![]() ![]() In a climax that will shatter every expectation, their destinies and the fate of humanity hang in the balance.īONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City. Now the good will make their last, best stand. A strange scent hangs faintly in the air, and the young couple cannot shake the sense of something wrong. ![]() As they ready for battle against overwhelming odds, they will learn the full scope of Victor Frankenstein’s nihilistic plan to remake the future-and the terrifying reach of his shadowy, powerful supporters. It has haunted their sleep, invaded their dreams, and now they rise to find a luminous silvery downpour drenching their small California mountain town. ![]() As the small town of Rainbow Falls, Montana, comes under siege, scattered survivors come together to weather the onslaught of the creatures set loose upon the world. ![]() Now the master of suspense delivers an unforgettable novel that is at once a thrilling adventure in itself and a mesmerizing conclusion to his saga of the modern monsters among us. We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at 33.41. Dean Koontz’s enthralling Frankenstein series has redefined the classic legend of infernal ambition and harrowing retribution for a new century and a new age. Buy Dean Koontz - Frankenstein Series: Books 4 & 5: Lost Souls, the Dead Town by Dean Koontz, Professor Christopher Lane (Read by) online at Alibris. ![]()
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![]() Recruited almost immediately to spy for Israel, they are sent back to Lebanon and elsewhere to pose as Arabs (which they actually are) and collect intelligence. ![]() Four Arab Jews emigrate to Israel in 1948, at the birth of the new nation. Spies of No Country is about the slippery identities of these spies, but it’s also about the complicated identity of Israel, a country that presents itself as Western but in fact has more citizens with Middle Eastern roots, just like the spies of this fascinating narrative. Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel. Journalist and award-winning author Matti Friedman’s masterfully told and meticulously researched tale of Israel’s first spies reads like an espionage novel-but it’s all true. SPIES OF NO COUNTRY SECRET LIVES AT THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL by Matti Friedman RELEASE DATE: MaA focused espionage tale of the beginning of Israel and the spies who turned out to bethe embryo of one of the world’s most formidable intelligence services. Of the dozen members of their ragtag unit, five would be caught and executed-but the remainder would emerge as the nucleus of the Mossad, Israel’s vaunted intelligence agency. In 1948, at the outbreak of war in Palestine, they went undercover in Beirut, spending two years running sabotage operations and sending crucial intelligence back home. The four spies were young, Jewish, and born in Arab countries. Piercing.” - The New York Times Book ReviewĪward-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff-but it’s all true. ![]() ![]() ![]() for the many who have been personally affected by eating disorders, it can offer hope." -School Library Journal ![]() help readers feel as if they are on this journey with her. "The unique format and detailed portrayal. The innovative format using blank verse and prose, changes in tense and voice, and forms, workbooks, and journal entries mirror Jennifer's progress toward a healthy body and mind. Johnson tells an inspiring story based on her own experience when she was hospitalized for an eating disorder as a teenager. Using her trademark dark humor and powerful emotion, J. She has to believe-after many years of being a believarexic. She has to learn to trust herself and her own instincts, but that's easier than it sounds. But when she finally confesses her secret to her parents and is hospitalized at the Samuel Tuke Center, her journey is only beginning.Īs Jennifer progresses through her treatment, she learns to recognize her relationship with food, and friends, and family-and how each is healthy or unhealthy. Jennifer can't go on like this-binging, purging, starving, and all while trying to appear like she's got it all together. ![]() ![]() A girl struggling with an eating disorder realizes that asking for help is only the first step. ![]() ![]() And someone’s going to be very sorry.įrom debut author Jillian Larkin, VIXEN is the first novel in the sexy, dangerous, and ridiculously romantic new series set in the Roaring Twenties. When Lorraine’s envy spills over into desperate spite, no one is safe. Lorraine Dyer, Gloria’s social-climbing best friend, is tired of living in Gloria’s shadow. Seems she has some dirty little secrets of her own that she’ll do anything to keep hidden. or are they?Ĭlara Knowles, Gloria’s goody-two-shoes cousin, has arrived to make sure the high-society wedding comes off without a hitch-but Clara isn’t as lily-white as she appears. ![]() Now that she’s engaged to Sebastian Grey, scion of one of Chicago’s most powerful families, Gloria’s party days are over before they’ve even begun. Vixen Jillian Larkin, Delacorte, 17.99 (432p) ISBN 978-4-0 Opening the Flappers series, Larkin's frothy debut tracks the lives of three flappers in Chicago at the height of the. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody wants the flapper lifestyle-and the bobbed hair, cigarettes, and music-filled nights that go with it. It’s a dangerous combination.Įvery girl wants what she can’t have. ![]() |