When a high-speed chase goes terribly
wrong, Santa Fe police officer Dan Page
watches in horror as a car and gas tanker
explode into flames. Torn with guilt that
he may be responsible, Page returns home
to discover that his wife, Tori, has
disappeared.
Frantic, Page follows her trail to
Rostov, a remote town in Texas famous for
a massive astronomical observatory, a
long-abandoned military base, and
unexplained nighttime phenomena that draw
onlookers from every corner of the globe.
Many of these gawkers--Tori among
them--are compelled to visit this tiny
community to witness the mysterious Rostov
Lights.
Without warning, a gunman begins firing
on the lights, screaming "Go back to hell
where you came from," then turns his rifle
on the bystanders. A bloodbath ensues, and
events quickly spiral out of control,
setting the stage for even greater
violence and death.
Page must solve the mystery of the
Rostov Lights to save his wife. In the
process, he learns that the decaying
military base may not be abandoned at all,
and that the government may have known
about the lights for decades. Could these
phenomena be more dangerous than anyone
could have possibly imagined?
Full of Bull:
Unscramble Wall Street Doubletalk to
Protect and Build Your
Portfolio
by Stephen T.
McClellan
The Truth About Wall Street Stock
Research--Now 100% Updated for Today's
Markets! They mislead. They confuse. You
can't afford to listen to one word stock
analysts say--especially not right now.
Wall Street won't tell you how to protect
your capital or steer you toward gains.
The Street is good at selling, not
analyzing; it wants you to trade, not
invest. In Full of Bull, Updated
Edition, one of the Street's leading
insiders reveals the hidden code behind
Wall Street's Byzantine practices. For
decades, Stephen McClellan was one of the
Street's top analysts--he knows exactly
how the game is played. Now, in this
revised guide for the individual investor,
he describes how Wall Street came to cost
investors billions by denying the
realities of a market collapse in
progress.
You Don't Have
to Learn the Hard Way: Making it in the
Real World: A Guide for
Graduates
by J.R.
Parrish
Chock-full of practical advice for teen
and college age readers on everything from
how to nail that first big job interview,
avoid dangerous relationship mistakes and
master the art of managing your finances,
to circumventing the typical pitfalls of
adjusting to the adult world, this
valuable guidebook synthesizes a life's
worth of wisdom into one engaging volume.
The author, a self-made multimillionaire
who did learn the hard way offers to young
people what he wishes someone would have
given him when he was starting out--a
no-nonsense blueprint for personal and
professional success. Told with
self-deprecating humor and grace, this
book is never preachy and features
irresistible self-discovery quizzes that
guide young readers to deeper
self-understanding.
Strategic
Acceleration: Succeed at the Speed of
Life
by Tony
Jeary
Tony Jeary has been and continues to be
the coach to the world's top CEOs and high
achievers for more than 20 years. His
clients include the Presidents of
Wal-Mart, Firestone, Shell, Samsung, New
York Life, and the United States Senate,
to name only a few. An advisor to many,
Tony Jeary has invested his life and
career in helping others discover new
clarity for their vision, develop focus on
direction, and create powerful execution
strategies that strategically impact
achievement and results.
Know It
All: The Little Book of Essential
Knowledge
by Elizabeth
Humphrey, et. al.
This book of essential knowledge offers
hours of fact-finding pleasure with a huge
collection of intriguing and useful facts.
Readers can gain valuable information
about a myriad of subjects, each presented
in clear, easy-to-follow language.
Full-color photos throughout.
In the majestic heart of Florence, a
beautiful golden-haired boy is abandoned
and subjected to cruelty beyond words. But
Luca Bastardo is anything but an ordinary
boy. Across two centuries of passion and
intrigue, Luca will discover an
astonishing gift -- one that will lead him
to embrace the ancient mysteries of
alchemy and healing and to become a
trusted confidant to the powerful
Medicis…even as he faces persecution
from a sadistic cabal determined to wrest
his secrets for themselves.
But as the Black Death and the
Inquisition wreak havoc on his beloved
city, Luca's survival lies in the quest to
solve two riddles. One is the enigma of
his parents and his ageless beauty. The
other is a choice between immortality and
the only chance to find his one true love.
As Luca journeys through the heights of
the Renaissance, befriends Giotto and
Leonardo Da Vinci -- 140 years apart --
and pursues the most closely guarded
secrets of religious faith and science for
the answers to his own burning questions,
his remarkable search will not only change
him…but will change the course of
history.
On the heels of his acclaimed memoir,
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed,
beloved actor and bestselling author Alan
Alda has written Things I Overheard
While Talking to Myself, an insightful
and funny look at some of the impossible
questions he's asked himself over the
years: What do I value? What, exactly, is
the good life? (And what does that even
mean?)
Picking up where his bestselling memoir
left off&endash;having been saved by
emergency surgery after nearly dying on a
mountaintop in Chile -- Alda finds himself
not only glad to be alive but searching
for a way to squeeze the most juice out of
his new life. Looking for a sense of
meaning that would make this extra time
count, he listens in on things he's heard
himself saying in private and in public at
critical points in his life -- from the
turbulence of the sixties, to his first
Broadway show, to the birth of his
children, to the ache of September 11, and
beyond. Reflecting on the transitions in
his life and in all our lives, he notices
that "doorways are where the truth is
told," and wonders if there's one thing --
art, activism, family, money,
fame&endash;that could lead to a "life of
meaning."
