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Operation Tidal Wave tells the story of the bloodiest air battle in the history of war. It is about 1,700 airmen who set out to bomb the oil refineries surrounding the city of Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943. Success, they thought, would be a force in ending the war. Success, instead, was extremely limited, and 500 airmen were killed, wounded, captured, or interned. Negligible damage resulted at the Ploesti refineries, and a few months later, they were operating at 100 percent capacity.

Rose McKenzie is no stranger to running. After the death of her father threatens to bring her back under her mother’s control permanently, Rose flees again. This time it’s to the only sanctuary she’s ever known: a tiny island called Nora. A shadow looms over her childhood haven. The longer she stays in Nora, the more Rose realizes the island she knew has changed. Families are leaving in droves, and strangers are taking their places, strangers that don’t seem… human.

You are no doubt a busy student with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to read your textbooks in preparation for the life and health insurance exam. However, the truth is that the life and health insurance exam is a challenging test. It is normal to have some anxiety about taking this test.

If you want to pass the life and health insurance exam but don’t have a lot of time for studying, pay attention.... You are no doubt a busy student with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to read your textbooks in preparation for the life and health insurance exam. However, the truth is that the life and health insurance exam is a challenging test. It is normal to have some anxiety about taking this test. Thorough preparation cannot be overlooked. That is why the author Alexis Monroe, an insurance professional, developed the life and health insurance exam!

Travis Nolan is back in town and doing everything he can to get right back out of it again. Finding out that his father devised a way to keep him locked in the small town of Fairplay, even after death, has him doing everything he can to complete his new obligations. But now there's a small pixy red-head that just won't get out of his way and out of his mind.

Melissa is back in Fairplay, Texas, for good. After taking over the small health clinic in town, she finally feels like she has everything she's ever wanted. But when Reece West walks into the clinic, she quickly switches her gears as to what her desires are. Now she'll do just about anything to get the man of her dreams.

Entrepreneur, media mogul, celebrity and the ultimate sports fan... Mark Cuban is one of the most colorful and controversial billionaires of our time. A self-made man who has inspired millions to follow their own dreams. Mark Cuban: The Maverick Billionaire is the first in the Modern Moguls series of biographical profiles, spotlighting the men and women who shape our modern business landscape.

Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable. Are these new values randomly chosen or is there a pattern? Pendulum chronicles the stuttering history of western society; that endless back-and-forth swing between one excess and another, always reminded of what we left behind.

Barry Pain was noted for his humorous tales of "Eliza" and her husband, but his tales of the weird and supernatural are equally noteworthy. This volume contains seven of them.

The Chronicles of Clovis, which was published in 1911, was the third of Saki's collections of short stories. The character of Clovis Sangrail is, like Saki's earlier hero, Reginald, vain, sarcastic, and self-regarding and another vehicle for Saki's delicious, biting wit satirizing Edwardian high society in some of the funniest exquisite literary miniatures.

In 2005, historian Jason Emerson discovered a steamer trunk formerly owned by Robert Todd Lincoln's lawyer and stowed in an attic for 40 years. The trunk contained a rare find: 25 letters pertaining to Mary Todd Lincoln's life and insanity case, letters assumed long destroyed by the Lincoln family. Mary wrote 20 of the letters herself, more than half from the insane asylum to which her son Robert had her committed, and many in the months and years after. The Madness of Mary Lincoln is the first examination of Mary Lincoln's mental illness based on the lost letters in 20 years.

E. F. Benson (1867-1940) is probably best known today for his sparkling, comic Lucia novels. In his own day it was his ghost stories that were his most popular works. "Naboth's Vineyard" exemplifies Benson's fine literary style and his ability to create the most frightening of supernatural and macabre tales.

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a poet, critic, novelist, and playwright. He was born in London and educated at Eton and Oxford and was a contemporary of the Pre-Raphaelites. "Hymn to Proserpine" was published in 1866 in "Poems and Ballads", Swinburne's first collection of poems which was a great success but which contained subjects that were, at the time, very controversial. Other poems in this collection are: "A Ballad of Dreamland", "A Leave-Taking", "At Parting", "August", "Genesis", "Itylus", "Rococo", "Sapphics", "An Interlude", "The Nightingale", "Three Faces", and "Before the Mirror."

The delicious, biting wit of Saki's short stories satirizing Edwardian high society are some of the funniest and most delightful of exquisite literary miniatures. In this second volume, there are 22 glittering examples.

En janvier 2019, les familles d’Edith Blais et de l’Italien Luca Tacchetto lancent un appel à l’aide: les deux voyageurs ont disparu quelque part en Afrique sans laisser de traces. Entre la nouvelle de leur disparition et celle de leur libération, 15 mois s’écouleront pendant lesquels personne ne sait ce qu’il est advenu d’eux. Avec Le sablier, Edith lève le voile sur son histoire et répond aux questions que tous se posent.

Selling My Virgin Daughter to the Homeless Guy: Impregnated Due to Debt, is a family story about a father who has a debt to a homeless man, that he cannot readily repay. Because repayment is due immediately, the father has no choice but to use his sexy 18-year-old virgin daughter as payment for the debt. She reluctantly accepts her fate, as she is taken and begins a new life full of chains, impregnation, and babies.

Stuck in a loveless marriage, Jim was miserable. It never occurred to him that the solution to his loneliness was so close! Jim admired his sexy foster daughter, Storm, but it wasn't until she turned up the heat that he realized she wanted him as a lover. Home from college on spring break, their illicit affair begins under the cover of Daddy's Perfect Storm.

Christmas is quickly approaching and with a day off, Jenny decides to go on a shopping spree. Why not take advantage of all the sales? But when she overdrafts hers and Matt's bank account and then lies about not feeling well, she knows she deserves the punishment she's about to receive. Matt turns her over his lap and gives her the sound hairbrush and belt spanking she deserves.

Simon's love life is in need of a serious revamp. Ever since his wife left him because he was too unadventurous in bed, he's completely lost his mojo. In his public life, Simon is a popular celebrity chef, known for his friendly demeanor. When he's invited to take part in a live television show called Come Dance with the Stars, he accepts. His partner is french beauty Nancy. Dancing with Nancy means getting extremely close to those beautiful thighs and skin-tight leggings. Then, Simon begins to feel things in his heart - and in Nancy's pants - that he wasn't expecting.

Classic Poems for Boys comprises a delightfully varied set of over 20 poems for 5- to 10-year olds. From rousing favorites like Felicia Dorothea Hemans’ "Casabianca" and John Keats’ "A Song About Myself", to dreamy, thoughtful poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Rudyard Kipling, this is a collection to be treasured.