Author: Cora Seton Publisher: One Acre Press ISBN: 1927036992 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 246
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Airman Connor O’Riley never believed in love until he saw proof of it in the most unlikely place--a battlefield in the middle of the Syrian civil war. Now he's in hot water with the Air Force, and if he wants to clear his name he'll have to put his new-found belief in love to the test--by convincing his superior officer's daughter to marry him. Sadie Reed is done with love. Her poor choices nearly got her sisters killed when she fell for a man entrenched in the drug trade. She’s ready to leave Chance Creek—just as soon as her sister returns from her honeymoon. So when a handsome airman shows up at Two Willows, with orders from her father to help Sadie build a legacy project, she gives Connor one month to get it done. Connor never thought he’d fall for Sadie, but when he learns she means to leave, he knows far more than his mission--and his future--is at stake. Can he convince her to stay? Or will love remain out of his reach for good? The Brides of Chance Creek: BOOK 1: Issued to the Bride One Navy SEAL BOOK 2: Issued to the Bride One Airman BOOK 3: Issued to the Bride One Sniper BOOK 4: Issued to the Bride One Marine BOOK 5: Issued to the Bride One Soldier BOOK 6: Issued to the Bride One Sergeant for Christmas
Author: Cora Seton Publisher: One Acre Press ISBN: 1988896339 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 263
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Orphaned at seven, kicked out by his aunt and uncle at 16, Sergeant Emerson Myers gave up on family until General Augustus Reed chose him as his assistant, becoming as much a father-figure as a commanding officer. But when the General starts sending elite forces men home to marry his estranged daughters, Emerson’s torn between relief at not being given such an irrevocable mission and dismay the man never even considered him for the job. Wyoming Smith has watched with a mixture of wonder and horror—and a little envy, if she’s honest—as her best friend Cass and all Cass’s sisters have married the warriors their father sent to them. Witnessing their happiness was hard enough when her life was on track, but now she’s lost her job and her apartment and she’s accepted Cass’s invitation to live at Two Willows, which means she has a front row seat to five loving marriages—while remaining all alone. Emerson knows marriage isn’t for him and he’s ready to recommit to his career in the Army—but before he can, an explosion rips his life apart—and the General’s. Wyoming knows everything will change now that the General is coming home to Two Willows. Will she have to leave? Or has the General had a bigger plan all along? The Brides of Chance Creek: BOOK 1: Issued to the Bride One Navy SEAL BOOK 2: Issued to the Bride One Airman BOOK 3: Issued to the Bride One Sniper BOOK 4: Issued to the Bride One Marine BOOK 5: Issued to the Bride One Soldier BOOK 6: Issued to the Bride One Sergeant for Christmas
Author: Jerome W. Sheridan Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786494972 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 259
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In May of 1944, American airman Gerald E. Sorensen was shot down over Nazi occupied Belgium. The Belgian Resistance recovered Sorensen and sheltered him in the home of the Abeels family. Friendship between Sorensen and the Abeels blossomed and they came to consider each other as family. The Abeels were active in the Resistance and Sorensen ultimately volunteered to join his Belgian brother Roger Abeels in the Secret Army. Just moments before the British Army arrived to liberate the village of Marcq-lez-Enghien, Sorensen and Abeels were killed in combat with the Nazis, fighting side-by-side. This book tells Sorensen's story: his upbringing, education, marriage and military service; his evasion of capture and kinship with the Abeels; his experience in the Resistance; his final combat and his impact on those he left behind. But this book is more than a biography. It recounts the courageous struggle of the Belgians who risked everything to save Allied airmen and explains why Sorensen and Abeels are extraordinary symbols of the enduring values at the heart of today's transatlantic alliance.
Author: Cora Seton Publisher: One Acre Press ISBN: 192703695X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 230
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Marine Logan Hughes uses humor like a shield, but he's dead serious when it comes to getting the job done--especially when the job is protecting the woman he's been sent to Montana to marry. Too bad Lena Reed doesn't think she needs protecting...or a husband. Lena knows she's the best one to run her family's ranch, and she'll be damned if she'll let a man her father sent steal control of her cattle operation--or her heart. But Logan Huges isn't like any other man she's met. Fiercely loyal, as determined as she is to let her take charge of the ranch, she's falling for him in spite of herself. But when trouble comes to Two Willows, will she trust him--or turn her back on love for good? The Brides of Chance Creek: BOOK 1: Issued to the Bride One Navy SEAL BOOK 2: Issued to the Bride One Airman BOOK 3: Issued to the Bride One Sniper BOOK 4: Issued to the Bride One Marine BOOK 5: Issued to the Bride One Soldier BOOK 6: Issued to the Bride One Sergeant for Christmas
Author: Cora Seton Publisher: One Acre Press ISBN: 1927036933 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 269
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Marry—or else. Navy SEAL Brian Lake is out of luck. Going rogue on his last mission landed him on a fast track out of the Navy—years too soon to have saved up enough money to buy the ranch he’s always wanted. Without a career—or the cash to start over—Brian’s options are few, until Army general Augustus Reed steps in with an intriguing new mission—a permanent one. Ignored by her absentee father, duped by thief he appointed to oversee her family’s ranch, Cass Reed is done with men for good. From now on she’s determined to run Two Willows herself, so when her father sends a Navy SEAL to fix up her house, she vows to run him off her land as soon as possible. But Brian’s just as determined to stay, and he’s in a far different league than the men she’s met before. Brian’s ready to do anything that will earn him a share of a prosperous ranch—even take a chance on marrying the General’s daughter. And he soon realizes it won’t be a hardship to marry Cass. She’s everything he’s ever dreamed of in a woman—and Two Willows is everything he wanted in a ranch. But he’s not the only one who wants Two Willows—and Cass. Will falling in love be the most dangerous mission of all? The Brides of Chance Creek: BOOK 1: Issued to the Bride One Navy SEAL BOOK 2: Issued to the Bride One Airman BOOK 3: Issued to the Bride One Sniper BOOK 4: Issued to the Bride One Marine BOOK 5: Issued to the Bride One Soldier BOOK 6: Issued to the Bride One Sergeant for Christmas
