◆Recommended for those that love Tom Clancy style high tech action.A nail-biting roller-coaster ride of last minute escapes and edge of your seat suspense.During World War Two the Japanese were developing their own WMD. A molecular bomb capable of horrific killing power by destroying human DNA but leaving the target country's infrastructure and resources undamaged, ready for the taking. Since the devastating atomic strike by the Americans ended the war, its existence has been lost and forgotten.....Until now.Seventy years later an ISIS attack on a commercial airline will have deadly repercussions worldwide.Jack Gehrig and Private Ellen Priss are all that stands between a North Korean operative and the total annihilation of the Western World. A fearful game of cat and mouse for the ultimate weapon takes place across a raging island inferno filled with crumbling war relics and government secrets leading to the final catastrophic showdown beneath...

From Publishers WeeklyGriffin's seventh novel in The Corps series (after Close Combat) continues the author's breezy look at the Marine Corps during WWII. Here, he uses guerrilla action behind the lines in the Philippines as foreground to tell the behind-the-lines tale of the power struggle among Marine General Fleming Pickering, General Douglas MacArthur and Bill Donovan of the fledgling OSS, all of whom are galvanized into action by a radio message from a self-proclaimed general named Wendell Fertig, who has established himself as a guerrilla leader against the Japanese. As far as the Marines are concerned, once the message is verified, a team of men with supplies will be sent in to evacuate any sick or wounded and evaluate Fertig as a potential leader. Complicating matters, however, are MacArthur's public declaration that guerrilla activity on the Philippines is impossible, and therefore nonexistent, and Bill Donovan's desire to get the operation under OSS control. Focusing on a variety of characters involved in the proposed mission, Griffin tells an absorbing story with his usual attention to dialogue rather than description, relying frequently on his favored device of moving the plot along through copies of memos, radio messages and telegrams. The boy's club aura of Griffin's primarily male world, where everything?even death?seems clear, sunny, bright and uncomplicated, is in full force here; and that should please his fans just fine.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalIn Griffin's latest, a bunch of mismatched World War II grunts search for a missing colonel who may be launching guerrilla raids on Japan. Sounds like a cross between The Guns of Navarone and Apocalypse Now.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The ruling Asharites of Al-Rassan have come from the desert sands, but over centuries, seduced by the sensuous pleasures of their new land, their stern piety has eroded. The Asharite empire has splintered into decadent city-states led by warring petty kings. King Almalik of Cartada is on the ascendancy, aided always by his friend and advisor, the notorious Ammar ibn Khairan — poet, diplomat, soldier — until a summer afternoon of savage brutality changes their relationship forever. Meanwhile, in the north, the conquered Jaddites' most celebrated — and feared — military leader, Rodrigo Belmonte, driven into exile, leads his mercenary company south. In the dangerous lands of Al-Rassan, these two men from different worlds meet and serve — for a time — the same master. Sharing their interwoven fate — and increasingly torn by her feelings — is Jehane, the accomplished court physician, whose own skills play an increasing role as Al-Rassan is swept to the brink of holy war, and beyond. Hauntingly evocative of medieval Spain, The Lions of Al-Rassan is both a brilliant adventure and a deeply compelling story of love, divided loyalties, and what happens to men and women when hardening beliefs begin to remake — or destroy — a world.

This immensely moving novel confronts divisions of race, gender, and class, fusing together the stories of people who come to recognize one another from former lives they didn't know existed -- or that they tried to forget. Diego, a deaf-mute, is barely surviving on the border in El Paso, Texas. Diego's sister, Helen, who lives with her husband in the posh suburbs of San Francisco, long ago abandoned both her brother and her El Paso roots. Helen's best friend, Lizzie, a nurse in an AIDS ward, begins to uncover her own buried past after a mystical encounter with a patient. With Carry Me Like Water, Benjamin Alire Sáenz unfolds a beautiful story about hope and forgiveness, unexpected reunions, an expanded definition of family, and, ultimately, what happens when the disparate worlds of pain and privilege collide.

Jody Taggart didn't have a friend in the world. Until the tall blond man called Breed found Taggart's horse shot dead and Taggart with a bullet in his mangled guts. Then the horse-breeder found the kind of friend he needed—the kind who dealt in death. Breed had his own code. An instinct for justice. He couldn't stand to see a horses of the quality that Taggart bred go to waste. He owed Taggart nothing but offered his help.Dan Fogarty ran the township of Comstock and the surrounding lands—apart from Taggart's place—and that didn't sit well with the land baron. But he soon found that you just don't mess with Breed. Not if you want to stay alive. And Fogarty's hired gunmen learned that the hard way as the land suddenly took on a whole new complexion—blood red!

