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Author: Michael Innes Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504087887 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 220
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A Scotland Yard detective investigates a peculiar case of murder, poetry, kidnapping, and German spies in this classic British wartime thriller. Insp. John Appleby is puzzled by the death of Philip Ploss. Who would want to kill such a harmless, quiet man known for writing mid-level nature poetry? . . . Poetry is what Sheila Grant overhears two men discussing on a train outside Edinburgh. Their whole conversation seems absurd to her, especially after one of them misquotes the poet Swinburne. Unfortunately, her discovery quickly places her in danger . . . Meanwhile back in London, Appleby learns of a kidnapping on a train in Scotland and senses a connection to Ploss’s murder. Locating Sheila will certainly lead Appleby to Ploss’s killer, but only if he finds her alive . . . “You’d let a cobra walk all over you before you’d put this one down to defend yourself.” —The New Yorker “Very exciting, full of most painstakingly described violent action.” —The Observer “For sheer excitement and picturesque melodrama The Secret Vanguard will delight everyone.” —New Statesma
Author: Michael Innes Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504087887 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 220
Book Description
A Scotland Yard detective investigates a peculiar case of murder, poetry, kidnapping, and German spies in this classic British wartime thriller. Insp. John Appleby is puzzled by the death of Philip Ploss. Who would want to kill such a harmless, quiet man known for writing mid-level nature poetry? . . . Poetry is what Sheila Grant overhears two men discussing on a train outside Edinburgh. Their whole conversation seems absurd to her, especially after one of them misquotes the poet Swinburne. Unfortunately, her discovery quickly places her in danger . . . Meanwhile back in London, Appleby learns of a kidnapping on a train in Scotland and senses a connection to Ploss’s murder. Locating Sheila will certainly lead Appleby to Ploss’s killer, but only if he finds her alive . . . “You’d let a cobra walk all over you before you’d put this one down to defend yourself.” —The New Yorker “Very exciting, full of most painstakingly described violent action.” —The Observer “For sheer excitement and picturesque melodrama The Secret Vanguard will delight everyone.” —New Statesma
Author: Michael Innes Publisher: House of Stratus ISBN: 1842327534 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 187
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Successful minor poet, Philip Ploss, lives a peaceful existence in ideal surroundings, until his life is upset when he hears verses erroneously quoted as his own. Soon afterwards, he is found dead in the library with a copy of Dante's Purgatory open before him.
Author: David Mack Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1471106659 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 308
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Imagine Alias combined with Star Trek and you a have the idea behind for VANGUARD, a new concept for Star Trek fiction that takes it in a compelling new direction, presenting a new perspective on the classic Original Series era, with novels running parallel to Kirk's original five-year mission. VANGUARD is a Starfleet space station charged with the exploration and colonization of a region of space that holds a highly coveted, mysterious, and potentially cataclysmic secret - one that the Federation must solve before anyone else. The race is on and at the centre of this intrigue is an eclectic mix of Starfleet and civilian protagonists unlike any crew previously seen in Star Trek. Their turbulent lives aboard the station and on the ships they travel are painted against the backdrop of an evolving storyline that will gain momentum as the series progresses and the layers of ancient mystery are steadily peeled back, one after another.
Author: Dayton Ward Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek ISBN: 9781416524007 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 434
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The Taurus Reach: a remote interstellar expanse that holds a very old and potentially cataclysmic secret, the truth of which is feared by the Tholians, coveted by the Klingons, and dubiously guarded by the Federation. At the center of this intrigue is Vanguard, a Federation starbase populated by an eclectic mix of Starfleet officers and civilians, whose lives are forever altered as they explore the layers of mystery surrounding the Reach and steadily peel them away...one after another. In the aftermath of Harbinger, Commodore Diego Reyes commands Vanguard while waging an intensely personal struggle, tasked to uncover the true significance of the Taurus Reach while simultaneously concealing that mission from his fellow officers -- and even his closest friends. As the Daedalus-class U.S.S. Lovell brings some of Starfleet's keenest technical minds to help, the U.S.S. Endeavour makes a find that could shed further light on the enigmatic meta-genome that has captured the Federation's interest -- if its crew survives the discovery.... Deep within the Taurus Reach, an ancient and powerful alien mind has awakened prematurely from aeons of hibernation, alerted to the upstart civilizations now daring to encroach upon the worlds in her care. With the stakes for all sides escalating rapidly, the alien lashes out with deadly force against the interlopers, propelling the Vanguard crew on a desperate race to understand the nature of the attacker, and to prevent the Taurus Reach from becoming a war zone.
