Title: Secrets of Paris_ A Novel
Author: Luanne Rice
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Romance
Description:From Publishers WeeklyPassion and friendship get equal billing in this entertaining love story, shaded with dark undertones, from the author of Crazy in Love. Lydie McBride, a photographer's stylist, and her architect husband Michael move to Paris while Michael, on a cultural exchange program, redesigns a room in the Louvre. Lydie is still reeling from the shock of her father's recent death in a murder-suicide with the young woman who was his lover. As Lydie is befriended by sophisticated Patrice d'Origny, a young Bostonian married to the owner of a fashionable jewelry store, Michael begins an affair with an eccentric French biographer who is engrossed in her 17th-century subject, Mme de Sevigne. Asked to design the new d'Origny catalogue, Lydie decides to stage a ball in a nearby chateau. While working on their separate projects, she and Michael try to determine whether their once wholehearted love can be recovered. Lively and appealing characters--notably Lydie herself--the Paris setting and themes of betrayal and forgiveness distinguish this spirited romance. br 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalOnce again Rice ( Crazy in Love, LJ 9188; Stone Heart, LJ 41590) weaves a tale of modern-day life that's hard to put down. This time the heroine is Lydie McBridge and the setting is Paris. Lydie is trying to come to grips with a family tragedy while spending a year in Paris with her husband Michael. While Lydie is developing a friendship with American Patrice d'Origny, Michael is drawn into an affair with a French coworker. Michael's betrayal rocks the marriage, and Lydie is forced to examine her feelings about her family and her marriage while virtually separated from both in Paris. This is a novel of friendship, love, and betrayal that lets you into the minds of all the participants. It is one of those books that you don't want to end because you want to know what happens to all of the people in it. Highly recommended. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 21591.br -Kathy Ingels Helmond, Indiana Univ. Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis Lib.br 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Title: Beyond the Hundredth Meridian_ John Wesl
Author: Wallace Earle Stegner
File Type: Mobi
Subject:History
Description:ReviewNo library of westernsouthwestern materials can be without this book. . . . --Books of the Southwest This book goes far beyond biography, into the nature and soul of the American West. It is Stegner at his best, assaying an entire era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose. --Ivan Doig The author recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. No library of westernsouthwestern materials can be without this book. . . .-- Books of the Southwest.
Title: Magic for Beginners
Author: Kelly Link
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction
Description:
*Magic for Beginners* is Kelly Link’s eagerly anticipated and critically acclaimed follow-up to her beloved debut, *Stranger Things Happen*. Cumulatively weirder and wiser” (*The Believer*), this new story collection riffs on zombies, marriage, witches, superheroes, haunted convenience stores, and weekly apocalyptic poker parties, among other things.
Link’s work is truly unique. *Time Out New York* called her stories cross-genre gems,” and her admirers in the literary communityfrom Peter Straub and Karen Joy Fowler to Alice Sebold and Michael Chabonreflect the amazing range that makes her style so special. Call it kitchen sink magical realism: Fantastic and bizarre but funny and down to earth, there is something for everyone in *Magic for Beginners*.
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Title: Infoquake
Author: David Louis Edelman
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction
Description:How far should you go to make a profit? Infoquake, the debut novel by David Louis Edelman, takes speculative fiction into alien territory: the corporate boardroom of the far future. It’s a stunning trip through the trenches of a technological war fought with product demos, press releases, and sales pitches.
Natch is a master of biologics, the programming of the human body. He’s clawed and scraped his way to the top of the biologics market using little more than his wits. Now his sudden notoriety has brought him to the attention of Margaret Surina, the owner of a mysterious new technology called MultiReal. Only by enlisting Natch’s devious mind can Margaret keep MultiReal out of the hands of High Executive Len Borda and his ruthless armies.
To fend off the intricate net of enemies closing in around him, Natch and his apprentices must accomplish the impossible. They must understand this strange new technology, run through the product development cycle, and prepare MultiReal for release to the public—all in three days.
Meanwhile, hanging over everything is the specter of the infoquake, a lethal burst of energy that’s disrupting the biologic networks and threatening to send the world crashing back into the Dark Ages.
