The riveting true story of America's first modern military battle, its first military victory during World War One, and its first steps onto the world stage At first light on Tuesday, May 28th, 1918, waves of American riflemen from the U.S. Army's 1st Division climbed from their trenches, charged across the shell-scarred French dirt of no-man's-land, and captured the hilltop village of Cantigny from the grip of the German Army. Those who survived the enemy machine-gun fire and hand-to-hand fighting held on for the next two days and nights in shallow foxholes under the sting of mustard gas and crushing steel of artillery fire. Thirteen months after the United States entered World War I, these 3,500 soldiers became the first "doughboys" to enter the fight. The operation, the first American attack ever supported by tanks, airplanes, and modern artillery, was ordered by the leader of America's forces in Europe, General John "Black Jack" Pershing, and planned by a young staff officer, Lieutenant Colonel George C. Marshall, who would fill the lead role in World War II twenty-six years later. Drawing on the letters, diaries, and reports by the men themselves, Matthew J. Davenport's First Over There tells the inspiring, untold story of these soldiers and their journey to victory on the Western Front in the Battle of Cantigny. The first American battle of the "war to end all wars" would mark not only its first victory abroad, but the birth of its modern Army.

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm. At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately one minute, shockwaves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to death and trapped many alive. Fires ignited and blazed through dry wooden ruins and grew into a firestorm. For the next three days, flames devoured collapsed ruins, killed trapped survivors, and nearly destroyed what was then the largest city in the American West. Meticulously researched and gracefully written, The Longest Minute is both a harrowing chronicle of devastation and the portrait of a city’s resilience in the burning aftermath of greed and folly. Drawing on the letters and diaries and unpublished memoirs of survivors and previously unearthed archival records, Matthew Davenport combines history and science to tell the dramatic true story of one of the greatest disasters in American history.

Expect one HELL of a Deal! Shane’s a damned good salesman, but when a promotion that he spent years earning gets taken away only hours after getting it, he realizes that sometimes it doesn’t matter how good you are at what you do. But that’s not good enough for Shane. Confronting the person that he believes is responsible for his situation, Shane learns that there’s another, quieter, sales organization that he’s competing against: Perdition Investments. At Perdition Investments the products are whatever you want the most, but the cost is your Soul. Shane has a chance to use his excellent skills in an entirely new way, but at what cost? Can you lose your soul by trading people for theirs? What’s the price for success? Shane’s about to learn that, in these contracts, the Devil is in the Details…

The ABR core exam will be administrated in late June every year. This core examination, which is one component toward obtaining board certification in diagnostic radiology, will test knowledge and comprehension in 18 categories of the exam. Books in The Core Review Series will consist of approximately 300 imaging questions, in a format similar to the new ABR core exam. High quality radiographs, CT, MRI, and ultrasound images will be included. Answers to the questions will be discussed in a concise manner with explanations for why a particular answer choice is correct and the remaining answer choices are incorrect. Literature references will be provided for each answer explanation that cover all relevant aspects of genitourinary imaging using a format identical to the test. Interacting with this book will prepare the resident to read and answer Core Exam questions.

Six months have passed since the Guardian saved Darden Valley. The city's path to recovery is well underway as the citizens gratefully accept their new protector as one of their own, but for every crime the Guardian stops, two more take its place as the city's criminals try to make a name for themselves against Darden Valley's champion. With new abilities and a computer system that acts and sounds like his departed sister, Jason Night is struggling to adapt to this new world without letting his emotions destroy the momentum he's built for himself. As he finally begins to put the pieces of his life back together, Samson arrives. Stronger than any other man and with unbreakable skin, Samson is a warped and twisted vision from biblical legend. Samson's arrival heralds a new threat to Darden Valley. A supernatural threat that one man with a few clever gadgets is no match for. Magic is real and the Guardian is powerless to stop it.

Summary: Treats of methods at Hazelwood School.