Brotherhood, friendship, loss and love transcend the violence of combat. Poetry gives us both ends of the human condition: the softest of words for the hardest of truths. This book follows in the literary tradition of Wilfred Owen, Rudyard Kipling, Michael Herr and Tim O'Brien. Rubicon delves into the passions of fighting men, and asks us to understand one another by looking inside ourselves. Stanton S. Coerr has been published around the world on topics of combat, national security, international relations and insurgency, and is a graduate of both Duke and Harvard. He is a Marine combat...

New Release Icy roads, a dark forest, and an escaped convict on the loose. It's not the vacation Sarah Wagner had envisioned. Then she takes a wrong turn in the blinding snow, and her car slides off an abandoned road. She's stranded, and the friend she's on her way to visit, at a remote winter cabin, isn't answering her phone. Sarah can't stay in the car; she'll freeze to death. Armed with a lug wrench, she sets out on foot, hoping to find the cabin, and praying the convict doesn't find her first.

When his newly hired violinist disappears just weeks before the Empress's visit, Haydn is forced to confront a disturbing truth. . . Kapellmeister Joseph Haydn would like nothing better than to show his principal violinist, Barto Daboczi, the door. But with the Empress Maria Theresa's visit scheduled in three weeks, Haydn can ill-afford to lose his surly virtuoso. But when Barto disappears-along with all the music composed for the imperial visit-the Kapellmeister is forced to don the role of Kapell-detective, or risk losing his job. Before long Haydn's search uncovers pieces of a disturbing...