The merger will create the world's largest pharmaceutical company, but it depends on the progress in clinical trials of a potential blockbuster anti-cancer drug. Behind the scenes a powerful syndicate attempts to manipulate events for personal gain. Individuals get caught up in the relentless process. Relationships crack, while others strengthen. The least fortunate pay with their lives.

Merger Undone

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Potter, Robert

Mystery

iUniversePublishing

In his late thirties, English playwright and screenwriter Timothy Hainault wants to accomplish two things in life: to write well, and make something of himself as a worthwhile human being. Turning to autobiography to gauge his progress, he revisits his childhood and youth, and following the loss of his mother and older brother, his only sibling, also his late-teens break from his father's quietly steadfast Christian faith; and makes connections as well, with a bearing on what he wants for himself, between his work and certain personal and professional relationships of his. And never more so than with Congravino, his latest play-about Restoration playwright William Congreve's constant pursuit of excellence, firstly through his art, then personally in his lasting love affair with Henrietta, the young duchess of Marlborough-a runaway, critically acclaimed success in London, and later at Canada's Stratford Festival. As with two earlier plays of his about writing and loving, Hainault again associates validation as both a writer and a self he can be true to with his finding a soulmate he can love unconditionally-and once more too in the person of a beautiful and talented actress whose romantically-driven stage character is of his own making. Only this time-and potentially even more problematic than before-his Canadian Henrietta has some complicated personal issues of her own to resolve.

Loving and Writing, Writing and Loving

Literature & Fiction

Reynolds, D.B.

Contemporary

The Travels of David Thompson 1784-1812: Volume II Foothills and Forests 1798-1806, to the Pacific and Return 1807-1812

At age 75, David Thompson began to write about his life of exploration and surveying in western North America from 1784 to 1812. At this point, how-ever, the odds of "nishing were slim; his eyesight was failing, his body was worn out after years of strain on portages and mountain passes. For "ve years he toiled with rewrites and revisions, never able to set the "nal account in order. On 16 January 1851 he "put his "papers to right" in one last attempt to "nish his work. By 28 February 1851, no longer able to see, he gave up his pen as well as any hope of completing his Travels. Like a true surveyor, though, he left a well-blazed trail for others to follow. Drawing from the four surviving manuscripts and Thompson's 77 notebooks "lled with daily journals, reports, essays, and anecdotes, Sean Peake "nished what Thompson set out to achieve: a full account that encompasses the "extent of the forests, of the great Plains, the animals, birds, "shes &c &c peculiar to each section; the various tribes of Indians which inhabit these countries, their several languages, their religious opinions, manners and mode of life, place and extent of hunting grounds, and the changes which have taken place, by the fortune of war or other causes . . . a curious and extensive collection of all that can fall under the observation of a traveller" This edition of The Travels of David Thompson is a landmark publication in Canadian history, fully deserving of a place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in a "rst-hand account of the tumultuous struggle for control of western North America.

The Travels Of David Thompson 1784-1812: Volume II Foothills and Forests 1798-1806, To The Pacific and Return 1807-1812

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

In Our Duffel Bags: Surviving the Vietnam Era

They were young, and they were fighting a war no one wanted to fight. They chose to serve their country despite these challenges. In In Our Duffel Bags, authors Richard Geschke and Robert A. Toto narrate the stories and the experiences of what junior army officers faced as citizen soldiers during pre-voluntary military service from 1969 to 1972. This memoir provides an inside view of the military on the training fields of the Cold War in West Germany and on the combat fields of Vietnam. It presents a poignant and detailed drawing of what junior officers contended with during these turbulent times in American history. From the training grounds in Fort Benning, Georgia; to the jungle warfare school in Panama; to the streets of West Germany; and to the rice paddies of Vietnam, In Our Duffel Bags intimately describes the sights, sounds, and smells of life in the military Much more than a historical account, In Our Duffel Bags interweaves Geschke's and Toto's individual experiences and perspectives, ties them back to their families, and sets it all within the volatile historical and political setting of the 1960s and 1970s. It shows how these times affected history as well as impact current politics.

In Our Duffel Bags: Surviving The Vietnam Era

Geschke, Richard C.

