Minnesota’s toughest farm boys take on Iraqi insurgents in one of the most irreverent and outrageous memoirs to come out of the Iraq War. When they deployed for Iraq, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 136th Infantry Regiment of the Minnesota National Guard, was mostly composed of farm kids from the Midwest. But make no mistake—these boys could replace a tank track on the side of the road using nothing but a crescent wrench, Zippo lighter, and a two-by-four. Once they arrived, they fought alongside the Marine Corps in Anbar province through the deadliest period of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Bravo Company earned the nickname “Bristol’s Bastards” after USMC Colonel George Bristol, commanding officer of the IMEF Headquarters Group, adopted this band of fierce warriors as one of his own. Specialist Nick Maurstad, a member of Bristol’s Bastards, brings to life the experience of fighting in Iraq: kicking down doors, dodging IEDs, battling insurgents in the small towns surrounding Fallujah, and trying to help one another survive in the deadliest place on earth.

This biography will go behind the gossip columns to examine the true story of one of musical history's most successful and influential icons.

Between is a new sci-fi/fantasy adventure from the mind behind The Book of Deacon, Free-Wrench, and Big Sigma. Philo Middleton wasn’t having a very good day. It began with him waking up strapped to a chair inside a strange, high-tech chamber. His mind was wiped clean, even his own name unfamiliar to him. And yet somehow things went sharply downhill from there. After being collected by Rill, a three-headed sea serpent with a curious set of dispositions, he learned he had somehow found his way to a place known by its many displaced residents as The Between. It wasn’t so much a location as a lack of location. Time did not exist there. The concepts of direction, distance, and gravity were subjective at best. Worst of all, with laws of physics dictated largely by whim, science and technology were nearly worthless. Those with a mind for magic held all the power, and those unfortunate ‘science-types?’ They did what they were told. Philo was quickly joined by a cast of characters unified only in their desires to survive and one day return to their homes. Along with Rill, he soon found himself either aligned or at odds with creatures like Trixie the mechanically-inclined demon, Mr. Stubbs the scheming hobgoblin, and the vampiric Duke. They worked as the all-purpose henchmen known as ‘fetchers’ for the adorably nefarious Overseer. If he wanted to survive, Philo would have to find a way to make himself useful, and if he wanted to escape, he would have to find people he could trust. Too bad the only thing rarer than a useful science-type was a trustworthy fetcher.

A study of one of popular culture's superstars whose enchanting mystique pervades the modern world

Evie Campbell has a secret. No one can know that ten years ago, she had married and divorced the now-notorious Jackson Auclair. Her parents would be disappointed, her career destroyed. She and Jackson had ensured that they would never interact after their divorce: he claimed France as his, and she took all the U.S. states west of the Mississippi. When Evie accidentally violates their divorce agreement and lands into France with her new fiancé, Jackson threatens to reveal her biggest-kept secret unless she accepts his deal to dump her fiancé and spend the next two weeks with him. Could she resume her relationship with Jackson without falling in love with him all over again? Jackson Auclair leads a wealthy life, but a lonely one. As a kid constantly denied the same love and attention as his three half brothers, he learned long ago to fight for what he wanted. His ruthless drive is what made him launch Zohra, the largest sex club in the world. But it’s not enough. He wants legitimacy, and opening up a nightclub in Las Vegas will be the first step. His divorce agreement keeps him from operating in Nevada, but he has a plan—he’ll get Evie to lift the boundaries. When Evie’s life is threatened during her stay in France, Jackson’s plan is turned topsy turvy. He now has to decide what he wants more: Evie or Vegas.

Noyes documents the evolution of the concept of masochism with scenes in literature from John Cleland's Fanny Hill through Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs and Pauline Reage's Story of 0.

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What happens when the confirmed bachelor and K9 veteran falls for the one woman who has no intentions of ever settling down? Sure, he has biceps the size of my thick thighs and a rugged lumberjack exterior that satisfies all of my fantasies about climbing a man like a tree, but I'm not looking for a relationship—especially with a confirmed bachelor. Besides, I'm also happily single and don't plan to change that. Ever. Maybe it’s my hyper independence that keeps me firmly in bachelorette territory… Or maybe it’s that every relationship in my family has devolved into a bitter, messy divorce and turned those of us within blast radius into jaded bystanders. Still, Michael Kemp is fun to play with. I crave him like a puppy craves a treat. We can mess around and enjoy each other until something else comes along, right? Even if I do catch feelings, he never has to know. So why do I feel like he’s the one who not only caught feelings, but is ready to walk down the aisle? Is it the lusty haze and afterglow of our red hot attraction making him believe he feels things for me that he can’t possibly feel? Is that also what makes me feel like I can’t breathe when we’re apart? I have to call off whatever this is before one of us gets hurt, only he’s not making it easy. He says we fit together inexplicably. He says he craves my touch, my time, my insatiable spirit. He says I’m his. But can I accept that he is mine?

I don’t want to hurt you. But once we’re in the hotel room? I’m in charge. I will have what I want. Katy Michaels has only one purpose when she crashes New York’s most notorious New Year’s party. But within seconds of laying eyes on a mysterious stranger, she knows three things: 1) He's dangerous. 2) He wants her. 3) He knows exactly what she needs. Austin Treffen is the kind of man who doesn’t even pretend to be civilised beneath his exquisite handmade suits. For the first time in her life, Katy is going to throw caution—and her virginity—to the wind and seize everything that he has to offer. But one incredible night lifts the lid on a shocking sensuality that Katy had only ever dreamed of. Now they must decide if what they have is worth fighting for! Collect all three novels in the Fifth Avenue Trilogy: AVENGE ME by USA TODAY bestselling author Maisey Yates SCANDALIZE ME by USA TODAY bestselling author Caitlin Crews EXPOSE ME by USA TODAY bestselling author Kate Hewitt

The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilized ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem newly possible. The upper classes could increasingly afford to distance themselves from the suffering they claimed to feel more exquisitely than did their supposedly less refined contemporaries and antecedents. The five US literary realists examined in this study resisted this contemporary revulsion from pain without going so far as to join those who celebrated suffering for its invigorating effects. William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and Charles Chesnutt embraced the concept of a heightened sensitivity to pain as a consequence of the civilizing process but departed from their peers by delineating alternative definitions of a superior sensibility indebted to suffering. Although the treatment of pain in other influential nineteenth century literary modes including sentimentalism and naturalism has attracted ample scholarly attention, this book offers the first sustained analysis of pain's importance to US literary realism as practiced by five of its most influential proponents.