Title: The Little Sister
Author: Raymond Chandler
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Mystery
Description:From Library JournalChandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, hes one of the 20th centurys top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizards signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price. br 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. ReviewRaymond Chandler is a master. --_The New York Times_br _br ?[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.? --The New Yorker ?Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.? --Robert B. Parker, The New York Times Book Review ?Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.? --Los Angeles Timesbr _br ?Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.? ?_The Boston Book Reviewbr _br ?Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler?s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.? --_Literary Reviewbr _br ?[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.? --Joyce Carol Oates, _The New York Review of Books _?Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.? ?Ross Macdonaldbr _br _?Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.? --Erle Stanley Gardnerbr _br _?Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.? --Paul Auster ?[Chandler]?s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that?s like ours, but isn?t. ? --Carolyn Seebr _br _ -- Review
Title: Blaze of Glory
Author: Simon Hawke
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction:Star Trek
Description:The U.S.S. Enterprise(TM) is assigned to the planet KTrall -- a planet just coming out rom under the heel of barbarous suppression. When the planets newly emerging freedom is threatened by a rouge ship attacking Federation shipping, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew put their lives on the line to protect KTrall from the raids. > But the planet itself holds a deadly secret, one that could lead to a ressurgence of the despotic cruelty they have suffered for centuries. With time running out, Captain Picard must see his way past a maze of deadly deception, with billions of lives hanging in the balance.
Title: Trainspotting
Author: Irvine Welsh
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction
Description:Amazon.com ReviewIrvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilistic slacker junkies with no hopes and no possibilities, and only mind-numbing and spirit-crushing alternatives in the straight world they despise. This particular slice of humanity has nothing left but the blackest of humor and a sharpness of wit. American readers can use the glossary in the back to translate the slang and dialect--essential, since the dialogue makes the book. This is a bleak vision sung as musical comedy. ReviewBlisteringly funny ... don't abandon everything for the movie. It's worth making the effort with Trainspotting not merely because relatively few writers have rummaged through this particular enclave of British youth culture, but because even fewer have dug there so deeply. -- The New York Times Book Review, Mark Jolly The best book ever written by man or woman ...deserves to sell more copies than the Bible. -- Rebel, Inc.
Title: The Bone Fire_ A Mystery
Author: Christine Barber
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Detective
Description:
Christine Barber is new to the Southwest in the sense that *The Replacement Child* is her first novel. But she has a great feel for the territory and for the family connections that enforce its strong community bonds.
—*THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW*
Every year, the people of Santa Fe gather together for the burning of a four-story-tall figure called Zozobra, a local custom that that takes place during the Fiesta de Santa Fe. Early the next morning, as the sounds of the Fiesta celebration still echo through the streets, skull is discovered in the ashes of Zozobra.
As Detective Sergeant Gilbert Montoya starts to investigate the case, disturbing displays of human bones begin appearing at religious sites around the city. With a possible psychopath on the loose, Gil goes to newspaper editor Lucy Newroe for help to find the person responsible in a case that will take them into the highest and lowest levels of Santa Fe society.
Christine Barber was highly praised for her first book, *The Replacement Child*, which won the first annual Tony Hillerman Prize and was named a *New York Times* Notable Book. An intriguing, impressive new mystery, *The Bone Fire* captures the colorful New Mexican landscape and the unique world of Santa Fe.
Title: The Saint of Dragons
Author: Jason Hightman
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Young Adult
Description:
The ancient dragons -- of the time of the legendary Saint George and earlier -- have never disappeared entirely. Instead, they've moved undercover -- and into human society. Now one lonely schoolboy is about to learn where the dragons have gone ...
Educated at boarding schools, Simon St. George has never met his parents. When a ragged-looking man shows up claiming to be his father, Simon is skeptical, and when the man kidnaps him, he's indignant to say the least.
Then the man claims to be a descendant of England's Saint George and a career dragon fighter. Why should Simon believe any of this nonsense? But what if the man is telling the truth? What if the dragons know he's out there?
Rich with the dragon lore of legend, the saint of dragons continues and enlarges on the tale of the centuries-old conflict between dragons and humans that rages even today.
Title: Manual of the Warrior of Light
Author: Paulo Coelho
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Religous
Description:
The Manual of the Warrior of Light is a handbook that shows human beings how to live as spiritual beings in the material world. This exciting new edition includes exclusive content, such as an interview with the author, in-depth background information on the book, recommended books if you liked this one, and much more.The Manual of the Warrior of Light is an invitation to each of us to live our dream, to embrace the uncertainty of life, and to rise to meet our own unique destiny. In his inimitable style, Paulo Coelho helps us to discover the warrior of light within each of us.With inspiring short passages, we are invited to embark upon the way of the warrior: the one who appreciates the miracle of being alive, the one who accepts failure and the one whose quest leads him to become the person he wants to be.
Title: A Bend in the Road
Author: Nicholas Sparks
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Romance
Description:
Miles Ryans life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonahs second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, Sarah moved to New Bern hoping to start over. Tentatively, Miles and Sarah reach out to each other...soon they are falling in love. But what neither realizes is that they are also bound together by a shocking secret, one that will force them to reexamine everything they believe in-including their love.