Every year, graduating Academy students set out to join the Mission on a multi-month expedition to bring hope and relief to the Badlands. This year's trip is different though... and it's not just because Damian Banach, the Academy's only Crow, is one of those students.The fact is, Damian's not there because of the Mission. He's there because he owes someone a favor, and that favor has come due. Now, he's headed into the Badlands to find the person responsible for the Break and all the chaos that came after.He's hunting for Dr. Nowhere.

"Once upon a time, there were twenty-five tin soldiers who were all brothers, as they were all born from an old tin spoon. They held their weapons on their arms, their heads were turned to the right and their uniform, red and blue, was rather smart." One tin soldier, though he was exactly the same as his brothers, found himself, by accident, setting out alone on a series of adventures. But do not worry, this tin soldier was afraid of nothing. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author, poet and artist. Celebrated for children’s literature, his most cherished fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Match Girl". His books have been translated into every living language, and today there is no child or adult that has not met Andersen's whimsical characters. His fairy tales have been adapted to stage and screen countless times, most notably by Disney with the animated films "The Little Mermaid" in 1989 and "Frozen", which is loosely based on "The Snow Queen", in 2013. Thanks to Andersen's contribution to children's literature, his birth date, April 2, is celebrated as International Children's Book Day.

A father stops his white son from playing with his black friend. The ten-year-olds, Billy and Eugene, defy him. Sam and Ruby Lowe, Billyas parents, gave the McGeeas a place to live and help to better their lives. No good deed goes unpunished. Their kindness places the Loweas and McGeeas at risk. Risk turns to reality when one of the McGee girls is murdered. The racially volatile Riverhills County, Alabama, ignites. An old war hero, Sheriff A.B. Compton, must solve the crime or fight another war. The funeral is more than Eugene can bear, having just lost his father. Eugene and Billy leave the funeral to find a burnt out mansion and a swamp are keys in solving the murder. Sam Lowe is arrested for the murder. The Devil is set loose as Sam Lowe faces execution. But in the end two other men lay dead. Why?

A military thriller ripped from tomorrow’s headlines, Michael Farmer’s debut is a powder keg of desert warfare expertise, cutting edge military technology, and an unforgettable cast of flesh and blood troops sent into the Persian Gulf to face a nightmare reborn. An alliance with Iran reinvigorates the Iraqi military and fuels its aggressive agenda. To prevent a total conquest of the region, Captain Patrick Dillon and a U.S. Army Heavy Brigade must stand against the Iraqi’s greater numbers and updated technology—all while the locals are hell-bent on grinding the small American force into the ancient desert sand. Against impossible odds, this brigade of American M1 Abrams tanks, Bradleys, and Apaches are left with only one option. They must do the impossible.

One Tin Soldier is a juvenile, Christian, fantasy novel of medieval times. The people are forced to repeat their history time and time again. Father against son, brother against brother, and friend against friend, they fight to keep the cycle from reoccurring. A king fights his addiction to a drug. Tin is worth more than gold. A kida flower grants the pure in heart magic to help them lead the people. Cockatrices lie in the forest, waiting to feed on trespassers. Who can be trusted? Who will be the hero? Where is the treasure? Will the One Tin Soldier save them in the end?

Early '70s Radio focuses on the emergence of commercial music radio "formats," which refer to distinct musical genres aimed toward specific audiences. This formatting revolution took place in a period rife with heated politics, identity anxiety, large-scale disappointments and seemingly insoluble social problems. As industry professionals worked overtime to understand audiences and to generate formats, they also laid the groundwork for market segmentation. Audiences, meanwhile, approached these formats as safe havens wherein they could re-imagine and redefine key issues of identity. A fresh and accessible exercise in audience interpretation, Early '70s Radio is organized according to the era's five prominent formats and analyzes each of these in relation to their targeted demographics, including Top 40, "soft rock", album-oriented rock, soul and country. The book closes by making a case for the significance of early '70s formatting in light of commercial radio today.