Robert Cook
1) Njal's Saga
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English
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Considered to be one of the finest of the Icelandic sagas, "Njal's Saga" or "The Story of Burnt Njal" was written sometime in the thirteenth century by an unknown author and is the longest and most developed of the Icelandic sagas. The source material for the saga was historical but probably drawn largely from oral tradition. The story relates events that took place between 960 and 1020 AD, involving blood feuds in the Icelandic Commonwealth. It features...
2) The Mud Room
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English
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After a failed government sanctioned mission in Tanzania, Chase Memphis heads back to Washington D.C. to his job as the disgraced project leader. The sole analyst works for an off-book department, known as the Mud Room, because of the messy cases that are assigned. Feeling the responsibility and faced with the guilt of losing 27 soldiers, Chase needs all his skills to help solve the mystery of what happened deep in the savanna.
Using the knowledge...
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Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Iran's nightmare nuclear attack on Israel is imminent and former Marine CIA Special Ops agent, Alejandro Mohammed Cuchulain, otherwise known as Cooch, is back! Cooch and his elite entourage assemble again to choreograph the US responsive to Iran's plans.
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English
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At a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of slaves. Civil War Memories is the first comprehensive account of how and why Americans have selectively remembered, and forgotten, this watershed conflict since its conclusion in 1865. Drawing on an array of textual and visual sources as well as a wide range of modern scholarship on Civil War memory, Robert J. Cook charts...
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English
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Robert George is the new president, placed there after the sudden death of his predecessor. A controversial veto of the Omnibus Immigration and Border Control Act has California taking the border troubles into their own hands. Cascading events including a deadly bombing bring federal agents to the scene. A fast-paced investigation by treasury inspector Richard Ringo Starr and his team, including US Deputy Marshal Manny LaRussa, a San Diego native...