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david-moolten's picture
Aug.07.2009
michael-anthony's picture
Jul.09.2009
They say the Army makes a man out of you—but for 18-year-old SPC Michael Anthony, that fabled rite of passage proved a very dark journey. After soliciting his parents’ approval to enlist at only 17, Anthony began his journey with an unshakeable faith in the military born of his family’s long...
masha-hamilton's picture
May.31.2009
Caddie Blair feels everything strongly -- and so she works hard to keep her distance. It's the ethical thing for a journalist to do, expecially in a war-torn region like the Middle East. And Caddie wants to believe that nothing is as important as covering "the story." There's room for...
geoffrey-thorne's picture
May.27.2009
Space Grunts is the third anthology of the Full-Throttle Space Tales series. Edited by Dayton Ward, Space Grunts contains 18 hard-hitting tales of soldiers in space, by established and rising-star authors. Dispatches from the front lines contained in this volume: .... "Truth Metric" by Geoffrey...
pat-bertram's picture
Mar.29.2009
Bob Stark returns to Denver after 18 years in Southeast Asia to discover that the mother he buried before he left is dead again. He attends her new funeral and sees . . . himself. Is his other self a hoaxer, or is something more sinister going on? And why are two men who appear to be...
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Mar.24.2009
Hidden within the impenetrable snow covered exterior walls of Powder Mountain, and secret to the rest of the world is the protected, self contained, pure and peaceful valley of Hollow Hills.   The crater valley is thousands of feet above the base of the mountain with only one accessible...
aberjhani's picture
Mar.12.2009
In his many novels, poetry, histories, editorials, plays, and letters, W. E. B. Du Bois poured so much of his blindingly incandescent soul into his writings that no single volume could ever contain all of his words or works. In fact, had not the historian David Levering Lewis taken it upon himself...
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Dec.20.2008
In year 3512, during a new middle age, a warrior in full battle armor entered the head master's office within a Buddhist Monastery. “I wish to know peace,” said Aegard humbly to the seated Head Master Kel. “I wonder,” mused Kel as he arose and stood before the warrior, “can you actually learn peace...
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Dec.09.2008
"Although Heather Smith's astonishing first book is located, mostly, in the conflagration of human meaning that was Bonia in the 1990's, it's a collection that, in an unforgettable way, examines the terrifying bitterness and danger of contemporary life, when There are flashes of light strobing...
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Nov.17.2008
"These are the stories from the boots that have been there, those who have walked the flight line those who have locked and loaded a thirty-round magazine and lifted the bodies of the dead. It's crucial that we hear these voices." --Brian Turner, author of Here, Bullet POWDER brings us...