American Marines

Criminal Investigator Braylon Wexler has arrived in Hilton Head Island to dutifully serve his country on Paris Island Military base. As soon as he arrives the calm he's been longing for is pleasantly shattered by the tantalizing stormy presence of Sandella Summers. She is an unexpected surprise that stirs a hot longing in him, like a hot poker through blazing coals.

There’s no denying that women of color are portrayed as exceptional gems with oceanic depths in Reneé Drummond-Brown’s Black Exotic Pearls: Poetry Book. The ebony beauties are very aware of what to hold inside and what can be shared openly. She knows that she’s the original Mother of all living Pearls. She’s real. She’s authentic. She’s sincere. Her culture is from the west-south side of the northeast sea. Where foreign seas meet and mingle it’s indisputable that black pearls are always a good choice (catch if you will). But those that channel-surf that colorful ocean and ...

The AOC Generation examines the resurgent young left - including groups like Justice Democrats, the Democratic Socialists of America and Brand New Congress - and documents how and why they got active and energized in political organizing, the success and limitations of their approaches - and through their stories, it tells the history and the future of a generation.

China is growing in power and in need of raw materials. When an aggressive general, with encouragement from an unnamed puppet master in the Politburo, moves to seize the Spratly Islands from the Philippines and Taiwan, the Marines of the 15th MEU are the only unit in position to do anything about it. What makes things more difficult is that the Chinese have made great strides in cyber warfare that have negated America's technological superiority.

As a young man, Arthur left school to enlist into the Marine Corp. During his tour of duty, he was stationed in the villages near Mt. Fuji. It was there that Arthur realized just how lucky he was to live in a country where he had freedoms and privileges that those villagers would never possess. He decided right then and there, that he wouldn’t waste those opportunities. He took inventory of what he wanted out of life and set out to achieve his great American dream.

Amy McGrath grew up in Edgewood, Kentucky, a childhood shaped by love of country, baseball (the Cincinnati Reds), and, from the age of 12, a fascination with fighter jets. Her devastation at learning that a federal law prohibited women from flying in combat fueled her determination to do just that - and then, to help change the laws to improve the lives of all Americans.

This is the exciting story about how the young American Republic established the United States Navy, Marine Corps and Revenue Cutter Service (the predecessor to the Coast Guard), designed and built the most powerful class of frigate in the world, trained its seamen in gunnery and naval warfare and gained battle experience in the Quasi-War with France in 1798-1800 and the Barbary War ("Shores of Tripoli") in 1801-1805.

In this extraordinary audiobook, Robert D. Kaplan lets listeners experience up close the American military worldwide in the air, at sea, and on the ground. Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts provides a riveting ground-level portrait of the Global War on Terrorism on several continents.

Tyler Chambers no tiene que buscarse problemas, ellos le encuentran a él. No le hace ninguna gracia que le cambien la misión de llevar una vida despreocupada navegando por el Pacífico Sur a trabajar en un entorno estresante en el clima frío y húmedo de Escocia. Darcy Novak es una mujer ambiciosa y culta que intenta triunfar en un mundo de hombres. Está decidida a demostrar que puede triunfar como oficial encargada de reparar submarinos nucleares, a pesar de la actitud negativa de algunos colegas, que desean que fracase. Lo que necesita es un aliado. Los esfuerzos de Tyler por pasar ...

Veintisiete años después de que Tyler dejara atrás sus problemas en su trilogía, tiene un hijo, Oscar, que está demostrando ser una astilla de la vieja escuela. El soltero más codiciado de Kentucky lo tiene todo, incluido un problema con el juego. Después de meterse en el lado equivocado de un notorio usurero, Louie Gómez, Oscar Novak-Chambers debe utilizar la buena posición de su familia con la oficina del gobernador para obtener un favor monumental para saldar su deuda. Su objetivo es la hija del gobernador, Stacey Davenport. No es dulce. Es despiadada y quiere acabar con la ...

