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    <body><![CDATA[CRETACEOUS DAWN: 65 MILLION YEARS IN THE PAST, THE JOURNEY BEGINS BY L. M. GRAZIANO AND M.S.A. GRAZIANO: The authors of Cretaceous Dawn --Lisa M. Graziano, former professor of Oceanography, writer and researcher; and Michael S. A. Graziano, professor of Neuroscience – are clearly experienced when ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35231844">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Set in both our time and 65 million years ago, CRETACEOUS DAWN is an exciting adventure story of 3 scientists, a security guard, and a dog, which are accidentally transported back in time. While investigators <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/280111.Holy_Bible" title="Holy Bible by Various">in our time</a> work to understand what happened to the missing people, the adventurers work to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39256378">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the science and natural history, though the plot line is a bit - ehh. Worth reading if you like alternate histories or biology. :) ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>&quot;<em>Cretaceous Dawn</em> is a first-class adventure story, an effortless read as engaging as vintage Jules Verne.&quot;—<em>Natural History</em></p><br/><p>&ldquo;A rip-snorting good yarn. . . . <em>Cretaceous Dawn</em>&rsquo;s strength is its ability to transport the reader back in time to truly experience the Cretaceous.&rdquo;—<em>Dinosaur News</em></p><br/><br/><p>&ldquo;Rendered with a clarity and vividness that gives the novel its richness, <em>Cretaceous Dawn</em> is plain fun, and educational at that. Short of time travel, this is as close as you&rsquo;ll ever get to the grim, predatory world of the Cretaceous.&rdquo;—<em>Falmouth Enterprise</em></p><br/><br/><p>&ldquo;From the Inland Sea to the infant Rocky Mountains, we see the entirety of a long-gone ecosystem. The authors&rsquo; scientific knowledge gives the story, and the giant creatures it is centered around, a realism that is immensely entertaining.&rdquo;—<em>Prehistoric Times</em></p><br/><br/><p>&ldquo;[The era is] described so vividly the reader forgets that no human overlapped with a dinosaur in the sands of time.&rdquo;—<em>The Cape Cod Chronicle</em></p><br/><br/><p>A long-extinct beetle appears in a physics lab. Four-and-a-half people and a dog are hurled sixty-five million years through time, to the Age of the Dinosaurs. Paleontologist Julian Whitney and his companions have one chance for rescue: a thousand-mile journey through the dinosaur-infested wilderness. Sixty-five million years in the future, police chief Sharon Earles must solve the mystery of exactly half a body remaining where five people had just been. Physicists try to determine what went wrong. But can they fix the vault in time to retrieve the missing people—and do they want to?</p>]]>
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