Added by: isabeljimenez | Karma: 1202.60 | Fiction literature | 6 December 2010
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Thanksgiving
When Megan Murphy discovered a floppy-eared rabbit gnawing on the hem of her skirt, she meant to give its careless owner a piece of her mind, but Dr. Patrick Hunter was too attractive to stay mad at for long. Soon the two are making Thanksgiving dinner for their families.
Genre: Sci-Fi Deep within a heavily guarded compound of the Brookhaven National Laboratory lies the nation's most protected secret: an active alien artifact. Estimated at several millions of years old, impervious to all efforts to penetrate its secrets, the artifact taunts researchers with bursts of mysterious radiation that may be efforts at communication.
Added by: ninasimeo | Karma: 4370.39 | Fiction literature | 1 April 2010
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Temeraire 2 - The Throne of Jade
This is the second volume of the Temeraire series.
If you haven’t read the first, you may say yet another “cute dragon” book
However, the combination of military history, sympathetic characters, and engaging style makes this series great, intelligent fun. Stephen King describes it as a cross between Susanna Clarke and Patrick O'Brian, and he's spot on—after charting the Napoleonic Wars, with a difference- dragons as Air Corps, an epic journey to Imperial China follows...
McManus celebrates the hidden pleasures, unappreciated lore, and opportunities for disaster to be found in such outdoor recreations as camping, hunting, and fishing