Navy Day by Harry Harrison7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Lesser men have quailed before that piercing stare, but General Wingrove was never the lesser man. ![]() ![]() The knot of men around a paunchy figure heavy with gold braid broke up and Admiral Fitzjames climbed slowly to his feet. One by one the heads turned to face the Naval section where rows of blue figures stirred and buzzed like smoked-out bees. A buzz of excited comment ran through the giant chamber. The aging Senator from Georgia checked his hearing aid to see if it was in operating order, while the press box emptied itself in one concerted rush and a clatter of running feet that died off in the direction of the telephone room. Army requests Congress to abolish the archaic branch of the armed forces known as the U.S. He drew a deep breath and delivered what was perhaps the shortest speech ever heard in the hallowed halls of Congress: A day when the Army would have its destined place of authority. His vision went beyond the Congress of the United States, past the balmy June day to another day that was coming. GENERAL WINGROVE looked at the rows of faces without seeing them. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In Underworld, Hancock continues his remarkable quest underwater, where, according to almost a thousand ancient myths from every part of the globe, the ruins of a lost civilization, obliterated in a universal flood, are to be found. Now he returns with an explosive new work of archaeological detection. While Graham Hancock is no stranger to stirring up heated controversy among scientific experts, his books and television documentaries have intrigued millions of people around the world and influenced many to rethink their views about the origins of human civilization. ![]() From Graham Hancock, best-selling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans. ![]() Crystabelle by Carré White7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() An unexpected kiss confuses Rebecca, and she questions if it is Grant she really wants. Rebecca and Charlie find themselves thrown together often, and a friendship emerges. ![]() Grant reluctantly makes an effort to romance Rebecca, but his heart is elsewhere, as he is involved with a married woman in town. It is his younger brother, Charlie, who greets her at the train station.Ĭharlie is appalled after discovering his mother’s deception, yet jealous that Rebecca is meant for his older brother, who, in his estimation, does not deserve her. When she arrives in Topeka, she is eager to marry the man she thought she had come to admire, but the groom, Grant Carson, is nowhere to be found. Rebecca Hart is the first ensnared, romanced by sweet words, poetry, and the promise of a new life. The Wild West was tamed, one man at a time.ĭesperate for grandbabies and cursed with four wayward sons, Maggie Carson concocts a scheme to impersonate them in letters sent back east for mail order brides. ![]() Angelopolis danielle trussoni7/4/2023 ![]() The ensuing chase drives Verlaine and his fellow angelologists from the shadows of the Eiffel Tower to the palaces of St. Now an elite angel hunter for the Society of Angelology, he pursues his mission with single-minded devotion: to capture, imprison, and eliminate her kind.īut when Evangeline suddenly appears on a twilit Paris street, Verlaine finds her nature to be unlike any of the other creatures he so mercilessly pursues, casting him into a spiral of doubt and confusion that only grows when she is abducted before his eyes by a creature who has topped the society's most-wanted list for more than a century. With Angelopolis, the conflict deepens into an inferno of danger and passion unbound.Ī decade has passed since Verlaine saw Evangeline alight from the Brooklyn Bridge, the sight of her new wings a betrayal that haunts him still. "She rose into the currents of icy air."Ī New York Times best seller and global sensation, Angelology unfurled a brilliant tapestry of myth and biblical lore on our present-day world and plunged two star-crossed heroes into an ancient battle against mankind's greatest enemy: the fatally attractive angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim. ![]() Rosemary and rue book7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() When a powerful fae's wife and daughter are kidnapped, he recruits Toby for her PI skills to find them. It's that "mostly" that destroys her world. She has a human fiancé, and together they have a daughter. She lives mostly with the humans, or has for awhile now. October Daye is a changeling, or part fae/part human. ![]() Once he showed up, it was easy to push through the next couple of chapters, then Toby was back in thick of things. Me: I'm SO glad you asked! I didn't even have to finish the first chapter before things got interesting. You: Yeah, but how long did that take? How far do I have to get into the book before I get to the "good part"? Which was good, b/c I made it past the '90s flashback of a prologue, and the depths-of-despair aftermath that had initially put me off. I didn't pick it up again for a couple of years, and when I did, it was b/c DESPERATE for new UF. The first time I tried to read ROSEMARY AND RUE, I DNF-ed it. October Daye is one of my Top 5 Favorite UF Series.