Combat Fiction

Avec l'aide d'une IA de commandement, Hazel et ses amis ont réparé la brèche dans le Daedalus. Mais ce faisant, ils ont éveillé l'hostilité des « yis », les extraterrestres qui maîtrisent en réalité l'arche spatiale. Après avoir échappé de justesse au piège tendu par ces créatures, la petite bande de Hazel doit à présent convaincre les habitants du Daedalus de l'existence des yis et de la nécessité de les combattre pour survivre. Cependant, les dirigeants humains y voient un défi à leur autorité traditionnelle.

This year's favored team to win is Annuna, with their S-ranked captain and star player Giant Slayer. Disaster strikes when Giant Slayer is injured and put out for the rest of the season. Leadership of the team falls to the militaristic and cruel vice-captain, Harpy. To complicate matters, the team has to deal with an arrogant new player, dark secrets, and their greatest rival team, Thunder. Can Harpy lead Annuna to the A-rank championship and victory, or will they tear each other apart before the games get the chance? Find out in the first installment of Battle Games!

What happens when you're worth more dead than alive? A decorated fighter pilot is lost in combat, and his death is used to inspire waves of fresh recruits. Recruits desperately needed to fight in the long-running war. Sam Willet is one such recruit, but she's different. Different because the missing hero is her brother, and Sam has questions. Questions nobody wants asked. Questions that will probably get her killed. Raiders is a complete, standalone novel in the Secret War series. Simon Haynes has been writing fiction for over twenty years. Raiders is his twenty-third novel.

Tutoyant avec aisance, à rebours des modes, une forme classique très maîtrisée, Michel Houellebecq met en scène dans ses poèmes un quotidien contemporain et urbain. Ses vers nous parlent de lui, nous parlent de nous et accèdent à l'universel, installant ainsi leur auteur, comme un Villon de la modernité, au rang des grands poètes populaires.

Among them was green young Lieutenant Pat Caruso who became de facto company commander when the five officers ranking him were killed or wounded. He led his rapidly diminishing force steadily forward for the next few days, when a day's gains were measured in yards. Caruso was eventually wounded himself and was evacuated. Realizing that the heroism of his comrades would be lost by the decimation of his unit, Caruso latched onto any paper he could find and filled every blank space with his memory of the fighting.

An experimental training program produces a psychokinetic, a man who can move objects by mental power alone. He has other abilities as well. But is he too powerful? What if the Special Talents decide to go their own way?

Watson is finally learning to work with Steampunk Holmes, but his heartbreak over the loss of the real Sherlock Holmes remains. But for Sherlock Holmes, the game is on, as he and his new friends on a parallel world face the fact that they will have to fight against the dreaded overlord of the empire attacking London. The action, mystery, and suspense deepen as the Gear Wars continue.

For three years Andrew Carroll traveled throughout the United States and around the world to seek out the most powerful and unforgettable letters ever written during US wars.

HOLMES IS STILL MISSING BUT NOW HIS GOOD FRIENDS HAVE AN IDEA OF WHERE HE MIGHT BE. A DUPLICATE HOLMES APPEARED WHEN SHERLOCK VANISHED. HIS NAME IS STEAMPUNK HOLMES. WHILE STEAMPUNK HOLMES, A LONG GUN TOTING STEAMPUNK COWBOY DETECTIVE, MESSES WITH WATSON’S MIND IN A FORCED PARTNERSHIP, THE REAL HOLMES IS WAKING UP TO AN EMPIRE DRIVEN BY BRUTAL FORCES AND VIOLENCE.

Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de tout, écrasée et parfois même humiliée par la violence masculine. Son existence semblait délimitée pour toujours par cette double domination, la domination de classe et celle liée à sa condition de femme. Pourtant, un jour, à quarante-cinq ans, elle s'est révoltée contre cette vie, elle a fui et petit à petit elle a constitué sa liberté. Ce livre audio est l'histoire de cette métamorphose.

