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Philadelphia streets were never silent. Gang wars on corners, screeching cars on avenues, and squealing steel trolley tires on tracks kept you alert for the next confrontation. Philadelphia playgrounds were sometimes silent. These were sanctuaries where you confronted your deepest memories. These were places packed with people, but on a summer's midday, they were virtually empty. Streets made habitable again by the actions of a few good men.

What would you do if you found a nuke in the trunk of a car? A nuke with a countdown clock, with only two hours left? Would you run? Would you hide? Call the police? Trevor found a nuke, armed, with only two hours until it went off. He wanted to run, to get of Los Angeles, but even though he was one of the worst criminals you can imagine, he just couldn't leave it there and do nothing.

Jack was a genius. He had been tested. He knew it; everyone knew it. Jack was logical. Jack knew it was impossible to hit a ghost with his car. He managed to get it done. Jack didn't believe in spirits or ghosts, so why was this one haunting him in his dreams.

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Detective John Bloom for the town of Letterson unearths a mystery when a family of three are found drowned in their car. As he investigates, he finds that it was no ordinary car and someone still wants it to remain under water some 50 years later.

Kate Jenkins despises her boring life and her abusive ex-boyfriend, Tommy, who still can't accept that she is no longer his property. She longs to escape her small-town prison. Then one day a handsome stranger named Zack shows up at the diner and everything changes. It doesn't take long for Zack and Kate to fall in love. It also doesn't take long for Tommy to notice. He will do anything to get Kate back, no matter what the cost; even murder. Who will have to die before Kate and Zack can be together?

When the Lord Killian Ware, second son of the Duke of Worthing, arrived from his country seat, he was in tears. His daughter disappeared two weeks ago. The Duke begged "South", the Marquis, to find her. Meanwhile, the Marquis' younger brother, Killian, who is rumored to be something of a rogue and a gambler, but is very kind-hearted, found an orphan boy in the streets and rescues him from a pair of ruffians. The boy swears he'll serve the Marquis' brother until he dies.

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Weapons improved rapidly after the Civil War, raising difficult questions about the battle tactics employed by the United States Army. The most fundamental problem was the dominance of the tactical defensive, when defenders protected by fieldworks could deliver deadly fire from rifles and artillery against attackers advancing in close-ordered lines.

An Army Special Forces team under the command of Captain Brent Chase fights for its life in the mountains and villages of Afghanistan. Years later, in a house at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky one of its elite soldiers lies dead of an apparent suicide. Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Colby, from the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, meets with anger and resistance as he probes into the history of the soldier and the Special Forces Team he served with.

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Celia Bones is a girl existing in two different moments in time. In 1983, she is enjoying summertime and the meeting of a new friend. In 2001, Celia has been diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a form of cancer, and is haunted by dreams of a future that she may not live to see. Fireflies in Winter is the story of how there is nothing more tragic than the passage of time, and how time can change the way we look at the world around us.

When a ruthless Mexican cartel aligns itself with an Afghani drug kingpin, the Southwest border soon becomes flooded with heroin. But are they planning to import something more deadly than narcotics into the United States? An informant with his own agenda introduces border agents Alex Matthews and Sylvia Cabrera to the tangled web of a cross-border smuggling operation. But when the system fails them, will a spur of the moment decision cost the pair their partnership, their careers, and possibly their lives?

Marijuana, also known as cannabis and by other names, is one of the most popular and controversial plants and is renowned for its numerous health benefits. Upon its legalization, there was a debate if it should be legalized or not. Many would argue that legalizing it was a mistake, but millions of people celebrated when it was legalized in the United States for medicinal purposes. Often consumed for its physical and mental effects, it also has some side effects that users must be aware of.

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Throughout history authors have warned that collectivism, if taken to its ultimate conclusion, would be the end of the United States and of personal freedom. What if their warnings were actually prophetic?

Close friends from the Midwest embark on their first trip to Las Vegas looking for fun and excitement. Only to be in the middle of a different kind of excitement, as one mistakenly witnesses a mob hit. Jim, Terry, and Steve have no idea what they have gotten into, as Steve befriends an ex-convict that has a contract placed on him. Through bad luck and miscommunication the three men go on a wild and dangerous journey with some very bad people.

In this gritty, hard-hitting story, a young mom gets caught up in a complex web of drug smuggling and money laundering, unwittingly putting her son's life at risk. She bravely and courageously faces down the bad guys and finds love in an unexpected place, with an unlikely partner.

One little bird. That's all it took to put an entire town on edge. When Langley Calhoun, the Chief of Police of Fenton, New Hampshire, decides that it's more important to find out who committed a senseless crime than it is to protect the rich and powerful - and even members of his own family - then things get tense in peaceful little Fenton. The mystery that unfolds also forces the Chief to face the deep hostility that has been simmering between him and his older brother, a powerful lawyer, for decades.

Alfred Thayer Mahan is arguably the most influential military strategist in American history, and one of the world’s most important naval theorists. After a lengthy naval career, Mahan had assignments at the Naval Academy and the Brooklyn Naval Yard. He was invited to lecture at the Naval War College, and it was there that he collected together his notes and wrote a book, The Influence of Naval Power upon History, which somehow became an international best seller in 1890. Mahan went on to write twenty books and hundreds of essays and articles, most related to naval affairs.