Rob Bell--Love Wins_ Telling a New Story About Hea
Title: Love Wins_ Telling a New Story About Hea Author: Rob Bell File Type: Mobi Subject:Religon Description:Bestselling author Rob Bell returns with a provocative new book which gets to the heart of questions about life and death. His perspective, encapsulated by his famous slogan love wins, will surprise and challenge both Christians and atheists, and will inspire people of all faiths and none. A recent Gallup survey showed that over half of British people believe in heaven. But what is it? Who is it for? Why does it matter? And how do we know if were going there? Rob Bell believes that even the most fervent Christians and the most committed atheists, are still not satisfied with their traditional answers to these questions. Out of respect for their traditions they keep quiet, confiding to a few close, safe friends their doubts and questions about why they are here and where they are going. For many years, on sermons and DVDs and on bumper stickers and t-shirts, bestselling Chrisian author Rob Bell has been saying that Love Wins. But Love Wins is much more than a pithy slogan. Love Wins is a philosophy drawn out from deep within religious tradition and writings. It provides answers to the deepest and most difficult questions about life and faith, and about heaven and hell. And it is a call to arms for all of us to live a more meaningful life.
Title: A Dirty Job
Author: Christopher Moore
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Humor
Description:
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the biggertallerstronger Alpha Male.
But Charlie's been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child.
Yes, Charlie's doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie -- exhausted from the birth -- turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel's hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . .
People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it.
Christopher Moore, the man whose *Lamb* served up Jesus' missing years (with the funny parts left in), and whose *Fluke* found the deep humor in whale researchers' lives, now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we *all* eventually explore -- death and dying -- and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.
Title: Cate of the Lost Colony
Author: Lisa Klein
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Historical
Description:From School Library JournalGrade 7 Up—Cate, 14, is a maid for Queen Elizabeth until her emotions get the best of her. When a romance develops between Cate and Sir Walter Ralegh, the jealous queen declares, He. Is. Mine and sends her to the Tower.However, the smooth-talking Ralegh is able to convince the queen that the young woman should be sent to America, thinking that he will eventually join her. Clearly this forbidden relationship doesn't evolve, and Cate's life becomes consumed with surviving in Roanoke with hostile Natives threatening to attack. She enlists the help of Manteo to learn their language and, predictably, a romance grows from that. Chapters containing Ralegh's writings and memorandums alternate with those about Cate and Manteo, who is educated in English and charged with negotiations with the Natives. While the writing is smooth and easy to follow, only true American-history enthusiasts will find this novel interesting enough to read in its entirety. The author's note is helpful in clarifying fact from fiction. Celia Rees's Witch Child (Candlewick, 2001) is a more interesting story about this period in history.—_Jessica Lorentz Smith, Bend Senior High School, OR_ (c) 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. FromLady Catherine incurs the queen’s jealousy when the young noblewoman catches the wandering eye of Sir Walter Ralegh. Banished to the Virginia Roanoke colony as a result, Cate first looks forward to adventure and a new start. Nothing can prepare her or her shipmates for the hardship of the ordeal. Expected supplies do not arrive, and the settlement is tossed into survival mode complete with political wrangling, disease, and clashes with the native people. As Cate comes of age, she compares her feelings for the handsome, clever Manteo of Roanoke with the dashing, opportunistic Ralegh. Klein deftly balances the romantic appeal with the grueling reality of survival, the lives of original inhabitants, and factual background of English colonization. In a departure from historic detail, Ralegh, who never visited the colony, sails to Roanoke near the end of the story to try to reclaim his lady. Readers will eagerly await her decision. Grades 7-10. --Anne O'Malley
Title: Genesis ; Battle Cry ; Homecoming
Author: Jack McKinney
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction
Description:Here you'll find three ROBETCH novels for the price of one. Collected for the first time in one volume, you'll find GENESIS, BATTLE CRY, and HOMECOMING--three electrifying futuristic adventures that let loose the Robotech Defense Force against the most fearsome conquerers in the universe. From the Inside FlapHere you'll find three ROBETCH novels for the price of one. Collected for the first time in one volume, you'll find GENESIS, BATTLE CRY, and HOMECOMING--three electrifying futuristic adventures that let loose the Robotech Defense Force against the most fearsome conquerers in the universe.
Title: Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness
Author: Sidney Sheldon
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction
Description:From Publishers WeeklyBig bad business shenanigans turn a poor little rich girl into a turbocharged avenger in bestseller Bagshawes absorbing, if overheated, second Sheldonesque thriller (after Sidney Sheldons Mistress of the Game). Against her familys wishes, New York socialite Grace Knowles marries Lenny Brookstein, whos more than 30 years her senior—and one of the cofounders of Quorum, the most profitable hedge fund of all time. For a while, everythings utterly fabulous, until Lennys investors lose $75 billion. When Lenny disappears after going for a solo sail off Nantucket one summer day (his body surfaces a month later), Grace winds up in prison for securities fraud, among other charges. Determined to clear her name and Lennys, Grace pulls off a daring escape. NYPD Det. Mitch Connors sets out to catch the elusive society beauty, but in the course of his hunt provides her some unexpected help. Sheldon fans will find only tenuous links to Sheldons own novels. (June) br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. blockquoteWhat happens when the woman who has everything loses everything . . . and the man who has nothing realizes he has nothing to lose? blockquoteThe young, naÏve wife of a multi-billionaire financial superstar, Grace Brooksteins life is the stuff of fantasy. In New York, Lenny Brookstein is the King of the Wall Street social scene, both liked and respected in the worlds of high finance and high society. Then one day Lenny vanishes, his yacht discovered abandoned far out at sea. The police believe his death was no accident, that his involvement in a spectacular financial fraud was about to be exposed to the world. But Grace cant accept the terrible allegations now coming to light, and she will learn the truth . . . even if that truth destroys her.
