http://www.freebookspot.in Latest books added today en-us http://www.freebookspot.in/logorss.jpg http://www.freebookspot.in 160 43 http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=47566 Review 'Exceptional ... Welcome to the immortality of fiction, Lisbeth Salander!' --Mario Vargas Llosa. 'Larsson's work is original, inventive, shocking, disturbing and challenging ... [he has] brought a much-needed freshness into the world of crime fiction' --Marcel Berlins, The Times. 'The most original heroine to emerge in crime fiction for many years' --Boyd Tonkin, Independent. --Reviews. 'Larsson's work is original, inventive, shocking, disturbing and challenging ... [he has] brought a much-needed freshness into the world of crime fiction' --Marcel Berlins, The Times. 'The most original heroine to emerge in crime fiction for many years' --Boyd Tonkin, Independent. Product Description Boxed set comprising revised hardback editions, with maps, of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, plus a fourth volume containing essays by those who knew and worked with the author, as well as other original material. Extra material in the fourth volume includes an essay by Eva Gedin, Larsson's publisher, on working with the author; an email correspondence between Larsson and Eva Gedin; an essay by John-Henri Holmberg, placing Stieg Larsson in the context of the resurgence of Scandinavian crime writing; maps and photographs. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=47410 At the center of this third book in the Secret series is the Tuning Fork and its mystery. Cass, Max-Ernest, and Yo-Yogi find themselves involved in a great “chocolate” mystery. Sinister Senor Hugo, great experimenter of chocolate, and the infamous Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais hold Cass’ mom as hostage as they seek the secret of immortality. Bosch again intersperses the story with warnings for readers and gives footnote explanations about types of chocolate. Ford’s hauntingly humorous illustrations provide brief intermissions in the story. Although there is no secret code to unravel, fans of the first two books will find this sequel satisfying. Grades 4-7. --J. B. Petty Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=47200 Contents: * Harry Potter And The Philosopher?s Stone * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=47193 Review A publishing sensation who seemingly came from nowhere ... crime fiction has seldom needed to salute and mourn such a stellar talent as Larsson s in the same breath - Sunday Times. Just when I was thinking there wasn't anything new on the horizon, along comes Stieg Larsson with this wonderfully unique story. I was completely absorbed - Michael Connelly. --Reviews Observer A striking novel, full of passion, an evocative sense of place and subtle insights into venal, corrupt minds Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=47074 Product Description First rate epic fantasy from the man who deserves to become the Tolkien of his day. The young hero is just beginning to understand the magic he has at his command, and only under the tutelage of the Sisters of Light can he control the Gift to combat the dark powers still arrayed against him. About the Author Terry Goodkinds first novel, Wizards First Rule immediately established him as one of the worlds bestselling authors. Each subsequent book in the Sword of Truth series sold better than the one before and some twenty million copies of books in the series have now been sold. He lives in the USA. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=47065 Review 'The sexiest vampire tale for years arrived in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, about teenage Bella's chaste romance with a beautiful vampire boy. Their intensely erotic feelings are endangered by more predatory types. Guaranteed to suck in sulky 13+ girls for hours.' The Times "Will keep readers madly flipping the pages of Meyer's tantalizing debut." Publishers Weekly Product Description To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life - first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse - seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed...forever? Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=47064 Review 'The sexiest vampire tale for years arrived in Stephenie Meyer's TWILIGHT, about teenage Bella's chaste romance with a beautiful vampire boy. Their intensely erotic feelings are endangered by more predatory types. Guaranteed to suck in sulky 13+ girls for hours.' The Times 'Will keep readers madly flipping the pages of Meyer's tantalizing debut.' Publishers Weekly Product Description 'Bella?' Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which? Following the international bestsellers Twilight and New Moon, Eclipse is the much-anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer's captivating saga of vampire romance. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=47063 Review 'The sexiest vampire tale for years arrived in Stephenie Meyer's TWILIGHT, about teenage Bella's chaste romance with a beautiful vampire boy. Their intensely erotic feelings are endangered by more predatory types. Guaranteed to suck in sulky 13+ girls for Product Description I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. 'Shoot,' I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. 'No!' Edward roared ...Dazed and disorientated, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm - and into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires. For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is more dangerous than Bella ever could have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of an evil vampire but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realise their troubles may just be beginning ... Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=47062 Review 'The sexiest vampire tale for years arrived in Stephenie Meyer's TWILIGHT, about teenage Bella's chaste romance with a beautiful vampire boy. Their intensely erotic feelings are endangered by more predatory types. Guaranteed to suck in sulky 13+ girls for hours.' THE TIMES "Will keep readers madly flipping the pages of Meyer's tantalizing debut." Publishers Weekly Product Description When 17 year old Isabella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town. But in spite of her awkward manner and low expectations, she finds that her new classmates are drawn to this pale, dark-haired new girl in town. But not, it seems, the Cullen family. These five adopted brothers and sisters obviously prefer their own company and will make no exception for Bella. Bella is convinced that Edward Cullen in particular hates her, but she feels a strange attraction to him, although his hostility makes her feel almost physically ill. He seems determined to push her away ? until, that is, he saves her life from an out of control car. Bella will soon discover that there is a very good reason for Edward's coldness. He, and his family, are vampires ? and he knows how dangerous it is for others to get too close. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=47061 A young girl lies in a hospital room, her tattooed body very close to death -- there is a bullet lodged in her brain. Several rooms away is the man who tried to kill her, his own body grievously wounded from axe blows inflicted by the girl he has tried to kill. She is Lisbeth Salander, computer hacker and investigator, and the man is her father, a murderous Russian gangster. If Salander recovers from her injuries, she is more than likely to be put on trial for three murders -- the authorities regard her as a dangerous individual. But she won't see the inside of a courtroom if her father manages to kill her first. This is the high-tension opening premise of the third book in Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful trilogy of crime novels which the late author (a crusading journalist) delivered to his publisher just before his death. But does it match up to its two electrifying predecessors, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire? The success of Larsson’s remarkable sequence of books is, to some degree, unprecedented. Crime fiction in translation has, of course, made a mark before (notably with Peter Hoeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, published, in fact, by Larsson's British publisher, Christopher MacLehose). But even the success of that book gave no hint of the juggernauts that the Salander books would be (the late author's secondary hero is the journalist Blomqvist -- who bears more than a passing resemblance to Stieg Larsson