Author: William G. Ouchi Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439141274 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 338
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From the author of the acclaimed and influential Making Schools Work comes Untitled on Education, a guide to the revolutionary reforms that are changing public education in some of the nation’s biggest cities. • Builds on the author’s growing reputation. Making Schools Work influenced New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein’s effort to radically decentralize the nation’s largest school system. Seven of the ten largest school districts in the u.S. have now implemented the decentralization championed in that book. • Based on a groundbreaking study by the author. Ouchi studied 442 schools in Boston, Chicago, Houston, New York City, Oakland, St. Paul, San Francisco, and Seattle that have embraced school decentralization. He shows how decentralization has improved school performance as measured by standardized tests. • Explains the key to school success. Principals must be given control of their budgets and other authority. When they are empowered, they allocate funds to increase the number of teachers and lower the Total Student Load (TSL) per teacher. TSL is the key factor in school performance. Principals with autonomy invariably lower their school’s TSL.
Author: David Mack Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451606982 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 404
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The Taurus Reach: the source of a secret that has driven the great powers of the 23rd century to risk everything in the race to control it. Now four new adventures—previously untold tales of the past and present, with hints of what is yet to come—begin the next great phase in the Vanguard saga. Witness the dawn of Starbase 47, as Ambassador Jetanien faces choices that will shape the future of Operation Vanguard. Follow journalist Tim Pennington as he reaches a crossroads in his search for the truth. See how the crises on two colonies transform the lives of Diego Reyes and Rana Desai. And travel with Cervantes Quinn to a deadly confrontation that will change everything—all in one unforgettable Star Trek collection.
Author: C. T. Knudsen Publisher: ISBN: 9781736090213 Category : Languages : en Pages : 326
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In a horrific global attack, terrorists brutally assassinate the US president on live television . . . . . . leaving Chris Thomas the only one capable of stopping the Order's reign of terror. Labeled an enemy of the state, he must go rogue to stop Master Mahan's rise to power. Eighteen months after the events of The Adamic Code, Chris and Leah settle into a new life together, but their peace is shattered when the Order resurfaces to finish what they started. The Order unleashes a mysterious technological terror known as Thor's Hammer-a space weapon far more devastating than a nuclear bomb. In the aftermath of its first attacks, tens of millions are dead, and governments are thrown into chaos as they face a no-win choice: surrender to the Order or die. Out of time and against all odds, Chris must come up with a desperate plan to stop Master Mahan. To accomplish the impossible, he and his team of brilliant misfits must steal a little-understood, gravity-bending weapon from a top-secret military base. With the fate of the world resting on his shoulders, can Chris's Hail-Mary plan save billions of innocent lives before the Order strikes again?
Author: D. Abrutat Publisher: Uniform ISBN: 9781912690633 Category : Operation Overlord Languages : en Pages : 0
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Operation OVERLORD, the opening up of an Allied second front by the invasionof the Normandy beaches in June 1944 was the largest military invasion of all time,but it was preceded by years of industrial scale intelligence collection and dangerousclandestine reconnaissance missions off the French coast. VANGUARD is the untold story of this work, the intelligence machine and covertreconnaissance missions that went into the D-Day planning, such as the signalsintelligence intercepts, the agent running operations orchestrated by the 15th Flotilla,to the clandestine work of the X-Craft and COPP (Combined Operations PilotageParties) diver teams that scoured the Normandy coast months before the June 1944deadline. The book pulls together previously unpublished but declassified Top Secretdocuments, diaries, letters and personal accounts from some of the few remainingveterans who were there.
Author: Jack Campbell (Naval officer) Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101988347 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 338
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Jack Campbell returns to the world of the New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet novels with a new action-packed military science fiction series that explores the founding of the Alliance . . . and the men and women who fought to create it. Earth is no longer the center of the universe. After the invention of the faster-than-light jump drive, humanity is rapidly establishing new colonies. But the vast distances of space mean that the old order of protection and interstellar law offered by Earth has ceased to exist. When a nearby world attacks, the new colony of Glenlyon turns to Robert Geary, a young former junior fleet officer, and Mele Darcy, a onetime enlisted Marine. With nothing but improvised weapons and a few volunteers, Geary and Darcy must face down warships and armored soldiers--or die trying. As battles rage and pirates take an increasing toll throughout the colonies, the only hope for lasting peace lies with Carmen Ochoa, a "Red" from the anarchic world of Mars, and Lochan Nakamura, a failed politician. They have a plan: to lay the groundwork for mutual defense that could someday grow into an alliance. But if their efforts don't succeed, the growing power of aggressor worlds could turn regions of space founded on freedom into battlefields between the first interstellar empires...
Author: Michael Innes
Author: Michael Innes
Author: Michael Innes
Author: David Mack
Author: Dayton Ward
Author: Michael Innes
Author: William G. Ouchi
Author: David Mack
Author: C. T. Knudsen
Author: D. Abrutat
Author: Jack Campbell (Naval officer)