Title: Back to the Bedroom
Author: Janet Evanovich
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Romance
Description:
Dear Reader:
In a previous life, before the time of Plum, I wrote twelve short romance novels. Red-hot screwball comedies, each and every one of them. Nine of these stories were originally published by the Loveswept line between the years 1988 and 1992. All immediately went out of print and could be found only at used bookstores and yard sales.
I'm excited to tell you that those nine stories are now being re-released by HarperCollins. Back to the Bedroom is presented here in almost original form. I've done only minor editing to correct some embarrassing bloopers missed the first time around.
I lived in northern Virginia when I wrote Back to the Bedroom. My children were young, and we spent a lot of time visiting the Washington, D.C. museums and wandering through the historic neighborhoods. One day while strolling Capitol Hill I came upon two townhouses that captured my imagination. The houses were totally different -- a birthday cake of a house and a bran muffin of a house, and yet they shared a common wall. I wondered about the people who lived inside the houses. And eventually the houses inspired Back to the Bedroom.
Back to the Bedroom is the story of a young woman with the soul of a birthday cake living in a bran muffin house -- and a nice-looking guy with the substance of a bran muffin living in a birthday cake. They share some misadventures, some romantic moments, some misunderstandings, and ultimately they turn into wedding cake.
And for Plum fans, you'll be interested to find that this was the first of the four romances to feature Elsie Hawkins, the prototype for Grandma Mazur.
Janet Evanovich
Title: The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny
Author: Simon R. Green
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fantasy:Detective
Description:From Publishers WeeklyThe gripping, suspenseful, and wry 10th tale in the Nightside supernatural detective series proves every bit the equal of Jim Butchers better-known Harry Dresden books. The action picks up not long after 2009s Just Another Judgement Day as Lord Screech, an elf claiming to be a peace emissary who has just negotiated a treaty between powerful elvish rivals, enlists PI John Taylors help in getting safe passage to a portal to another realm. Despite his misgivings about Screechs honesty, Taylor and Ms. Fate, a transvestite crime fighter who might have heard of taste, but only as something other people had, battle werewolves and Neanderthals to deliver Screech to his destination and tackle several other challenges. Longtime fans and first timers alike will applaud Greens blend of fantasy, mystery, and humor. (Jan.) br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. FromJohn Taylor, the Nightside’s finest PI, returns for a series of particularly difficult jobs. First, he’s hired to escort an elf across town. It doesn’t seem like much, but elves are not well-liked in the Nightside, and that turns a simple cross-town drive into an epic battle. Then Larry Oblivion, the Dead Detective, asks for help finding his younger brother, who hasn’t been seen since the Lilith War. Taylor saw him disappear, but his Sight indicated that he wasn’t dead, so he’s out there somewhere. As if that weren’t enough, Walker, the agent of the Authorities who’s an old friend of John’s father, wants something from John. Walker’s dying, and he wants John to take on a job. Taylor knows better, but accidents do happen. Taylor’s snappy wit and quick thinking make for another entertaining Nightside volume. While the Nightside books do rather follow a formula, it’s one that delivers consistently. The Nightside may be the most bizarre place imaginable, but it’s fun to read about. --Regina Schroeder
Title: Forever Odd
Author: Dean Koontz
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Suspense
Description:
Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For such a character, one book is not enough—readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique young hero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal parts suspense and terror, adventure and mystery—and altogether irresistibly odd.We’re all a little odd beneath the surface. He’s the most unlikely hero you’ll ever meet—an ordinary guy with a modest job you might never look at twice. But there’s so much more to any of us than meets the eye—and that goes triple for Odd Thomas. For Odd lives always between two worlds in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, where the heroic and the harrowing are everyday events. Odd never asked to communicate with the dead—it’s something that just happened. But as the unofficial goodwill ambassador between our world and theirs, he’s got a duty to do the right thing. That’s the way Odd sees it and that’s why he’s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death.A childhood friend of Odd’s has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope. Whether you’re meeting Odd Thomas for the first time or he’s already an old friend, you’ll be led on an unforgettable journey through a world of terror, wonder and delight—to a revelation that can change your life. And you can have no better guide than Odd Thomas.From the Hardcover edition.
Title: Back to the Moon
Author: Travis S. Taylor
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction
Description:
Praise for Travis S. Taylor *
“[Warp Speed*] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum. . . .You wont want to put it down.” —**John Ringo**
“In the tradition of Golden Age SF . . . explodes with inventive action . . . dazzling . . . cutting-edge scientific possibilities. . . .” —Publishers Weekly*
Praise for Les Johnson*
“. . . Solar Sails A Novel Approach to Interplanetary* Travel* . . . convincingly captures the history of ideas about solar sails, their current state of play and their future promise. … Suitable for aerospace students and keen enthusiasts alike. . . .” —Stuart Clark**, Nature*
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“I can recommend this book [Living* Off the Land* in Space Green Roads to the Cosmos*] to everyone interested in the future of space exploration.” —Claude Semay**, Physicalia*