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American Sniper meets Make Your Bed in these life lessons from decorated United States service members and New York Times bestselling authors Robert O’Neill and Dakota Meyer—an in-depth, fearless, and ultimately redemptive account of what it takes to survive and thrive on battlefields from Afghanistan and Iraq to our daily lives, and how the perils of war help us hold onto our humanity.

The New York Times best-selling author of Darwin’s Doubt presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology.

Six rookie army officers lose their way during a training exercise inside Iraq and cross the border into Iran. They are pursued by a fanatic and vengeful squad of Iran’s notorious paramilitaries – Hezbollah. Rod Cooper’s small fireteam, returning from a successful mission to cripple Iran’s nuclear capacity, get the mission to locate them and get them home.

Eddie Hawkins is part of a four-man crew, the cupola gunner on a Humvee in Afghanistan. His job, firing the .50 caliber Browning. His mission, to protect his buddies and kill the enemy. He’s also the newest and youngest member of the team. The guy they won’t listen to, even when he’s saying something important. Why listen to the kid who can’t shoot straight? At least that’s what they keep telling him. Until the day he sees something so vital he forces them to listen and they have to take notice. Eddie saves countless Coalition lives, and nothing will ever be the same again.

Rookie Joe Walker, 3rd Brigade, 7th Air Cavalry, was finding life in Vietnam tough. The war is building into a major conflict, yet despite his efforts, he feels like a square peg in a round hole. He can’t shoot straight, missed the bayonet course, and nothing ever goes right. He can throw a mean grenade, but the army made him a rifleman, and they’re determined to make sure he can shoot straight. Or else.

It is 1965, and America is putting more boots on the ground to fight the communists who have sent their powerful People’s Army of Vietnam, the PAVN, south. Their aim is to defeat the South Vietnamese Army, the ARVN, and impose the iron fist of communist rule on the democratic South. Walker knows nothing of politics or military strategy and tactics. A single obsession rules his life: to become a major league baseball pitcher.

SEAL Petty Officer Rod Cooper is the youngest son of a retired Navy hero, Master Chief Larry Cooper. His brother Daniel is a scholar and an academic, and to the horror and dismay of his family, he converts to Islam. To make things worse, he travels to Afghanistan to teach in a madrassah, the religious schools that are a production line for Taliban terrorists. The new mission handed to Rod Cooper’s Team is tough. A better word to describe it would be "suicide". Their brief, to go behind enemy lines and locate and pinpoint a new and powerful Taliban combined arms warband.

During World War II, the Waffen-SS officer who set Vietnam on fire in Devil's Guard - The Real Story began his startling military career in the Russian slaughterhouse of the Eastern Front. It is February 1943 in the snowy wastes around Kharkov. Stalingrad has fallen and a resurgent Soviet army is pushing the German forces back. The newly commissioned officer takes up his posting with Deutschland Regiment, SS Division Das Reich, part of von Manstein's Army Group South.

It happened suddenly. Overnight. Inside Spring Lakes Assisted Living, seven residents - 69 years of age - died mysterious deaths. Only, they aren’t really dead. Their bodies remain still, their staring eyes void of life. Yet, their hearts continue to beat, their lungs fight for oxygen, and somewhere within their petrified bodies, their souls cling to life.

Grace Williams isn’t looking for complications because, really, isn’t life complicated enough? She’s a single mom with four children. She has unresolved issues with her ex-husband. Her sister nags at her about going to church. Her kids are not perfect. And neither is Grace. She has hang-ups about organized religion, she is overwhelmed by suppressed guilt and grief, she is judgmental, and she can’t control her hair.

The Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s army of powerful and vengeful fanatics, have bought a large consignment of uranium ore. The man behind the project, Colonel Ali Hatami, harbors an ambition to restart the country’s stalled nuclear program. His avowed intent, to turn the soil of his country’s enemies into flaming, smoking pyres. SEAL Petty Officer Rod Cooper’s fire team is handed a tough assignment, to assault the vessel carrying the uranium and destroy the shipment. Yet nothing goes to plan.

Drew Lowery is living the American Dream. He has the perfect family, a stable job, and a beautiful home in the suburbs of central New Jersey. Things can’t get much better. But what seems like the ideal life is suddenly upended when he receives a blank envelope in the mail. Inside lies a picture of his daughter, a photograph of her violent murder. Only it can’t be her. He just tucked her in and kissed her goodnight ten minutes ago. But the mysterious Polaroid is only the beginning.

Maggie is 36, recently divorced and embarrassingly unemployed. With a bank account nearing zero, she does the only thing she can think of: make a business proposition to her gorgeous and successful estranged mother. To Maggie’s utter surprise, her mother agrees. Any funds she can create off the sale of the dilapidated family inn on the island of Magnolia would be hers to invest.

This sixth Spookie Town Murder Mystery belongs primarily to Abigail and Frank Lester, my two main characters in the six book series. It’s their turn. First off, it at long last solves the enigma of Abigail’s first husband Joel Sutton’s disappearance, and death, a decade before…the tragic event that sent Abigail to Spookie in the first place to begin a new life. The new life that would grow so big as to include a new love, a new family, quirky, but well-meaning friends, and the strange murder mysteries her new friends would drag her into over the years.

Are you continuously losing money by playing poker? Have you ever wondered how famous poker players manage to win all the time? Do you want to learn how to play poker and earn a crazy amount of money, but don’t know where to start? This ultimate bundle on poker-winning strategies will change the way you approach the game forever! Poker has been a favorite gambling game for centuries. Many get hooked on the rush you feel when you get a great hand or bluff your way to victory.

Poker is one of the oldest and most enduring games on the face of the earth, and Texas Hold'em has been the most common form of gambling for almost three decades. Millions of dollars change hands each year, thanks to the game, and if you want to earn your share, you'll need to understand the math that goes into the game to ensure that you can formulate a solid action plan that moves forward.

A short, highly engaging panoramic view of three major events in the shared history of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples of Canada: the residential school era, the '60s scoop, and the present. Written in a fictional format from one woman’s point of view, Bannock and Sweet Tea personalizes these major events, and creates a bridge of understanding for those to whom these events are unfamiliar.

If you're wondering how to stop the desire to constantly eat junk food. If you want to know if Intuitive eating will help you eat better, and recover your target weight, and physical energy, keep reading. Intuitive eating is also known as “mindful eating”, which incorporates mindful meditation and the act of “being” instead of “doing”. Intuitive eating is a powerful antidote to the nonstop diet messages out there, and this complete guide is everything you need to heal your relationship with food and yourself.

I’d kill to be the kind of dancer my mom wants me to be, but it’s just not in the cards. I’m sick of dieting. I'll never fit into the perfect ballerina mold, and I’m tired of wishing that I could. I’m over it. I’m done trying. I’m perfectly content to dance alone in the dark while the rest of the school is sleeping.

Bennie Griessel plant zu heiraten – und muss sich dann um einen Fall kümmern, der eigentlich zu den Akten gelegt werden soll. Ein ehemaliger Polizist wurde in einem Luxuszug ermordet, und die geheimen Sicherheitsbehörden Südafrikas tun alles, um es nach einem Selbstmord aussehen zu lassen. Als ein zweiter Todesfall ebenfalls vertuscht werden soll, bekommt Griessel eine Ahnung davon, dass es um viel mehr geht als um Mord. Gewisse Kreise wollen den Präsidenten aus dem Weg räumen. Sie haben dazu jemanden aktiviert, der sich in Bordeaux in Frankreich zur Ruhe gesetzt hat: einen Kämpfer namens Tobela.