"An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins. A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he's forbidden to wield and carves...

In the small Adirondack town of Millers Kill, an old lumberman sits in the dark with his gun across his knees. Not far away, an unemployed logger sleeps off his bender from the night before. The owner of the town's last paper mill tosses in his bed. And a young woman, one of three heirs to the 250,000-acre Great Camp, wakes alone in darkness, bound and gagged.

Chief of police Russ Van Alstyne wants nothing more than a quiet day of hunting

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Unlock the more straightforward side of Cat's Cradle with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, which centres around the late scientist Dr Felix Hoenikker and the deadly weapons he has left behind. Not only was Hoenikker one of the creators of the atomic bomb (he was playing cat's cradle when the bomb fell on Hiroshima, hence the novel's title), but he also created...

In a frozen, apocalyptic landscape, destruction abounds: great walls of ice overrun the world and secretive governments vie for control. Against this surreal, yet eerily familiar broken world, an unnamed narrator embarks on a hallucinatory quest for a strange and elusive "glass-girl" with silver hair. He crosses icy seas and frozen plains, searching ruined towns and ransacked rooms, all to free her from the grips of a tyrant known only as the warden...

A collection of odd and obscure moments in Boston history, starring colonists and criminals, baseball players and barmaids, and many more. Boston has been a favorite backdrop for novels, films, and television series, but some of the best stories about the city are true ones. Historian Ted Clarke explores these stories, both the familiar and the obscure, that have earned Boston such nicknames as "the epicenter of American crime fiction," "the cradle...

• Strategies for selective trout in clear water • New patterns designed for spring creeks and how to fish them • Simple explanations of the major hatches on spring creeks across the country Spring creeks, those rare waters that flow right out of the earth-in whole or in part-are both a blessing and a curse for anglers. They are a blessing because the clear, cold, nutrient-rich waters grow abundant insects, which in turn grow and sustain large...

When the Roberts family manipulator faces an ultimatum, she survives the only way she knows how. And this time… she gets more than she bargained for. Giving up one's place at the top of the food chain is risky, but not as much as falling for your therapist. The winds of change have opened the vault and Maple Cove will never be the same.Shining brightly like a beacon in the night, her pain called to the darkest corners of my existence. She hid behind...

Misadventures of a Happy Heart: A Memoir of Life Beyond Disability starts with the tingling of Amy Quincy's lips. Only a few months later, the tangle of blood vessels at the base of her brain bursts, triggering a life-altering hemorrhagic brain injury. Amy's life as she knew it is over. And her future-the massage therapy business she built, the adventures she planned, the home life she imagined-becomes a distant veil. Fortunately, Amy's sly humor...

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