Ntignano was a populated world with a perfect sun -- until the right technology fell into the wrong hands. Now the sun is failing quickly, and the Starship Enterprise™ has just one chance to evacuate the þeeing refugees. Captain Jean-Luc Picard must succeed in delicate negotiations with the only people who can help them: a prickly neighboring species known as the Tsorans. To assist in that effort, Commander Will Riker was assigned a very different diplomatic task. As a polite formality and show of good faith, he accompanied a young Tsoran prince to an exclusive hunting preserve. There, technology-damping Þelds and some of the galaxy's deadliest predators were supposed to test the untried noble's ability in the kaphoora -- the hunt. But the shuttlecraft didn't land on Fandre; it crashed. Now, cut off from Tsora and the Enterprise, the survivors of the disaster face the ultimate struggle for survival. Without the aid of tricorders or... Views: 17
"Fantastic ... I can't remember the last time I was simultaneously this entertained and this disturbed. The One is a clever story with great pacing but it's the characters that make this a standout thriller." Hollie Overton, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Richard and Judy pick Baby DollHow far would you go to find THE ONE?One simple mouth swab is all it takes. A quick DNA test to find your perfect partner – the one you're genetically made for.A decade after scientists discover everyone has a gene they share with just one other person, millions have taken the test, desperate to find true love. Now, five more people meet their Match. But even soul mates have secrets. And some are more shocking – and deadlier – than others..."Wonderful conceit, ridiculously entertaining ... an absolute pleasure" T. A Cotterell, author of What Alice Knew "Gripping from the start and full of surprises,... Views: 17
The High Rollers are ready to take revenge against the forces aligned against them. A hard and long winter has forced them into hiding, but has also given them a respite from something else… something far worse than anything they’ve battled so far. Views: 17
THIS IS NOT A PARENTING MANUAL. THIS IS REAL LIFE.The Unmumsy Mum writes candidly about motherhood like it really is: the messy, maddening, hilarious reality, how there is no 'one size fits all' approach and how it is sometimes absolutely fine to not know what you are doing. The lessons she's learnt while grappling with two small boys – from birth to teething, 3am night feeds to toddler tantrums, soft play to toilet training – will have you roaring with laughter and taking great comfort in the fact that it's definitely not just you... Views: 17
Before he was an officer aboard the U.S.S. Enteprise™…
It‘s Geordi‘s first year at the Starfleet Academy™ and it isn‘t going well. He‘s been all over the galaxy with his Starfleet officer parents, and his blindness has not been a handicap, thanks to his VISOR. But somehow he‘s always picked last for competitive teams, and deep down he wants to be just like all the other confident students.
When he defeats Cadet Jack Pettey‘s top-ranked team in an elimination game, he wins the respect of his classmates…and the hatred of Pettey The big, aggressive cadet promises revenge, and the scheduled traiging exercises on Saffair are just the place.
Saffair is an uninhabited planet with less gravity than Earth. The cadets are under a great deal of pressure to perform well in the important and challenging games. The team Geordi assembles includes an Andorian, a Tellarite, a Vulcan, and a Saurian. They are not an impressive bunch, but they‘re all determined to do their best.
Geordi and his team soon find themselves struggling against the ruthless Jack Pettey, who is determined to get revenge on Geordi…and will stop at nothing to win! Views: 17
What Do You Get the Woman Who Has Everything?Men? Mistletoe? Bah, humbug! Noel Winsome much preferred a homespun holiday cuddling her tiny, toe-warming terrier. But Noel's crafty old grandpa wagered he'd see the stubborn "spinster" properly wedded--and manfully bedded--before Santa could utter a single "ho!"And--lo!--an exotic, mail-order mate materialized to march Noel down the bridal aisle. Half Hercules, half Einstein, and as breathtaking as a Montana blizzard, magnificent Nicholas Baranov single-handedly tamed Noel's woolly Western hometown. But could even this magical, gift-wrapped groom turn their matrimonial madness into the miracle of love? Views: 17
Murder is a fine art ...A killer is preying on New York's art community, creating gruesome depictions of famous paintings, using human flesh and blood as his media. Terror stalks this world of genius, greed, inspiration, and jealousy -- a world Kate McKinnon knows all too well. A former NYPD cop who traded in her badge for a Ph.D in art history, Kate can see the method behind the psychopath's madness -- for the grisly slaughter of a former protégé is drawing her into the predator's path. And as each new murder exceeds the last in savagery, Kate is trapped in the twisted obsessions of the death artist, who plans to use her body, her blood, and her fear to create the ultimate masterpiece. Views: 17
Dr. Gregory, a renowned nuclear weapons researcher, is not only dead--he's been charred to a radioactive cinder.Since this is a death on Federal property, Mulder and Scully are hastily called in. As FBI agents who specialize in unexplained phenomena, they are the investigators of The X-Files, strange and inexplicable cases which are also mysteries that the FBI doesn't want solved.When a second victim, completely unrelated to nuclear science or Dr. Gregory is obliterated in the New Mexico desert, and then a third dies the same way in Washington, DC, Mulder and Scully begin to focus on the frightening dimension of their task. The bizarre deaths cannot be a coincidence. And as they work to uncover the secret unifying element that unites these deaths, it becomes clear that this twisted puzzle has fatal consequences for the entire world. Views: 17
