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Revised and updated to reflect recent Russian and Western scholarship on the subject, this new edition maintains the 1995 original's distinction as a crucial volume in the history of World War II and of the Soviet Union and the most informed and compelling perspective on one of the greatest military confrontations of all time.

Greer Calaway knew he was going to marry Lillian Ambrose the day he met her. He was ten at the time, knee-deep in dirty pond water, and only wearing his skivvies. The Calaways had been in the valley since gold was first discovered in 1860 in the creek beds of a triangular shaped bit of land between the Southfork River and the Sugar Pine mountains. Although he was a bit of a scoundrel, the first mayor was a Calaway.

A lawless frontier. A corrupt Senate. Two Rangers stand between peace and a corporate takeover. In the far reaches of the Steele Empire, corporations are buying influence, hiring private armies, and rewriting the law to suit their interests. When Frontier Ranger Wes Antrim investigates what should have been a routine land dispute on a remote cattle world, he uncovers evidence of something far bigger: a coordinated corporate power grab backed by mercenaries and political protection.

Becca Gallagher was taking her new job as co-manager of the Red Door Café and part-time bartender at the Ambrose Tavern seriously. Even if it meant she was working so much, there was hardly time to breathe. She was used to working hard. She’d been working at her cousin’s restaurant since she was sixteen. And she loved the fact Paxton trusted her to fill in for him at the bar. She’d breathe later, in a year or two, when things settled down.

On the far edge of the Steele Empire, law and order doesn’t come with backup. It comes with a badge, a ship, and a Frontier Ranger willing to fly into trouble. Cole Butler is one of the best. A seasoned Ranger with a reputation for doing the job alone, he’s spent years keeping peace in the dangerous systems beyond the Empire’s reach. But when the Ranger Corps assigns him a new partner, his solitary way of doing the job comes to an abrupt end.

Fear and racism run rampant in the face of the bio-weapon crisis. Danny watches as the sleepy town of Brikston, Kentucky descends into a waking nightmare for one stranger trying to get home. There is more to the story - Danny's sure of it. He wants to help, but how? Time is running out, so to forestall the virus, Brikston has chosen self-quarantine: no one is allowed in - if you leave, you can't come back. No exceptions.

Sexual obsession and murder set against the backdrop of the modern West. When his illicit lover is discovered brutally murdered, Alex Byrne watches as his former lover, the lead homicide detective, slowly closes in on him. But is he the killer? Or is he being framed? And is Byrne trying to find the real murderer? Or set up a fall guy? A Suspicion of Guilt offers an explosive view inside the real world of criminal courts, where justice is only an accident.

If it's anything short of murder, Logan's interested! The minute the dame walked up to Logan, he smelled trouble. A real looker, with tons of money and a daddy who liked to spoil her. She asked him to investigate a threatening note whose message was clear: Keep your mouth shut or die. The first day on the job its fatal warning comes true, and the woman is murdered, or so it seems. Very shortly he discovers that it wasn't the woman at all but someone who looked very much like her.

The fiery crash of a private jet leaves a mystery in its wreckage. Alone in the devastation is a man, unhurt, who has no memory of the crash, himself, or his past. It is up to FBI Agent Gail Crane, Santa Maria Police Detective Darcie Devonshire, and ex-CIA Operative Morgan Garrett to solve the puzzle. Not an easy task, because for each question answered, two surface to take its place.

What if surging gun violence, racial tension and distrust of law enforcement was by design? What if the rage and disenchantment of working class Americans was stoked by politicians? What if neighbors were urged to despise neighbors because of their differences? When a national house divided is scripted and staged, the looming future begins to look like an unspeakable past.

Who says honeymoons aren't dangerous? This one was murder! Private investigator Tom Logan and his girlfriend Rita finally tie the knot, choosing a turn-of-the-century beach resort on Coronado Island as their ideal honeymoon escape. Unfortunately what begins as a romantic getaway, ends suddenly with murder. A best-selling author is brutally killed on the night of a mystery writers' convention, and Logan is forced to postpone their plans when drawn reluctantly into the case.

It was eugenics that compelled white doctors to attempt to murder Baby John. It was compassion that led to his kidnapping. And it is the cruelest of circumstances - the murder of Jennifer Rice - that 50 years later leads Shep Harrington to search for Baby John. As Shep soon learns, the quest brings him to the top of a slippery slope with an ill-defined edge. Question begets question, and the slide down the slope proves inevitable: What happened to the baby? Who took it? Why was he taken? And who killed Jennifer Rice?

Angel Park, the final book of C.J. Booth’s Park trilogy, is an edgy thrill ride to a heart-rending end that no one will see coming. Detectives Stan Wyld, Jake Steiner, and Mallory Dimante struggle to unravel the mystery of the murder and dismemberment of Hollywood film director James Marston but all they find are more mysteries.

Part riveting police thriller, part spellbinding mystery, Crimson Park is a cleverly crafted, must-listen, tale of savage revenge and retribution. Nothing is as it seems in this novel rife with stolen identities, two-faced witnesses, and headless torsos. Following their spectacular success in solving California’s worst serial killer case, a case that had languished unsolved for 15 years, Sacramento’s newly formed cold-case division detectives - Stan Wyld and Jake Steiner with I.T. expert Mallory Dimante - find themselves the toast of the town.

1997 - Olive Park, California - the bodies of three children are found buried in shallow graves, brutally murdered. One of the most intensive investigations in California history fails to find any trace of the killer and the case goes cold. Fifteen years later - the newly formed Ongoing Investigation Division, charged with closing cold cases, is handed as its very first case - the Olive Park Murders.

Virtually all famous actors are regaled by the public, but even still, Fred Astaire occupies a privileged position in American pop culture. The specific films in which Astaire acted may not be especially famous in their own right - most people likely cannot recall the title of Top Hat (1935), his most decorated film - but Astaire's dancing prowess invariably creates a lasting impact on viewers.

Three short stories in the Escape 2 Earth Universe, follows the mystery cases of Intergalactic Detective Da'Quan. "Murder on the Eros Star," "Planet of Doom," and "Terror on Telderan." Also included is the first chapter of audiobook one in the Escape 2 Earth series. "Terror on Telderan" is the prequel to the series.

Want to generate some heat? Try some Ice. Sherice Solomon, the serial killer known as Ice, is moving west, and Santa Maria, California, seems an enticing new hunting ground. Ex-CIA agent Morgan Garrett has also chosen Santa Maria as his new home. When a chance meeting brings them together, Sherice realizes how lonely she has become. She needs a partner, and Morgan is her choice. Now the only thing left to do is to convince him, and she won't let anyone stand in her way, especially an old flame.

When most people think of a pornographer, they think of some sleazy guy who is exploiting the women he films. Harry Moreland's journey into porn depicts a sensitive, idealistic young man who wanted to make serious documentaries. He travels across the country from the Midwest to the west coast ending up in Los Angeles where he is seduced by the glamour, the glitz, the money, and drugs. We follow his struggle as he hits bottom and then struggles to redeem himself.

When the American Film Institute assembled a list of its top 100 actors, one of the top 10 was James Cagney, an actor whose acting and dancing talents spawned a career that spanned over five decades and once compelled Orson Welles to call him "maybe the greatest actor to ever appear in front of a camera." Ultimately it was portraying tough guys and gangsters in the 1930s that turned Cagney into a massive star, the kinds of roles he was born to play after growing up rough in Manhattan at the turn of the 20th century.