Sifting through the dirt to get to the gold
"Will was convinced that winter semester at Dartmouth was good for only two indoor activities: studying and playing pool. Well, maybe a third, but in Will's limited time on campus, he was still working on the third indoor activity.' It's no wonder you guys are such good students up here,' Will was known to say. 'These winters drive... Continue Reading →
"Life is revealed through experience, the canyon had whispered to him. Not seen through a screen, or read about, or talked about. Experienced. And his entire life was a step away from experience; he was on the other side of the glass looking out; on the other side of the TV screen looking in." In an... Continue Reading →
"I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping and destroying those malignancies that would otherwise consume us." From a professional standpoint John Wade has hit rock bottom; his once promising political career is all but dead a mere... Continue Reading →
"I've heard you call yourself a geek, a computer nerd, 'a skinny kid', and a whole string of other descriptors that don't actually describe you." She explained coarsely. "I've heard you call yourself a crappy boyfriend and scared. But crappy boyfriends don't fly to halfway around the world to rescue damsels in distress. Skinny kids... Continue Reading →
SUMMARY Dixon's European sojourn goes awry when she's arrested for corporate espionage. She's just an innocent Australian teacher working abroad. Or is she? For Dixon, it's a matter of wrong place, wrong time. The investigating officers are convinced she's stolen the navigation and guidance technology from the plane manufacturer Flussair, and that she's behind the... Continue Reading →
"I almost feel sorry for her now. So easy to feel sorry for someone whose life is full of such tasks and aspirations. Lying here, in her place, on her bed, my head on her pillow, it is all pitifully clear: Emma is the engine of this home, the person who propels it forward,... Continue Reading →
Captain Dominika Eragova is a Red Sparrow, famously trained in the art of seduction making her, much to "man"kind's chagrin the ultimate tease, and she is damn good at it too. Sparrows would utilize their prowess as seductresses of the state to further the strategic goals of their home country. Sex and spying were melded... Continue Reading →
Bus crashes, hostage situations, trucks going over bridge overpasses, bullets flying, being caught in the middle of a Guatemala drug war; all in a days work of a dogged missionary. Nina Truman is part of a family who have lived their professional lives answering God's call to doing missionary work in countries of need. Nina... Continue Reading →
SUMMARY Leslie Krag escapes a near certain Colorado prison sentence for burning down her husband's cabin and flees to her villa in Tuscany. Two weeks after her arrival, a businessman she'd met on her flight, Roger Halliday, appears at her villa looking for a place to hide. He's certainly not the man she thought he... Continue Reading →
"He made decisions instantly, and carried them out quickly, without apparent concern for their effects. He had enemies, but many more friends who respected him for doing and saying the things they wish they could. Occasionally, I was granted glimpses of his soul. Angels and demons were doing battle in there. Most of the time... Continue Reading →
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