Title: Atmospheric Disturbances Author: Rivka Galchen File Type: Mobi Subject:Fiction Description:Amazon.com Reviewnot the person you love but a doppelgänger: or, what Leo Liebenstein coolly terms a simulacrum of his wife Rema at the outset of Atmospheric Disturbances. David Byrnes infamous cry that this is not my beautiful wife seems the most likely response, but Leos reaction to this sea change takes unpredictable and dazzlingly plotted turns in the story that follows. Leos journey to recover the real Rema is nothing short of byzantine; among its many mysteries is the delightfully inscrutable Dr. Tzvi Gal-Chen, a master meteorologist who in cleverly constructed flashback sequences takes up residence in the daily rhythms of Leo and Remas marriage and becomes as much a focus of Leos obsession as his wifes whereabouts. (Think --Anne Bartholomew From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In this enthralling debut, psychiatrist Dr. Leo Liebenstein sets off to find his wife, Rema, who he believes has been replaced by a simulacrum. Also missing is one of Leos patients, Harvey, who is convinced he receives coded messages (via Page Six in the New York Post) from the Royal Academy of Meteorology to control the weather. At Remas urging, Leo pretends during his sessions with Harvey to be a Royal Academy agent (she thinks the fib could help break through to Harvey), and once Re- ma and Leo disappear, Leo turns to actual Royal Academy member Tzvi Gal-Chens meteorological work to guide him in his search for his wife. Leos quest takes him through Buenos Aires and Patagonia, and as he becomes increasingly delusional and erratic, Galchen adeptly reveals the actual situation to readers, including Remas anguish and anger at her husband. Leos devotion to the real Rema is heartbreaking and maddening; he cannot see that the woman he seeks has been with him all along. Dont be surprised if this gives you a Crying of Lot 49 nostalgia hit. (June) br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
Title: Serpent Moon
Author: C. T. Adams
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Romance:Paranormal
Description:
Eric Thompson's wolf howl can ruin electronics and send aircraft tumbling from the sky. Considered dangerous even by his fellow Sazi, Eric has become a lone wolf, living in self-imposed isolation. Yet when the very foundations of Sazi life come under attack, Eric knows he must defend his fellow shapeshifters at any cost. Attacked by a band of vicious Sazi, Holly Sanchez should have died. Instead, she survives, emerging as a powerful Sazi healer. Sent to return Eric to the Sazi world he rejected, Holly finds herself by his side as the lone wolf tracks the monster that is killing the Sazi. Holly soon realizes she must make a choicebetween a Sazi life with Eric, and life as a normal human being. But first, she must survive long enough to make that choiceand she must save her people, and the world, from evil.
Title: Doctor Who_ Mission Impractical
Author: David A. McIntee
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
Description:When daring criminal, Jack Chance masterminds the heist of a precious national treasure from the planet Veltroch, it is the first step in a chain of events that could lead to the destruction of two civilizations. This is a Doctor Who novel featuring the sixth Doctor and Frobisher.
Title: Doctor Who_ Eye of Heaven
Author: Jim Mortimore
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
Description:The Doctor and Leela travel back to Victorian times to unravel the mysteries of the Easter Island statues, and solve the conundrum of how nearly 18,000 islanders left their home without using boats.