In this classic fourth novel from Harlan Coben's award-winning Myron Bolitar series, #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben proves again why he is one of today's must-read suspense authors - and why Myron Bolitar is one of the most singular and captivating heroes in crime fiction. This time the sports agent and sometime sleuth probes the mystery of a teenager's disappearance and finds a family whose darkest secrets explode into murder. The boy was born and raised on the tony Main Line. But he vanished on Philadelphia's mean streets. For Myron Bolitar, his client, golf superstar Linda Coldren, comes first - and that means unraveling the mystery of her son's kidnapping. But when Myron goes after the missing boy, he crashes through a crowd of lowlifes, blue bloods, and liars on both sides of the social divide. And as Linda's golf-pro husband suddenly makes a run at the U.S. Open championship, the family's skeletons burst out of the closet. Myron is about to find out just how deadly this game can get. In an ingenious thriller that crackles with wit and suspense, whose characters all but leap alive from the page, Harlan Coben engages the mind with twisting mysteries even as he makes the heart race. Views: 17
In the private laboratory known as ViraVax, Rico Toledo has uncovered a horrifying truth. In this place, run by a mysterious group called the Children of Eden, the worst suspicions of ex-intelligence officer Toledo have been confirmed: his partner has been genetically programmed for assassination—and Toledo may have been altered too.From Publishers WeeklyRansom, sometime collaborator with the late Frank Herbert ( The Ascension Factor ) and author of one previous solo novel ( Jaguar ), here offers a near-future thriller set against a background of deadly biological warfare. In 2105, in the newly formed Central American country of Costa Brava, the ViraVax company conducts top-secret genetic experiments, developing tailored retroviruses for various clandestine purposes--most importantly (and most secretly) the fanatical plans of its founder, Joshua Casey. Casey's father is the messianic Master behind a nouveau religious sect, the Children of Eden, and Casey plots to use ViraVax's viruses to remake the world in the sect's utopian image, no matter who gets hurt in the process. But when Casey's equally fanatical chief researcher, Dajaj Mishwe, uses a telltale virus to eliminate an employee who learned too much, ViraVax attracts the attention of the dead man's best friend, former Agency operative Colonel Rico Toledo, who begins to unravel the company's dangerous secrets. The story starts off with a bang, and Casey's schemes are suitably horrifying, but the narrative loses its momentum very quickly, only recovering toward the end. In between, the book limps through various subplots, showing little sense of direction. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus ReviewsNear-future thriller about genetic engineering, from an author best known for his science-fiction collaborations with the late Frank Herbert (The Ascension Factor, 1988, etc.). In 2015, the Central American republic of Costa Brava is host to ViraVax, a genetic research facility renowned for its vaccines. ViraVax is run by the Children of Eden, fundamentalist fanatics dedicated to restoring the crumbling ecology of planet Earth. Unknown to all but the US Defense Intelligence Agency, which keeps close tabs on the vast, mostly underground, virtually impregnable facility, ViraVax has conspired with Costa Brava's president to infect the population with viruses that have drastically cut the local birthrate; moreover, of those born, the majority suffer from Down's syndrome--a convenient and tractable supply of labor or experimental subjects for ViraVax. To neutralize the DIA's main operative, Colonel Rico Toledo, ViraVax has infected him with a virus that keeps him permanently simmering with rage and lust, and prompts him to heavy drinking. Worst of all, in the deepest, hidden levels of ViraVax lurks Dajaj Mishwe, a brilliant but totally insane researcher who has cloned two unwitting Americans, one of them Toledo; Mishwe intends for the clones, Sonja and Harry, to breed and inherit the Earth after he kills everyone else off with a virus that destroys its victims in minutes. Soundly constructed, with solid prose and realistic dialogue, but top heavy with exposition and largely undramatic; what's lacking is propellant. Still, fans of the Herbert-Ransom books will certainly want to investigate. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Views: 17
William West has sought the hand of Suzanne in marriage, and without thinking, she accepts it. Reality closes in, however, in the form of the media, jealous coworkers, and one evil older sister all out telling her that she isn't worthy of the billionaire who wants to marry her. And the worst apart about it for Suzanne... she too believes she isn't worthy of William West. Views: 17
The death of her beloved father, has left artistic and idealistic Tempera and her stunning, scatterbrained stepmother Lady Rothley bereft not only of love but also of money. So when Lady Rothley's womanly wiles attract an invitation from none other than the Duke of Chevingham to join him in the South of France, it's a Godsend. At last – the prospect of a handsome, aristocratic suitor for Tempera's Belle-mère who would keep them both in the style to which they would dearly love to be re-acquainted! To arrive without a lady's maid is inconceivable – to afford one impossible. So Tempera escorts her Belle-mère in the guise of a servant andattempts to coach her in fine art, the Duke's consuming passion.While her stepmother flirts with Côte D'Azur society Tempera contents herself with capturing the local flora's beauty on canvas. And when the flair she inherited from her father captivates and mystifies the magnificent Duke, something stirs in Tempera that she has... Views: 17
Short stories by the author of Men Under Water show thoughtful, conflicted protagonists pushing for balance in their personal relationships and finding hints of meaning in the acutely perceived oddities of contemporary American life. Living primarily on the fringes of academia, media and the arts, the characters are not quite comfortable with either their surroundings or the times. Lisa, a classic-rock disc jockey in small-town Vermont, plays blues songs to get over her ex-husband, an Elvis fanatic. Walter, an actor by trade, writes copy for industrial videos in Boston and discovers the miracle of birth against a backdrop of high-tech laser pranks. Karl, a moderately famous composer back in the 1950s, now labors over a piece inspired by his heart arrhythmia and grumbles as his young protegee/lover heads to New York to pursue performance art. Hoping to escape her drug-addicted son and head for Florida, Josephine buries an icon of St. Joseph in her lawn to expedite the sale of... Views: 17
