![]() ![]() After a few years, that gets frustrating for an editor." : 332 Ordover devised New Frontier to accomplish what he couldn't with the other Star Trek book lines-to create a serialized, internally consistent, series of novels set in the Star Trek universe. ![]() The core characters always had to remain the same. ![]() Ordover said in Voyages of Imagination (2009), "One of the major problems with the novels at the time … was you couldn't put any inherent continuity into them and you couldn’t make any significant changes, so characters couldn’t die, they couldn't change, they couldn't leave. New Frontier is concurrent with Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager television series and their tie-in book lines. The novels explore life aboard the USS Excalibur, commanded by Capt. New Frontier was the first Star Trek tie-in fiction property not to be based on a television series. ![]() Star Trek: New Frontier is a series of interlinked novels written by Peter David, published by Simon & Schuster imprints, Pocket Books, Pocket Star, and Gallery Books, from 1997 to 2015. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They all share the drive to steer their children in the right direction within a society putting a premium on personal success and public image.īut this steering puts all four sides on a collision course with vanity and one another when plans for “a public magnet school for the exceptionally gifted” dubbed Crystal Academy are announced, occupying not just the soul of Crystal Valley - “a majestic bowl of earth, stone, sky” clouded with entitlement and privilege - but also the minds of the families, whose drive morphs into zeal as they compete for admission. The mothers, Rose, Lauren, Samantha, and Azra, bonded with one another eleven years earlier on account of their affluence and the intellect of their children - including the “chess personality” of Lauren’s son Xander and Rose’s daughter Emma’s love of books. Set in the fictional town of Crystal, “one of the most politically progressive towns in America with one of the least diverse populations,” the book follows four families. ![]() After taking on the streets of fourteenth-century London in A Burnable Book and The Invention Fire, Bruce Holsinger transplants his penchant for uncanny plot devices and social fabrics in flux to 2018 Colorado with his domestic drama novel The Gifted School. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Highly recommended." -Library Journal "Intricate and suspenseful, ALONE keeps you on the edge of your seat." -Los Angeles Times "Like all the best suspense novels, ALONE will leave you shaken. ![]() you can't wait to see what happens next." People Magazine, "Three-dimensional characters fill out a riveting story that is like a juicy steak: slow broiled to perfection. Highly recommended." Library Journal "Intricate and suspenseful, ALONE keeps you on the edge of your seat." Los Angeles Times "Like all the best suspense novels, ALONE will leave you shaken. you can't wait to see what happens next." -People Magazine From the Hardcover edition., "Three-dimensional characters fill out a riveting story that is like a juicy steak: slow broiled to perfection. Lisa Gardner, a 1 New York Times bestselling thriller novelist, began her career in food service, but after catching her hair on fire numerous times, she took the hint and focused on writing instead. "Three-dimensional characters fill out a riveting story that is like a juicy steak: slow broiled to perfection. Lisa Gardners 'Alone' is an unputdownable chilling thriller that I managed to read in one very long sitting - with several pit stops and a pizza. ![]() ![]() Johnny realizes he can’t act, his agent doesn’t want him, and his airhead supermodel girlfriend is now seeing Keanu Reeves instead…(there’s a few Keanu jokes). ![]() Johnny and Reed are a little slower on the uptake… ![]() Thing gets a construction job after saving some workers from a falling slab of concrete. Sue, the rational one, is first to get one, as an English teacher at a High School (thanks to Alicia Masters, Thing’s on again off again GF). They move into a dive hotel in Manhattan, and they realize they need to get jobs. The FF goes broke, in the wake of the US gov’t stopping all science funding to the Baxter Building, and on top of that, one of their accountants stole their savings (also Tony Stark, Hammerhead, and some others). This premise could have fallen on it’s face and been played for laughs, but instead it focuses on the family, the bonds, the connection, and the reality of what can happen to anyone. (3.5 really, but I enjoyed the first half a fair bit) ![]() Marvel Knights 4, Volume 1: Wolf at the Door by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa ![]() ![]() Soon after their arrival they begin to suspect that one of their members is intending to kill them one at a time, but who? Six months earlier the owner of the island was brutally murdered alongside his wife and housekeepers, and the case remains unsolved. ![]() Seven students, members of their university's mystery club, decide to spend a week-long vacation on Tsunojima Island off the coast of Japan. The second English-language edition was published in December 2020 by Pushkin Press, and in July 2021 the manga adaptation, illustrated by Hiro Kiyohara, was announced for publication in America. Locked Room International published the first English-language edition of the novel in 2015. The Decagon House Murders belongs to the honkaku subgenre of mystery fiction. Borrowing its basic plot structure from Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None (Christie's book is directly referenced by some of the characters at several points), it tells the story of a group of seven university students who travel to a deserted island that was the scene of a grisly mass murder six months earlier, where events soon turn ominous. The Decagon House Murders ( 十角館の殺人, Jūkakukan no satsujin) is a 1987 Japanese mystery novel, the debut work of author Yukito Ayatsuji. