Behind the Sealed Door

Behind the Sealed Door

Author: Irene Swinburne

Publisher: Atheneum

Published: 1977-01-01

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9780930790011

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Describes the discovery of King Tutankhamen's tomb and the treasures found inside.


Untitled Rothfuss 3 Of 3

Untitled Rothfuss 3 Of 3

Author: Patrick Rothfuss

Publisher: Gollancz

Published: 2012-04-01

Total Pages: 896

ISBN-13: 9780575081451

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The third in 'The Kingkiller Chronicle' series of fantasy novels by Patrick Rothfuss.


To the End

To the End

Author: William Marshall

Publisher: Prelude Books

Published: 2018-05-03

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1911440276

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One last chance for justice. Charlie Porter, the head of Hong Kong’s anti-triad unit, has been murdered. He was DCI Harry Feiffer’s lifelong friend. But Hong Kong is returning to Chinese rule. The chains of command have been broken. Yellowthread police station stands empty. With no authority, nobody to help, and just days to go until he returns his badge, has time finally run out for Hong Kong’s finest detective? PCs Spencer and Auden have been summoned to Tiger Dragon Square by the mysterious Duke of Extended Holiness. Black-robed warriors, cannon fire and the cursed dungeons of the Geomancer’s castle await them. Meanwhile Detective Christopher O’Yee has nothing left to do but pay off his informants. Not the best day for a visit by Colonel Claude Kong of the Chinese People’s Police. The final book in William Marshall's series is one of his most reflective, bringing together his thoughts on China, the inevitability of change, and the slippery nature of justice in a moving and fitting conclusion to the inimitable series. Praise for the Yellowthread Street series: “Marshall has the rare gift of juggling scary suspense and wild humor and making them both work.” Washington Post Book World “Marshall’s style – blending the hilarious, the surreal, and the poignant – remains inimitable and not easily resisted.” San Francisco Chronicle “Marshall has few peers as an author who melds the wildest comedy and tragedy in narratives of nonstop action.” Publishers Weekly “Marshall is building a growing, iconoclastic body of work that mixes weird fantasy [and] wayward characterization . . . to produce a subtle, charged, atmospheric, lush fiction hybrid sure to satisfy those with a taste for mysteries on the far edges.” Philadelphia Inquirer “Despite the wild humor, Marshall’s stories contain excellent police procedure, real suspense, and fine irony . . . incessantly scary.” Chicago Tribune “Among the best police procedural series on the market.” Detroit Free Press “As an inspired poet of the bizarre, [Marshall] orchestrates underlying insanity into an apocalyptic vision of the future.” New York Times Book Review “Marshall’s novels feature seemingly supernatural events that turn out to have logical, if not precisely rational, origins. He has savage fun with police procedure.” TIME “Nobody rivals Marshall’s ability to expose the links between comic hysteria and the most mundane human foibles, from greed to cowardice to simple funk.” Kirkus Reviews “Moves at the speed of a bullet; don’t read it aloud or you’ll run out of breath.” Chicago Sun-Times


The Marauder War

The Marauder War

Author: Andrew Scott

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-10-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 149906263X

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Across thousands of light-years, hundreds of worlds, and many races, war is brewing. An unseen enemy strikes out at the fragile balance of power in the galaxy. An old threat, originally thought dead, rises again. The dragon-shifters have all but vanished . . . or so it was thought. All but onea man named Indari. With his power and his mind, he must forge an alliance between his people and the galactic powers of the known universe. Can one man make a difference in a war fought against an enemy theyve yet to understand?


Oblivious Secrets

Oblivious Secrets

Author: Fawwaz AlShammari

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2016-05-18

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1524633860

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A decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, three men endeavor to hike the Ozero Taymyr, a wild stretch of land located in the Russian far north, falling into an unknown post-Soviet research facility, with the struggle to find an escape route. Unaware their inner conflict has unleashed dark secrets within the facilitys walls from human experiments to bionic weapons, which poses a threat to their liberation. What lurks for them in the wilderness could lead human civilizations oblivion.


Flash

Flash

Author: L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2004-09

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 9780765311283

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"Flash" is a new science fiction adventure set in the world of "Archform: Beauty," Modesitt's most acclaimed SF novel.


