 | The Unbinding
Release Date: January 30, 2007Before AidSat I had no self, no soul. I was a billing address. A credit score. I had a TV, a computer, a phone, a car, an apartment, some furniture, and a health-club locker. Then AidSat hired me and gave me a life. And not just one life. Hundreds of them, thousands.Kent Selkirk is an operator at AidSat, an omni-present subscriber service ready to answer, solve, and assist with the client’s every problem. Through the AidSat network Kent has a wealth of information at his fingertips–information he can use to monitor subscribers’ vital signs, inf...
 |  | High Time to Kill (James Bond Adventure)
Release Date: June 7, 1999| Series: James Bond Adventure James Bond fights for his life on the icy slopes of the Himalayas as he faces a terrifying new criminal society in a race to retrieve missing military secrets. Bond is back and bigger than ever. Raymond Benson's novels have reached new heights both in sales and critical acclaim. Kirkus Reviews called The Facts of Death "a postmodern treat." Benson "imbues his Bond with enough honor, sexual prowess and action-hero skills to please the purist and enthrall the novice," says Publishers Weekly. It's at a dinner party with his old friend the...
|  | CW2
Release Date: November 21, 1991Written by the author of "Hunt for Red October", this is the story of Billy who earns the rank of Chief Warrant Officer during the Vietnam War and who actually falls in love with this killing war. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
|  | Hypersonic Thunder: A Novel of the Jet Age
Release Date: April 14, 2009The jet age began in 1939 with the brief hop of a secret German airplane. Seventy years later, the entire world depends upon the jet engine in every sphere - political, military, economic, and social. In Hypersonic Thunder, Walter Boyne weaves an intricate story of how the jet engine changed aeronautics and astronautics, pushing the frontiers of flight forward and permitting humankind to enter the space age. Drawing on his knowledge of the period, Boyne paints a gripping picture of jet aviation from the brilliant supersonic Concorde to the coming challenges ...
|  | In-Flight Entertainment
Release Date: June 6, 2011"A masterful contemporary exponent of the genre. Simpson now deserves to be compared with Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro." — ObserverPoignant, perceptive and dazzling, in this, her long awaited new collection, Helen Simpson offers acute portraits of lives in transition: of changes for the better, lives stalled and in freefall; of love, loss, and sudden revelations. Warm and funny, the stories are also threaded with a sense of anxiety and fear: of growing old, of commitment, and, most worryingly, of the growing threat to the environment.In the title story, ...
|  | The War in 2020
Publication Date: January 1, 1992In Soviet Central Asia, 2020, a decaying Soviet Union is on the brink of disaster. Their only hope is America's Seventh Cavalry, who plunge into the horrors of war in the new millennium. "The military counterpart of Orwell's 1984. . . . is not for the fainthearted. . . ."--New York Times Book Review. HC: Pocket Books. ...
|  | The Archimedes Effect (Tom Clancy's Net Force, Book 10)
Release Date: February 7, 2006FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition....
|  | Shackled
Publication Date: June 16, 2011Children disappear all the time. It's in the news every day. Where do they go? What happens to them? Who has taken them? While covering a story for his tabloid newspaper, reporter Bentley Noble accidentally stumbles onto something else entirely...a story about something so unspeakable, he doesn't know if anyone will believe it...a story that pulls him down into the depths of evil and depravity and threatens his very life. With the help of a bestselling true-crime writer, Noble descends into the dark world of human trafficking, where fear and pain are tools of c...
|  | Latino Liturgy: Book One Fatal Flaws
Publication Date: November 8, 2001| Series: Latino Liturgy (Book 1) A.J. Amador, a once-promising Latino columnist, returns to Denver to help a lifelong friend recover money missing from an upcoming civil rights conference. Along the way, a double homicide occurs, and, soon, A.J. (now working as a shadowy "cyber" detective) has just 48 hours to set things straight before the missing funds are exposed and his friend is arrested for complicity in the murders. Helping him is another childhood friend, Manolo Marquez, a mountain of a man who drives a cab. As A.J. works toward a solution, he must ...
|  | Thunder in the Deep: A Novel of Undersea Nuclear War
Release Date: July 31, 2001In his electrifying first novel Joe Buff instantly established himself as the ultimate chronicler of 21st-century warfare by taking military fiction and submarine combat to a new level of authenticity, vision, and power. Thunder in the Deep picks up where Deep Sound Channel left off, bringing to life a frightening seascape where technology pushes warriors to new extremes, and warriors push technology to the max. This time the difference between victory and defeat hinges on the two most advanced nuclear attack submarines in the world.The Challenger is the weapon of ...
