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G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jack Ryan, Jr's race to stop an international criminal conspiracy is intertwined with the fate of an old friend... The CIA's deepest secrets are being given away for a larger agenda that will undermine the entire Western intelligence community. Director of National Intelligence Mary Pat Foley wants it stopped but doesn't know who, how or why. Jack Ryan, Jr., is dispatched to Poland on a different mission. The clues are thin, and the sketchy trail...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"...Jack Ryan, Jr., learns that sometimes the deadliest secret may be standing right next to you. Former U.S. Senator Weston Rhodes is a defense contractor with an urgent problem. His company needs someone to look over the books of Dalfan Technologies, a Singapore company--quickly. He turns to his old friend Gerry Hendley for help. Hendley Associates is one of the best financial analysis firms in the country and the cover for The Campus, a top-secret...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Katherine, an ambitious New York City attorney, gets diagnosed with a concussion and must be monitored for forty-eight hours to make sure it doesn't get worse. Unfortunately, she forgot to update her emergency contact, so the person they call is her ex-husband, Tom. Unable to be left alone, Katherine reluctantly agrees to travel to Chicago with him for the holidays. But thanks to a blizzard, what should have been a quick plane ride turns into an...
4) Contact
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Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cosmos and renowned astronomer Carl Sagan's international bestseller about the discovery of an advanced civilization in the depths of space remains the "greatest adventure of all time" (Associated Press).
The future is here...in an adventure of cosmic dimension. When a signal is discovered that seems to come from far beyond our solar system, a multinational team of scientists decides to find the...
The future is here...in an adventure of cosmic dimension. When a signal is discovered that seems to come from far beyond our solar system, a multinational team of scientists decides to find the...
Author
Publisher
Cleveland Museum of Art
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"For decades before the advent of digital technology, the proof sheet or contact sheet was vital to the practice of photography. Photographers using roll film first saw positive images in the small-scale grid of the contact, which was marked for printing and served as a lasting reference. Because contact sheets typically remained out of view, they offer a privileged window into the working process. Photographers also recognized aesthetic potential...
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Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Earl Campbell was a force in American football, winning a state championship in high school, rushing his way to a Heisman trophy for the University of Texas, and earning MVP as he took the Houston Oilers to the brink of the Super Bowl. An exhilarating blend of biography and history, Earl Campbell chronicles the challenges and sacrifices one supremely gifted athlete faced in his journey to the Hall of Fame. The story begins in Tyler, Texas, and features...
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Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
The story of humans stranded on an alienplanet where registered assassination is a way of life. They are the descendants of a space ship which lost itsway 500 years earlier. They live on an island and theonly contact they are allowed with the mainland isthrough one human, the foreigner of the novel.
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Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"...chronicles characters profoundly affected by physical connection, or its lack. Among them, a scrappy teen vies to be the next Sherlock Holmes; an immigrant daughter must defend her decision to remain childless; a guilt-ridden woman is haunted by the disappearance of her childhood friend; a cantankerous crossing guard celebrates getting run over by a truck; an embattled priest with dementia determines to perform a heroic, redemptive act, if he...
Author
Publisher
Entrepreneur Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Networking master and New York Times best-selling author Dr. Ivan Misner along with David Alexander, and Brian Hilliard teach entrepreneurs how to master the art of networking. Introducing an exclusive results-measuring system-the Network Scorecard-this powerful guide motivates entrepreneurs to reach quality prospects, leverage new and current contacts, prompt ongoing referrals-and ultimately, boost their client base and their bottom line. With this...
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Publisher
Cross Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Penny termin�o la preparatoria y encuentra que su paso por ella fue irrelevante. Ten�ia amigos, sus calificaciones eran buenas y tuvo un novio, pero esa relaci�on no signific�o gran cosa. Ahora se va a la universidad para estudiar literatura y convertirse en escritora. Est�a a ciento once kil�ometros y millones de a�nos luz de todo lo que le urge dejar atr�as. Sam est�a atrapado: literalmente, figurativamente, emocionalmente. Trabaja...
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ten years ago, disaster struck the remote town of Indigo Falls. A horrific event drove the residents underground, into shelters that keep them safe from the danger on the surface. No one speaks about what happened that fateful day, but even the youngest still remember the fear and, most of all, the searing pain when sunlight touched their skin. Now, a handful of families inhabit this bunker together, guided by a charismatic leader named Dr. Imogen...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Obelisco
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando usted menos lo espera ellos vienen en su ayuda y desaparecen tan pronto su trabajo ha sido terminado. Todos contamos con estos guardianes invisibles; de hecho, todos recibimos mensajes de nuestros ángeles guardianes y guías espirituales pero normalmente no sabemos reconocerlos. Este libro le enseñará a darse cuenta cuando esto suceda. Y aún más, llevando a cabo los ejercicios que aquí se demuestran, usted podrá comunicarse libremente...
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Publisher
Promontory Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Imagine a First Contact without contact, and an alien arrival where no aliens show up. Imagine the sudden appearance of exclusion zones all over the planet, into which no humans are allowed. Imagine an end to all violence, from the schoolyard bully to nations at war. Imagine an end to borders, an end to all crime. Imagine a world where hate has no outlet and the only harm one can do is to oneself. Imagine a world transformed, but with no guidance...
19) The contact paradox: challenging our assumptions in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
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Series
Bloomsbury sigma volume 49
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In 1974 a message was beamed towards the stars by the giant Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, a brief blast of radio waves designed to alert extraterrestrial civilizations to our existence. Of course, we don't know if such civilizations really exist. But for the past six decades a small cadre of researchers have been on a quest to find out, as part of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The silence from the stars is prompting some...
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