Download or read book Mata Hari Squad written by Erin L. Jungdahl and published by Erin L. Jungdahl. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing can stop a spy on a mission, except maybe one of her partners. Miranda Watson wants two things in life: a good bottle of wine and a promotion. Not at her day job, her real job: espionage. The work makes her feel alive but her newest partner is killing her... chances for that coveted promotion. When she uncovers a contractor blackmailing a politician, Miranda is certain that she’s found her ticket to the top. Her partner has loftier concerns. Can they set aside their differences to save a woman’s life? Mata Hari Squad is a spy novel for people looking for Jane Bond. If you like James Bond, Scandal, and Charlie's Angels, you should check this story out today!

Download or read book The Geek Girl Squad Olivia written by Jasmine C. Caldwell and published by Steam Heat Press. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fake it ‘til you make it... Olivia counts herself lucky to have a steady job in graphic design. She's focused on climbing the ladder, but her mom keeps hounding her about finding a man. In an effort to keep her from matchmaking, Olivia lies and says she's seeing someone. Now her mom insists she introduce this boyfriend to the family at the big reunion, but how is she supposed to bring someone who doesn't exist? After his last girlfriend betrayed him, Jake wants nothing to do with relationships. Most women look at him and only see the jock. The thing is, he has a nerdy secret: his love of anime. He can’t jeopardize his reputation as a sports anchor. After meeting Olivia at a work picnic, he’s completely smitten. When Olivia comes to him, worried about showing up dateless to the family reunion, he offers to stand in as her fake boyfriend – but he wishes it were real. Can a smart, ambitious woman, and a closet otaku-jock fake it long enough to make a lasting connection? Beach Book Festival 2022 Romance Category Honorable Mention

Download or read book We Always Win at Laser Tag written by Gary L. Norman and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two fouraEUR"men college teams, who couldn't possibly be more opposite, are playing a new radical military game called laser tag. There's gambling, deception, highaEUR" and lowaEUR"tech strategy, and finally, unique methods of cheating as the Ragtags and the Melting Pot viciously slug it out on the UVA campus of Charlottesville, Virginia. But if you think you can figure out the rest of the maniacal mess, you'd be oh so wrong. Halfway through, the story takes a bizarre left turn into hard science fiction, teaching us that cheaters do indeed prosper when the reporters, cameras, referees, and police are thrown away, leaving the Barbarians in charge!

Download or read book Team Chu and the Epic Hero Quest written by Julie C. Dao and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Check out acclaimed author Julie C. Dao's debut middle grade series, featuring a team of kids ready for any challenge–even saving the fantasy world of Pantaera from dark forces and certain ruin! In Team Chu and the Epic Hero Quest, the popular fantasy video game War of Gods and Men is being adapted for reality television. Team Chu and company are competing for the title of child hero: the young person destined to unite the forces of Pantaera to save it from a sinister fate. Over the next week, they’ll be challenged by sirens, vampires, elves, and more in Tests of Courage, Determination, Humility, Intelligence, and Strength. Popular athlete Clip is confident he’ll take the prize, if it weren’t for that test of humility. And despite claiming not to care about the game, Sadie finds herself pulled into the immersive world of Pantaera and rising to meet the challenges thrown her way. And her best friend, Jeremy, proud nerd and last pick for P.E. teams, wants more than anything to save the world of the game he loves, no matter the cost. Join Clip, Sadie, Jeremy, and their friends on a thrilling adventure through an extraordinary fantasy world to learn who among them has what it takes to become Pantaera's child hero!