Beyond Faith & Reason: The Galanor Saga Volume IV

Beyond Faith & Reason: The Galanor Saga Volume IV

Author: Frank M. Viollis

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2024-09-26

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13:

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Beyond Faith & Reason: is the fourth and final chapter in the Galanor Saga. Like its predecessors, it begins exactly where the previous installment (Beyond Flesh & Spirit) left off. I hope that you enjoy reading it, half as much as I enjoyed writing it...FMV BOOK ONE: Monsters And Madmen: After learning of Lucifus-Balador’s treachery, and his abandonment of hundreds of Atlantean survivors, Galanor sets sail in his new vessel, the Daedalus, to discover their fate. After several years, and thousands of nautical miles, he arrives at land encased with a thick jungle. He might have passed it by, if not for the discovery of a pyramid built along the lines of ancient Atlantis. Leaving his crew behind, in a protected cove, he and Anubis venture into the jungle. There, they find a culture that, after having been influenced by Azool, in the distant past, had turned to blood sacrifice and cannibalism. Inside the pyramid, he learns disturbing truths about the possible fate of the world, and his critical part in it. Book Two: Reunions And Revelations: With the affair at Sacsamu behind them, Galanor, Anubis and the crew of the Daedalus set sail eastward, back to the world they left, years earlier. A few days out to sea, they encounter a massive, hostile creature who, during a battle with Galanor, damages the Daedalus. In need of repair, they set sail for the duel island kingdom of Calaspara and Azarora, highly praised for its skilled craftsmen. Along the way, they make a grisly discovery that reinforces Galanor’s belief that a mad god, from another universe, has made inroads into our own, in the hopes of devouring all life. Once they reach their destination, they find that a usurper king, a victim of the plague of rage and despair created by the mad god, has turned the island nation into a prison camp. Bloody battles ensue. Many lives are lost, some precious, most not. And a few, very precious lives, are restored. Book Three: Beyond Faith And Reason: Upon leaving Calaspara and Azarora, Galanor is convinced that the world, if not the entire universe, is in peril. On his way to Zeptepi, while battling an old enemy, he encounters the mad god. Without his knowledge, she insinuates her venomous tendrils into his soul. Slowly, they take hold. As he fights their growing, maddening influence he realizes that his destiny is at hand. He sets out to engage her, in the name of The One who governs all life, for the final conflict. Along the way finds a safe harbor for Barlusch, meets one last time with those he loves, remedies festering wrongs, and saves, as well as ends, many lives. And then, at the appointed time and place, he meets the mad god, face to face. And...


Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Author: David Quammen

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 615

ISBN-13: 0393239225

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A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases, Spillover is “fascinating and terrifying … a real-life thriller with an outcome that affects us all” (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction). In 2020, the novel coronavirus gripped the world in a global pandemic and led to the death of hundreds of thousands. The source of the previously unknown virus? Bats. This phenomenon—in which a new pathogen comes to humans from wildlife—is known as spillover, and it may not be long before it happens again. Prior to the emergence of our latest health crisis, renowned science writer David Quammen was traveling the globe to better understand spillover’s devastating potential. For five years he followed scientists to a rooftop in Bangladesh, a forest in the Congo, a Chinese rat farm, and a suburban woodland in New York, and through high-biosecurity laboratories. He interviewed survivors and gathered stories of the dead. He found surprises in the latest research, alarm among public health officials, and deep concern in the eyes of researchers. Spillover delivers the science, the history, the mystery, and the human anguish of disease outbreaks as gripping drama. And it asks questions more urgent now than ever before: From what innocent creature, in what remote landscape, will the Next Big One emerge? Are pandemics independent misfortunes, or linked? Are they merely happening to us, or are we somehow causing them? What can be done? Quammen traces the origins of Ebola, Marburg, SARS, avian influenza, Lyme disease, and other bizarre cases of spillover, including the grim, unexpected story of how AIDS began from a single Cameroonian chimpanzee. The result is more than a clarion work of reportage. It’s also the elegantly told tale of a quest, through time and landscape, for a new understanding of how our world works—and how we can survive within it.