Title: MySQL High Availability Author: Charles Bell File Type: Mobi Subject:Reference:Computers Description:Server bottlenecks and failures are a fact of life in any database deployment, but they don't have to bring everything to a halt. MySQL provides several features that can protect you from outages, whether you're running directly on the hardware, on virtual machines, or in the cloud. This book shows you how to use these features effectively, and helps you determine which combination of features will give you the most reliable system for a price you can afford.
Title: Midnight Caller
Author: Diane Burke
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Romance:Religous
Description:
Three deaths, one connection-the anonymous calls all three women reported in the weeks before they died. Detective Tony Marino wants to close this case before another woman disappears. Especially when he meets a fatherless little boy whose mother is being stalked. Single mom Erin O'Malley tells Tony about her anonymous caller's heavy breathing and unnerving silences. And the feeling of being watched-constantly. Now, after years of thinking he had nothing to offer a wife and child, Tony will do anything to protect the family that feels like his own. Because Erinisnext on the killer's list.
Title: Valediction
Author: Robert B. Parker
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Mystery
Description:
The most dangerous man to cross is one who isnt afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesnt want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority.
So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit mans bullet is wearing Spensers name. But Bostons big boys dont know Spensers ready and willing to meet death more than halfway.
Tough, wisecracking, unafraid and unexpectedly literate --in many respects the very exemplar of the species. (The New York Times)
Title: The Ministry of Pain
Author: Dubravka Ugresic
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Contemporary
Fiction
Description:
Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubber S&M clothing at a sweatshop they call the Ministry. Abandoning literature, Tanja encourages her students to indulge their Yugonostalgia in essays about their personal experiences during their homeland's cultural and physical disintegration. But Tanja's act of academic rebellion incites the rage of one renegade member of her class—and pulls her dangerously close to another—which, in turn, exacerbates the tensions of a life in exile that has now begun to spiral seriously out of control.
Title: Blood and Gold
Author: Anne Rice
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fantasy:Vampires
Description:
In the best Anne Rice tradition, the great Vampire Marius returns to tell us the mesmerizing story of his life through the ages, from the time of Caesar Augustus to the present. The Vampire Marius, child of the Millenea, has lived two thousand years. He tells his story to Thorne, a lone vampire who was a Viking in a mortal life tells of his birth into the Senatorial Class at the time of Caesar Augustus, and how he was transformed into a dark god by Druids in the forests of Gaul how he created the Vampire Armand and became guardian of Akasha and Enkil, the Queen and the King of Vampires, who hold within themselves the secret core of the life of the undead destroy them and you destroy all vampires. He relates how he became the voice of reason among the vampires, and how he created Pandora, the vampire he still grieves for... We see Marius as a mortal boy in the teeming streets of second-century Rome, and in young manhood in the time of Constantine and his battle to save Rome from the Visigoths. We follow him through the Dark Ages and the Black Death, and through another thousand years to Venice and to Florence, where he seeks out the great Botticelli and becomes a painter, working in a glorious palazzo a blood drinker in the thick of a rich and brilliant mortal life. Worlds within worlds unfold historic, fantastic, cultural, vampiric, from the London of Henry VIII to 17th-century Paris and Weimar as the novel moves to its splendid finale in an Aegean kingdom ruled by the great vampire the magician Marius.
Title: The Moses Stone
Author: James Becker
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Thriller
Description:
**An ancient code.
A sinister secret.
A deadly chase for the truth... **
In Morocco, an English couple discovers a clay tablet covered in ancient writing. One day later, they are dead.
Called to North Africa to investigate, detective Chris Bronson follows a trail of clues that plunge him into a mystery that has gone unsolved since biblical times. For the stone he must find is older and far more dangerous than he could ever have imagined...
Title: Stone Quarry
Author: S. J. Rozan
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Detective
Description:
Bill Smiths country cabin in upstate New York is far from the citys savage streets--a retreat where a weary P.I. can play Mozart on his upright piano and let nature heal him. But when Eve Colgate, a local farmer and painter, asks him to find stolen items--six paintings which could reveal Eves highly guarded thirty-year-old secret--he caves. When Smiths partner, Lydia Chin, comes in on the action, she brings along her cool courage and sharp mind. Its a simple case--until the runaway daughter of a hotshot politician and the murder of a local hood change the playing field. Now the stench of corruption fills this rural paradise, as Bill and Lydia scour through dangerous secrets and greedy corridors for the stone-cold truth...