The year is 1945. The war is over and 21-year-old Betty Lake has been invited to Europe to sing in a USO tour for American soldiers who now occupy Hitler's Germany. The first night's performance is a hit. Betty becomes enthralled with the applause, the former Nazi-held mansion they're housed in and the attention of Frank Witt, the US Army Signal Corps Photographer. Yet the next night this songbird is ready to fly the coop when Betty's dear friend, Kat, turns up missing. Betty soon realizes Frank's photographs could be the key to finding Kat. Betty and Frank team up against post-war Nazi influences and the two lovebirds' hearts may find the answers...in each other. But will they have a chance for their romance to sing? The truth will be revealed under a German moon. Views: 54
The Earl of Clayworth searches for evidence of his family's traitorous acts, hoping to save himself from the gallows. Unfortunately, the missing piece of the puzzle leads him directly to the very spirited Cordelia Avery. Cordie craves the freedom she thinks one debauched suitor will give her should she bring him up to scratch. Unfortunately she falls for the very staid Earl of Clayworth instead. Views: 54
A Lonely Princess . . . Emily Wright is rich, beautiful, spoiled--and friendless--until she discovers her arrogant servant boy is hiding a secret talent. As unlikely friendship blossoms into forbidden love, Emily must choose between her passion for a pauper and her place in high society. A Pauper Turned Prince . . . Grey Rees is now a famous, wealthy musician, but his soul still burns for the princess who once ruled his heart and rejected him. When fate gives him the chance to make Emily his servant, he seizes it. Now he is HER master. And he will finally wrest from her the power she still yields over him . . . But old passions are hard to tame. A Kingdom in Peril . . . When a sinister secret from the past returns to torment the star-crossed lovers, can they find redemption and a second chance at love? Or are some broken hearts impossible to mend? Views: 54
Lady Antonia Fraser vividly brings the reader into the presence of one of England's most brilliant military and political minds. Views: 54
Throughout history, disease has plagued human civilisations, claiming more lives than natural disasters and warfare combined. Now, in 2015, the world's response to the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, which has caused widespread devastation since it was first reported in March 2014, is at the forefront of health discussions. A Short History of Disease chronicles the historical and geographical evolution of infectious and non-infectious diseases, offering an accessible guide to the ailments and the medical methods used to combat them. Analysing case studies including the Black Death, Spanish Flu, syphilis, cancer, malaria and Ebola, Martin maps the development of trends and the latest research on disease into a concise and enlightening timeline. Views: 54
Joe Gunther is seconded to the neighboring town of Bellows Falls to
investigate harassment allegations against a fellow officer. What begins
as a seemingly open-and-shut case comes to look more and more like a
frame job as Gunther doggedly pursues the truth, and soon he finds
himself feeling around the edges of a statewide drug distribution
network. As always, Vermont itself is a major character in Mayor's
writing, with Bellows Falls standing in for any number of slowly
decaying once-proud mill towns. Views: 54
In the bloodiest island combat of World War II, one group of men risked it all to fight from behind Japanese lines The Solomon Islands was where the Allied war machine finally broke the Japanese empire. As pilots, marines, and sailors fought for supremacy in Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and the Slot, a lonely group of radio operators occupied the Solomon Islands' highest points. Sometimes encamped in comfort, sometimes exposed to the elements, these coastwatchers kept lookout for squadrons of Japanese bombers headed for Allied positions, holding their own positions even when enemy troops swarmed all around. They were Australian-born but Solomon-raised, and adept at survival in the unforgiving jungle environment. Through daring and insight, they stayed one step ahead of the Japanese, often sacrificing themselves to give advance warning of an attack. In Lonely Vigil, Lord tells of the survivors of the campaign, and of what they risked to win the war in the Pacific. Views: 53
A clumsy robotics researcher scrambles to cover up a double homicide Despite his name, King Sarcowicz is hardly regal. A rumpled scientist, he spends every waking minute in his lab, tinkering with the robots he thinks will make human soldiers obsolete. It seems impossible that this gentle soul could create a killing machine, and in fact, he never will. Long before his robot is operational, King himself will become a killer. Working late in his lab, King commits a pair of clumsy blunders that lead to the deaths of two of his fellow scientists. In shock, he disappears into the streets of New York. When he's finally confronted by NYPD detective Marian Larch, he lies to save his own skin. To discover what caused the tragedy in King's lab, Larch will have to do more than outsmart this brilliant scientist—she'll have to think like him too.Good King Sauerkraut is the 3rd book in the Marian Larch Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in... Views: 53
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.The rise of manufacturing could not have happened without an attention to precision. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century England, standards of measurement were established, giving way to the development of machine tools—machines that make machines. Eventually, the application of precision tools and methods resulted in the creation and mass production of items from guns and glass to mirrors, lenses, and cameras—and eventually gave way to further breakthroughs, including gene splicing, microchips, and the Hadron Collider.Simon Winchester takes us back to origins of the Industrial Age, to England where he introduces the scientific minds that helped usher in modern production: John Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, and Joseph Whitworth. It was Thomas Jefferson who later exported their discoveries to the fledgling United States, setting the nation on its course to become a manufacturing titan. Winchester moves forward through time, to today’s cutting-edge developments occurring around the world, from America to Western Europe to Asia.As he introduces the minds and methods that have changed the modern world, Winchester explores fundamental questions. Why is precision important? What are the different tools we use to measure it? Who has invented and perfected it? Has the pursuit of the ultra-precise in so many facets of human life blinded us to other things of equal value, such as an appreciation for the age-old traditions of craftsmanship, art, and high culture? Are we missing something that reflects the world as it is, rather than the world as we think we would wish it to be? And can the precise and the natural co-exist in society?
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