George Blackwood (Star Chaser) Is a work of fiction created from my need to link real life events and turn them into stories that might just show why Campbell soldiers killed men of McDonalds in the Glen Coe Massacre and wondering where have Panthers gone and why? Are they extinct because humans have killed them off. I hoped they had found a safe place to live and then wondered is that place the hidden valley of the Clan McDonald, but if they are there, how did they get there and why have the McDonald Clan not made this known? That made me think, what if Panthers were mentally strong they could influence our human minds to obey and forget ever meeting them and what but humans could endanger their safety? That led me to create an extraterrestrial villain who fed on intelligence, who having emptied his own world of life, came here because of his need to survive. My only other question was to wonder how and why a single person might become aware of this extraordinary story and why has he not made the story public knowledge. I have taken on that task as a work of fiction that just might be credible enough to seem to answer all of those questions. Feel free to read but remember this is purely fiction.
From bestselling authors James Rollins and Grant Blackwood, the first installment in an exciting new thriller series based on the Sigma Force novels featuring former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his partner, Army working dog Kane, introduced in the New York Times bestseller Bloodline and the e-original story "Tracker." Former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his military working dog Kane are recruited by Sigma Force to extract a Russian pharmaceutical magnate from Siberia. A scientific genius, the drug tycoon holds the biological key to a new weapon system, a danger engineered from the ancient past to terrorize the modern world. From the frozen steppes of Russia to the sun-blasted savannahs of Africa, Tucker and Kane must piece together a mystery going back to the origins of life on Earth—before the ancient peril can destroy the heartland of America, and with it, all of humankind.
For every athlete or sports fanatic who knows she's just as good as the guys. This is for fans of The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, Grace, Gold, and Glory by Gabrielle Douglass and Breakaway: Beyond the Goal by Alex Morgan. The summer before Caleb and Tessa enter high school, friendship has blossomed into a relationship . . . and their playful sports days are coming to an end. Caleb is getting ready to try out for the football team, and Tessa is training for cross-country. But all their structured plans derail in the final flag game when they lose. Tessa doesn’t want to end her career as a loser. She really enjoys playing, and if she’s being honest, she likes it even more than running cross-country. So what if she decided to play football instead? What would happen between her and Caleb? Or between her two best friends, who are counting on her to try out for cross-country with them? And will her parents be upset that she’s decided to take her hobby to the next level? This summer Caleb and Tessa figure out just what it means to be a boyfriend, girlfriend, teammate, best friend, and someone worth cheering for. “A great next choice for readers who have enjoyed Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Dairy Queen and Miranda Kenneally’s Catching Jordan.”—SLJ “Fast-paced football action, realistic family drama, and sweet romance…[will have] readers looking for girl-powered sports stories…find[ing] plenty to like.”—Booklist “Tessa's ferocious competitiveness is appealing.”—Kirkus Reviews “[The Football Girl] serve[s] to illuminate the appropriately complicated emotions both of a young romance and of pursuing a dream. Heldring writes with insight and restraint.”—The Horn Book
TheInternational Who's Who in Popular Music 2002offers comprehensive biographical information covering the leading names on all aspects of popular music. It brings together the prominent names in pop music as well as the many emerging personalities in the industry, providing full biographical details on pop, rock, folk, jazz, dance, world and country artists. Over 5,000 biographical entries include major career details, concerts, recordings and compositions, honors and contact addresses. Wherever possible, information is obtained directly from the entrants to ensure accuracy and reliability. Appendices include details of record companies, management companies, agents and promoters. The reference also details publishers, festivals and events and other organizations involved with music.
On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967. Whaling in the eastern North Pacific represented a century and a half of exploration and exploitation which involved the entrepreneurs, merchants, politicians, and seamen of a dozen nations.
1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up is the perfect introduction to the very best books of childhood: those books that have a special place in the heart of every reader. It introduces a wonderfully rich world of literature to parents and their children, offering both new titles and much-loved classics that many generations have read and enjoyed. From wordless picture books and books introducing the first words and sounds of the alphabet through to hard-hitting and edgy teenage fiction, the titles featured in this book reflect the wealth of reading opportunities for children.Browsing the titles in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up will take you on a journey of discovery into fantasy, adventure, history, contermporary life, and much more. These books will enable you to travel to some of the most famous imaginary worlds such as Narnia, Middle Earth, and Hogwart's School. And the route taken may be pretty strange, too. You may fall down a rabbit hole, as Alice does on her way to Wonderland, or go through the back of a wardrobe to reach the snowy wastes of Narnia.
The theme was inspired by reality and perceived reality as well as the events I went through and experienced. The heroine of the book is Ren, an Eastern-European woman in her thirties, who lives alone with her daughter. She has been looking for answers in all her life. She has always felt herself an outsider, which the people around her also made her feel. She has never found her place, she has had the gut feeling that she does not belong to this world. Lots of people consider her a lunatic, so they avoid her or cut off all contact with her. She has been tortured by dreams that happened in previous ages hundreds of years ago. As he grows up, they become more and more realistic, which provoke more and more intense feelings in her. Having grown up as an orphan, she does not know about her origins, she knows nothing about her past. Her doubts culminate when her daughter reaches the age of ten, because only then does Ren realize that her daughter is carrying similar burdens. Both of their dreams are about the same thing but from a different perspective. They are involved as different characters. They experience each dream as if it had happened to them earlier, which makes it more and more difficult for them to separate from reality. Ren's senses become stronger, however, she has no idea how her percieved reality will form a new shape soon. She has the gut feeling that something fateful is about to happen to them, which she cannot prevent. In the meantime, at a faraway place in the universe, Planet Nibiru is struggling with serious problems. As a result, it has to send a reconnaissance team. The ruler of Planet Nibiru is dying, without a successor, reconnoitrers have to seek a possible Chosen One, who might be capable of filling the ruler's position. After several years of search, they detect an increasing signal, which comes from Earth, and which used to characterize the royal family. The fate of their lives and their future are in Ren's and her daughter's hand, as they soon realize that they both possess the abilities of the Chosen One and also how all this could have happened. The lives of Ren and her daughter suddenly change 180 degrees, when the reconnoitrers of Nibiru, who have never been seen before, appear on the Earth to take them to their Planet. Unfortunately, the mission does not go smoothly, because the Russian and the American Armies also detected the aliens arrival, and they want to know at any cost, why the aliens came to the Earth. The Pentagon sends a military plane to Hungary, Eastern-Europe, where they last detected the aliens presence. Scientists also participate in the mission, but their main goal is to get what the aliens came for. Ren is assisted by three scientists, who are alien-researchers, but this is not enough to leave the earth. Soon after leaving the earth, they are attacked by the mercenaries of Nibirus ancient enemy, therefore Ren and the reconnoitrers of Nibiru are bound to stay on the Earth. In order to repair the spaceshuttle, they have to penetrate into two secret terrestrial bases, which are in Antarctica and New-Mexico. Moreover, these bases are not human-controlled. They have to face an exciting and perilous journey, however, in the meantime, a several thousand years old secret is revealed. During their journey Ren and her daughter finally believe that they have a place in the world, they can get the answer to the questions where they are from, where they are going and what their mission is. The peaceful nation of Nibiru, the Annunakis find our heroine, thus starts Ren's fantastic and irreversible metamorphosis, which might happen to any of us. After plenty of excitement, action, and miraculous events, the heroines reach Nibiru, where they are warmly welcomed, and Ren occupies her place as the new ruler of Nibiru. The book is both exciting and entertaining, and is based on scientific information, due to which a whole new worl