Download or read book Light Infantry Tactics for Small Teams written by Christopher E. Larsen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were no marching bands welcoming home returning troops from Vietnam, no ticker-tape parades for its heroes and no celebrations in Time Square. Instead, returning Vets were confronted with a range of reactions, not the least of which were indifference, silent disapproval, criticism, hostility and even contempt, in some quarters, for their lack of cleverness in not avoiding service in a war zone. Most returning Vietnam warriors were bewildered by the reactions of their fellow countrymen; but, then how could they possibly comprehend the psychological phenomenon which was only beginning to take hold and would later be named the "Vietnam Syndrome", a phenomenon which, at its extremes, was manifested in a revulsion to all things military? Even those who were proud of the returning servicemen and women were hardly effusive in their praise and greeted them with only muted enthusiasm. Most of these young veterans of an undeclared war had been shaped and molded in their formative years by the patriotic fervor which seized America during World War II and continued for perhaps a decade and a half after V. J. day. But, American society had profoundly changed in the 1960s with a shift in emphasis away from national goals to more individual ones such as civil rights, sexual liberation, pacifism, academic freedom, consciousness raising and a reaction against the excesses of the "military industrial complex", ironically named by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The cataclysmic cultural revolution of the 1960s collided violently with the more nationalistic goals of containing the spread of international communism and curbing the expansionist policies of the Soviet Union and Red China. Those who actually fought the Vietnam War became collateral victims of a wrenching cultural war, not of their own making; for the core values of these young men and women had, for the most part, not changed. Just as the World War II generation was imbued with traditional values of patriotism, loyalty to one's comrades, anti-totalitarianism and democratic freedom, most heroes of the Vietnam War were similarly grounded. The major difference is that while the former were celebrated, the latter were largely forgotten. Last Full Measure of Devotion calls upon us to revisit this remarkable generation of military heroes and, at long last, accord them the recognition withheld from them for almost four decades. The 22 individual profiles of Vietnam heroes contained between these covers are meant to be representative of the vast majority of Americans who served with honor in that lonely and beleaguered country on the South China Sea, more than thirty-five years ago.

Download or read book Rhyker s Key written by M.C. Solaris and published by MC Solaris LLC. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhyker, tattooed bad boy and lethal jaguar shifter, falls for the sweet and caring healer, Keena. Except, she’s determined to keep him in the friend zone... good thing he’s a predator that enjoys the hunt. Together, can they heal their past and forge a future bonded with true love? SECOND BOOK IN THE ORION’S ORDER SERIES Orion’s Order returns in another addictive installment about their secret world of magic and mystery. A world where the most powerful words in the Universe are discovered in the fight against an ancient evil force. KEENA OLIVER I am haunted by my past mistakes. Mistakes that I have no idea how I even made. I am an educated mind and spirit healer after all. So how in the holy healer hell did I end up in a relationship where the male who I thought I loved… Yeah, it’s probably best not to rehash those nightmares. But if I don’t dare open up that box to my past, then how am I ever going to be able to move on? Especially because I so want to move on with a certain sexy male. A male whose lips devoured mine in a darkened corner that one time. A male whose predatory piercing blue eyes practically track my every move. A male who I shouldn’t be fantasizing about every second of every day. Why? Because it would ruin me. RHYKER KINGSLEY I’ve had my eye on a certain female for almost a year now. A female who is damn determined to keep me in the friend zone. A female who's been hurt by her ex but refuses to open up to me about it. So, you could say I go through a lot of smokes… a f*cking lot. Meanwhile, my pack of lethally trained and skilled hunters and I are gunning for an evil SOB who not only signed his death warrant the second he tried to come after my pack sister and mate to our alpha, but also the f*cker poses a threat to our world as we know it. Yet, said ancient powerful bastard has gone off the grid and is all but impossible to track. Oh, and did I mention that the past seems to be mixing with the present? I mean, the f*ck is this? The revenge year of the shitty exes? So, excuse me while I light up a smoke… or two. Devour this addictive series at your own risk... + Happily Ever After + Sexy Paranormal Jaguar Shifter Romance + Multiple POV + Mature Content + This series is meant to be read in order for the best reading experience ---------------------------------------------- RHYKER’S KEY is an adult paranormal jaguar shifter romance. If you like swoon-worthy males, heroines with feminine strength, an engaging plot, satisfying relationships, steamy love stories, happy ever afters, and getting sucked into a supernatural story, then you’ll want to immerse yourself in the world of species! ---------------------------------------------- “Wow - one of my fav reads of all time!... Shifter-romance at its finest, hot, steamy, sexy - everything and more your romantasy heart desires!” “OMG it didn’t disappoint in the slightest… this is definitely my favourite book I’ve read this year! It had absolutely everything I look for in a great paranormal romance. I was happy, then hot and flustered, then screaming with emotion.” “I could not put this down. I have too much to say about this book but will give this small warning. Be prepared to lose time once you start this book cause you not want to stop reading!!” “...had me on the edge of my sit and I couldn’t stop reading!! I didn’t expect those plot twists and I was about to start screaming! This book was full of banter, love and friendship!” “Wow! This book was like 3 books rolled into one!... keeping me guessing the whole way through.”

