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(0)Paul Boehmer
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The true nature of what actually crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 remains classified. Only a select few have ever had access to the truth about what became known as Area 51. But what happened to the remnants of that crash is shrouded in even greater mystery. What began in the high desert of New Mexico ended at Wright-Patterson, an ultra top secret Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio. The physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitation was buried...
82) The swarm
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm.
The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and an expert on U.S. policy in the region
In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how holding fast to one-sided and unwaveringly pro-Israel policies reflects the truth-bending
...84) Future Crime
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Future Crime is a collection of six short stories and two novels by renowned science fiction author, Ben Bova!
From the Foreword: "Will crime always be with us? Yes, in the sense that every society sets down rules of conduct, and there will be members of every society who are not content to live within those rules. The important question is: How do we deal with such criminals? Execute them? Freeze them for future generations to consider? Or, use...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Top-notch detective Sir Henry Marquis, head of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, and several of his clever proteges band together to crack a number of fascinating cases in this collection of interwoven tales. Can you outwit the famed Sleuth of St. James's Square?
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A wildly entertaining first novel about good and evil, narrated by a cape-wearing superhero and a nefarious supervillain.Doctor Impossibleevil genius, mad scientist, diabolical time-traveler, wannabe world dominatorhas just broken out of prisonagain. He's tried to take over the world in every conceivable way: doomsday devices (nuclear, thermonuclear, nanotechnological), armies (robot, insect, dinosaur, fungus, fish), mass mind control, even a corporate...
Author
Publisher
Prime Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lightspeed is the critically acclaimed, online science fiction magazine edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams. Each month at lightspeedmagazine.com, top authors and brilliant new voices alike span the genre's full spectrum, from near-future sociological SF to star-spanning hard SF and everything in between. Lightspeed: Year One collects all of the fiction published during Lightspeed's first journey around the sun: Nebula
...Author
Publisher
W W Norton & Co Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
This masterful collection of seventeen classic mystery stories, dating from 1837 to 1914, traces the earliest history of popular detective fiction.
Today, the figure of Sherlock Holmes towers over detective fiction like a colossus—but it was not always so. Edgar Allan Poe's French detective Dupin, the hero of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," preceded Holmes's deductive reasoning by more than forty years with his "tales of ratiocination." In A Study...
89) Tricks
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A New York Times bestselling author delivers a gripping new work of verse that tells five moving stories that remain separate at first, then interweave to tell a larger, powerful story-a story about making choices, taking leaps of faith, falling down, and growing up.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The perfect companion to the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series!
I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Zero Hour is the fifth collection of action-packed novellas from Pittacus Lore. Initially published separately as digital originals, these three stories are now together in one volume.
Lost Files #13: Legacies Reborn gives a look at the Mogadorian invasion from the perspective of Daniela Morales, a human
...91) Take one
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Above the line volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two unknown producers struggle to fulfill their dreams to change lives through the power of film. With millions of investors' dollars on the line, everything starts to fall apart and they realize they may be in over their heads. Is it possible to beat the odds and make a movie unlike anything ever done before? Or, will they lose everything in the process?
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West. A universal icon of adventure and discovery, he has inspired six centuries of popular fascination and spurious mythology. Now, from acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, comes the first fully authoritative biography of one of the most enchanting figures in world history. In this masterly work, Marco Polo’s...
93) Urban Enemies
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Villains have all the fun-everyone knows that-and this anthology takes you on a wild ride through the dark side! The top villains from sixteen urban fantasy series get their own stories-including the baddies of New York Times bestselling authors Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, Kelley Armstrong, Seanan McGuire, and Jonathan Maberry. For every hero trying to save the world, there's a villain trying to tear it all down. In this can't-miss anthology edited...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
With eloquence equal to Jefferson and Tom Paine, Adams helped ignite the flame of liberty and made sure it glowed even during the Revolution's darkest hours. He was, as Jefferson later observed, "truly the man of the Revolution." Adams played a pivotal role not fully appreciated until now in the events leading up to the confrontation with the British. Believing that God willed a free American nation, he was among the first to call for independence....
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In the vein of John MacDonald's Cape Fear, Ahlborn takes the classic stalker tale and updates it for the modern era.
The house sits stoic and slightly askew off the coast of Raven's Head. Its off-kilter windows are both charming and disorienting, its walls of overstuffed bookshelves both comforting and claustrophobic. When Leo and Lark Parrish arrive at their vacation home with their parents, their mother's idea of a quintessential Maine getaway...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death-using want ads to lure his young female victims. And time after time, justice was thwarted by a killer whose twisted legal genius was matched only by his sick savagery. Here, complete with the testimony of women who suffered his unspeakable sexual abuses and barely escaped with their lives, and of the police who...
Author
Publisher
Bonanza Books
Pub. Date
1984, c1971
Language
English
Description
Bruce Lancaster starts his story with an examination of colonial society and the origins of the quarrel with England. He details the ensuing battles and military campaigns from Lexington and Concord to the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, as well as the tense political and social situation of the new nation. The American Heritage History of the American Revolution details the birth of America with insight and depth.
98) Longing
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Longing, book three in the Bailey Flanigan Series, picks up where Learning ended. After a long and lonely silence from Cody Coleman, Bailey Flanigan becomes closer to her one-time Hollywood co-star, Brandon Paul. Nights on the town in New York City and long talks on the balcony of Brandon's Malibu Beach home make Bailey dizzy with new feelings and cause her to wonder if her days with Cody are over forever. Meanwhile, Cody's work coaching a small-town...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
An atmospheric tale of romantic noir with shades of Hitchcock about a man who is swept into a vortex of irresistible passion and murder when an old love mysteriously reappears George Foss, a forty-year-old employee of a Boston literary magazine, has passed the age when he thinks he might fall madly in love or take the world by storm, or have anything truly remarkable happen to him. He spends most of his evenings at his local tavern talking about the...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Whether you're an entrepreneur, intrapreneur, or not-for-profit leader, there's no shortage of advice on such topics as writing a business plan, recruiting, raising capital, and branding. In fact, there are so many books, articles, and Web sites that many startups get bogged down to the point of paralysis, or they focus on the wrong priorities and go broke before they discover their mistakes. The Art of the Start 2.0 solves that problem by distilling...