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Hell's Faire (Human-Posleen War series)

by John Ringo

With the defenses of the Southern Appalachians sundered, the only thing standing between the ravening Posleen hordes and the soft interior of the Cumberland Plateau are the veterans of 555th Mobile Infantry. Dropped into Rabun Pass, with a couple of million Posleen behind them and fourteen million to the front, the only question is which will run out first: power, bullets or bodies. But they have a hole card: far... (more)

Gust Front

by John Ringo

The aliens had arrived with gifts, warnings, and an offer we couldn't refuse... Our choice was simple: we could be cannon fodder, or we could be...fodder. We could send our forces to fight and die (as only humans can) against a ravening horde that was literally feeding on its interstellar conquests -- or remain as we were -- virtually weaponless and third in line for brunch. We chose to fight. Thanks to... (more)

When the Devil Dances

by John Ringo

After five years of battling invaders, human civilization prepares a strike to drive the aliens from the Earth. But the Clan-Lord of the Sten has learned from the defeats humans have dealt him, and has his own plan. When he squares off against Major O'Neal, the only winner will be Satan himself.

A Hymn Before Battle

by John Ringo

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE... With the Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the peaceful and friendly races of the Galactic Federation offer their resources to help the backward Terrans -- for a price. Humanity now has three worlds to defend. As Earth's armies rush into battle and special operations units scout alien worlds, the humans begin to learn a valuable lesson: You can protect yourself from your... (more)

Hereot: Book 2

Beowulf's Children

by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes

A new generation is growing up on the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought when their parents and grandparents first arrived on Earth. Setting out for the mainland, this group of young rebels feels ready to fight any grendels that get in their way. On Avalon, however, there are monsters which drawf the ones their parents fought, and as the group will soon learn, monsters also... (more)

The Dragons of Heorot

by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes

The sequel to "The Legacy of Heorot". Twenty years ago, the colonists of Avalon waged a war against the grendels, reptilian creatures larger than alligators. Now the younger members of the colony want to explore the mainland where the grendels still roam - and claim the entire planet for humankind.

The End of War

by David L. Robbins

Berlin, January 1945. The war draws to a close, but the fight for a vanquished city -- and for history -- is just beginning. In the final months of the war in Europe, the last act of a five-year conflagration is about to be played out. As Allied generals surround the mortally wounded Nazi military machine, strategies are being formed on a greater scale than even generals can imagine. While Churchill fumes... (more)

Liquor, Guns and Ammo: The Collected Short Fiction and Non-Fiction of Kent AndersonKent Anderson

Liquor, Guns and Ammo: The Collected Short Fiction and Non-Fiction of Kent Anderson

by Kent Anderson

The Assassins Gallery

by David L. Robbins

New Year’s Eve, 1945. The assassin steps out of the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of a raging nor’easter. Cool and efficient, she’s a weapon of war superbly trained in the ancient arts of subterfuge and murder. And even though she’s outnumbered, she’s got one major advantage: No one knows she’s coming. Professor Mikhal Lammeck’s specialty is the history and weaponry of assassins. But even Lammeck is caught off... (more)

Fields of Fire

by James Webb

They each had their reasons for being a soldier. They each had their illusions. Goodrich came from Harvard. Snake got the tattoo — Death Before Dishonor — before he got the uniform. And Hodges was haunted by the ghosts of family heroes. They were three young men from different worlds plunged into a white-hot, murderous realm of jungle warfare as it was fought by one Marine platoon in the An Hoa Basin, 1969. They... (more)

The Pesthouse

by Jim Crace

Jim Crace is a writer of spectacular originality and a command of language that moves a reader effortlessly into the world of his imagination. In The Pesthouse he imagines an America of the future where a man and a woman trek across a devastated and dangerous landscape, finding strength in each other and an unexpected love. Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States is now a lawless,... (more)

Scorched Earth

by David L. Robbins

From David L. Robbins, bestselling author of The End of War and War of the Rats, comes a novel of searing intensity and uncompromising vision. Part mystery, part legal thriller, it is a story of crime and punishment set in a small southern town during one brutal, hot, and unforgiving summer that lays bare the potential of the human heart to hate–and, ultimately, to heal. Scorched Earth The inhabitants of... (more)

I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagons Black World

by Trevor Paglen

They’re on the shoulder of all military personnel: patches that symbolize what a soldier’s unit does. But what happens if it’s top secret? Shown here for the first time, these sixty patches reveal a secret world of military imagery and jargon, where classified projects are known by peculiar names (“Goat Suckers,” “None of Your Fucking Business,” “Tastes Like Chicken”) and illustrated with occult symbols and... (more)

Foreigner 4: Book 1

Conspirator (Foreigner #10)

by C. J. Cherryh

First in a brand-new Foreigner trilogy from Hugo Award winning author C. J. Cherryh. Cajeiri is the young son of the powerful leader of the Western Association—and he has become a target for forces bent on destroying his father’s rule. For Cajeiri is the first ateva youth to have lived in a human environment. And after hundreds of years of fragile atevi-human coexistence, he may very well be the first of... (more)

Quirk Classics

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

The Classic Regency Romance - Now With Ultraviolent Mayhem!

by Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies , an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine... (more)

Bat-21

by William C. Anderson

One of the great true adventures of the Vietnam war...A heroic fight for survival in the jungle hell.

Standard catalog of military firearms : the collector's price and reference guide

Standard catalog of military firearms : the collector's price and reference guide

by Ned Schwing

For military historians and firearm enthusiasts this inclusive reference is a key resource to nearly all the military firearms available to U.S. collectors. Standard Catalog of Military Firearms features listings for firearms manufactured in 1870 through the present. Listings for firearms including handguns, submachine guns, rifles and machineguns from more than 25 countries fill the pages of this... (more)

Ringworld: Book 2

Ringworld Engineers

by Larry Niven

"This rousing sequel to the classic Ringworld continues the adventures of Louis Wu and Speaker-to-Animals on that fantastic planet."--School Library Journal An ALA Best Book for Young Adults

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Hell's Faire (Human-Posleen War series)

by John Ringo

Gust Front

by John Ringo

When the Devil Dances

by John Ringo

A Hymn Before Battle

by John Ringo

Beowulf's Children

by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes

The Dragons of Heorot

by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes

The End of War

by David L. Robbins

Liquor, Guns and Ammo: The Collected Short Fiction and Non-Fiction of Kent Anderson

by Kent Anderson

The Assassins Gallery

by David L. Robbins

Fields of Fire

by James Webb

The Pesthouse

by Jim Crace

Scorched Earth

by David L. Robbins

I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagons Black World

by Trevor Paglen

Conspirator (Foreigner #10)

by C. J. Cherryh

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

The Classic Regency Romance - Now With Ultraviolent Mayhem!

by Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen

Bat-21

by William C. Anderson

Standard catalog of military firearms : the collector's price and reference guide

by Ned Schwing

Ringworld Engineers

by Larry Niven