Jake Scarne has retired. But he has mixed feelings about it. He suspects that there is more to life than golf outings and sojourns down the Jersey Shore. Little does he know that some of his old skills will come in handy when the Staten Island Ferry he is on is hijacked! The hijackers claim they are terrorists. But their real motives are more venal. Scarne avails himself of possibly the most unusual ally he's ever had. But there is death and tragedy in this twisty tale that reminds some critics of two classic movies: DIE HARD and THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE-TWO-THREE. “IF YOU LIKE HARD-...

This dynamic collection of Black voices, performed by Tony and Grammy Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Daveed Diggs and Emmy Award-winning writer, creator, producer, and actor Lena Waithe, works like an incantation of origin, healing, and imagination. Born from a series of conceptual art exhibitions, the perspectives gathered here are nowhere near monochromatic.

En Las Guerras Indias Americanas: Una guía fascinante de los conflictos que ocurrieron en América del Norte y su impacto en las tribus nativas americanas, incluyendo eventos como la masacre de Sand Creek.

A partir de una experiencia personal con la taxidermia, y rodeado de anécdotas sobre el traslado de huesos, Cristóbal Marín narra en esta crónica las peripecias de su viaje en búsqueda de información sobre el paradero y destino de los fueguinos que murieron tanto en Londres como Europa durante el siglo XIX luego de ser expuestos en zoológicos humanos y ferias o llevados, siempre contra su voluntad, para ser analizados por científicos y anatomistas y, en algunos casos, educados en los valores occidentales con el propósito de que regresara "civilizados" a sus tierras.

La masacre de Wounded Knee generalmente se pasa por alto en los libros de texto, hablando del evento de manera generalizada. Pero una representación tan generalizada socava el impacto real y la importancia de los eventos que sucedieron en ese fatídico día, convirtiéndolo en uno de los eventos más trágicos en la historia de los nativos americanos.

Simon Pack's life has been a series of whipsaw S-turns: Marine General; West Point Superintendent; hobo; Governor of Montana; writer. Now restless, he leaves Montana with his new K-9, Keto, not knowing what's ahead. This is Pack's most acute turn yet. The former Governor and General finds the perfect opportunity to dig into a question that's bothered him for years: should we question a single individual's acquisition of a vast expanse of land in a short period? Pack thinks so, and meets people forced off land their families have lived on for ages. On behalf of the displaced, Pack clashes ...

John Hoon-nah Hetaw Becker was born to the son of a Red Lodge Montana rancher and an unwed Shoshone-Arapaho mother on Wyoming's Wind River reservation. From age four to eight raised by his stepmother in Iwakuni Japan. Caught between three very different worlds he never fit in. A one-time active-duty Marine and former soldier of fortune. Now self-exiled in Saipan making a precarious living spearfishing the western Pacific's deep waters. When his best friend's widow disappears in Mexico. He learns she had made the perilous journey to rescue her late husband's nineteen-year-old niece, held by ...

Sabrina Anne runs a multi-billion dollar dating app. As the founder and CEO, she is used to death threats from angry customers, but never before did she think her life would actually be in danger. Deshaun Newton is an ex-Marine, harden security guard that has seen his fair share of battle. He’s not afraid of anything except telling his boss his true feelings. When ambushed by an unknown force, Deshaun’s feelings emerge for Sabrina. Protected by a man who loves her, Sabrina not only needs to survive but will discover if her feelings for Deshaun are real. Saved by Him is a quick 5k action...

A sequel to The Indian and Me, this book has the same characters and introduces two new ones. They are, Jenny and Jake, who on their way to America for very different reasons, find themselves on a raft after their ship goes down. That is when the adventure starts, and these two unlikely people find themselves in a fake marriage to stay alive and survive in the New World.

Christmas is almost here, and guys are the last thing on personal shopper Ainsley Garrett's list. But her icy resolution melts when she sees an incredibly hot marine shopping for toys. A man in uniform with a hot bod and a heart of gold? Maybe a gal can believe in Santa after all.