A spring day in a gentrifying neighbourhood begins unremarkably enough; by evening someone has died.Nat, a middle-aged queer mother of two, feigns normalcy as she worries about her taciturn, loner son locked in his room. Her friend Maddy, a failed actress and fellow parent, frets over her missed opportunities and considers leaving her marriage. Next door, Ilya, a young construction worker, struggles to renovate a fixer-upper, but a buried stream threatens to flood the basement. An old woman eyes the street through the gap in her curtains. A lonely man wanders. As the troubled residents stumble through their errands, navigating the thorniness of class and privilege, of queer respectability and friendship in an overstretched city, each seemingly inconsequential exchange tightens in around the neighbourhood, until finally tragedy strikes, leaving it forever changed.

On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, leaving fifteen people dead. Viewed in the North as a saint of freedom and in the South as the devil incarnate, Brown was a visionary who not only foretold but made inevitable the bloody apocalypse of the Civil War. An intricate mosaic of alternating narrative voices, Raising Holy Hell is an explosive, multitextured evocation of the prophetic madness of the man who saw an America damned by the sin of slavery.

There was magic in great-grandmother’s wedding dress, according to Lady Abercorn. So her beautiful daughter Lilibet should use it to win a rich husband. But it was Neala who opened the door to Lord Winterton—who was instantly captivated by her. Neala had her pride; she wanted no man who was bewitched—by anything but love. Regency Romance by Marilyn Clay; originally published by Zebra Regency

This tale of impossible love--told with the same narrative grace and keen eye for human emotion that have distinguished all of Anita Shreve's cherished bestsellers--leads us into a harrowing world where forbidden passions have catastrophic consequences. In a Nazi-occupied Belgian village, Claire Daussois, the wife of a resistance worker, shelters a wounded American bomber pilot in a secret attic hideaway. As she nurses him back to health, Claire is drawn into an affair that seems strong enough to conquer all--until the brutal realities of war intrude, shattering every idea she ever had about love, trust, and betrayal.

Winner "Best First Book (Fiction)" in the 2018 IndieReaders Discovery Awards, Gold Medalist "Intrigue" in the 2018 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards, Silver Medalist/2nd Place "Mystery/Thriller/Suspense/Horror" in the 2019 Feathered Quill Book Awards, and Finalist "Paranormal" and "Best Cover Design" in the 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.Discover for yourself the magic and intrigue of "Eye of the Moon".Legendary socialite Alice went to sleep reading her Egyptian Book of the Dead and never woke up. The act of natural causes, or a curse? Or worse, was it murder? Twenty years after her mysterious death, her nephew and his childhood friend discover her belongings stashed in the wine cellar of her estate while attending a five-day house party. Curious about what actually happened, they delve into her diary, letters, and become involved in the occult as they try to follow in her footsteps. Little do they know what will be awakened in their search for...

Rick Shelley’s Federation War trilogy begins with a novel that takes you through the barracks corridors and the trenches of war, bringing the war of the future home with a combination of battlefield action and home-town heroics. For Doug Weintraub of the Buchanan Planetary Commission, it begins with a fuzzy call, quickly cut off. Federation troops have invaded his world. The battle they’ve long feared and tried to avoid is coming. Now it’s time to seek help, to launch a rocket into Q Space and hope for Second Commonwealth troops to arrive -- and soon. Aboard the Starship Victoria, it begins differently. It’s a short, unexpected message on the screen for Sergeant David Spencer of the Royal Marines. New orders, surprising ones, that will send him and his men to an independent frontier world that’s become a new front in the war between the Commonwealth and Federation. Doug Weintraub and David Spencer soon find themselves in unexpected roles, a skilled warrior in the Royal Marines side-by-side with a back-world farmer. They’ll need each other to keep the Federation at bay. PRAISE FOR RICK SHELLEY: “Rick Shelley was a soldier at heart, and his books were written from the heart. They carry the real feel of the sweat, blood, and camaraderie of those on the front lines.” --Jack Campbell, author of the NY Times bestselling LOST FLEET series

Among his many books, perhaps none have sparked more outrage than The Missionary Position, Christopher Hitchens's meticulous and searing study of the life and deeds of Mother Teresa--and it is now available as a Signal deluxe paperback. A Nobel Peace Prize recipient canonized by the Catholic Church in 2003, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was celebrated by heads of state and adored by millions for her work on behalf of the poor. In his measured critique, Hitchens asks only that Mother Teresa's reputation be judged by her actions--not the other way around. With characteristic elan and rhetorical dexterity, Hitchens eviscerates the fawning cult of Teresa, recasting the Albanian missionary in a light she has never before been seen in.