|  | Daemon
Publication Date: December 1, 2006Matthew Sobol was a legendary computer game designer--the architect behind half a dozen popular online games. His premature death from brain cancer depressed both gamers and his company's stock price. But Sobol's fans weren't the only ones to note his passing. He left behind something that was scanning Internet obituaries, too--something that put in motion a whole series of programs upon his death. Programs that moved money. Programs that recruited people. Programs that killed.Confronted with a killer from beyond the grave, Detective Peter Sebeck comes face-...
|  | My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World
Publication Date: January 20, 1999Being a true account of the infamous Mr. Bungle and of the author's journey, in consequence thereof, to the heart of a half-real world called LambdaMoo.From In Cold Blood to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, readers have been gripped by the novelistic rering of eccentric communities torn apart by violent crime.Julian Dibbell's reporting of the "Mr. Bungle" rape case first appeared as the cover story in The Village Voice. Since that time it has become a cause célèbre, cited as a landmark case in numerous books and articles and a source of les...
|  | Combat, Vol. 1
Publication Date: January 7, 2002| Series: Combat (Book 1) An historic landmark work, depicting war as it is and soon will be-the shape of war to come.Featuring new short novels by:Larry Bond, who explores the wild frontier of space warfare, where American forces fight a tenacious enemy which threatens every free nation on Earth.Dale Brown, taking us into the seldom-seen world of the military review board, and shows us how the future career of an EB-52 Megafortress pilot can depend on a man he's never met.And David Hagberg, who brings us another Kirk McGarvey adventure, in which the C.I.A. d...
|  | The Einstein Papers
Publication Date: May 1, 1999 When Craig Dirgo teamed up with grandmaster of adventure Clive Cussler, the result was the sensational #1 bestseller The Sea Hunters. Their next blockbuster was the New York Times bestseller, Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed. Now, Dirgo makes his fiction debut with this brilliantly conceived tale that buries the atomic age and spawns a new superweapon as earth-shattering as it is ingenious.Albert Einstein referred to it as the Unified Field Theory. It was his obsession, more important than Relativity and more difficult to prove. But on August 2, 1945, he d...
|  | Perfect Harmony
Publication Date: March 1998In her latest novel, internationally bestselling author Barbara Wood ventures into the world of American technology and alternative healing. When three people turn up dead after taking an ancient Chinese herbal remedy, healer Charlotte Lee suddenly finds herself in a race to find some answers before more people die Print ads . ...
|  | Atlantis: Bermuda Triangle
Release Date: May 1, 2000When a nuclear missile is launched from the waters of the Bermuda Triangle, ex-Green Beret Eric Dane must lead a team into the mysterious depths to confront an enemy which has but one objective--the total annihilation of all life on Earth. #2 in the series ...
|  | WW III: World in Flames
Release Date: June 30, 1991NATO armored dividions have broken out from near-certain defeat in the Soviet-ringed Dortmund/Bielefeld Pocket on the North German Plain. Despite being faster than the American planes, Russian MiG-25s and Sukhoi-15s are unable to maintain air superiority over the western Aleutians...On every front, the war that once seemed impossible blazes its now inevitable path of worldwide destruction. There is no way to know how it will end.... ...
|  | Powersat
Release Date: December 23, 2004Two hundred thousand feet up, things go horribly wrong. An experimental low-orbit spaceplane breaks up on reentry, falling to earth over a trail hundreds of miles long. And it its wake is the beginning of the most important mission in the history of space.America needs energy, and Dan Randolph is determined to give it to them. He dreams of an array of geosynchronous powersats, satellites which gather solar energy and beam it to generators on Earth, freeing America from its addiction to fossil fuels and breaking the power of the oil cartels forever. But the wrec...
|  | A James Bond Omnibus, Vol. 2: Thunderball / On Her Majesty's Secret Service / You Only Live Twice
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|  | The Roswell Protocols
Release Date: June 15, 2009Inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, an object is detected on radar rapidly descending to earth.Just moments before impact, it vanishes, crash landing somewhere other than originally predicted.Where? No one knows. But the ripple effects are felt worldwide.In a mountain chalet, an innocent children's book author is about to be frightened to the very core of her soul.In the Kremlin, a war hero is once again summoned to serve his country.In Japan, a determined general sets a daring plan into motion.In California, an expert in kinesics, the science of body movement, i...
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