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An original novella set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! 2560. Over seven years after Covenant forces invaded the planet Criterion, its human survivors are still struggling to rebuild amid mounting resentment toward the Unified Earth Government...

The Instant New York Times Bestseller and TikTok Sensation! Read by the Hugo Award-winning author, Travis Baldree. A cosy, heartwarming slice-of-life fantasy about found families and fresh starts. Perfect for fans of TJ Klune, Katherine Addison and T. Kingfisher. ‘This is a warm hug of a...

On a cold winter night in Northern Ontario, the Norfolk Beauties—a women’s professional hockey team—are just trying to make it home.They never get there.Something is waiting in the dark.What begins as a routine trip turns into a brutal fight for survival as a savage alien species descends...

Have you ever wondered why the themes of war, rage, and the long journey home still resonate so deeply today? The stories of the Trojan War and the voyage of Odysseus are the blueprints for every epic adventure. Homer's masterpieces explore the deepest corners of human emotion, from the thirst for glory to the ache of nostalgia. This complete collection brings together The Iliad and The Odyssey, transporting you to the dusty plains of Troy and the supernatural perils of the wine-dark sea.

After twenty years as an Army Ranger and sniper instructor, Tyler Marconi arrives in Montana, his ghosts in tow, to say goodbye to his grandfather. A quiet, grief-filled moment in a hospital hallway unexpectedly introduces him to Justice McClay—her simple touch sparking something inside him he thought he'd lost forever.

Sam Anthem has always been a team player, leading his Home Team on secret missions around the world and chasing down bad guys for the US government. But Sam has never had a place to call home or someone to go home to.

Kat watched the Earth die at the hands of an alien intent on seeing the human race extinct. Determined to stop him at any cost, she risks all she has left to travel through time and space in order to save a world that’s already dead and to stop this killer before he can stop her.

Safety is an illusion. Security is only a fleeting sense. Peace is a myth. Steve and the other survivors in the UK have rebuilt and healed after the brutal end to the reign of Richards. But removing a dictator was only the beginning.... Years after a mistake of compassion and humanity, an enemy...

Only the winner goes home. Former Army Ranger Cole Maddox survived the massacre that wiped out most of his company. No one could explain how. Years later, Cole is back home with a wife, two kids, a dead-end job, and a life that feels too small for the war still raging inside his head. Then the...

Casmir and his allies have struck a devastating blow to the powerful prince who sent invaders into their star system, but war still rages at home. Worse, the prince has escaped with a lethal bioweapon, and he intends to wipe out all human life on Odin. Casmir could lose his parents, his friends, and everyone he holds dear. On top of all that, the Kingdom fleet commander Jorg has captured two of Casmir's friends to ensure his “compliance." But Jorg wants a bioweapon of his own as well as the deadly crushers that Casmir has made. To side with him would be to side with the devil.

Long Road Home: A Post-Apocalyptic Next-World Series Book 3: Turning Point Alex Kade and Shanan Sullivan, along with their college friends, have integrated into the goings-on of the local Colorado mountain town. The problem is, it's just not home. With Trey gone, Beth is stuck with Tex, who wants nothing more than to play house and eliminate anyone that gets in his way. She slowly builds trust with her captor, praying for the day she can run free.

Brought to you by Penguin. A magnificent new translation of the Odyssey by best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn Setting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities – meter, enjambment...

The Odyssey follows the epic ten-year journey of King Odysseus home after the Trojan War. Along the way he must survive a hurricane sent by the God Poseidon, escape imprisonment by the nymph Calypso, a murderous Cyclopes who traps his crew in a cave, and the fearsome monsters Scylla and Sirens...

Long Road Home: A Post-Apocalyptic Next-World Series Volume 2 The Plan (Long Road Home A Post-Apocalyptic Next-World Series) Alex Kade and Shanan Sullivan, along with their college friends, have made it down the mountain and into the goings-on of the local Colorado mountain town. Two have split from the pack leaving the four to find temporary housing and a purpose before the final trek home to Texas. While the four remaining students hunker down, the two, who split off, become entangled with a drifter and killer of men and women alike.

The Definitive Strategy Collection brings together six of the most influential writings on strategy of all time. From ancient Greece and China to Machiavelli and Carl von Clausewitz's modern masterpiece, On War, this collection spans continents and eras to bring you the greatest wisdom and philosophy on the strategy and philosophy of conflict.

Have you ever wondered why the themes of heroism and wrath in these ancient epics still resonate thousands of years later? The Iliad and The Odyssey stand as the twin pillars of Western civilization. In this definitive collection, you are transported to the Bronze Age, where gods walked among men and the fate of nations hung on the edge of a sword.

Summer hat gelernt zu fliehen. Vor der Stille, sich selbst und allem, was ihr zu nahekommt. Die Großstadt hält sie in Bewegung, bis sie an einem Ort landet, der sie zum Innehalten zwingt. Tief in der kanadischen Wildnis, wo Berge den Himmel berühren, wilde Flüsse durch unberührte Täler rauschen und Highland-Rinder über endlose Weiten ziehen. Hier begegnet sie Caden. Verschlossen, wortkarg und vom ersten Moment an mehr als nur ein Fremder. In seiner Nähe verliert die Stille langsam ihren Schrecken. Während Summer zur Ruhe kommt, beginnt auch Caden, sich aus seiner Taubheit zu öffnen.

After a successful mission for the Home Team, the government is ready to create a Home Team 2 to help thwart human and drug trafficking from the infamous Lee family in China. But finding recruits who can handle the assignment is not so easy. And the measures that the Lees will take to protect their investments puts everyone on the team at risk. When Washington State Patrol Ellen Ell Evander is reassigned to spend time with the Home Team, motivation to find her kidnapped niece clouds her judgment and spurs her on a mission that may end her career.

In this final volume of the Smuggler's Tales, Natalya and Zoya wind up on a mission of mercy back into Toe-Hold space to find out why one of Usoko Mining company's smelters has gone dark. They find an expanding cloud of debris, a crippled ship, and a fleet of mining barges that can't leave the system.

The War Collection: Essential Battlefield Classics is a collection of 13 works of fiction, philosophy, military strategy, and epic poetry, read by esteemed cast of award-winning narrators. Included here are novels from Ernest Hemingway; military strategy from Sun Tzu and Carl von Clausewitz; essays from Orwell; philosophy from Freud, and epic poetry from Homer, amongst much more.