books about: scorpion

books about: scorpion

books:

Scorpion

David Hagberg

Tor Books, 2007

Riveting thriller
Riveting thriller David Hagberg gets better with each novel. Allah's Scorpion is an excellent, tightly written contemporary thriller. There is plenty of action, but it is not overdone as is typical in so many action thrillers today. Mr. Hagberg takes a plausible ...

Scorpions (Newbery Honor Book)

Walter Dean Myers

Amistad, 1996

Scorpions by Walter d. Myers
By Walter d. Myers Have you ever been asked to kill or beat up someone? Have you ever been asked to be in a gang? Well, Jamal a 12year old boy is questioned time after time this question. Since his brother Randy was the head leader of the gang "Scorpions". He ...

Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon: The Untold Story of the USS Scorpion

Ed Offley

Perseus Books Group, 2007

In depth study from the cold war front.
A revealing expose on the cold war. Although it is a long story for cold war veterans, the author provides excellent background. Ed Offley connects the dots between CWO (traitor) John Walker and USS Pueblo. His analysis of how Russian KGB passive use of our hardware ...

The House Of The Scorpion

Nancy Farmer

Atheneum Books, 2002

Author of Amazing Books!
Wow! This book is genius! It is about a clone named Matt who is a clone of the leader of a bery large drug empire. Some where in this book, a secret is unvealed about why Matt has been created. With witty characters and a very appealing story, this is one of the best ...

Big Small Plates

Cindy Pawlcyn, Pablo Jacinto, ...

Ten Speed Press, 2006

another winner
Cindy Pawlcyn and her colaberators have done it again. Their latest book is a gem. The recipes are approachable by all and share ingrediants you can find easily even if you don't live in produce rich Napa California. The flavors are as luxurious as Laurie Smiths ...

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, ...

PublicAffairs, 1998

Unbelievable
I read this on the advice of a former naval Captain after I'd inquired about some of the things I'd read and seen in the "Hunt for Red October." This book will read like a great espionage fiction but it's all true. You'll be amazed each time when you suddenly remember ...

The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion (Everyman's Library)

Paul Scott

Everyman's Library, 2007

Paul Scott
Paul Scott is one of the greatest, and (it seems) most underrated, novelists of the 20th century. The Raj Quartet is complex, engrossing, moving, and deep. When you are done with all four volumes, there is always the wonderful _Staying On_, the 'comic coda' to the ...

Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures

Thomas Eisner, Maria Eisner, ...

Belknap Press, 2007

Lavishly illustrated; thoroughly professional
The "weapons" in the title are mostly chemical. They are poisons that insects and their kin use to protect themselves from predators. Spiders, insects, snakes and other animals use poisons to subdue their victims as part of their preying arsenal, but what the authors ...

The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer

Simon Pulse, 2004

Amazing book for even the most conservative readers
This book is simply amazing--fluidly well told, with none of the typical "coming of age" tawdry sexualization, no offensive language, just an interesting take on contemporary issues. The realistic characters and well-paced story make this book worthy of all the awards ...

All Hands Down: The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion

Kenneth Sewell, Jerome Preisler

Simon & Schuster, 2008

Time Machine
I lived just outside Norfolk in 1968 when Scorpion was lost. I got married a couple of years later and left the area, but will NEVER forget how it affected our community. This book describes things exactly as they happened. It was like going back in a time machine. ...

Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs

Adrienne Mayor

Overlook TP, 2004

An Outstanding and Much Needed Book
Greek Fire is an extraordinary book. To put the subject of the book plainly, it deals with biological and chemical warfare in the ancient world from myth to history. I had not given much thought to the use of chemical and biological agents in the ancient world, ...

Great Tales from English History (Book 2): Joan of Arc, the Princes in the Tower, Bloody Mary, Oliver ...

Robert Lacey

Little, Brown and Company, 2005

Accessible history
I first discovered Robert Lacey as an author from his book 'The Year 1000'. Interesting, accessible, easy to follow, with a good balance of detail and breadth (always a tricky task when writing a popular history), that book was one of my favourites around the turn of ...

The Scorpion's Sweet Venom: The Diary of a Brazilian Call Girl

Bruna Surfistinha

Bloomsbury USA, 2007

Interesting but sad
Here are the stats: inked up in three places, pierced in two, sex with 1,000 and counting,doped up for a while but now clean. Here is her story: unhappy home life albeit comfortable, a desire to be free, stumbling into the sex trade, marketing her story to the media ...

Art of 'Meet the Robinsons', The
Tracey Miller-Zarneke

Disney Editions, 2007

Lewis is a brilliant twelve-year-old with a surprising number of clever inventions to his credit. His latest and most ambitious project is the Memory Scanner, which he hopes will retrieve early memories of his mother and maybe even reveal why she put him up for adoption. But before he can get his answer, his invention is stolen by the dastardly ...

Beneath A Vedic Sky

William Levacy

Hay House, 1999

Comprehensive Book for Beginners
This is one of the most comprehensive book on Vedic Astrology for Beginners and it's written in an easy to understand language. The book covers much more material than other books for beginners in Vedic Astrology. You'll learn about different formats of charts, ...