Title: A Fiery Peace in a Cold War_ Bernard Sch
Author: Neil Sheehan
File Type: Mobi
Subject:History
Description:
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is a masterly work about Schriever’s quests to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, to penetrate and exploit space for America, and to build the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger.Sheehan melds biography and history, politics and science, to create a sweeping narrative that transports the reader back and forth from individual drama to world stage. The narrative takes us from Schriever’s boyhood in Texas as a six-year-old immigrant from Germany in 1917 through his apprenticeship in the open-cockpit biplanes of the Army Air Corps in the 1930s and his participation in battles against the Japanese in the South Pacific during the Second World War. On his return, he finds a new postwar bipolar universe dominated by the antagonism between the United States and the Soviet Union.Inspired by his technological vision, Schriever sets out in 1954 to create the one class of weapons that can enforce peace with the Russians–intercontinental ballistic missiles that are unstoppable and can destroy the Soviet Union in thirty minutes. In the course of his crusade, he encounters allies and enemies among some of the most intriguing figures of the century: John von Neumann, the Hungarian-born mathematician and mathematical physicist, who was second in genius only to Einstein; Colonel Edward Hall, who created the ultimate ICBM in the Minuteman missile, and his brother, Theodore Hall, who spied for the Russians at Los Alamos and hastened their acquisition of the atomic bomb; Curtis LeMay, the bomber general who tried to exile Schriever and who lost his grip on reality, amassing enough nuclear weapons in his Strategic Air Command to destroy the entire Northern Hemisphere; and Hitler’s former rocket maker, Wernher von Braun, who along with a colorful, riding-crop-wielding Army general named John Medaris tried to steal the ICBM program.The most powerful men on earth are also put into astonishing relief: Joseph Stalin, the cruel, paranoid Soviet dictator who spurred his own scientists to build him the atomic bomb with threats of death; Dwight Eisenhower, who backed the ICBM program just in time to save it from the bureaucrats; Nikita Khrushchev, who brought the world to the edge of nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and John Kennedy, who saved it.Schriever and his comrades endured the heartbreak of watching missiles explode on the launching pads at Cape Canaveral and savored the triumph of seeing them soar into space. In the end, they accomplished more than achieving a fiery peace in a cold war. Their missiles became the vehicles that opened space for America.
Title: Sunrunner's Fire
Author: Melanie Rawn
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fantasy
Description:
It began with the discovery of The Star Scroll--the last repository of forgotten spells of sorcery. Now, as Andry, the new Sunrunner Lord of Goddess Keep, begins to master this potentially deadly knowledge and Pol, son of High Prince Rohan, seeks to touch the minds of dragons, their enemy is mobilizes to strike with forbidden lore and treachery.
Title: Tanglefoot_ A Story of the Clockwork Century
Author: Cherie Priest
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Short Stories
Description:meta charset=utf-8span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; A mechanically inclined orphan who lives in the basement of a sanitarium is urged to “make new friends.” A doddering scientist shares his living space, and he encourages the effort — providing all the assistance his weakening mind will permit. So the orphan makes a friend … with the materials that lie immediately at hand. Unfortunately, the resulting automaton would rather cause chaos than keep him company.span
Title: The Black Swan_ The Impact of the Highly
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Non-fiction
Description:
A black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we-especially the experts-are blind to them. In this second edition, Taleb has added a new essay,On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world. *2nd Edition, With a new essay: On Robustness and Fragility
Title: Instruments of Darkness
Author: Robert Wilson
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Mystery
Description:ReviewPRAISE FOR INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS A witty, fast-moving and picaresque tale . . . peopled by deliciously shady characters.--Nelson DeMille An atmospheric and absorbing debut ... Vividly paints a credible picture of a world I know almost nothing about. Now I feel Ive been there. --Val McDermid PRAISE FOR THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS: An espionage thriller of the first order--complex, exotic, romantic._--San Francisco Chronicle_ PRAISE FOR A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON: A taut international thriller._--Time_ From the author of the national bestseller A Small Death in Lisbon and The Company of Strangers comes Wilsons compelling first novel, never before available in the United States. Bruce Medways existence as a fixer and troubleshooter had been tough, but never life-threatening until he crossed paths with the mighty Madame Severnou. His life becomes even more complicated by his search for a missing fellow expat, Steven Kershaw. Against a backdrop of political disruption and endemic official corruption, Medway pursues the elusive phantom of Kershaw. br Instruments of Darkness powerfully evokes the atmosphere, politics, and people of West Africa. With Medways ironic voice, flashes of humor that may recall Raymond Chandler, and unforgettable characters, this compulsively readable thriller is the beginning of a remarkable series.