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Goldsmith leads the reader through a wonderland of facts with just the right blend of science and story. poignant-and scientifically lucid- portrait" ( New York Times Book Review) of the remarkable Marie Curie. Obsessive Genius is a dazzling portrait of Curie, her amazing scientific success, and the price she paid for fame. Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth-an all-too-human woman struggling to balance a spectacular scientific career, a demanding family, the prejudice of society, and her own passionate nature. ![]() ![]() As Shane and Vann began to unravel the threads of the murder, it becomes clear that the real mystery - and the real crime - is bigger than anyone could have imagined. John Scalzis eagerly anticipated sequel to the extraordinary Old Mans War The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces. If the Integrator was carrying a Haden client, then naming the suspect for the murder becomes that much more complicated.īut "complicated" doesn’t begin to describe it. The two of them are assigned what appears to be a Haden-related murder at the Watergate Hotel, with a suspect who is an "integrator" - someone who can let the locked in borrow their bodies for a time. The world changes to meet the challenge.Ī quarter of a century later, in a world shaped by what’s now known as "Haden’s syndrome", rookie FBI agent Chris Shane is paired with veteran agent Leslie Vann. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever, and headaches. ![]() This is a crime thriller that happens to be set in a compelling science fiction universe. ![]() Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. John Scalzi is an award winning science fiction writer who knows all about this and his skills are shown off once more in ‘Lock In’. ![]() ![]() ![]() Next to making children happy, she likes nothing better than helping others-and that includes doing a bit of matchmaking! If she can figure out how to pay for it.įortunately, it's Mrs. Holly's widowed brother is in the army and won't be home for Christmas, but at least she can get Gabe that toy robot from Finley's, the one gift he desperately wants. She wants to give her eight-year-old nephew, Gabe, the holiday he deserves. Because they need a Christmas miracle to keep the business afloat. Now Christmas means only one thing to him-and to his father. ![]() And her boss is none other than Jake Finley, the owner's son.įor Jake, holiday memories of brightly wrapped gifts, decorated trees and family gatherings were destroyed in a Christmas Eve tragedy years before. Miracle) is working in the toy department of Finley's, the last family-owned department store in New York City. This Christmas, Emily Merkle (just call her Mrs. Audiobooks the Whole Family Will Enjoy. ![]() Have You Listened to the Most Popular Titles in the Collection?.Biographies of Early Americans - eBooks.eBook Shorts: Your Favorite Stories, but Shorter. ![]() ![]() ![]() He wants Beth, too, and will do anything to ensure his lover isn't taken by the finman. Before long, Mack realizes he's not just playing Good Samaritan. Until the day Mack Kirk saves her from a mysterious foe, flooding her world with brightness and foreign temptation.Īs Mack and Beth fight their growing passion, the finman escalates his attacks. Beth can no longer feel, can no longer see color and life. The haunted widow has suffered losses of her own, ones that have crippled her into a state of stony grief. He prowls the beaches at night, his arrows aiming for the finman who took his first love.īeth Pedersen also watches the sea. On the upside, her dreams are filled with a lusty long haired guy. She finds her fianc is a lying, cheating jerk-face of the highest order and that the job that she loves has just been cut from the budget, not to mention her beloved Grandmother just died. ![]() ![]() Machar “Mack” Kirk is a selkie man with a haunted past, one that has prompted him to become a hunter. Maggie Collins is having a heck of a year. ![]() On the beaches of Orkney, Scotland, an evil entity stalks mortal women. The pages burn with passion in Book 2 of Rosanna Leo's hot, fantasy series, Orkney Selkies. Before their long-buried emotions can take flight, they have to save themselves from a monster with no soul. When a heartbroken, lonely widow is saved by an equally heartbroken, mysterious man, their lives are changed forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Amid a rich community of unforgettable island women and the exotic beauty of marshlands, tidal creeks, and majestic egrets, Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, with a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right, and with the immutable force of home and marriage. When Jessie Sullivan is summoned home to the island to cope with her eccentric mother’s seemingly inexplicable behavior, she is living a conventional life with her husband, Hugh, a life “molded to the smallest space possible.” Jessie loves Hugh, but once on the island, she finds herself drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk about to take his final vows. Inside the church of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. A transcendent tale of a woman's self-discovery-the New York Times–bestselling second work of fiction by the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings ![]() |