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Discovery in the Desert: It Will Shake the Nations
by Tom Thiele
David Hart is a young, bright NASA physicist who is chosen to join a team of other NASA scientists assigned to a Classified Military Project. The team has been formed to bring a new, cutting edge technology to the United States military–Time Travel. The team initially makes great strides in developing a time travel capsule, and then they hit a brick wall.
Once the obstacle becomes common knowledge at NASA, the project transforms from one of prestige and glamour to one of embarrassment. The slowed progress grates on David’s patience. Then he decides to do the unthinkable!
Join David on this adventure of a lifetime as he realizes that not only has he been chosen to be on this NASA team, but he has been chosen for a much more significant task. A task, that once accomplished, will change David’s life forever.
Additionally, it is this author’s hope, that this book will change your life forever, as well.
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Three months outbound from Earth and the starship Desio approaches its planetary destination, her crew eager to commence a mission of scientific discovery. Kyle Lorenzo, however, has a personal reason for being on board–an inner conflict that will ultimately propel him to explore not only the furthest reaches of an enigmatic ocean world but the nebulous recesses of his inner psyche.
It is during the long and isolating interstellar journey that a physical relationship develops between Kyle and the ship’s physician, Kelly Takara. That part is easy. Understanding the reasons for avoiding the emotional commitment desired by Kelly is harder. So, too, is trying to penetrate the mind of Larry Melhaus, the mission’s brilliant and reclusive physicist–a failure of communication made exponentially more troublesome when the scientist’s disturbing behavior begins to threaten the crew.
And while Kyle seeks a path to comprehending himself and Melhaus, the ship’s crew, led by their strong-willed commander, Bruce Thompson, attempt to fathom a planet where none of the precepts of science seem to apply. A world where every preconceived notion of what constitutes life must be re-examined and challenged.
Looking inward. Looking outward. Two seemingly divergent journeys.
Strange if they culminate at the same destination…
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As the Roaring Twenties crumble into the Great Depression, Virginia Kingsley, New York’s toughest and most successful speakeasy owner, is doing just fine; with the whole world falling apart for so many, bootlegging is a flourishing business.
But when a former lover, Rudy, attempts to coerce his way into her business, Virginia sends him packing and her entire family pays the price: Her niece, Laura, is devastated when her infant son vanishes without a trace. Speculation and rumors abound in the media circus that follows the abduction, and the police have few leads, most of which point straight back at Virginia and her fellow bootleggers.
Suspicious of Rudy but unable to go to the police, Virginia pursues her own investigation, shaking down, threatening, and killing one petty crook after another as she races against time to find her missing great-nephew. In the mean time, Laura’s lover and Herald Tribune reporter, Erich, tries to convince Laura that Virginia knows more than she is telling… and may be behind the boy’s disappearance.
With time flying past and hope thinning, Virginia, Laura, and Erich must set aside their differences and work together in one last, desperate bid to find the missing child and whoever really abducted him.
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30 Delicious Family Favorite Cake Recipes
by Lori Burke
30 Delicious Family Favorite Cake Recipes is a collection of Lori Burke’s favorite family cake recipes. These are the cakes she bakes for family dinners, holidays and special occasions. There’s a wide variety of cakes: no-bake cakes, refrigerator cakes, cake mix cakes and bake from scratch cakes.
Whether you’re looking for a simple but delicious Ice Cream Sandwich Cake for a summer dinner or a mouthwatering Chocolate Almond Torte for a special anniversary, you’ll find a cake to fit the bill in this collection.
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AI Unbound: Two Stories of Artificial Intelligence
by Nancy Kress
Nancy Kress is the author of twenty-two novels and numerous short stories. She is perhaps best known for the “Sleepless” trilogy that began with BEGGARS IN SPAIN. Her fiction has won four Nebulas, two Hugos, a Sturgeon, and the 2003 John W. Campbell Award (for PROBABILITY SPACE).
These two outstanding stories give us a fascinating look into the evolution of artificial intelligence and the impact it has on human society.
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Noel Anderson, builder and businessman, has his life ripped apart when his family is brutally murdered. The three killers are eventually sentenced for their crime prompting Noel to set out on a religious crusade of forgiveness.
Noel fast becomes a media darling and discovers love again in a damaged young woman who, like himself, is one of society’s walking wounded. It is the police, though, who begin to question Noel’s motives when one of his wife and daughter’s murderers meets with a suspicious end. VIOLENCE is ultimately a towering tale, filled with suspense, hope and humor, which explores one man’s attempt to transcend tragedy and find his place again amongst the living.
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Elevenses from Around the World
by Pandora Poikilos, Bruno McGrath
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Powerplay (Hot Shots Trilogy)
by Cher Carson
Mark Atwell is a power forward who loves to play hard and party harder, but this devout bachelor is ready to change his ways when his old flame, Jenna, rocks his world during an unforgettable night together. Mark assumes Jenna is ready to give him another chance, but he’s about to learn that forgiveness comes at a steep price.
Jenna Clark has been burned by a man, not once, but twice. First Mark broke her heart, now Kevin. Both men are prepared to pull out all the stops to earn another chance with her, but will the best man win?
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by John L. Betcher
After decades of clandestine government operations, James “Beck” Becker and his wife Elizabeth return to Beck’s childhood home town to enjoy a settled retirement in the small Mississippi river community of Red Wing, Minnesota. But “settled” is a relative term and no matter where Beck goes, intrigue follows.
When Minneapolis computer genius, Katherine Whitson, disappears under peculiar circumstances, her husband exploits a sympathetic Red Wing acquaintance to enlist Beck’s aid in finding her.
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MURDER TAKES TIME (Friendship & Honor)
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A string of brutal murders has bodies piling up in Brooklyn, and Detective Frankie Donovan knows what is going on. Clues left at the crime scenes point to someone from the old neighborhood, and that isn’t good. Frankie has taken two oaths in his life–the one he took to uphold the law when he became a cop, and the one he took with his two best friends when they were eight years old and inseparable.
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and shattered bone remained. Police Sergeant Valerie Ryker solved that case,
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Secrets (Guardian Trilogy)
by Liz Schulte
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