Book Preview Moshe Karlin emerged from a deep and dreamless sleep with a premonition of impending doom. The world seemed out of place. The dawn chorus of summer birds filled his ears, but louder than usual, as though an entire flock had perched on the windowsill above his bed. The mattress pressed against his back, … Read more
Book Preview BAEN BOOKS by JOHN DALMAS The Three-Cornered War This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. Copyright Š 1999 by John Dalmas All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or … Read more
Book Preview Curtis Macurdy gazed out the window of the truck at a field plowed and disked. Near the far end, someone, presumably his father, was walking behind the horse-drawn spike-tooth, readying the ground for planting. Beyond stood the house Curtis had grown up in, the barn nearby, sheds, corncrib, and the ancient white oak … Read more
Book Preview None of my family knew where Aunt Varia really came from. Evansville, we figuredthats what shed let on. Uncle Will had met her at Salem, at the Washington County Fair, and it was love at first sight, he told me once. For him, anyway. And at second sight and third, laughing when he … Read more
Book Preview PREFACE THE SPECTER OF SOCIALISM Here grows the cure of all, this fruit divine Fair to the eye, inviting to the taste, Of virtue to make wise; what hinders, then To reach, and feed at once body and mind? 1 —JOHN MILTON, PARADISE LOST A specter is haunting America—the specter of socialism. Suddenly, … Read more
Book Preview Although fascism seems to be dead, it could have a second coming in different forms.1 Walter Laqueur, Fascism: Past, Present, Future Some of Sigmund Freud’s most interesting cases involved people who did bad or destructive things and then shifted the blame onto others. Such cases are now standard in psychological literature. Psychologists today … Read more
Book Preview The language spoken in a confinement center is extremely coarse. Hardly a sentence is uttered that does not contain obscenities. There is no way to convey the sense of place and even the meaning of what convicts are saying without using some of this language. Out of respect for the reader, I’ve scaled … Read more
Book Preview A TALE OF THREE DREAMS Dreams are powerful things. Sometimes they have motivational power, as with Martin Luther King’s dream. King aspired to a color-blind society, and this guided his difficult striving. Dreams can also provide artistic inspiration, as when the Muse of the mind supplies ideas and images to the creative imagination. … Read more
Book Preview Starting today, we must . . . begin again the work of remaking America.1 —Barack Obama, inaugural speech, January 20, 2009 The American Era, 1945–2016. This could well be the title of a chapter in a history book a generation or two from now. A future historian, contemplating the American era, might express … Read more
Book Preview SECRETS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds timorous and slothful.1 —John Milton on the devil Belial, Paradise Lost To understand Hillary, we must solve the Hillary enigma. The Hillary enigma is why anyone—any American, any Democrat, even Bill—would consider voting for her. Yes, I know she wants to … Read more
Book Preview [Master Thomas] told me, if I would be happy, I must lay out no plans for the future. He said . . . he would take care of me . . . and taught me to depend solely upon him for happiness. —Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American … Read more
Book Preview Dinesh D’Souza – America: Imagine a World without Her Dinesh D’Souza Regnery Publishing (2014) Tags: History – Politics History – Politicsttt Is America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, … Read more
Book Preview TITLES BY CLIVE CUSSLER DIRK PITT® ADVENTURES Odessa Sea (with Dirk Cussler) Havana Storm (with Dirk Cussler) Poseidon’s Arrow (with Dirk Cussler) Crescent Dawn (with Dirk Cussler) Arctic Drift (with Dirk Cussler) Treasure of Khan (with Dirk Cussler) Black Wind (with Dirk Cussler) Trojan Odyssey Valhalla Rising Atlantis Found Flood Tide Shock Wave … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY CLIVE CUSSLER DIRK PITT® ADVENTURES Havana Storm (with Dirk Cussler) Poseidon’s Arrow (with Dirk Cussler) Crescent Dawn (with Dirk Cussler) Arctic Drift (with Dirk Cussler) Treasure of Khan (with Dirk Cussler) Black Wind (with Dirk Cussler) Trojan Odyssey Valhalla Rising Atlantis Found Flood Tide Shock Wave Inca Gold Sahara Dragon Treasure … Read more
Book Preview DIRK PITT® ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER POSEIDON’S ARROW (with Dirk Cussler) CRESCENT DAWN (with Dirk Cussler) ARCTIC DRIFT (with Dirk Cussler) TREASURE OF KHAN (with Dirk Cussler) BLACK WIND (with Dirk Cussler) TROJAN ODYSSEY VALHALLA RISING ATLANTIS FOUND FLOOD TIDE SHOCK WAVE INCA GOLD SAHARA DRAGON TREASURE CYCLOPS DEEP SIX PACIFIC VORTEX! NIGHT … Read more
Book Preview DIRK PITT® ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER POSEIDON’S ARROW (with Dirk Cussler) CRESCENT DAWN (with Dirk Cussler) ARCTIC DRIFT (with Dirk Cussler) TREASURE OF KHAN (with Dirk Cussler) BLACK WIND (with Dirk Cussler) TROJAN ODYSSEY VALHALLA RISING ATLANTIS FOUND FLOOD TIDE SHOCK WAVE INCA GOLD SAHARA DRAGON TREASURE CYCLOPS DEEP SIX PACIFIC VORTEX! NIGHT … Read more
Book Preview DIRK PITT® ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER CRESCENT DAWN (with Dirk Cussler) ARCTIC DRIFT (with Dirk Cussler) TREASURE OF KHAN (with Dirk Cussler) BLACK WIND (with Dirk Cussler) THE MEDITERRANEAN CAPER FARGO ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER ISAAC BELL NOVELS BY CLIVE CUSSLER THE THIEF (with Justin Scott) THE RACE (with Justin Scott) THE SPY … Read more
Book Preview DIRK PITT®ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER Crescent Dawn (with Dirk Cussler) Arctic Drift (with Dirk Cussler) Treasure of Khan (with Dirk Cussler) Black Wind (with Dirk Cussler) Trojan Odyssey Valhalla Rising Atlantis Found Flood Tide Shock Wave Inca Gold Sahara Dragon Treasure Cyclops Deep Six Pacific Vortex! Night Probe! Vixen 03 Raise the Titanic! … Read more