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"Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
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Seventeen-year-old Zuretta Palmer travels to Chicago during the 1893 World's Fair to find her missing sister, but when the police and the Pinkertons refuse to help her, Zuretta begins her own investigation by becoming a maid at the notorious Castle.
When her younger sister, Ruby, travels to Chicago during the World's Fair and disappears, Zuretta leaves Utah to find her. But 1890s Chicago is more dangerous and chaotic than she imagined. She learns...
9) Cross fire
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Detective Alex Cross is forced to put his wedding with Bree on hold when he is called upon to investigate the murders of a corrupt congressman and a shady lobbyist; as the gunman continues his spree, FBI agent Max Siegel is called in, and he and Alex fight over jurisdiction while Alex's adversary, Kyle Craig, threatens Alex's family.
10) Tick tock
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Detective Michael Bennett joins forces with FBI Agent Emily Parker to root out a terrorist who is threatening New York City with a devastation of the greatest magnitude, and must simultaneously sort out his feelings for Emily and protect his ten adopted children.
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Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder, coworkers at "The Courier," spend all day sending each other e-mail messages, sharing everything from office gossip to personal anxieties, and unknowingly entertaining Lincoln O'Neill, the newspaper's Internet security officer whose job it is to monitor other people's e-mail, and who does not realize until it is too late that he has fallen in love with Beth without ever having met her.
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"The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to repel the attackers and protect the Americans stationed...
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