Platt: 134 books

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER War is hell…but sometimes it’s also funny as hell. Combat and Other Shenanigans is Lieutenant Piers Platt’s firsthand account of his year as a cavalry platoon leader in Iraq. Wry, action-packed, and poignant, Combat and Other Shenanigans is the absurd-but-true...

Join award winning, USA Today and bestselling authors for a journey into the enchanted realm of the Fae with this brand new collection of holiday stories spanning from humorous Regency and tender historical to quirky contemporary and gritty urban tales of faerie magic, human redemption, and the power...

Winner of the Keystone State Reading AwardIt’s 1944, and much of the world is at war: Fourteen-year-old Teddy is waging her own private war against the world - especially against her twin brother and her perfect, and perfectly despised, mother. When their mother dumps the twins at their grandmother’s...

Cordelia Lu Hankins is half Caucasian, half Chinese - and all albino. She has grown up isolated from the world, with her distant father and a giant stepmother names Babe (after Paul Bunyan’s blue ox), in a remote lumber town in the Pacific Northwest. She is convinced she is ugly and that her father...

Adrenaline is a powerful hormone whose effects have been virtually ignored by the medical community. "Adrenaline Dominance" explains how this hormone might be a major underlying cause of many conditions currently considered incurable. This book explains why people produce this "fight-or-flight" hormone...

Firearms technology dominates the modern day battlefield, but how did the earliest guns affect battles in the Middle Ages? From their earliest incarnations in the 14th Century – which were as much a danger to their operator as they were to the enemy – to the muskets and breech-loading rifles of...

Every life has a cornerstone. Some are made of clay, some are made of rock, and a few are made of duty, honor and blood. It’s 1944, toward the end of the Second World War, but far away from the action. Ian McKenzie, a bright fifteen-year-old street kid ready to take anyone on, has been sent...

Randall Platt's Slangmaster™ presents 1813 slangisms about rotgut, guzzling, and puking your brains out. (Plus a few nice drinking toasts.) Search by term, date or type of booze slang and make your dialogue come alive. Slangmaster™ - for the color of our language. We don't speak, nor should we write, in black and white.

Three times in American history the United States has found itself at critical crossroads: The Civil War, The Great Depression, World War II.It now faces Congressional impasse, debt and fiscal challenges, a need for fairer tax codes, resolution of a health care crisis, trade imbalances, job...

A twelve year old boy is best friends with his next door neighbor who happens to be an alien.

A man called David Joyce has just come out of the asylum on day release. He managed to get away from his security guard, and is now wondering around the town. He believes he is invisible and that he can also create miracles. Two years ago he was involved in an incident which caused outrage and hilarity...

Coming out of sleep mode is chronic. It wasn’t just the headaches but the all-round feeling of nausea. Calloden didn’t even make it. He died as soon as we landed. They said our technology was infallible. Just relax and you will feel nothing they said. The drugs they gave him...

Dan Sherman had to take early retirement through bereavement. He started to have lucid dreams about a tall man who was beckoning him go to a certain place. He soon realized that this wasn't an everyday event. It was to be the start of a once in a lifetime chance to be a Space Guardian. How will he cope with powerful entities who will try to destroy him at every turn?

Mary Wilson makes an error of judgment when walking home alone with troubling consequences.