fortune telling and rat catching to royalty. Their impact on traditional museum dancing. It reveals...
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The Heist
A Novel
Written by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.99
From Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, bestselling author and television writer for Monk, comes the first adventure in an electrifying new series featuring an FBI agent who always gets her man, and a fearless con artist who lives for the...
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The Heist
A Novel
Written by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $28.00
From Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, bestselling author and television writer for Monk, comes the first adventure in an electrifying new series featuring an FBI agent who always gets her man, and a fearless con artist who lives for the...
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The Heist
A Novel
Written by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
Read by Scott Brick
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $35.00
From Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, bestselling author and television writer for Monk, comes the first adventure in an electrifying new series featuring an FBI agent who always gets her man, and a fearless con artist who lives for the...
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The Heist
A Novel
Written by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
Read by Scott Brick
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $20.00
From Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, bestselling author and television writer for Monk, comes the first adventure in an electrifying new series featuring an FBI agent who always gets her man, and a fearless con artist who lives for the...
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Hour of the Rat
Written by Lisa Brackmann
Format: eBook, 371 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $25.95
Iraq War vet Ellie McEnroe has a pretty good life in Beijing, representing the work of controversial dissident Chinese artist Zhang Jianli. Even though Zhang’s mysterious disappearance of over a year ago has her in the sights of the Chinese authorities. Even though her Born-Again mother has come for a visit...
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In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods
Written by Matt Bell
Format: eBook, 312 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $25.00
In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods tells the story of a newly married couple who take up a lonely existence in the title's mythical location. In this blank and barren plot far from the world they've known, they mean to start the family the unnamed husband...
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Inside the Crosshairs
Snipers in Vietnam
Written by Col. Michael Lee Lanning
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2013
Price: $7.99
"The American sniper could be regarded as the greatest all-around rifleman the world has ever known. . . ."
At the start of the war in Vietnam, the United States had no snipers; by the end of the war, Marine and army precision marksmen had killed more than 10,000 NVA and VC...
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Instructions for a Heatwave
Written by Maggie O'Farrell
Read by John Lee
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $20.00
Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O’Farrell’s beguiling novels—After You’d Gone, winner of a Betty Trask Award; The Distance Between Us, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Hand That First Held Mine, winner of the Costa Novel Award; and her unforgettable bestseller The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox—blend richly...
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Island Girls
A Novel
Written by Nancy Thayer
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.99
“Nancy Thayer is one of my favorite writers, and Island Girls is one of her best. The Randall sisters are like your own family members or your best friends: funny, smart and emotional, infuriating and good-hearted. Here is a book to be savored and passed on to the good women in...
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Island Girls
A Novel
Written by Nancy Thayer
Read by Cassandra Campbell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $22.50
“Nancy Thayer is one of my favorite writers, and Island Girls is one of her best. The Randall sisters are like your own family members or your best friends: funny, smart and emotional, infuriating and good-hearted. Here is a book to be savored and passed on to the good women in...
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The Lovebird
Written by Natalie Brown
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $11.99
A spectacularly vibrant, original debut, The Lovebird takes us from the orange-scented streets of Southern California to the vast prairie landscape of Montana, and introduces us to Margie Fitzgerald, a spirited and unforgettable heroine for our times. Margie has always had a soft spot for helpless creatures. Her warm heart breaks...
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M3 Infantry Half-Track 1940-73
Written by Steven Zaloga
Illustrated by Peter Sarson
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $13.95
As armoured warfare tactics matured, mechanised infantry became a key ingredient in what is now called 'combined arms' doctrine. For the US Army of World War 2, the most important technical aspect of infantry mechanisation was the development of the M3 half-track personnel carrier. Steven Zaloga guides the reader through the...
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