Catalog Search Results
1) Altered
Author
Series
Altered series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Anna finds herself on the run from her father's enigmatic Branch, along with the four teen boys the Branch had been experimenting on, as they try to make sense of erased memories, secret identities, and genetic alteration.
Author
Series
Takeshi Kovacs novels volume 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
In the 25th century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself--a person's consciousness can be easily downloaded into a new body, making death nearly obsolete. Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly brutal. Resleeved into a new body in Bay City (formerly...
3) Alter ego
Author
Series
Jonathan Stride novels volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a freak accident kills a driver on the remote roads outside Duluth, Jonathan Stride is disturbed to discover that the victim appears to be a ghost, with a false identity and no evidence to suggest who he really was. What's worse, the man has a gun locked in the trunk, and it has recently been fired. It's up to Stride to solve the mystery, but there are those who would stop at nothing to stop him.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In captivating prose, Dowden spins tales of cults and commerce in Senegal and traditional spirituality in Sierra Leone; analyzes the impact of oil and the Internet on Nigeria and aid on Sudan; and examines what has gone so badly wrong in Rwanda and the Congo.
5) Altered
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Blue Michaels doesn't know who to trust. She wakes in her sleepy little town to discover everyone is dead-well, almost everyone. U.S. Army Specialist Seth Campbell is alive, and a handful of her friends survived. But they're different-each of them has powers they didn't have when they went to bed.
Oh, and someone wants them dead.
It's going to take all of their gifts if they are going to survive until they can figure out what to do. Blue wants to...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
How has the human race turned out to appreciate violence more than passion and affection?
As I type this out, when it lands in a community I was born and raised, caution signaling bells and lights shall be activated. Elders of my community will hold an emergency meeting, and a series of severe punishments discussed for I. "How dare he go against norms deemed to instill discipline in hearts of many?" In my defense, I didn't know I would be held responsible....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Selia has run her family's tavern since she was fifteen and can hunt and fight the equal of any man. When she rescues a badly wounded man and nurses him back to health, she has no idea she's about to change not only her life, but also the destinies of two peoples...
The battered warrior is Svistra—a race of bloodthirsty savages determined to destroy her homeland. Or so the stories claim. Jaden reveals a different truth: how his ancestors...
The battered warrior is Svistra—a race of bloodthirsty savages determined to destroy her homeland. Or so the stories claim. Jaden reveals a different truth: how his ancestors...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A skeleton-filled grave leads DCI Hennessey's team back to the aftermath of the English Civil War in this gripping mystery
When a deep grave containing five skeletons is found in the corner of a field, DCI Hennessey and his team of officers from the Vale of York police station are called in to investigate. The burial site had lain undiscovered for over twenty years, and the resulting police inquiry soon uncovers a multiple murder...
When a deep grave containing five skeletons is found in the corner of a field, DCI Hennessey and his team of officers from the Vale of York police station are called in to investigate. The burial site had lain undiscovered for over twenty years, and the resulting police inquiry soon uncovers a multiple murder...
10) Altered Helix
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
I didn't want to take the traditional path. First, I wasn't ready for college. Second, I was going to live with my best friend, Tiff, and work at the Haunted House. Third, did I mention the hot guy Josh that works there too? The most exciting thing about Austria's new job, at a local haunted house, was the fact that the toughest looking people screamed the loudest. But when she meets the boy without a home, Josh, Austria's life takes intriguing and...
11) Altered
Author
Series
Crewel world trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Adelice Lewys is called upon to harness her power in a battle for control of Earth, but as she uncovers the truth about her own history she learns that everyone holds secrets, some of which may drive her from her love, Jost, into his brother Erik's arms.
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 There are two paths in meditation: the deep and the wide. The deep path is a pure form of meditation, which is found in ancient lineages of Theravada Buddhism or among Tibetan yogis. The wide path is more practical and accessible, and is found in multitudes who have a little bit of meditation in their day.
#2 At Level 2, these traditions have been removed from being...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Have you ever read something that fundamentally changed the way you looked at your life, your business, your situation, and those around you? Has someone ever said something to you that opened your eyes to a whole new possibility? As a business consultant, Kevin Cullen was always looking for ways to approach business that allowed him to offer clients new access to their traditional way of thinking, speaking, being, and acting. Virtually everything...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 14
Language
English
Description
The sun, smoking behind a haze of cloud, threw off a light of burnished pewter. Mysteriously lit, it was as if the watery, colorless land refused drabness, stood determinedly against dimishment. This is a landscape that can easily deceive, the fens, a landscape that volunteers nothing, as if to say, a landscape that volunteers nothing, as to say, You're on your own, mate–much like the habitues of the only pub for miles around called The Case...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Revenge Always Comes At a Price...While Professor Tony Simmons continues his efforts to develop a cure for the man-made pathogenic bacteria ravaging the world, Lucia Sanchez returns to the United States seeking vengeance for the death of her children. But revenge is a powerful drug capable of turning old friends into enemies. Will Lucia come to regret the choices she's made as new threats arise, endangering the people she loves and protects?
Read...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, the human body is a temporary and interchangeable commodity - if you can pay.
For the interstellar elite, bodies are swapped out and reused without a second thought. You never grow old; you never die.
However, some bodies are more temporary than others...
Takeshi Kovacs was once a member of the Envoy Corps, stormtroopers for the Interstellar Earth Protectorate, ultra-lethal adepts in switching bodies across the stars....
Author
Language
English
Description
Does your home give you stress instead of serenity?
Are you tired of being dragged down by the weight of all your stuff?
Whether you want to (1) live in a peaceful environment, (2) experience greater happiness and contentment, or (3) be more organized and productive, this is the audio book for you!
How long are you going to let your environment, your possessions, and unhealthy relationships negatively impact your life?
In this audio book I will...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Basics of Creating an Alter Ego to Overcome Your Problems & Stress is a life manual on how to make an effective alter ego. What is an alter ego? An alter ego is a variation of yourself that you can learn to control and manipulate to help you face the many challenges of life. Do not let me surprise you; an alter ego is not something new. People have been creating their alter egos unknowingly. In fact, you may just not realize it yet, but you already...
Author
Language
English
Description
Defeated and separated, the Cosmic Alter deal with their loss. With some captured, all injured, and struggling to control their new powers. The Cosmic Alter stand at their lowest point. But they still force themselves forward to save the earth. As the Havaggre Empire plans to summon a full invasion of Earth, the Alter are running out of time. Pressed against the corner the Alters have to prove themselves as Heroes or else the world is loss.