Nineteen-year-old Kate Brady joined the army to bring honor to her family and to the Middle East. Instead, she finds herself in a forgotten corner of the Iraq desert in 2003, guarding a makeshift American prison. There, Kate meets Naema Jassim, an Iraqi medical student whose father and little brother have been detained in the camp.Kate and Naema promise to help each other, but the war soon strains their intentions. Like any soldier, Kate must face the daily threats of combat duty, but as a woman, she is in equal danger from the predatory men in her unit. Naema suffers bombs, starvation, and the loss of her home and family. As the two women struggle to survive and hold on to the people they love, each comes to have a drastic and unforeseeable effect on the other’s life.Culled from real life experiences of female soldiers and Iraqis, Sand Queen offers a story of hope, courage and struggle from the rare perspective of women at war.

Product Description: One year―he'll be gone for one year and then we'll be together again and everything will be back to the way it should be. The day David left, I felt like my heart was breaking. Sure, any long–distance relationship is tough, but David was going to war―to fight, to protect, to put his life in danger...read more

Product Description: "A high-voltage shock to the system. It's smart, witty, crammed with action and disturbingly plausible. Highly recommended." –Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Assassin's Code A brilliant, gripping portrait of survival in the face of complete annihilation...read more

Product Description: Millions of dollars? he thinks to himself. The wheels of greed begin to turn in LaDeau's squirrel cage brain. It's an almost animal instinct that has risen up, looking for its next meal. Hmm. That money will be back at base quite soon, and the army will want to secure it...read more

Product Description: Fiction. "Part love song, part lamentation, Chuck Wachtel's 3/03 calls to mind the work of generous, lyrical moralists from Walter Benjamin to Grace Paley. It's a beautiful, immensely serious, immensely tender portrait of the way we live now"--Brian Morton.

Product Description: They say there are no atheists in foxholes. But the brutality of war can test the faith of even a U.S. Army Chaplain. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 changed America as a nation, and changed millions of American lives...read more

Wrongfully accusing a big star of infidelity, tabloid reporter Jimmy Stephens finds himself facing a lawsuit and blackmailed into taking a new position as a Baghdad war correspondent, a job fraught with high-stakes dangers that test the limits of Jimmy's courage and prompt new friendships with his Marine companions. A first novel.

Product Description: From Walter Dean Myers comes a powerful and timely novel about the heroics and horror of war---a gripping companion to FALLEN ANGELS.Robin "Birdy" Perry, a new army recruit from Harlem, isn't quite sure why he joined the army, but he's sure where he's headed: Iraq...read more

Product Description: The Nightingale is a riveting debut that offers a rare glimpse into war-torn Iraq--where a spirited young woman must choose between honoring the traditions of the past and her own hopes for the future. . .Every day Leila al-Ghani spends in Mosul is a reminder of what her life once was...read more

As bombs and missiles fall on Baghdad in 2003, a young boy uses the art of calligraphy to distance himself from the horror of war.

Product Description: "Malcolm MacPherson, a former Marine in Vietnam, longtime foreign correspondent for Newsweek magazine, and the author of 12 fiction and nonfiction books, covered the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad for Time magazine in 2003...read more

Grippingly authentic thriller by a former member of the elite Special Boat Service.

Ripped from today's headlines, Army lawyer Sean Drummond is caught between duty to Washington's elite and the soldiers in Iraq.

Product Description: Three people. Three stories. And a desperate race for survival in a country caught up in the hell of war. Nick Scott fought in the SAS—the elite Special Forces unit of the British Army—during the first Gulf War. Captured and tortured, he was left a broken man...read more

Product Description: As in the lives of people we all know, this story presents a dozen fictional Santa Feans trying to love, yet mistreating, each other the week before US forces invade Iraq. 'The aggression that dominates American life today,' says author Michael Scofield, 'goads them into brandishing their dark sides...read more

Product Description: A spiritual novel set now amidst the war on terrorism as an American warrior falls in love with a Sufi mystic and learns from her an alternative to the military mentality. As US Special Forces battle al-Qaeda, the escalating violence threatens their future together and the lives of thousands in her country...read more

Product Description: Ripped from the headlines, Robert Mercer-Nairne'ss fast-paced, riveting tale of the ensuing conflict is teeming with entertaining characters in all too believable scenarios. In a story of a war that would be Like No Other, the author paints a superb picture of the inherent complexity of truth and of lives touched so differently and profoundly by wa...read more

John Archer, a young Marine Corporal, is at the tail end of his enlistment. Seven days before Christmas he's summoned to battalion headquarters. For the first time in his career, the Secretary of Defense has issued his unit a deployment order. All he knows for sure is that recent world events are in play. Moving from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina to the Middle East, Archer must come to terms with his personal fears, the intense desert heat, and Iraqi soldiers always potentially just over the next horizon.

As hostile natives and traitors within the Periapt forces threaten offworlders on Aquamarine, a secret cyber-personality, buried deep within one man's mind, could provide the key to communicating with a mysterious, sentient water-entity that controls the planet. Original.