It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works–-something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris–-now closely watched by the Gestapo–-is to send in a personal courier.
Austenland is the story of Jane, a twenty-nine-year-old New Yorker whose day job is successful but rather unsatisfying. Jane is secretly obsessed with Mr. Darcy from Pride & Prejudice and has watched the BBC miniseries countless times.
Carl Edward Sagan ( 1934 –1996) was an American astronomer and astrobiologist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He is world-famous for writing popular science books and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which has been seen by more than 600 million people in over 60 countries, making it the most widely watched PBS program in history. A book to accompany the program was also published.
Added by: flame333 | Karma: 381.35 | Fiction literature | 18 February 2012
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Tangled (2012)
Constance started to keen as the air around us began to thrash and twist, the caustic scent of ozone burning my nose. As I watched, her dark gold hair began to lift and kink into knots.
