![]() ![]() As Jonas travels deeper into this dangerous dream world in search of Alan, he learns a great deal about his past, his own power, and his place in the world. ![]() In the dream world, Jonas is known as Poet Anderson, one of the rare few who can move freely through realities. As if the challenges of his waking life are not enough, Jonas must also navigate the dream world where, he believes, Alan is stuck. When Jonas and his brother, Alan, are in a car accident that leaves his brother comatose, Jonas is left to navigate life on his own. As he travels between the waking and dreaming worlds, Jonas must face his fears and embrace the tragic reality of his life if he is to save his brother and himself. His parents are dead, his brother is in a coma, and he has no home and no one to help him. Though high schooler Jonas Anderson can control his dreams, he is lost in the real world. ![]() Poet Anderson…Of Nightmares is an engaging and innovative story about a young man with a unique gift-lucid dreaming. In this exciting fantasy, a teen must navigate a gritty dream world in order to save his brother. ![]()
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Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. ![]() His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. He is best known for his work as a science popularizer and communicator. Pollack, Owen ToonĬarl Edward Sagan ( Novem– December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She’d never really had the opportunity to attend school, but her mother had taught her as much as she could at home, and she could do enough cyphering to know there was something very wrong with the bookkeeping in front of her. Ruth Arbuckle sat at her desk, looking at the ledgers in front of her. Will the two of them-each looking at things from very different perspectives-be able to find love together? Or will they have the loveless marriage Ruth initially planned? Read more He gets on a train just days later, determined to woo his wife until she falls in love with him. When his sister Elizabeth comes to see him with a plan for him to go west, he jumps at the chance-it's as if Ruth's letter was meant just for him. Sebastian Miller toils away in a bank in Beckham, Massachusetts, wishing for the opportunity to work outdoors while occasionally playing with the numbers he's come to love. It's purely business, but when the man arrives to marry her, she's stunned to find him so compelling. ![]() She refuses to continue to lose money, and she wants someone competent to run all aspects of her ranch, including the financial side. When widow Ruth Arbuckle discovers her ranch foreman is stealing from her, she decides to do something completely unorthodox-she sends for a mail-order husband. ![]() ![]() ![]() It tells of the lifelong devotion of King Henri II of France to Diane de Poitiers. This is a story of love, war, intrigue, betrayal, and persecution. The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King, Princess Michael of Kent Touchstone (2005) available as ebook. After five years of exile, she had returned to face the whispers about her past. King of France and his nobles gathered to meet her. Her fear hidden behind her radiant beauty, Diane walked regally into the court. Diane de PoitiersĬourtesan: A Novel, Diane Haeger Random House LLC (2006) available as ebook. A description of 4 recent novels about Diane de Poitiers, the famous French renaissance mistress, follows. Diane de Poitiers mistress of King Henri II, was Catherine’s de Medici’s great rival. From Agnes Sorel, the first official royal mistress, each royal wife tolerated one or more accepted mistresses. ![]() Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henri IIĤ novels about Diane de Poitiers, one of France’s powerful French royal mistress are available now.įrench Royal Mistresses were powerful women. ![]() ![]() ![]() In book two, I thought, "He's on a journey to absolute humility," which I didn't know how I was going to write about since I don't have an experience of absolute humility myself. But the character just had dimension after dimension that I found fascinating. Q: Is the ending of the Odd Thomas series a sad occasion for you?Ī: When I finished the first one, Odd Thomas, I thought, "This is liable to be more than one book," but at most I thought it would be a trilogy. In the meantime, we caught up with Koontz, 69, for a phone interview from his home in Newport Coast, Calif. 