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A moon rock missing for thirty years...Five buckets
of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon...A scientist with ambition
enough to kill...A monk who will redeem the world...A dark agency with a
deadly mission...The greatest scientific discovery of all time...What fire
bolt from the galactic dark shattered the Earth eons ago, and now hides in
that remote cleft in the southwest U.S. known as . . . Tyrannosaur Canyon?
What are you reading this week? (11/14/2024)
Finally finished all 700+ pages of The Covenant of Water! Also finished Absolute Power by David Baldacci. Started Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston. Trying to catch up on older reads to down size my library.
-Ruth_Hollandsworth
'Lively yet ridiculous, the narrative loses all plausibility as it becomes clear that the characters do what they do solely in order to keep the plot churning to its conclusion....The recent real-life discovery of a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil containing soft tissue makes this particularly timely.' - PW.
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Douglas Preston has published forty books of both nonfiction and fiction, of which over thirty have been New York Times bestsellers, a half-dozen reaching the #1 position. He is the co-author, with Lincoln Child, of the Pendergast series of thrillers. He also writes nonfiction pieces for the New Yorker Magazine. He worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. He is president emeritus of the Authors Guild and serves on the Advisory Board of the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe.
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