18 books like The Mayan Secrets

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A rising Thunder David Weber · 2012 · ★ 4.4 · 557p · ≈ 18h · Moderate After a brutal attack on the Manticoran home system, Honor Harrington has rooted out a plan designed to enslave the entire human species. Behind that plans lies the shadowy organization known as the Mesan Alignment. Task number one for Honor is to shut down and secure the wormhole network that is the source of the Star Kingdom's wealth and power--but also its greatest vulnerability. Yet this is… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

Star road Matthew J. Costello · 2014 · ★ 2.0 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Ivan Delgato, a former leader of a rebel group called the Runners, is released from jail on the condition that he carry out a secret mission for the World Council. His assignment is simple: stay under cover, but do absolutely anything necessary to reach the planet Omega IX and offer the renegade Runners clemency if they surrender-- which may be complicated since Ivan's brutally violent brother… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

Wolf among the stars Steve White · 2011 · ★ 3.6 "A near-future Earth has shaken off the devastating colonization by alien Lokaran invaders and totalitarian rule by the alien's human puppets. But now Earth is flung into galactic intrigue and war. The Lokaran empire teeters on the edge of a meltdown and a cabal of ancient enemies hope to use Earth as a proxy to destroy the empire and rule over a new Galactic dark age. Captain Andrew Roark, the… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

Wrecked Tricia Fields · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Moderate When her longtime boyfriend, Dillon, is accused of murdering his secretary, police officer Josie Gray struggles with precinct disputes and memories of the last time she saw Dillon only to discover that she was the actual target in a multimillion-dollar con game. Shares: Mexico, Amerikanisches Englisch

Frost Burned Patricia Briggs · 2013 · ★ 4.4 · 331p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Mercy’s life has undergone a seismic change. Becoming the mate of Alpha werewolf Adam Hauptman has made her a stepmother to his daughter Jesse, a relationship that brings moments of blissful normalcy to Mercy’s life. But on the edges of humanity, what passes for a minor mishap on an ordinary day can turn into so much more... After a traffic accident in bumper-to-bumper traffic, Mercy and Jesse… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance Lois McMaster Bujold · 2012 · ★ 4.2 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "Book Fourteen in the best-selling Vorkosigan series. Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor's life of a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral. Ivan, cousin to Imperial troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan, is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully, new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere, leaving Ivan to enjoy his life on Komarr,… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

The Interestings Meg Wolitzer · 2013 · ★ 3.6 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Moderate The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty. Their friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

Whiskey Beach Nora Roberts · 2013 · ★ 4.1 · 498p · ≈ 16h · Moderate For more than three hundred years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding its shore—and its secrets. But to Eli Landon, it’s home… A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public scrutiny and police investigations after being accused of—but never arrested for—the murder of his soon-to-be-ex wife. He finds sanctuary at Bluff House, even though his beloved grandmother is… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

Transcendental (The Transcendental Machine) James Gunn · 2014 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The Transcendental Machine trilogy in one volume!Like many trilogies, the Transcendental trilogy may best be viewed as one continuous story--so here they are!Riley, a veteran of interstellar war, is one of many beings from many different worlds aboard a ship on a pilgrimage that spans the galaxy. However, he is not journeying to achieve transcendence, a vague mystical concept that has drawn… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

Fear nothing Lisa Gardner · 2014 · ★ 4.2 · 404p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "In #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner's latest pulse-pounding thriller, Detective D.D. Warren must face a new fear as a serial killer terrorizes Boston. My name is Dr. Adeline Glen. Due to a genetic condition, I can't feel pain. I never have. I never will. The last thing Boston Detective D.D. Warren remembers is walking the crime scene after dark. Then, a creaking floorboard, a low voice… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

Dead ever after Charlaine Harris · 2013 · ★ 3.6 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate With her knack for being in trouble's way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. But Sookie suspects otherwise, and she and Sam work together to uncover the culprit - and the twisted motive for the attack. But her attention is divided. Though she… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

Rizzo's daughter Lou Manfredo · 2012 · ★ 3.5 "Brooklyn cop Joe Rizzo is ready to retire and spend the rest of his days with his wife, doting on their grown-up girls. But when his youngest daughter Carol decides to follow her dad onto the force, Joe decides to stay on until she's settled, calling in favors to get her assigned to the easiest house, the best training officer-- anything to protect his baby girl. And while there, he's expected… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

2312 Kim Stanley Robinson · 2012 · ★ 3.5 · 583p · ≈ 19h · Moderate "The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. The first event takes place on Mercury,… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

Brewster Mark Slouka · 2013 · ★ 3.9 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate It is 1968, and 16-year-old Jon and his friends form a tight friendship in which they find in each other everything they lack at home and plot to leave their dead-end town. The plot contains pervasive profanity, sexual situations, and graphic violence. Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

NOS4A2 Joe Hill · 2013 · ★ 4.5 · 702p · ≈ 23h · Moderate Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

Prince Lestat, The Vampire Chronicles Anne Rice · 2014 · ★ 4.5 · 458p · ≈ 15h · Moderate "The novel opens with the Vampire world in crisis ... vampires have been proliferating out of control; burnings have commenced all over the world, huge massacres similar to those carried out by Akasha in The Queen of the Damned ... Old vampires, roused from slumber in the earth are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn vampire-mavericks in cities from Paris and… Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

The Mystery Women Jayne Ann Krentz · 2013 · ★ 3.0 · 378p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Targeted by a disabled former spy for the Crown who wrongly believes she is blackmailing his sister, Beatrice Lockwood offers her assistance in tracking down the real culprit and eventually falls for the spy only to find herself hunted by a mad scientist who would resurrect a dead lover. Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

The Quest Nelson DeMille · 1975 · ★ 3.6 · 458p · ≈ 15h · Moderate After receiving a tip from a dying priest, four unlikely partners begin a quest to find the Holy Grail in the jungles of Ethiopia. Shares: Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch

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