Title: Sed & Awk, 2nd Edition Author: Dale Dougherty File Type: Mobi Subject:Reference:Computers Description:sed & awk describes two text manipulation programs that are mainstays of the UNIX programmer's toolbox. This edition covers the sed and awk programs as they are mandated by the POSIX standard and includes discussion of the GNU versions of these programs.
Title: Hundred-Dollar Baby
Author: Robert B. Parker
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Mystery
Description:
A client from a decades-old case reaches out to Boston PI Spenser-but can he rescue troubled April Kyle once more? Longtime Spenser fans will remember that once upon a time, though not so long ago, there was a girl named April Kyle-a beautiful teenage runaway who turned to prostitution to escape her terrible family life. The book was 1982s *Ceremony*, and, thanks to Spenser, April escaped Bostons Combat Zone for the relative safety of a high-class New York City bordello. April resurfaced in *Taming a Sea-Horse*, again in dire need of Spensers rescue-this time from the clutches of a controlling lover. But April Kyles return in *Hundred-Dollar Baby* is nothing short of shocking. When a mature, beautiful, and composed April strides into Spensers office, the Boston PI barely hesitates before recognizing his once and future client. Now a well-established madam herself, April oversees an upscale call-girl operation in Bostons Back Bay. Still looking for Spensers approval, it takes her a moment before she can ask him, again, for his assistance. Her business is a success; whats more, its an all-female enterprise. Now that some men are trying to take it away from her, she needs Spenser. April claims to be in the dark about who it is thats trying to shake her down, but with a bit of legwork and a bit more muscle, Spenser and Hawk find ties to organized crime and local kingpin Tony Marcus, as well as a scheme to franchise the operation across the country. As Spenser again plays the gallant knight, it becomes clear that Aprils not as innocent as she seems. In fact, she may be her own worst enemy.
Title: Bad Blood
Author: John Sandford
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Detective
Description:Sept 21, 2010
When 19-year-old Bob Tripp hits farmer Jacob Flood in the head with a T-ball bat at the outset of Sandford's exciting fourth thriller to feature Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent Virgil Flowers (after Rough Country), Tripp's subsequent attempt to make murder look like an accident fails. The morning after Tripp's arrest, he's found hanging in his cell. Warren County sheriff Lee Coakley seeks Flowers's help to investigate what role, if any, deputy Jim Crocker, the officer on duty at the jail at the time, played in Tripp's death. A link to the earlier murder of a young woman leads Flowers and Coakley to members of a small church with strange ways. As the pair become aware of the magnitude of the unspeakable crimes (rape, child abuse, incest) behind the deaths, they search desperately for a lever to pry open what turns out to be Flowers's biggest, if perhaps most unlikely, case to date.
Title: The Hittite
Author: Ben Bova
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Historical
Description:FromBova is best known as a prolific writer of works of science fiction. Here he tries his hand at supposedly historical fiction, with interesting, enjoyable, but uneven results. Lukka, a Hittite warrior, returns to the Hittite capital city to find it engulfed in civil war, his father murdered, and his wife and two young sons taken away by slavers. Along with a small cadre of soldiers under his command, Lukka launches an epic search for his family, which leads him to the gates of Troy as it is beseiged by the army of Agamemnon. Bova then proceeds to an original retelling of the final stages of the legendary Trojan War. In this account, Lukka serves as a literary mirror, revealing the personalities of some well-known characters, with a few surprising results. Odysseus, predictably, is practical, crafty, and a natural survivor in treacherous waters. Achilles is a born killer, but he is shown as short and ugly, and his death is decidedly unheroic. Helen is, of course, the babe of all babes, but she is also petty and whiny. Bova tends to use flowery, descriptive language to excess, but he knows his Homer. --Jay Freeman ReviewExcellent. A thrilling and inventive retelling of the legend of Troy. --David Hagberg, New York Times bestselling author of The Expediter Completely convincing and emotionally satisfying; the adventure and warfare are gripping enough to keep me awake to finish the book in a single night. I hope that when I'm [Bova's] age, I'll be doing--as he is--the best work of my career. --Orson Scott Card, New York Times bestselling author of Ender's Game A cast of stars, all seen through the eyes of a Hittite warrior. With authentic battle scenes and the reality of siege warfare, THE HITTITE is an adventure you'll want to undertake. --Barbara D'Amato, Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of Foolproof
Title: Romancing Miss Bronte_ A Novel
Author: Juliet Gael
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Historical
Description:
Juliet Gael was raised in the Midwest and obtained her M.A. in French literature before pursuing graduate film studies at USC and English literature at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. She has lived abroad for more than fifteen years, primarily in Paris, where she worked as a screenwriter. She now makes her home in Florence, Italy. From the Hardcover edition.