From 12fa2770d596f33fe0c25cc01923bc5dcf584ec9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dozens Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2022 13:05:43 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=F0=9F=93=9A?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- books.csv | 64 +++++- books.rec | 573 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- feed.xml | 275 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- 3 files changed, 882 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) diff --git a/books.csv b/books.csv index 9bcba6b..89fba73 100644 --- a/books.csv +++ b/books.csv @@ -1752,7 +1752,7 @@ Staying true to the mission of the first), Garr combines solid principles of des "Denning, Troy","","2019-03-22T16:10:03-06:00","epub","","uri:urn:uuid:fbd-786660-844b-b245-b0b2-f931-8410-f49897","eng","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","535145","sf_fantasy","Pages of Pain (p)","992","9fb59903-4f80-49f5-9c3c-a752bc0160b2" "Quinn, Kate","","2019-03-23T15:49:19-06:00","azw3, epub, mobi","","mobi-asin:B01LZFL63S","eng","2017-06-06T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","975435","","Alice Network, The","993","74bff437-f691-4dba-8228-adfaecc59da6" "Larison, John","","2019-03-23T15:49:19-06:00","azw3, epub, mobi","","mobi-asin:B0784M6FZK","eng","2018-08-21T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","865800","","Whiskey When We're Dry","994","eb1c4423-43e3-4d4b-9563-21393ab7c484" -"Ann Leckie","

Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down from the throne in this breathtaking first fantasy novel from Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.

For centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven. He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful port of Vastai. His will is enacted through the Raven's Lease, a human ruler chosen by the god himself. His magic is sustained via the blood sacrifice that every Lease must offer. And under the Raven's watch, the city flourishes.


But the power of the Raven is weakening. A usurper has claimed the throne. The kingdom borders are tested by invaders who long for the prosperity that Vastai boasts. And they have made their own alliances with other gods.


It is into this unrest that the warrior Eolo—aide to Mawat, the true...","2019-03-25T13:20:18-06:00","epub","","","eng","2019-02-25T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","5735511","","Raven Tower, The","995","49ff9919-3e56-47ed-ac14-fa5c2beb852d" +"Ann Leckie","

Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down from the throne in this breathtaking first fantasy novel from Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.

For centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven. He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful port of Vastai. His will is enacted through the Raven's Lease, a human ruler chosen by the god himself. His magic is sustained via the blood sacrifice that every Lease must offer. And under the Raven's watch, the city flourishes.


But the power of the Raven is weakening. A usurper has claimed the throne. The kingdom borders are tested by invaders who long for the prosperity that Vastai boasts. And they have made their own alliances with other gods.


It is into this unrest that the warrior Eolo—aide to Mawat, the true...","2019-03-25T13:20:18-06:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2019-02-25T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","7145793","","Raven Tower, The","995","49ff9919-3e56-47ed-ac14-fa5c2beb852d" "Rother, Mike","","2019-03-29T18:41:24-06:00","azw3, epub, mobi","","mobi-asin:B002NPC0Q2","eng","2009-09-04T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","5203060","","Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results","996","a2e7ada7-582f-421e-ba28-90cb62a39faf" "Traister, Rebecca","","2019-03-29T19:49:41-06:00","azw3, mobi","","mobi-asin:B010MHAHQC","eng","2016-03-01T00:00:00-07:00","","1.0","1125184","","All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation","997","200c088d-36d3-40a1-8ee9-45f20eba4288" "McCammon, Robert R.","An Alabama boy's innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song.
It's 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama. People either work for the paper mill up the Tecumseh River, or for the local dairy. It's a simple life, but it stirs the impressionable imagination of twelve-year-old aspiring writer Cory Mackenson. He's certain he's sensed spirits whispering in the churchyard. He's heard of the weird bootleggers who lurk in the dark outside of town. He's seen a flood leave Main Street crawling with snakes. Cory thrills to all of it as only a young boy can.

Then one morning, while accompanying his father on his milk route, he sees a car careen off the road and slowly sink into fathomless Saxon's Lake. His father dives into the icy water to rescue the driver, and finds a beaten corpse, naked and handcuffed to the steering wheel—a copper wire tightened around the...","2019-03-30T12:26:54-06:00","epub, mobi","978-1-4532-3156-2","isbn:978-1-4532-3156-2","eng","2011-03-15T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","2584940","","Boy's Life","998","518a9b77-ac00-4ea1-ad09-68bd561d1074" @@ -2288,7 +2288,7 @@ Freeman and Pryce were joint winners of the 2006 Agile Alliance Gordon Pask awar "Wainwright, Loudon","Loudon Wainwright III, the son of esteemed Life magazine columnist Loudon Wainwright Jr., is the patriarch of one of America's great musical families. He is the former husband of Kate McGarrigle and Suzzy Roche, and father of Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Lucy Wainwright Roche, and Lexie Kelly Wainwright. With a career spanning more than four decades, Wainwright has established himself as one of the most enduring singer-songwriters who emerged from the late 1960s. Not only does he perform regularly across America and in Europe, but he is a sought after actor, having appeared in many movies and TV series.
There is probably no singer-songwriter who has so blatantly inserted himself into his songs. The songs can be laugh-out-loud funny, but they also can cut to the bone. In this memoir, Wainwright details the family history his lyrics have referenced and the fractured relationships among generations: the alcoholism, the infidelities, the competitiveness—as well...","2021-08-11T12:02:33-06:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2017-09-04T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","19544581","","Liner Notes","1376","a28d1a16-d441-478d-a7e0-69b957718ea5" "Crystal Zevon","

When Warren Zevon died in 2003, he left behind both a fanatical cult following and a rich catalog of dark, witty rock-n-roll classics that includes ""Lawyers, Guns, and Money,"" ""Excitable Boy,"" and the immortal ""Werewolves of London."" He also left a trove of misadventures and anecdotes, a veritable rock opera of drugs, women, celebrity, high times, and hard ways. As Warren once said, ""I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did.""

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead is an intimate and unusual oral history of one of our most original and distinctive rock-and-roll antiheroes. Narrated by his former wife and longtime co-conspirator, Crystal Zevon, the book draws on over eighty interviews with the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Stephen King, Billy Bob Thornton, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, and countless others who came under his mischievous spell. The result is a raucous and moving tale of love and obsession, creative genius and epic bad behavior....","2021-08-14T10:42:05-06:00","epub, mobi","9780061744990","isbn:9780061744990","eng","2007-08-15T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","5883054","","I'll Sleep When I'm Dead","1377","aee5d019-9509-45c5-b8b1-b252efb804c0" "Grimson, Todd","

