Dan White--The Cactus Eaters_ How I Lost My Mind-An
Title: The Cactus Eaters_ How I Lost My Mind-An Author: Dan White File Type: Mobi Subject:Travel Description:From Publishers Weekly Traversing broiling deserts, snowy mountain passes and dank rain forests on its crooked way from Mexico to Canada, the Pacific Coast Trail is an epic challenge for die-hard backpackers. White and his girlfriend, Melissa, set out, late in the season and bereft of experience, to tread all 2,650 miles of it, leaving behind lousy reporting jobs and hoping to find self-definition and a deepened relationship. (They call their trek the Lois and Clark Expedition.) Hilarious greenhorn misadventures ensue—including the author's ill-advised chomp, while dizzy with dehydration, into a reputedly moisture-laden prickly-pear cactus—that tested their survival skills and commitment as a couple. The trail becomes less an itinerary than a world unto itself, full of squalor, discomfort and majestic scenery, and peopled by charismatic misfits and an austere cult of ultra-light speed-hikers, as the couple rely on arcane camping gear and bizarre gummy-bear-and-marshmallow diets. The wilderness authenticity the author seeks proves elusive; all journey and no destination, the story itself eventually trails off with the hero even more callow and confused than when he started. Still, White's vivid prose and hangdog humor make readers want to keep up. (June) br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
Review Drawing on diaries he kept at the time, White polishes up these memories, serving them forth with brio and dash…[The Cactus Eaters] brings a fresh perspective to the timeworn adventure-travel genre. -- Kirkus Reviews
In the well-written, laugh-out-loud, self-deprecating spirit of Bill Bryson’s A Walk In The Woods and Nora Ephron’s When Harry Met Sally, Dan White takes us along for a walk on the wild side of adventure and love. I could not put it down. -- Eric Blehm, National Outdoor Book Award-winning author of THE LAST SEASON.
It is a funny, frequently harrowing, and altogether mesmerizing memoir about just how wrong a backpacking expedition can go….‘The Cactus Eaters’ is far more than a Sierra Club-approved romp. It’s gorp for the soul, a fascinating and surprisingly moving testament to the call of the wild. -- Steve Almond, Boston Globe
Title: Star Wars_ The Last of the Jedi 05_ A Tangled Web
Author: Jude Watson
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction:Star Wars
Description:Who Are the Last of the Jedi?
Since evil Emperor Palpatine destroyed the Jedi Knights and seized power, his reign has been absolute. He controls the Senate. He controls the Imperial Army. He controls the galaxy. He is a Sith.
And now, for mysterious reasons, he wants to control Ferus Olin, ex-Padawan.
Ferus does not want to aid the Empire in any way. But when the Emperor threatens the lives of the people closest to him, Ferus doesn't have a choice. He agrees to go on a secret mission for Palpatine—to become a double-agent—and somehow keep his allegiance to the fallen Jedi Order.
Can he succeed? Or are the Emperor and his henchman Darth Vader too powerful to overcome?
The thrilling new series from The New York Times bestselling author of Jedi Apprentice and Jedi Quest.
Title: Atlas Shrugged
Author: Ayn Rand
File Type: Mobi
Subject:classics
Description:At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, Who is John Galt?, Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the most popular novelists of the century, but one of its most influential thinkers. Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundaries further than any book you have ever read. It is a mystery, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder--and rebirth--of man's spirit. * Atlas Shrugged is the second most influential book for Americans today after the Bible, according to a joint survey conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club
Title: Doctor Who_ Warlock
Author: Andrew Cartmel
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
Description:meta charset=utf-8span Apple-style-span serif (0, 0, 64) 13px -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing 2px -webkit-border-vertical-spacing 2px font minus1 13px serif bIt was the ruthless pack instinct of the primeval forest. But warlock magnified it a thousand times and made it lethal.bThere’s a strange new drug on the street. It’s called warlock and some people say it’s the creation of the devil. Others see it as the gateway to enlightenment.Benny is working with an undercover cop, trying to track down its source. Ace is trapped in a horrific animal experimentation laboratory. But only the Doctor has begun to guess the terrible truth about warlock.fontfont minus1 13px serif This disturbing sequel to a href=httpwww.drwhoguide.comwho_na06.htmWarheada moves beyond cyberpunk into a realm where reality is a question of brain chemistry and heaven or hell comes in the shape of a pill.fontspan
Title: Blood of Angels
Author: Michael Marshall
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Thriller
Description:
Since aiding in the capture of his brother, the serial killer known as the Upright Man, Ward Hopkins, has been avoiding his demons holed up in a log cabin with his girlfriend, FBI agent Nina Baynam. But when Ninas boss turns up with an intriguing new serial-killer case for her, the couple realize they cant hide forever. Especially when they learn that the Upright Man has escaped from custody. Wards brother must have had help. The most likely candidates are the Straw Men, the shadowy organization founded on murder as a way of life that killed Wards parents. Former homicide cop John Zandt is obsessed with tracking them down following their murder of his daughter, and as he digs deeper he discovers extraordinary secrets about American history and society. The shadows are gathering, and across America sinister forces are stirring. Only Ward, Nina and John stand against the Upright Man and his terrifying allies. Its just a question of when the next killings will start...and whether they will ever stop.--BOOK JACKET.