Download or read book Autonomous written by Andy Marino and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Mackler is about to go on the road trip of a lifetime. After winning a contest—and nearly dying in the process—he becomes the proud owner of Autonomous, a driverless car that knows where you want to go before you do. #Worthit! To sweeten the deal he gets to pick three friends to go with him on a cross-country trip. For William, a reckless adrenaline junkie, this is the perfect last hurrah before he and his friends go their separate ways after graduation. But Autonomous is more than just a car without a steering wheel. It's capable of downloading all of the passengers' digital history—from the good, to the bad, to the humiliating. The information is customized into an itinerary that will expose a few well-kept secrets, but it will also force William to face some inner demons of his own. Think you know Autonomous? The real question is, how much does Autonomous know about you? This funny, tense, action-packed thriller combines topical social-media-privacy stakes with jaw-dropping high-tech action for a road trip saga like no other.

Download or read book The Sacrifice written by Christopher Chapman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are the young or the young at heart, this book is for you. Have you ever asked yourself if you believe in miracles or what what you would sacrifi ce for someone else? At fi rst glance, this book is a simple love story between the main characters Flynn and Misty. Underneath their romance lies the notion of sacrifi ce and what an individual would sacrifi ce so that another person may reach his or her dreams. When Misty helps Flynn become a gentleman by her eccentric rules, Flynn helps Misty become a woman by just loving her. Together they solve the old age mystery of how to accomplish the change from being love sick puppies with childish ideas towards being emotionally responsive adults.

Download or read book Difficult Riddles for Smart Kids written by M. Prefontaine and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brain Teasers for Kids - Riddles for the Whole Family "The mind once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions." Ralph Waldo Emerson This kids book is a collection of 300 brain teasing riddles and puzzles. Their purpose is to make children think and stretch their minds. They are designed to test logic, lateral thinking as well as memory and to engage the brain in seeing patterns and connections between different things and circumstances. They are laid out in three chapters which get more difficult as you go through the book, in the author's opinion at least. The answers are at the back of the book if all else fails. These are more difficult riddles for kids and are designed to be attempted by children from 10 years onwards, as well as participation from the rest of the family. It is a perfect activity book for kids who like problem solving. These activities can be shared with the whole family. This book is one of a series of puzzle books for kids. The aim of all of them is to stretch children's brains through kids riddles and puzzles. They are kids books designed to challenge children to think laterally and more creatively. Tags: Riddles and brain teasers, riddles and trick questions, riddles book, riddles book for kids, riddles for kids, riddles for kids aged 9-12, riddles and puzzles, jokes and riddles, jokes book, jokes book for kids, jokes children, jokes for kids, jokes kids, activity book, activities

Download or read book Where Men Win Glory written by Jon Krakauer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A "gripping book about this extraordinary man who lived passionately and died unnecessarily" (USA Today) in post-9/11 Afghanistan, from the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air. In 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to join the Army and became an icon of American patriotism. When he was killed in Afghanistan two years later, a legend was born. But the real Pat Tillman was much more remarkable, and considerably more complicated than the public knew. Sent first to Iraq—a war he would openly declare was “illegal as hell” —and eventually to Afghanistan, Tillman was driven by emotionally charged, sometimes contradictory notions of duty, honor, justice, and masculine pride, and he was determined to serve his entire three-year commitment. But on April 22, 2004, his life would end in a barrage of bullets fired by his fellow soldiers. Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene that a ranger in Tillman’s own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information from Tillman’s family and the American public for five weeks following his death. During this time, President Bush used Tillman’s name to promote his administration’ s foreign policy. Long after Tillman’s nationally televised memorial service, the Army grudgingly notified his closest relatives that he had “probably” been killed by friendly fire while it continued to dissemble about the details of his death and who was responsible. Drawing on Tillman’s journals and letters and countless interviews with those who knew him and extensive research in Afghanistan, Jon Krakauer chronicles Tillman’s riveting, tragic odyssey in engrossing detail highlighting his remarkable character and personality while closely examining the murky, heartbreaking circumstances of his death. Infused with the power and authenticity readers have come to expect from Krakauer’s storytelling, Where Men Win Glory exposes shattering truths about men and war. This edition has been updated to reflect new developments and includes new material obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

Download or read book Skunk Works written by Leo Janos and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review). From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of Cold War confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement against fantastic odds. Here are up-close portraits of the maverick band of scientists and engineers who made the Skunk Works so renowned. Filled with telling personal anecdotes and high adventure, with narratives from the CIA and from Air Force pilots who flew the many classified, risky missions, this book is a riveting portrait of the most spectacular aviation triumphs of the twentieth century. "Thoroughly engrossing." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

