Black Hearts

Black Hearts
Author: Jim Frederick
Publsiher: Crown
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2010-02-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780307450982

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“Riveting. . . a testament to a misconceived war, and to the ease with which ordinary men, under certain conditions, can transform into monsters.”—New York Times Book Review This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment—a unit known as “the Black Heart Brigade.” Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq’s so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably the country’s most dangerous location at its most dangerous time. Hit by near-daily mortars, gunfire, and roadside bomb attacks, suffering from a particularly heavy death toll, and enduring a chronic breakdown in leadership, members of one Black Heart platoon—1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion—descended, over their year-long tour of duty, into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse, and brutality. Four 1st Platoon soldiers would perpetrate one of the most heinous war crimes U.S. forces have committed during the Iraq War—the rape of a fourteen-year-old Iraqi girl and the cold-blooded execution of her and her family. Three other 1st Platoon soldiers would be overrun at a remote outpost—one killed immediately and two taken from the scene, their mutilated corpses found days later booby-trapped with explosives. Black Hearts is an unflinching account of the epic, tragic deployment of 1st Platoon. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with Black Heart soldiers and first-hand reporting from the Triangle of Death, Black Hearts is a timeless story about men in combat and the fragility of character in the savage crucible of warfare. But it is also a timely warning of new dangers emerging in the way American soldiers are led on the battlefields of the twenty-first century.

Blackhearts

Blackhearts
Author: Nicole Castroman
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2016-02-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781481432696

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"A reimagining of the origin story of Blackbeard the pirate and his forbidden love affair with a maid in his father's house"--

Blackhearts

Blackhearts
Author: Richard Symanski
Publsiher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780300128130

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This fascinating book is a firsthand account of the adventures of an ornithological field team studying long-tailed finches in outback Australia. In 1991, Nancy Burley, a noted behavioral ecologist, and her husband, Richard Symanski, went to Australia with their one-year-old son and four American students hired as field assistants and babysitter. The social relationships and problems that developed among these individuals in confined and exotic settings and the scientific discoveries that did -- and did not -- take place form the heart of the book. Symanski begins by telling how he and his wife set up this elaborate field expedition -- including the hiring of what seemed to be qualified, compatible, and knowledgeable field assistants. He then describes the harsh realities of their circumstances in Australia: primitive living conditions on an outback cattle station; field sites and subjects for study that were not as expected; and students who were not prepared for the rigors of field life and who became unenthusiastic about the work for which they had been hired. And he tells how he and his wife strove to overcome all the different challenges with which they were confronted. The book provides insight into the demands of professor-student-based fieldwork, particularly when generational conflicts, differing expectations, and culture shock complicate the business of doing science.

Blacksouls

Blacksouls
Author: Nicole Castroman
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2017-04-11
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781481491051

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In the late 1690's, Edward "Teach" Drummond, the soon-to-be Blackbeard, and his beloved Anne, the daughter of a wealthy merchant and his West India slave, are both on separate journeys to Nassau, but their paths cross when they become entangled with the treacherous Governor Webb, forcing Teach and Anne to take on a dangerous mission to save both their friends and his men.

Petra K and the Blackhearts

Petra K and the Blackhearts
Author: M. Henderson Ellis
Publsiher: Young Europe Books
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9780985062392

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Welcome to Pava, a city where miniaturized show-dragons are pitted against each other in secret, forbidden tournaments, and magic has been outlawed by a cruel child dictator. Here lives Petra K, the daughter of a shut-in mother, who becomes the master of a dragonka everyone wants to get their hands on. In a complicated world of sorceresses, gypsies, child gangs, and secret police, Petra K needs to decide whom to trust, and whom to betray in order to keep herself and her pet safe. But revolution is in the air, and she too is caught up in its pull. Only the Blackhearts, a gang of orphan children, dare to defy the new dictator’s rule, selling potions to survive. Along with the Blackhearts, Petra K faces a murderous pack of mechanical dragonka, a phantom secret agent—and, most harrowing, her own weaknesses. Will the Blackhearts’ adventures and courage inspire the terrified population to rise up again, and return Pava to a place of prosperity, where dragonka run free? Petra K and the Blackhearts is the first thrilling book of a trilogy by M. Henderson Ellis, whose previous novel Booklist called "a wild, manic ride . . . thoroughly enjoyable." From the Trade Paperback edition.

Blackhearts The Omnibus

Blackhearts  The Omnibus
Author: Nathan Long
Publsiher: Games Workshop
Total Pages: 800
Release: 2023-02-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1789996724

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Classic collection of stories from the Warhammer Fantasy universe. Under threat of death for their crimes, Reiner Hetzau and his fellow prisoners are given a choice: they can either be executed or work for the very people that have imprisoned them. Forced to carry out the most desperate and suicidal secret missions, all for the good of the Empire, the Blackhearts encounter Chaos cultists, ratmen, dark elves, rogue army commanders and more. Time and again they are pitted against impossible odds and survive – yet what they most desire they cannot have: their freedom.

Valnir s Bane

Valnir s Bane
Author: Nathan Long
Publsiher: Games Workshop(uk)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-01-11
Genre: Fantasy fiction
ISBN: 1844161668

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In the grim medieval Old World, a motley gang of convicts are released from a military prison and offered a grim choice: either volunteer for a suicide mission, or die by the noose. Unsurprisingly, they are very keen tovolunteer for the mission when they are offered a full pardon upon it's completion. But when they discover that they must penetrate deep into enemy territory and bring back a powerful holy relic that could turn the tide of war, they begin to regret their choice. With a traitor in their midst and impossible odds ahead of them, the band of blackheart prisoners must fight their way through the Chaos-infested mountains and into the very heart of darkness

BlackHearts Day Twisted Holiday Specials

BlackHearts Day  Twisted Holiday Specials
Author: Lotus Rose
Publsiher: Death Pout
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2014-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9182736450XXX

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Charlee Frown must struggle to prevent a holiday known as BlackHearts Day from taking hold. But then she starts thinking, maybe it’s not so bad after all, because Valentine’s Day really sucks. She’s asked to star in a sappy Hall-mart Cards Valentine’s television special. But then she learns about the origin of Valentine’s Day, and the role of the Illuminati and Aleister Crowley in it…in cooperation with Hall-mart. Charlee is torn. What should she do? She just wants to be on TV! Can Valentine’s Day be saved? By the author of SinEaster and Merry XXXmas, Charlee Frown. Twisted Holiday Specials SinEaster Merry XXXmas, Charlee Frown BlackHearts Day