Dragon Teeth

• Author : Michael Crichton
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release Date : 2017-05-23
• ISBN : 9780062473370

Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel—a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting. The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America’s western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild

• Author : Upton Sinclair
• Publisher : Open Road Media
• Release Date : 2016-01-19
• ISBN : 9781504026475

Pulitzer Prize Winner: An American in Germany fights against the rising tide of Nazi terror in this monumental saga of twentieth-century world history. In the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, Lanny Budd’s financial acumen and his marriage into great wealth enable him to continue the lifestyle he has always enjoyed. But the devastation the collapse has wrought on ordinary citizens has only strengthened Lanny’s socialist ideals—much to the chagrin of his heiress wife, Irma, a confirmed

• Author : Ian Bancroft
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release Date : 2020-01-22
• ISBN : 9783838213644

Twenty years on from the end of war, the status of the north of Kosovo remains disputed. Ten years on from Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia, the north’s predominantly Serb population continues to resist integration. Education, health, and other vital services continue to be provided by Serbia. These latent tensions regularly surface through various forms of resistance, including protests and barricades (most notably those of 2011); resistance which has many historical precedents. Ian Bancroft provides an original ethnographic

• Author : N. D. Wilson
• Publisher : Yearling
• Release Date : 2012-08-07
• ISBN : 9780375863967

When their parents' seedy old motel burns down on the same night they are visited by a strange man covered in skeleton tattoos, Cyrus, Antigone, and their brother Daniel are introduced to an ancient secret society, and discover that they have an important role in keeping it alive.

• Author : James A. Hetley
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2007
• ISBN : 0441015433

Two unusual families living in Stonefort, Maine--the shapeshifting Morgans and the Haskell witches--find their uneasy, generations-long alliance threatened by the vengeful spirit of a dark sorcerer, desperate to live once again, as they are forced to unite against a common enemy, or turn against one another. Reprint.

• Author : Ken McNamara
• Publisher : Reaktion Books
• Release Date : 2020-08-06
• ISBN : 9781789142891

For at least half a million years, people have been doing some very strange things with fossils. Long before a few seventeenth-century minds started to decipher their true, organic nature, fossils had been eaten, dropped in goblets of wine, buried with the dead, and adorned bodies. What triggered such curious behavior was the belief that some fossils could cure illness, protect against being poisoned, ease the passage into the afterlife, ward off evil spirits, and even kill those who were

• Author : Shao Wei
• Publisher : Pitt Poetry (Paperback)
• Release Date : 2003
• ISBN : UOM:39015060621995

This collection constitutes a journey - first full of a little girl's questions and small passions, then the longings and losses of brave adulthood in a strange land - that leads us from a town along the shores of the Yangtze River to the busy streets of New York City.

• Author : Benjamin Lai
• Publisher : Casemate
• Release Date : 2016-07-14
• ISBN : 9781612003894

An in-depth look at the past, present, and future of China’s military. When Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years of continuous wars. For centuries, in fact, China had been seen as a sort of plunder-zone to be invaded, and then a backwater until the late 1980s—when domestic policy brought about monumental changes. The result is that China has grown to be the second largest economy

• Author : Philip C. Winslow
• Publisher : Beacon Press
• Release Date : 1998-10-01
• ISBN : 0807050059

Each year an estimated twenty-six thousand people are killed or maimed by land mines-more than 100 million of them sown like the mythical dragon's teeth in over seventy countries. These weapons are designed to maim soldiers, but most victims are civilians, especially the rural poor. Winslow writes about these people and the Campaign to Ban Landmines (which was awarded The Nobel Peace Prize in 1997). He tells about the efforts to pull the dragon's teeth from the earth so that it can

• Author : Ellery Queen
• Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
• Release Date : 2016-10-27
• ISBN : 9781787202092

Cherchez la femme was one rule of detection Ellery Queen was always glad to obey—but this case provided too much of a good thing. One girl was a dazzling creature from Hollywood with an unfortunate talent for attracting handsome men and ugly violence. The other was fresh from the French Riviera, where she specialized in sophisticated fun and games. Ellery had a dead millionaire on his hands, two beautiful warring female hellcats on his back, and danger tightening its

• Author : Mercedes Lackey
• Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
• Release Date : 2013-12-03
• ISBN : 9781625792181

A massive collection of wonderous science fiction and fantasy stories from New York Times best-selling Mercedes Lackey. Includes Fiddler Fair and Werehunter for the first time in one volume. Fiddler Fair Running the gamut from her beloved Bardic fantasies to urban fantasy set in the modern world, from science fiction adventure to chilling horror, this is Mercedes Lackey at her best. Animal rights fanatics try to "liberate" genetically reconstructed dinosaurs. Lawrence of Arabia meets a power beyond human comprehension, and

• Author : Suzanne van Rooyen
• Publisher : Divertir Publishing
• Release Date : 2011-11
• ISBN : 9780984293049

You can never outrun your past... After years of war ravage the globe and decimate humanity, civilization is revitalized in the city of New Arcadia, a cybernetic playground where longevity treatments promise near immortality. Detective Cyrus, fond of fedoras and narcotics, is hired by Benji MacDowell, heir-apparent to an eugenics empire, to find MacDowell's long-lost biological father. Employing his network of shady contacts within the underbelly of the city, Cyrus uncovers a murderous web of corporate corruption and political conspiracy

• Author : Derek Hart
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release Date : 2016-11-26
• ISBN : 9781365560255

The Secret of the DragonÍs Teeth continues the adventures of Gavin Kane, Emily Scott, and Bunty Digby, sixteen-year-olds who struggle with their daily lives in England during the pivotal year of 1944. Cornwall is now an armed camp, with thousands of Americans and Canadians, as well as men from throughout the occupied countries, all training and preparing for the invasion of the European continent. The war has reached a brutal climax and the Allies now have the upper hand. In

• Author : B C J. D
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1872
• ISBN : OXFORD:590279615

• Author : Thomas Mitchell Sample
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1911
• ISBN : UCAL:$B266398