"At the high point of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark Weber was tapped by General David Petraeus to serve in a high profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Within weeks, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three ... When [he] realized that he was not going to survive this final tour of combat, he began to write a letter to his boys, so that as they grew...

"A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from "America's best novelist" (Denver Post), the New York Times-bestselling James Lee Burke. Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the...

At the heart of Western Europe lies a huge swath of land that stretches from the mud and fog of the North Sea coast; down through countless market towns, ports, fortresses, an ancient cathedrals; through a mass of river systems and forests; all the way to the great barrier of the Alps. Divided by languages, religions, and frontiers, everyone living there shares on thing: they are inhabitants of a lost part of Europe - Lotharingia. In his highly entertaining...

Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park Lake and finally, in the army. But Berger's final effort...

"This anthology amplifies and centers LGBTQIA+ voices and perspectives in a collection of contemporary nature poetry. Showcasing over two hundred queer writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Queer Nature offers a new context for and expands upon the canon of nature poetry while also offering new lenses through which to view queerness and the natural world."--Publisher description.

"Join your pals, Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph and Zuko in this treasure trove of short stories from the world of Avatar: the last airbender. From Earth King Kuei to the Kyoshi Warriors, and Mai to the Boulder, your favorite friends are back for a wide-ranging exploration of life in their world. And, where they go, danger, fun and hijinks are sure to follow!"--Page 4 of cover