Title: God Don't Like Ugly Author: Mary Monroe File Type: Mobi Subject:Fiction Description:
In this richly drawn novel set on the streets, porches and in the parlors of 1960s Ohio, Mary Monroe brings to life the bond between two girls from opposite sides of the tracks--and the shattering event that changes their lives forever.
At the heart of the story is Annette Goode, a shy, awkward girl who keeps a terrible secret. Mr. Boatwright, the boarder her hardworking mother has taken in, abuses her daily. Frightened and ashamed, Annette withdraws into a world of books and food.
But the summer Annette turns thirteen, something incredible happens: Rhoda Nelson chooses her as a friend. Rhoda, who is everything Annette is not--gorgeous, slim, and worldly--welcomes Annette into the heart of her eccentric family, which includes her handsome and dignified father; her lovely, fragile, MuhDear; her brooding, dangerous brother Jock; and her colorful white relatives--half-crazy Uncle Johnny; sultry Aunt Lola; and scary, surly Granny Goose.
With Rhodas help, Annette survives adolescence and blossoms into a woman. But after her beautiful best friend makes a stunning confession about a horrific childhood crime, Annettes world will never be the same.
A moving tale of the intricacies of friendship, the awful devastation of silence, and the renewing spirit of survival.--*Ebony *
Watch out Toni Morrison, there is a new sister in town.--*Rapport*
Title: The Innocent
Author: Ian McEwan
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Thriller
Description:From Publishers WeeklyMcEwan's name will be on everyone's lips with his startling new novel, an impeccably constructed psychological thriller set in Berlin during the Cold War. Basing his story on an actual (but little known) incident, he tells of the secret tunnel under the Soviet sector which the British and Americans built in 1954 to gain access to the Russians' communication system. The protagonist, Leonard Marnham, is a 25-year-old, naive, unsophisticated English post office technician who is astonished and alarmed to find himself involved in a top-secret operation. At the same time that he loses his political innocence, Leonard experiences his sexual initiation in a clandestine affair with a German divorcee five years his senior. As his two secret worlds come together, events develop into a gruesome nightmare, far more macabre than anything McEwan ( The Child in Time ) has previously written, building to a searing, unforgettable scene of surrealist intensity in which Leonard and his lover try to conceal evidence of a murder. Acting to save himself from a prison sentence, Leonard desperately performs an act of espionage whose ironic consequences resonate down the years to a twister of an ending. Though its plot rivals any thriller in narrative tension, this novel is also a character study--of a young man coming of age in bizarre circumstances, and of differences in national character: the gentlemanly Brits, all decorum and civility; the brash, impatient Americans; the cynical Germans. McEwan's neat, tensile prose raises this book to the highest level of the genre. Film rights to Paramount; BOMC and QPB featured alternates. br 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. ReviewNever less than wholly entertaining. —_The Wall Street Journal_ Deft, taut fiction. . . . Many English writers have been compared to Evelyn Waugh, often wrongly, but this book can stand with the master's best. —_Time_ So exhaustively suspenseful that it should be devoured at one sitting. . . . McEwan fuses a spy-novel plot with themes as venerable as the myth of Adam and Eve. —_Newsweek_ Has the spooky, crooked-angled, danger-around-every-corner feeling of a Carol Reid film. It reminded me often of strongThe Third Manstrong and that is no mean feat. —Jonathan Carroll, The Washington Post Book World Powerful and disturbing . . . a tour de force. —_The New York Times_
Title: The Ayn Rand Reader
Author: Ayn Rand
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Philosophy
Description:Test Data
The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism, she expressed her unique views in numerous works of fiction and non-fiction that have been brought together for the first time in this one-of-a-kind volume. Containing excerpts from all her novels--including Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, and We The Living--The Ayn Rand Reader is a perfect introduction for those who have never read Rand, and provides teachers with an excellent guide to the basics of her viewpoint.
Title: Embrace the Darkness
Author: Alexandra Ivy
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Romance:Paranormal
Description:
**Is He Her Mortal Enemy-**
Lady Shay is the last of her kind. Half human, half Shalott, her blood is a precious aphrodisiac to vampires, who consider it more precious than gold. Though Shalotts are renowned assassins, a curse held over Shay lands her on the slave auction block, where her fate is uncertain-
**Or The Man Who Will Risk All-**
Viper, the beguiling chief of a deadly vampire clan, cant explain his longing to possess the beautiful Shalott who once saved his life, but now he is free to do anything he wants with her. Strangely, while he desires both Shay-s blood and body, he wants her to surrender willingly.
