Title: What We Keep Author: Elizabeth Berg File Type: Mobi Subject:Fiction Description:From Publishers WeeklyI don't like my mother. She's not a good person. So declares Ginny Young on a trip to California to visit her mother, Marion, whom she hasn't seen in 35 years. Ginny is only making the trip as a favor to her sister, Sharla, who has called to say she's awaiting the results of a cancer test. In flashback, Berg (Talk Before Sleep) revisits the events of the girls' childhood and the moments when their mother's problems began to reveal themselves. One night, Ginny and Sharla overhear their mother screaming at their father about her unhappiness and telling him that she never wanted children. Then she walks out with no explanations, returning briefly a few months later to explain that she's not coming back. The following years bring occasional visits that are impossibly painful for all concerned and so full of buried anger that the girls decide to curtail them altogether. When Sharla meets Ginny (now a mother herself) at the airport, and the two see their mother again, there are surprises in store, but not especially shocking ones. The reader, in fact, may feel there is less here than meets the eye: Marion's flight is never made psychologically credible. Berg's customary skill in rendering domestic details is intact, but the story seems stitched together. Crucial scenes feel highlighted rather than fleshed out, and Ginny's bitterness disappears into thin air as she reaches a facile, sentimental conclusion about her mother's needs. BOMC selection; author tour. br 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalBerg (Joy School, LJ 1296) excels at writing novels about the close personal relationships between women. As this new work opens, Ginny is flying to California to join her sister in a meeting with their mother, whom neither daughter has seen for 35 years. Ginny uses her travel time to reflect upon her memories of the summer when her mother withdrew from the family and became an outsider in her daughters' lives. Berg's precise, evocative descriptions create vivid images of Ginny's physical world, while Berg's understanding and perception are an eloquent testimony to Ginny's emotional turmoil. Berg cleverly examines the roles and relationships of mothers and daughters and reveals how truth, forgiveness, and understanding are possible in healing intergenerational rifts between women. Highly recommended and sure to be popular.br -?Caroline M. Hallsworth, Cambrian Coll., Ontariobr 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Title: Hell's Gate
Author: Dean Koontz
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction
Description:Earth becomes the battleground for alien creatures and men from the far future
Title: The Death of Princes
Author: John Peel
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction:Star Trek
Description:Dangerous assignments come in pairs when Captain Picard and his crew are confronted with two desperate missions on two different worlds. On the planet Buran, newly linked to the Fedration, a mysterious disease devastates the population-and turns them against the visitors from the U.S.S. Enterprise. Meanwhile, on nearby lomides, a renegade Federation observer has disappeared, intent on violating the Prime Directive by preventing a tragic political assassination. While Dr. Crusher struggles to find a cure for the plague ravaging Buran, Commander Will RIker leads an Away Team to lomides. Their forces divided, Picard and his crew find themselves the only hope of two worlds. From the PublisherDangerous assignments come in pairs when Captain Picard and his crew are confronted with two desperate missions on two different worlds. On the planet Buran, newly linked to the Fedration, a mysterious disease devastates the population-and turns them against the visitors from the U.S.S. Enterprise. Meanwhile, on nearby lomides, a renegade Federation observer has disappeared, intent on violating the Prime Directive by preventing a tragic political assassination. While Dr. Crusher struggles to find a cure for the plague ravaging Buran, Commander Will RIker leads an Away Team to lomides. Their forces divided, Picard and his crew find themselves the only hope of two worlds.END
Title: Crisis Four
Author: Andy McNab
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Thriller
Description:
My Head Was Forced Under And I Swallowed A Mouthful Of Freezing River. I Kicked Back To The Surface, Forcing Myself To Breathe In Through My Nose, Only To Choke As I Inhaled Yet More Water. I Let Go Of Her. We Each Had To Fight Our Own Battle Now. She Looked At Me, Her Eyes The Size Of Saucers As She Realised What I Had Done. That Wasn T My Problem It Would Only Become One If I Couldn T Get Her Body Out Of The Water And They Found Out Who She Was.Nick Stone, Ex-Sas, Now A K Working For British Intelligence On Deniable Operations, Is Tough, Resourceful, Ruthless, Highly Trained - A Master Of His Trade.Sarah Is Beautiful, Steel Willed, Intelligent, Cunning - The Only Woman That Stone Has Ever Let Under His Guard. And Now He S Been Sent To Hunt Her Down ... As The Pair Are Pursued Through The Backwoods Of The American South, Stone S Mission Becomes A Journey To The Heart Of A Dark And Deadly Conspiracy To Which Only Sarah Holds The Key. And As The Tension Builds To Breaking Point, The Two Are Led To A Confrontation That Echoes Our Worst Nightmares.
Title: A Gift of Dragons
Author: Anne McCaffrey
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fantasy
Description:From Publishers WeeklyBestseller Anne McCaffrey (The Skies of Pern) collects four tales of Pern in A Gift of Dragons, including a new adventure written especially for this volume, Ever the Twain. Tom Kidds illustrations of cuddly dragons and their human companions add extra value.br 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalA dragon-hatching at Ista Weyr provides twin brother and sister Neru and Nian with their first crisis of love and duty in Ever the Twain, original to this illustrated collection of four Pern stories by McCaffrey. Also included are The Smallest Dragonboy, about a young boys fervent desire to bond with a baby dragon the authors classic The Girl Who Heard Dragons, the story of a girl with an unusual talent and Runner of Pern, a tale involving one of Perns most important and least glamorous occupations. Tom Kidds moody, atmospheric illustrations give a visual focus to these tales and help create a work of the imagination that belongs in most libraries. br 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Author: Lyman Frank Baum
File Type: Mobi
Subject:classics
Description:
The treasure that captured a nation's imagination
Everyone's favorite farmgirl, Dorothy from Kansas, finds herself on a strange odyssey with three new friends. Readers young and old alike will enjoy this trip down Memory Lane, via the Yellow Brick Road.
Title: And Another Thing_ The World According t
Author: Jeremy Clarkson
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Non-fiction:Humor
Description:
Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place. So much so, in fact, that he wrote a book about it. But despite the appearance of the bestselling The World According To Clarkson, things don t seem to have changed much. And so Jeremy s having another go. In And Another Thing, our exasperated hero discovers that: bull;He inadvertently dropped a bomb on North Carolina bull;We re all going to explode at the age of 62 bull;Russians look bad in Speedos. But not as bad as Brits bull;No one should have to worry about being Bill Oddie s long lost sister bull;Cooking a Sunday Roast is one thing. Gravy is quite another bull;He should probably be nicer about David BeckhamBut while these things play on his mind, the world remains Jeremy s favourite place to be. On the whole, it s brilliant. It s just the idiots, meddlers and do-gooders who spoil it for the rest of us. Laugh-out-loud funny and as straight-talking as ever, Clarkson bursts their pointless little bubble, while celebrating the special things that we should hold dear.