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A Marine For Christmas

Author : Beth Andrews

Publisher : HarperCollins Australia

Page : 219 pages

File Size : 40,27 MB

Release : 2012-07-06

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1460830016

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Growing up in her perfect sister's shadow wasn't easy. Especially because JC Montgomery had been in love with Liz's boyfriend for as long as she could remember. Brady Sheppard, a guy who thought of her as only the kid sister. But that all changed when Liz married somebody else and Brady ended up in bed with JC! It was like a dream come true. Except now JC's pregnant. And Brady's a wounded marine, so it's going to be difficult for him to get down on one knee and tell her she's his reason for living . But he will. Because she still believes in Santa Claus.



Christmas with You

Author : Jess Mastorakos

Publisher :

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 11,74 MB

Release : 2020-02-26

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ISBN :

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Cooper sighed and lowered his forehead to mine. "I'm really getting sick of people interrupting us when I'm trying to kiss you, Angie Black." "Then stop trying to kiss me." Marine Staff Sergeant Charles Cooper is desperate. When he idiotically made up a fake girlfriend to appease his grandmother, he hadn't counted on Grandma Jean flying halfway across the country to meet her at Christmas. With only a few days until the big family dinner, he needs a girlfriend. Fast. Angie Black can think of few people who get under her skin more than Cooper. Unfortunately, she has to tolerate him since their best friends are married to each other. When Cooper asks her to be his fake girlfriend for a family dinner, Angie agrees only because she could use a fake boyfriend herself. Her entire office is invited to the wedding of their boss, and he happens to also be her ex. Their fake relationship seems to solve both of their problems. That is, until unexpected feelings arise. With his deployment looming, will they figure out that they're meant to be before they find themselves half a world apart? Christmas with You is a sweet holiday romance set in the world of The San Diego Marines. Each book can be read as a standalone. Check out the rest of the series: Forever with You (free prequel - jessmastorakos.com) Back to You - Spencer & Ellie - Book 1 Away from You - Matt & Olivia - Book 2 Christmas with You - Cooper & Angie - Book 3 Believing in You - Jake & Ivy - Book 4 (Coming Soon) Memories of You - Brooks & Cat - Book 5 (Coming Soon)



A Christmas Far from Home

Author : Stanley Weintraub

Publisher : Da Capo Press

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 19,4 MB

Release : 2014-10-28

Category : History

ISBN : 0306822334

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The day after Thanksgiving, five months into the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an end-the-war-by-Christmas offensive, despite recent evidence of intervention by Mao's Chinese troops. Marching north in plunging temperatures, General Edward Almond's X Corps, which included a Marine division under the able leadership of General Oliver Smith, encountered little resistance. But thousands of Chinese, who had infiltrated across the frozen Yalu River, were lying in wait and would soon trap tens of thousands of US troops. Led by the Marines, an overwhelmed X Corps evacuated the frigid, mountainous Chosin Reservoir vastness and fought a swarming enemy and treacherous snow and ice to reach the coast. Weather, terrain, Chinese firepower, and a 4,000-foot chasm made escape seem impossible in the face of a vanishing Christmas. But endurance and sacrifice prevailed, and the last troopships weighed anchor on Christmas Eve. In the tradition of his Silent Night and Pearl Harbor Christmas, Stanley Weintraub presents another gripping narrative of a wartime Christmas season. A Military Book Club main selection



The Saluting Marine Presents

Author : Tim Chambers

Publisher : Tsm Enterprises

Page : 30 pages

File Size : 10,3 MB

Release : 2021-04-14

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ISBN : 9781633374959

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In this book, Johnny learns Honor as he gets his first ride on a motorcycle, meets the famous Saluting Marine, and learns why we stand for our flag. The Author, Tim Chambers (the Saluting Marine) started saluting in D.C. in 2002. The salute has touched the lives of millions.



