Once the day shift had briefed their relief, Andrea had gathered the outgoing shift together and, along with Kenner, received a complete briefing of their activities. She looked around the room for Kenner. She was sitting at one of the ...
Merrill Lynch is taken over by Bank of America for $50 bil. American International Group insurance company shares fall 63%, and it is given $85 bil by the Federal Reserve. Central banks pump another $130 bil into the banking system.
She wasn't sure if it had been a good idea to tell her mee-maw about the sheriff's wife's party going on upstairs at the Longbranch Inn, but somehow it had seemed to please Mee-maw, and anything that pleased Mee-maw was a relief to ...
I'm sorry, Mr. Mitchell. It won't happen again." She sounds very grown up and composed, although I can hear the shake in her voice. And I hear her, clear as day. Her words sting like a rope burn. We are no longer friends.
Now he must find a way to protect his boys and the woman he's beginning to fall for…before the final countdown can even start.
In two parallel stories, a fourteen-year-old boy who is NASA's first Junior Astronaut and a fourteen-year-old Maasai herder in Kenya both edge into maturity while questioning their family traditions.
Intended to demonstrate that faith and science are compatible, it dates to 1847, when shortly after his election, Pope Pius IX resurrected a former Roman scientific academy once led by Galileo. Today, about eighty scientists from around ...
Countdown: Sacrifice
Crisanto pointed decisively up the stairs. With brisk nods the kidnappers began to ascend. Baker, who wasn't precisely young anymore, grumbled as he stumbled across his darkened room to the doorway that led to the hallway bath.
Recounts Borman's flights aboard NASA's Gemini 7 and Apollo 8, and his battle to keep Eastern Airlines financially sound during his tenure as the company's president
In order to understand the fourth trumpet, we must go back to the third (see chapter 3 of this book), where the falling star named Wormwood fell upon the waters and made them bitter. Water here represents the flow of spiritual light ...
Jane MacGuire has survived an encounter with a serial killer to pursue her interest in archaeology, but when her friend Mike is shot during a kidnapping attempt, she discovers that the past could have a deadly influence on her future.
When it reaches zero, you die.#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen sets her readers’ pulses racing once again in this relentless psychological thriller of a young woman caught...
I gave her a long kiss, then moved inside the ship. I made my way into the shuttle's cockpit, and activated the ship's controls. The missile was on the floor in the passenger area, directly behind me. Its timer was still counting down.
Now fifty years down the line we know that moral force isn't enough to survive in this world : it doesn't count for very much . When you look at India today and ask how best you can instil a sense of national pride or overcome those ...
3 seconds left to live. Once the countdown starts, it cannot be stopped. 2 pawns thrown into a brutal underground reality game.
In two parallel stories, a fourteen-year-old boy who is NASA's first Junior Astronaut and a fourteen-year-old Maasai herder in Kenya both edge into maturity while questioning their family traditions.
The fearful events of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis are witnessed by eleven-year-old Franny, who finds her life and perspectives changing throughout the course of a week that is also marked by difficult family issues.
The year is 2014, the year everything changed. We cured cancer. We cured the common cold. We died. This is the story of how we rose. When will you rise?
Countdown: A Joe Ledger Prequel Short Story to Patient Zero "I didn't plan to kill anyone.