With Infoquake, David Louis Edelman has created a fully detailed world that’s both as imaginative as Dune and as real as today’s Wall Street Journal.
Title: Elric in the Dream Realms
Author: Michael Moorcock
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fantasy
Description:Review“The most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.”—_Encyclopedia of Fantasy _“If you are familiar with Elric, I trust you will enjoy revisiting him in this present form. If you are new to him, I hope you find him good, if rather dangerous, company.”—Michael Moorcock Kinslayer. Soul reaver. Sorcerer. Thief. And last emperor of a cruel, decadent race. Elric of Melniboné is all of these–and more. His life is sustained by drugs and magic–and energy sucked from the victims of his vampiric black sword, Stormbringer, a weapon feared by men and gods alike. Denied the oblivion he seeks, poised between a tragic past he cannot escape and a terrifying future he is doomed to bring about, Elric is a hero like no other. Del Rey is proud to present the fifth installment in its definitive collection featuring the immortal creation of Michael Moorcock, named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Highlights include an epic novel of Elric’s early years, The Fortress of the Pearl; the script of the graphic novel Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer;_ _a previously unpublished proposal for a new series; and Hugo Award—winning author Neil Gaiman’s moving fictional tribute to Elric, the short story “One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock.” Gorgeously illustrated by Michael Wm. Kaluta,strong Elric: In the Dream Realmsstrong is a dream come true for sword-and-sorcery fans.
Title: Charmed
Author: Nora Roberts
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Romance
Description:
Anastasia Donovan knew that her gift marked her as different, special -perhaps even dangerous. She had pent year hiding her eli from the world,crrified about the can equences of revealing what she really wa·. VIhen Boone Sav.yer came into her life, bent on finding out the ITuth about her, Anastasia had to protect herself and her magic at all costs, She would keep her secrets whatever it look. Then -he was confronted with a terrifying thl-eat to everything he had learned Lo love. With a childs future at take, Anasla ia could not deny he powers, even if it meant ri king her own life.
Title: Feeling Lucky
Author: Walter Knight
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction
Description:Satirical military space opera, #1 of 11-book series. Compulsive gambler Joey Czerinski must escape Old Earth fast to elude the bad-ass loan shark gunning for him. Desperate, he borrows funds from a shady Foreign Legion ATM, then gets shipped across space to fight a spider-like alien species. But one lucky roll of the dice could put him back in the game - if he can manage to stay alive!
Title: Mysterious Skin
Author: Scott Heim
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Contemporary
Description:From Publishers WeeklyThe summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life?so runs the catchy opening to Heims impressive first novel. The speaker is Brian Lackey, now a troubled teenager, once an introverted kid growing up scared in the small town of Hutchinson, Kans. The reason for his memory lapse and his fear, as we and Brian learn during the course of the novel, turns out not to be the space aliens that he first suspects, but his molestation at the hands of his Little League coach. The key to Brians reclamation of those lost hours is homosexual hustler Neil McCormick?the slugger on that Little League team and an accomplice to Brians sexual abuse. Working its way over the course of a decade toward Brian and Neils reunion, the narrative unfolds through chapters whose points of view alternate among Brian, Neil and a handful of their siblings and confidants. Heim makes numerous freshman mistakes, including a relatively static narrative, prominent characters who outlive their usefulness and occasional lapses in the writing. He also creates scenes of genuine beauty, however, and handles his complicated characters and delicate subject matter with calm assurance. 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalBrian Lackey and Neil McCormick are so different by nature that they might never have met except for a shared incident at age eight. One summer afternoon, a storm forces the cancellation of a Little League game, and Brian catches a ride home with his coach and Neil. Ten years later, Brian still cant remember that afternoon, although he suspects that it was a turning point in his life. His search for answers eventually leads to Neil, who helps re-create the afternoon of seduction and sexual abuse that Brian has blocked from his mind. Told from a variety of perspectives, this novel looks at the long-term effects of sexual abuse and the coping mechanisms employed by abused children. First novelist Heim deals frankly with a controversial topic without becoming accusatory or maudlin. The result is powerful stuff that every public library should have.Thomas L. Kilpatrick, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.