Tegan signs on as a ship's doctor, hoping for an epic adventure, but soon finds romance with Szarok, the Uroch vanguard, in a relationship that is both alien and forbidden.

"According to conventional wisdom, American women's campaign for the vote began with the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The movement was led by storied figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. But this women's movement was an overwhelmingly white one, and it secured the constitutional right to vote for white women, not for all women. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian...

The end is nigh!The alien invasion has begun, and Vanguard is all but decimated from threats both external and internal. Enter Talon-a special who has traveled twenty years from the future in order to avert the alien subjugation of the entire planet! But when Vanguard has to deal with the threat of a traitor among their ranks and the loss of much of their strength, Talon has her work cut out for her.Can the team rally together and discover a way to...

The war is over, the heroes failed!Twenty years have passed since the alien invasion of Earth began and humanity has lost. The invaders have set up a new government run by their human co-conspirators, and the superhuman population is now imprisoned, used as forced labor, or subjected to inhumane experimentation.But a new team of specials exists in the future, continuing the legacy of Vanguard. Together, they are the only source of resistance against...

What would you do if you woke up with superpowers? One day, the world was normal. The next, people all over the world suddenly developed unexplained superhuman abilities. Now, the world is a more dangerous place because of these new beings, called specials. And the world's governments struggle to balance civil rights with safety.Despite an international ban on the use of specials for military purposes, the US government has secretly formed a team:...

Experience an epic superhero adventure! One day, the world was normal. The next, people all over the world suddenly developed unexplained superhuman abilities. Now, the world is a more dangerous place because of these new beings, called specials. And the world's governments struggle to balance civil rights with safety.Despite an international ban on the use of specials for military purposes, the US government has secretly formed a team: Paragon, telekinetic...

Includes 35 illustrations. Since 2001, the US Army in Afghanistan has been conducting complex operations in a difficult, often dangerous environment. Living in isolated outposts and working under austere conditions, US Soldiers have carried out missions that require in equal parts a warrior's courage and a diplomat's restraint. In the larger discussions of the Afghanistan campaign, the experiences of these Soldiers-especially the young sergeants and...

Minou's latest kill, a wonderfully delightful mouse, has gone missing.The mouse-thief isn't the cat next door, but someone far more unexpected and dangerous.Apparently, Minou had a job to do.