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An ancient Gray race time travels to the present after a humiliating Cretaceous-era colonization failure, seeking to recover and detonate a world-killer superweapon abandoned on a 90-million-year-old shipwreck lost to time in what is now the Amazon's vast unexplored reaches.
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Book Two in The Powers That Be Trilogy, THE LOST SHIP, immerses readers in the day-after chaos, carnage, and confusion following the near-apocalyptic ending of THE GOLDEN...
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A lifetime of classic golf writing by veteran sports journalist John Hopkins, recipient of the 2013 PGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism For more than 35 years, John "Hoppy" Hopkins covered the biggest stories in golf, from Major Championships to Ryder Cups and Amateur competitions. Collected together here for the first time are the very best of his articles, covering a diverse range of golfing stories, from the most memorable of the 120...
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The climactic third novel in The Powers That Be trilogy, THE BLUE SPARK, envisions humankind's destiny through a transformative sacrifice.
Book Three in The Powers That Be trilogy, THE BLUE SPARK, paints a thought-provoking, action-packed vision of a post-invasion dystopian world with humankind on a razor's edge between science and morality, loyalty and betrayal, hope and despair, courage and fear, evolution and extinction.
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The Russian billionaire seemed likeable enough, but appearances can be deceptive. Steven Palmer works for a niche consultancy specialising in working in places others avoid. A Russian oligarch interested in working with a high-tech British manufacturer leads Palmer to Siberia and then a chance encounter in a Moscow nightclub. Palmer's unexpected friendship with the Russian billionaire drags him into a deeper conspiracy. Spending more and more time...
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The largest gathering of Union and Confederate veterans ever held was front-page news throughout the country. "[It] will be talked about and written about as long as the American people boast of the dauntless courage of Gettysburg," declared a woman who accompanied her father to the reunion. But as the years passed, the memorable event was all but forgotten. John Hopkins's The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913 goes a long...
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Book One in The Powers That Be series, The Golden Ellipse, weaves humankind's most enduring mysteries into a thrilling race against time to recover a legendary relic and save the world from an alien apocalypse. Fresh off a space tourism flight in 2044, newlyweds Rachel and Owen Haig are thrust on a perilous crusade while adjusting to married life and battling demons from Rachel's past. Against formidable odds and malevolent forces from Earth and beyond,...
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1948. The uneasy peace between Britain and Germany holds. War in the East sucks the economy dry, but Nazi Germany dominates Europe. Britain stands alone as they enter the atomic age.In Dresden a brilliant engineer on the Nazi atomic programme is willing to risk everything. MI6 send David Brook to stop them from obtaining The Bomb. He must remain hidden in the paranoid, oppressive, surveillance state of Nazi Germany.Plans in place, Brook and the insider...
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Tired of the sporadic and outdated food holidays that were quietly celebrated each year-most of which were created by food companies to market their products-blogger John-Bryan Hopkins decided to revamp food celebrations and spice them up with his own favorite foods. Creating a food holiday for every day of the year, Hopkins launched Foodimentary.com, which became an immediate overnight success with Google adopting his bespoke calendar. With thousands...
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This traditional Christmas Carol was written by John Henry Hopkins, an American clergyman. He wrote the carol as part of a production he organized for his students at The General Theological Seminary in New York City where he held the post of musical director. This recording offers reading of the English language lyrics followed by magical Harp music based on original Christmas Carol melody.
11) Absent Forever
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A bright and politically-engaged college student goes missing after a demonstration turns violent. But as her grieving mother begins her search, she uncovers a dark side to her daughter which she never knew existed. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring John de Lancie, Kaitlin Hopkins, Shirley Knight, Al Ruscio and Jennifer Warren. Directed by Peggy Shannon and recorded before a live audience by L.A. Theatre Works.
12) Merry Christmas!
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A collection of ten iconic Christmas Carols featuring: 01 Carol of the Bells; 02 Silent Night; 03 The Indian Christmas Carol; 04 The Angel Gabriel's Message; 05 Ding Dong Merrily on High; 06 The First Noel; 07 O Christmas Tree; 08 O Come All Ye Faithful; 09 What Child is This?; 10 We Three Kings of Orient Are. This recording offers reading of the English language lyrics followed by magical Harp music based on original Christmas Carol melody.
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John Butler-Hopkins' For the Love of Poetry opens, appropriately enough, with a sequence of poems about romantic love in all its aspects: the dizzying ecstasies of infatuation and first love, then the brutal lessons of rejection and betrayal, and finally the discovery of a soul mate and the development of a true, long-term relationship.
By contrast, the book's second half is concerned with the tragedy of young men going to fight in the First World...
14) Thunderball
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The thrills never let up as James Bond dives into this riveting adventure filled with explosive confrontations and amazing underwater action. Sean Connery brings his characteristic style and magnetism to Agent 007 as he travels to Nassau to track down a villainous criminal who is threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust.
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SPECTRE hatches its most audacious plot to date when its agents hijack a British Vulcan bomber armed with two atomic bombs. NATO is ransomed for the sum of 100 billion dollars. It's pay or they will drop an atomic bomb on Miami. As the world is held hostage by the threat of a nuclear nightmare, James Bond jumps into action. Racing against the clock he picks up the trail in tropical Nassau. There he meets Emilio Largo, a high-ranking agent of SPECTRE....
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In North Lake, Canada, Local fishermen swear the spectacular Atlantic bluefin tuna are so plentiful they eat out of people’s hands. Meanwhile, scientific evidence shows the species is on the brink of collapse. Can both claims be true? Nominated for a Social Justice Award at the **Santa Barbara International Film Festival**.
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The cherry orchard: Madame Ranevskaya returns to her decaying estate in pre-Revolutionary Russia after an exile in Paris. The estate and its beloved cherry orchard are threatened by Ranevskaya's financial problems, and no one seems able to do anything about it.
Talking to a stranger: A grown-up brother and sister go home to visit their elderly parents, but a series of emotional developments lead to shocking resolutions. Consists of four episodes,...
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"When the police found the first body, left on a bonfire in the fields, they worried it had the hallmarks of a serial killer. Now, as they find the second, they know for sure. Panic about the "bonfire killer" quickly spreads through the sedate, suburban area of Southampton. Women are urged not to travel alone at night, and constant vigilance is encouraged among the local residents. But single mom Aisling Cooley has a lot to distract her: two beloved...
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"Louise wakes up. Her head aches, her mouth is dry, her memory is fuzzy—but she suspects she’s done something bad. She rolls over toward her husband, Niall. The man who, until recently, made her feel loved. But it’s not Niall lying beside her. In fact, she’s never seen this man before. And he’s not breathing. . . . As Louise desperately struggles to piece her memories back together, it’s clear to DCI Sheens and his team that she is...