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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times
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A gripping and vibrant book soon to be released as a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts and directed by Mike Nichols, Charlie Wilson’s War was a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times best seller when it was published in 2003. Crile’s book is the true story of how a Texas Congressman and a rogue CIA agent conspired to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful CIA campaign ever the operation to fund the mujahideen in their fight against the Soviet army that had invaded Afghanistan. Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol to secret chambers at Langley, from arms dealers’ conventions to the Khyber Pass, Charlie Wilson’s War presents an astonishing chapter of our recent past, and the key to understanding what helped trigger the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union and ultimately led to the emergence of a brand-new foe in the form of radical Islam.
Axis
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Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin won science fiction’s highest honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Now, in Spin’s direct sequel, Wilson takes us to the "world next door"--the planet engineered by the mysterious Hypotheticals to support human life, and connected to Earth by way of the Arch that towers hundreds of miles over the Indian Ocean. Humans are colonizing this new world--and, predictably, fiercely exploiting its resources, chiefly large deposits of oil in the western deserts of the continent of Equatoria.
Lise Adams is a young woman attempting to uncover the mystery of her father's disappearance ten years earlier. Turk Findley is an ex-sailor and sometimes-drifter. They come together when an infall of cometary dust seeds the planet with tiny remnant Hypothetical machines. Soon, this seemingly hospitable world will become very alien indeed--as the nature of time is once again twisted, by entities unknown.
Spin
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One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives.
The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk--a heat source, rather than an astronomical object. The moon is gone, but tides remain. Not only have the world's artificial satellites fallen out of orbit, their recovered remains are pitted and aged, as though they'd been in space far longer than their known lifespans. As Tyler, Jason, and Diane grow up, a space probe reveals a bizarre truth: The barrier is artificial, generated by huge alien artifacts. Time is passing faster outside the barrier than inside--more than a hundred million years per year on Earth. At this rate, the death throes of the sun are only about forty years in our future.
Jason, now a promising young scientist, devotes his life to working against this slow-moving apocalypse. Diane throws herself into hedonism, marrying a sinister cult leader who's forged a new religion out of the fears of the masses.
Earth sends terraforming machines to Mars to let the onrush of time do its work, turning the planet green. Next they send humans…and immediately get back an emissary with thousands of years of stories to tell about the settling of Mars. Then Earth's probes reveal that an identical barrier has appeared around Mars. Jason, desperate, seeds near space with self-replicating machines that will scatter copies of themselves outward from the sun--and report back on what they find.
Life on Earth is about to get much, much stranger.
The Chronoliths
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One day in Thailand, 21st-century slacker Scott Warden witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military victory…sixteen years hence.
As more pillars arrive all over the world, all apparently from our own near future, a strange loop of causality keeps drawing Scott into the central mystery—and a final battle with the future. The Chronoliths is a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel and the winner of the 2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
Robert Charles Wilson is an accomplished and acclaimed writer with an impressive body of work. The Chronoliths is his best novel yet, an intelligent, fascinating, and frightening account of a unique incarnation of time travel. American software developer Scott Warden is living a careless expatriate life on the beaches of 21st century Thailand when a monolithic pillar, sheathed in ice and composed of an unknown, indestructible material, appears in the jungle. The artifact is a chronolith, a memorial commemorating the conquest of Thailand--20 years in the future. As Warden follows his estranged wife and badly injured daughter back to the U.S., more chronoliths celebrating future victories appear, to devastating effect. Bangkok and Jerusalem are destroyed, and societies worldwide dissolve in chaos or teeter on the brink of collapse. As the chronoliths close in on America, Scott joins with biker and undercover agent Hitch Paley and experimental physicist Sue Chopra in a literal race against time to find a way to change the future--which has already happened. --Cynthia Ward
Vortex
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Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called “the Hypotheticals.” In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world, effectively quarantined.
Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled. The prophecy is only partly true, however, and Turk must unravel the truth about the nature and purpose of the Hypotheticals before they carry him on a journey through warped time to the end of the universe itself.
Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food
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In the New York Times bestseller Chew on This, Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson unwrap the fast-food industry to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at a business that both feeds and feeds off the young. Find out what really goes on at your favorite restaurants—and what lurks between those sesame seed buns.
Praised for being accessible, honest, humorous, fascinating, and alarming, Chew On This was also repeatedly referred to as a must-read for kids who regularly eat fast food. Having all the facts about fast food helps young people make healthy decisions about what they eat. Chew On This shows them that they can change the world by changing what they eat.
Chew on This also includes action steps, a discussion guide, and a new afterword by the authors.
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Obama Picks Shuttle Veteran To Be First Black NASA Chief - Washington Post
Washington Post, United States - May 24, 2009
Washington PostObama Picks Shuttle Veteran To Be First Black NASA ChiefBy Scott Wilson President Obama yesterday nominated a former Marine aviator and space shuttle astronaut to become the new head of NASA and oversee a broad review of the agency's ambitions for manned and robotic space exploration. Retired Maj. Gen. Video: Obama Taps Former Astronaut As NASA Chief President taps former astronaut for NASA chief
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Wilson's late blast boosts Pirates' spirits - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - May 25, 2009
Chicago TribuneWilson's late blast boosts Pirates' spiritsBy Dejan Kovacevic, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Charles Cherney/AP Jack Wilson hits a solo home run with two outs in the ninth inning to tie the score, 3-3, against White Sox closer Bobby Jenks yesterday in Chicago. CHICAGO -- It requires quite some PIRATES 4, WHITE SOX 3 -- Late rally gives Pittsburgh win over ChiSox
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Service lasts a lifetime for Carrollton Township man - The Saginaw News - MLive.com
The Saginaw News - MLive.com, MI - May 25, 2009
The Saginaw News - MLive.comService lasts a lifetime for Carrollton Township manby Jill Armentrout | The Saginaw News MELANIE SOCHAN/The Saginaw newscharles Wilson, 86, of Carrollton Township is a World War II veteran who volunteers at the Aleda E. Lutz VA Medical Center, 1500 Weiss. Everyone knows Charles H. Wilson at the Lutz
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Dearmon column: Little Mount Vernon gone, but names on memorial ... - Salisbury Post
Salisbury Post, NC - May 25, 2009
Salisbury PostDearmon column: Little Mount Vernon gone, but names on memorial They are: William Thomas Albright; Charles Alexander; Grady Wilson Allen; Charles Edward Baker; Lathan J. Barnett; Thomas O. Barts; Walter M. Basinger; Ebert C. Beaver; Clifford L. Black; Herman Ray Boger; Carl Thomas Boggs; Ernest L. Bowden;
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CIF Baseball: Wilson Can't Catch The Cougars - Long Beach Post Sports
Long Beach Post Sports, CA - May 23, 2009
Long Beach Post SportsCIF Baseball: Wilson Can't Catch The CougarsThe Wilson Bruins ran into a buzz saw on Thursday at Capistrano Valley. Pitcher Tyler Matzek threw four no-hit innings and Charles Pfirrmann hit a second-inning grand slam as the Cougars (22-6) took an early lead and cruised to an 8-4 victory. Long Beach Wilson at Mission Viejo Capistrano Wilson can't play catch-up Baseball: Capistrano Valley advances with 8-4 victory -
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