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This is a comprehensive history of the Georgia Militia from the end of the Revolution in 1783 to Secession in 1861, along with transitional information on the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Confederate eras. Includes detailed descriptions of the Militia's service during the Oconee Wars, the Embargo Wars, the War of 1812, the First and Second Seminole Wars, the Creek War of 1836, the Cherokee Removal, and the Mexican War. Special emphasis is placed on...
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"A news-making account of the war between David Koresh's Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today's militias"--
"In 1993, David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege of their compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a firefight that killed seventy-six, including twenty-five children. America is still picking up the pieces, and we still haven't heard...
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Men of Summer novel volume 3
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Zack Richards knows he's asking for trouble. Trying to protect a member of the notorious Maddox family could get a man killed. But the woman who has captured his wildest fantasies is nothing like the rest of her power-hungry clan. She's innocent, beautiful, and has quickly become the one shining light in his dark, desperate world. Her name is Grace Maddox - and everybody knows that she is a marked woman. Targeted for her family's sins and hunted like...
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Three years ago, the sun began to die. In a desperate attempt to reignite the failing star, the United States had joined the rest of the planet in unloading its nuclear arsenal at the flickering ember. The missiles burst from silos in Wyoming and Bangladesh, cocooning the earth in tendrils of smoke as they began their two-and-a-half year journey into space. When they finally reach their target, its thirty degrees in July and getting colder. Lisa and...
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(Angery).Survivalist volume 12
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Tension is rising for Morgan. With Fred ready to give birth and the revelation that Mary is also pregnant, spirits are high in the community. For Morgan, however, it's just one more thing to worry about. His mom and dad are now settled in and getting to work, but the babies are coming, the milking barn needs to be built and the power plant kept running. To make matters worse, they're now dealing with the US Army. Morgan has real concerns once he...
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"It's September 1999 and the world is on the cusp of a new millennium. In rural Maine, Gordon St. Onge, known as "The Prophet," presides over his controversial Settlement, a place rumored to be a cult, where his many wives and children live off the grid and off the land. Out in greater America, Bruce Hummer, the aging CEO of multinational corporation Duotron Lindsey, lays off workers by the thousands. Meanwhile, the newest member of the Settlement,...
11) Dove exiled
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Dove chronicles volume 2
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After fleeing the Moon, fifteen-year-old Phaet Theta hides on Earth and plots how to rescue her siblings from the wrath of the Lunar government.
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DMZ volume 5
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The world and characters of the DMZ are expanded and enriched in this volume as Matty Roth turns his attention to several locals -- a guerilla artist, a former ally who's now worse off than a homeless person, the powerful head of an organization within the DMZ and more.
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"There's a groper in the library and Library Force members Iku and Shibazaki are sent in as bait! Iku's undercover outfit makes her vulnerable-- will she be able to defend herself if the pervert targets her? Later, Library Force members are required to take a test that involves reading stories to a group of rambunctious schoolkids. Coming from a big, unruly family, Iku definitely has the upper hand!"--Publisher's web site.
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DMZ volume 10
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"When Matty Roth first landed in the DMZ, he was handed the exclusive opportunity to document the city under siege. Instead he's allowed himself to fall in with politicians and opportunists, warlords, and mercenaries. With the final battle about to begin, this is his last chance to do right by the residents of the city he's grown to love"--Page 4 of cover.
16) Dove alight
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Dove chronicles volume 3
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Seventeen-year-old Phaet Theta, the reluctant but fierce figurehead of the resistance, leads her friends and their Earthbound compatriots in a final push against the Lunar Standing Committee, even as the death tolls rise and Phaet's loved ones are threatened.
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As the war enters its final weeks Matty Roth is given a golden opportunity to report once again from the DMZ, not as a network lackey but as an unbiased observer for the court of world opinion, to ensure both sides stay honest. He is determined to do right by the city where he once failed miserably.
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DMZ volume 2
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DMZ #2. America's worst nightmare has come true. Having neglected the threat of anti-establishment militias, the U.S. government is in danger of losing control. Middle America has violently risen up, coming to a standstill at Manhattan or, as the world now knows it, the DMZ. Matty Roth, a naïve, aspiring photojournalist, lands a dream gig following a veteran war journalist into the heart of the DMZ. Things soon go terribly wrong, and Matty finds...
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"A groundbreaking, important recovery of history; the overlooked story--fully explored--of the critical aspect of America's Revolutionary War that was fought in the South, showing that the British surrender at Yorktown was the direct result of the southern campaign, and that the battles that emerged south of the Mason-Dixon line between loyalists to the Crown and patriots who fought for independence were, in fact, America's first civil war. The famous...
20) End game
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Will Robie volume 5
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Will Robie and Jessica Reel are two of the most lethal people alive. They're the ones the government calls in when the utmost secrecy is required to take out those who plot violence and mass destruction against the United States. And through every mission, one man has always had their backs: their CIA handler, code-named Blue Man. But now Blue Man is missing. Last seen in rural Colorado, Blue Man had taken a rare vacation to go fly fishing in his...
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