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  Pandora's Grave - A Military...

  Stephen England

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  An American president who will do anything to win reelection. 
  An Iranian leader who will stop at nothing to bring about apocalypse. 
  An ancient evil, only waiting to be reborn. . . 
  High in the Alborz Mountains of northwestern Iran, an archaeological team disappears. Americans are among the missing. Days later, imagery from U.S. spy satellites reveals detachments of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps descending upon the site. . . 
  With the presidential election only months away, President Roger Hancock authorizes a covert CIA mission into the mountains of Iran. Their objective: rescue the archaeologists and uncover the truth. 
  With fifteen years in the Clandestine Service, paramilitary operations officer Harry Nichols is unquestionably the man for the job. He's a tough, ruthless veteran operator. He's led his men into harm's way time and again. 
  For him, it's all about the mission. It's all about the team. He's never seen anything like this before. 
  The mission itself is suspect. His team can no longer be trusted. And a misstep means world war. . . 
  "A terrific read from a great new author. Highly recommended." ~ Brad Thor

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  A Rare Recording of Navajo Code...

  Dan Akee

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  Dan Akee was part of the Navajo code talker units of the US Marine Corps that relayed radio and phone messages in their native dialect during World War II operations.
   
  The method was fast and indecipherable to enemy eavesdroppers, as Navajo is an unwritten language of extreme complexity - with its syntax, tonal qualities, and various dialects - making it unintelligible to anyone without extensive exposure and training. It has no alphabet or symbols, and is spoken only on the Navajo lands of the American Southwest. By one estimate, at the time of World War II, the Navajo language was understood by fewer than 30 non-Navajos.
   
  Approximately 400 Navajo code talkers took part in every assault the US Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945. They served in all six Marine divisions, Marine Raider battalions, and Marine parachute units, transmitting messages by telephone and radio in their native language. The code was never broken by the Japanese, and its security has been credited with contributing significantly to the capture of Iwo Jima in 1945.
   
  The following are two recordings from code talker Dan Akee.

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  Friendship on Fire

  Joss Wood

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  **Fool her once, as her best friend.  Fool her twice…as her fake fiancé?**  Top Boston interior designer Jules Brogan has no shortage of work. So why say yes to designing a yacht with Noah Lockwood—her former best friend who disappeared from her life ten years ago after one smoldering encounter? Especially since the job requires posing as Noah’s fiancée! But what are old friends for…especially if she can coax him into one more kiss?

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  Aiti the Last Chieftess

  Kelly Winsa

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  Margy's perfect life, is disrupted one winter night. Her sister arrives and then her brother comes, and with him, a small girl, Rose. She is their only niece. 
  No doubt the girl's mother is drinking again, and that is what Margy thinks. She will just let her stay until that is over. Rose sleeps in the alcove bed in the living room and Margy and her sister sleep in the double bed in the bedroom. A windy storm hits the house and Margy wakes up to find herself on the floor and Rose crying from the other room.  
  Margy will have to get up and stop that. Rose, aware that her time may be short, and needing distraction, refuses to just go to sleep. She says there must be a story. 
  That is how the story of the last chieftess begins.

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  Nothing to Chance

  Julie Trettel

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  How can two people live in the same pack their whole lives and never cross paths? 
   
   
   
  It is the largest wolf shifter pack in the world, and she is eight years older than me. 
   
   
   
  She seems to think our age difference is an issue. 
   
   
   
  But age is just a number. 
   
   
   
  I may be a man of few words, but I'm a lover and a fighter. 
   
   
   
  And she's about to learn just how far I'm willing to go for what's mine. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Darkness Box

  Ursula K. Le Guin

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  This is the first story I ever got paid for; the second story I ever got published; and maybe the thirtieth or fortieth story I wrote. I had been writing poetry and fiction ever since my brother Ted, tired of having an illiterate five-year-old sister around, taught me to read. At about twenty I began sending things off to publishers. Some of the poetry got printed, but I didn’t get systematic about sending out the fiction till I was getting on to thirty. It kept systematically coming back. 
  “April in Paris” was the first “genre” piece—recognizably fantasy or science fiction—that I had written since 1942, when I wrote an Origin-of-Life-on-Earth story for Astounding, which for some inconceivable reason rejected it (I never did synch with John Campbell). At age twelve I was very pleased to get a genuine printed rejection slip, but by age thirty-two I was very pleased to get a check. “Professionalism” is no virtue; a professional is simply one who gets paid for doing what an amateur does for love. But in a money economy, the fact of being paid means your work is going to be circulated, is going to be read; it’s the means to communication, which is the artist’s goal. Cele Goldsmith Lalli, who bought this story in 1962, was as enterprising and perceptive an editor as the science fiction magazines have ever had, and I am grateful to her for opening the door to me.

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