In the world of Hollywood's panderers, philanderers, has-beens, and sycophants, aspiring screenwriter and director Lisa Nova considers herself a rising star who can transcend the lies, cheating, and hypocrisy for the sake of her art. When she is coldly betrayed by one leering producer too many, she turns to Boro, the enigmatic leader of a local biker gang, to exact vengeance—and she gets more than she bargained for. It begins with the strange tattoos that appear overnight on her skin like stigmata, followed by the hallucinations of ancient cults of the undead. Lisa soon finds herself contending with white jaguars and cannibalistic demons rising from the grave, and the lines between dreams and reality quickly dissolve in this surreal and exhilarating blend of satire and the macabre.","2021-08-16T17:37:29-06:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2011-08-15T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","1344441","","Brand New Cherry Flavor","1378","4451909a-7a02-43fe-9ee3-e4dcc0b1954d" -"de Castell, Sebastien","With swashbuckling action that recall Dumas' Three Musketeers Sebastien de Castell has created a dynamic new fantasy series. In Traitor's Blade a disgraced swordsman struggles to redeem himself by protecting a young girl caught in the web of a royal conspiracy.
The King is dead, the Greatcoats have been disbanded, and Falcio Val Mond and his fellow magistrates Kest and Brasti have been reduced to working as bodyguards for a nobleman who refuses to pay them. Things could be worse, of course. Their employer could be lying dead on the floor while they are forced to watch the killer plant evidence framing them for the murder. Oh wait, that's exactly what's happening.
Now a royal conspiracy is about to unfold in the most corrupt city in the world. A carefully orchestrated series of murders that began with the overthrow of an idealistic young king will end with the death of an orphaned girl and the ruin of everything that Falcio, Kest, and Brasti have fought...","2021-08-17T13:53:40-06:00","epub","","","eng","2014-08-11T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","2237049","FIC009000 Fiction / Fantasy / General","Traitor's Blade","1379","5dbab333-d7b6-497c-877d-cf452e965838" +"de Castell, Sebastien","With swashbuckling action that recall Dumas' Three Musketeers Sebastien de Castell has created a dynamic new fantasy series. In Traitor's Blade a disgraced swordsman struggles to redeem himself by protecting a young girl caught in the web of a royal conspiracy.
The King is dead, the Greatcoats have been disbanded, and Falcio Val Mond and his fellow magistrates Kest and Brasti have been reduced to working as bodyguards for a nobleman who refuses to pay them. Things could be worse, of course. Their employer could be lying dead on the floor while they are forced to watch the killer plant evidence framing them for the murder. Oh wait, that's exactly what's happening.
Now a royal conspiracy is about to unfold in the most corrupt city in the world. A carefully orchestrated series of murders that began with the overthrow of an idealistic young king will end with the death of an orphaned girl and the ruin of everything that Falcio, Kest, and Brasti have fought...","2021-08-17T13:53:40-06:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2014-08-11T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","2514719","FIC009000 Fiction / Fantasy / General","Traitor's Blade","1379","5dbab333-d7b6-497c-877d-cf452e965838" "Ishiguro, Kazuo","From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.

In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.","2021-08-18T15:52:00-06:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2015-03-02T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","5621770","","Buried Giant, The","1380","57cf6406-0b45-4931-923b-16eefeeccc4d" "Garner, Alan","The much-loved classic, finally in ebook. Winner of both the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal, this is an all-time classic, combining mystery, adventure, history and a complex set of human relationships. @@ -2310,10 +2310,10 @@ This is the first English translation of the 1905 German text and the first volu "Ford, Ashley C.","

""Sure to be one of the best memoirs of 2021."" —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

""So clear, sharp, and smooth that the reader sees, in vivid focus, Ford's complicated childhood, brilliant mind, and golden heart. Ford is a writer for the ages, and Somebody's Daughter will be a book of the year."" —Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed

""Ford's wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the making. The writing is so richly observed and so suffused with love and yearning that I kept forgetting to breathe while reading it."" —John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father.
Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley Ford wishes she could turn to...","2021-09-14T19:51:54-06:00","epub","","","eng","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","991939","","Somebody's Daughter","1387","e68227ff-0f71-4547-9301-cd4d1709259f" "Unknown","","2021-09-20T18:02:10-06:00","epub","","uri:http://www.gutenberg.org/38240","eng,epo","2011-12-06T00:00:00-07:00","","1.0","1713645","Esperanto -- Periodicals","Esperantist, Complete, The","1389","3a193f6a-909e-43ce-a940-6dae6b131e81" "McConaughey, Matthew","From the Academy Award®–winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction

""Unflinchingly honest and remarkably candid, Matthew McConaughey's book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did—and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.""—Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.

Recently, I worked up the...","2021-09-23T20:45:48-06:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2020-10-19T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","120366178","","Greenlights","1390","71f62a22-1501-496b-9005-e5c28d08724f" -"Wong, David","

Now with never before seen pages from David Wong's next book Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits.

From the writer of the cult sensation John Dies at the End comes another terrifying and hilarious tale of almost Armageddon at the hands of two hopeless heroes.


WARNING:

You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR.

You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection — the creature secretes a chemical into the brain to stimulate skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That's just as well, since the ""cure"" involves learning what a chainsaw tastes like.

You can't feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings. You can't see it, because it decides what you see. You won't even feel it when it breeds. And it will breed. So what happens when your family, friends and...","2021-09-26T12:52:59-06:00","epub","","","eng","2017-03-23T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","1443967","","This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It","1391","a4a0c96d-94ac-4d2e-9904-ae0531bfec11" +"Wong, David","

Now with never before seen pages from David Wong's next book Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits.

From the writer of the cult sensation John Dies at the End comes another terrifying and hilarious tale of almost Armageddon at the hands of two hopeless heroes.


WARNING:

You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR.

You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection — the creature secretes a chemical into the brain to stimulate skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That's just as well, since the ""cure"" involves learning what a chainsaw tastes like.

You can't feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings. You can't see it, because it decides what you see. You won't even feel it when it breeds. And it will breed. So what happens when your family, friends and...","2021-09-26T12:52:59-06:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2017-03-23T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","1667008","","This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It","1391","a4a0c96d-94ac-4d2e-9904-ae0531bfec11" "Porter, Katherine Anne","The classic 1939 collection of 3 novellas by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author and journalist, including the famous title story set during the influenza epidemic of 1918
In Noon Wine? a family struggling to live on a farm in Texas is saved by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious stranger—only to have their world upended again by the arrival, nine years later, of a second stranger. The three parts of Old Mortality introduce the teenager Miranda and chronicle her journey of self-discovery, as she gradually realizes her family's romantic nostalgia for her absent uncle and late aunt bears little resemblance to the truth.
Miranda returns in the title story, Pale Horse, Pale Rider. She is now working as a drama critic for a newspaper in Denver, where she falls in love with a soldier, Adam, during the influenza epidemic of 1918. When Miranda falls ill, Adam cares for her until she is moved to a...","2021-09-26T15:18:08-06:00","epub","9781598533330","isbn:978–1–59853–333–0","eng","2015-02-04T00:00:00-07:00","","1.0","314916","","Pale Horse, Pale Rider","1392","235b8977-e027-4138-aa89-7f53d65a420f" "Nooyi, Indra","The much-anticipated and inspiring memoir by Indra Nooyi, the trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo, offering clear-eyed insight and a call to action for how our society can really blend work and family—and advance women—in the twenty-first century
For more than a dozen years as one of the world’s most admired CEOs, Indra Nooyi redefined what it means to be an exceptional leader. The first woman, person of color, and immigrant to run a Fortune 50 company—and one of the foremost strategic thinkers of our time—Nooyi transformed PepsiCo with a unique vision, a vigorous pursuit of excellence, and a deep sense of purpose. Now, in a rich memoir brimming with grace, grit, and good humor, My Life in Full offers a firsthand view of a legendary career and the sacrifices it so often demanded.
 
In her book, Nooyi shares the events that shaped her—from her childhood in 1960s India, to the Yale School of Management, to her...","2021-10-02T17:17:26-06:00","epub","","","eng","2021-09-27T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","47543164","","My Life in Full","1393","ccf17e88-9fba-4f15-94e8-dcb71b56388f" -"Jones, Diana Wynne","

This entrancing classic fantasy novel is filled with surprises at every turn. An international bestseller, this much-loved book is the source for the Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature.

Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl's castle.

To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. Along the way, she discovers that there's far more to Howl—and herself—than first meets the eye.

