Term of Service: Life on the Front Lines of a Modern Vietnam by Brian Welch (57 Reviews)    Price verified 58 minutes ago

In the summer of 2005, the Army's 10th Mountain Division 1st Brigade Combat Team deployed to Iraq's war-torn capital city of Baghdad to facilitate the extermination of the remaining militants and sympathizers of Saddam Hussein's toppled regime. When Delta Company, 1st Battalion 87th Infantry arrived, they were met with a chaotic mission of routing an invisible enemy and saddled to a corrupt and incompetent Iraqi Army too scared to enter the more volatile districts without the protection of coalition forces. By December, commanders ...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

The Nilsen File: Re-opened: Includes Nilsen’s own words smuggled from his prison cell by Douglas Bence (Lume Books) (50 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

The Standard, May 12, 1983 -- a fresh twist in the most astonishing gory case of mass murder since the Moors Murders. In the unlikely setting of the staid London suburbs of Cricklewood and Muswell Hill, police began in February 1983 to unearth a tangled mass of human bones. Some dated back to 1979, many were unidentifiable, most belonged to transients of no fixed address and doubtful identity, all were victims of brutal killings on a systematic scale. And so began a full-scale investigation into a horrifying outrage. This is ...

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A String of Paper Suns: An Experimental Memoir by Bridget Siljander (36 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

**A String of Paper Suns is a 2020 In The Margins nonfiction award winner.** A String of Paper Suns is a raw, intimate, powerful, and humanizing story by a single teen mother and former member of a fundamentalist religious sect. Growing up as the oldest of thirteen children, Bridget Siljander is a sister-mom to her younger siblings. While she adheres to the strict and reclusive rules of the family's religion, which restricts makeup, secular music, and friendships outside the church, she longs for an identity beyond its confines. ...

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Kodiak Krazy - A True Story: A Summer Chasing Money In Alaska by Pamela Joye Miller (16 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Pam's spur of the moment plan for making "big" money in Alaska on a fishing boat in the summer of 1986, ended up turning into an adventure that changed her life! She endured many hardships, hunger, and even did some bootlegging to get by. A true story she often told to her friends through the years, the quarantined time of the world wide 2020 pandemic prompted her to put it into a memoir, a quick, short read, and her very first publication. [Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Kodiak Krazy" by Pamela Joye ...

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Blood Bones and Blisters: A culinary rant by Tristan B. Jones (40 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

? Chefs, Cooks, Kitchen Rats everywhere, this is for you.? "Liked Kitchen Confidential? Read this!" "I'm a career Cook and have been a sous chef, and this book is an updated version like Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential! Whether you are a cook or not this book tells it like it is and is funny too! So, read it and enjoy it!" - Kindle Customer "Outspoken and Opinionated" "This book is how Kitchen Confidential would have read if Bourdain had spent his childhood in a trailer park, being fed squirrel brains for breakfast ...

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Beyond the Killing Tree, A Journey of Discovery Revisited by Stephen Santiago Reynolds (9 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

In this digital edition, Beyond the Killing Tree has been revisited from the original hard cover publication. There are some new chapters and fine tuning of other chapters, though the context has not changed in spirit since it was first identified by the Anchorage Daily News as the best Alaska non-fiction book published in 1995. This is a memoir of adventure, personal change, and transformation -- a journey of discovery by Reynolds, who spent almost 30 years as a game warden in New Mexico and Alaska. There are elements of both humor ...

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From a Bush Wing: Notes of an Alaska Wildlife Trooper by Stephen Santiago Reynolds (164 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This is a long-awaited book about flying the Alaska Bush by the author of Beyond the Killing Tree: A Journey of Discovery. Herein Stephen Santiago Reynolds relates his flying experiences as an Alaska Wildlife Trooper -- and those of other officers -- while stationed throughout one of the most dangerous environments in the world. Whether tragic, humorous, or surrounding the simple beauty of flight, there is something that jumps out in many of these chapters -- how not to fly or abuse the privilege of flying. If you are a pilot, you ...

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English Yarns and Beyond: A Collection of Short Stories and memoirs (The Ray Dennis Series Book 2) by Gary Troia (45 Reviews)    Price verified one minute ago

Amazon bestsellers top 100. In this short story collection, Gary Troia shares his adventures, travels and memoirs from his life. Anyone who has ever done building work for brutal wage slavery and wondered if they were going mad, will recognise the life of Ray Dennis, (Troia's alter ego) which evokes a vision of mind-numbing, soul-destroying workplaces and workmates. His is the voice of discord for the marginally employed, the creatively frustrated working Joe, who turns to a life of drink and drugs to elevate the monotony of ...

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Midnight Calling: A Memoir of a Drug Smuggler's Daughter (Nonfiction Addiction Book 1) by Lynn Walker (MZW Publishing) (721 Reviews)    Price verified 44 minutes ago

NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS, WINNER ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARD, GRAND PRIZE SHORTLIST NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS, NONFICTION FINALIST KINDLE BOOK AWARDS, NONFICTION FINALIST Lynn was the carefree daughter of a Miami undercover narcotics agent -- until her dad snuck out of their house in the dark of night without so much as a glance back. She never understood what happened to him until she was in high school, and he was in prison for drug smuggling. By then, Lynn had developed a massive drug and alcohol habit of her own. It ...

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Spartacus: The Myth and the Man by M. J. Trow (19 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This is a revised version of M. J. Trow's classic biography of an ancient and unforgettable hero. 'I am Spartacus' ranks among the most famous lines in Hollywood, with its image of the man's comrades prepared to die in his place in the Kirk Douglas film. And die they did; not the actors but the real army of Spartacus, crucified in their thousands along the Appian Way that leads to Rome. Spartacus: The Myth and the Man is a revised version of M. J. Trow's original biography, the first to be written in English, of a legend who has ...

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Over Under Sideways Down: The Flight of The Yardbirds by Alan Clayson (33 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

'The Yardbirds allowed me to improvise a lot in live performance, and I started building a textbook of ideas that I eventually used in Zeppelin' - Jimmy Page Alan Clayson has written the only full length account of the legendary British rock band, who evolved from the sleepy suburbs south of London in the 1960s to spawn three of the world's greatest guitarists - Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. The Yardbirds had a string of international hits throughout the 1960s, including For Your Love, Shapes of Things and Over Under ...

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Ubered: My Life As A Rideshare Driver by Evan Kail (Stone Arch Entertainment) (170 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

His family's wealth has long evaporated, and now serendipity is all Evan Kail can salvage from his riches to rags nightmare. He's been chasing a screenwriting dream ever since he was in college, and he's put everything on the line to attain it. So when a new phenomenon called "Rideshare" enters his market in Minneapolis, Kail seeks opportunity in a job he believes will pay well and afford him time to pursue his calling. His only item of value, a BMW sports car purchased in the glory days of wealth, affords him a down payment on a ...

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Unbelievable Crimes Volume One: Macabre Yet Unknown True Crime Stories by Daniela Airlie (340 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Step into some of the most heinous (yet relatively unknown) crimes ever committed and delve into twelve twisted tales of murder in Unbelievable Crimes. From the deplorable abduction and imprisonment of young women by James Jamelske, who kept his victims in his basement, to the tale of charismatic charmer Charles Schmid who boasted about his savage murders, each story in this anthology dives into pure evil. In one case, I'll take you back to 1993, to the city of Houston, where two teenage girls, Jennifer Ertman, and Elizabeth Peña, ...

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Ganges Boy by Ken Smith (398 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Age 15 years, 3 months and 3 days. Height 5'-1". Weight 7st-2lb, this is an account of my first month in Royal Navy, starting January 1963. HMS Ganges was tough, but I loved it. 1963 was the worst winter ever, the 'mother' of all winters. I was in Exmouth 213 class. The food, the food, the food. I loved the food. FREE DOWNLOAD

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