**To Save Her Life? **
A hidden evil has been stalking Shay since she left the slave market with Viper. It is an evil that endangers the very existence of Vipers kind, and theres no reason he should court such danger just to protect a Shalott. But the love he feels for Shay is enough to make him willing to go to hell and back if it means spending an eternity with her in his arms.-
Title: Mistress of the Game
Author: Sidney Sheldon
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Thriller
Description:
Sidney Sheldon introduced the glamorous Blackwell family in his book Master of the Game. Yet the intervening years have not lessened the Blackwells drama or talent for manipulation, domination, and passion. Though Kate is long gone, the children of her beloved granddaughters, Eve and Alexandra, battle to carry on her powerful legacy. Each is determined to control Kruger-Brent, Ltd., the multibillion-dollar international corporation with holdings in diverse industries around the globe. But only one can reign supreme. Lexi Templeton is a ruthless competitor with the brains and beauty to match. Raised by her psychiatrist father, Lexi burns to follow in her great-grandmothers footsteps and become her own Mistress of the Game. She is not alone in her ambitions. Her handsome and nefarious cousin, Max Webster, the son of Eve, will stop at nothing to own the prize of Kruger-Brent. Driven by hatred, jealousy, and blinding devotion to his bitter and twisted mother, he will seduce, betray, and even kill to succeed. And there is another player with plans of his own - a little-known descendant of Kates great-grandfather. Growing up in poverty in Aberdeen, Scotland, handsome and cunning Gabriel McGregor is determined to fulfill his destiny, a quest that will lead him deep into the heart of the Kruger-Brent empire. In a family rife with secrets - murder, hidden identities, perversions - and a depraved sense of honor, the player who wins the game may be the only one who will survive.
Title: Colorado Kid
Author: Stephen King
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Detective
Description:
On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. Theres no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. But thats just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...? No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammetts The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the worlds great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself...
Title: The Wit & Wisdom of Discworld
Author: Terry Pratchett
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fantasy:Discworld
Description:Review“When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.” –From, strongSmall Godsstrong “A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”br –From, strongThe Fifth ElephantstrongFor more than two decades, Terry Pratchett has been regaling readers with tales of Discworld--a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants, which are standing on the back of a giant turtle, flying through space. It is a world populated by ineffectual wizards and sharp-as-tacks witches, by tired policemen and devious dictators, by reformed thieves and vampires who have sworn to drink no blood. It is a world that is vastly different from our own . . . except when it isnt. Now, in The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld, various nuggets of Pratchetts witty commentary and sagacious observations have been compiled by Pratchett expert Stephen Briggs, a man who, they say, knows even more about Discworld than Terry Pratchett. Within these pages, youll find musings on ul lInterior decorating Its a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow, or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage--even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity. (_Equal Rites_) l lTravel Any seasoned traveler soon learns to avoid anything wished on them as a regional speciality, because all the term means is that the dish is so unpleasant the people living everywhere else will bite off their own legs rather than eat it. But hosts still press it upon distant guests anyway Go on, have the dogs head stuffed with macerated cabbage and pork noses--its a regional speciality. (_The Last Continent_) l lYoung men And then there was the young male walk. At least women swung only their hips. Young men swung everything, from the shoulders down. You have to try to occupy a lot of space. It makes you look bigger, like a tomcat fluffing his tail. The boys tried to walk big in self-defense against all those other big boys out there. Im bad, Im fierce, Im cool, Id like a pint of shandy and me mam wants me home by nine. (_Monstrous Regiment_) l lClass Old money meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds that had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of. (_Making Money_) l lol lol l and more! Culled from all the Discworld novels, The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld confirms Pratchetts place in the pantheon of great satirists and proves why the Chicago Tribune has praised his Discworld as entertaining and gloriously funny . . . an accomplishment nothing short of magical. lol lol lul
Title: Rides a Dread Legion
Author: Raymond E. Feist
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction
Description:
The last remnants of an ancient advanced race, the Clan of the Seven Stars, are returning at long last to their lost homeworld, Midkemia—not as friends, but as would-be conquerors. Led by the conjurer Laromendis, they are fleeing the relentless demon hordes that are sweeping through their galaxy and destroying the elves vast empire planet by planet. Only by escaping to Midkemia and brutally overtaking the war-weary world can the last remnants of a mighty civilization hope to survive . . . if the Dread Legion does not pursue them through the rift.
The magician Pug, Midkemias brave and constant defender, is all too familiar with the Demon King Maarg and his minions and their foul capacity for savagery and horror, and he recognizes the even graver threat that is following on the heels of the elven invasion. The onslaught to come will dwarf every dire catastrophe his imperiled world has previously withstood, and there is no magical champion in all of Midkemia powerful enough to prevent it. Only one path remains for Pug and Midkemias clandestine protectors, the Conclave of Shadows: forging an alliance of formidable magical talents, from the demon-dealing warlock Amirantha, brother of Pugs hated foe, and the demon-taming cleric Sandreena, to the elven Queen Miranda, to the warrior Tomas. However, uniting enemies and bitter, vengeful former lovers will be no easy task, and even together they may ultimately be unable to turn the death tide. But a failure to do so will most certainly ensure Midkemias doom.