Echoes of Valor A gripping historical military thriller inspired by true events. In the final months of World War II, the fate of the Italian campaign rests on an impossible mission: the daring assault on Riva Ridge. Captain James Tanner and the elite soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division face an unforgiving climb through icy terrain, brutal German defenses, and their own inner demons. Every decision Tanner makes carries the weight of his men’s lives—and the future of the war effort. With courage forged in the crucible of battle, Tanner’s team must overcome overwhelming odds to seize...

Ramon was a young man with secrets, and a talent for violence. Born into Spanish nobility, his full given name was Ramon Banu Lasso de la Vega, and as a boy, he dreamed of a life of purpose and acceptance. He dreamed of a peaceful life of family and belonging. It was a dream that would never be fulfilled. The Edge of Nobility is a gritty historical novel that will carry you away to the landscapes of France and Spain in the early 1900s, as Europe became embroiled in World War 1. It was a time when two breeds of men emerged. One that came forward to serve their fellow countrymen as a patriot ...

1989. Pro wrestling reaches the summit of its golden era. Kids of all ages watch, bowls of sugar cereal in hand, as psychedelic heroes battle big bad villains on Saturday morning television. But the true soap operas begin after the cameras stop rolling.

La fin est proche. La guerre ravage le Nord et Logen Neuf-Doigts n'a plus qu'une seule bataille à livrer, sans doute la plus dure. Il est temps pour le Neuf-Sanglant de rentrer chez lui affronter son plus vieil ami, devenu son pire ennemi. Au sud, le Supérieur Glokta mène un autre type de guerre, plus meurtrière encore. Et si ses anciens talents de guerrier lui font défaut, il lui reste ses armes de prédilection : le chantage, la menace et la torture. Quant à Jezal, il a choisi d'abandonner la vie militaire pour l'amour, mais la gloire n'en a pas tout à fait fini avec lui...

After spending some time in the realm of Oracle, Lance has started to grow accustomed to his life as a combat mage. Arcwind village has fallen under his protection, his dragonblood abilities continue to evolve, and his budding relationships with the three beautiful arcanists at his side continue to blossom. He has become a living weapon, and even the threat of the mighty Kel’sar clan aren’t enough to shake his draconic confidence. But Lance has a problem.

Esclave des Smaughs, Cellendhyll devra puiser en lui-même des ressources insoupçonnées afin de libérer Priam et se tirer d'affaire. Il devra se démener plus encore sur le Plan du Destin pour dénouer les fils du mystère entourant la mort de ses parents. Son deuil sera de courte durée. La reine des Smaughs a lancé son offensive et son armée d'hommes et de bêtes déferle sur les Territoires-Francs, massacrant quiconque se trouve sur son passage. Qui pourra résister à une telle puissance ? Pour le Hors-Destin et ses camarades, le temps de la bataille a sonné !

Through his experience of boxing - learning to get hit and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body - McBee examines the weight of male violence, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope, as McBee traces a way forward: a new masculinity, inside the ring and out of it.

The aliens have arrived, and they’re not friendly.A series of events begins a shocking revelation that will change everything. Strange lights in the night sky, the disappearance of scientists on the verge of a breakthrough -a growing threat emerges from an unknown enemy- and the chosen few who will decide the fate of humanity... Piper never wanted this, but now she's hearing voices- the pleas of her dead brother, telling her to run. Elsner, already down and out, risks destruction investigating a UFO cult. Perry once envisioned a doomsday emergency no one expected, but actually comes true....

Brant's always had trouble with the ladies... ...becoming the Wizard's Apprentice is helping...a bit! Working at Burke and Dunne to pay for college, Brant had always considered the curiosity shop a fun place, where he could unwind. Following the death of one of it's owners, though, things get somewhat more complicated. Dutch Dunne, the surviving owner, seems to want Brant to be his apprentice...The Wizard's Apprentice. Is the old codger full of it? Brant thinks the downhill slide to dementia is accelerating for his beloved boss, but that was before weird things started to happen to him. Is ...

Combat Poetry was inspired by the experiences of a combat medic who experienced war both as a teenager and again as a seasoned combat veteran. Why would a combat medic want to write poetry? The poetry was in me and it had to come out. These thoughts were always in my head and on the tip of my tongue. I had to write this poetry for the sake of my own sanity.