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What a wonderful world we live in! And how lucky I am to have seen so much of it - not just once but again and again, through the pages of my diaries. Come with me as I struggle once more to the foot of Mount Everest:"I am so dizzy I can hardly stand, my head throbs, my legs are weak, my lungs tight. Others pass me by, but I can go no faster. Should I give up? But ahead lies Everest, the culmination of all these weeks of walking." Walk with me beneath the golden arcades of Syria's Palmyra, sadly now sacrificed to war. Scramble to the summit of Ayers Rock and discover tiny shrimps, miraculously brought to life by rain after years of waiting in the dust. Negotiate the steep ramps of China's Great Wall in the footsteps of ancient armies, ever watchful for sudden attack. Giggle at the mating dance of Blue-foot Boobies in the Galapagos. Thrill to the howl of wolves in Canadian forests:"I am roused by the distant song of wolves, rising and falling in concert. The sound ceases, then recommences nearer to our campsite, ceases again, then at 3am swells to full volume - rising and falling in rhythms as complex as any opera chorus. Sleep in a Thai headman's stilt home, a cool vaulted cavern in Cappadocia or a tent on an Omani beach, with scuttling ghost crabs as neighbours. Come and join me in my travels!

A society plagued by terrorism and the sinister hunt for an innocent boy intensifies. The agents Dr. Warren hired to track down Stanley Ross was relentless in their pursuit. Unbeknown to Warren, these agents hold some unworldly secrets of their own. Like all real villains of our world, if you had a conversation with Dr. Warren, you would meet a man who believes everything he's done has been in the right and thus operates in the open, hiding in plain sight. After the transformation of Stanley into The Chip, some new challenges come as he tirelessly fights villains in the real and virtual world. Aside from fighting off Warren's minions, he also confronts a monster fit for destruction, created at the hands of a madman, battles the beautiful but the deadly Virus, and protects our world made vulnerable by technology. Aided by his uncle's years of cybernetics research, Stanley Ross, aka The Chip, has a good chance of bringing order to a society in chaos. The dramatic explosions of events will leave you mesmerized as the plots unfold. Author George Jack have once again met the expectations for action and adventure.

After a successful mission, Laura Black and her colleagues finally feel free to live the "normal lives" they have desired for so long. But, after only eight months of an ordinary existence, team members discover they are still in danger. Apparently, their mission is far from over. Banding together to confront their hidden foe, the misfit group prepares to fight the war of their lives. The battle will be bloody, the losses great, but Laura and the team are determined to find their happily ever after. Whatever it costs.

Several decades ago, a former C.I.A. Agent, Mel Greenstone convinced high ranking U.S. officials to draft orphans and young criminals to become trained assassins. That worked until Agent Laura Black's team fought back and destroyed them. It has been one year since they broke away from the evil clutches of the dark Secret Intelligence Unit (S.I.U.) and watched Greenstone go to prison. The team now has one desire-to live a normal life-and they could, if they were not constantly looking over their shoulders. When Laura receives word there may still be another S.I.U. shell company nearby, they decided to break into their offices and steal Intel to work toward their goal. That decision will cause a chain of events that will cost lives and take them on a journey from Northern California to the United States Capitol-from heartache to new lives.

The year is 1900, and John Williams has come to the remote Pacific island of Ocean Island (now known as Banaba) to oversee the new phosphate industry. His wife, Ella, and their two-year-old daughter, Gwennie, follow him to begin their new life.After her initial culture shock, Ella grows to love the island and its people and to care deeply about their plight as the phosphate mining gradually destroys their beautiful home.While John supervises hundreds of indentured workers, Ella and Gwennie get to know the Banaban people, their culture and beliefs. Tetabo, their houseboy, teaches Gwennie about his people''s magic and mysteries. John fears that his daughter is growing up like a native, but Ella refuses to send Gwennie to Australia to school.John, while loyal to the mining company, is uneasy at his superiors'' treatment of the island and its people. Discontent and riots among the imported mine workers challenge him, the Banabans'' anxiety about the mining worries him while the changes to his family perturb him.Nakaa''s Awakening; Land of Matang is based on the author''s researched family history. It is a story of conflicting loyalties, cultural differences and a family adjusting to a new environment while destructive mining practices threaten the near-extinction of the Banaban race.The survival of the Banaban people into the twenty-first century is a triumph of the human spirit over industrial might. They continue to believe that good will overcome evil as they struggle to survive the wrath of the evil spirit Nakaa and his Awakening.Yet, though Matang was lost forever, a cherished tradition said that the ancestor gods had promised to return to their children one day, wherever they might be...

When a promotion to junior recruiter affords her the chance to move across the bridge into DC, Summer-a free bird-quickly sheds her loner lifestyle after she meets, Emily, a class act whose heart is still tied to her ex-husband; Brooke, a career-driven woman looking for love who wants to have it all; and Amber, the fearless pianist who makes a living off of her flings.Summer's life begins to go as planned, until she meets a hot Cuban at a party who will change her life forever. What starts off as a seemingly harmless affair with Ruben Sotolongo, turns out to be a perilous situation as she struggles with her temptation to play with fire. Summer knows that she must walk away from him before it's too late. At the same time, Summer's friends slowly find the tide turning against them. Brooke will have to face a deal breaker after finding love; after months of suffering, Emily's chance at healing is threatened by an impediment least likely of all places; and when Amber accidentally betrays someone dear to her and underestimates the personality of a client, she realizes that her flings may not exactly be all fun and games. Will they hold hands as friends or tear each other up along the way?

In a world where computers seem to be taking over, The Chip is on our side. The Chip’s story, although spectacular, begins in the same unspectacular way all of our stories do… Stanley’s parents Jane and James had always wanted to have a child, and knew they would not be complete without one. When Stanley was born, life seemed perfect – at least until the day when Stanley started to develop some strange habits and what some might call“super powers.” Pulled out of his everyday life by tragedy and treachery, Stanley must survive in the cruel word he finds himself in – a world where he becomes the subject of lab testing and learns to survive almost entirely on his own. At the same time, however, he finds one benefit amid the horror: the implants he is given allow him control over his powers. Melding together a flair for the dramatic and a sense of the commonplace, authorGeorge Jack brings to life a society in chaos in need of a savior. That savior is “The Chip” Stanley’s super alter-ego. Set in the early 21st century, the story of The Chip reads more like a plausible biography than a work of science fiction. Of course, it is the biography of a young man with super powers and enhanced cybernetics. But no one is perfect. 

Violette Castell is a quiet, high achieving teenager, living with her family in Los Angeles. When her parents die in a horrific carjacking, Violette and her sister, Danielle, are fostered to a couple who move them to Bagnolet, France. When Violette meets charming Michael Gramaze, she feels an instant magnetism toward him. As their attraction for each other grows, Violette stumbles upon the truth about Michael and his family of vampires. She is thrust into a world of danger and secrecy, where rival vampire dynasties fight for power, and where the very existence of the human race hangs in the balance. Desperate to keep his family secret, Violette is drawn into an unruly duel between good and evil, and discovers she has more of a role to play in this battle than she could ever have imagined.

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