Title: The Siege of MacIndaw Author: John Flanagan File Type: Mobi Subject:Fantasy Description: After years as a Ranger’s apprentice, Will is now the protector of his first fief. Not long into his service, everything that can go wrong does: Keren, a renegade knight, has taken over Castle Macindaw, a strategic gateway to the North—poisoning the royal family in the process—and is holding Will’s friend Alyss captive. The situation grows direr when Will uncovers Keren’s secret alliance with the Scotti, who have plans to plunder Araluen. Time is of the essence, and Will must recruit a motley crew to rescue Alyss and reclaim Castle Macindaw—before the Scotti can make it their own. This New York Times bestselling series maintains its breathless pace in this newest installment.
Title: The Marks of Cain
Author: Tom Knox
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Thriller
Description:
The gripping new high-concept thriller from the author of The Genesis Secret, perfect for fans of Dan Brown and Sam Bourne.In America a young man inherits a million dollars, from a grandfather he thought was poor. Meanwhile, across Europe old men and women are being killed, in the most barbaric and elaborate of ways. And a brilliant scientist has disappeared from his laboratory in London, taking his extraordinary experiments with him.Tying these strange events together is an ancient Biblical curse, a medieval French tribe of pariahs, and a momentous and terrible revelation something that will alter the world forever. One couple is intent on discovering this darkest of secrets, others will kill, and kill again, to stop them.Shifting from the forgotten churches of the Pyrenees, to the mysterious castles of the SS, to the arid and frightening wastes of Namibia, Tom Knox weaves together astonishing truths from ancient scripture and contemporary science to create an unputdownable thriller.
Title: Eternity Road
Author: Jack McDevitt
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction
Description:Amazon.com ReviewEternity Road is set 1,000 years from now, when the world as we know it has been dead for eight centuries, destroyed by a plague that killed most of humanity. Technological artifacts remain, but the knowledge of what they are and how to use them has been lost by a society that has degenerated into a series of city-states. Legend has it that the Roadmakers left a store of knowledge in a place called Haven, but when an expedition from Memphis sets out to find it, only one person returns. The lone, dishonored survivor eventually kills himself, but his son is determined to try again ... From Library JournalAfter a cataclysmic viral plague wiped out humanity sometime in the 21st century, the next civilization arose in isolated pockets. In the Mississippi Valley, Illyrians built their town on what had been the Roadmakers' Memphis. Some believed in the mythical Haven on the eastern ocean where books and other technological wonders had been saved. When all but one member of an expedition dies trying to find Haven, the leader's son joins a second party on the long overland trek east. Unfortunately, the book raises more questions than it answers about the knowledge that was lost, leaving the reader unsatisfied. From the author of Ancient Shores (HarperCollins, 1996); a possible candidate to sf collections.br 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Title: Star Wars_ Jedi Apprentice 3_ The Hidden Past
Author: Jude Watson
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction:Star Wars
Description:Peace over Anger
Honor over Hate
Strength over Fear
After Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn are hijacked to the planet Phindar, they find themselves trapped in a world gone mad. The ruling Syndicat controls the people by erasing their memories. The planet's only hope lies with a band of thieving rebels.
Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are caught in a mind war.
And if they're not careful, their own pasts will be wiped out forever.
Title: Without Mercy
Author: Lisa Jackson
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Suspense
Description:From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. The murder of Julia Jules Farentino's father creates a bond with her younger half-sister, Shaylee Stillman in this juicy creep-a-thon from bestseller Jackson (_Chosen to Die_). That bond is tested years later when 17-year-old Shaylee is shipped off to Blue Rock Academy, an Oregon school in the middle of no-damned-where for at-risk teens. Run by iron-fisted Rev. Tobias Lynch, Blue Rock recently had a student, Lauren Conway, go missing and a female teacher dismissed for inappropriate behavior with a student. When Jules takes a teaching position at Blue Rock to rescue Shay, she discovers Cooper Trent, her ex-boyfriend, working there as an undercover PI looking into Lauren's disappearance. The scary suicide strangulation of Shay's roommate and the murder of her teaching assistant boyfriend throw the school into further uproar. Meanwhile, the Leader, the head of a secret cult at Blue Rock, plots more mayhem. This campy cool thriller builds to a surprising cliffhanger ending. (Apr.) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Ever since her father was stabbed to death in a home invasion, Julia “Jules” Farentino has been plagued by nightmares. Her half-sister, Shaylee, now seventeen, has had her own difficulties since the tragedy, earning a rap sheet for drug use, theft, and vandalism. Still, when Jules learns of her mother’s decision to send Shay to an elite boarding school in Oregon, she’s skeptical. Blue Rock Academy has a reputation for turning wayward kids around — but one of its students went missing a few months earlier and her body has never been found. On impulse, Jules applies for a teaching job at the Academy. Shortly before Jules arrives, a student is found hanged, another near death, and a hysterical Shay believes it’s murder. Then another girl is found dead. There’s no doubt something sinister is at hand. And Jules has become the next target of a bloodthirsty killer without limits, without remorse, without mercy…
