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  Drowning in the Desert - A JAG's...

  Vivian H. Gembara, Deborah A....

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  A judge advocate general officer chronicles her experiences working as a lawyer for the US Army overseas in the Iraq War from 2003 to 2004. 
   
  Several people are waiting to greet Captain Vivian Gembara when she returns home after a year-long tour of duty in Iraq—her grateful fiancé and two officers dispatched from headquarters to retrieve “the file.” Certainly not the homecoming she expected, but such is life when you are in the business of soldiers behaving badly. 
   
  As a lawyer for the US Army, Vivian counsels them, investigates them, and when necessary, prosecutes them. When an Iraqi teenager’s body is found floating in the Tigris River and US soldiers are believed to have been involved, she knows she has a case on her hands. What she doesn’t realize is just how much that case will reveal about the Army’s conduct at war. 
   
  Drowning in the Desert:A JAG’s Search for Justice in Iraq is both a legal thriller and a searing account of the savagery that occurs when commanders place “the fight” above all else. 
   
  Praise for Drowning in the Desert 
   
  “This is an honest account of one officer struggling to return with honor from early in the Iraq war when the U.S. Army didn’t understand how to fight it.” —Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq 
   
  “A fascinating true story with all the intrigue of a bestselling mystery novel.” —Donald P. Bellisario, creator of the hit TV series JAG and NCIS

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  Alexander Kuprin - A Short Story...

  Alexander Kuprin

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  Alexander Kuprin was born in Narovchat, Penza in Russia on 7th September 1870. 
   
  At 3 his Father died and he and mother moved to Moscow. By 10 he was enrolled at the Second Moscow Military High School and there his interest in literature began. The Alexander Military Academy followed and two years later he was a sub-lieutenant and posted to an Infantry Regiment for a further four years. 
   
  Despite his duties he was a now a keen writer and published his first short story at this time. His military duties also garnered him experiences for his breakthrough work ‘The Duel’.  Leaving the military he left for Kiev to work for local newspapers.  He continued to publish both stories and novels and by 1901 he was in St Petersburg becoming part of a group that included Chekhov, Ivan Bunin, Maxim Gorky and Leonid Andreyev.  
   
  In the years that followed further controversial works and acclaim followed.  His comments on the regime meant he was also put under secret police surveillance.   
   
  As World War I erupted, Kuprin opened a military hospital but was then given command of an infantry company in Finland. He was soon discharged on grounds of ill health.  
   
  The October Revolution saw him praise Lenin, but he warned that the Bolsheviks threatened Russian culture and might cause further widespread suffering to the peasants.  As Civil War raged he took his family to Helsinki and then on to Paris. 
   
  Exile saw his talents decline further and his succumbing to alcoholism. He became lonely and withdrawn. The family's poverty increased his malaise.   
   
  In May 1937, the Kuprin’s returned to Moscow.  He now saw his work published but wrote almost nothing new.  In 1938 his health rapidly deteriorated.  Already suffering from a kidney problems and sclerosis, he had now developed cancer of the oesophagus.  
   
  Alexander Kuprin died on 25th August 1938. 
   
  1 - Alexander Kuprin - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - A Slav Soul by Alexander Kuprin 
  3 - Cain by Alexander Kuprin  
  4 - An Evening Guest by Alexander Kuprin 
  5 - Demir Kaya by Alexander Kuprin 
  6 - A Legend by Alexander Kuprin 
  7 - Anathema by Alexander Kuprin 
  8 - The Garden of the Holy Virgin by Alexander Kuprin 
  9 - The Outrage by Alexander Kuprin 
  10 - The Park of Kings by Alexander Kuprin

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  Dead Run - The Murder of a...

  Dan Schultz

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  On a sunny May morning in 1998, in the small town of Cortez, Colorado, three “survivalists” in a stolen truck opened fire on a local policeman, shooting him 29 times as he unbuckled his seatbelt. Police chased the murderers through the searing heat into the remote wilderness canyons of the Four Corners area, thus beginning the largest manhunt in the history of the West. Dead Run is the first in-depth account of this sensational case: then story of the outlaws’ path to sudden violence, their frightening web of anti-government militia and outlaw associates, and the men who led the extraordinary effort to apprehend them. More than a modern crime story,Dead Run is also an examination of the seductive allure of outlaw culture in the West and how it continues to inform latent national attitudes towards guns, authority, and unfettered freedom.

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  Greatest Americans: George...

  George Washington

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  “…a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments which are the result of much reflection…and which appear to me all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a people…interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment…”Written near the end of his second term as president, “Washington’s Farewell Address,” is more than the empty jargon of a politician – it is nothing short of the heartfelt concern of a gentle leader for his people’s continuing welfare.

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  Short Nonfiction Collection Vol 037

  Various Various

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  Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, blow-pipe weapons, Oriental china; impressions of America by Enrico Caruso, Oscar Wilde, and Charles W. Eliot; Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass; film directors Ernst Lubitsch and King Vidor; architect Louis Sullivan; Roe vs. Wade, women's rights; microphobia, the Boy Scouts, Kentucky's blue-grass region, and wintry weather. (Summary by Sue Anderson)

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  Bluenose Magic

  Helen Creighton

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  A collection of traditional Nova Scotian folktales, superstitions and home remedies compiled by the Canadian folklorist and author of Bluenose Ghosts.   Beginning in 1928, Dr. Helen Creighton traveled across her native Nova Scotia seeking out and recording its rich heritage in the form of ghost stories, folktales, and folksongs. She first shared her findings in 1957 with the collection Bluenose Ghosts, and followed its success eleven years later with Bluenose Magic, both of which are considered classics of Maritime literature.   This fascinating volume welcomes readers into a supernatural world of witchcraft, enchantment, and buried treasure. It shares stories of the region’s indigenous Mi’kmaq people as well as variations of tales brought over from Europe. Here too are folk remedies, dream interpretation, divination, superstitions, and more that has been passed on from generation to generation of Nova Scotia’s families

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