Gary Dikeos
1) Powerless
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Soon after moving to Noble's Green, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Daniel learns that his new friends have super powers that they will lose when they turn thirteen, unless he can use his brain power to protect them.
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Latin America has often been condemned to failure. Not as poor as Africa, nor as booming as India and China, it has largely been overlooked. Yet this vast continent, home to half a billion people, the world's largest reserves of arable land, and 8.5 percent of global oil, is transforming its political and economic landscape. This book argues that Latin America's efforts to build fairer and more prosperous societies make it one of the world's most...
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Stephen King hailed Michael Marshall's novel Straw Men as "a masterpiece . . . brilliantly written and scary as hell." Now, Marshall returns with this latest unnerving tale-a creepy, fast-paced thriller that grips you from the first page straight through to its shocking end.
Bill Moore already has a lot, but he wants more . . . much more.
He's got a lucrative job selling condos in the Florida Keys, a successful wife, a good marriage, a beautiful...
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"Knights of Ennor-the time has come to awake. Rise up to fulfill your secret oath and sacred duty."
The Ancient Earth Trilogy, #2
Deep beneath the streets of England lies another realm . . . one few in our modern world know exists. Daniel and Freya, however, know it all too well. Eight years ago, these friends first journeyed through portals into the hidden land of Niðergeard-discovering a city filled with stones, secrets, and sleeping knights...
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Ancient legend tells of an army of knights that will remain sleeping until the last days.
The knights are waking up.
A homeless man is stalked by a pale, wraithlike creature with a mouthful of needle-sharp teeth. Maimed animals and a host of suicides cluster around a mountain in Scotland. And deep beneath the cobbled streets of Oxford, a malicious hoard besieges a hidden city.
Freya Reynolds is a university student with a touch of OCD and an obsession...
6) Bruchko
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What happens when a nineteen-year-old boy leaves home and heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians? For Bruce Olson, it meant capture, disease, terror, loneliness, and torture. But what he discovered by trial and error has revolutionized then world of missions.
Bruchko, which has sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide, has been called "more fantastic and harrowing than anything Hollywood could concoct." Living...
7) Aftermath
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It's 2026, and catastrophe has struck from an unexpected source. The Alpha Centauri supernova has risen like a second sun, rushing Earth toward its last summer. Floods, fires, starvation, and disease paralyze the planet. In a blue aurora flash of gamma rays, all microchips worldwide are destroyed, leaving an already devastated Earth without communications, transportation, weaponry, or medicine. The disaster sets three groups of survivors on separate...
8) Fade to Blue
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San Francisco jazz pianist Evan Horne takes a gig in Los Angeles, where he's offered his most unusual job yet. Movie megastar Ryan Stiles hires Evan to teach him to look like he's playing piano for an upcoming role. Evan stays at Stiles' lush Malibu home for the tutoring, but things suddenly go wrong for the arrogant, spoiled star. Stiles' adversarial relationship with the paparazzi explodes when a photographer is killed. Was it an accident, or is...
9) Starfire
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Earth has been ravaged by galactic disaster-but the real devastation is yet to come. The end draws nigh… The year is 2053, and Earth has barely recovered from the Alpha Centauri supernova that destroyed much of the planet's infrastructure. Now the supernova's residual effect-a storm of high-energy particles-is racing toward it, and an international effort has been launched out of the Sky City space colony to save the planet. But the controversial...
10) The Open Window
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2013
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Considered a master of the short story, Saki was best known for his witty and mischievous stories that satirized the culture and society of Edwardian England. In "The Open Window," his best-known vignette, a teenage girl regales the tale of an eerie family tragedy to a high-strung visitor, who receives something of a shock.
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Although most people associate the term D-day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military code for the beginning of any offensive operation. In the Pacific theater during World War II there were more than one hundred D-days. The largest-and last-was the invasion of Okinawa on April 1, 1945, which brought together the biggest invasion fleet ever assembled, far larger than that engaged in the Normandy invasion. D-Days in the Pacific tells...
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"El arte de la guerra" fue escrito hace mas de 2500 años por Sun Tzu, no sólo como un libro de práctica militar. Su autor describió, desde la perspectiva militar, un tratado de estrategia y liderazgo, dando las herramientas necesarias para aplicar con sabiduría el conocimiento de la naturaleza humana, no solo en la confrontación, sino también en la consecución de objetivos y logros. La estrategia, el arte de competir, no está únicamente...