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The history of this materialistic world is highlighted with strange events that scientists and historians, unable to explain logically, have dismissed with such labels as "supernatural," "miracle," etc. But there are those among us whose simple faith can--and often does--alter the scheme of the universe. Even a little child can do it....
A veteran veterinarian might have vamoosed--but Watts had to help any sick animal....
Alcorn's wild talent was miraculous . . . he brought peace to everybody who came near him. Only one person was exempt -- himself "I've had you under surveillance for days," Jeffers said. "I'm taking no chances on you." Alcorn turned back to face him. "You've found others? Where and --" "I'll tell you that when you're on my payroll." "It's a trick," Alcorn said angrily. "I searched for years before I settled down with Consolidated and I didn't find a trace of anybody like myself. I don't believe there are any." "Most of them covered themselves better." Jaffers added, with cold finality, "I don't haggle, Alcorn. You'll work for me or for no one."
Jim Lewis just graduated high school and is going to attend Pennsylvania State University. A shy apprehensive teenager, he is about to begin a four-year journey from adolescence to adulthood. Follow Jim Lewis through the late-night parties and the late-night cramming for exams. During four years of fumbles and triumphs, adventures and disappointments, Jim learns a lot about love and loss, friendship and personal responsibility. In the end, Four Years is an education both inside and outside the classroom.
"The latest in the thrilling Agents of the Crown series follows John Dee and his wife working together in an act of espionage that may turn out to be treason"--
The Ciriimian ship was passing in hyperdrive through a classic three-body system, comprising in this case a fiercely white sun circled by a fainter companion and a single planet that swung in precise balance, when the Canthorian Zid broke out of its cage in the specimen hold. Of the ship's social quartet, Chafis One and Two were asleep at the moment, dreaming wistful dreams of conical Ciriimian cities spearing up to a soft and plum-colored sky. The Zid raged into their communal rest cell, smashed them down from their gimbaled sleeping perches and, with the ravening blood-hunger of its kind, devoured them before they could wake enough to teleport to safety. Terrible creatures, the Canthorian Zid -- and that was just the start
"The "lively" (The New York Times) Agents of the Crown series continues with this thriller about Queen Elizabeth I's advisor John Dee in a race to save the Empire with the help of a mysterious manuscript that offers global power. With rumors of the end times swirling, philosopher and astronomer John Dee travels to Prague in an effort to prevent one of Catherine de Medici's seductive ladies-in-waiting from luring the Holy Roman Emperor into a crusade against England. To convince the famously occult-loving Emperor to join his side, Dee entices him with the esoteric Book of Secrets, a volume that, if decoded, could provide the chance to control the levers of heaven and earth. But Dee faces enemies at every turn, including a female codebreaker who could be the undoing of Dee and the British Empire"--
This classic account of the birth of a legendary group is the truly authentic version of Queen's rise to stardom.Author Mark Hodkinson interviewed over 60 friends and colleagues of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon to piece together a fascinating jigsaw of anecdotes from the days when the future superstars were playing with bands like The Reaction, The Opposition, 1984 and Sour Milk.Intimate, suprising and meticulously researched, Queen: The Early Years is a riveting read accompanied by many previously unseen early photographs of the four band mambers.