In this giant jigsaw puzzle of a fantasy, people and things are never quite what they seem. Destinies are...","2021-10-02T17:17:26-06:00","epub","9780062244512","isbn:9780062244512","eng","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","694197","","Howl's Moving Castle","1394","e088a357-a97a-4862-af31-f22d275633e6" +"Jones, Diana Wynne","

This entrancing classic fantasy novel is filled with surprises at every turn. An international bestseller, this much-loved book is the source for the Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature.

Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl's castle.

To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. Along the way, she discovers that there's far more to Howl—and herself—than first meets the eye.

In this giant jigsaw puzzle of a fantasy, people and things are never quite what they seem. Destinies are...","2021-10-02T17:17:26-06:00","epub, mobi","9780062244512","isbn:9780062244512","eng","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","1643337","","Howl's Moving Castle","1394","e088a357-a97a-4862-af31-f22d275633e6" "Rush, Elizabeth","WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD
A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018
Hailed as ""deeply felt"" (New York Times), ""a revelation"" (Pacific Standard), and ""the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing"" (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love. With every passing day, and every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant—and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In Rising, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark:...","2021-10-10T11:14:42-06:00","epub","9781571319708","isbn:9781571319708","eng","2019-10-15T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","6199408","","Rising","1396","9fe133bf-3c16-46a3-b137-48856aa2ee8a" "Newport, Cal","New York Times bestseller!
 
From New York Times bestselling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox—and unleashing a new era of productivity.
Modern knowledge workers communicate constantly. Their days are defined by a relentless barrage of incoming messages and back-and-forth digital conversations—a state of constant, anxious chatter in which nobody can disconnect, and so nobody has the cognitive bandwidth to perform substantive work. There was a time when tools like email felt cutting edge, but a thorough review of current evidence reveals that the ""hyperactive hive mind"" workflow they helped create has become a productivity disaster, reducing profitability and perhaps even slowing overall economic growth. Equally worrisome, it makes us miserable. Humans are simply not wired for constant digital communication.
We have become so used to an inbox-driven workday that it's hard to...","2021-10-10T11:18:29-06:00","epub","","","eng","2021-03-01T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","859246","","World Without Email, A","1397","df08fb60-079f-4bd2-aa40-03925b1006d9" "Magriel, Paul","","2021-10-10T21:48:23-06:00","pdf","","","","2017-03-07T14:23:40-07:00","","1.0","16927166","","Backgammon","1398","c369954a-ac18-451f-924f-62a74a56860e" @@ -2350,12 +2350,62 @@ Two of the Delaney children think their father is innocent, two are not so sure "Santos, Marisa De Los","

From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In and Belong to Me comes a profound and heart-rending story about a horrific tragedy that marks one woman and her hometown and about the explosive secrets that come to light twenty years later.
Ginny Beale is eighteen, irreverent, funny, and brave, with a brother she adores and a circle of friends for whom she would do anything. Because of one terrible night, she loses them all—and her adventurous spirit—seemingly forever. While the town cheers on the high school football team, someone sets a fire in the school's auditorium. Ginny's best friend Gray Marsden's father, a fire fighter, dies in the blaze.

While many in the town believe a notoriously troubled local teen set the fire, Ginny makes a shattering discovery that casts blame on the person she trusts most in the world. Ginny tells no one, but the secret isolates her, looming between her and her friends and ruining their...","2022-01-21T12:14:45-07:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2021-04-15T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","2159489","","I'd Give Anything","1415","c07063d9-7879-4d79-8317-ad625abd917d" "Quinn, Kate","

""The reigning queen of historical fiction"" — Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.

1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses—but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of...","2022-01-21T12:14:45-07:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2021-01-15T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","5187007","","Rose Code, The","1416","9d2c6fe3-f615-44b3-a9e6-3333258434bc" "Stewart, Matthew","A scorching, trenchant, analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone—including themselves.
In 21st century America, the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90% have lost ground. What's left of the American Dream has taken refuge in the 9.9% that lies just below the tip of extreme wealth. Collectively, the members of this group control more than half of the wealth in the country—and they are doing whatever it takes to hang on to their piece of the action in an increasingly unjust system.

They log insane hours at the office and then turn their leisure time into an excuse for more career-building, even as they rely on an underpaid servant class to power their economic success and satisfy their personal needs. They have segregated themselves into zip codes designed to exclude as many people as possible. They have made fitness a national obsession...","2022-01-21T12:14:45-07:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2021-10-11T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","2468359","","9.9 Percent, The","1417","57ffbaa7-e348-46d5-b08e-995ee858e2e9" -"STOKER, BRAM; ÀSMUNDSSON, VALDIMAR","

The first ever translation into English of a newly discovered Icelandic adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic gothic novel, Dracula

Powers of Darkness is an incredible literary discovery: In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar Ásmundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker's world-famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna (literally, ""Powers of Darkness""), this Icelandic edition included an original preface written by Stoker himself. Makt Myrkranna was published in Iceland in 1901 but remained undiscovered outside of the country until 1986, when Dracula scholarship was astonished by the discovery of Stoker's preface to the book. However, no one looked beyond the preface and deeper into Ásmundsson's story.

In 2014, literary researcher Hans de Roos dove into the full text of Makt Myrkranna, only to discover that Ásmundsson hadn't merely translated Dracula but had penned an entirely new version of the story, with all new characters and a...","2022-01-23T19:49:05-07:00","epub","9781468313376","isbn:9781468313376","eng","2016-09-06T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","3856757","FIC019000 FICTION/Literature FIC015000 FICTION / Horror FIC004000 FICTION / Classics","Powers of Darkness","1418","47c83930-d9fd-4d00-adbc-a87099d80bd1" +"STOKER, BRAM; ÀSMUNDSSON, VALDIMAR","

The first ever translation into English of a newly discovered Icelandic adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic gothic novel, Dracula

Powers of Darkness is an incredible literary discovery: In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar Ásmundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker's world-famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna (literally, ""Powers of Darkness""), this Icelandic edition included an original preface written by Stoker himself. Makt Myrkranna was published in Iceland in 1901 but remained undiscovered outside of the country until 1986, when Dracula scholarship was astonished by the discovery of Stoker's preface to the book. However, no one looked beyond the preface and deeper into Ásmundsson's story.

In 2014, literary researcher Hans de Roos dove into the full text of Makt Myrkranna, only to discover that Ásmundsson hadn't merely translated Dracula but had penned an entirely new version of the story, with all new characters and a...","2022-01-23T19:49:05-07:00","epub, mobi","9781468313376","isbn:9781468313376","eng","2016-09-06T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","4316809","FIC019000 FICTION/Literature FIC015000 FICTION / Horror FIC004000 FICTION / Classics","Powers of Darkness","1418","47c83930-d9fd-4d00-adbc-a87099d80bd1" "Chabon, Michael","WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author—soon to be a Showtime limited series
 
“It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington Post Book World
 
Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly • Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize

A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus” (The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality,...","2022-01-26T18:02:05-07:00","epub","978-0-8129-9367-7","isbn:978-0-8129-9367-7","eng","2012-06-12T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","3282504","","Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content), The","1419","e8855a93-288a-4655-b1af-14f6c3175403" "Cole, Adrian & McLain, Bob","## FABULOUS INTERPLANETARY ADVENTURE ## IN THE TRADITION OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS AND LEIGH BRACKETT The Dream Lords—absolute rulers of an Empire of worlds, wielders of ultimate power, through an advanced technology far beyond the capabilities of the common people, coupled with darker powers of the mind. For centuries they have shaped the destiny of mankind, unrivaled and invincible. Galad Sarian—son of a Dream Lord and heir to a place among them. Impetuous, rebellious, he learns a sinister truth about his heritage that is to set him on a dangerous, bloody course that will cross worlds and unleash a terrible threat to the stability of the Empire. Daras Vorta, master of the darkest of all arts and servant of the gods of night, whose rise to power brings with it a promise of ultimate evil and the collapse of mankind into a frightful new satanic order. In this first volume of Adrian Cole’s pulsating Dream Lords saga, out of print for many years, Galad Sarian begins his epic quest, culminating in an explosive confrontation with the forces of nightmare, leaving him and his chosen people on the brink of annihilation. *Rebellion* is a revised and extended version, and includes a new introduction to the series. Volume 2, *Revolution* , and Volume 3, *Retribution* , will be published in spring 2021. ** -","2022-01-31T14:03:58-07:00","epub","9781683902966","isbn:9781683902966,mobi-asin:B09764F6Y8,google:LqUczgEACAAJ,amazon:1683902963","eng","2021-06-11T16:00:00-06:00","The Dream Lords","1.0","490327","Speculative","Dream Lords : Rebellion, The","1420","9db7bb8c-5184-4027-a0ee-59a9ce5e73d1" +","2022-01-31T14:03:58-07:00","epub, mobi","9781683902966","isbn:9781683902966,mobi-asin:B09764F6Y8,google:LqUczgEACAAJ,amazon:1683902963","eng","2021-06-11T16:00:00-06:00","The Dream Lords","1.0","581537","Speculative","Dream Lords : Rebellion, The","1420","9db7bb8c-5184-4027-a0ee-59a9ce5e73d1" "Kent, William","","2022-02-08T11:37:01-07:00","pdf","","","","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","1035898","","Data and Reality","1422","21b2d47d-a554-4c3d-ab63-d6b22320565f" -"HYDEN, STEVEN","THE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD'S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, KID A.
In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting them the time, money, and space to make a masterpiece. But Radiohead didn't want to make another rock record. Instead, they set out to create the future.
For more than a year, they battled writer's block, intra-band disagreements, and crippling self-doubt. In the end, however, they produced an album that was not only a complete departure from their prior guitar-based rock sound, it was the sound of a new era-and it embodied widespread changes catalyzed by emerging technologies just beginning to take hold of the culture. What they created was Kid A.
Upon its release in 2000, Radiohead's fourth album divided critics. Some called it...","2022-02-13T20:27:54-07:00","epub","","","eng","2020-09-28T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","1212412","","This Isn't Happening","1423","84889468-6ddf-4782-a567-2a292eae8f8b" +"HYDEN, STEVEN","THE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD'S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, KID A.
In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting them the time, money, and space to make a masterpiece. But Radiohead didn't want to make another rock record. Instead, they set out to create the future.
For more than a year, they battled writer's block, intra-band disagreements, and crippling self-doubt. In the end, however, they produced an album that was not only a complete departure from their prior guitar-based rock sound, it was the sound of a new era-and it embodied widespread changes catalyzed by emerging technologies just beginning to take hold of the culture. What they created was Kid A.
Upon its release in 2000, Radiohead's fourth album divided critics. Some called it...","2022-02-13T20:27:54-07:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2020-09-28T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","1567946","","This Isn't Happening","1423","84889468-6ddf-4782-a567-2a292eae8f8b" "Beyer, Doug","As a planeswalker investigates an alarming mystery built into the very foundations of Ravnica, he realizes some secrets are better left hidden
 
Jace Beleren has the power to travel between planes of the Multiverse, but with this gift comes isolation. He is one in a million. He is a planeswalker. And he is on the edge of a mystery that could alter the face of his adopted home—a vast, world-wide city known as Ravnica—forever.

Faced with a magical code that is built into the very foundations of the city-world itself, Jace marches into the numinous depths of Ravnica’s underbelly in search of the promise of powerful magic. What he finds is perhaps more burden than boon. Once buried in past, the code resurfaces as Ravnica’s power-hungry mage guilds—unbound by the Guildpact that had once maintained order—struggle for control of the plane. But in the drive for primacy, there is no neutral ground.

Jace knows that he...","2022-02-13T21:42:49-07:00","epub","978-0-7869-6455-0","isbn:978-0-7869-6455-0","eng","2012-11-27T00:00:00-07:00","","1.0","2135369","","Return to Ravnica","1424","07c0acd0-3968-44e4-9fe6-450969b94429" +"Kernighan, Brian W. & Plauger, P. J.","With the same style and clarity that characterized their highly acclaimed The Elements of Programming Style and Software Tools, the authors have written Software Tools in Pascal to teach how to write good Pascal programs that make good tools. The programs contained in the book are not artificial, but are actual tools that have proved valuable in the production of other programs. Structured programming and top-down design are emphasized and applied to every program, as are principles of sound design, testing, efficiency, and portability. All of the programs are complete and have been tested directly from the text. The programs are available in machine-readable form from Addison-Wesley. Software Tools in Pascal is ideal for use in a software engineering course, for a second course in programming, or as a supplement in any programming course. All programmers, professional and student, will find the book invaluable as a source of proven, useful programs for reading and study. Numerous exercises are provided to test comprehension and to extend the concepts presented in the book. 0201103427B04062001","2022-04-06T10:58:29-06:00","djvu","9780201103427","isbn:9780201103427,google:oM0mAAAAMAAJ","eng","1981-04-15T09:58:37-07:00","","1.0","2894216","computers, Programming Languages, Pascal","Software Tools in Pascal","1425","e39292e2-30a6-4cd6-923e-4c52e51b3b1e" +"Flanagan, David","JavaScript is the programming language of the web and is used by more software developers today than any other programming language. For nearly 25 years this best seller has been the go-to guide for JavaScript programmers. The seventh edition is fully updated to cover the 2020 version of JavaScript, and new chapters cover classes, modules, iterators, generators, Promises, async/await, and metaprogramming. You’ll find illuminating and engaging example code throughout. This book is for programmers who want to learn JavaScript and for web developers who want to take their understanding and mastery to the next level. It begins by explaining the JavaScript language itself, in detail, from the bottom up. It then builds on that foundation to cover the web platform and Node.js. Topics include: * Types, values, variables, expressions, operators, statements, objects, and arrays * Functions, classes, modules, iterators, generators, Promises, and async/await * JavaScript’s standard library: data structures, regular expressions, JSON, i18n, etc. * The web platform: documents, components, graphics, networking, storage, and threads * Node.js: buffers, files, streams, threads, child processes, web clients, and web servers * Tools and language extensions that professional JavaScript developers rely on. +","2022-04-06T10:58:29-06:00","pdf","","amazon:1491952024","","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","6388284","","JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Master the World's Most-Used Programming Language","1426","75ccb717-e6f2-4191-934c-37db26454b2c" +"Unknown","","2022-04-06T10:58:29-06:00","pdf","","","","2020-08-17T07:26:07-06:00","","1.0","5947484","","Docker for Developers Develop and run your application with Docker containers using DevOps tools for continuous delivery (Richard Bullington-McGuire, Andrew K. Dennis etc.) (z-lib.org)","1427","69354f68-e915-4d16-832a-f4ad046247ce" +"Pratchett, Terry","Welcome to Guards! Guards!, the eighth book in Terry Pratchett's legendary Discworld series. +Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis (""noble dragon"" for those who don't understand italics) has appeared in Discworld's greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all...). How did it get there? How is the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night involved? Can the Ankh-Morpork City Watch restore order - and the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork to power? +Magic, mayhem, and a marauding dragon...who could ask for anything more? +","2022-04-06T18:21:12-06:00","epub, mobi","","","eng","2018-08-28T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","2072962","","Guards! Guards!","1428","a959db41-8926-43c5-a834-4514d0c3bec6" +"Questlove","Music Is History combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.

Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapes- try, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way disco took an assembly-line approach to Black genius. And these critical inquiries are complemented by his own memories as a music fan, and the way his appetite for pop culture taught him about America.

A history of the last half-century and an intimate conversation with one of music's most influential and original voices, Music Is History is a singular look at contemporary America.","2022-04-06T18:21:12-06:00","epub","","","eng","2021-08-20T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","2102071","","Music Is History","1429","f8e1aea3-a5d5-43ec-ae18-9d897abb2558" +"Lencioni, Patrick M.","There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides.

Simply put, an organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations and culture are unified. Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide an environment where star performers never want to leave. Lencioni's first non-fiction book provides leaders with...","2022-04-06T18:21:12-06:00","epub, mobi","9781118266106","isbn:9781118266106","eng","2012-02-06T00:00:00-07:00","","1.0","2074782","","Advantage, The","1430","229c8be0-6a53-4be5-8603-1f5dde612d2a" +"Berg, Elizabeth","USA TODAY BESTSELLER • An uplifting novel about friendship, surprising revelations, and a second chance at love, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv.

When a group of friends in Mason, Missouri, decide to start a monthly supper club, they get more than they bargained for. The plan for congenial evenings—talking, laughing, and sharing recipes, homemade food, and wine—abruptly changes course one night when one of the women reveals something startlingly intimate. The supper club then becomes Confession Club, and the women gather weekly to share not only dinners but embarrassing misdeeds, deep insecurities, and long-held regrets.

They invite Iris Winters and Maddy Harris to join, and their timing couldn't be better. Iris is conflicted about her feelings for a charming but troubled man, and Maddy has come back home from New York to escape a problem too big to...","2022-04-11T17:16:53-06:00","epub","","","eng","2019-11-18T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","3895152","","Confession Club, The","1431","32bfabbd-3287-4b4e-8389-f8c6c1ca065e" +"Proust, Marcel","","2022-04-13T20:37:16-06:00","epub","9780679645689","isbn:9780679645689","eng","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","5311992","","Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged : 6-Book Bundle, The","1432","fd77e2b5-613f-49dd-8e34-399bde8cfd8c" +"P-Orridge, Genesis Breyer","","2022-04-25T11:59:58-06:00","epub","9781932595949","isbn:9781932595949","eng","2010-10-31T23:00:00-06:00","","1.0","4249452","","THEE PSYCHICK BIBLE","1433","04fc5fad-d6e5-4815-a0a3-333a694db273" +"Gailey, Sarah","","2022-04-30T17:33:00-06:00","epub","","","eng","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","1638585","","River of Teeth","1434","e7c027fa-2465-45fd-ba73-df43dd24591f" +"Strugatsky, Arkady & Strugatsky, Boris","

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a “full empty,"" something goes wrong. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he'll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems.

First published in 1972, Roadside Picnic is still widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novels, despite the fact that it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty years. This authoritative new translation corrects many errors and omissions and has been supplemented with a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky...","2022-04-30T17:39:56-06:00","epub","9781613743447","isbn:9781613743447","eng","2012-04-15T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","1066273","","Roadside Picnic","1435","d7c1bd2a-2210-4f91-9f9c-25a9fa655c4f" +"JAMES, MATT","

Matt James, the first Black bachelor on ABC’s beloved television show, The Bachelor, shares his views on the controversial topics that defined his season and confronts matters of race, opportunity, and his biracial identity head on.

When The Bachelor franchise announced Matt James as the first Black lead, it was celebrated as long-overdue progress on the primetime show. America fell in love with Matt—the Christian, former NFL athlete, and nonprofit CEO—who charmed millions of viewers each week. But the off-screen conversations around the show revealed the realities and inescapable challenges of being Black in America and the depth of racism that still exists.
 
On the show, Matt could only go so far in sharing his own story with America. In First Impressions, Matt shares his views on controversial topics like race and opportunity that defined his season on The Bachelor. Matt lives at the intersection...","2022-05-03T08:31:01-06:00","epub","","","eng","2022-03-04T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","1183047","","First Impressions","1438","669a2f31-c5bb-49b5-9608-b657ca8cdef9" +"Waters, John","**A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind of John Waters, the legendary filmmaker and bestselling author of *Mr. Know-It-All*. +**Marsha Sprinkle: Suitcase thief. Scammer. Master of disguise. Dogs and children hate her. Her own family wants her dead. She's smart, she's desperate, she's disturbed, and she's on the run with a big chip on her shoulder. They call her ""Liarmouth""--until one insane man makes her tell the truth. +John Waters's first novel, *Liarmouth* , is a perfectly perverted ""feel-bad romance,"" and the reader will thrill to hop aboard this delirious road trip of riotous revenge. +","2022-05-03T08:31:01-06:00","epub","","","eng","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","954568","","Liarmouth--A Feel-Bad Romance","1439","2f421425-fac0-43c2-a6c7-a52026decad9" +"W.Hamming, Richard","Engineering, Computing & Technology","2022-05-09T20:23:20-06:00","pdf","","","","2005-10-08T11:09:18-06:00","","1.0","3185486","Engineering, Computing & Technology","Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn, The","1441","327f62f3-b523-46fe-8e7e-f018e2edb69e" +"Björn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankler, Navid Modiri, Agnes Broomé","","2022-05-12T16:56:17-06:00","epub","","","eng","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","388702","","I May Be Wrong","1442","69465dc7-4398-485e-bbd7-c95f96a0be5b" +"Lindow, John","","2022-05-14T16:53:58-06:00","pdf","","","","2014-01-27T08:55:59-07:00","","1.0","5686815","","Trolls: An Unnatural History","1443","025d636e-8f23-40b4-a08e-45e061a2e01e" +"Fink, Joseph","

A New York Times Bestseller

From the bestselling co-author of It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale comes a fast-paced thriller about a truck driver searching across America for the wife she had long assumed to be dead.

""This isn't a story. It's a road trip.""

Keisha Taylor lived a quiet life with her wife, Alice, until the day that Alice disappeared. After months of searching, presuming she was dead, Keisha held a funeral, mourned, and gradually tried to get on with her life. But that was before Keisha started to see her wife, again and again, in the background of news reports from all over America. Alice isn't dead, and she is showing up at every major tragedy and accident in the country.
Following a line of clues, Keisha takes a job as a long-haul truck driver and begins searching for Alice. She eventually stumbles on an otherworldly conflict being waged in the quiet corners of our nation's highway...","2022-05-29T06:17:59-06:00","epub","","","eng","2018-10-29T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","1806897","","Alice Isn't Dead","1444","cbdc7f2f-5831-4abe-b3ee-3be8370a303e" +"Brafman, Ori","If you cut off a spider's leg, it's crippled; if you cut off its head, it dies. But if you cut off a starfish's leg it grows a new one, and the old leg can grow into an entirely new starfish.

What's the hidden power behind the success of Wikipedia, craigslist, and Skype? What do eBay and General Electric have in common with the abolitionist and women's rights movements? What fundamental choice put General Motors and Toyota on vastly different paths? How could winning a Supreme Court case be the biggest mistake MGM could have made?

After five years of ground-breaking research, Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom share some unexpected answers, gripping stories, and a tapestry of unlikely connections. The Starfish and the Spider argues that organizations fall into two categories: traditional ""spiders,"" which have a rigid hierarchy and top-down leadership, and revolutionary ""starfish,"" which rely on the power of peer relationships.

