Battle Mask

Battle Mask
Author: Don Pendleton
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2014-12-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1497685567

The Executioner, a lone-wolf vigilante “who would make Jack Reacher think twice,” takes his war on the mob to a new level (Empireonline.com). Once a Vietnam military hero, crack sniper Mack Bolan is now a vigilante, driven by the death of his Massachusetts family to exact vengeance on the mob. Waging war on the West Coast, the Executioner amassed a ten-man army as backup. Seven are now dead. Two are in jail. Only Bolan remains. With a bounty on his head, and every cop in Los Angeles on his tail, Bolan decides to erase his greatest liability: his face. Under the knife of a former army surgeon, Bolan is transformed. With trademark cunning, he infiltrates the Sicilian syndicate that butchered his friends. In cozying up to the boss’s daughter, Bolan’s plan of revenge has never been so intimate. The Executioner may have a new look, but he’s got the same attitude. Soon his fury is going explode, and strike terror in the very heart of the Mafiosi. In writing his iconic Executioner series, Don Pendleton turned his lone-wolf vigilante into a bestselling phenomenon and “spawned a genre” that still influences artists today (The New York Times). Gerry Conway, cocreator of the Marvel Comics avenger, The Punisher, cited the novels as “my inspiration . . . [the] modern equivalent of the pulps.” More than two hundred million copies of the Executioner books have been sold—and a major motion picture based on this classic action series is now in development. Battle Mask is the 3rd book in the Executioner series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Behind the Gas Mask

Behind the Gas Mask
Author: Thomas I Faith
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2014-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780252038686

In Behind the Gas Mask, Thomas Faith offers an institutional history of the Chemical Warfare Service, the department tasked with improving the Army's ability to use and defend against chemical weapons during and after World War One. Taking the CWS's story from the trenches to peacetime, he explores how the CWS's work on chemical warfare continued through the 1920s despite deep opposition to the weapons in both military and civilian circles. As Faith shows, the believers in chemical weapons staffing the CWS allied with supporters in the military, government, and private industry to lobby to add chemical warfare to the country's permanent arsenal. Their argument: poison gas represented an advanced and even humane tool in modern war, while its applications for pest control and crowd control made a chemical capacity relevant in peacetime. But conflict with those aligned against chemical warfare forced the CWS to fight for its institutional life--and ultimately led to the U.S. military's rejection of battlefield chemical weapons.

Battle of the HQs

Battle of the HQs
Author: Pat-a-Cake
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2017-08-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 152638082X

It's time to be a hero! By day, they are Connor, Greg and Amaya, but by night they are Catboy, Gekko and Owlette, the PJ Masks. This cool adventure storybook is based on the episode 'Owlette and the Battling Headquarters' - Amaya notices that the Ninjalinos are stealing all the school buses, and it turns out that Night Ninja is using the stolen buses to build a headquarters to rival the PJ Masks'! At first Owlette is worried that the PJ Masks' HQ cannot fight back power-for-power, but eventually the PJ Masks work together to beat the baddies. PJ Masks all shout hooray! Also available:PJ Masks: Pedal Power, PJ Masks: Meet the PJ masks sticker book, PJ Masks: Annual 2018 PJ Masks (c) Frog Box / Entertainment One UK Limited / Walt Disney EMEA Productions Limited 2014

LEGO BIONICLE: Graphic Novel #2

LEGO BIONICLE: Graphic Novel #2
Author: Lego
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2016-02-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780316266239

The second in an epic graphic novel series of new stories and action-packed adventures following the heroes of Okoto. Features exclusive content that provides maps, myths, and more! ©2016 The LEGO Group

Introduction to Old English

Introduction to Old English
Author: Peter S. Baker
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2012-02-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 047065984X

Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of Introduction to Old English confirms its reputation as a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the first time. A new edition of one of the most popular introductions to Old English Assumes no expertise in other languages or in traditional grammar Includes basic grammar reviews at the beginning of each major chapter and a “minitext” feature to aid students in practicing reading Old English Features updates and several new anthology readings, including King Alfred’s Preface to Gregory’s Pastoral Care

Masks and Demons

Masks and Demons
Author: Kenneth Macgowan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1923
Genre: Demonology
ISBN:

House of Chains

House of Chains
Author: Steven Erikson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 671
Release: 2006-08-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 076531004X

Sisters Tavore and Sha'ik raise armies from limited resources to do battle with each other.