Dealing in Futures
10 best books like Dealing in Futures (Joe Haldeman): Something Wicked This Way Comes, Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America, Childhood's End, The Fountains of Paradise, To Have and Have Not, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith, The Mind's Eye, Imperial Earth, Fit Bodies, Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don't Think and What to Do about It, Against the Fall of Night
Something Wicked This Way Comes
| Author | Ray Bradbury |
| ISBN | 0380729407 |
A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show...
Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America
| Author | Ann Coulter |
| ISBN | 0307353486 |
The demon is a mob, and the mob is demonic. The Democratic Party activates mobs, depends on mobs, coddles mobs, publicizes and celebrates mobs—it is the mob. Sweeping in its scope and relentless in its argument, Demonic explains the peculiarities of liberals as standard groupthink behavior. To...
The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city--intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.
But at what cost?...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0446677949 |
First published in 1979, Fountains of Paradise is one of Grandmaster Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s later books, but in its themes and style is reminiscent of some of his best work.
Telling the story of an elevator into space, this also describes a flashback related story thousands of years earlier...
| Author | Ernest Hemingway |
| ISBN | 0684859238 |
To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region,...
The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
| Author | Rosaria Champagne Butterfield |
| ISBN | 1884527388 |
Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for which she cared deeply. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make a difference in the world. There,...
In Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks explored music and the brain; now, in The Mind's Eye, he writes about the myriad ways in which we experience the visual world: how we see in three dimensions; how we recognize individual faces or places; how we use language to communicate verbally; how we translate marks...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 1416504540 |
Imperial Earth is the fascinating odyssey of Duncan Makenzie, traveling from Titan, a moon of Saturn, to Earth, as a diplomatic guest of the United States for the celebration of its Quincentennial in the year 2276. Titan, an independent republic, was originally colonized from Earth three generations...
| Author | Os Guinness |
| ISBN | 0801038707 |
The more I think about this the madder I get. I hate the fact that I have been tricked (as well as the fact that I was too naive to see it for myself).
Has anybody ever wondered why television is free? We all know that nothing is free, right? And we know that the actors/actresses in these shows are paid...
Against the Fall of Night
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 1596871229 |
ONE BILLION YEARS FROM NOW . . .
Mankind has reached the heights of civilization. Men live thousands of years in perfect freedom and leisure - their wants are attended to by ingenoius machines - peace and culture flourish in ways undreramed of in our time. And yet . . . mankind is dying. The price of peace...
| Author | Gary Lindberg |
| ISBN | 1939548098 |
After he died, Jamie just wasn't himself. While pursuing gangbangers, Jamie Giles' squad car veered off the road, killing him. But then something odd happened. He came back to life. Now he has a relationship problem-with a sinister presence that is inhabiting his body. Hidden deep inside his consciousness...
All he wants is peace. All he finds is war.
Marcus Battle is a wanted man. No matter where he goes or what he does, he can't escape those who aim to kill him.
But as he fights off one would-be vigilante after another, a new threat emerges. It's a threat worse than the viral Scourge which plunged...
Personal Response
Rising, by Tom Abrahams was a really good book. This book was filled with action and told a good story. It told such a good story that I felt like I was watching the scene of the book. I liked how the scenes were laid out in the book and were built up to an exciting ending. This book started...
Good Omens: The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1910281913 |
Neil Gaiman was the WINNER of the BBC Audio Drama Award 2015 for Outstanding Contribution to Radio Drama
A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s celebrated apocalyptic comic novel, with bonus length episodes and outtakes.
According to the...
| Author | Larry D. Sweazy |
| ISBN | 1633881261 |
In a small North Dakota town in 1964, indexer Marjorie Trumaine investigates the alleged suicide of the local librarian, uncovering a web of secrets that puts her own life in jeopardy.
October 1964—Just months after freelance indexer Marjorie Trumaine helped solve a series of murders...
| Author | Max Allan Collins |
| ISBN | 0765359014 |
The novelization of the major motion picture from Universal Pictures about Frank Lucas, drug czar of Harlem. The film stars Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, and is directed by Ridley Scott.
For decades the Mafia controlled the flow of heroin onto the streets of Harlem. Frank Lucas...
| Author | Walter E. Williams |
| ISBN | 0895265699 |
challenge of high standards vs low, a special advantage creates a disadvantage, min wage laws drove youth black unemployment from 10 to 50, political swaps and bad deals, women lose if feminism wins, marriage as use of each other, quotas have no success records, no Japanese role models yet achievement,...
Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth
| Author | Ben Shapiro |
| ISBN | 0785261486 |
When parents send their children off to college, mom and dad hope they'll return more cultivated, knowledgeable, and astute--able to see issues from all points of view. But, according to Ben Shapiro, there's only one view allowed on most college campuses: a rabid brand of liberalism that must be swallowed...
