The Vanishings

The Vanishings
Author: Jerry B. Jenkins
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2012-12-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1414379412

This series is based on the best-selling adult Left Behind series. Readers will see the Rapture and Tribulation through the eyes of four kids who have been left behind.

Luke Skywalker Can't Read

Luke Skywalker Can't Read
Author: Ryan Britt
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-11-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0147517575

The perfect gift for anyone who embraces the joy of fandom and geeking out, this collection of essays celebrates the fans of Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, and much more. Pop Culture and sci-fi guru Ryan Britt has never met a monster, alien, wizard, or superhero that didn’t need further analysis. Essayist Ryan Britt got a sex education from dirty pictures of dinosaurs, made out with Jar-Jar Binks at midnight, and figured out how to kick depression with a Doctor Who Netflix-binge. Alternating between personal anecdote, hilarious insight, and smart analysis, Luke Skywalker Can’t Read contends that Barbarella is good for you, that monster movies are just romantic comedies with commitment issues, that Dracula and Sherlock Holmes are total hipsters, and, most shockingly, shows how virtually everyone in the Star Wars universe is functionally illiterate. Romp through time and space, from the circus sideshows of 100 years ago to the Comic Cons of today, from darkest corners of the Galaxy to the comfort of your couch. For anyone who pretended their flashlight was a lightsaber, stood in line for a movie at midnight, or dreamed they were abducted by aliens, Luke Skywalker Can't Read is full of answers to questions you haven't thought to ask, and perfect for readers of Chuck Klosterman, Rob Sheffield, and Ernest Cline. “Ryan Britt is . . . the Virgil you want to guide you through the inferno of geekery.” —Lev Grossman, author of the bestselling Magician's trilogy

The Defense

The Defense
Author: D. W. Buffa
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2013-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466860588

Dynamite defense attorney Joseph Antonelli has never lost a case--or felt the sting of conscience for letting the guilty go free. "I can deceive anyone," he says, "and no one more quickly or more completely than myself." Now the man he most admires, the honorable Judge Rifkin, has asked him a favor: Defend a drug dealer accused of raping his twelve-year-old stepdaughter. Yet in D. W. Buffa's The Defense, Antonelli's acceptance of the case sets in motion an explosive chain of corruption, betrayal, and murder that will leave no one unscathed. . . .

Skyeholm

Skyeholm
Author: Tamara Lynne
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2022-01-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1039128092

During a visit to her hometown of Braxton, Skye and her friends are kidnapped from their hangout at a local park. They wake up in an attic, unsure where they are, how they got there, and who is responsible. It doesn't take Skye long to realize that their abductor is John Brooks, Braxton’s top detective. He is also the mystery man she’s been dreaming about for the past four years. Unlike her friends, Skye can’t bring herself to hate him. Instead, she finds comfort and stability in him. He is her shelter from a troubled past. And as they grow closer, she learns that he’s been having dreams about her too. All the psychology textbooks would say their relationship is a product of Stockholm syndrome. But Skye thinks they’re soulmates who have been brought together under unusual circumstances. The only question is, how far will they go to protect their love in a world that considers it twisted and wrong?

Bones Are Forever

Bones Are Forever
Author: Kathy Reichs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2013-08-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439102449

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs, a producer of the Fox hit show Bones, is back with her fifteenth "pulse-pounding" (Publishers Weekly) novel featuring North America's favorite forensic anthropologist, Tempe Brennan--a story of infanticide and murder set in the high stakes, high danger world of diamond mining. Beneath a diamond's perfect surface lies a story of violence and greed. Just like bones... In a run-down Montreal apartment, Tempe finds heartbreaking evidence of three innocent lives ended. The landlord says Alma Rogers lives there--is she the same woman who checked into a city hospital as Amy Roberts, then fled before doctors could treat her uncontrolled bleeding? Is she Alva Rodriguez, sought by a man who appeared at the crime scene? Heading up an investigation crackling with the sexual tension of past intimacies, Tempe leads homicide detective Andrew Ryan and police sergeant Ollie Hasty along the woman's trail and into the farthest reaches of mining country--where the grim industry of unearthing diamonds exacts a price in blood. And where the truths the unlikely trio uncovers are more sinister than they could have imagined.

Around Africa On My Bicycle

Around Africa On My Bicycle
Author: Riaan Manser
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Total Pages: 777
Release: 2010-09-13
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1868424014

In a world first, almost incredibly, Riaan Manser rode a bicycle right around the continent of Africa. It took him two years, two months and fifteen days. He rode 36 500 kilometres through 34 different countries. In Around Africa on my Bicycle, Manser tells the story of this epic journey. It is a story of blood, sweat, toil and tears. It is a story of triumph and occassional disaster. Of nights out under the stars, of searing heat and rain, of endless miles of Africa and of pressing on and never surrendering whatever the odds. Mostly however it is the story of one man's courage and determination to escape the mundane and see the continent he loves and feels so much a part of. It is a story of the human warmth he encounters, and occasionally human wrath and hostility as he crosses troubled countries and borders.

The Bone Code

The Bone Code
Author: Kathy Reichs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 198213996X

"On the way to hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner. The storm has tossed ashore a medical waste container. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. Tempe recognizes many of the details as identical to those of an unsolved case she handled in Quebec years earlier... Meanwhile, health authorities in South Carolina become increasingly alarmed as a human flesh-eating contagion spreads."--