Title: L.A. Noir Author: James Ellroy File Type: Mobi Subject:Fiction:Detective Description: Mysterious Press presents three classic novels -- Blood on the Moon, Because the Night, and Suicide Hill -- in one hard-cover edition from the author of L.A. Confidential.Detective Lloyd Hopkins takes on three mesmerizing cases as he prowls Los Angeles' mean, dark streets. In Blood on the Moon, 20 women have been killed seemingly randomly...until Hopkins detects a pattern that will lead him straight to the heart of madness. In Because the Night, a pre-Civil War revolver is the weapon of choice as Hopkins tracks a killer...and a missing cop. Hopkins leads a manhunt for a violent kidnapper in Suicide Hill, as corruption and betrayal among his police colleagues expose a horrifying conspiracy. Packed with taut suspense and compelling action, these novels are the work of James Ellroy at his unparalleled best.
Title: This Heart of Mine
Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Romance
Description:
Praise for Susan Elizabeth Phillips: a wicked comedy...dont miss CLOSER No one tops Susan Elizabeth Phillips JAYNE ANNE KRENTZ Funny, sexy, funny, fast, funny, wonderful - and hilarious! If you can read Susan Elizabeth Phillips without laughing out loud, check for a pulse! What the world needs is more books by Susan Elizabeth Phillips ELIZABETH LOWELL
Title: The Q Continuum 01_ Q-Space
Author: Greg Cox
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction:Star Trek
Description:The unpredictable cosmic entity known only as Q has plagued Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise™ since their very first voyage together. But little is known of Q's mysterious past or that of the unearthly realm from which he hails. Now Picard must learn Q's secrets -- or all of reality may perish! Ever since its discovery, the great galactic barrier has impeded humanity's exploration of the universe beyond the Milky Way. Now a brilliant Federation scientist may have found a way to breach the barrier, and the Enterprise is going to put it to the test. The last thing Picard needs is a return visit from an omnipotent troublemaker so, naturally, Q appears. But Q has more in mind than his usual pranks, and while the Enterprise struggles to defeat a powerful inhuman foe, Captain Picard must embark on a fantastic odyssey into the history of the Q Continuum itself, with the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance.
Title: Gratitude
Author: Joseph Kertes
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Historical
Description:
March 1944: War’s darkest period descends upon Hungary’s Jews. By the time it ends in January 1945, over half a million Jews will have been murdered. Gratitude tells the story of that period, through the eyes of the wealthy Beck family, whose lives and loves are saved and lost. At the center of it all is Paul Beck, a young lawyer whose chance meeting with a visiting Swede, Raoul Wallenberg, may alter the inevitability of the Jews’ fate. Like The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Gratitude captures forever the pain and passion of one’s family precious moment in time.
Title: The Portable Atheist_ Essential Readings
Author: Christopher Hitchens
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Religon
Description:
From the #1 *New York Times* best-selling author of *God Is Not Great*, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential voices--past and present--that have shaped his side of the current (and raging) Godno-god debate. With Hitchens as your erudite and witty guide, you'll be led through a wealth of philosophy, literature, and scientific inquiry, including generous portions of the words of Lucretius, Benedict de Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and many others well-known and lesser known. And they're all set in context and commented upon as only Christopher Hitchens--political and literary journalist extraordinaire (*Los Angeles Times*)--can.
Atheist? Believer? Uncertain? No matter: *The Portable Atheist* will speak to you and engage you every step of the way.
Title: Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Bronte
File Type: Mobi
Subject:classics
Description:
Jane Eyre, a poor girl, leaves her cruel aunt's house and goes away to school. Later, she becomes a teacher and works for the rich Mr. Rochester. She loves him and wants to marry him. He loves her too, but he has a dark secret.
Title: A Visit From the Goon Squad
Author: Jennifer Egan
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Short Stories
Description:Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We plunge into the hidden yearnings and disappointments of her uncle, an art historian stuck in a dead marriage, who travels to Naples to extract Sasha from the city's demimonde and experiences an epiphany of his own while staring at a sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Museo Nazionale. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life--divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house--and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, reveling in San Francisco's punk scene as he discovers his ardor for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang--who thrived and who faltered--and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie's catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou's far-flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall. A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to PowerPoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both--and escape the merciless progress of time--in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.
Title: The Thieves of Manhattan
Author: Adam Langer
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Suspense
Description:
An aspiring writer with a low-paying day job at a coffee shop becomes embroiled in an elaborate scheme to create a fake memoir of his own. Ian quickly realizes that fact and fiction can be dangerously intertwined.
Title: The Battle of Britain
Author: Richard Overy
File Type: Mobi
Subject:History
Description:
No individual British victory after Trafalgar was more decisive in challenging the course of a major war than was the Battle of Britain ...In his carefully argued, clearly explained and impressively documented book ...Richard Overy is at pains to dispose of the myths and expose the real history of what he does not doubt was a great British victory ...the best historical analysis in readable form which has yet appeared on this prime subject Noble Frankland, The Times Literary Supplement