Title: Fortune's Light
Author: Michael Jan Friedman
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction:Star Trek
Description:Dante Maxima Seven -- a world known to its inhabitants as Imprima. A world where Madragi -- huge socialeconomic entities wealthy beyond compare -- control the fate of millions.. Years ago, William Riker was part of the Starfleet delegation that opened Imprima to the Federation. Now the disappearance of an old friend -- Teller Conlon, who also served on that team -- draws Riker and the Enterprise(TM) across the galaxy, back to Imprima. Because the jewel known as Fortunes Light -- one of Madraga Criathiss most priceless possessions -- has been stolen. And Teller Conlon stands accused of its theft. Now Riker must discover the truth behind the disappearance of both his friend and Fortunes Light, no easy task on a world where treachery and intrigue are commonplace...and where even an old friends embrace may conceal the deadly bite of a daggers blade.
Title: Books Do Furnish a Room
Author: Anthony Powell
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Mystery
Description:
Anthony Powells universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times, A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses.
In this climactic volume of *A Dance to the Music of Time*, Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but now the losses, physical and moral, must be counted. Pamela Widmerpool sets a snare for the young writer Trapnel, while her husband suffers private agony and public humiliation. Set against a background of politics, business, high society, and the counterculture in England and Europe, this magnificent work of art sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age.
Includes these novels
*Books Do Furnish a Room *
*Temporary Kings *
*Hearing Secret Harmonies *
Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician.—*Chicago Tribune*
A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powells world is as large and as complex as Prousts.—Elizabeth Janeway, *New York Times*
One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience.—Naomi Bliven, *New Yorker *
Title: Colonization_ Aftershocks
Author: Harry Turtledove
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Historical
Description:From Library JournalIn the aftermath of World War II and the invasion by the alien Lizards, decades of struggle have led to an uneasy attempt by the aliens to maintain a colony on Earth. Collaboration, rebellion, and attempts at understanding each other bring humans and Lizards to the brink of new hostilities, threatening the destruction of the world but holding out hope for its renewal. This conclusion to Turtledove's multivolume alternate history features the author's close attention to detail and his ability to paint broad, panoramic pictures without sacrificing the personal stories of his characters. A good addition to most sf collections, particularly in libraries that own previous series titles. br 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. FromColonel Sam Yeager has a terrible secret that he can share with only one person--and no humans. The former shiplord Straha, a lizard now exiled to L.A,, is willing to keep the army officer's secret as a protective measure for Yeager and his family. But when Yeager goes missing, and Straha decides to take his secret to the colonization fleetlord, the outcome shocks everyone, from the crew of the American spaceship Lewis and Clark to the ginger dealers in Marseille. Turtledove concludes his highly entertaining Worldwar alternate-history saga with a series of deadly nuclear confrontations and happier, more intimate encounters between lizards and humans. Characters once mired in the struggles between the doomed Reich and the Race are now free to travel, and Cockney Jew David Goldfarb finds himself in Edmonton, inventing a caller ID system, while Rance Auerbach moves from South Africa to the south of France. Mao and Molotov remain in power, but new humans and lizards are climbing the ranks to challenge the old guard. Turtledove explores ethics, vengeance, and the duties of familial love versus those of friendship with his trademark wry humor--for instance, the Warren Commission turns out to be a loose gathering of lizards intent on understanding the death of President Earl Warren. If only there were another five books in the series to look forward to! Roberta Johnsonbr American Library Association. lt;
Title: Family Album
Author: Danielle Steel
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Romance
Description:ReviewThis is a collection of three stunning, ethereal novellas. Karen, the adolescent protagonist in The Talisman, is doing poorly in Catholic boarding school. Every time she attempts to memorize facts, people from her past burst into her imagination: her mother, Natalia, often appears and begs Karen to understand Mark, Natalia's boyfriend; sometimes Mark arrives smelling like alcohol and tells Karen stories which require him to feel her body; always her friends, Missouri and Nicolasa, come to comfort and advise. In the title story, anecdotes about Ximena's Nicaraguan family are told through memory, conversation and descriptions of often-faceless photographs. Ximena, a middle-class woman living in Paris, wants to understand the relationship of her own comfortable French life to the tortured existence of her relatives in Samoza's Nicaragua. Village of God and the Devil is the story of the magic village of Deya, where ghosts are as real as memory and imagination. Written in deceptively simple and imaginative prose, strongFamily Albumstrong is a dynamic blend of the natural and supernatural. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out . -- From Through forty years—from Hollywood's golden days in World War II to the present—Faye Price would create first a career as a legendary actress, then a family, and finally she would realize her dream of becoming one of Hollywood's first woman directors. But nothing was more precious to Faye than her five children. In a changing world, a milieu where family values are constantly challenged from without and within, the Thayers would face the greatest challenges and harshest test a family can endure, to emerge stronger, bound forever by loyalty and love. It is only when Faye is gone that they can each assess how far they have come, and how important their family album is.
Title: Star Wars_ Dark Forces_ Soldier for the Empire
Author: William C. Dietz
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction:Star Wars
Description:Kyle Katarn is a decorated graduate from the Imperial Military Academy who would forfeit his very life for the Empire. But he wouldnt forfeit his fathers life, and thats what the Empire has taken. Kyle is willing to do anything to avenge his fathers death which is what the Rebel Alliance is counting on. Join Kyle Katarn in this brand-new, fast-paced tale of adventure and suspense.
Based on the popular Star Wars DARK FORCES and Star Wars JEDI KNIGHT interactive games, this novella-length prose-story is written by acclaimed author William C. Dietz (The Final Battle) and illustrated by award-winning artist Dean Williams (Tarzan The Lost Adventure).
Title: Cleopatra 7.2
Author: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction
Description:
The Nebula Award-winning author continues the tale of Cleopatra's resurrection as the Queen of the Nile's DNA is blended with two present day hosts, forensic anthropologist Leda Hubbard and Egyptologist Gabriella Farouk--Cleopatra 7.1 and 7.2 respectively.