29, sponsored by USA TODAY and Intercast. Koontz will be the featured guest on a special online video chat with fans from 2 p.m. 4 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list), in which the character returns to his hometown of Pico Mundo, Calif., to fulfill the destiny foretold in the series opener in 2003. ![]() Now the series is ending with its seventh installment, Saint Odd (currently No. ![]() In recent years, his series featuring Odd Thomas - a young fry cook with paranormal powers, including the ability to see the spirits of the "lingering dead" - has been particularly popular, with 20 million copies sold to date. Dean Koontz is one of the world's most popular novelists, with 450 million books sold worldwide. ![]() ![]() While I am on my honeymoon! Of course, I put an end to that right off. And one of the leading lights in the community, Lord Cheriton, has the nerve to make a play for me. But crikey! These aristocrats are a thoroughly loathsome sort enjoying a completely decadent lifestyle filled with wild parties and rampant infidelity. Now that I am a sophisticated married woman, I am doing my best to sound like one. Since we are staying in the Happy Valley-the center of upper-class English life-we are well-positioned to hunt for clues and ferret out possible suspects. It seems the thief was a member of the aristocracy and may have fled to Kenya. ![]() I am trying very hard not to pick a fight about it, because after all, we are in paradise! Darcy finally confides that there have been robberies in London and Paris. Now that we are here, I suspect he has actually been sent to fulfill another secret mission. ![]() ![]() I was so excited when Darcy announced out of the blue that we were flying to Kenya for our extended honeymoon. Georgie and Darcy are finally on their honeymoon in Kenya's Happy Valley, but murder crashes the party in this all-new installment in the New York Times bestselling series. Watermark Books & Café will host Rhys Bowen for an author talk and signing of Love and Death Among the Cheetahs on Monday, Aug. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Due to begin her teaching position at Miss Martin's School in Bath, Frances must try to forget that one extraordinary night-and the man who touched her with such exquisite tenderness and abandon. But Frances knows her place-and it is far from the privileged world of the sensual aristocrat. Stranded together in a rustic country inn, Lucius Marshall, who is the Viscount Sinclair, and Frances Allard share a night of glorious, unforgettable passion. Between these two unlikely strangers, desire is instantaneous.and utterly impossible to resist. He is the cool, black-caped stranger who unexpectedly comes to her rescue. She is a young teacher with a secret past. Drawing us into the lives of four women, teachers at Miss Martin's School for Girls, Balogh introduces this novel's marvelous heroine: music teacher Frances Allard-and the man who seduces her with a passion no woman could possibly forget. With this, the first in a dazzling new quartet of novels, Balogh invites us into a special world-a select academy for young ladies-a world of innocence and temptation. New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh returns to the seductive world she knows so well-Regency England-in a new novel filled with her trademark wit, sensuality, and breathtaking storytelling. ![]() ![]() But the latest scientific research shows that these phenomena are both real and widespread, and are an unavoidable consequence of the interconnected, entangled physical reality we live in.Īlbert Einstein called entanglement "spooky action at a distance" - the way two objects remain connected through time and space, without communicating in any conventional way, long after their initial interaction has taken place. Many people believe that such "psychic phenomena" are rare talents or divine gifts. Is everything connected? Can we sense what's happening to loved ones thousands of miles away? Why are we sometimes certain of a caller's identity the instant the phone rings? Do intuitive hunches contain information about future events? Is it possible to perceive without the use of the ordinary senses? ![]() ![]() Lauren: So you're telling me the strongest anti-bacterial the CDC has won't even work? And with nine fatalities and counting, the urgent nature of this superbug was a perfect catalyst for the type of tension and intensity you'd expect in a finale of some sort. It was no way that either Max or Helen would bail on the hospital after the alerts of those nine Code Blues. Introducing this superbug in the aftermath of something as catastrophic and life-altering as that is an excellent way of showcasing how the pandemic has changed how we respond to things moving forward. No one wants to relive the tragedies, uncertainty, and loss of the pandemic. ![]() ![]() ![]() He focused on the seventies provenance of this book and the ‘ spiritual awakening‘ happening at that time in the Western world – the interest in Eastern philosophies and ideas about ‘ mercy, compassion and right action‘. 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