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Calling Anna and Bennett’s romance long distance is an understatement: she’s from 1995 Chicago and he’s a time traveler from 2012 San Francisco. The two of them never should have met, but they did. They fell in love, even though they knew they shouldn't. And they found a way to stay together, against all odds.
It’s not a perfect arrangement, though, with Bennett unable to stay in the past for more than brief visits, skipping out on big chunks of his present in order to be with Anna in hers. They each are confident that they’ll find a way to make things work...until Bennett witnesses a single event he never should have seen (and certainly never expected to). Will the decisions he makes from that point on cement a future he doesn't want?
Told from Bennett’s point of view, Time After Time will satisfy readers looking for a fresh, exciting, and beautifully-written love story, both those who are eager to find out what’s next for Time Between Us's Anna and Bennett and those discovering their story for the first time.
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In the year 1260, under the supervision of the architect Gerhard Morart, the most ambitious ecclesiastical building in all of Christendom is rising above the merchant city of Cologne: the great cathedral. Far below the soaring spires and flying buttresses, a bitter struggle is underway between the archbishop of Cologne and the ruling merchant families to control the enormous wealth of this prosperous commercial center—a struggle that quickly becomes deadly.
Morart is the first of many victims, pushed to his death from the cathedral’s scaffolding by a huge man with long hair, clad all in black. But hiding in the branches of the archbishop’s apple orchard is a witness: a red-haired petty thief called Jacob the Fox, street-smart, cunning, and yet naive in the ways of the political world. Out of his depth and running for his life, he soon finds himself engaged in a desperate battle with some very powerful forces.
Most dangerous of all is the killer himself—a mysterious man with remarkable speed, strength, and intelligence, hiding dark secrets that have stripped away his humanity and turned him into a cruel, efficient hired assassin who favors a miniature crossbow as his weapon of choice. But who is he killing for?
Jacob the Fox—uneducated and superstitious—fears the killer is the Angel of Death himself. But the wily Fox makes an alliance with some of the strangest of bedfellows: a beautiful clothes dyer, her drunken rascal of a father, and her learned uncle, who loves a good debate almost as much as he loves a bottle of wine.
Can this unlikely foursome triumph against the odds and learn the truth of the evil conspiracy before their quest leads to their death at the end of a crossbow arrow?
Readers who loved the richly textured setting and historical accuracy of Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose” will thrill to discover a new novel through which they can vicariously enter the medieval world. With its vivid evocation of both the rich and powerful and those struggling to survive another day at the bottom of society’s rungs in the Cologne of 1260, “Death and the Devil,” the first novel by Frank Schätzing, sends a clear announcement to the literary world that an important new voice in fiction is here.
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La Expedicion A Marte (Aelita. La Reina de Marte)
es la novela de aventuras espaciales de la revolución soviética. Una expedición financiada y promovida por un único individuo, el ingeniero Loss, alcanza el planeta Marte con sus dos tripulantes: Los y un sargento de la revolución, experto en guerra y ardiente sóviet. Escrita en 1923, la novela plasma de manera definitiva lo que se esperaba de una utopía dramática revolucionaria. La novela de Tolstoi, lejos de exportar la revolución a otros países del mundo, la manda al espacio, para empezar, al cercano Marte, poblado por una raza de descendientes de los atlantes que acogerá con alegría a los viajeros y se dejará influenciar por sus ideas y avances.
Aelita es una novela-mosaico, formada por fragmentos tomados un podo por doquier: de Wells a London, Burroughs y Julavski. En la novela no hay la menor traza de marxismo y sólo el hecho de que la literatura soviética no pueda pasar de los clásicos explica que Aelita haya sido reconocida oficialmente como la primera obra maestra de la ciencia-ficción soviética. Pero de su influencia no podemos tener la menor duda.
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Sieht Dr. Liam O’Connor, genialer Physiker und Bestsellerautor, Gespenster? Wird Köln wirklich von einer unbekannten Macht unterwandert, wenige Tage bevor hier die weltpolitische Elite zum G-8-Gipfel zusammenkommt? Tatsächlich stößt O’Connor auf eine Verschwörung und eine unheimliche Waffe, die einen neuen Kalten Krieg auslösen könnte. In einem atemlosen Katz- und Mausspiel versucht er, die Katastrophe zu verhindern. Doch die Gegner scheinen immer einen Schritt voraus zu sein…<
WINNER OF THE 2012 JAMES TIPTREE, JR. AWARD.
Indeed, Ms. Salaam’s stories are so permeated with sensuality that in her introduction to , Nisi Shawl, author of the award-winning , writes, “Sexuality-cum-sensuality is the experiential link between mind and matter, the vivid and eternal refutation of the alleged dichotomy between them. This understanding is the foundation of my 2004 pronouncement on the burgeoning sexuality implicit in sf’s Afro-diasporization. It is the core of many African-based philosophies. And it is the throbbing, glistening heart of Kiini’s body of work. This book is alive. Be not afraid.”
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Vienas reikšmingiausių Storcho kūrinių, pasakojančių apie medžiotojų gentis, gyvenusias akmens amžiaus laikotarpiu dabartinėje Čekijos teritorijoje. Istorinė proza šiame romane neatsiejama nuo mokslinės populiarizacijos, o patraukliai supinti nuotykiai rodo neabejotiną Štorcho, kaip pasakotojo, talentą.<
For once, seventeen year old Theo Essex thought he could put aside his worries and just enjoy himself. A summer weekend at the shore. An evening with his friends. A beautiful girl in his arms.
That was before the event.
Now Theo finds himself stranded in a strange new world, surrounded by death and the sea, and trapped between rival forces determined to take control of survivors like him. Facing overwhelming odds, Theo must search for the strength to escape Atlantic Island.
The critically acclaimed title from author Fredric Shernoff has garnered national attention by bringing sci-fi, action, adventure and romance to the popular locale of a Jersey Shore that is both sentimentally similar and eerily different from our own.
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Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A ground-breaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: how do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? That question has never been resolved — and Schlosser reveals how the combination of human fallibility and technological complexity still poses a grave risk to mankind.
Written with the vibrancy of a first-rate thriller, interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a nuclear missile silo in rural Arkansas with a historical narrative that spans more than fifty years. It depicts the urgent effort by American scientists, policymakers, and military officers to ensure that nuclear weapons can’t be stolen, sabotaged, used without permission, or detonated inadvertently. Schlosser also looks at the Cold War from a new perspective, offering history from the ground up, telling the stories of bomber pilots, missile commanders, maintenance crews, and other ordinary servicemen who risked their lives to avert a nuclear holocaust. At the heart of the book lies the struggle, amid the rolling hills and small farms of Damascus, Arkansas, to prevent the explosion of a ballistic missile carrying the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States.
Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with men who designed and routinely handled nuclear weapons, takes readers into a terrifying but fascinating world that, until now, has been largely hidden from view. Through the details of a single accident, Schlosser illustrates how an unlikely event can become unavoidable, how small risks can have terrible consequences, and how the most brilliant minds in the nation can only provide us with an illusion of control. Audacious, gripping, and unforgettable, is a tour de force of investigative journalism, an eye-opening look at the dangers of America’s nuclear age.
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