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Immortal
by Traci L.
Slatton
In the majestic heart of Florence, a
beautiful golden-haired boy is abandoned
and subjected to cruelty beyond words. But
Luca Bastardo is anything but an ordinary
boy. Across two centuries of passion and
intrigue, Luca will discover an
astonishing gift -- one that will lead him
to embrace the ancient mysteries of
alchemy and healing and to become a
trusted confidant to the powerful
Medicis…even as he faces persecution
from a sadistic cabal determined to wrest
his secrets for themselves.
But as the Black Death and the
Inquisition wreak havoc on his beloved
city, Luca's survival lies in the quest to
solve two riddles. One is the enigma of
his parents and his ageless beauty. The
other is a choice between immortality and
the only chance to find his one true love.
As Luca journeys through the heights of
the Renaissance, befriends Giotto and
Leonardo Da Vinci -- 140 years apart --
and pursues the most closely guarded
secrets of religious faith and science for
the answers to his own burning questions,
his remarkable search will not only change
him…but will change the course of
history.
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A Novel With a
Message
Dr. David Lang has found a way to
refenerate nerve tissue. But in this
harrowing, all-too-plausible tale of
socialized medicine the day after
tomorrow, the government won't let him try
his experimental procedure on a recently
blinded dancer named Nicole, with whom he
is secretly in love. Only if David lies to
his beloved brother, defies his
power-lusting father, end-runs his
envy-ridden wife, and sacrifices his own
future as a surgeon will he have any
chance of rescuing the vision and future
of the woman he loves...if she lets him.
The mounting conflicts of this lovingly
sculpted first novel will keep you turning
the pages late into the night.
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Noble
Vision, by Gen LaGreca
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Noble
Vision, by Gen LaGreca
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The Da Vinci
Code - Well Worth the Read! Five Stars
from Dr. Dolhenty.
With The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
masterfully concocts an intelligent and
lucid thriller that marries the gusto of
an international murder mystery with a
collection of fascinating esoteria culled
from 2,000 years of Western
history.
A murder in the silent after-hour halls
of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister
plot to uncover a secret that has been
protected by a clandestine society since
the days of Christ. The victim is a
high-ranking agent of this ancient society
who, in the moments before his death,
manages to leave gruesome clues at the
scene that only his granddaughter, noted
cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and Robert
Langdon, a famed symbologist, can
untangle. The duo become both suspects and
detectives searching for not only Neveu's
father's murderer but also the stunning
secret of the ages he was charged to
protect. Mere steps ahead of the
authorities and the deadly competition,
the mystery leads Neveu and Langdon on a
breathless flight through France, England,
and history itself.
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The Face -
Dean Koontz Has Done It Again! Superb
writing...
Ten-year-old Aelfric Manheim is home
alone when he receives a call from a
stranger with a simple and terrifying
message, "There is trouble coming, young
Fric...You're going to need a place to
hide." Meanwhile, security chief for the
Manheim estate, former detective Ethan
Truman, is tailing a "deader than dead"
body that got up and left the morgue when
he vividly experiences his own
death--twice. In The Face, Dean Koontz
delivers yet another spellbinding and
chilling novel, where real and imagined
monsters walk the streets, ghosts travel
through mirrors, and the devil makes house
calls. Stalked by both real and
supernatural evil, the bright and
sensitive Fric, virtually orphaned by his
A-list Hollywood parents, and the brave
but disillusioned former detective Ethan
Truman, himself suffering from the loss of
his wife, must rely on their wits and each
other to escape a dark and disturbing
fate.
With reflections on deconstructionism,
postmodernism, anarchy, chaos.
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A Book by
Radical Academy Contributor Steve
Farrell
An inspirational story about one
woman's lonely journey through bitterness,
hate and despair to faith, love and hope;
one boy's voyage through panic and peril
to sympathy and service; one
drunk-driver's arduous ascent through
uselessness and justice to redemption and
mercy and one father's inspired insight
and influence pointing the way, but can he
walk the walk? Destined to be a timeless
classic, Dark Rose will touch the
heart and brings hope to all who read
it.
"A modern version of the 'morality
play,' Steve Farrell's writing style is
reminiscent of the 19th century literary
form which was best expressed by writers
like Charles Dickens and other classic
writers of that era -- a style of writing
which has, more or less, disappeared in
this county. Interesting and refreshing!"
Dr. Jonathan Dolhenty
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Dark Rivers of the
Heart
Here is a must read for every
freedom-loving person. Koontz has written
a thriller that illustrates graphically
what is happening to ordinary people as a
result of the government's terrible
forfeiture laws and its lust for power and
greed for money and property. He also has
an "afterward" in which he spells out the
problem ans asks for everyone's help to
rein in a government run amok.
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A Piece of Our
Hidden Past
The year is 1896, the place, New York
City. On a cold March night New York Times
crime reporter John Schuyler Moore is
summoned to the East River by his friend
and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo
Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist."
On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge,
they view the horribly mutilated body of
an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one
of Manhattan's infamous brothels. So opens
The Alienist, a superb piece of
fictionalized social history by Caleb
Carr. This novel will keep your
perspective as you view some of the
terrible tragedies occurring in today's
society. If you think that child
prostitution is a contemporary phenomenon,
this book will give you pause for thought.
Caleb is a historian and he knows of which
he writes. A glimpse into a dark period of
history in the largest city in the United
States.
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Everybody
loves a thriller!
"Here is a great novel of contemporary
interest. Once I started it, I could not
put it down. Tremendous. A genuine
thriller. If you begin to read it, count
on staying up all night." Jonathan
Dolhenty
Edwin Kreiss is a former FBI agent
whose discovery of a Chinese espionage
ring made him a lot of enemies and
resulted in his early retirement. Now his
daughter is missing, and nobody, least of
all a junior G-woman named Janet Carter,
is going to keep him from finding her.
Browbeating the one clue to her
disappearance out of a terrified college
student, Kreiss follows his daughter's
trail to a deactivated federal arsenal in
southwestern Virginia, where a fanatic
whose son was immolated at Waco is cooking
up a plan to blow the ATF to bits.
Kreiss is uniquely qualified to play
his role as hunter-in-chief. He's been
trained as a "sweeper," a job title that
refers to the cleanup of rogue agents and
other enemies of the state, and he took a
few high-tech search-and-destroy goodies
with him when he was prematurely put out
to pasture by his former employers. Now
another sweeper wants to put him out of
action, and Janet Carter's getting
conflicting signals from her own superiors
about just how much cooperation they're
willing to give Kreiss as he sets out to
rescue his daughter -- and, incidentally,
redeem his own troubled past.
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