Title: Dark Rivers of the Heart
Author: Dean Koontz
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Suspense
Description:
Do you dare step through the red door?
Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn't know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he can't fully remember. On his trail is a shadowy security agency that answers to no one--including the U.S. government--and a man who considers himself a compassionate Angel of Death. But worst of all, Spencer Grant is on a collision course with inner demons he thought he'd buried years ago--inner demons that could destroy him if his enemies don't first.
Title: The Last Ring-Bearer
Author: Kirill Yeskov
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fantasy
Description:span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; p style=margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; From WIRED.com:p style=margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; The histories of wars are so often written from the perspective of the victors, and such is the case with Tolkien’s classic em style=margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; The Lord of the Rings. However, back in 1999 in Russia, a paleontologist by the name of a class=zem_slink title=Kirill Eskov rel=wikipedia href=http:en.wikipedia.orgwikiKirill_Eskov style=margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 124, 165); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; Kirill Eskova set about addressing the balance, taking up his pen in the name of orcs and goblins everywhere.p style=margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; Yeskov’s novel em style=margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; The Last Ringbearer is set during and after the end of the War of the Ring and is told from the perspective of those who lost. Evidently it was very well received in Russia, but for fear of litigation has not made it beyond a few scant translated passages and various versions in other European languages.p style=margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; However, a full English translation was published last year online and a href=http:ymarkov.livejournal.com270570.html target=_blank style=margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 124, 165); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; is available for free download.ap style=margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; The whole story of this Russian-Middle Earth epic is a href=http:www.salon.combookslaura_miller20110215last_ringbearerindex.html style=margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 124, 165); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; told in length (and very eloquently) at Salon.coma by Laura Miller.span
Title: Windswept_ The Story of Wind and Weather
Author: Marq de Villiers
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science
Description:From Publishers WeeklyWind is personal for de Villiers, winner of Canadas Governor Generals Award for Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource. A gust from a ferocious gale in South Africa came close to blowing him over a cliff when he was a child, a fearful experience that invests this articulate study of the history and nature of moving air with notable immediacy. Winds figure in the creation myths of almost all cultures, he notes. But it wasnt until the mid-18th century that scientists began to develop a cogent theory about wind and its relation to weather. Two centuries later, during WWII, high-altitude flyers discovered the jet stream and a real understanding of winds was, finally, in place. De Villiers has marshaled an absorbing if daunting array of historical, cultural, environmental and scientific facts to detail that wind, despite its destructive power, makes life on Earth possible. But the books grace notes lie in entertaining did-you-know nuggets. Among them: a great storm that lashed London in 1703 caused windmill blades to rotate so fast that friction set them on fire; Cuban meteorologists, more advanced at the turn of the last century than Americans, warned fruitlessly about the path of the hurricane that devastated Galveston. B&w illus. (Apr.) br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From School Library JournalAdultHigh School–A readable, cogent introduction to wind. Woven throughout the text is the story of Hurricane Ivan, which started as a storm in Africa and gained power as it headed west toward the Americas. Chapter by chapter, the author examines the place of wind in mythology, ancient scientific beliefs about air and wind, composition of the atmosphere, wind scales and patterns, historical and modern weather forecasting, the mechanics of hurricanes, how wind moves pollution around the globe, and technology utilizing wind power. The book includes 12 appendixes, each providing statistics about storms or lists of such events as the Beaufort wind, Saffir-Simpson hurricane, or the Fujita tornado scales. The illustrations, reproductions, and graphs are clear and easy to read. This book could lead students to further research, but it is also entertaining on its own.–_Susan Salpini, formerly at TASIS–The American School in England_ br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.