The Starfish and the Spider explores...","2022-06-02T14:39:48-06:00","epub","1429571322","isbn:1429571322","eng","2006-06-15T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","373012","","Starfish and the Spider, The","1445","6ca399d3-3c54-4f03-9235-6594ab3e718a" +"Hine, Phil","","2022-06-10T20:10:57-06:00","pdf","","","","2010-01-22T04:51:18-07:00","","1.0","76800894","","Condensed chaos: An introduction to chaos magic","1446","050caec9-3b04-4328-a140-aa363a9e5d5b" +"Ruecker, Bernd","","2022-06-24T14:05:58-06:00","pdf","","","","2021-03-16T08:04:17-06:00","","1.0","17912736","","Practical Process Automation","1447","be5b1873-1c8a-4b34-92cf-cc9d976f58d7" +"Bujold, Lois McMaster","

On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the ground, her maidservant and guardsmen distraught. As he approaches to help, he discovers that the lady is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world. Her avowed god is The Bastard, ""master of all disasters out of season"", and with her dying breath she bequeaths her mysterious powers to Penric. From that moment on, Penric's life is irreversibly changed, and his life is in danger from those who envy or fear him.

Set in the fantasy world of the author's acclaimed novels THE CURSE OF CHALION, PALADIN OF SOULS and THE HALLOWED HUNT, this novella has the depth of characterization and emotional complexity that distinguishes all Bujold's work.","2022-06-30T07:06:26-06:00","epub, mobi","978-1-62578-159-8","isbn:978-1-62578-159-8","eng","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","589039","","Penric's Demon","1448","dee6484f-db7c-4d06-b87e-111c155bb41f" +"Bujold, Lois McMaster","A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril returns to the noble household he once served as page and is named secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to rule. It is an assignment Cazaril dreads, for it must ultimately lead him to the place he most fears: the royal court of Cardegoss, where the powerful enemies who once placed him in chains now occupy lofty positions. +But it is more than the traitorous intrigues of villains that threaten Cazaril and the Royesse Iselle here, for a sinister curse hangs like a sword over the entire blighted House of Chalion. And only by employing the darkest, most forbidden of magics can Cazaril hope to protect his royal charge -- an act that will mark him as a tool of the miraculous . . . and trap him in a lethal maze of demonic paradox. +","2022-06-30T17:53:29-06:00","epub, mobi","","9780061793042:9780061793042","eng","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","1105107","","Curse of Chalion, The","1449","818441a1-a9c6-4ce5-afe8-03838c6b88af" +"McDougall, Christopher","From the bestselling author of Born to Run, a heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in America, and, in the process, discovering the life-changing power of the human-animal connection.
""A delight, full of heart and hijinks and humor."" —John Grogan, author of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
When Christopher McDougall decided to adopt a donkey in dire straits, he had no idea what he was getting himself into. But with the help of his neighbors, Chris came up with a crazy idea. Burro racing, a unique type of competition in which humans and donkeys run side by side over mountains and through streams, would be exactly the challenge Sherman and Chris needed. In the course of Sherman’s training, Chris would enlist Amish running clubs, high-spirited goats, the service animal community, and two Sarah Palin–loving long-distance...","2022-07-04T11:21:08-06:00","epub","","","eng","2019-10-14T18:00:00-06:00","","1.0","65415510","","Running with Sherman","1450","5b04ab84-f444-4c69-bf20-4164a231f2ce" +"Crichton, Michael","""Crichton's ultimate adventure."" +--San Francisco Chronicle +""Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action....A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure."" +--USA Today +""Riveting....Great entertainment....The pages and minutes fly by."" +--Cleveland Plain Dealer +#1 New York Times bestselling author, the incomparable Michael Crichton (""One of the great storytellers of our age"" --Newsday) takes to the high Caribbean seas for an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates, lost treasure, sword fights, duplicity, and hair-breadth escapes in the New World. +","2022-07-13T10:28:27-06:00","epub","9780061938740","isbn:9780061938740","eng","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","702121","","Pirate Latitudes","1451","e2c4422f-e2a5-4fe8-8e5b-03c74d0591af" +"Moore, Scotto","

""This is a stand-alone novel with material enough for six... By the halfway point, it had blown my mind twice... an audacious, genre-bending whirlwind."" —New York Times
""It reads like Snow Crash had a dance-off with Gideon the Ninth, in a world where language isn't a virus from outer space, it's a goddamn alien invasion."" —Charles Stross
In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire.
Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle Dungeon. Her prowess in the game makes her an ideal candidate to learn the secrets of ""power morphemes""—unnaturally dense units of meaning that warp perception when skilfully pronounced.
But Isobel's reputation makes her the target of a strange resistance movement led by spellcasting anarchists, who may be the only thing stopping the cabal...","2022-07-18T08:49:50-06:00","epub","","","eng","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","2607432","","Battle of the Linguist Mages","1452","47348a85-e935-4a3e-8d8d-3063ca854a7d" +"Guin, Ursula K. Le","","2022-07-19T10:05:27-06:00","epub","","","eng","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","655234","","Worlds of Exile and Illusion","1453","33d1b3f5-3560-4cd2-93eb-f40486fb1f72" +"Wiseman, Liz","

A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better results.

We've all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest person in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who use their intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them. When these leaders walk into a room, light bulbs go off over people's heads; ideas flow and problems get solved. These are the leaders who inspire employees to stretch themselves to deliver results that surpass expectations. These are the Multipliers. And the world needs more of them, especially now when leaders are expected...","2022-07-28T09:58:37-06:00","epub","9780062663061","isbn:9780062663061","eng","2017-04-19T00:00:00-06:00","","1.0","3255236","","Multipliers, Revised and Updated","1454","8d931cfa-434b-46e8-9be4-b460b16ccc1b" +"Wangerin, Walter","","2022-08-03T11:55:13-06:00","pdf","","","","2012-09-27T16:59:35-06:00","","1.0","33702376","http://archive.org/details/lter00walt","lter","1455","0217f44e-8475-404e-920f-fea12114ec65" +"Wangerin, Walter","","2022-08-03T11:56:10-06:00","pdf","","","","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","19743123","http://www.archive.org/details/bookofsorrows00wang","book of sorrows, The","1456","8edbf574-a0ff-476d-9456-96b8f10af39b" +"Wangerin, Walter Jr.","","2022-08-03T11:57:26-06:00","epub","","","eng","2013-09-02T16:00:00-06:00","","1.0","2850169","FICTION/General","Third Book of the Dun Cow: Peace at the Last, The","1457","ff0201d1-7fb7-4329-a12b-5e5e1fbb02c7" +"Rhinehart, Luke","","2022-08-05T22:51:01-06:00","epub","","","eng","0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00","","1.0","827470","","Dice Man, The","1458","be6b3534-341e-4399-8df7-52b3734262b4" +"Rhinehart, Luke","The â??bibleâ?? for dice living â?? for everyone who has been inspired by the cult classic THE DICE MAN. From the author of the cult bestsellers THE DICE MAN and SEARCH FOR THE DICE MAN comes a new book, guaranteed to appeal to the hundreds of thousands of people who continue to be fascinated by the thought of â??living by the diceâ??. Luke Rhinehart, after a long period of silence, has delivered a playful book of parables, essays, thoughts, ideas and practical instructions and reminsces on dice-ing that is designed to be dipped into for thoughts and views on dice living. It is a â??handbookâ??, a reference â??bibleâ??, for the hundreds of thousands of people who turn to the dice to shake up convention and taking risks and chances. It will be a â??mustâ?? for Rhinehartâ??s thousands of devoted followers. +","2022-08-05T22:51:31-06:00","epub","978-0-00-732220-6","mobi-asin:925654c3-c9d0-42f4-9b27-90635df8c05c,isbn:978-0-00-732220-6","eng","2000-01-31T09:00:00-07:00","","1.0","547065","","Book of the Die, The","1459","f7b6c9bb-71f7-44c4-85ed-0ec5b222d39d" +"Rhinehart, Luke","","2022-08-05T22:54:43-06:00","pdf","","","","2015-10-13T05:58:46-06:00","","1.0","55457275","http://archive.org/details/whim00luke","Whim","1460","84a7a0b5-2135-4483-94a4-7189210062b4" diff --git a/books.rec b/books.rec index 4c0a48a..686fcff 100644 --- a/books.rec +++ b/books.rec @@ -15239,14 +15239,14 @@ uuid: eb1c4423-43e3-4d4b-9563-21393ab7c484 author_sort: Ann Leckie comments:

Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down from the throne in this breathtaking first fantasy novel from Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.

For centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven. He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful port of Vastai. His will is enacted through the Raven's Lease, a human ruler chosen by the god himself. His magic is sustained via the blood sacrifice that every Lease must offer. And under the Raven's watch, the city flourishes.


But the power of the Raven is weakening. A usurper has claimed the throne. The kingdom borders are tested by invaders who long for the prosperity that Vastai boasts. And they have made their own alliances with other gods.


It is into this unrest that the warrior Eolo—aide to Mawat, the true... timestamp: 2019-03-25T13:20:18-06:00 -formats: epub +formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2019-02-25T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 -size: 5735511 +size: 7145793 tags: title_sort: Raven Tower, The id: 995 @@ -21130,14 +21130,14 @@ uuid: 4451909a-7a02-43fe-9ee3-e4dcc0b1954d author_sort: de Castell, Sebastien comments: With swashbuckling action that recall Dumas' Three Musketeers Sebastien de Castell has created a dynamic new fantasy series. In Traitor's Blade a disgraced swordsman struggles to redeem himself by protecting a young girl caught in the web of a royal conspiracy.
The King is dead, the Greatcoats have been disbanded, and Falcio Val Mond and his fellow magistrates Kest and Brasti have been reduced to working as bodyguards for a nobleman who refuses to pay them. Things could be worse, of course. Their employer could be lying dead on the floor while they are forced to watch the killer plant evidence framing them for the murder. Oh wait, that's exactly what's happening.
Now a royal conspiracy is about to unfold in the most corrupt city in the world. A carefully orchestrated series of murders that began with the overthrow of an idealistic young king will end with the death of an orphaned girl and the ruin of everything that Falcio, Kest, and Brasti have fought... timestamp: 2021-08-17T13:53:40-06:00 -formats: epub +formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2014-08-11T18:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 -size: 2237049 +size: 2514719 tags: FIC009000 Fiction / Fantasy / General title_sort: Traitor's Blade id: 1379 @@ -21317,14 +21317,14 @@ uuid: 71f62a22-1501-496b-9005-e5c28d08724f author_sort: Wong, David comments:

Now with never before seen pages from David Wong's next book Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits.

From the writer of the cult sensation John Dies at the End comes another terrifying and hilarious tale of almost Armageddon at the hands of two hopeless heroes.


WARNING:

You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR.

You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection — the creature secretes a chemical into the brain to stimulate skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That's just as well, since the "cure" involves learning what a chainsaw tastes like.

You can't feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings. You can't see it, because it decides what you see. You won't even feel it when it breeds. And it will breed. So what happens when your family, friends and... timestamp: 2021-09-26T12:52:59-06:00 -formats: epub +formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2017-03-23T18:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 -size: 1443967 +size: 1667008 tags: title_sort: This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It id: 1391 @@ -21365,14 +21365,14 @@ uuid: ccf17e88-9fba-4f15-94e8-dcb71b56388f author_sort: Jones, Diana Wynne comments:

This entrancing classic fantasy novel is filled with surprises at every turn. An international bestseller, this much-loved book is the source for the Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature.

Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl's castle.

To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. Along the way, she discovers that there's far more to Howl—and herself—than first meets the eye.

In this giant jigsaw puzzle of a fantasy, people and things are never quite what they seem. Destinies are... timestamp: 2021-10-02T17:17:26-06:00 -formats: epub +formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9780062244512 identifiers: isbn:9780062244512 languages: eng pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 series: series_index: 1.0 -size: 694197 +size: 1643337 tags: title_sort: Howl's Moving Castle id: 1394 @@ -21747,14 +21747,14 @@ uuid: 57ffbaa7-e348-46d5-b08e-995ee858e2e9 author_sort: STOKER, BRAM; ÀSMUNDSSON, VALDIMAR comments:

The first ever translation into English of a newly discovered Icelandic adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic gothic novel, Dracula

Powers of Darkness is an incredible literary discovery: In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar Ásmundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker's world-famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna (literally, "Powers of Darkness"), this Icelandic edition included an original preface written by Stoker himself. Makt Myrkranna was published in Iceland in 1901 but remained undiscovered outside of the country until 1986, when Dracula scholarship was astonished by the discovery of Stoker's preface to the book. However, no one looked beyond the preface and deeper into Ásmundsson's story.

