Title: Sins of Commission Author: Susan Wright File Type: Mobi Subject:Science-Fiction:Star Trek Description:SINS OF COMMISSIONwhile on a misssion to save the planet Lessenar from environmental collapse, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise™ is crippled by an emotional onslaught as the surviving aliens respond in anger and pain to the death of their comrade. Worf must overcome this alien influence and find the true killer with the destruction of the Starship Enterprise, the survival of Lessenar, and his Klingon honor hanging in the balance.... From the PublisherWhile on a mission to save the planet Lessenar from environmental collapse, the crew of the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM becomes entangled in a web of treachery and murder. When a member of a strange, emotion-casting race is killed on board the ship, all evidence points to Lieutenant Worf and one of his oldest friends. Soon the crew of the Starship Enterprise is crippled by an emotional onslaught as the surviving aliens respond in anger and pain to the death of their comrade. Worf must overcome this alien influence and find the true killer with the destruction of the Starship Enterprise, the survival of Lessenar, and his Klingon honor hanging in the balance.
Title: Rights of Man
Author: Thomas Paine
File Type: Mobi
Subject:classics
Description:
Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution--and his Rights of Man (1791-2), the most famous defense of the French Revolution, sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. Paine paid the price for his principles he was outlawed in Britain, narrowly escaped execution in France, and was vilified as an atheist and a Jacobin on his return to America. This new edition contains the complete texts of both Rights of Man and Common Sense, as well as six other powerfully political writings--American Crisis I, American Crisis XIII, Agrarian Justice, Letter to Jefferson, Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation, and Dissertation on the First Principles of Government--all of which illustrate why Paines ideas still resonate in the modern welfare states of today.
Title: Loretta Lynn_ Coal Miner's Daughter
Author: Loretta Lynn
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Autobiography
Description:ReviewThe Queen of country music. --_The New York Times_Loretta Lynn’s classic memoir tells the story of her early life in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, and her amazing rise to the top of the music industry. Born into deep poverty, married at thirteen, mother of six, and a grandmother by the time she was twenty-nine, Loretta Lynn went on to become one of the most prolific and influential songwriters and singers in modern country music. Here we see the determination and talent that led to her trailblazing career and made her the first woman to be named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association and the first woman to receive a gold record in country music.
Title: The Golden Elephant
Author: Alex Archer
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fantasy
Description:
After risking her life to uncover a Chinese imperial seal, only to have it stolen by a cunning tomb robber, archaeologist Annja Creed feels she has endured one treasure-hunting fiasco too many. But when a mysterious collector offers a reward for a priceless golden elephant, Annja gives in. After all, there are bills to be paid, adventures to be had.The artifact is said to be hidden in a vast and ancient temple complex in the mountainous jungles of Southeast Asia, and Annja must meet with various scholars in order to pinpoint its location. But when each expert she visits is found dead, Annja fears someone else is after the artifact.And her. And shes probably next on the killers list.
Title: Dark Ararat
Author: Brian Stableford
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction
Description:From Publishers WeeklyBritish author and critic Stableford adds a fifth novel to his Emortality series (Inherit the Earth, etc.) with this heavily speculative tale that puts the science in science fiction. Expanding on the episode of humanity's first extrasolar colony from The Fountains of Youth (2000), he devises an entire biosystem based on a dual coding genome rather than Earth's sole replicator molecule, DNA. That changes everything, as the colonists learn, from reproductive strategies and lifecycles to the basic taste (mildly unpleasant) of native food. Cultural as well as scientific conflicts afflict the passengers of the colony ship Hope, whose crew members seek to expand their mission to include other stars so that they can declare the colony self-sufficient. Unfrozen from suspended animation, Matthew Fleury, an ecologist and televangelist, must solve both the mystery of a murder and the mystery of life itself down on the planet called Ararat. Weaving the two plot lines together is the suggestion that the murder was committed by intelligent humanoid natives, builders of the abandoned city in which the crime took place. After talking with every faction on ship and planet, Matt travels by boat to the unexplored great plains downriver, and the novel picks up speed as his team adventures among the native flora and the very lively fauna. Despite his reputation as an arrogant son of a bitch and an egomaniac, Matt is ultimately a sympathetic hero, whose intellectual and emotional leaps of faith justify the reader's belief in him. br 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalIn the 29th century, the generation ship Hope reaches its destination, a habitable planet suitable for colonization. Awakened out of cryonic sleep, ecologist Matthew Fleury discovers that serious problems face a successful seeding of the new world with human colonists. As Fleury tries to solve the murder of one of the planet's early explorers, he confronts the possibility that the new world still contains an intelligent species and that a conspiracy exists to prevent the new colonists from building the world of their dreams. The fifth installment in Stableford's epic future history (e.g., Inherit the Earth) brings humanity to the stars and tells, in the process, a story of one man's singular dedication to the dream of populating the galaxy. Combining the best of hard science and visionary speculation, this sf drama belongs in most libraries. br 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Title: The Emperor of All Maladies_ A Biography
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
File Type: Mobi
Subject:History
Description:Amazon.com ReviewThe Emperor of All Maladies illustrates how modern treatments--multi-pronged chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, as well as preventative care--came into existence thanks to a centurys worth of research, trials, and small, essential breakthroughs around the globe. While The Emperor of All Maladies is rich with the science and history behind the fight against cancer, it is also a meditation on illness, medical ethics, and the complex, intertwining lives of doctors and patients. Mukherjees profound compassion--for cancer patients, their families, as well as the oncologists who, all too often, can offer little hope--makes this book a very human history of an elusive and complicated disease. --Lynette Mong hr From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Mukherjees debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike against an equally relentless, wily, and elusive enemy. From the first chemotherapy developed from textile dyes to the possibilities emerging from our understanding of cancer cells, Mukherjee shapes a massive amount of history into a coherent story with a roller-coaster trajectory: the discovery of a new treatment--surgery, radiation, chemotherapy--followed by the notion that if a little is good, more must be better, ending in disfiguring radical mastectomy and multidrug chemo so toxic the treatment ended up being almost worse than the disease. The first part of the book is driven by the obsession of Sidney Farber and philanthropist Mary Lasker to find a unitary cure for all cancers. (Farber developed the first successful chemotherapy for childhood leukemia.) The last and most exciting part is driven by the race of brilliant, maverick scientists to understand how cells become cancerous. Each new discovery was small, but as Mukherjee, a Columbia professor of medicine, writes, Incremental advances can add up to transformative changes. Mukherjees formidable intelligence and compassion produce a stunning account of the effort to disrobe the emperor of maladies. (Nov.) (c) br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
Title: The Surgeon's Mate
Author: Patrick O'Brian
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Historical
Description:
Aubrey and Maturin are ordered home by desptach vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing.
Vividly detailed 19th-century settings and dramatic tension punctuated with flashes of wry humor make OBrians nautical adventure a splendid treat.âPublishers Weekly Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attention of two privateers soon becomes menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as tense, and as unexpected in its culmination, as anything Patrick OBrian has written. .
Title: Hanging On
Author: Dean Koontz
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction
Description:M*A*S*H* meets CATCH-22 in the most riotous, ribald, WW II military madhouse ever! It all began when Major Kelly's Army engineers were dropped into Nazi-occupied France and ordered to keep a bridge open until the Allies arrived. Except the mission was a secret and nobody knew they were there--nobody except the Luftwaffe, which kept bombing the bridge ... which meant the GI's kept rebuilding it ... which meant the Luftwaffe kept bombing it... which meant the tension was doing funny things to Major Kelly's men's minds ... which mean anything could happen.