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Jacobs writes historical fiction under a different name, but here tries his hand at nonfiction to tell the story of Ed Robb, one of the first and most successful FBI undercover agents to work against the Mafia organized crime network. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Adam Washington, a young medical student from New York seems to have it all. But when he travels with his mother, a renowned historian, and father, an archaeologist to uncover a centuries old crypt in Sicily, his world is turned upside down. Back in New York, Adam learns that his family has carried home a deadly, evolved bacteria that has survived for centuries… the same bacteria that caused Europe’s Black Death nearly 700 years before. While the plague begins to spread across the globe, Adam, his family, and a few new friends begin a race against time to not only find a cure, but to reveal the truth about exactly how this happened. He quickly learns that he is up against much more than just a plague, and that the viral outbreak was not an accident…
On March 31, 1943, the musical Oklahoma! premiered and the modern era of the Broadway musical was born. Since that time, the theatres of Broadway have staged hundreds of musicals--some more noteworthy than others, but all in their own way a part of American theatre history. With more than 750 entries, this comprehensive reference work provides information on every musical produced on Broadway since Oklahoma's 1943 debut. Each entry begins with a brief synopsis of the show, followed by a three-part history: first, the pre-Broadway story of the show, including out-of-town try-outs and Broadway previews; next, the Broadway run itself, with dates, theatres, and cast and crew, including replacements, chorus and understudies, songs, gossip, and notes on reviews and awards; and finally, post-Broadway information with a detailed list of later notable productions, along with important reviews and awards.
It is the year 2123 and the USA and her Allies are celebrating the end of World War Three. They won with the aid of the new Star Wars System, and now Bill Buchanan the President of the USA, will make a world changing speech to the United Nations. He will declare himself the First President of the Earth, and reveal his plan for the future. Along with his Vice President and some of the richest people on Earth, he intends to reverse climate change, and save the ailing planet.The plan involves drastic action. The younger generation however, quickly accept the situation, and there is a huge movement to make the plan work. Sovereign countries will cease to exist and the 12.5 billion people on earth, are to be relocated to the desert regions, and fertile land will be reclaimed to plant trillions of trees.
Political intrigue is an exciting new novel, it is a definite must have book. The story begins in the White House. A prominent political dissident from China informs the U.S President that while he was being detained as a political prisoner, the Chinese authorities had brutally tortured him. The American President immediately realizes that if the world was told about this horrible torture that had taken place that the good relations between the democratic world and Communist China would be ruined. While all of this is happening, the international community is suddenly thrown in to a state of mass confusion when radical terrorists threaten to use weapons of mass destruction upon the nation of Israel. These dangerous terrorists successfully manage to kidnap an important nuclear scientist and they force him to build military weapons for them. There is great action and excitement on every page.
Ronald McGivney spent 20 years serving as a Police Officer and Detective. He began his career as a healthy, cocky, young recruit, but finished it as an ill, nearly broken in spirit, bitter man. The result of countless encounters with high stress, misery, and human suffering. PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is a chronic condition that robbed him of his mental and physical health. He was diagnosed in 1996, but not told he had it until 2007. He refused treatment. By 2013, he was in bad shape. When he could sleep, he was sleeping on a couch with a loaded gun next to his locked door. Nightmares kept him awake most of the time. He started a treatment program, but checked out after week eight. Unprompted, he decided to write his stories down. The nightmares receded. These are those stories “Straightforward and gripping with a distinctive voice.” “Compelling and brutally honest” “Disturbing at times.”
What happens when an alien probe strikes the earth in the Arizona desert? What happens when rock hounds, college students, and the US Army confront this probe? What happens when religious zealots trek to the alien with hopes for salvation? An Australian shaman foresees that the Earth will change. And he sees that Uluru will rise. Can humankind adapt? Or must they resist? Down under, the Earth is carved until the land itself becomes a weapon. Can we handle a second invasion? A team of American scientists and soldiers work to understand then protect us from what they find. Like termites in search of their next meal, humans must address their limitations in a world gone mad. Uluru will rise.
INTRODUCTION: This book covers the exploits of several people with the focus on these three hoods who are planning to rob a bank and the strategy they use in making their heist. Also in this book, you will meet a nine-year–old child prodigy who is well-versed in astronomy and who will converse intelligently in the area of cosmology with a professor of astronomy who teaches astronomy at Princetown University. There is also Sister Clare. I call her the queen of the mediums. She is gifted in all areas of ESP. She also has another special gift call eschatology. This gift that Sister Clare has will be explained at the end of the book under Sister Clare’s Gifts. Another feature at the end of this book is Laly, the nine-year–old child prodigy. She will give her comments on the confrontation that Michael the Archangel had with Lucifer and the boneheaded rumor that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene. I’m sure that once the readers get into this book, they not only find it enjoyable but will recommend this book to others. Fanapola
The historical and spiritual legacy of New York City's largest denomination comes alive in these biographies of 76 women and men whose character and qualities are utterly New York and uniquely Catholic. (back cover).