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The reclaimer saga begins. This edition is packed with hours of new content including the Halo 4 champions bundle, War games map pass plus in-game and avatar content from the Halo 4 campaign. Shipwrecked on a mysterious world, the Master Chief returns to battle new enemies, deadly technology and an ancient evil bent on vengeance and annihilation. The universe will never be the same.

"Tells the personal story of Jameson Locke, a legendary manhunter and agent with the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), Earth's most powerful and secretive military branch. He and his team are investigating terrorist "chatter" on the distant colony world of Sedra, when they are caught in a horrific biological attack. Led by Locke, ONI agents are forced to coordinate with Randall Aiken, a local commander with a remarkable history and deep-rooted mistrust...

A documentary novel portraying industry's conditions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair's novel prompted public outrage which led President Theodore Roosevelt to demand an official investigation. This eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws.

Wedding photographer Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera, but her focus is shattered moments before an important wedding rehearsal when she bumps into the bride-to-bes brotheran encounter that has them both seeing stars. A stable, safe English teacher, Carter Maguire is definitely not Macs type. But a casual fling might be just what she needs to take her mind off bridezillas. Of course, casual flings can...

The story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, who ran her father's plantation outside Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1700s and struck a bargain with the plantation's slaves: teach her how to make indigo and she would teach them to read.

"The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other-- As Baby Boomers became teenagers in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to get and abortion was illegal. In 1961, sixteen-year-old...

Game Changer is the story of one mans fifty-year journey doing battle with the conventional wisdom and in the process helping to restore America as an energy superpower.

Documents women's various roles in history from 1600 to the present and shows the historical origins of today's important issues as sexual harassment, equal pay and shift work.

An examination of America's liberal elites argues that high-placed leftists in the nation's media and entertainment industries are endangering the nation with help from the United Nations.