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When his cousin is accused of a heinous crime, Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in more than three decades. As he tries to prove his cousin's innocence in a town where everyone seems to be on the take, Cross unearths a family secret that forces him to question everything he's ever known.

Along Came a Spider killer Gary Soneji has been dead for over 10 years. Alex Cross watched him die. But today Cross saw him gun down his partner. Is Soneji alive? A ghost? Or something even more sinister? Nothing will prepare you for the wicked truth.

Ever since running away at the age of fourteen, Paul-Edward, the son of a white landowner and a black slave, has had one dream: to own land every bit as good as his daddy's. While growing up, Paul-Edward loved, and feared, his father, but he loved the land unconditionally. Then, after a rash act of youthful rebellion, he leaves his family behind and vows to succeed on his own. However, for anyone black coming of age in 1880's Mississippi, this is no simple goal.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. "Once you can express yourself," she wrote, "you can tell the world what you want from it.... All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words." Now Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems and the inspiration behind her strong belief in the power of literature.

When his cousin is accused of a heinous crime, Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in more than three decades. As he tries to prove his cousin's innocence in a town where everyone seems to be on the take, Cross unearths a family secret that forces him to question everything he's ever known.

When Agent Gerald Clark, CIA operative and former special forces soldier, stumbles out of the Amazon into a small missionary village and dies, the CIA is baffled. Agent Clark had only one arm when he first came to the Amazon, but the photograph of him submitted by a Brazilian morgue shows a corpse with two upper limbs fully intact.

What happens to people's lives during times of battle and strife? From the American Revolution to the ongoing war in Iraq, the subject of this collection is how people cope with the dramatic shifts that come with war. Before Independence, a slave fights for freedom by taking up arms for the British; in World War I, a mother goes to the front lines to see her son; and in our time, a teenager in Oregon waits for e-mail from his father in the Middle East.

Muchos de esos individuos que han intentado eso, como llegué a saber, ni siquiera creen en la vida en otros planetas, o tienen una visión completamente distorsionada de cómo los seres de otras galaxias manifiestan su propia conciencia, mostrando así una versión de la verdad que, en realidad, manifiesta sus propias ideologías. Y entonces no es de extrañar que la humanidad siga tan perdida como siempre, en lo que se refiere a encontrar su camino correcto o descartar los equivocados.

El término conciencia cósmica, o conciencia colectiva, aunque ampliamente estudiado en psicología y explicado por muchos en el campo de la espiritualidad, nunca ha sido completamente entendido y debidamente aclarado a un nivel más alto de lo que comúnmente es posible en la Tierra. La perspectiva presentada aquí, aunque espiritual, se basa en las realidades presentadas en muchos otros universos, y es por lo tanto explícita en mostrar cómo encontrar la verdad interior, la cual guiará hacia un estado evolutivo superior, con exactitud.