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Book Preview In mid-March 1942 some 75 to 80 percent of all victims of the Holocaust were still alive, while 20 to 25 percent had perished. A mere eleven months later, in mid-February 1943, the percentages were exactly the reverse. At the core of the Holocaust was a short, intense wave of mass murder. The … Read more
Book Preview Prologue That night in 2000 Talking about it is the surefire way to get caught.” He let the statement settle, then looked each of his three companions straight in the eye one at a time, using the deliberation rather than additional words to serve as a warning. The huddled quartet was coming down … Read more
Book Preview Rainwater Sandra Brown Gale (2009) Rating: **** Tags: Historical, Fiction, Romance, Large Type Books, Boardinghouses, Historical Fiction, City and Town Life – Texas, Texas – Social Conditions – 20th Century, Dust Bowl Era; 1931-1939 The year is 1934. With the country in the stranglehold of drought and economic depression, Ella Barron runs her … Read more
Book Preview I remember back in ’87 when Pantera and King’s X did a double in-store together in Dallas. Both our bands pretty much kept to ourselves, but all I remember was that Dime was in the corner shredding through a very loud amp practically the whole time, with a bunch of wide-open metalheads going … Read more
Book Preview REDS DARROW OF LYKOS/THE REAPER ArchImperator of the Republic, husband to Virginia RHONNA Niece of Darrow LYRIA OF LAGALOS A Gamma Red DANCER, SENATOR O’FARAN Senator of the Republic, Ares lieutenant DANO Colleague of Ephraim GOLDS VIRGINIA AU AUGUSTUS/MUSTANG Reigning Sovereign of the Republic, wife to Darrow, mother to Pax PAX Son of … Read more
Book Preview Red Rising Darrow is a Red, a lowly miner slaving away below the surface of Mars. He toils to make the surface of his planet habitable for future generations, but he and his kind have been betrayed: the surface is livable and ruled by the unscrupulous Golds. When they hang his wife for … Read more
Book Preview Advance Readers Copy — Not for Sale GOLDEN SON Book II of the Red Rising Trilogy Pierce Brown Del Rey This is an uncorrected eBook file. Please do not quote for publication until you check your copy against the finished book. Tentative On-Sale Date: January 6, 2015 Tentative Publication Month: January 2015 Tentative … Read more
Book Preview Acknowledgments If writing is a work of the head and heart, then thank you to Aaron Phillips, Hannah Bowman, and Mike Braff, who burnish my head with their wisdom and advice. Thank you to my parents, my sister, friends, and the Phillips Clan who guard my heart with their love and loyalty: And … Read more
Book Preview Even if when I met you I had not happened to like you, I should still have been bound to change my attitude, because when you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for … Read more
Book Preview VIKING Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA USA | Canada | UK | Ireland | Australia | New Zealand | India | South Africa | China Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England For more information … Read more
Book Preview “[DECEPTION POINT has] enough twists and surprises to keep even the most seasoned readers guessing.” —Vince Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Separation of Power “Dan Brown handles the intrigue and action well…his research is impeccable.” —Daily News (New York) “A taut, fast-paced, barn-burner of a book. There are no weaknesses in … Read more
Book Preview Acknowledgments First and foremost, to my friend and editor, Jason Kaufman, for working so hard on this project and for truly understanding what this book is all about. And to the incomparable Heide Lange—tireless champion of The Da Vinci Code, agent extraordinaire, and trusted friend. I cannot fully express my gratitude to the … Read more
Book Preview Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that ‘will change the face of science forever’. The evening’s host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made … Read more
Book Preview My most humble and sincere thanks to: As always, first and foremost, my editor and close friend, Jason Kaufman, for his dedication and talent … but mainly for his endless good humor. My extraordinary wife, Blythe, for her love and patience with the writing process, and also for her superb instincts and candor as a … Read more
Book Preview For Blythe… ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A debt of gratitude to Emily Bestler, Jason Kaufman, Ben Kaplan, and everyone at Pocket Books for their belief in this project. To my friend and agent, Jake Elwell, for his enthusiasm and unflagging effort. To the legendary George Wieser, for convincing me to write novels. To my dear friend … Read more
Book Preview My profound thanks to three dear friends with whom I have the great luxury of working: my editor, Jason Kaufman; my agent, Heide Lange; and my counselor, Michael Rudell. In addition, I would like to express my immense gratitude to Doubleday, to my publishers around the world, and, of course, to my readers. … Read more
Book Preview ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks to all the folks I met and spoke with at the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate and Airborne Laser Special Projects Office, Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Special thanks to my old friend Colonel Ellen Pawlikowski, ABL SPO commander, for inviting me to visit her incredible staff … Read more
Book Preview Dreamland: Duty Roster NURI ABAAJMED LUPO STEPPED OFF THE TRAIN FROM Naples and… AT ROUGHLY THE SAME TIME NURI LUPO WAS SCRAMBLING in… NURI’S HEART DROPPED A BEAT AS HE STARED AT THE… DANNY FREAH’S INITIAL REACTION TO GENERAL MAGNUS’S offer was thanks,… THERE WAS NO GRAND FUNERAL FOR RAFI LUO, NO FINE… … Read more