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Showing posts with label truth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label truth. Show all posts

Friday, February 17, 2012

Unspoken Truth - Star Trek: The Original Series (Margaret Wander Bonanno)

Unspoken Truth - Star Trek: The Original Series
Margaret Wander Bonanno

Blurb: A social experiment was conceived. Its goal was to breed the best, the brightest, the most malleable and most loyal soldiers to ever serve. To this end, the Romulan Empire used its own children, blinded by the belief that anything that would bring glory to the praetor was justified. And when the winds of politics changed, these children were abandoned, left to die on a world so horrifying that it was dubbed - by those who dared to cling to life - Hellguard.

One wild cild, Saavik, was rescued by Spock. He took the half-Vulcan, half-Romulan child home to his parents, knowing that if anyone could reach and rescue Saavik, it was them.

Now a Starfleet officer, Saavik has striven to honor her mentor and her Vulcan heritage. But recent events have shaken her. Left behind on Vulcan while the rest of the Enterprise crew goes to face court-martial for stealing and destroying their ship, the young science officer is adrift when two men from her past confront her. Tolek, another Hellguard survivor, tells Saavik that the survivors are being killed one-by-one and only they can discover who and why. The other, a Romulan who claims to be her father, swears it is the Vulcans who are eliminating the Hellguard survivors because they are an embarrassment to all of Vulcan, but that she has the power to stop it, by bringing down the Vulcan ambassador, Sarek.

Not knowing where to turn, not knowing whom to trust, Saavik must find her own answers, and discover who she truly is.

ISBN:
978
1439102190 (Paperback)
Year: 2010
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages: 386 (Fiction)

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Monday, October 10, 2011

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism (Ron Suskind)

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
Ron Suskind

Blurb: From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America and the West lost their way and at our governments' struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which their survival depends.

In a sweeping, propulsive, and multilayered narrative, The Way of the World investigates how the West relinquished the moral leadership it now desperately needs to fight the real threat of our era: a nuclear weapon in the hands of terrorists. Suskind shows where the most neglected dangers lie in the story of 'The Armageddon Test' - a desperate gamble to send undercover teams into the world's nuclear black market to frustrate the efforts of terrorists trying to procure weapons-grade uranium. In the end, he finally reveals for the first time the explosive falsehood underlying the Iraq War and the Blair-Bush coalition.

The Way of the World simultaneously follows an ensemble of characters around the world who are turning fear and frustration into a desperate - and often daring - brand of human salvation. They include a striving, 24-year-old Pakistani emigre, a fearless UN refugee commissioner, an Afghan teenager, a Holocaust survivor's son, and Benazir Bhutto, who discovers, days before her death, how she's been abandoned by the United States at her moment of greatest need. They are all testing Western values at a time of peril, and discovering solutions - human solutions - to so much that has gone wrong.

ISBN: 9781847374486 (Paperback)
Year: 2008
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 415 (Non-Fiction)

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Truth + Framed - Ben 10 Storybooks #3 (Various)

Truth + Framed - Ben 10 Storybooks #3
Various

Blurb: Discover the world of Ben Tennyson, a 10-year-old kid who proves that anyone can be a hero!

This brilliant storybook contains not one but two exciting adventure stories! In Truth find out how Ben helps his Grandpa Max defeat an evil double-crossing sidekick, and then get ready for the unwelcome return of an old enemy of Ben's - Kevin 11 - in Framed.

Includes 8 pages of colour action shots!

ISBN: 9781445409658 (Paperback)
Year: 2010
Publisher: Parragon
Pages: 125 (Fiction)

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