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In this revelatory, dynamic biography, Benson Bobrick, profiles George H. Thomas, arguing that he was the greatest and most successful general of the Civil War. Because Thomas didn't live to write his memoirs, his reputation has been largely shaped by others, most notably Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, two generals with whom Thomas served and who diminished his successes in their favor in their own memoirs.

Meet Atlas Warner, Mischa Jennings, Sam Kavan, Zeke Miller, and Nico Mitchell. They're the employees of Eye Candy Ink. Come along as they find and fall in love with their soulmates and grow as a family, as artists, and as people.

How did Iran get to where it is today, at the forefront of global affairs? The history of Iran and the theme of Persian conflict with the West stretches back thousands of years, and it is a unique history of empire, culture, art, pride, and religious nationalism. The History of Iran from Ancient Persia to the Ayatollahs comprehensively and descriptively covers this history, progressing through a timeline dating back to antiquity and examining all of the different religious, political, foreign, and military issues that affect Iran and are affected by Iran today.

Eva and Rafe's story continues in this emotional, angsty, rockstar romance from the best-selling author of The Rixon Raiders series. Eighteen-year-old Eva Walker knew going on tour with Black Hearts Still Beat would be complicated. She didn’t expect to find herself torn between two brothers. One wants her but he walked away before. The other needs her but she doesn’t understand why. It’s only time before the truth comes out, and when it does, nothing will be the same for Country’s newest sweetheart and the black-hearted boys of Rock.

In 1989, a school bus filled with young children disappears. It drove into a tunnel, a tunnel with no exits, and did not drive out. Witnesses saw the bus go in. No one saw it come out. It vanished into thin air as a community panics. Everyone panics. Everyone except for a 24-year-old college dropout named Jacob Thorne. In 2004, three people are brutally murdered, two of them in a sealed panic room, a room locked from the inside. A young DC homicide detective suffering from PTSD named Emma Kane.

Young beautiful women are disappearing. Different types, with different backgrounds, most with a lot of debt, few friends, and no close family to speak of. Gone. Someone is collecting trophies. Only one person can see it. Special Agent Emma Kane. Kane knows she'll need help on this ordeal. But the only man who can help her, famed profiler Jacob Thorne, is no longer speaking to her. The clock is ticking and Kane herself is now a target of whoever is doing this.

Nick Anthony has retreated to the North Carolina mountains to mourn the untimely death of his wife. Once a popular professor, Nick just wants to be left alone with his grief. But when his estranged brother and sister-in-law die in a house fire, a stunned Nick learns he has a niece, Annalise, who is missing. At the scene of the crime, the men who set the fire have realized Annalise, and the information they are looking for, got away. Feverish and exhausted, she stumbles onto her uncle's porch.

Mankind hangs on by a thread in the wake of the apocalypse. Other races are soon to join the struggle for power on Earth. The Culling of Man was only the beginning.... Scattered across the globe, ten Dungeons may provide humanity with the protection and power they'll need to remain relevant through the perils to come. Before a Dungeon can be claimed, it must be conquered.

Rafe Hunter thought he was destined for two things in life: playing guitar, and keeping his brother on the straight and narrow. Until Eva. She makes him want to be better. Makes him dream of life after the band. But Black Hearts Still Beat is all he’s ever known. Rafe wants a future with Eva, but when you’re choosing between your heart and head, fame or the future, nothing is ever simple.

When you’ve maxed out your level, done every quest, and defeated every enemy, there’s not much left. So after seven centuries of immortality, Sean wants nothing more than to die. But when a woman from a past life informs him of a real, flesh-and-blood descendant that has hacked his way in, Sean finds a new purpose. The AI doesn’t take kindly to interlopers, and parks the intruder in the one realm so buggy that even the oldest, most powerful denizens of Afterall steer clear of it - the Bitrealm.

At the height of the Vietnam war, the U.S. Army drafted Norman Hile out of law school, trained him to be an artillery officer, and in August 1970 sent him to serve a one year combat tour in South Vietnam’s I Corps, where the war was hottest. “Keeping Each Other Alive” is Hile’s memoir of that combat tour.

