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Starfist volume 1
Language
English
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A group of marines from the 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team get stranded on a desert planet without any advanced weaponry and must fight their way through two thousand savage killers to safety.
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Last Christmas Marcie Sullivan said a final goodbye to her husband, Bobby. This Christmas she wants to find the man who saved his life and gave her three more years to love him. Fellow marine Ian Buchanan dragged Bobby's shattered body onto a medical transport four years ago, then disappeared once their unit arrived stateside. Since then, Marcie's letters to Ian have gone unanswered. Marcie tracks Ian to the tiny mountain town of Virgin River and...
Author
Series
A Rollie Waters novel volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rollie Waters is an undercover marine who was raised by a con artist father. When a lot of U.S. government money goes missing, Rollie's father is the main suspect, and Rollie is called to track him down. He discovers that the only way to find his father is to trace the frail tendrils of truth scattered among Rollie's childhood memories. To do that , he'll have to go deep into the undercover identity of a lifetime: his own.
Author
Series
Starfist volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Combat, betrayal, and murder at the edge of human space . . .
Deployed to assist the oligarchs of Wanderjahr in putting down a rebellion that threatens the planet's political and economic stability, the Marines must fight two wars at the same time . . . one against the resourceful, well-led guerrillas and another with the entrenched police bureaucracy.
But who is the real enemy and who can be trusted? On Wanderjahr, nothing is as it...
Deployed to assist the oligarchs of Wanderjahr in putting down a rebellion that threatens the planet's political and economic stability, the Marines must fight two wars at the same time . . . one against the resourceful, well-led guerrillas and another with the entrenched police bureaucracy.
But who is the real enemy and who can be trusted? On Wanderjahr, nothing is as it...
5) The drifter
Author
Series
Peter Ash novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his "white static," the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming in nature, sleeping under the stars. But when a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Ash returns to civilization to help the man's widow with some home repairs. Under her dilapidated porch, he finds more than he bargained for: the...
6) Truly sweet
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
At sixteen, Annabelle Morgan hoped her crush on Jake Wilder was just a passing phase. Now she's twenty-nine and nothing has changed--except Jake. The once-carefree Marine has come home with a giant chip on his shoulder. He insists a single mom like Annie deserves more than he can offer. Yet no matter how gruff his gorgeous exterior may be, Jake's toe-curling kisses convince her that his attraction is definitely mutual. Butting heads with feisty Annie...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of Bull Meecham, the epitome of the Marine officer. Demanding, authoritarian, as tough a disciplinarian at home as at the base, Bull is a difficult man to please, and even harder to love. This is also the story of Ben Meecham, Bull's oldest son. A gifted athlete whose best never satisfies his father, Ben must balance his own ambition with his father's expectations - and decide what course he will chart for himself and what kind...
Author
Series
Marcus Ryker novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
September 1999: A series of apartment bombings in Moscow are blamed on Chechen terrorist. Oleg Kreakin, on the Russian president's personal staff, has no idea how the bombings will alter the course of world events. September 2001: Following the events of 9/11, Marcus Ryker enlists in the Marines, eventually joining the Secret Service and working his way up to the Presidential Protection Detail. Now: The President is distracted by tensions in North...
Author
Publisher
dpunkt
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
1. Auflage.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (212 pages) : color illustrations
Language
Deutsch
Description
In diesem Buch werden alle Zutaten für spektakuläre Küstenfotos behandelt, von der Bildidee über die Ausführung bis zur Bildbearbeitung – ein wolkenverhangener Himmel, rollende Wellen oder Treibsand während eines Sturms, Muster und Texturen im Sand und vor allem das besondere Licht gehören zu den beliebtesten Motiven.
11) Lazarus rising
Author
Series
Starfist volume 9
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"It's the rule--always watch your fives and twenty-fives. When a convoy halts to investigate a possible roadside bomb, stay in the vehicle and scan five meters in every direction. A bomb inside five meters cuts through the armor, killing everyone in the truck. Once clear, get out and sweep twenty-five meters. A bomb inside twenty-five meters kills the dismounted scouts investigating the road ahead. Fives and twenty-fives mark the measure of a marine's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The thrilling final installment in Tanya Huff's military sci-fi adventure Confederation series
Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr was the very model of a Confederation Marine. She’d survived more deadly encounters than anyone in the Corps. No one who’d ever served with her could imagine her walking away from the Corps. But that was before Torin had learned the truth about the war the Confederation was fighting…before she’d...
Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr was the very model of a Confederation Marine. She’d survived more deadly encounters than anyone in the Corps. No one who’d ever served with her could imagine her walking away from the Corps. But that was before Torin had learned the truth about the war the Confederation was fighting…before she’d...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Tired of being a nobody and faced with his solitary life as a divorced fifty-year-old with few friends, Hugo Marder discovers a chance to transform himself when he purchases a Silver Star in an online auction, and passes himself off as a war hero.
18) The lucky one
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive - a photograph he found of a woman he doesn't even know. Learning her name is Beth and where she lives, he shows up at her door, and ends up taking a job at her family-run local kennel. Despite her initial mistrust and the complications in her life, a romance develops between them, giving Logan hope that Beth could be...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Damien Lewis has spent twenty years reporting from conflict zones around the world. Zero Six Bravo'a Sunday Times number one bestseller'tells the story of "sixty special forces against 100,000'a feat of arms to take the breath away." (Frederick Forsythe) They were branded as cowards and accused desertion. But nothing could be further from the truth. Ten years on, the story of these sixty men can finally be told. In March 2003, M Squadron'an SBS unit...
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