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Newly Revised & Polished Edition. Some bonds cannot be broken. Some secrets were never meant to be kept. When blacksmith's daughter Thea Ironwood is selected to attend the prestigious Crown's Talon Academy, she's thrust into a world where bloodlines determine destiny and dragon riders rule. No one expects her to succeed – least of all Imperial instructor Riven Skyblade, whose cold disdain makes it clear commoners don't belong among the elite. Everything changes at the Claiming Ceremony when Skyriss – a rare silver-blue dragon who has rejected countless noble candidates – chooses Thea....

In the dark days immediately after 9/11, the CIA turned to Dr. James Mitchell to help craft an interrogation program designed to elicit intelligence from just-captured top al-Qa'ida leaders and terror suspects. A civilian contractor who had spent years training U.S. military members to resist...

Surya Bonaly’s story has been told before — but never like this. This tribute offers a restored, culturally grounded understanding of one of the most electrifying athletes in figure‑skating history. Drawing from Surya’s own interviews, public talks, and decades of documented coverage, this booklet brings together the truth of her upbringing, her innovations, her battles with bias, and the legacy she carved into Olympic ice. Written by an award‑winning author who witnessed Surya’s rise in real time, this work places her achievements in their full historical and cultural context. ...

After successfully breaking the Confederate siege at Chattanooga near the end of 1863, William Tecumseh Sherman united several Union armies in the Western theater for the Atlanta Campaign, forming one of the biggest armies in American history. After detaching troops for essential garrisons and minor operations, Sherman assembled his nearly 100,000 men. In May 1864, he began his invasion of Georgia from Chattanooga, Tennessee, where his forces spanned a line roughly 500 miles wide.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of the American male author whose time has now come again.

Filled with real-life case examples, Estate Planning for the Healthy, Wealthy Family combines a positive attitude, deep psychological insight, and "hard" financial know-how for passing on money between family members while keeping relationships and values intact.

Of all the dramatic events that transpired during the Civil War, the end of the war in April 1865 brought perhaps the most remarkable of them all, and they came in such quick succession that it's still hard to believe nearly 150 years later.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of the North American male author whose time has now come again.

Some curses don't kill you. They just make sure you die alone. On her eighteenth birthday, Sage Thornwood’s life fractures with a single lie. One moment she’s ending a relationship. The next, she’s smelling rot where there should be truth. Before she can make sense of it, Sage is swept into Hallowmere Academy, a hidden world where magic is currency and every word carries weight. There, she discovers she’s inherited a dangerous legacy – one that makes trust impossible and isolation inevitable. But when everyone feels like a threat, one person doesn’t. Lysander: distant, ...

Deaths resulting from interactions with the US criminal legal system are a public health emergency, but the scope of this issue is intentionally ignored by the very systems that are supposed to be tracking these fatalities. In order to make a real difference and address this human rights problem, researchers and policy makers need reliable data.

Vanity Madonna Brown was a beautiful smart girl until her innocence was taken away by the very people that were supposed to protect her. She could not count on the crack addicted mother that she once loved, the junkie grandmother whom she had barely seen sober, or the drug dealing uncle that she looked up to. All that she had was her three cousins, who were more like her siblings. Vanity's life brightens when she meets Carlos. Will Carlos be her savior or will he contribute to her downfall? While this series is fictional, the story contained within is not. This is someone's story. This ...

NEWLY PUBLISHED! If you were moved by Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris, or Ballard's Empire of the Sun, then this book is for you. A moving and powerful page-turner of family, friendships and love, and the endurance of the human spirit, from bestselling D. M. Mitchell. Inspired by real events in the author's family history. It’s Sept 1939. Germany has invaded Poland. Twelve-year-old Jozef lives on a farm in the east of the country until the Russians invade and send him and his family to a labour camp in northern Siberia. Here they face cruelty, hardships and loss beyond anything they ...

In the first of D. M. Mitchell’s powerful trilogy, a ninety-five-year-old man makes his way into the main offices of The London Gazetteer, a popular newspaper, with an appointment to see Nicholas Harvey, the chief editor. The old man, Ronald Seaton, has a book with him – The Ashenby Incident – written by Nicholas Harvey a number of years ago. It concerns the mysterious bombing of the small East Coast Yorkshire village in 1944, an incident which wiped out most of the village’s inhabitants. But Harvey isn’t interested in what the old man has to say. At least, not until the pensioner...

This 2020 edition is a fully revised and corrected edition of the bestselling 2013 publication. If you're a fan of Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels, James Bond, or the historical novels of C J Sansom, Rory Clements and SJ Parris, you'll love this. From the bestselling author of 'The Soul Fixer' comes D. M . Mitchell's Amazon Bestseller, 'Blackdown', introducing Captain Thomas Blackdown - A Darcy with bite, a James Bond in breeches... From reviews of BLACKDOWN: "Blackdown was another jewel - kept me guessing until the unbelievable climax." "Suspense, thriller and mystery all wrapped into one...

Newly Revised & Polished Edition. The only thing more terrifying than a dragon’s roar is its silence. Fifteen months after the Battle of the Forge, Thea Ironwood is trying to build a lasting peace as the realm’s first Metal-Speaker, but the silence from the Eastern Coalition suggests the conflict is far from over. When a diplomatic mission reveals dragons stripped of their free will, turning ancient, intelligent beings into hollow biological machines, Thea recognizes the terrifying signature of an enemy she thought was destroyed. Dr. Malachite has survived the fires of the Spire, and he...

The Hollywood director Dominic Sena (Gone in Sixty Seconds, Swordfish) has approached the author about turning The Soul Fixer into a movie set in northern Canada. Susan and Paul Carmichael’s world is devastated when a small-time burglar and drug addict, Eddie Hull, brutally murders their only child, young student Becky Carmichael. Consumed by grief, they both struggle to come to terms with their tremendous loss. Their fragile relationship under mounting pressure, Susan begins to have dreams about her daughter. She is convinced these are not ordinary dreams; Becky is calling out to her for...

Over 200,000 downloads... With his acknowledged individual storytelling expertise, D. M. Mitchell pens yet another taut psychological thriller with a difference that twists and turns to its deliciously devious and unexpected conclusion. Discover for yourself why D. M. Mitchell is being hailed as one of the most exciting new writers of thriller and supernatural tales in the UK. From reviews of Mouse: D.M. Mitchell is extremely talented, he is gifted with the ability to transport the reader in such a way as to make it possible for the reader to visualise the book as though you are there ...

The Complete Idiots Guide to World War II features coverage of the fateful D-Day invasion, a critical timeline of major WW II events, and a WW II timeline highlighting the crucial and most important events of the war. It also includes details about major battles on land, in the air, and on the...

Named by my mother for an archangel, I know that my guardian angel has been on assignment through some wild episodes--and I have to thank God above for the love, persistence, and wisdom of the one assigned to me. This is my life story--and Grainger's. That's the name I call my Guardian Angel. These are the memoirs of a lifetime of challenges and struggles with a learning disorder, a love of reading, social and behavioral difficulties, and a very toxic and unfriendly family environment. But belief in God has brought me an advanced degree in education, travel to several foreign countries for ...

Poor Platypus from Australia has no weapons or anything to keep him safe from enemies. So he asks Mother Nature for help. She grants his wish(es), but when he wants TOO much, she gets mad and changes him into something completely new and different! This is a new look at a strange animal from the land Down Under.