Lethal Leaders and Military Madmen

Lethal Leaders and Military Madmen
Author: Sandy Donovan
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1512457957

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Get ready to bow down—if you don't want to lose your head! Some of history's most ruthless leaders are headed your way. Some of these rulers schemed their way to the top. Others just conquered everything around them. Are you fearless enough to read on?

Deadly Danger Zones

Deadly Danger Zones
Author: Sandy Donovan
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467710261

Want to travel to some of the world's most dangerous spots? Prepare to visit the homes of man-eating tigers and hungry crocodiles. Explore giant volcanoes, a garden of poison plants, and a fire that has burned for years. Surviving in a danger zone isn’t easy. Find out if you have what it takes. Just watch out for steep drops and shark attacks!

Assassins, Traitors, and Spies

Assassins, Traitors, and Spies
Author: Elaine Landau
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1512452475

James Bond may be one of the good guys, but the spies in this book definitely aren't—nor are the traitors and assassins! Crack open this book to uncover more secrets about history's most terrible assassins, traitors, and spies.

Merciless Monarchs and Ruthless Royalty

Merciless Monarchs and Ruthless Royalty
Author: Miriam Aronin
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1512452580

Loyal subjects, watch out! Some of history's royal leaders were just as vicious as they were powerful. These kings and queens stole, tortured, and murdered. Read on to discover the gruesome ways these rulers terrorized their enemies, their own people, and even their own blood.

Pirates, Scoundrels, and Scallywags

Pirates, Scoundrels, and Scallywags
Author: Madeline Donaldson
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467710334

Avast! Are ye' ready to sail the high seas with some of the world's most feared pirates? These accounts will do more than shiver your timbers. Nothing came between these scoundrels of the sea and their loot. They burned boats, lopped off ears, and killed those who dared to challenge them. Come aboard to witness the ruthless methods of history's most petrifying pirates.

The Fall of the Mongol Empire

The Fall of the Mongol Empire
Author: Jennifer Swanson
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2016-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1499463766

As spectacular as its creation was, the fall of the Mongol Empire was just as remarkable. Its descent into chaos was signaled by inter-family rebellion across the four khanates established by Genghis Khan. As weaker Mongol leaders struggled to retain control, drought, flood, famine, and the bubonic plague eventually contributed to the collapse of each khanate. As this volume amply demonstrates, though the Mongols were fierce warriors, their legacy also includes a culture of honor and discipline, centralized government structure, trade promotion and communication routes, and religious tolerance—all of which helped spread wealth, information, and technology across two continents.

Gangsters, Bootleggers, and Bandits

Gangsters, Bootleggers, and Bandits
Author: Heather E. Schwartz
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467710318

Robbery, smuggling, gambling—gangsters did it all. They fought the law. They fought each other. And not all of them made it out alive. Find out the true stories of the United States' most feared hoodlums and mob bosses. Learn how a two-bit car thief built a criminal empire—and how the mob's top man wound up in prison. Are you bold enough to read on?

Outlaws, Gunslingers, and Thieves

Outlaws, Gunslingers, and Thieves
Author: Heather E. Schwartz
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467710369

Hang on to your wallet—and watch your neck! You're about to encounter some of the worst gunslingers to wreak havoc on the Old West. The most notorious outlaws were known for their fearless drive, their quick shot with a pistol, their odd trademarks, and their way of escaping the law over and over again. Are you brave enough to read on?

Lethal Secrets

Lethal Secrets
Author: Pete Earley
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2006-05-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780765346933

Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley sets the stage for this shocking thriller with an actual security threat the CIA secretly investigated during the peak of the Cold War: that the Soviet Union's KGB had cleverly smuggled a nuclear bomb into the very heart of Washington, D.C. In Lethal Secrets, the bomb is now in the hands of a band of Chechen rebels, led by Movladi "the Viper" Islamov, who's threatening to detonate the device unless his demands are met. The fate of the city rests in the hands of a disgraced deputy U.S. marshal, Wyatt Conway, who is reluctantly called into action by his FBI and CIA rivals because he was once a friend of Islamov's, before the freedom fighter turned into an international terrorist. His only hope at getting to Islamov lies with Vladimir Khrenkov, a possibly corrupt Russian intelligence agent. Conway suspects Khrenkov of being the man who executed a top Russian mobster whom Conway was protecting in the federal witness protection program. Kept on short leash by Kimberly Lodge, a skeptical CIA beauty who finds him incompetent and foolish, Conway must find a way to manipulate and expose Khrenkov, keep Lodge and her bureaucratic cronies off his back, and prevent Islamov from igniting the spark for Armageddon.

The Navy SEAL Art of War

The Navy SEAL Art of War
Author: Rob Roy
Publisher: Crown Currency
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0804137765

In a groundbreaking, narrative-driven book for businesses, managers (and those who aspire to the managerial ranks), and entrepreneurs, a veteran Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer shows how the skills that enable SEAL teams to achieve the impossible in the battlefield can help business executives and career-minded individuals make better decisions and get the best out of their teams. Anyone can make good decisions when everything is in their favor. But in life, as in war, it’s in chaotic, challenging times that genuine leaders distinguish themselves. As a Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer, Rob Roy learned this lesson over twenty-five years of combat, in which the difference between life and death was his team’s ability to decode complex environments, take decisive action, and seize opportunities when they presented themselves. In The Navy SEAL Art of War, Roy decodes the leadership lessons of the battlefield for today’s business leaders and individuals: how to make good decisions under pressure, how to utilize and leverage the strengths of others while minimizing the weaknesses of the individual or team, and how to act instead of react, anticipating events despite having minimal information and effectively communicating tasks and priorities. Illustrated with countless stories from the front lines, and featuring unprecedented exercises and drills from the SEALs’ training program, The Navy SEAL Art of War is destined to take its place aside It’s Your Ship as a bestselling business classic.