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Horses Don't Fly
The Memoir of the Cowboy Who Became a World War I Ace
2012
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From breaking wild horses in Colorado to fighting the Red Baron's squadrons in the skies over France, here in his own words is the true story of a forgotten American hero: the cowboy who became our first ace and the first pilot to fly the American colors over enemy lines.Growing up on a ranch in Sterling, Colorado, Frederick Libby mastered the cowboy arts of roping, punching cattle, and taming horses. As a young man he exercised his skills in the mountains and on the ranges of Ariz...
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The Winged Horse
A Western Story
2017
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He was still a young man, but he’d used that handful of years effectively, building a bad reputation that spanned the West, his villainy taking different forms everywhere it took roost. Denver knew him as the Doctor; Texans called him Montana; and folks in Idaho called him Texas. On account of his youth, most everywhere else called him the Lonesome Kid.But when he finally gets arrested for vagrancy, he tells the sheriff his name is Alfred Lamb. Will that identity stick when he trie...
Night Fighter
An Insider's Story of Special Ops from Korea to SEAL Team 6
2016
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For readers of American Sniper, the stirring account of a life of service by the father of the US Navy SEALs”One month after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, when President John F. Kennedy pressed Congress about America’s urgent national needs,” he named expanding US special operations forces along with putting a man on the moon. Captain William Hamilton was the officer tasked with creating the finest unconventional warriors ever seen. Merging his own experience ...
Go and Bury Your Dead
A John Henry Cole Story
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- The John Henry Cole Series
2017
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John Henry Cole’s life has quieted down from what it had always been, and he can now settle down and make improvements on his small ranch. But everything changes when an old rancher named Wilson rides in with his two sons.Wilson is willing to pay Cole $5,000 to help get back his wife, Lenora, who has been taken hostage by Lucky Jack Dancer, an outlaw who had robbed the train on which she was a passenger. She is being held prisoner in Gun Town, a safe haven for outlaws.Cole ...
2017
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In False Flag, Israeli-born Dalia Artzi, a tactical genius and specialist at Princeton in the study of maneuver warfare, uncovers a fiendish plot by a small group of Israeli fanatics to commit a horrific crime against the United States government and pin the blame on Iran. At first, Dalia, a pacifist, is hesitant to get involved. But, strong in her Jewish faith, she believes that the goal of her religion is not to crush one’s enemies but to practice tikkun olam, to repair...
2016
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A sweeping adventure set in the Arabian Desert, where the shadow of British colonialism threatens to destroy a father and son.Three years ago, nineteen-year-old David Thomas beat his father to death. Actually, David only punched the old man, but it was hard enough to cause him to have a fatal stroke. And the man wasn't really David's father at all: The fight started because David learned that his true father was Col. Charles Stanley Whitaker, a legendary figure who ...
And There I’ll Be a Soldier
A Western Story
2017
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Tormented by Southern partisans, Missouri farm boy Caleb Cole joins the Union’s Eighteenth Missouri. About the same time, down on the Texas coast, violin-playing Ryan McCalla, from a well-to-do family, enlists in the Confederacy’s Second Texas—mainly in the spirit of adventure—with some friends.The two teenagers are about to grow up quickly.Fate will bring the two together—along with a teenage girl from Corinth, Mississippi, when the Confederate and Union armies clash at Sh...
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- A Red Ops Thriller
2017
EN
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A special ops veteran is pulled into a dangerous North Korean mission to protect his family in this military thriller by the author of Recall.To save his family—and the free world—Red Harmon is back in the line of fire . . .A sinister enemy is stalking elite military operator Red Harmon and his loved ones. Turning the hunter into his prey, Red uncovers a plot that spans nations and draws him into the remote snow-covered ravines of North Ko...
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- Spoils of War
2016
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'Historical fiction of a high order' The TimesGermany, October 1944: Dozens of cities lie in ruins. Enemy armies are at the gates. For the Thousand Year Reich, time is running out.Desperate to avoid the humiliation of unconditional surrender, German intelligence launch Operation Finisterre – a last-ditch plan to enable Hitler to deny the savage logic of a war on two fronts and bluff his way to the negotiating table....
2017
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If Max slows down, he dies. If he runs out of gas, he dies. If a tire goes flat, he dies.The only chance Max has of seeing tomorrow is riding like hell today.Maxwell Craig hopes a ride on a new motorcycle over La Route de la Trace—a serpentine highway that cuts through the lush rainforest gardens of Martinique—will ease his grief after harrowing recent events, so he can finally find some peace. But when a bright red SUV charges up ...
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- The Jack Reacher Cases
2017
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Book One in THE JACK REACHER Cases.Former FBI agent Lauren Pauling met Jack Reacher in THE HARD WAY, the 10th Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child.Now, in A HARD MAN TO FORGET, Pauling is a private investigator in New York and receives a mysterious letter with Jack Reacher’s name, along with a phone number. Pauling calls the number and reaches a woman whose husband has gone missing.Even stranger, the woman claims she didn’t contact Pauling, and has no id...
Summit
A Novel
2016
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A summit is a summit, and the truth is the truth. But the view from 8,848 meters isn’t always so clear. Two men, seventy years apart, push for the top of Mount Everest, driven by forces beyond their control and something inside that says climb.After eight successful summits, Mount Everest guide Neil Quinn is confident he can handle anything the mountain throws his way. But then disaster strikes steps from the top, leaving him with a lot of questions and a very old swastika...











