A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Powerful, thrilling, and explosively authentic, the novels of Brigadier General A. J. Tata have won acclaim from President George W. Bush, Glenn Beck, and the bestselling masters of suspense. In Besieged, he tackles the rise of domestic terrorism in America-and puts his hero, Jake Mahegan, in the crackling center of a firestorm... It starts with the unthinkable. A school under siege. A shooter in the classroom....

In which Lord John, anticipating a voyage home to England after his brief stint as military Governor of Jamaica, instead finds himself on his way to Cuba, where the British navy is preparing to lay siege to Havana-and where the Dowager Duchess of Pardloe (aka John's mother) is a guest (and potential hostage) of Governor Juan de Prado. One of the two final novellas of SEVEN STONES TO STAND OR FALL. This collection of Outlander novellas are all dealing...

After her husband is arrested in Africa, Shandurai flees to an enchanting villa in Rome where she gains employment working for an eccentric recluse and falls in love.

Theresa Thaleman longs for adventure.At her beloved country home, Theresa is hedged and curbed about by her doting, respectable parents. Nevertheless, she manages to fall into mischief with her twin brothers and their cousin. A near-tragedy changes everything. Mrs. Thaleman insists that it's time for her daughter to give up her hoyden ways. Theresa is of an age for marriage.She gets her wish.A London Season. The attention of a cynical duke. The jealousy...

In this sexy medieval romance set in twelfth-century England, a tenacious lady's surrender leads to a fearsome warrior's seduction. England, 1147. On orders from his Empress, Lothar the Frank has come to Hertfordshire to lay siege to Castle Haword. Overpowering the depleted stronghold should be a simple task for the ruthless soldier-if it weren't for the arresting beauty of the woman who stubbornly defends it. More tomboy than trembling maiden,...

An Award-Winning Historian Dramatically Re-Creates a Turning Point of the Civil War It was one of the most startling events of the civil war, the "hour of destiny" for the Union. Faced with the prospect of catastrophic defeat, the North's greatest generals--Ulysses Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, George Thomas, and Phil Sheridan--were commanding a battle for the besieged city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Suddenly, as an aghast Grant and Thomas watched,...

What is culture? Why should we preserve it, and how? In this book renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends Western culture against its internal critics and external enemies, and argues that rumours of its death are seriously exaggerated. He shows our culture to be a continuing source of moral knowledge, and rebuts the fashionable sarcasm which sees it as nothing more than the useless legacy of 'dead white European males'. He is robust in defence...

Hanson goes undercover at a rough school after a drug dealer is found shot to death in the parking lot.