"An expeditionary force will discover unfamiliar lands, fight deadly foes, and reveal secrets as they explore the mysterious new earth they now call home in this gripping alternate history adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series.
Ever since the World War II-era destroyer USS Walker was marooned on a strange alternate earth, naturalist Courtney Bradford has been eager to fully explore the planet. Now that the war with the Grand Alliance's enemies has settled into an uneasy peace, he is given leave to organize the Corps of Discovery, a motley company formed of veterans of the Great War from all over the Alliance.
On board the rebuilt Walker, now a school ship, they set out to investigate reports of a region in the Pacific where ships have gone missing and a terrible bright flash of light on the horizon was witnessed. But what they find there is beyond anyone's imagination: a great battered fleet made up of strange ships. Courtney suspects the rusty armada may have been transported to this world from another, the same way the Walker was almost five years ago.
But the Alliance's enemies are already aware of these lost ships-and the deadly technology they can harvest from them-and are willing to go to any lengths to steal them. Courtney, a crew of inexperienced cadets, and a handful of lethal commandos are all that stand in the way of another global war-one that the exhausted Alliance simply can't win."
"Dostoevsky’s most personal and autobiographical novel, The Idiot tests the author’s views on goodness against the flaws of a power-hungry society.
Prince Myshkin, the novel’s central character, is good-hearted and pure. When he returns to St. Petersburg to collect a large inheritance after spending years in a Swiss sanatorium in treatment for epilepsy, it’s clear the intellectuals around him view him as simple and daft. On the way home, Myshkin meets the wealthy Rogozhin, whose obsession with the beauty Nastasya Filippovna draws Myshkin into a terribly tangled web of romance that anchors for the rest of the book. The many courtships and manipulations unfold against the backdrop of a society marked by the consequences of power-seeking and money, which press up against Myshkin: the Christ-like pinnacle of innocence.
In his powerful and tragic conclusion, Dostoevsky takes readers to the brink of his most pressing and evergreen question: Can goodness persist under these conditions?"
"Lost in a mysterious world, far from all they knew in 1847 America, Colonel Lewis Cayce and his soldiers must face the unimaginable might of the Dominion once and for all in this gripping alternate history from the New York Times bestselling author of the Destroyermen series.
Colonel Lewis Cayce and his forces were a group of American soldiers bound to fight in the Mexican-American War-until they were stranded in a strange new world inhabited by vicious monsters, new friends, and deadly foes. Now Cayce has brought his army of displaced Americans and their indigenous allies into the heart of the loathsome, blood-drenched Dominion's stronghold.
If he can take the enemy's holiest city and support the elevation of a new "Supreme Holiness" who seeks to moderate the Dominion's thirst for expansion, slavery, and blood sacrifice, Cayce's own goal for his army and new people to live in security and freedom will be assured.
But no matter how good of a soldier he is, Cayce is ruled by reason, and the madness and seemingly suicidal treachery of his adversaries, not to mention the sheer titanic scope of the force arrayed against him, might finally be more than he can cope with. Which side will ultimately discover that even victory can end in defeat?"
"Eight inspiring stories of heroism and the re-building of independent, productive and fulfilling lives after seemingly impossible circumstances. This book isn't about war or politics - it is about figuring out what it takes to move forward AFTER the war. I wrote this book to raise awareness of what our warriors need most when they return, what the government does and doesn't provide and why there is a high demand for private non-profits to fill the gaps. Make no mistake - we are in this period of recovery and rehabilitation for decades to come. It also introduces the non-profit organization Warrior Foundation~Freedom Station which has taken on the task of helping our combat-injured men and women make the daunting transition from military to civilian life. In this much-needed labor of love, it's not about the war - Its about the warrior.
100% of the authors proceeds benefit Warrior Foundation~Freedom Station."
"Badly battered by an apocalyptic storm, the crew of the Arctic Promise find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances as they sail blindly into unfamiliar waters and an ominously thickening fog. Without functioning navigation or communication equipment, they are lost and completely alone. One by one, the men fall prey to a mysterious illness. Deckhand Noah Cabot is the only person unaffected by the strange force plaguing the ship and her crew, which does little to ease their growing distrust of him.
Dismissing Noah's warnings of worsening conditions, the captain of the ship presses on until the sea freezes into ice and they can go no farther. When the men are ordered overboard in an attempt to break the ship free by hand, the fog clears, revealing a faint shape in the distance that may or may not be their destination. In Bracken MacLeod's audiobook Stranded, Noah leads the last of the able-bodied crew on a journey across the ice and into an uncertain future where they must fight for their lives against the elements, the ghosts of the past and, ultimately, themselves."
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