With the Old Breed

Author : E.B. Sledge

Publisher : Presidio Press

Page : 402 pages

File Size : 22,95 MB

Release : 2007-09-25

Category : History

ISBN : 0891419195

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“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary—into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom Hanks NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War. Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation. An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the war’s famous 1st Marine Division—3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where “the world was a nightmare of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.” By the time Sledge hit the hell of Okinawa, he was a combat vet, still filled with fear but no longer with panic. Based on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the Old Breed captures with utter simplicity and searing honesty the experience of a soldier in the fierce Pacific Theater. Here is what saved, threatened, and changed his life. Here, too, is the story of how he learned to hate and kill—and came to love—his fellow man. “In all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a more honest, realistic or moving memoir than Eugene Sledge’s. This is the real deal, the real war: unvarnished, brutal, without a shred of sentimentality or false patriotism, a profound primer on what it actually was like to be in that war. It is a classic that will outlive all the armchair generals’ safe accounts of—not the ‘good war’—but the worst war ever.”—Ken Burns



Underdogs

Author : Aaron B. O'Connell

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 398 pages

File Size : 23,23 MB

Release : 2012-10-29

Category : History

ISBN : 0674067444

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The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America’s smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deeply loyal to its traditions. Marines believe in nothing more strongly than the Corps’ uniqueness and superiority, and this undying faith in its own exceptionalism is what has made the Marines one of the sharpest, swiftest tools of American military power. Along with unapologetic self-promotion, a strong sense of identity has enabled the Corps to exert a powerful influence on American politics and culture. Aaron O’Connell focuses on the period from World War II to Vietnam, when the Marine Corps transformed itself from America’s least respected to its most elite armed force. He describes how the distinctive Marine culture played a role in this ascendancy. Venerating sacrifice and suffering, privileging the collective over the individual, Corps culture was saturated with romantic and religious overtones that had enormous marketing potential in a postwar America energized by new global responsibilities. Capitalizing on this, the Marines curried the favor of the nation’s best reporters, befriended publishers, courted Hollywood and Congress, and built a public relations infrastructure that would eventually brand it as the most prestigious military service in America. But the Corps’ triumphs did not come without costs, and O’Connell writes of those, too, including a culture of violence that sometimes spread beyond the battlefield. And as he considers how the Corps’ interventions in American politics have ushered in a more militarized approach to national security, O’Connell questions its sustainability.



A Lowcountry Christmas

Author : Mary Alice Monroe

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 254 pages

File Size : 50,17 MB

Release : 2016-10-25

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1501125567

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A wounded warrior and his younger brother discover the true meaning of Christmas in a timeless story of family in this “lovely and memorable” (Luis Carlos Montalván, New York Times bestselling author) novel from New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe. As far as ten-year-old Miller McClellan is concerned, this is the worst Christmas ever. His father’s shrimp boat is docked, his mother is working two jobs, and with finances strained, Miller is told they can’t afford the dog he desperately wants. “Your brother’s return from war is our family’s gift,” his parents tell him. But when Taylor returns with PTSD, family strains darken the holidays. Then Taylor’s service dog arrives—a large black Labrador/Great Dane named Thor. When Miller goes out on Christmas Eve with his father’s axe, determined to get his family the tree they can’t afford, he takes the dog for company—but accidentally winds up lost in the wild forest. During this emergency, the splintered family must come together and rediscover their strengths, family bond, and the true meaning of Christmas.



Humbugged

Author : Lili Valente

Publisher : Self Taught Ninja

Page : 271 pages

File Size : 13,39 MB

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Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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He’s the world’s most alpha Marine and the last man I should be letting jingle my bells this holiday season. So why does Clint O’Dell keep running through my thoughts wearing nothing but a Santa hat? And why do I stupidly agree that we should be Christmas friends with benefits? Someone must have spiked my eggnog. I don’t do Marines. Or Santas. I learned my lesson about both the hard way. But when Clint steps in to rescue me—from a murderous goose, a rogue reindeer, and the ghost of Christmas Right Now causing trouble in my bakery—I can’t help but wonder if we’re meant to be more than friends. If maybe Clint is the holiday miracle I’ve been praying for…or if all the magic will disappear with the season. Humbugged is a laugh out loud holiday romp featuring a Marine with a heart of gold and a baker in need of a hero. Complete with the world's most awkward Christmas caroling, a photoshoot with furry friends, and more naughty baked goods than is good or decent.