himself). Th Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=47033 Twilight Bella Swan moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington to allow her mother, Renee, to travel with her new husband, Phil, a baseball player. After moving to Forks, Bella finds herself involuntarily drawn to a mysterious, handsome boy, Edward Cullen, who turns out to be a vampire who drinks animal blood as opposed to human blood. They fall passionately in love, and must fight off a clan of three vampires who are drawn to drink Bella's blood. Bella escapes to Phoenix, Arizona where she is tricked into confronting James, a sadistic vampire who wishes to kill her. Edward rescues her, and they return to Forks. New Moon Edward and his family leave Forks because of his belief that he is constantly endangering Bella's life. Bella falls into a deep depression, until she develops a strong friendship with werewolf Jacob Black. Jacob and the other wolves in his tribe must protect her from Victoria, an evil vampire who intends to avenge the death of James, her mate, by killing Bella. A misunderstanding occurs, and Edward is led to believe that Bella is dead. Edward decides to commit suicide in Volterra, Italy, but he is stopped by Bella and Alice. They meet with the Volturi and are let go on the condition that Bella be turned into a vampire in the near future. Bella and Edward are reunited, and the Cullens return Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46958 With Jim Harrison, you always know that you'll be reading something that is well off the beaten track, so to speak. He writes for himself, not to please a segment of the population. With most of his work, you feel that you're getting deep within a person's soul. The English Major is a bit more "escapist" than some of his deeper and darker (in the sense of unsettling, not supernatural, although there may be a surreal feel) novels. The story is about a man recently in his 60's whose wife of almost 40 years has booted him out for another man. Cliff leaves his farm in Michigan on an Odyssey (using caps seems appropriate) across many of the western US states. He takes with him an old jigsaw puzzle, and as he leaves each state he "sacrifices" that piece of the puzzle. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46940 Nebula Maker: The manuscript for this book, written in the thirties and an early version of what became Star Maker, did not come to light until 1976. Four Encounters: The narrator of "Nebula Maker" stands on a hill and sees a vision that leads him to the birth of the universe. He witnesses the creation of the nebulae and the formation of galactic communities as well as the flowering of the personalities of the nebulae. "Four Encounters" describes the imaginary meetings of the author with individuals who represent four distinct world views, contents include: A Christian, A Scientist, A Mystic, A Revolutionary. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46934 The Flames (subtitled 'A Fantasy') is a science fiction novella by the writer and philosopher Olaf Stapledon. It was published by Secker and Warburg in 1947. The story takes the form of a long letter written by one old university friend to another. The recipient of the letter, known only as "Thos" (a college nickname, short for "Doubting Thomas") introduces the strange document, from a friend known only as "Cass" (another nickname; short for "Cassandra", an allusion to the friend's apparently prophetic abilities). Cass is regarded as a harmless eccentric by his friends, but Thos notes that his prophecies and preoccupations, wild as they may seem, have a habit of coming true. Thos also notes, ominously, that Cass's letter "bears the address of a well-known mental home". Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46928 "Probably the most powerful work of imagination ever written." Arthur C Clarke Review "A buried treasure of 20th century literature reemerges in this splendid and practical edition. McCarthy's revealing introduction and notes display the genius of Star Maker to a new century." (Robert Crossley, author of Olaf Stapledon: Speaking for the Future ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Product Description This 1937 successor to Last and First Men offers another entrancing speculative history of the future. Cited as a key influence by science-fiction masters such as Doris Lessing, its bold exploration of the cosmos ventures into intelligent star clusters and mingles among alien races for a memorable vision of infinity. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46925 Product Description Sirius is Thomas Trelone's great experiment - a huge, handsome dog with the brain and intelligence of a human being. Raised and educated in Trelone's own family alongside Plaxy, his youngest daughter, Sirius is a truly remarkable and gifted creature. His relationship with the Trelones, particularly with Plaxy, is deep and close, and his inquiring mind ranges across the spectrum of human knowledge and experience. But Sirius isn't human and the conflicts and inner turmoil that torture him cannot be resolved. About the Author Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) was born near Liverpool and educated at Balliol College, Oxford and Liverpool University. After spending eighteen months working in a shipping office in Liverpool and Port Said, he lectured extramurally for Liverpool University in English Literature and industrial history. He served in France from 1915 until 1919 with the Friends' Ambulance Unit and then lectured again for Liverpool University in psychology and philosophy. His novels include First and Last Men, Last Men in London, Star Maker and Odd John. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46916 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars Homo Superior Arrives to This World., October 22, 2006 By Maximiliano F Yofre "Maxi" (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) This review is from: Odd John (Leather Bound) Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) is believed to be the generational link between H. G. Wells (with whom he corresponded) and more recent British sci-fi authors as Arthur C. Clark (who recognizes Stapledon's influence on his "Childhood's End"). Born in England, spent his infancy at Port Said, absorbing the influence of the multicultural environment. He was a conscientious-objector but served as ambulance driver in WWI. In 1925 he was awarded with a Ph.D. in Philosophy and this is clearly perceptible in his novels. He had a powerful imagination and humanistic, scientific and philosophical interests that he poured in his four major opus: "Last an First Men" (1930), "Odd John" (1935), "Star Maker" (1937) and "Sirius" (1944). The present story follows the life and deeds of a Super Human. He is the product of an evolutionary jump and graced with super human intelligence. This intelligence needs time to evolve and grow, so John maintain infant characteristic by a longer period than normal. He is in permanent conflict with his surroundings, mastering them is a hard task. In order to receive help he recruits/bewitch a family's friend, who is the narrator in this novel. John grows up and discovers he is no Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46915 Product Description "No book before or since has ever had such an impact upon my imagination," declared 2001 author Arthur C. Clarke of this masterpiece of science fiction. An imaginative, ambitious history of humanity's future that spans billions of years, this 1930 epic abounds in prescient speculations. A must-read for scholars of the genre. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. About the Author Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) was born near Liverpool and educated at Balliol College, Oxford and Liverpool University. After spending eighteen months working in a shipping office in Liverpool and Port Said, he lectured extramurally for Liverpool University in English Literature and industrial history. He served in France from 1915 until 1919 with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit and then lectured again for Liverpool University in psychology and philosophy. His novels include First and Last Men, Last Men in London, Star Maker and Odd John. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46912 Product Description "No book before or since has ever had such an impact upon my imagination," declared 2001 author Arthur C. Clarke of this masterpiece of science fiction. An imaginative, ambitious history of humanity's future that spans billions of years, this 1930 epic abounds in prescient speculations. A must-read for scholars of the genre. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. About the Author Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) was born near Liverpool and educated at Balliol College, Oxford and Liverpool University. After spending eighteen months working in a shipping office in Liverpool and Port Said, he lectured extramurally for Liverpool University in English Literature and industrial history. He served in France from 1915 until 1919 with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit and then lectured again for Liverpool University in psychology and philosophy. His novels include First and Last Men, Last Men in London, Star Maker and Odd John. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46903 Stapledon projects two separate futures for humanity, depending not on the outcome of World War II but on the failure or success of a future "Tibetan Renaissance" to influence the temper and ideology of the militaristic empires that threaten it. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46791 Two families, one terrible secret, and a painting to die for ... Determined to sever his ties with the Office, Gabriel Allon has retreated to the windswept cliffs of Cornwall with his beautiful Venetian-born wife Chiara. But once again his seclusion is interrupted by a visitor from his tangled past: the endearingly eccentric London art dealer, Julian Isherwood. As usual, Isherwood has a problem. And it is one only Gabriel can solve. In the ancient English city of Glastonbury, an art restorer has been brutally murdered and a long-lost portrait by Rembrandt mysteriously stolen. Despite his reluctance, Gabriel is persuaded to use his unique skills to search for the painting and those responsible for the crime. But as he painstakingly follows a trail of clues leading from Amsterdam to Buenos Aires and, finally, to a villa on the graceful shores of Lake Geneva, Gabriel discovers there are deadly secrets connected to the painting. And evil men behind them. Before he is done, Gabriel will once again be drawn into a world he thought he had left behind forever, and will come face to face with a remarkable cast of characters: a glamorous London journalist who is determined to undo the worst mistake of her career, an elusive master art thief who is burdened by a conscience, and a powerful Swiss billionaire who is known for his good deeds but may just be behind one of the greatest threats facing the world. Filled with remarkable twists and turns of plot, and told with seduct Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46787 Magestic is the story of a time traveller, sent back from 2025 to 1985 to fix the world. A calamity awaits in 2025, the world needing to take a different course. Wars need to be avoided, certain politicians disgraced before taking office. But the traveller spends most of his time and energy building up a medical rescue charity. Imagine telling someone, in 1985, what mobile phones would be like in the future, the internet, girls with tattoos and peircings. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46786 Magestic is the story of a time traveller, sent back from 2025 to 1985 to fix the world. A calamity awaits in 2025, the world needing to take a different course. Wars need to be avoided, certain politicians disgraced before taking office. But the traveller spends most of his time and energy building up a medical rescue charity. Imagine telling someone, in 1985, what mobile phones would be like in the future, the internet, girls with tattoos and peircings. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46785 Magestic is the story of a time traveller, sent back from 2025 to 1985 to fix the world. A calamity awaits in 2025, the world needing to take a different course. Wars need to be avoided, certain politicians disgraced before taking office. But the traveller spends most of his time and energy building up a medical rescue charity. Imagine telling someone, in 1985, what mobile phones would be like in the future, the internet, girls with tattoos and peircings. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46782 Magestic is the story of a time traveller, sent back from 2025 to 1985 to fix the world. A calamity awaits in 2025, the world needing to take a different course. Wars need to be avoided, certain politicians disgraced before taking office. But the traveller spends most of his time and energy building up a medical rescue charity. Imagine telling someone, in 1985, what mobile phones would be like in the future, the internet, girls with tattoos and peircings. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46781 Magestic is the story of a time traveller, sent back from 2025 to 1985 to fix the world. A calamity awaits in 2025, the world needing to take a different course. Wars need to be avoided, certain politicians disgraced before taking office. But the traveller spends most of his time and energy building up a medical rescue charity. Imagine telling someone, in 1985, what mobile phones would be like in the future, the internet, girls with tattoos and peircings. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46780 Magestic is the story of a time traveller, sent back from 2025 to 1985 to fix the world. A calamity awaits in 2025, the world needing to take a different course. Wars need to be avoided, certain politicians disgraced before taking office. But the traveller spends most of his time and energy building up a medical rescue charity. Imagine telling someone, in 1985, what mobile phones would be like in the future, the internet, girls with tattoos and peircings. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46779 Magestic is the story of a time traveller, sent back from 2025 to 1985 to fix the world. A calamity awaits in 2025, the world needing to take a different course. Wars need to be avoided, certain politicians disgraced before taking office. But the traveller spends most of his time and energy building up a medical rescue charity. Imagine telling someone, in 1985, what mobile phones would be like in the future, the internet, girls with tattoos and peircings. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46778 Magestic is the story of a time traveller, sent back from 2025 to 1985 to fix the world. A calamity awaits in 2025, the world needing to take a different course. Wars need to be avoided, certain politicians disgraced before taking office. But the traveller spends most of his time and energy building up a medical rescue charity. Imagine telling someone, in 1985, what mobile phones would be like in the future, the internet, girls with tattoos and peircings. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46776 Magestic is the story of a time traveller, sent back from 2025 to 1985 to fix the world. A calamity awaits in 2025, the world needing to take a different course. Wars need to be avoided, certain politicians disgraced before taking office. But the traveller spends most of his time and energy building up a medical rescue charity. Imagine telling someone, in 1985, what mobile phones would be like in the future, the internet, girls with tattoos and peircings. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46775 Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's quandary involving the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents in his quest to conquer the wizarding world and subjugate non-magical people (Muggles). * Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46773 If your kids are fans of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and The Olympians series, they'll be delighted to know that The Red Pyramid, the first book in his new series, The Kane Chronicles, has been released and is now available at bookstores across the country. According to the Disney Book Group's media advisory email, "The Kane Chronicles [is] a new fantasy bringing ancient Egyptian mythology to life in a vivid, modern-day setting. In the debut novel of the series, The Red Pyramid, siblings Carter and Sadie Kane discover that they are descendants of great Egyptian magicians and the only ones who can set events right when a magical accident unleashes Egyptian gods into the modern world." Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46647 Using only a few pages, Jason manages to craft two different stories that happen to star the same characters. The characters are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and other literary giants as they live their legendary bohemian lifestyles in Paris. Except in this story they aren't writers but cartoonists, with comics being the height of culture in this alternate world. Not only are these writers now comic book creators, they are distinctly comic book characters as Jason has transformed them into his trademark anthropomorphic dogs and birds. As these characters contemplate their lives, Fitzgerald in particular is down and out. The book is a comment on the literary acceptance comics have been getting in recent years. All the anxieties these creators have to deal with are just as relevant to writers and cartoonists now as they were for the Lost Generation. Then, in a rather abrupt twist only Hemingway could be responsible for, the group decides to rob a bank, turning into a Tarantinoesque caper complete with different perspectives on the same chaotic event. Jason's clean, comfortable art and droll storytelling keep everything together through all the stylistic flights of fancy. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46633 I've awaited this book for months now and my expectations for it couldn't have been much higher, but it still managed to exceed them. There are actually 5 separate stories contained in this book: "Emily Says Hello", "Low Moon", " and ", "Proto Film Noir", and "You are Here" which are all very different in their subject matter and style of storytelling. This makes for a really enjoyable read, because of the variation herein. I was glad to see that this book went less with the slapsticky style of the recent "The Last Musketeer" and went back to a more serious and kind of surreal tone that were seen in "Hey, Wait" and "The Iron Wagon". Don't get me wrong though, Jason's humor still comes through in the surreality of the stories. Its awesome to see Jason getting his works published in hardcover too, as I feel his comics are deserving of the respect. All in all, this was really enjoyable for me and I would recommend this to both established fans of Jason and people who are looking to see what he's all about. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46586 Forbidden Flowers is Nancy Friday's second collection of sexual fantasies -- and it's even more explicit and outspoken than her original erotic masterpiece, My Secret Garden. The constant refrain from the legions of women across America who read My Secret Garden was, "Thank God I'm not the only one..." who had those wild, exciting erotic thoughts. With ForbiddenFlowers , these women can yet again experience the exhilarating freedom that comes with the awareness and acceptance of their sexual selves. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46570 Hope, a world peopled by anarchists, is in ecological crisis. For 1200 years, a secret Cabal has elevated powerful psi talents to the Godhood of Hope -- the management of Hope's crust -- at the eventual cost of their lives. Now only two remain: Armand Morelon and Victoria Peterson. But one is utterly unwilling and the other is murderously insane. And the survival of Mankind hangs in the balance. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46569 A solitary man in a diner on the coast of Maine. A tall beautiful stranger. A whip. A bronze heart. Hawaii. The Northwest ... How far will he go to face the truth about himself? ... This is a novel about borders: between sex and love, between life and death. John Wetterau grew up in Woodstock, N.Y., attended Hamilton College, and served four years in the U.S. Air Force. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Hawaii and has studied in the Vermont College MFA program. 'I was driving a taxi in Honolulu one rainy morning when a gorgeous ... Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46515 '... one of the best thrillers I've read in a long, long time... provides enough mysteries, clues, red herrings and twists and turns to last a life time.' John Wilson, Editor, Writer's Workshop. Roger Peerson is a savant with extraordinary powers of mathematical calculation. But he pays a price for his talent. Under stress his mind fractures into alternative personalities, sometimes even changing his memories. People and events blur between his imagination and reality. It becomes clear that something too terrible for his mind to let surface has happened. In this weakened state, he is recruited by a criminal organisation determined to exploit his gifts for their own nefarious ends. But the Ministry of Defence won't be letting one of their prize cryptographers be taken away from them that easily. Roger slowly comes to realise the awful truth about his recent, tragic past and the part played by the MoD and the criminals who have recruited him. But the killer who recruited Roger is closing in. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46514 Synopsis: In a Galaxy far, far, away ’time’ itself is being shredded …And the Universe on the whole isn’t happy about it. Minds immeasurable superior to ours slowly and patiently ‘drew’ up their plans against us, and the impending catastrophe. The ‘council’ discovered that abomination’s were placed in corrupted time lines by People unknown, the Cause unknown and the Reason’s were unknown. Even God doesn’t know why? it was done!.. Recruiting the recently deceased, who insisted they weren’t dead. The planners of our salvation then put a young girl in charge of the Project. The girl’s name was Romana Gennaro, she was only 128 years old and this was her first mission, but she was the most qualified person they could find. What could possibly go wrong?… Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46513 "Mars Girl is reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut's early satire ... [It's] a bizarre, satirical romp that offers a glimpse into the media and politics of a future that is probably nearer than most would like to admit." -City Pulse, Lansing, Michigan Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46486 Fall Love tells the intertwined stories of four twenties-something artists and professionals adrift in the bad old pre-AIDS New York of 1980. From a summer of love through an autumn of deceit and regret, we follow the lives of Althea, Jeanne, Paul, and Bryce from self-sacrifice to self-knowledge. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46485 About the sex lives and psyches of 4 artists along their bizarre paths to stardom: a singer, a film director, a writer and a rocker... Sabrina escapes death twice: will she finally triumph as the singer for her goth band, Clitorisaurus? Ziggy, a lonely professor, moonlights as an S and M director: X-rated reality shows catapult him to infamy. A Palestinian peacenik author feels someone is trying to kill him. And Todd the rocker can't seem to keep a grip... Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46484 The Soulmate Agency is a dating agency with a difference. Instead of pairing people up they invite groups of people away for a week and run them through a series of exercises to help them get to know one another. However, that is not to say the owner doesn't have a hidden plan of possible matings. But one assorted group, as soon as it arrives, starts to defy the odds... Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46482 Elise had no idea when she came home that day that she'd end up mated to a complete stranger. A new Alpha and the need for an alliance between packs have made her a pawn. EXCERPT: She lay beside him, staring blankly at the ceiling. The deed was done. They were mated. It didn't matter that she had no love for him nor he for her. Political alliances were more important than feelings, or so she had been told. That fact was cold comfort right now as her heart broke within her. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46481 For almost two years now, Kiera's boyfriend, Denny, has been everything she's ever wanted: loving, tender and endlessly devoted to her. They are off to a new city to start a new life together, he at his dream job and her at a top notch University. But life sometimes gets in the way of even the best relationships, and eventually the time apart starts to take its toll on them. Feeling lonely and confused, Kiera finds comfort from an unexpected source – a local rock star named Kellan Kyle, who also happens to be their new roommate. At first, he's purely a friend that she can lean on, but as her loneliness grows, so does their relationship. And then one night everything changes...and none of them will ever be the same. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46480 Lucas had it all – popularity, a devoted girlfriend, a brotherly best friend, and a loving mother who would do anything for him. His life was right on course to be a successful and fulfilling one, until the crash changed everything. It happened late one night during a sudden downpour. That evening, three young lives were lost and one life was left irrevocably altered. As the lone survivor, Lucas finds himself surrounded by swirling gossip of reckless drunkenness from the small town he used to warmly call home. Amid his own guilt and self-hatred, Lucas struggles to find hope, find peace, and maybe, even find love again. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46478 Emma is happy. She's got a promising career in front of her, great friends, and a pretty amazing family. But her social life has been a little lacking lately. That's when fate stepped in, and crashed her into a tall, dark and handsome man. Sure, he has his secrets...don't we all, and, yeah, maybe his secrets are a little more unusual than most - like he's a partial vampire who can walk around during the day, but also enjoys a little plasma nightcap now and again - but to Emma, he's single, successful, and an extraordinary gentleman. That makes up for a lot. Of course, his condition is a bit more serious than he first lets on, and living a life with him will require some sacrifices that most just aren't willing to make. Will she? Is love enough to compensate for a life that will never be anywhere near the realm of normalcy? But then again...what's normal anyway? Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46477 A Joan Carter of Mars story. Joan Carter of Mars has secrets to uncover in the Temple of the Sun – holding a revolving prison that can only be entered once a year - if she is to have any hope of rescuing three Princes of Mars, from the fantastic ancient Martian North. A Gender Switch Adventure. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46476 A Joan Carter of Mars Story. Joan Carter is back on Mars, and Mars badly needs her. As does Dejar Thoris, who is missing. Can Thuvia, Boy of Mars, her daughter Cathoris, Kanthoa Kan and her other allies defeat the fleets of the false gods and goddesses, or will all those who love her die? A Gender Switch Adventure. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46475 A Joan Carter of Mars story. When Virginian Captain Joan Carter is strangely transported to the red planet, Mars, she must learn a new way of life, and a new way to love, with Dejar Thoris, Prince of Helium. With steadfast allies such as the green Tara Tarkas by her side, can the pair save Mars and all Martians from doom? A Gender Switch Adventure. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46474 Simon Fell has awakened at a foreign star with no memory of his former life. He stands to inherit the legacy of a self he has never known. In a complex and frightening world of pioneer planets, clashing cultures and esoteric robots, one lost man will face a battery of tribulations, from his ignorance of basic customs to his entanglement in the machinations of interstellar politics. These are the adventures of N. Simonithrat Fell: hyperspatial amnesiac and gentleman-about-the-galaxy. Space will never be the same. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46472 In the dark underworld of Los Angeles, 2162, Cylea is targeted by unknown forces within the shadowy depths of global corporate government. Safety is scarce and running is the rule, but each brush with death builds new layers of strength within her, yielding new clues and new mysteries as she fights to uncover a deep-rooted secret unlike any other in the history of the human race, centered around the last person she'd ever expect it to be. Herself. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46460 Gideon Grayson is dying and one of his sons stands to gain an inheritance beyond compare... Terrified by visions of a bleak and brutal future in which his twin brother Caliban has the world at his mercy, Remiel Grayson makes a decision that will impact upon the lives of countless innocents. In order to avoid the destruction and decay he has glimpsed in his dreams, Remiel condemns his brother to a leper colony and inadvertently sets in motion events that will change the course of history. 'What Lies Beneath' is the first book in the Caliban's End trilogy, a sweeping, unconventional epic fantasy penned by Melbourne author Paul Francis Stewart. The story continues in 'Into the Endless' and concludes in 'Akin to Pity'. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46458 Three assassination squads set out from the ancient city of Cessair. Their paths are different but their destination is the same - into the Endless. The Myr's best hope of bringing about an end to its suffering hinges upon Chamberlain Llyr's audacious plan to kill Caliban Grayson. But every step the assassination squads take brings them closer to their demise as they slowly realise that some of the greatest dangers come from within. 'Into the Endless' is the second book in the Caliban's End trilogy, a sweeping, unconventional epic fantasy penned by Melbourne author Paul Francis Stewart. The first book in the tale is called 'What Lies Beneath'. The final book is 'Akin to Pity'. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46453 Chamberlain Llyr's assassination squads have suffered heavy losses but limp on, bloody yet resolute, to their destination - Caliban's End. The plot to kill Caliban Grayson has come undone and all the Myr's heroes can do is cling to the tattered threads that bind each of them to a desperate hope for survival. 'Akin to Pity' is the third book in the Caliban's End trilogy, a sweeping, unconventional epic fantasy penned by Melbourne author Paul Francis Stewart. The first book in the tale is called 'What Lies Beneath'. The second book is 'Into the Endless'. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46412 At the start of bestseller Foster's lighthearted techno-thriller (after 2006's The Candle of Distant Earth), runaway scientist Taneer Buthlahee and his gorgeous Untouchable lover, Depahli, are planning a marvelous life far from the city of Sagramunda, India—with the cash Taneer hopes to make on the stolen fruits of his mysterious research. To help broker the deal, Taneer hires fixer Sanjay Ghosh, a determined former farmer with big dreams of his own. Hot on Taneer's trail are a company operative with orders from Taneer's former employer to do whatever's necessary to get the stolen goods back, as well as Taneer's father, who's sworn to kill his son for dishonoring the family with his theft. Also along for the ride are a Hindu fundamentalist drug addict bent on offering plenty of sacrifices to her blood-loving goddess, the cop who's trying to catch her and a man-eating tiger. SF elements make colorful window dressing for this unpredictable thriller, whose multiple threads Foster juggles like the professional he is. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46404 Nothing unites old enemies like new ones. This is especially true for the inhabitants of Panamindorah as they begin to set aside their differences to fight their true enemies. In Laven-lay, wolflings and wood fauns are sharing counsel for the first time in a generation. In Danda-lay, cliff fauns and cats have joined forces in a last desperate attempt to save the city from the swamp faun invaders. In Kazar swamp, cats and their shelts have been reunited after hundreds of years of separation and abuse. But have all these answers and reunions come too late? Time is running out to stop their true enemy. The ruin of Selbis is awaking to welcome her king. Gabalon is coming home. This is the third book in The Prophet of Panamindorah trilogy. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46398 Things have gone horribly wrong for the fauns at the spring festival of Lupricasia. A princess has been kidnapped, and visiting feline dignitaries have been blamed for the kidnapping. Corry, the young wizard shape shifter who saw the kidnapping, has been sent hurdling over a waterfall at a deadly height. Meanwhile the wolfling bandits who unwittingly hold the clues that would explain the kidnapping are about to be discovered by a bounty hunter and his employer, bent on their destruction. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46396 Corry showed up at the orphanage two years ago, unable to remember how he'd gotten there. He spoke a language no one recognized, and he was afraid of cars and planes and computers. Corry can remember snippets of another life, but no matter how hard he tries to remember, it just keeps slipping away. Then one day, he meets a fauness in an orange grove. She's from a world called Panamindorah, and he can understand her language. In addition, Corry can read a language that no one in Panamindorah has been able to read for three hundred years. Has he really been gone that long? Now he must recover his lost memories and rebuild his life, because the person who tried to kill him once is about to try again. The Prophet of Panamindorah is for readers and listeners 13 and older. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46393 When Susannah and I were lovers, the fact that she was married seemed irrelevant to me, except it limited our being together. I knew she could not love me any more than she did, husband or no husband, that he could not matter in the same way, that if she made love to David in the morning and me at noon it subtracted nothing from the truth of our love. She did do that, at least once; she told me so. But not to make me jealous, or threaten me in any way, simply as a curious, unexpected event in her life that she knew I would be interested in. Entertained by. We were complete, we were a world and though this world of ours was tightly bounded in time and space, nothing could make it less than whole. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46386 1.Casino Royale 2.Devil May care 3.Diamonds are forever 4.Dr No 5.For your eyes only 6.From russia with love 7.Goldfinger 8.Moonraker 9.On her Majesty's Service 10.Thunderball 11.Live and let die 12.the spy who loved me 13.Octopussy and the living daylight 14.You only live twice Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46281 On University Avenue in Palo Alto in the 1970’s there was a bar called the Shutter, where I hung out with my graduate student friends. We could just afford it if we didn’t drink much. I was in East Asian Studies and my friends Jay and Sheldon were in English; we were ABD’s—all but dissertation. The bar was a decent place to sit and argue ideas, not too loud to hear ourselves talk. On a night that was in all other ways like many nights before it, a woman came in alone who made everyone in the place stare and then try not to. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46280 This morning I found an extraordinary thing. It was a letter from Adam to a woman named Jessica—a love letter, pure and simple—and though it has no date I am sure it was written not long ago. It had to be written by someone over the age of twenty; and twenty-five, the age he amazingly is now, would be a lot more believable. I picture him sitting in this cabin not so long ago, this place where we used to come, his mother and I, eons ago, before. Where he came when he was a little boy, and she was still alive, and I had no idea that the happiness of those years was still the exception and not, as I imagined, the new rule of my life. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46273 I remember I was next to the back fence when I almost died. I was in the back yard, doing nothing, wandering around scuffing my feet in the old leaves that were spilling off of the pile that I had put there the previous fall, and what was I thinking? Nothing cosmic enough for such an occasion. I was probably thinking about work without meaning to, or trying to figure out why Ellen was feeling however she was feeling, and then I found myself lying on the ground by the back fence, my face turned toward the house. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46270 One thing you can’t help learning about life is that most of the time it puts up a lot of resistance, as if you were trying to write a passionate love letter with a pen dipped in molasses. And yet every once in a while the resistance decreases. It did that from one day to the next during the January of my senior year in high school—the stuff things were made of softened and began to flow in unpredictable directions. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46269 The first night of my visit, before I knew what I had come there to do, I lay in bed in the dark upstairs, hearing from downstairs the mutter of the radio, the announcer’s voice rising and falling with the events of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball game, the words indistinguishable. I remembered all the times I had lain in bed and half-heard the faint sounds of my aunt Augusta downstairs, listening to the ball game, washing the dishes, watering the house plants, sitting on the porch swing and making it creak faintly under my window—I took that for granted, as natural as cicadas. I had long ago ceased to wonder what she thought about all that time; it was a wonderful relief to be close to Augusta again and so, somehow, closer to myself than I could be anywhere else. Everything in the room—my room, as we both called it—everything except for me was the same as it always had been. It was one of my anchors in life to think of it always the same, waiting for me, whoever I might be, to return. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46263 It's a fiery hot summer, and sixteen-year-old Jesse Wright is on the run. An oddly gifted boy, he arrives in a new city where the direction of his life is about to change. He's hungry and lonely and desperate - and beset by visions of a stranger who is being brutally tortured. And then there are Jesse's own memories of a fire ... Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46259 The Spring is the story of eight friends approaching the end of their senior year of high school. Preparing for graduation should be an exciting time, but as they look forward to college, fall in and out of love, and just try to endure their last days of high school, they discover the old bonds of friendship that held them together are falling apart. Can their friendships survive their dreams and hopes for the future? It's a little bit angsty, a little bit funny, a little bit philosophical, and a little bit romantic. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46258 Introverted and shy, 14-year-old Leah Nells has lived her life alone, with only books to keep her company. As she starts 9th grade, she finds herself lost within the complicated social universe of high school — especially when she falls in love with a boy from her class. Under pressure from her parents, her classmates, and the whole noisy world, can she become the girl she wants to be? Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46159 For Deborah Peregrin, owner of a small-town jewelry store, life is simply chugging along. She makes custom creations for the well-heeled and tangles with the common heels. When one of her best customers, Mae Griffiths, turns up dead of a cocaine overdose, Deborah can't sit back and accept the verdict of suicide. After all, the tragedy happened on the very night Mae was to acquire Deborah's latest creation, and no woman in her right mind would kill herself when anticipating a stunning handmade necklace! Frustrated with the local police department, Deborah sets out to find Mae's murderer. A brush with certain death, a night in jail in Mexico, and the possibility of romance await her. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46097 The Murder of Vincent van Gogh There is one incontrovertible fact, Vincent van Gogh (the famous and infamous 19th century painter) was shot and died. Was Vincent van Gogh murdered? That question can only be answered with logical supposition: when it is impossible to prove the truth or untruth of a thing then truth matters little. Therefore, what is known as the truth could be a lie and, contrary-wise, what is believed a lie may prove Truth. Let us begin this tale where all good murders begin: a body. Not Vincent van Gogh’s, but a woman’s. The Year: 1879. The place: Le Chat Noir... Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46096 A personal interpretation of the hexagrams of the Book of Changes, or I Ching, one of the worlds most respected oracular devices. The work is based upon the author's own experience of using the book as a psychological, spiritual and divinatory tool. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46095 Is Brad seeing things? A boy, his double, on the other side of the stream. It’s like looking into a mirror. But where has he come from? Who is he? When Brad decides to follow him into the forest, it is the start of an action-packed thrill ride. Set in the mountains of far northern Australia, this is the debut novel of author Luke King. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46094 So,... a man goes to sleep one night and wakes up next to a beautiful young woman who is not his his wife. This comes as a shock to both of them. Who is she? Where are they? And what have they become? Another man discovers a way of slipping back into his own past and he's tempted to alter the course of things while he's there. Dangerous? Maybe, but perhaps meddling in the past has an unexpected way of reinforcing the meaning of the present. These are just two of the short stories featured in Walking on the Sunny Side of Strange, a collection of fantasy fiction with many an unexpected twist, but all of them romantic at heart, and ultimately optimistic. These stories were written to intrigue, to take you out of yourself for a while, and to entertain,... not depress you. They were originally featured as individual tales for free on Feedbooks and on the Rivendale Review website, but they are presented here, under one cover, with original illustrations by the author. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46092 A humorous detective tale book-ended with a love story. Features a slightly neurotic food chemist, a handsome musician, and of course a connection to ice cream. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46072 A selection of ghost stories set in and around the county of East Yorkshire England. If you think that ghost stories are all set in gothic castles then think again, many are from the here and now... The short tale, A Long Awaited Landing was read out on BBC Radio Humberside as the Peoples Choice winner of the Making Waves Comp. "It sent a shiver down my spine" Lara King,BBC Radio presenter. Don't read this at bedtime..? Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46068 When Lee, Maddie and Sarah meet in the pub to plan this years charity walk; none of them could possible know that the route they picked would course a series of strange events and encounters to talk place. Passing through many villages while on the way Maddie recounts supernatural tales in regard to each location, none of the party though could be aware that they themselves where becoming part of a bigger tale… At the end of the first days walking all three experience a strange encounter, is it heat and Maddies stories dwelling on their minds or something much more sinister..? This book is much more then a novel, the walk actually exists and can be followed by the use of the maps included within the book (in conjunction with the O/S Explorer Map 263). The Haunted Way is approxitamy 30 miles in length passing through some of the most picturesque villages of East Yorkshire. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=46050 The story opens with WPC Kate Wood sorting through the archives of New Scotland Yard (modern day). She finds a set of notes on a case, the facts of which were never made public… On Christmas Eve 1888 Chief Inspector Herbert Kitchener arrives in an Edinburgh Police Station. He has been sent to reconnoitre the various Locations for Queen Victoria's Christmas Holiday. Whilst in the Station news comes through of a problem at the Bell Rock Lighthouse. The relief keeper has been locked out. The Lighthouse is needed as a beacon for the Royal Yacht arriving later that evening, Kitchener and the relief keeper go to the Rock to investigate. On arrival they find a locked door and inside two dead bodies, the Keeper and the First Mate. The engineer though cannot be found. As Kitchener investigates, the story of how he came to be with the Royal Party unfolds. The engineer appears and the mystery of the dead keepers, Jack the Ripper and an assassination attempt on Queen Victoria's life is revealed. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45932 Clinical psychologist investigates a murderers past. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45909 Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again. This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine—like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob—knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which? Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45908 To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both a fantasy and a nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice, to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life, has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella’s life – first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse – seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed… forever? Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45907 Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading 'soul' who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too-vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves - Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she's never met. As outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love. This ebook includes a new bonus chapter, conversation with Stephenie Meyer, questions and topics for discussion and Stephenie Meyer's annotated playlist for The Host. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45904 The second installment of the Dr. Sarah Greene trilogy. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45903 Veteran Milwaukee police detective Wally Dopple takes on the case of an important local politician murdered in the back room of Old Town Serbian Gourmet House. With partner Krystal Findley and canine backup Manfred, he pursues wildly disparate leads in search of the killer. In the course of his investigation he probes the heart of a city that, like himself, is seeking a rebirth. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45902 Veteran Milwaukee police detective Wally Dopple is vacationing at the family retreat in Cottonwood, Wisconsin. Approaching retirement, Dopple seeks respite from his regular duties at the 2nd District Station. Instead, he finds murder in the men's locker room of the Shibboleth Hills Golf Club. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45809 Ray Steagle, high school English teacher late to the gym and unseen, encounters an honor student terrorizing the entire student body with a .357-magnum at the academic awards assembly. Ray gets a .38-caliber revolver from his car and calls nine-one-one. Knowing Jacob Kriter well, he tries to appease the boy. After fourteen minutes, both weapons fire. One misses. The other does not. Ray is charged and goes on trial. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45807 Complete mystery novels set in a small town in Wisconsin. A front-page story in the Jefferson County Daily Union said: "Jim Rohrer, a part-time resident of Fort Atkinson and the author of three recently published mystery novels, draws his inspiration from everyday life ... even from this newspaper. In the headlines, the police reports and the community meeting listings, Rohrer has found sparks that set off "what-if" scenarios in his mind that eventually became the "Dead Man" mystery series." The reporter also wrote: "The books have a true sense of place, reflecting the issues, the culture and the language of a lot of small-town people from this area. An amusing combination of down-to-earth and ridiculous, they're full of funny regional observations, while still touching on real issues from more than one perspective." Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45793 An action-packed mystery thriller set in modern day Melbourne. When a young woman dives into his car pleading for help, unemployed slacker Jack Marsh is propelled into a desperate high-speed chase. But Jack fails to protect the strange girl and she is soon captured by her dark pursuer and brutally murdered. Vowing to track down her killer as an amateur detective to redeem himself, Jack's hunt leads him deep into a grimy Melbourne underworld of vicious pool hall thugs, psychotic drug dealers, and the shadowy hand of a sinister religious cult. But when another horrific death changes everything, hunter Jack suddenly becomes the hunted himself. With his enemies tightening their net around him, and his own inner demons from the past threatening to destroy his resolve, Jack will need all of his wits – as well as his brown belt karate skills – to escape with his life... Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45500 With the character of the doctor as her subject, Tabitha Sparks follows the decline of the marriage plot in the Victorian novel. As Victorians came to terms with the scientific revolution in medicine of the mid-to-late nineteenth century, the novel's progressive distance from the conventions of the marriage plot can be indexed through a rising identification of the doctor with scientific empiricism. A narrative's stance towards scientific reason, Sparks argues, is revealed by the fictional doctor's relationship to the marriage plot. Thus, novels that feature romantic doctors almost invariably deny the authority of empiricism, as is the case in George MacDonald's Adela Cathcart. In contrast, works such as Wilkie Collins's "Heart and Science", which highlight clinically minded or even sinister doctors, uphold the determining logic of science and, in turn, threaten the novel's romantic plot. By focusing on the figure of the doctor rather than on a scientific theme or medical field, Sparks emulates the Victorian novel's personalization of tropes and belief systems, using the realism associated with the doctor to chart the sustainability of the Victorian novel's central imaginative structure, the marriage plot. As the doctors Sparks examines increasingly stand in for the encroachment of empirical knowledge on a morally formulated artistic genre, their alienation from the marriage plot and its interrelated decline succinctly herald the end of the Victorian era and the beginning of Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45396 In a future where the human race has become bloated and overconfident over the entire Sol system, no one questions the government’s discreet disposal of criminals. Having very much committed a crime herself, Alyson Valentine find herself enduring the harsh reality of her new home, the Longboat class prison ship Rigor Mortis. With no idea where the ship is heading, Alyson finds the issue of trust most valuable yet desperately unattainable in a world where no one is innocent, and everyone has secrets. A dark, unsettling survival story focusing around a group of prisoners whose only relation to each other is to survive against all odds. Psychotics, prison guards, an alien monstrosity and the very demons within themselves they must escape to survive, lest the darkness take them. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45383 What a challenging yet relaxing voyage into the northern most regions of our country, and in a parallel way the northern-most regions of our spiritual beings. This refreshing sci-fi story takes you back to the days of free love vs. full on rightousness while propelling us into the future beyond any current relevance to another realm. The realities in this book may themselves be as alien to some readers as the fantasy in this story would be to others, it will challenge your perceptions of this world and beyond. Yet the book is down to earth, invites you in, you'll wish you could experiance much of it yourself, and perhaps someday we allwill! Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45381 Hi. I'm Tessa, and I suppose you want to know whether to read my blog. Well, you might want to take a look if you're interested in computer games, dreams, or fantasy worlds. (Or the sarcastic ramblings of a twenty-something who doesn't like cliches and uses too many parentheses.) I thought I'd just be keeping my friends updated about the goings-on in my boring life. But then I started playing this RPG with some friends. It seemed pretty stereotypical and cringeworthy - I'm not even sure why we kept on with it. But strange things started happening... A NaNoWriMo Novel by Alex Churchill Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45379 This hardcover includes Book One and Book Two of The Hokvene Chronicles. Book One contains a story of intergalactic intrigue, with Ghata, Prime Keeper of the Hives on Galq-ro, and his consort, Shokia. Ghata discovers the widely used recreational drug, Zorkol, sold everywhere throughout Human, Reptilian and Insectoid star systems, causes mutations in the DNA of users. Because many economies rely on Zorkol, stopping production throws many planets into war. Book Two tells of Shokia's experiences with the Passion-seekers, a race of non-corporeal lifeforms. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45376 In "the Wacky Misadventures of Warble McGorkle," Warble Poundcake McGorkle "ascends" from irresponsible dreamer to President of the United States. "Wacky Warble" is a picaresque satire that, through the protagonist's zany antics, pokes fun at the 'get rich quick' and 'get rich by any means possible' philosophies prevalent in today's society. Warble McGorkle considers himself a genius. In reality, he is a jumble-headed, paranoid megalomaniac. Warble and his wife Mary crisscross the U.S.A. at breakneck speed, as Warble endeavors to stay one step ahead of pursuers (most of them imaginary). Everywhere he and Mary go, Warble concocts a cockamamie scheme to get fabulously rich and to propel himself to the pinnacle of society, where his fame--so he reasons, anyway--will make him safe from the forces supposedly arrayed against him. In the end, he finds that being President is not all that it's cracked up to be. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45245 The Tyrant is an absurd novel that chronicles the actions of a secret cabal of heros fighting to save the world from a malevolent enemy beyond space and time. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45238 An alien scientist from another world wants to pass as human. It abducts a female college professor, and a year later, joins her for an extended stay. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45235 When Kiviuq Orion applied for a job giving intelligence tests to a sample of every life-form in the universe, he never thought he would come across any so ill-informed and ignorant as those he found on the planet Earth. And when Oberon Furrow, the unsuspecting human that Kiviuq tested first, answered innocently that the universe had only three dimensions, he never suspected that any ten-dimensional aliens could take offence. Thankfully the alien in question is far from hostile, and is willing to demonstrate to Oberon the true vastness of the cosmos, in return for an insight into that curious concept of the perception of 'time'. Meanwhile, the foundations of human society are falling apart, but it won't take much to convince them that it's time to give everything a thorough rethink, surely? It would merely be necessary to introduce them to Zirth... Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45223 When Baron Lenox's assignation with his mistress goes awry, he finds himself in bed with the wrong lady. The potential scandal leaves him with one option: marry the innocent mystery woman. But Isolde Perceval has no intention of marrying Lenox. In fact, she orchestrated the compromising situation herself-for reasons that are unpredictable, riotously romantic, and sexy as hell. Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45201 Now on the shadowy East-West battlefield of Mexico City. British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice his opposite number, a disaffected KGB major, to take the final, dramatic step and defect. But the price of one Russian's freedom must be paid in blood blood that Samson unexpectedly and incriminatingly finds on his own hands. On every side, he becomes dangerously enmeshed in an intricate web of suspicion and hatred. Yet how can he fight when he doesn't know where to find his most determined enemies or even who they are? Read more...
]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:03:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.in/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=45198 With this outrageous new novel, China Mieville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this--or any other--year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about or prevent the End of All Things. In the Darwin Centre at London's Natural History Museum, Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, is conducting a tour whose climax is meant to be the Centre's prize specimen of a rare Architeuthis dux" "better known as the Giant Squid. But Billy's tour takes an unexpected turn when the squid suddenly and impossibly vanishes into thin air. As Billy soon discovers, this is the precipitating act in a struggle to the death between mysterious but powerful forces in a London whose existence he has been blissfully ignorant of until now, a city whose denizens--human and otherwise--are adept in magic and murder. There is the Congregation of God Kraken, a sect of squid worshippers whose roots go back to the dawn of humanity--and beyond. There is the criminal mastermind known as the Tattoo, a merciless maniac inked onto the flesh of a hapless victim. There is the FSRC--the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit a branch of London's finest that fights sorcery with sorcery. There is Wati, a spirit from ancient Egypt who leads a ragtag union of magical familiars. There are the Londonmancers, who read the fu Read more...
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