Download or read book Deceit on Panchala written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl Roske. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “MSgt Hamdi, you’re too clever to let the galaxy have.” Msgt Hamdi was at the end of her second enlistment. Signing the next should have been easy. What was stopping her? Hamdi needed time to think, and overseeing a ceasefire with Acre company should have given her the time she needed. Nothing is ever easy in a war zone. The locals are unusually suspicious. It’s not until Hamdi and a squad of Hospitallers finds a friendly face in a cafe that things begin to look up. There is no certainty in war. When a mortar attack destroys the cafe, killing adults and children, things look even grimmer. Now, with both sides of the conflict blaming the other, Hamdi and Acre company have their work cut out for them. They have 24 hours to discover the perpetrators or the war resumes and more people will die. External and internal struggles tug at Hamdi from all sides. Can she find the killers? Can she find an answer to her own dilemma? Deceit on Panchala is the second book in the Stories of the Orphan Corps series. It is also a stand-alone story in the burgeoning universe of the Hospitallers’ Orphan Corps. If you enjoy an exciting military tale layered with political intrigue, and seasoned with engaging characters, Deceit on Panchala is your kind of story.

Download or read book Standoff on Oulu written by Earl T. Roske and published by Earl Roske. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VetTech Pagnotto is about to find out if he has what it takes to be a Hospitaller. Oulu is Pagnotto’s first mission off Hephaestia as a Wutenigel handler. He and the Wutenigel he’s named Thumb have come with Ascalon company to Oulu as a supernumerary. Thumb can identify and name every scent it encounters. With Pagnotto and Thumb as part of Ascalon company, the Hospitallers hope to find the source of recent terrorist-style bombings. An attack on a Texarkanian community pulls the Hospitallers deeper into the global conflict. Uncovering secrets puts the entire company at risk of total annihilation. Can Pagnotto and Thumb survive long enough to do their part in the mission? Can they survive a world seemingly hell-bent on their destruction? Standoff on Oulu is the third book in the Stories of the Orphan Corps series. Just like Rescue on Gimhae and Deceit on Panchala, Standoff on Oulu is a self-contained story full of martial adventure, political intrigue, moral dilemma, and an abundance of destruction. Get Standoff on Oulu now and be part of the Stories of the Orphan Corps universe. It’s the next best thing to being there. (And less dangerous.)

Download or read book Field Artillery Manual Cannon Gunnery written by Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Training Circular (TC) 3-09.81, "Field Artillery Manual Cannon Gunnery," sets forth the doctrine pertaining to the employment of artillery fires. It explains all aspects of the manual cannon gunnery problem and presents a practical application of the science of ballistics. It includes step-by-step instructions for manually solving the gunnery problem which can be applied within the framework of decisive action or unified land operations. It is applicable to any Army personnel at the battalion or battery responsible to delivered field artillery fires. The principal audience for ATP 3-09.42 is all members of the Profession of Arms. This includes field artillery Soldiers and combined arms chain of command field and company grade officers, middle-grade and senior noncommissioned officers (NCO), and battalion and squadron command groups and staffs. This manual also provides guidance for division and corps leaders and staffs in training for and employment of the BCT in decisive action. This publication may also be used by other Army organizations to assist in their planning for support of battalions. This manual builds on the collective knowledge and experience gained through recent operations, numerous exercises, and the deliberate process of informed reasoning. It is rooted in time-tested principles and fundamentals, while accommodating new technologies and diverse threats to national security.

Download or read book Her Last First Date written by Susan Mallery and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t miss this fan favorite from #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery! Twelve years ago, Chrissy Phillips gave up a baby boy for adoption, but she’s never gotten over it. Now, invited to be part of Brandon’s life by his adopted family, Chrissy finds herself falling for his adoptive father, Josh Daniels, a handsome widower. But is Josh’s heart still buried with his late wife, or will he be able to start again and let them become a family? Originally published in 2007

Download or read book Generation Kill written by Evan Wright and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO® original mini-series. Within hours of 9/11, America’s war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new pop-culture breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears—soldiers raised on hip hop, video games and The Real World. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional and moral horrors ahead, the “First Suicide Battalion” would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq, and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer. Hailed as “one of the best books to come out of the Iraq war”(Financial Times), Generation Kill is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality and camaraderie of a new American War.

Download or read book Funworld written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: