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James V. Schall is a treasure of the Catholic intellectual tradition. A prolific author and essayist, Schall readily connects with his readers on sundry topics from war to friendship, philosophy, politics, and to ordinary everyday living. In his newest work, The Mind That Is Catholic, he presents a retrospective collection of his academic and literary essays written in the past 50 years.

Als Daniel Whitman, der gefeierte Footballstar der Sanctuary Highschool, auf einer Party unter mysteriösen Umständen ums Leben kommt, ist die ganze Stadt in Aufruhr. Auf den ersten Blick deutet alles auf einen tragischen Unfall hin, doch jeder in Sanctuary weiß, dass Dans Ex-Freundin Harper die Tochter einer Hexe ist. Ist Harper, die mehr als einen Grund hatte, wütend auf Dan zu sein, möglicherweise selbst eine Hexe? Als Harper schwere Anschuldigungen gegen Dan vorbringt und die Polizei in diesem Fall zu ermitteln beginnt, steht Sanctuary kurz vor einer neuen Hexenjagd.

When humanity reaches for the stars, our probes are destroyed. They crash into an incredibly advanced piece of technology: a massive force-field. Unknown beings have placed a barrier around our star and planets, enclosing us within. We’re locked inside a Great Sphere. Was this invisible obstacle built to imprison us - or to protect us? No one knows the truth, but it soon becomes clear the barrier has leaks. Aliens infiltrate and try to sabotage our efforts to escape our cage.

Accidents happen. But only when a Marine says so.

Every member of the Force Recon team is absolutely vital, so the loss of men has taken quite a toll on Team 2400. But the replacements keep coming in. So do the mission orders. This time, Team Midnight is getting sent into the heart of the Iranian desert to inflict maximum casualities on a terrorist group responsible for bombing a U.S. warship. The mission is complicated and more dangerous than anything they've seen before. Let's just hope the new guy can hold his own.

The land of Bosnia has suffered bloodshed, atrocity, and ceaseless misery. But there is one man the people fear above all else. His name is Markocevik, known throughout the region as the Butcher of Belgrade. For years, he and his team of Serbian commandos have been carrying out a merciless agenda of ethnic cleaning. And when Markocevik is declared a war criminal, Force Recon goes in after him.

Despite the success of their last mission, the Marine Corps put one of Team Midnight's finest men on trial and sentenced their best shooter to a mental hospital. With half the team out of commission, Swayne and Greiner are sent to Afghanistan on a research operation, one that turns fatal when a CIA agent is captured by terrorists. Now it's up to this two-man team to get him back...and the clock is ticking.

While on a search-and-destroy mission in the middle of Iraq, Marine Force Recon Team 2400 winds up on the wrong end of a life-or-death chase across the desert. After taking out a meeting of international extremists, the team finds itself tracked by the one terrorist who got away.

They are known as Team Midnight, an elite force trained to disappear behind enemy lines, to wreak havoc where an enemy least expects it. Their job is simple, hide in the shadows, kill without hesitation, and complete the mission at all costs. They are America's secret warriors.

They are known as Team Midnight, an elite force trained to disappear behind enemy lines, to wreak havoc where an enemy least expects it. Their job is simple - hide in the shadows, kill without hesitation, and complete the mission at all costs. They are America's secret weapons. Books 4, 5 and 6 from the Force Recon series. 

They are known as Team Midnight, an elite force trained to disappear behind enemy lines, to wreak havoc where an enemy least expects it. Their job is simple - hide in the shadows, kill without hesitation, and complete the mission at all costs. They are America's secret weapons. Books 1, 2 and 3 from the Force Recon series. 

Rebinge It is a podcast that covers Star Trek shows in great detail.

The Rebinge Star Trek Voyager podcast is a deep dive into the Voyager TV series by Trek fans James and Kim. There will be over-analysis, head canon, discussions of leadership and a lot of laughter.

Many of the most interesting haunting cases begin with a true crime. In this podcast, paranormal expert JV Johnson of Paranormal Reality TV looks at some of these cases and offers a glimpse into the crime that created the haunting.

James Thomson was born in Port Glasgow, Scotland, on the 23rd November 1834. Possessing a powerful and unique writing gift, unfortunately, his own demons curtailed him from leaving a larger literary legacy. Stories, essays and poems were submitted to various publications during his life and undoubtedly the creative high point of his life is ‘The City of Dreadful Night’. Within its bleak verse are the struggles of Thomson’s own chaotic tortures with depression, insomnia and alcoholism in the uncaring world that surrounded him.

An anthology of short stories of spaceships, aliens, and the outer worlds by classic Science Fiction authors, from the Golden Age to the New Wave Era. This compilation includes stories by William Bender, Jr., Ray Bradbury, G. Gordon Dewey, Charles E. Fritch, Edward W. Ludwig, James V. McConnell, Stanley Mullen, Robert Silverberg, Jerry Sohl, Henry Slesar, and L.J. Stecher Jr.