My Friend Bobby
Alan E Nourse
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Health, Mind & Body / Science
WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE HUMAN RACE WHEN, BY MUTATION OR OTHERWISE, TELEPATHY BECOMES A NORMAL CHARACTERISTIC? WHAT WILL IT DO TO HUMAN.RELATIONS, TO PARENTS . . . AND CHILDREN
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Solomon's Gold
Alex Lukeman
Mystery & Thrillers / Health, Mind & Body / Fantasy,sword and Sorcery
An ancient scroll written in code is discovered in a New York museum. Selena Connor is called in to translate the writing. She's a world-class linquist, a member of the secretive, covert operaions team know as the Project.The scroll reveals clues to the location of treasure collected by King Solomon to build and maintain the First Jewish Temple. Hidden somewhere in the desert lands of Israel is a vasy hoard of gold, the heritage of a nation.Director Harker of the Project sends the team out to see if they can discover where the treasure is hidden. Selena is determined to quit the dangers of the field, but this looks like a pleasant change from the usual mission. It's just a simple arceological expedition, after all. But nothing that involves the Project is ever simple.Betrayal, murder and vicious enemies stalk the expedition, as Selena and her teamamtes follow the clues revealed by the scroll. Meanwhile, back in New York where it all began, a...
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Ada
Kaz Cooke
Health, Mind & Body / Humor / Nonfiction
'A lady dancer, a comedienne, and a comic singer. And the head of my own travelling troupe. The Ada Delroy Company, lately extinct.'Meet Ada. Losing her looks but not her touch, waving a morphia cocktail and holding forth from her bed, she's still got some silks, sequins, a scrapbook, and the story of her life on the stage and the road. And what a life.'I was a household name. I had a diamond pendant near as big as an emu egg off the Maharajah of What's-His-Name (it'll come to me). They named a racehorse after me, and a pigeon and a potato soup on an Orient steamship. Newspaper reporters around the globe knew me as the Premier Serpentine Dancer Of the World, the inventor of the form, if you don't count its actual inventor.'Ada was world famous when clairvoyants, cockatoo acts and strongmen toured the world and performed for everyone from royalty to riotous miners and larrikins. But underneath the rouge, the glorious glamour and cheeky wit was the reality of life for a...
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The Last Option
Alex Lukeman
Mystery & Thrillers / Health, Mind & Body / Fantasy,sword and Sorcery
A cabal of ruthless men set in motion a plot to ignite nuclear war, certain they will survive the resulting holocaust and rule what is left after the missiles stop flying.Director Elizabeth Harker's aging Project team is called into action once again, but the odds are stacked high against them. A hostile president means to shut them down. Someone keeps trying to kill them. Nick and Selena's unborn children are in the line of fire. Even Selena's Russian half-sister is caught up in the deadly game, with consequences she'd never expected.The doomsday clock is ticking. If the Project team doesn't stop the plot in time, the world will pay the price.
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Alan E. Nourse - The Bladerunner
Alan E Nourse
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Health, Mind & Body / Science
Health Control Laws, mandatory sterilization regulations, computer directed robot surgeons--the time is early in the twenty-first century, eighteen years after the bloody Health Riots, a time of turmoil, insurrection and revolt. It is also the time of the bladerunner, that shadowy procureer of illegal medical supplies for the rapidly expanding, nightmare world of the medical black market.Became the basis for the William S Burroughs screenplay of the same name.
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The Nostradamus File
Alex Lukeman
Mystery & Thrillers / Health, Mind & Body / Fantasy,sword and Sorcery
Book Six in the PROJECT SeriesThe murder of a Paris bookseller who discovers a lost manuscript of prophecies by Nostradamus sends Nick Carter, Selena Connor and the Project on a global hunt for the fabled Ark of the Covenant. The prophecies lead them to the Holy Land and deep into the secrets of the ancient Order of the Knights Templar. The Ark is part of a plan to trigger war and a new Crusade in the Middle East. The men behind the plot have no problem killing anyone who gets in the way, including Nick and Selena. While people are doing their best to kill him and he's trying to stay alive, Nick is struggling with his PTSD. He'll lose Selena if he doesn't find a way to handle it. But how can he find time to sort out his personal life when he's caught up in one of the most dangerous missions of his career?
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Getting Screwed
Alison Bass
Nonfiction / Health, Mind & Body / Politics
Vivid narrative-driven account of how current U.S. laws against prostitution harm sex workers, clients, and society
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