A Marine's Journal

Author : Mike Holiday

Publisher : Abbott Press

Page : 151 pages

File Size : 12,81 MB

Release : 2013-01-07

Category : History

ISBN : 1458207129

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He had been given a break from work detail and was just finishing his smoke when he heard a loud explosion from third platoons area. As he ran up to see what was going on, several marines were already there standing around looking at a downed marine. Holiday rushed up to the scene and was stopped short in his tracks. There before him lay a man almost blown in half. He could see the mans spine and little else. He looked into the mans face, a young kid no older than he was himself. He saw the man look straight at him and then look away. Holiday watched the life leave the young mans eyes. He knew the exact instant the man had died. It left him cold and numbin shock. But Holiday found it fascinating to see life one second and then nothing the next. Holiday kept staring at the dead marine, pondering what he had just witnessed, vaguely aware of being given orders to remove the body. But Holiday was frozenunable to move to obey that order.



The Marine's Christmas Wedding

Author : Jacki Delecki

Publisher : Doe Bay Publishing LLC

Page : 53 pages

File Size : 29,9 MB

Release : 2017-11-14

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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A MARINE'S CHRISTMAS WEDDING is book 5 in the Grayce Walters contemporary romantic suspense series set in Seattle by USA Today bestselling author Jacki Delecki. Each book is a standalone, steamy, fast-paced romance with a guaranteed happily ever after! Their pretend marriage—cover for a top-secret military assignment—turned into something real. Maddy and Hunter have completed their assignment, but neither wants their roles as husband and wife to end. They’re ready to exchange vows, but their plans for a quickie ceremony at the courthouse unravel when Grayce Walters and company decide the two Marines deserve a real wedding. Overwhelmed by the generous attention of her new circle of family and friends, loner Maddy realizes falling in love with Hunter comes with big changes. Worried that the next assignment might separate him from the woman he can’t live without, Hunter struggles not to ruin his fiancée’s pleasure at getting her dream wedding. But it’s Christmas—the season of miracles. Tough-as-nails Major Hunter Hines and fiercely independent Second Lieutenant Maddy Jeffers will soon discover Christmas wishes can come true. THE GRAYCE WALTERS SERIES Grayce Walters, intuitive animal acupuncturist, finds herself drawn into danger in the name of protecting her animal clients. One extraordinary woman reluctantly battling evil and international intrigue on the streets of Seattle with an unconventional collection of crime-fighting accomplices: Her heart throb, alpha-macho hunk, Fire Investigator Captain Ewan Davis; her best friend James, a gay cross-dressing, karate master who can take bad guys down as long as he doesn’t ruin his hair; her office assistant Hollie, a street wise girl gamer; Mitzi, a black standard poodle who’s anything but standard; and military men and women willing to risk their lives and love in the battle against terrorism. Read the entire series or enjoy as standalone reads in this best-selling contemporary romantic fiction series from USA Today bestselling author Jacki Delecki. An Inner Fire Women Under Fire Men Under Fire Marriage Under Fire A Marine’s Christmas Wedding “A Marine's Christmas Wedding by Jacki Delecki was a perfect epilogue to Maddy and Hunter's story. After meeting Maddy and Hunter in Marriage Under Fire I was thrilled to be able to read their wedding story. They impressed me during their story as being strong, independent and broken individuals who did their duty as Marines but found that their "fake" marriage also made them whole.” —J.M. Varner, Amazon Keywords: contemporary, romantic suspense, thriller, mystery, espionage, military hero, undercover, fake marriage, engagement, wedding, Christmas, holiday, winter, Seattle