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National Guard 101:
A Handbook for Spouses
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(Paperback, 216 pages)
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Other Titles of Interest
The Ultimate Basic Training Guidebook
Price: $18.95
(Paperback, 192 pages)
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The Elementary Common Sense of Thomas Paine
 Price: $18.95
(Paperback, 216 pages)
-------------------------------- The Maryland Campaign of September 1862
 Price: $37.50 (Hardcover, 576 pages)
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Dear SB Readers:
Welcome to the new year of 2012! We sincerely hope all of our readers had a wonderful Christmas holiday with family and friends and that you all received a Savas Beatie title from your Christmas lists. If not we still have some special offers for you for the new year!
From now until January 5th, download Playing with the Enemy by Gary W. Moore for only 99 cents! Get your copy today!
Be sure to check out Mike Volkin's how-to guides on howcast. Find all kinds of great videos to help you or a loved one survive and thrive in the military.
If you haven't heard, Unholy Sabbath by Brian Jordan will be available this month.
Meet the author in an in-depth interview below.
Happy New Year to you all!
Theodore P. Savas
Veronica M. Kane
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Playing with the Enemy - $0.99 Kindle Download!
Until January 5, Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams by Gary W. Moore will be available for download on your Kindle for ONLY 99 CENTS!
Act now before the promotion ends. Don't forget to forward this offer to your friends and family, or treat them to this great read!
Inspired by true events, Playing with the Enemy is the riveting story of a depression-era youth and his brush with destiny. Author Gary Moore, Gene's son, did not learn of his father's remarkable odyssey through World War II and the hardships of minor league baseball until the day before Gene's death. Read more.
Click here to get your copy today.
Also be sure to check out author Gary Moore's latest book Hey Buddy about Buddy Holly. If you download Playing with the Enemy for 99 cents on Kindle, simply email us by January 6 to tell us you have done so, and we will enter you in a contest to win a copy of Hey Buddy.
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Another thank you to all of our readers who participated in last month's contests. Cathy R. was randomly chosen from all of the responses we received and will receive a copy of the award-winning Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions by Eric J. Wittenberg.
Be sure to check future editions of Libri Novus for more chances to win.
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 Mike Volkin, author of The Ultimate Basic Training Guidebook, is on Howcast! Howcast is a website where people post "how-to" videos. This couldn't be more perfect for our guide-writing author! Mike has filmed over 40 short videos on Howcast with tips and tricks on how to survive basic training. These videos are short, to the point, and helpful for our soldiers, covering: how to stay out of trouble, how to make a good first impression, and many, many more including his most recent and risque video on how to take a shower. Check out some of Mike's videos here.
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This month, we continue our Spring 2012 preview with The Petersburg Campaign, Volume 2 and Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, and the Structure of Reason. Continue to check our website for updated release dates plus author interviews, sneak peek excerpts, and more.
 The Petersburg Campaign: The Western Front Battles, September 1864 - April 1865, Volume 2, by Edwin C. Bearss with Bryce Suderow 6x9 hardcover, 22 b/w photos, 14 maps, 504 pages, $34.95
The wide-ranging and largely misunderstood series of operations around Petersburg, Virginia, were the longest and most extensive of the entire Civil War. The fighting that began in early June 1864 would not end for nine long months. This important, many would say decisive, fighting is presented by legendary Civil War author Edwin C. Bearss in The Petersburg Campaign: The Western Front Battles, September 1864 - April 1865, Volume 2, the second in a ground-breaking, two-volume compendium. Read more.
Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, and the Structure of Reason, by David Hirsch and Dan Van Haften; special eBook edition $19.95
Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, and the Structure of Reason authors David Hirsch and Dan Van Haften show precisely how President Obama's 2011 speeches have adopted the same structure sometimes used by Thomas Jefferson (Declaration of Independence) and frequently used by Abraham Lincoln (Gettysburg Address). The authors summarize and critically analyze Obama's speeches to demonstrate how structure conveys meaning. Read more.
Visit our website to reserve these books with no obligation to buy.You will be notified via e-mail when the books arrive. All books ship with author-signed bookplates.
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Out and About
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Visit with David Hirsch and Dan Van Haften on January 4th from 12:00 to 1:00 pm at Geneva Public Library for a book discussion and book signing. Check the Geneva Public Library's website for more details.
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Mary Corbett, author of National Guard 101 will be doing a live radio interview on January 6 from 9:30 to 9:45 am CT on The Breakfast Club. Check WCUB Radio's website to tune in!
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Be sure to keep checking our calendar for continuous updates on our authors upcoming events!
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Unholy Sabbath Available this Month
 Meet the newest addition to our Civil War collection!
Unholy Sabbath ships from the printer in late January. Are you itching to download an ebook on your new Kindle? Download this upcoming title now!
Most writers brush past the mid-September battle in a few paragraphs or a single chapter. Jordan, however, presents a vigorous full-length study based upon extensive archival research, newspaper accounts, regimental histories, official records, postwar reunion materials, public addresses, letters, and diaries. Readers will not only come away with a full understanding of the military actions at Fox's, Turner's, and Crampton's gaps, but a deeper and more meaningful appreciation for the ways in which Civil War veterans and the public at large remembered military events-and why some were forgotten.
Unholy Sabbath proposes a new rubric for evaluating this important combat by examining not only the minute military aspects of the battle, but how soldiers remembered the fighting and why South Mountain faded from public memory. Former Confederates true to the Lost Cause, argues Jordan, downplayed the victory, emphasized how outnumbered they were, and argued that their defense of the passes "protected the concentration of General Lee's army on the field of Sharpsburg." Union veterans, however, remembered South Mountain as a full-scale engagement wholly distinct from Antietam, and one where they outfought and completely defeated their Rebel opponents and disrupted the entire Southern invasion.
This richly detailed study, complete with outstanding maps, photographs, a complete order of battle with losses, and an in-depth interview with the author, is modern Civil War history at its finest. Read more.
Reserve your copy today! You may also read the author interview.
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Meet Author Brian Jordan
 Brian Matthew Jordan graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Civil War Era Studies from Gettysburg College. The native of northeastern Ohio discovered a passion for history at an early age. He is a frequent speaker at Civil War Round Tables nationwide, delivers popular tours for Gettysburg College's Civil War Institute and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and conducts seminars for various Teaching American History grant recipients. His published work has appeared in multiple journals including Civil War History. Jordan is currently working on a Ph.D. in History at Yale University.
Visit Brian's author spotlight on our website to read his full biography or visit his Facebook page.
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