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Asad starts his day in the slums of Lahore, Pakistan, and inadvertently stops a kidnapping, but is attacked and left for dead. The two young women he saved, Samia and Natasha, decide to take him in. Lucky for Asad, Salman, Samia’s father is a […]
Zenon Hansen was an all-American enterpreneur with motivational skills who became the president of Mack Trucks, one of the biggest trucking companies in America. Starting off as an Eagle Scout, he won a badge that led him to give his life to the Boy Scout movement. Pitched by writer Steve Myers as an inspirational read for young adults who need a guide to take action into adulthood, this book is a detailed biography of an obviously very personal hero for the author.
Filled with photos and factoids on Hansen, as an historical document of 20th century America in the throes […]
But this is no dry book about rocks. This is a book about finding, among other amazing discoveries, the real Underworld, a stairway to Heaven and the fountain of youth. Pizzorusso looks at how geology profoundly affects the civilization that […]
The novel starts out with Helena Brewster. Her father recently passed away and in an attempt to feel closer to him she decides to sit near the ocean where he used to take her. While there she sees Jason Adams, someone from her childhood who she was close to at some point, but they lost touch.
One day, Helena is waiting for Jason to run by and when he does moments later a boat crashes into the […]
Mystery and Misadventure – An Old Acquaintance by M.D. Hall – a sequel to Mystery and Misadventure, though largely independent – is a collection of fictional short stories where things are not quite as they seem. Each short tale focuses on characters who find themselves crossing from the world we know into their own unusual circumstances ranging from the strangely uneasy to the horrifically bizarre. The thirteen stories are told to us by the mysterious and eccentric ‘S.P.’, a figure whose conversations are logged in the book alongside each individual tale, providing a commentary and a puzzling context for […]
Continuing from Book 2 of the Tesla Evolution series – Decay – Faraday further tells the story of a war between cyborgs and their technological dependence and supremacy, and the humans relying on their final aces-in-the-hole in their steam-crafts and near-magical abilities in the Dystopic wasteland that houses the last surviving knowable life on Earth. Our hero Sebastian – though young and still but one of many – is dead, his allies scattered, and all is lost as the war comes to a shuddering halt… until a strange breakdown of security in a cyborg stronghold fails, and a desperate gathering […]