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![]() And she’s right to be concerned that integration opens the way for Homian download. ![]() Femi Alaagomeji of Nigerian intelligence agency S45 is concerned about the degree to which xenoforms have integrated with most people. ![]() Over the years, the Nigerian city of Rosewater has grown up around Wormwood, a huge alien organism whose emanations have immense healing powers. They have seeded the Earth with xenoforms, alien microorganisms that have penetrated the environment and its flora and fauna. The Homians, aliens from a distant planet who have despoiled their own world, have uploaded digital copies of themselves onto vast servers and are planning a mass download…into us. In the second part of The Wormwood Trilogy (following Rosewater, 2018), a Nigerian city in an alternate near future experiences civil war among humans and alien creatures. ![]() ![]() In "The Cement Garden," a group of children are orphanedĪnd bury their mother in the basement. ![]() In "The Comfort of Strangers," a pair of middle-class tourists fall prey to a Machiavellian sadist during a trip to Venice. Like so many of the author's stories, "Amsterdam" concerns the sudden intrusion of violent, perverse events into his characters' mundane lives, events that cruelly expose the psychological fault lines running beneath One can only hope that this small, perfectly fashioned novel - novella, really - will send readers back to the rest of the talented McEwan's oeuvre. Than "The Innocent," his 1990 masterpiece of Cold War suspense. ![]()
![]() ![]() Through grand land, sea, and air battles to a small unit fighting hand-to-hand in the jungle, Russia and the US face off in a terrifying but thrilling battle for world dominance - with constant the threat of a Russian nuclear detonation ever present. Allison Anthony Greaney, profile picture. Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy Pentagon job, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father, a young Polish partisan fighter, an A-10 Warthog pilot, and the commander of an American tank platoon who, along with his German counterpart, fight from behind enemy lines. Red Metal made it through the nominations Vote now for your favorite. ![]() ![]() A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three Rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control over the world's hi-tech sector for generations to come. ![]() Mark Greaney, Lieutenant Colonel Hunter Ripley Rawlings IV. If you enjoy finely-crafted military thrillers, you will love Red Metal.Brad Thor, 1 New York Times bestselling author of Backlash Few write combat action the way it’s described in Red Metal.
![]() When visiting for Christmas, he decides its finally the time to express his love for Abbie. It follows Will who has been friends with Abbie and her twin brother for years. Wrapped Up in You is a short Christmas novella. So when I found out she was releasing a Christmas novella, I knew I needed to read it! Convincing clever, frosty Abbie to give Will a chance will take more than mistletoe, but hiding his lifelong crush on her is no longer an option.Īfter reading Get a Life, Chloe Brown earlier this year, I quickly fell in love with Talia Hibbert’s writing. When a blizzard leaves Will and Abbie alone at Grandma Farrell’s house (if bunking with 27 pets counts as ‘alone’), it’s the perfect opportunity to pull off a Christmas miracle. ![]() (Apparently, it’s a good one.) Winning ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ was nice, but this Christmas, he has more important goals in mind … like finally winning over his best friend’s little sister, the super-smart and kinda-scary Abbie Farrell. 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Gallipoli forced the young Winston Churchill from office, established Turkey’s iconic founder Mustafa Kemal (better known as “Ataturk”), and marked Australia’s emergence as a nation in its own right. ![]() One of the most famous battles in history, the WWI Gallipoli campaign began as a bold move by the British to capture Constantinople, but this definitive new history explains that from the initial landings-which ended with so much blood in the sea it could be seen from airplanes overhead-to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition that followed, it was a tragic folly destined to fail from the start. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These are the last words Ash Larkin hears before her mother returns to the spiritual commune she escaped long ago. Debut novelist Liggett spins a complex but engrossing story as Ashlyn uncovers the truth about the dead girl in her visions and faces what it truly means to be a Larkin. Romeo and Juliet meets Children of the Corn in this one-of-a-kind romantic horror When you fall in love, you will carve out your heart and throw it into the deepest ocean. Entertaining though the sordid backstory and star-crossed romance can be, the real driving force of this story is Ashlyn's loyalty to her mother and brother. Ashlyn becomes overwhelmingly attracted to a temperamental boy named Dane, but because Dane comes from the wrong bloodline, any relationship between them is forbidden. But something sinister and ancient waits among the rustling cornstalks of this village lost to time. ![]() Ash's twin brother, Rhys, thinks alchemy is just superstition, but when Katia chooses their mother as her vessel, the 17-year-old siblings leave New York City for the eerie Kansas commune of Quivira, hidden deep in an enchanted field of corn. Determined to find her mother when she disappears, Ash follows her to Quivara, Kansas, the spiritual commune she escaped long ago. 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