Ģ. There are two things I want to tell you in advance:ġ. ![]() Uglies by scott westerfeld7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Toward the end of the novel, she is captured by the Specials and turned into a pretty against her will. Her escape to the Smoke is the major catalyst for the events of the book. Shay is Tally’s close friend, adventurous and independent-minded. While she is initially convinced of the ethics and necessity of the surgery, by the end Tally realizes that the surgery is immoral and she is living in a tyrannical surveillance state. ![]() She undergoes a substantial emotional transformation throughout the novel. ![]() When Special Circumstances forces Tally to pursue Shay and reveal the location of the Smoke or be denied the surgery, Tally faces a life-altering decision: betray her friend or remain ugly forever. Her dearest wish is to undergo the operation that will turn her pretty. She is characterized as mischievous, good-hearted, and beauty-obsessed. Tally is the 16-year-old protagonist of Uglies. ![]() A Pink Lady by Elizabeth A. Miller7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Bent on murdering President Lincoln before his inauguration, the KGC's failure to stop Lincoln forged a bitter feud that has allowed the seeds of sedition and revenge to take root. Their search takes them to Mexico where their expectations of solving one case draws them into a private war instigated twenty years earlier by a secret society known as the Knights of the Golden Circle. ![]() on her first assignment, political intrigue sparks the assassination of President Garfield and ignites a storm of destruction for famed detective Allan Pinkerton and his agency.įaced with the bitter betrayal of a trusted colleague, Amanda and her fellow agents begin an exhaustive hunt to bring the traitor to justice. Hoping for a new beginning, she follows Pinkerton agent Christopher Garrety to Chicago with the promise she will become Chris' new partner and perhaps something more. Rich with real historical figures and details, A Pink Lady, Pink Revenge and The Pink Traitor center on new Pinkerton agent, Amanda Brown.Ī simple girl from a backwater Missouri town, Amanda left her broken dreams behind in Copper Creek. ![]() ![]() Pink Pursuits contains the suspense-filled cases of fictional female Pinkerton detectives in three separate novels from Elizabeth A. ![]() Cinderella is dead pages7/4/2023 ![]() And there she meets someone who will show her that she has the power to remake her world. Alone and terrified, she finds herself hiding in Cinderella's tomb. And when Sophia's night at the ball goes horribly wrong, she must run for her life. are forfeit.īut Sophia doesn't want to be chosen - she's in love with her best friend, Erin, and hates the idea of being traded like cattle. For the lives of those not chosen by a man at the ball. Cinderella is Dead is a 2020 Young Adult, Queer Romance, Dark Fantasy novel by Kalynn Bayron. He ensures women have no rights and are completely under the power of men. And every girl knows that she has only one chance. Her second effort cements her place as one of the genre’s most exciting up-and-coming authors. Because every girl has to recite it daily, from when she's tiny until the night she's sent to the royal ball for choosing. 'Kalynn Bayron’s YA fantasy debut Cinderella is Dead was one of 2020’s most pleasant surprises, a rich and compelling retelling that reimagined the classic fairytale as a powerful story of resistance. ![]() Sophia knows the story though, off by heart. It's 200 years since Cinderella found her prince, but the fairytale is over. ![]() 'An intense experience, but a captivating one' - Paper Lanterns Magazine relevant, modern and inclusive' - NetGalley Reviewer She breaks it apart and rebuilds it into a wholly original and captivating story where girls finally decide for themselves who lives happily ever after' - New York Times bestselling author Brigid Kemmerer Cinderella Is Dead (Audible Audio) Published September 4th 2020 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ![]() 'Kalynn Bayron does more than re-write a fairytale. ![]() William shatner's tekwar7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Pure Imagination Studios and Shatner's own company Shatner Universe will produce the series. The new series is being written and developed by Matt Michnovetz ( Star Wars: The Clone wars, 24). Containing a microchip, the drug creates a simulated reality for the user and presents a very real threat to society at large. Set during the mid-21st century, TekWar follows the life of Jake Cardigan, a detective who was later exonerated after being framed, convicted and sentenced for selling mind-altering technology called "tek". This week, Deadline reported a new TekWar series is in development, blending science fiction and science fact in the latest installment of the franchise.īased on the 1989 novel of the same name written by Star Trek's own William Shatner, TekWar led to numerous sequels, a comic book series, video game, movie, and live-action series. SEPTEMFormer detective Jim Cardigan is once again making the jump to television screens. ![]() After the crash by michel bussi7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lylie tells Marc that, for her 18th birthday, Grand-Duc gave her a notebook of all his activities related to her case - a record, in fact, of everything he's discovered about her, the de Carvilles and the Vitrals. Pierre and Nicole Vitral and their grandson, Marc - again, luckily not on board that fatal flight with his parents and baby sister, Emilie - are part of the working class, drumming up a living by selling sausages and fries out of a van across the beaches of northern France. Léonce de Carville, his wife, Mathilde, and their granddaughter Malvina - who was lucky enough to have escaped being on the plane with her parents and baby sister, Lyse-Rose - are a family of wealthy industrialists who can offer the Miracle Baby every luxury in life. This "miracle baby," the focus of intense media scrutiny, will draw even more attention when not one, but two sets of grandparents step forward to claim her. "After the Crash" opens with a wrenching scene that will serve as the mystery's terrifically compelling central conceit: In 1980, there is a horrific plane crash in which all of the passengers perish, apart from a three-month old baby girl plucked from the wreckage. ![]() |