Honor of the Clan is a novel by John Ringo and Julie Cochrane, and is part of the Legacy of the Aldenata series, specifically a spin off that features Michael O'Neal's daughters Cally and Michelle. Michelle has been raised off planet by the Indowy race, and has been trained in highly advanced mental techniques. As established in the earlier Cally's War, Cally is a dangerous assassin. They are battling a conspiracy to suppress humanity that goes back thousands of years, one that has tragic consequences.
Added by: deception | Karma: 319.20 | Fiction literature | 16 January 2010
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Jeffrey Archer - A Prisoner Of Birth
If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. And when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat and the youngest partner in an established firm's history, who is going to believe his side of the story?
A Handbook for Medical Teachers (4th Revised Edition) (Kindle Edition)
Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 1983, A Handbook for Medical Teachers has established itself as an ideal resource for new and established teachers who frequently still have little opportunities for education training. Its popularity relates to the successful combination of sound educational principles, a how-to-do-it approach and an entertaining easy-to-read style. It is supported by numerous illustrations, examples, and pertinent cartoons.
Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 17 December 2009
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Goya: The Last Carnival
Goya: The Last Carnival provides a new and insightful reading of Goya, concentrating on the closing years of the eighteenth century as a neglected milestone in his life. Goya waited until 1799 to publish his celebrated series of drawings, the Caprichos, which offered a personal vision of the 'world turned upside down'.
Lee Child has steadily accrued one of the keenest groups of admirers for any contemporary thriller writer – and the reason is easy to discern. In such gritty and authoritative novels as Tripwire, Killing Floor and Die Trying, Child established his tough itinerant protagonist Jack Reacher as a key modern hero, with a taciturn, hard-boiled appeal that has not palled over many books....