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"Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers a hidden world in a global investigation, drawing on secret documents, revealing interviews, and on-the-ground reporting. He shows how Palestine became the perfect laboratory for the Israeli military-techno complex: surveillance, home demolitions, indefinite incarceration, and brutality of the hi-tech tools of the "Start-up Nation.""--
3) Tomcat Tales
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The ultimate feature documentary about Hollywood's favorite Top Gun fighter. Get ready to strap in and watch the navy's top aviators tell their never-before-heard stories of what it was like flying the legendary F-14 Tomcat!
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"The first American pilots to fight in World War I flew for the French military. France created a squadron of volunteer Americans called the Lafayette Escadrille (named after the great Marquis de Lafayette). Follow this squadron on their high-flying adventures: How they got into the French military. How they learned to fly. How they fought--and died. And how these American pilots would go down in history with other legendary flying aces, like the...
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"Again and again, American taxpayers are asked to open their wallets and pay for a national security machine that costs $1.25 trillion to operate. How is it possible that the United States Government gets it so wrong on so many critical issues, and so often? And if our expensive national security machine is not working, what can be done? Enter Thom Shanker, best-selling author and former New York Times editor, along with Andrew Hoehn, RAND SVP of...
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"Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; where the choreography of the world's end requires massive decisions made on seconds-notice, with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Annie...
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"An international research station in the Coral Sea comes under siege during a geological disaster that triggers massive quakes, deadly tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. To stop the world from burning, it's up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet. The Titan Project-an international research station off the coast of Australia-discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent...
15) The Samurai
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Modern-day kids Annie and Nico travel back in time to uncover the history of the samurai of Japan, and they learn about historic figures like Tokugawa Ieyasu, the shogun, and Goro Nyudo Masamune. Includes back matter on samurai and a timeline.
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Even as war raged, Lincoln and Congress debated what would happen after it was won. In December 1863, Lincoln offered a simple, lenient reconstruction plan. Radical Republicans in Congress objected and offered their own blueprint. The debate was continuing even as an assassin cut short Lincoln's part in it.
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"Army Criminal Investigation Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor have been separated for five months following their last assignment, a dangerous mission in Venezuela to locate and detain an infamous Army deserter. Now, in Berlin, they are reunited and tasked with investigating the murder of one of their own: CID Special Agent Harry Vance of the 5th MP Battalion, an accomplished counterterrorism agent who had been stationed in western Germany, and...
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A soldier fighting from the trenches in France in 1916 writes letters to his love.
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"Lawrence makes every word count, telling each story with elegance and emotional punch." - Patsy Hennessey
"Each story is masterfully constructed ... Humorous, touching, creepy, but most of all entertaining, this collection is superb." - Tracy Michelle Anderson
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If you're a fan of historical fiction, you might enjoy this wartime epistolary romance.
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The names solemnly displayed in Memorial Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy serve as a constant reminder of why Annapolis is different from Harvard, or Stanford, or Duke. No midshipman recognizes this more viscerally than Donald Durago, who knows all too well that some will die--heroically, tragically, slowly, or quickly--in the service of their country.
Set at the U.S. Naval Academy in the 1990s, The Recipient's Son tells the story of a young man's struggle...
20) Exadelic
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When an unconventional offshoot of the U.S. military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls "black magic," it learns how to hack the fabric of reality itself.