From New York Times bestselling author Larry Alexander comes a gritty historical novel of World War II, told through the eyes of soldiers on both sides of the firing line. Tarawa was hell but Saipan is worse. For Sergeant Pete “Hardball” Talbot, recently returned from being wounded on Tarawa seven months earlier, Saipan is just another battle as the United States leaps island to island towards an invasion of the Japanese homeland. But the Japanese have learned, all too well, how to defend their islands, with carefully constructed and concealed bunkers and machine gun nests. Talbot and the dozen men of Second Squad have no idea they are running headlong into thirty-five thousand Japanese soldiers who have sworn to fight to the last man. In vivid, startling detail, Shattered Jade explores the strategy and horror of battle in one of World War II’s most brutal conflicts and illuminates the extraordinary courage of ordinary young men.

SHATTERING JADE offers us that rare, highly-intelligent suspense story that probes the deeper issues of our generation right in the middle of a great adventure yarn. John Selby portrays entirely-believable yet ultimately heroic characters who push the limits of their beliefs and abilities they explore that dangerously-expanding new frontier where scientific fact and mystic realization merge and all too often explode in our faces. Inhabiting both primitive and hi-tech scenarios, and testing the limits of human love and trust, SHATTERING JADE explores the very-real possibility that overly-brilliant mind-terrorists could tap recent breakthroughs in consciousness research to malevolently influence people's thoughts and actions on a planetary scale. Directly in the middle of its driving suspense plot, Selby's novel also delivers mature sexual intrigue. The mysterious and spell-binding Mahalena Bernhardt continually provokes our hero beyond his limits, finally challenging him to an archetypal life-or-death encounter where the ceremonial fulfillment of their intimate involvement could determine the victory or failure of their mission. SHATTERING JADE brings numerous exotic locations into vivid life and pushes readers right to the very edge of their own cherished beliefs regarding what is illusion versus what is (perhaps lethally) all too real.

Xiao Yuchen, born in a family of carved wood, is responsible for Carving Dragons and Phoenix for the royal family. The status of the central government is quite high, the family is innocent, and generally has no struggle with the world, but the status is still unshakable. The character is changeable and unfathomable. Generally, most of the most peerless works of the Xiao family are written by him. And foam cold ice from childhood childhood, two little guesswork. It can be said that everyone is envious of him. Xiao Yuchen's wood carving skills are incomparable to others. Therefore, the male leader is the target of everyone's pursuit since he was a child. Later, when she went out to visit her parents again, she was hurt by the robbers. In order to save her father and mother, she was stabbed by the robbers, almost nine days later. Although the body is not completely dead, Lin Yanyu's consciousness is almost nil. From then on, he began to be decadent, and no longer focused on wood carving. Lin Yuyan, an outstanding doctor in the 21st century, has passed through the dying body of Mu Hanbing because of Hotan Yu, and has her memory. The daughter of a humble family gradually discovered the strange and strange disposition of Lin Yu and smoke. After a while, he looked heroic and looked like a little bit of a small family. Just, Xiao Yuchen and Lin Yuyan get along in this period of time. The two men have already sprouted some unknown feelings unconsciously, but no one has broken them. Later, Lin Yuyan escapes from marriage and walks around the world, but is caught back by the man's Lord again. The two gradually rise in love. At this time, Xiao Yuchen accidentally sees a medical skill, and wants to kill Lin Yuyan and revive Mu Hanbing......

Elizabeth always finds herself running out of situations she can't stop from happening. She can't help it that she needs blood to satisfy her cravings, or that she is far from human, the black wings on her back are sure proof of that. Hell, Elizabeth isn't even her real name, in fact she can't remember a good portion of her past. About ready to give up one stormy night, she meets a boy who saves her from her latest bad deed and travels with him. But Jade appears to know a bit more about her than he first let on, it become apparent when another boy from her past joins the journey. Even though Obsidian answers all of Elizabeth's questions he too seems to be hiding something, a reason of why he got them all together in the first place, that will cause Elizabeth's whole world to crumble apart.

Ye Fei, who brought along his father's flying immortal from outer space, came to the continent after surviving for 500 years. Even though he was called an idiot by others, his family love and love made him truly feel the warmth of his family.

In the last two decades, China has become a dramatically more urban society and hundreds of millions of people have changed residence in the process. Family and communal bonds have been broken in a country once known as "a society of kith and kin." There has been a pervasive sense of moral crisis in contemporary China, and the new market economy doesn't seem to offer any solutions. This book investigates how the Chinese have coped with the condition of modernity in which strangers are routinely thrust together. Haiyan Lee dismisses the easy answers claiming that this "moral crisis" is merely smoke and mirrors conjured up by paternalistic, overwrought leaders and scholars, or that it can be simply chalked up to the topsy-turvy of a market economy on steroids. Rather, Lee argues that the perception of crisis is itself symptomatic of a deeper problem that has roots in both the Confucian tradition of kinship and the modern state management of stranger sociality. This ambitious work is the first to investigate the figure of the stranger—foreigner, peasant migrant, bourgeois intellectual, class enemy, unattached woman, animal—across literature, film, television, and museum culture. Lee's aim is to show that hope lies with a robust civil society in which literature and the arts play a key role in sharpening the moral faculties and apprenticing readers in the art of living with strangers. In so doing, she makes a historical, comparative, and theoretically informed contribution to the on-going conversation on China's "(un)civil society."

"The more handsome a man is, the more poisonous he is." The affectionate and kind-hearted Zhou Huan, who was destined to be surrounded by admirers, was originally a humble person in the troubled times. Greed for wealth led him to be tricked and taken to the palace by mistake, accidentally ending up in the emperor's bedchamber. Just after indulging in the pleasures of the flesh, he faced imminent danger. Initially only wanting to escape and survive, Zhou Huan unexpectedly glimpsed the unknown bitterness and helplessness deep within the puppet emperor's heart. "He stands high above everyone, enjoying the wealth and splendor of the world, surrounded by thousands of beautiful women in the imperial palace. Who would have thought that this vast palace wall is actually just a huge prison?" Accidentally getting dragged into this world of fierce competition and survival of the fittest, Zhou Huan chose to confront the challenges. With his shrewd and flexible mind, he maneuvered between various factions, facing opponents like the lonely emperor who was high in position but whose inner loneliness was unknown to all, the general who loved him deeply but found it difficult to express his feelings, and the swaggering and unrestrained wandering swordsman. Dealing with these beautiful women, Zhou Huan suffered greatly, but he also relied on his courage and daring spirit to turn danger into safety again and again. Let's see how Zhou Huan uses his wits and bravery to fight with these beautiful women, turning a losing hand into a winning one, and achieving a legendary story of a humble person's rise to success and winning the heart of a beautiful woman.