Leaders & Notable People

Blood and Guts: Rules, Tactics, and Scenarios for Wargaming World War Two

United States Marine Corps veteran David Hall presents a new and exciting way to experience the Second World War in Blood and Guts: Rules, Tactics, and Scenarios for Wargaming World War Two. Hall developed his tactical game system through decades of personal wargaming, and he now shares his unique system with readers everywhere. The rules are easy to learn, and the games are fast-paced. The scenarios cover almost all of the major theaters of conflict, including France 1940, the Mediterranean, the South Pacific, and the Eastern Front. A table of organization and equipment is included to assist readers in recreating wargame infantry and armor formations. Hall doesn't simply provide a set of rules; he infuses each chapter with wargame theory, tactics, and tank development. He provides the logic behind each rule and talks about how the rule design plays out the battlefield. He also shares stories and anecdotes about his early "toy soldier" days and about how he developed into a wargamer-stories sure to spark readers' memories of their own first set of soldiers.

Children's Books

Hall, David W.

Arts, Music & Photography

CQI for EMS is not just another long winded, academic dissertation which drones on about abstract theories borrowed from quality control of industry, rather it is a quick and easy read specifically designed for the beleaguered, time and resource challenged EMS quality coordinator. CQI for EMS is ten chapters of tried and proven initiatives which you can literally read one day and put into effect at your agency the next.

Cqi for Ems: A Practical Manual for Quick Results

Medical Books

Hayes, Joseph

Medicine

Scars of War

War is not romantic. It is bleeding and dying and holding a lifeless comrade in your arms. It is storming a beach through a hail of bullets. It is fighter planes spiraling from the sky and Americans being taken captive. In Scars of War, author Marilyn Swinson tells true and often horrifying stories of war. Based on one-on-one interviews with more than forty veterans, all members of the Combat Airmen/Joshua's Troops of Mayodan, North Carolina, Swinson brings the narratives to life as the soldiers relay a variety of war experiences: a soldier aboard a ship moored at Pearl Harbor on that fateful December morning when Japanese bombs rained fire from the sky, and a seventeen-year-old young man forced to endure the horrors of the Bataan Death March, only to face three and a half years of torture and deprivation in Japanese concentration camps. A pilot lives to fly again after his plane hits the ground traveling three hundred miles per hour, igniting sixteen thousand pounds of jet fuel. A battle-weary Marine finally sees Old Glory raised on Iwo Jima. Scars of War provides a firsthand account of the pathos and pageantry of war from those who survived.

History

Swinson, Marilyn

Military

They called her "Überjoy" but her real name was Joycelyn Eberhard. She was a finalist in the Miss Teen Idaho beauty pageant, but now she's gone missing-in China, no less. Her fiancé, Orion, worried when she signed up for the Peace Corps, but he never expected something like this. Her disappearance is shattering to him, so he has no choice but to head overseas and search for the woman he loves. His search takes him to the remote Himalaya Mountains in Nepal and Tibet, where getting help from local authorities is not as easy as he would have hoped. He is forced to seek assistance elsewhere, from intrepid special operations mercenaries and unorthodox mountaineering guides. Soon, Orion's search targets not only his fiancé, but the meaning of life itself. Set in the mountains of China-where earth meets sky in more ways than one-Questing for Überjoy is a quest for love. It is also a quest for meaning, as Eastern culture surrounds heroic Orion and teaches him more about himself than any experience in America. One moment philosophical and the next filled with danger, it is a story that could change your life and send you on your own quest for mountaintop enlightenment.

Questing for Überjoy: Book Three of the Post-Lux Trilogy (Post-lux Trilogy, 3)

Ventana, Konrad

This story is about two issues. One is the Big Time players Coach Young recruited, the recruiting stories, and the different methods used in the recruiting wars. The other issue is about Ron Young and his struggle to learn what it takes to win big, how he learned his lessons and the results from his lessons. After many years of trying to get to the top of his profession, Ron Young finally gets his opportunity, makes the most of it and guides his Cinderella team into the Final Four Championship. Ron Young has his days of glory and then the tables turn on him as he has to deal with the NCAA Investigators for cheating violations. Ron Young's basketball career, which covers over thirty years of dedicated service, and honest hard work is destroyed after one year trying to make it to the Big Dance .

Education 101: One Man's Journey to the Final Four

Mayberry, Ron

Sports & Outdoors

In these often quiet but probing poems, Nancy Jakobsson illuminates lives and worlds-her own life and the lives of those she has counseled in their losses in her work as a grief therapist, the natural world she walks through, and the imaginative world she encounters deeply through works of art. Her attention is steady, whether she is looking at her own roots, the stories of those she has come to know, birds winging over a river path in winter, or Andy Goldsworthy's stones. She is alive to the gestures of each thing she encounters, and each becomes a source of astonishment. Life is here, witnessed with compassion. The mountains are here, counterpointing the sorrows. Works of art are here, singing of solace and delight. Veronica Patterson

Gesture

Jakobsson, Nancy

Poetry

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