A teenage girl victimized by assault and prejudice. An office worker holding on to his boss's cat after a failed workplace romance. A father struggling through a ceremony for a son lost in combat. A family whose members can often predict the day they're going to die. The characters in Casualties are damaged souls doing their best to keep moving despite their difficulties-a motley mélange of memorable misfits who refuse to be victims despite their...

Presents the story of civilians who have died as a result of America's recent wars, introducing some of those who died in Iraq and Afghanistan, the rescue workers who tried to save them, and the American soldiers coming to terms with their deaths.

Not all our casualties of war served overseas in combat. Some are children who never left our shores. Collateral damage, some might call it. Martha Teichner reports this cover story. How many of these homecomings have you seen on television since we went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan more than a decade ago? How many children, looking into a returning soldier's eyes for the parent who went away? These are supposed to be happy endings, happily-ever-after...

In the aftermath of "Our Worlds at War," Sgt. Rock-now a general-is back in action to lead the Suicide Squad to victory, or to death. But can the new Squad's leader come up with a plan to take on a biological weapon that's gone out of control? Uncover who is really behind this new Suicide Squad in these tales. Can Rock's hastily formed team of Deadshot, Killer Frost, Major Disaster, Reactron, and Blackstarr stop trying to kill each other long enough...

My country was in an ongoing war for the past five months.The soldiers who were supposed to come and tell us when it was safe for us to come out of the shelter we called our home, never came.Were almost out of water and food. We can't stay here anymore. We have to fight our own way out of this hell.Me, with a baby strapped to my back. Content Warning: Violence, mentions of sexual assault and war.*Please note this story was previously published in...

Teddy Aarons is a nomad, using her bartending skills as an excuse to move to a new luxury resort with each change of the season. But when she finds herself stuck on the remote island of Mahina Cay, she finds refuge in the quirky little Township of Crooked Cove.The population of Crooked Cove is full of expats from various countries, and the people are welcoming, but she only intends to stay long enough to make the money to get off the island and back...

In a small village in Iraq surrounded by miles of endless desert a meeting is taking place. The world's most wanted terrorist known as The Ghost is meeting with one of the worlds most ruthless drug lords. A meeting that will hand over a weapon of mass destruction the world has never seen before. A virus so powerful that it kills in seconds and spreads like wildfire. The Ghost has plans for this weapon. Plans that include revenge against America and...

Did you know that there are certain types of prayers that Satan would like you to pray? Is the enemy wounding you with your own sword? Are you or your church experiencing calamities that prayer does not remedy? Heart attacks, miscarriages, runaway children, sudden illnesses, cancer, or untimely deaths? In this timely book, John Paul Jackson reveals some startling insights that will uncover spiritual strategies of the dark side. Find out how you can...

Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Millions of tourists flock to battlefields each year as vacation destinations, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude but who cannot ultimately simulate mutilation, madness, chronic disease, advanced physical decay. In Living Hell, Adams tries a different tack, clustering the voices...

Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn't just destroy all the beings, ships, and planets in its path, but also consumes their greatest arts, somehow scratching them from existence everywhere...