Redhawk's Heart

Redhawk's Heart

Aimée Thurlo

Mystery & Thrillers / Romance / Science

Together they were fire and ice — white-hot and shivery.Navajo lawman Ashe Redhawk and his new partner, beautiful FBI agent Casey Feist, struck sparks off each other the moment they met. That didn't stop Ashe from wanting all of her—her lips, her touch ... her secrets. But Casey had come to the reservation to investigate the mysterious deaths of Ashe's foster parents, and he suspected she knew more than she let on. As their passion boiled over, Ashe discovered this time that trusting his instincts was not enough. This time he'd have to trust Casey with the one thing most sacred to him: his heart...
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Silent and Unseen

Silent and Unseen

Alfred McLaren

Biography / Autobiography / Science / Technology

In Silent and Unseen, veteran submarine commander Captain Alfred S. McLaren describes in riveting detail the more significant events that occurred early in the Cold War during his seven years, 1958-1965, onboard three attack submarines: the USS Greenfish (SS-351), USS Seadragon (SSN-584), and USS Skipjack (SSN-585). Through myriad stories and anecdotes, his book focuses on the development of attack-boat tactics and under-ice exploration techniques.The commanding officers that a young submarine officer serves with will determine how well prepared he will be to assume his own command years later. This was particularly true in attack submarines, during the early high-risk years of the Cold War. They were continually at sea, and each reconnaissance and intelligence collection mission was of potentially great, and sometimes extraordinary, value to the government of the United States of America. The missions more often than not required closing of the potential enemy to...
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City of Woe

City of Woe

Christopher Ryan

Nonfiction / Science / History

What if Paul Farrington, a veteran fixer for a shady corporation, found himself targeted for elimination just as he was trying to finance his daughter's Ivy League education? How far would he go to provide for his family and keep them safe? What if detectives Frank Mallory and Alberto "Gunner" Gennaro were forced to play catch up with a killer who may or may not be a demon and who leaves trails of Dantesque murders, each one occurring further south in Manhattan and deeper into his version of The Inferno? How could these situations be connected? How long can the detectives stick to strict police procedural facts when confronted with increasingly bizarre events, especially once they begin invading Mallory's private life? And how does he find a balance between his rejection of the case's alleged demonic elements and his strong desire to believe his dying father's visions of long dead relatives beckoning him to heaven? When must a detective reconsider what exists outside man's law?...
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At the End - a post-apocalyptic novel (The Road to Extinction, Book 1)

At the End - a post-apocalyptic novel (The Road to Extinction, Book 1)

John Hennessy

Science / Computer Science / Programming

Night 1: 12 billion taken. Day 1: Confusion. Night 2: 13 billion taken. Day 2: Panic. Night 3: 13 billion taken. Day 3: The fight for survival begins. In 2048, the human population borders 39 billion after the termination of the birth control industry, and the realities of overcrowding have sunken into the minds of the world, until billions mysteriously go missing.
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Galileo's Middle Finger

Galileo's Middle Finger

Alice Dreger

Science / Social Sciences / Bioethics

Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and The World until Yesterday: "Alice Dreger would win a prize for this year's most gripping novel, except for one thing: her stories are true, and this isn't a novel. Instead, it's an exciting account of complicated good guys and bad guys, and the pursuit of justice." An impassioned defense of intellectual freedom and a clarion call to intellectual responsibility, Galileo's Middle Finger is one American's eye-opening story of life in the trenches of scientific controversy. For two decades, historian Alice Dreger has led a life of extraordinary engagement, combining activist service to victims of unethical medical research with defense of scientists whose work has outraged identity politics activists. With spirit and wit, Dreger offers in Galileo's Middle Finger an unforgettable vision of the importance of rigorous truth seeking in today's America, where both the free...
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