After her sister’s sudden disappearance, PI Bridget "Birdie" Hartley found herself in the most dangerous storm of her life. To get away from the darkness, Birdie checks into the Happy Camper Cabin. A place full of happy childhood memories, here she hopes to find answers and healing. Unfortunately, the peace she had hoped for was all but fleeting. With the cabin next door causing a ruckus and disturbance. Birdie heads there to put an end to the madness. But, it seems the cabin's occupants have mysteriously disappeared.

An American Girl Anthology: Finding Ourselves in the Pleasant Company Universe turns American Girl dolls―and the ever-growing ecosystem surrounding them―inside out. Editors Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler and KC Hysmith, along with an expansive list of contributors, explore Pleasant Company (American Girl's parent corporation) and the social and cultural impact the dolls and broader American Girl universe continue to have for generations of American consumers through thoughtful and fun essays.

For over a year, FBI agent Coraline Pratt had been tracking the sadistic Postcard Killer. Forced to play his game, she followed the trail of breadcrumbs that stretched across the entire country to Storyville. A town with many mysteries and possibly even answers to Cora’s hidden past. From the moment she arrived in town, Cora felt something was different. But while Cora hunts for the elusive killer, a young girl from town is abducted. As she pivots to assist the local sheriff with finding her, Cora finds herself enveloped by a series of events that deepen the unknown.

My pack thinks I'm stoic. In truth, I'm a murderer who has never shaken off the scars of my first kill when I was a child. Once my life was forfeit, now it belongs to my King. And when the Panther King orders me to retrieve his mate from the chaos happening on Earth, I do it without asking questions. That is until my first whiff of the woman who my panther believes is his fated mate. She will undoubtedly be my queen. But does my loyalty rest with the crown the king, my best friend, wears?

Zurück in New York. Der dänischen Journalistin Mette werden erschreckende Tatsachen offenbart: Mit dem 22.2.2022 ist eine unbekannte tödliche Gefahr endgültig ins Rollen geraten und Jakob braucht nicht nur seine Tochter Mette, um die drohende Apokalypse aufzuhalten. Für ihn, seine Bruderschaft, sowie für seine geliebte Fulvia mit dem gemeinsamen Sohn Giuseppe beginnt ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit – quer über den Erdball.

Rufus T. Feuerflieg muss einer Gruppe von Pen & Paper Rollenspielern zu Hilfe eilen. Die hocken nämlich im Keller des örtlichen Comicladens fest und haben es mit einem ganz besonders lebendigen Endgegner zu tun! Der Anwalt muss ein weiteres Mal seine Schlagfertigkeit unter Beweis stellen und dazu noch eine Lösung dafür finden, wie man würfelt, wenn man den Würfel gerade selbst verschluckt hat.

Luna Girl schickt ihre Motten weg und stiehlt die Schmetterlinge, damit diese ihre neuen Freunde und Handlanger werden. Mit ihnen zusammen sorgt sie für Trubel und ärgert die PJ Masks. Catboy versucht sich mit den Schmetterlingen anzufreunden. Wird er es schaffen die Schmetterlinge auf seine Seite zu bringen und Luna Girl zu überwältigen? Eulette dagegen hat ein anderes Problem. Sie ist sehr fasziniert von Nacht-Ninjas neuer Schulbusburg. Denn diese scheint unbesiegbar zu sein.

Music was his first love. Hers was the lanky boy from summer camp with a beautiful voice and starlit green eyes. Isabelle and Roman thought they’d be together until the end of time. Then fate proved an orphan from the West Coast couldn’t have a future with a wealthy New Yorker hiding the scars of an abusive home. Five years after their hearts are broken, fate strikes again when they’re reunited as a waitress headlining a bar-band, and a successful rockstar kicking off his first tour.

Romeo baut einen Weltraumlaser mit dessen Hilfe er ein Abbild seines Gesichts auf die der Erde zugewandten Seite des Mondes gravieren möchte. Jedoch die PJ Masks und Luna Girl versuchen ihn daran zu hindern. Es sind einfach zuviele Probleme und Gecko fühlt sich überfordert. Wird er ein Problem nach dem Anderen lösen können? Luna Girl kreiert einen gigantischen Mondball und versteckt alle gestohlenen Spielsachen darin. Um die Spielsachen zurückzubekommen, muss Eulette ein Teamspieler sein, denn im Alleingang hat sie keine Chance. Wird es ihr gelingen.