Title: The Fountains of Youth
Author: Brian Stableford
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction
Description:Credibly written but lacking in emotional range, this third installment in
Stableford's Living in the Future series imagines a time when most
humans--nearly immortal--aren't much preoccupied with the subject of death. Born
more than five centuries ago, in 2520, Mortimer Gray is an emortal, a sturdy
genetic composite who was raised in the Himalayas by the standard group of eight
adults. These days, unlike most of his contemporaries, Gray--who long ago
discovered his potential mortality when he barely survived a massive underwater
volcanic eruption--is obsessed with death, and in fact has undertaken a massive
study of how human's ideas about it have affected history. Well before
completing the work, several centuries and nine volumes later, he became both
famous as a popular scholar and notorious as an influence on the Thanaticists,
militant believers in keeping death a part of the human condition to the point
of organizing ritual suicides and creating recreational diseases. (Meanwhile,
Gray's world has remained in flux--experiments are turning humans into cyborgs
or genetically altered beings with four hands; interstellar probes have
encountered intelligent aliens.) Gray is in some ways a fine narrator, able to
reflect on the events circling around him with a historian's critical eye--but
because he's rather detached, it's hard to get involved in his story. Moreover,
Stableford has written much of this book as if he was composing a literary essay
(complete with excessive foreshadowing)--which makes reading it a bit of a
chore.
Title: The Seville Communion
Author: Arturo Perez-Reverte
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Suspense
Description:Test Data
A“diabolically good” hacker puts a message on the pope’s computer, pleading for him to save a seventeenth-century Spanish church—a church that is killing to defend itself.Although Our Lady of the Tears is but a crumbling baroque building in the heart of Seville, it is also the center of a multilayered mystery—one that will force ecclesiastical sleuth Father Lorenzo Quart to question his loyalty, his vow of chastity, and his faith itself.
Title: The Water Room
Author: Christopher Fowler
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Mystery:Historical
Description:From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Traditional mystery buffs with a taste for the offbeat will relish British author Fowler's wonderful second contemporary whodunit featuring the Peculiar Crimes Unit and its elderly odd couple, Arthur Bryant and John May (after 2004's Full Dark House). A former colleague asks the eccentric Bryant, whose lack of polish coupled with a razor-sharp mind will remind many of Carter Dickson's Sir Henry Merrivale, to investigate his sister's death. Incredibly, the victim was found dead in her basement, apparently drowned, despite the absence of any moisture on her body or her surroundings. Bryant rapidly loops in his more down-to-earth partner, May, who has also been looking into a mystery with a personal connection—the unusual nocturnal ramblings of a disgraced academic who has begun probing London's underground rivers. More strange deaths follow before the unmasking of the surprising murderer. The author's black humor evokes Peter Lovesey's Peter Diamond series, and his successful revival of the impossible crime genre is reminiscent of John Sladek's superb Thackeray Phin novels, Invisible Green and Black Aura. Best known for his horror fiction (_Rune_, etc.), Fowler should win a whole new set of readers with these fair-play puzzlers. br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. FromBritain's Fowler seems to be one of those multitalented types who can write anything and do it well. He has written edgy thrillers, wildly imaginative fantasies, and memorable short fiction; now, with the Bryant and May series (of which this is the second installment), he has come up with a clever twist on the traditional police procedural. Arthur Bryant and John May, both far beyond the statutory retirement age, are members of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit; they've been partners for more than 50 years. You don't see many senior citizens in mystery fiction who aren't amateur sleuths, but these guys are pros, and they're about as far away from your typical kindly old meddler as you can imagine. This time they're trying to find out how an elderly woman managed to drown in her dry basement, and the plot itself proves perfectly satisfying. But the real thrill here is the delightful duo in the starring roles, two fresh and unusual characters who manage to breathe new life into an established genre in which it's getting harder and harder to find anything genuinely fresh. David Pittbr American Library Association. lt;
Title: Nagios_ System and Network Monitoring, 2
Author: Wolfgang Barth
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Reference:Computers
Description:Nagios is a host and service monitoring tool designed to inform systems administrators of network problems before clients or managers notice. Nagios makes it possible to continuously monitor network services (like SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING), host resources (such as processor load, disk and memory usage, running processes, and log files), and environmental factors (like temperature). Nagios System and Network Monitoring, 2nd Edition is completely revised and expanded with over 200 pages of new material.