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Taking its title from The Face of Battle, John Keegan's canonical book on the nature of warfare, The Other Face of Battle illuminates the American experience of fighting in "irregular" and "intercultural" wars over the centuries. Sometimes known as "forgotten" wars, in part because they lacked triumphant clarity, they are the focus of the book. War is always hell. These wars, however, profoundly undermined any sense of purpose or proportion. Nightmarish and existentially bewildering, they nonetheless characterize how Americans have experienced combat.

This brilliant novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been the inadvertent agent of disaster. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ST...

Be afraid. Be very afraid. That noise in the dead of night. The shadow that slips by almost unnoticed. The fear that pulverizes your sense of reasoning and pushes you deep down under seven layers of covers. There is no escaping it, and when the dark forces of the universe come after you, the world will know exactly what you are made of. Will you run? Will you fight? Maybe you’ll join forces with the darkness that rips through your quiet little life. Everyone’s dying to find out.

Laney Moss loves the Mojave desert that surrounds her home and hikes the upper trails often, prepared for anything she might run across. But nothing prepared her for the monster that comes with the setting sun to stalk her. In the moments before he attacks, one word crashes through her terrified mind—Vampire. She manages to get away, but he tracks the call of her blood and ignites a passion in her that frightens her nearly as much as it thrills her.

Cantalira never wanted to be different. She never wanted a Mother's mark. You can't choose your family, and who would choose a witch for their mother? She wants nothing more than to be anyone but May Weaver's daughter. The only way that's ever going to happen is outside the High Valley that's protected them from the Inquisition and the Commoners' War. But Canta doesn't know what the world is like down the mountain. She is not prepared to experience it. When she runs away with her boyfriend, she's puts not only herself, but her whole family in danger.

"No matter what," she said, "tomorrow ends with blood." Adrien's master plan has been revealed and the battle lines are drawn. With the ashes of the Boulevard still hanging in the air, Hannah and team must race to prepare their ragtag army before the full might of Arcadia descends upon them. While Karl works to whip his troops into shape, Parker invades the belly of the beast, and Hannah and Ezekiel head on diverging paths to seek help.

A superb collection of fifteen stories by an American master, E. L. Doctorow—the author of Ragtime, The March, The Book of Daniel, and Billy Bathgate He has been called “a national treasure” by George Saunders. Doctorow’s great topic, said Don DeLillo, is “the reach of American...

I just keep making mistakes. It was supposed to be an easy job. Steal a timepiece from Hook and in exchange, find out where my little sister is. But the hero isn't always the hero and sometimes the bad guy is the person you least expect. Now I'm scrambling to get to Belle before she's gone forever, trying to repair the connection to my Lost Boys, dealing with a blackmailer, and oh, did I mention? I'm going to prom with Lucas Hook. When the lies unravel, all bets are off, and you better believe that I'll do anything to protect what is mine.

Londres, 2019. Maxim Trevelyan siempre ha disfrutado de una vida fácil. Gracias a su innegable atractivo, su entorno aristocrático y su riqueza, jamás ha tenido que trabajar y pocas veces duerme solo.

Once a legendary police inspector, Nicolas Lenoir is now a disillusioned and broken man who spends his days going through the motions and his evenings drinking away the nightmares of his past. Ten years ago, Lenoir barely escaped the grasp of the Darkwalker, a vengeful spirit who demands a terrible toll on those who have offended the dead. But the Darkwalker does not give up on his prey so easily, and Lenoir has always known his debt would come due one day. When Lenoir is assigned to a disturbing new case, he treats the job with his usual apathy- until his best informant, a street savvy orphan, is kidnapped.

Maxim Trevelyan, Earl of Trevethick wider Willen, ist der Frau, die er liebt, bis in die Wildnis Albaniens gefolgt. Er hat um sie gekämpft, er hat ihr Herz erobert, und jetzt wird er sie heiraten. Aber kann ein ehemaliger Lebemann wie Maxim jemals ein guter Ehemann sein - oder werden sein zweifelhafter Ruf und die schockierenden Geheimnisse seiner aristokratischen Familie sein neues Glück zerstören? Alessia Demachi hat Entführern und Menschenhändlern getrotzt und das Herz des Mannes gewonnen, den sie liebt. Aber kann diese Ehe gutgehen?

Locklyn Adair thought that finding the Sea Enchantress would lift her family’s curse. But the ramifications of her desire for a tail reach further than she could ever have dreamed. Now the entire Undersea Realm is in peril, as Circe, armed with the locket capable of controlling the Loch Ness monster, journeys to the North Sea in pursuit of revenge.

Après Monsieur, numéro un des best-sellers du New York Times, une nouvelle histoire d'amour passionnée et haletante par EL James, l'auteure de la trilogie phénomène Cinquante nuances de Grey. Que se passe-t-il une fois la pantoufle de vair chaussée ? Maxim Trevelyan, devenu à contrecœur comte de Trevethick, a retrouvé la femme qu'il aime au fin fond de l'Albanie. Et maintenant, il doit se marier sous la menace du fusil paternel. Mais un libertin repenti peut-il faire un bon époux ?

This volume is a practical and comprehensive compendium of traditional English bare-knuckle boxing. It brings together extracts from 31 historical treatises, selected through meticulous research and edited for clarity, coherence, and thematic consistency, featuring 300 original images. The material is distilled and reorganized by subject, allowing readers to trace the development of English boxing and to understand each technique within its historical context. Divided into four distinct parts: The pugilism of the Broughton era and earlier; The London Prize Ring era; Grappling techniques ...

Getting over Hawke is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I couldn't breathe, sleep, or eat. Every day was more agonizing than the one that followed. But somehow, after two years of suffering, I finally got back on my feet. And I moved on. Now I'm living in the city and running my own bakery. Life is good again. I'm surrounded by good friends that I love, and every day is even better than the last. Until everything changes. Now I have to face him after two years of silence.

Kyla must trade her pen for a sword and fight to change her story's ending, but this isn’t a fantasy anymore. No happily-ever-after is guaranteed. And mental illness has robbed her of everything she needs to succeed: love, fighting spirit, hope. If Kyla can’t overcome the darkness inside her, she’ll die with her darlings.

When shadows rise, secrets fall... Former journalist turned paranormal investigator Vanessa Calloway thought she’d seen it all. But when an old acquaintance, Ray Landry, reaches out in desperation, claiming his remote fishing camp is plagued by something sinister, Vanessa finds herself drawn back into the mysterious bayou of Lake Pontchartrain. Campers have vanished, strange whispers echo through the night, and dark figures lurk in the swamp. Vanessa’s instincts tell her there’s more to the haunting than meets the eye, but she knows she can’t solve this one alone. She enlists the ...

E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Here now are his rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms, from the literary to the comic to the cosmic. As...

Vampire Christian Moore has spent his entire life, both human and immortal, fighting for the respect of his peers. He has codes he lives by. Strict moral codes, both in his personal life and his work. And he doesn't break them. Ever. Until he finds himself at the carnal mercy of a woman with eyes like the midday sky and hair the colors of a summer sunset. His craving for her is unnatural, and watching her dance makes his blood burn like acid in his veins. But he can't not watch her.

Some lives are valuable. But none are sacred. The nation once known as the United States of America has fallen. On the West Coast, five cities collectively known as Cinq battle rampant poverty and disease. On the East Coast, the wealthy, technologically-advanced Federation’s human population is nearly extinct. A treaty between the two nations guarantees Western brides in exchange for Eastern technology. When Andromache Kanoska is chosen to go East to wed a nobleman and bear his children, her greatest fear is that her infertility will be discovered.