Search Results: Titles starting with V from Darleen Billy

David Valentine is revered as a hero for his part in fighting to regain Earth's freedom. When a former Quisling traitor is badly wounded, he asks Valentine to find his wife, who has vanished into the darkness of the Kurian Order. With the help of old friends and new allies, Valentine traces her to a mysterious, heavily guarded compound in Ohio. And what Valentine finds within will shake his sanity to its very core.

New York cab driver Yuri Davydov is a disgruntled Russian immigrant ready to lash out at his adoptive nation, which he believes has denied him the American Dream. As a former technician in the Soviet Union's biological weapons system, Yuri knows how to wreak havoc in his new home.

In one painting, a military officer in a Dutch sitting room flirts with a laughing girl. In another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. Vermeer's paintings haunt us with their beauty and mystery--what stories lay behind these stunningly rendered moments? As Timothy Brook shows us, these pictures, which seem so intimate, actually offer a remarkable view of a rapidly expanding world. The dashing officer's hat is of beaver fur from Canada, while the pieces of silver, mined in Peru, might be used to purchase the Chinese porcelain seen in other Vermeer paintings. Moving outward from Vermeer's studio, Brook traces the web of trade that was spreading across the globe in the seventeenth century. The wharves of Holland, wrote a French visitor, were "an inventory of the possible." Vermeer's Hat shows just how rich this inventory was, and how the urge to acquire such things was refashioning the world more powerfully than we have yet understood.

You think YOU had a killer workday. . .Get ready for the FASTEST thriller of the summer!Each morning in his 45th floor executive office, David Elliot savors the quietmoments until the workday begins.Until today, when his boss walks in and aims a gun at him.For the rest of the day, he will be trapped in his midtown office building, andeveryone David Elliot meets will try to kill him.He has 24 hours to find out why. . .In Vertical Run, you can escape into a world on fast forward, a dramathat plays out with electrifying intensity. No one who reads this book willever see the office the same way again.Vertical Run is available now -- run for it!

ROGERSON, Isabella Whiteford. The Victorian Triumph And Other Poems. Toronto : William Briggs / Montreal : C.W. Coates / Halifax : S.F. Huestis, 1898.Pp [i]-xii,13-232,(2), frontis portrait (with tissue guard). 8vo, gilt ill ustrated blue cloth, lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. O'Dea 1200, Watters,p.170, Rhodenizer p.868. For Rogerson see ENL IV:620. "Isabella Whiteford – now the wife of the Honorable James J. Rogerson – is a native of County Antrim, Ireland. [...] In 1850, Mrs. Rogerson's father and mother, accompanied by their four daughters and two sons, came out to Newfoundland. For nearly fifty years our Island has been her cherished home." - from the Introductory Note by D.W. Prowse. This collection, her second book of poetry, includes : The Victorian Triumph; An Episode of the St. John's Fire, 1892; George Street Church Woman's Missionary Society; Royal National Deep-Sea Mission; John Cabot; John Cabot's Discovery; "Sailed, and Has Not Since Been HeardOf"; Newfoundland; Columbus; To His… Read More

The reader's decisions will determine what kind of adventures he or she will have after crash landing on the unexplored planet, Volturnus

Marcus Corvinus is spending a few days in the Alban Hills, while taking a mild interest in the forthcoming consul's elections. Then one of the two candidates is murdered, and Corvinus is all too pleased to put his holiday on hold and help with the investigation. The obvious suspect is the rival political candidate, but needless to say, the obvious solution is not always the right one.

Of all the great seafaring vessels of the Age of Discovery, not one has been recovered or even―given the lack of detailed contemporary descriptions―accurately represented. Then, in the mid-1990s, a sunken ship was found in a small, shallow gulf off the coast of Panama. Chronicling both dramatic history and present-day archaeological adventures, Klaus Brinkbäumer and Clemens Höges reveal this artifact to be not only the oldest shipwreck ever recovered in the Western Hemisphere but also very likely the remains of the Vizcaína, one of the ships Christopher Columbus took on his last trip to the New World. The Voyage of the Vizcaína gives us an exciting tale of exploration and discovery, and the startling truths behind Columbus's final attempt to reach the East by going west.