Author: Laura Hillenbrand Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 0812974492 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 530
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will. Appearing in paperback for the first time—with twenty arresting new photos and an extensive Q&A with the author—Unbroken is an unforgettable testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit, brought vividly to life by Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand. Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and the Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year award “Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”—The Wall Street Journal “[A] one-in-a-billion story . . . designed to wrench from self-respecting critics all the blurby adjectives we normally try to avoid: It is amazing, unforgettable, gripping, harrowing, chilling, and inspiring.”—New York “Staggering . . . mesmerizing . . . Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so incredible, you don’t dare take your eyes off the page.”—People “A meticulous, soaring and beautifully written account of an extraordinary life.”—The Washington Post “Ambitious and powerful . . . a startling narrative and an inspirational book.”—The New York Times Book Review “Magnificent . . . incredible . . . [Hillenbrand] has crafted another masterful blend of sports, history and overcoming terrific odds; this is biography taken to the nth degree, a chronicle of a remarkable life lived through extraordinary times.”—The Dallas Morning News “An astonishing testament to the superhuman power of tenacity.”—Entertainment Weekly “A tale of triumph and redemption . . . astonishingly detailed.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[A] masterfully told true story . . . nothing less than a marvel.”—Washingtonian “[Hillenbrand tells this] story with cool elegance but at a thrilling sprinter’s pace.”—Time “Hillenbrand [is] one of our best writers of narrative history. You don’t have to be a sports fan or a war-history buff to devour this book—you just have to love great storytelling.”—Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Author: Andy Dunn Publisher: Crown Currency ISBN: 0593238281 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 321
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this “gripping” (TechCrunch), “eye-opening” (Gayle King, Oprah Daily) memoir of mental illness and entrepreneurship, the co-founder of the menswear startup Bonobos opens up about the struggle with bipolar disorder that nearly cost him everything. “Arrestingly candid . . . the most powerful book I’ve read on manic depression since An Unquiet Mind.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of WorkLife At twenty-eight, fresh from Stanford’s MBA program and steeped in the move-fast-and-break-things ethos of Silicon Valley, Andy Dunn was on top of the world. He was building a new kind of startup—a digitally native, direct-to-consumer brand—out of his Manhattan apartment. Bonobos was a new-school approach to selling an old-school product: men’s pants. Against all odds, business was booming. Hustling to scale the fledgling venture, Dunn raised tens of millions of dollars while boundaries between work and life evaporated. As he struggled to keep the startup afloat, Dunn was haunted by a ghost: a diagnosis of bipolar disorder he received after a frightening manic episode in college, one that had punctured the idyllic veneer of his midwestern upbringing. He had understood his diagnosis as an unspeakable shame that—according to the taciturn codes of his fraternity, the business world, and even his family—should be locked away. As Dunn’s business began to take off, however, some of the very traits that powered his success as a founder—relentless drive, confidence bordering on hubris, and ambition verging on delusion—were now threatening to undo him. A collision course was set in motion, and it would culminate in a night of mayhem—one poised to unravel all that he had built. Burn Rate is an unconventional entrepreneurial memoir, a parable for the twenty-first-century economy, and a revelatory look at the prevalence of mental illness in the startup community. With intimate prose, Andy Dunn fearlessly shines a light on the dark side of success and challenges us all to take part in the deepening conversation around creativity, performance, and disorder.
Author: Cora Seton Publisher: One Acre Press ISBN: 1927036968 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 222
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Sniper Hunter Powell thought he lost everything when he took the rap for a crime he didn't commit. Now he's got a chance to redeem himself. There's only one catch--he has to leave the military, settle down on a Montana ranch--and marry a woman he's never met before. Jo Reed, the youngest of five sisters, is used to being underestimated, so when a hardened warrior shows up on her doorstep, she knows no one believes she's ready for love. Maybe they're right, but she's definitely ready for a home of her own and now she has someone to build it for her. Building a house before the snow flies is a tall order, and convincing Jo to marry him doesn't seem much easier, but Hunter is ready for both challenges-- Until danger strikes Two Willows again--and threatens to destroy any chance at happiness that might be in his grasp. The Brides of Chance Creek: BOOK 1: Issued to the Bride One Navy SEAL BOOK 2: Issued to the Bride One Airman BOOK 3: Issued to the Bride One Sniper BOOK 4: Issued to the Bride One Marine BOOK 5: Issued to the Bride One Soldier BOOK 6: Issued to the Bride One Sergeant for Christmas
Author: Richard Pape Publisher: Review ISBN: 0755360494 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 290
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"Escape... escape... escape... by God!"' was his constant exhortation. "Never mind hunger pains, discomfort, or any other agony. Let escape become your passion, your one and only obsession until you finally reach home."' Shot down over Berlin in 1941, Richard Pape's saga of captivity is a story of courage unmatched in the annals of escape. Four escapes took him across the breadth of German-occupied Europe; to Poland and Czechoslovakia; to Austria and Hungary. Aggressive and impetuous, his adventures sweep the reader along on a torrent of excitement.
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