In 2014, literary researcher Hans de Roos dove into the full text of Makt Myrkranna, only to discover that Ásmundsson hadn't merely translated Dracula but had penned an entirely new version of the story, with all new characters and a... timestamp: 2022-01-23T19:49:05-07:00 -formats: epub +formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9781468313376 identifiers: isbn:9781468313376 languages: eng pubdate: 2016-09-06T00:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 -size: 3856757 +size: 4316809 tags: FIC019000 FICTION/Literature FIC015000 FICTION / Horror FIC004000 FICTION / Classics title_sort: Powers of Darkness id: 1418 @@ -21782,14 +21782,14 @@ comments: ## FABULOUS INTERPLANETARY ADVENTURE + The Dream Lords—absolute rulers of an Empire of worlds, wielders of ultimate power, through an advanced technology far beyond the capabilities of the common people, coupled with darker powers of the mind. For centuries they have shaped the destiny of mankind, unrivaled and invincible. Galad Sarian—son of a Dream Lord and heir to a place among them. Impetuous, rebellious, he learns a sinister truth about his heritage that is to set him on a dangerous, bloody course that will cross worlds and unleash a terrible threat to the stability of the Empire. Daras Vorta, master of the darkest of all arts and servant of the gods of night, whose rise to power brings with it a promise of ultimate evil and the collapse of mankind into a frightful new satanic order. In this first volume of Adrian Cole’s pulsating Dream Lords saga, out of print for many years, Galad Sarian begins his epic quest, culminating in an explosive confrontation with the forces of nightmare, leaving him and his chosen people on the brink of annihilation. *Rebellion* is a revised and extended version, and includes a new introduction to the series. Volume 2, *Revolution* , and Volume 3, *Retribution* , will be published in spring 2021. ** + timestamp: 2022-01-31T14:03:58-07:00 -formats: epub +formats: epub, mobi isbn: 9781683902966 identifiers: isbn:9781683902966,mobi-asin:B09764F6Y8,google:LqUczgEACAAJ,amazon:1683902963 languages: eng pubdate: 2021-06-11T16:00:00-06:00 series: The Dream Lords series_index: 1.0 -size: 490327 +size: 581537 tags: Speculative title_sort: Dream Lords : Rebellion, The id: 1420 @@ -21814,14 +21814,14 @@ uuid: 21b2d47d-a554-4c3d-ab63-d6b22320565f author_sort: HYDEN, STEVEN comments: THE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD'S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, KID A.
In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting them the time, money, and space to make a masterpiece. But Radiohead didn't want to make another rock record. Instead, they set out to create the future.
For more than a year, they battled writer's block, intra-band disagreements, and crippling self-doubt. In the end, however, they produced an album that was not only a complete departure from their prior guitar-based rock sound, it was the sound of a new era-and it embodied widespread changes catalyzed by emerging technologies just beginning to take hold of the culture. What they created was Kid A.
Upon its release in 2000, Radiohead's fourth album divided critics. Some called it... timestamp: 2022-02-13T20:27:54-07:00 -formats: epub +formats: epub, mobi isbn: identifiers: languages: eng pubdate: 2020-09-28T18:00:00-06:00 series: series_index: 1.0 -size: 1212412 +size: 1567946 tags: title_sort: This Isn't Happening id: 1423 @@ -21842,3 +21842,548 @@ tags: title_sort: Return to Ravnica id: 1424 uuid: 07c0acd0-3968-44e4-9fe6-450969b94429 + +author_sort: Kernighan, Brian W. & Plauger, P. J. +comments: With the same style and clarity that characterized their highly acclaimed The Elements of Programming Style and Software Tools, the authors have written Software Tools in Pascal to teach how to write good Pascal programs that make good tools. The programs contained in the book are not artificial, but are actual tools that have proved valuable in the production of other programs. Structured programming and top-down design are emphasized and applied to every program, as are principles of sound design, testing, efficiency, and portability. All of the programs are complete and have been tested directly from the text. The programs are available in machine-readable form from Addison-Wesley. Software Tools in Pascal is ideal for use in a software engineering course, for a second course in programming, or as a supplement in any programming course. All programmers, professional and student, will find the book invaluable as a source of proven, useful programs for reading and study. Numerous exercises are provided to test comprehension and to extend the concepts presented in the book. 0201103427B04062001 +timestamp: 2022-04-06T10:58:29-06:00 +formats: djvu +isbn: 9780201103427 +identifiers: isbn:9780201103427,google:oM0mAAAAMAAJ +languages: eng +pubdate: 1981-04-15T09:58:37-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 2894216 +tags: computers, Programming Languages, Pascal +title_sort: Software Tools in Pascal +id: 1425 +uuid: e39292e2-30a6-4cd6-923e-4c52e51b3b1e + +author_sort: Flanagan, David +comments: JavaScript is the programming language of the web and is used by more software developers today than any other programming language. For nearly 25 years this best seller has been the go-to guide for JavaScript programmers. The seventh edition is fully updated to cover the 2020 version of JavaScript, and new chapters cover classes, modules, iterators, generators, Promises, async/await, and metaprogramming. You’ll find illuminating and engaging example code throughout. This book is for programmers who want to learn JavaScript and for web developers who want to take their understanding and mastery to the next level. It begins by explaining the JavaScript language itself, in detail, from the bottom up. It then builds on that foundation to cover the web platform and Node.js. Topics include: * Types, values, variables, expressions, operators, statements, objects, and arrays * Functions, classes, modules, iterators, generators, Promises, and async/await * JavaScript’s standard library: data structures, regular expressions, JSON, i18n, etc. * The web platform: documents, components, graphics, networking, storage, and threads * Node.js: buffers, files, streams, threads, child processes, web clients, and web servers * Tools and language extensions that professional JavaScript developers rely on. ++ +timestamp: 2022-04-06T10:58:29-06:00 +formats: pdf +isbn: +identifiers: amazon:1491952024 +languages: +pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 6388284 +tags: +title_sort: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Master the World's Most-Used Programming Language +id: 1426 +uuid: 75ccb717-e6f2-4191-934c-37db26454b2c + +author_sort: Unknown +comments: +timestamp: 2022-04-06T10:58:29-06:00 +formats: pdf +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: +pubdate: 2020-08-17T07:26:07-06:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 5947484 +tags: +title_sort: Docker for Developers Develop and run your application with Docker containers using DevOps tools for continuous delivery (Richard Bullington-McGuire, Andrew K. Dennis etc.) (z-lib.org) +id: 1427 +uuid: 69354f68-e915-4d16-832a-f4ad046247ce + +author_sort: Pratchett, Terry +comments: Welcome to Guards! Guards!, the eighth book in Terry Pratchett's legendary Discworld series. ++ Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don't understand italics) has appeared in Discworld's greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all...). How did it get there? How is the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night involved? Can the Ankh-Morpork City Watch restore order - and the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork to power? ++ Magic, mayhem, and a marauding dragon...who could ask for anything more? ++ +timestamp: 2022-04-06T18:21:12-06:00 +formats: epub, mobi +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: eng +pubdate: 2018-08-28T18:00:00-06:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 2072962 +tags: +title_sort: Guards! Guards! +id: 1428 +uuid: a959db41-8926-43c5-a834-4514d0c3bec6 + +author_sort: Questlove +comments: Music Is History combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.

Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapes- try, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way disco took an assembly-line approach to Black genius. And these critical inquiries are complemented by his own memories as a music fan, and the way his appetite for pop culture taught him about America.

A history of the last half-century and an intimate conversation with one of music's most influential and original voices, Music Is History is a singular look at contemporary America. +timestamp: 2022-04-06T18:21:12-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: eng +pubdate: 2021-08-20T18:00:00-06:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 2102071 +tags: +title_sort: Music Is History +id: 1429 +uuid: f8e1aea3-a5d5-43ec-ae18-9d897abb2558 + +author_sort: Lencioni, Patrick M. +comments: There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides.

Simply put, an organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations and culture are unified. Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide an environment where star performers never want to leave. Lencioni's first non-fiction book provides leaders with... +timestamp: 2022-04-06T18:21:12-06:00 +formats: epub, mobi +isbn: 9781118266106 +identifiers: isbn:9781118266106 +languages: eng +pubdate: 2012-02-06T00:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 2074782 +tags: +title_sort: Advantage, The +id: 1430 +uuid: 229c8be0-6a53-4be5-8603-1f5dde612d2a + +author_sort: Berg, Elizabeth +comments: USA TODAY BESTSELLER • An uplifting novel about friendship, surprising revelations, and a second chance at love, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv.

When a group of friends in Mason, Missouri, decide to start a monthly supper club, they get more than they bargained for. The plan for congenial evenings—talking, laughing, and sharing recipes, homemade food, and wine—abruptly changes course one night when one of the women reveals something startlingly intimate. The supper club then becomes Confession Club, and the women gather weekly to share not only dinners but embarrassing misdeeds, deep insecurities, and long-held regrets.

They invite Iris Winters and Maddy Harris to join, and their timing couldn't be better. Iris is conflicted about her feelings for a charming but troubled man, and Maddy has come back home from New York to escape a problem too big to... +timestamp: 2022-04-11T17:16:53-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: eng +pubdate: 2019-11-18T17:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 3895152 +tags: +title_sort: Confession Club, The +id: 1431 +uuid: 32bfabbd-3287-4b4e-8389-f8c6c1ca065e + +author_sort: Proust, Marcel +comments: +timestamp: 2022-04-13T20:37:16-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: 9780679645689 +identifiers: isbn:9780679645689 +languages: eng +pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 5311992 +tags: +title_sort: Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged : 6-Book Bundle, The +id: 1432 +uuid: fd77e2b5-613f-49dd-8e34-399bde8cfd8c + +author_sort: P-Orridge, Genesis Breyer +comments: +timestamp: 2022-04-25T11:59:58-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: 9781932595949 +identifiers: isbn:9781932595949 +languages: eng +pubdate: 2010-10-31T23:00:00-06:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 4249452 +tags: +title_sort: THEE PSYCHICK BIBLE +id: 1433 +uuid: 04fc5fad-d6e5-4815-a0a3-333a694db273 + +author_sort: Gailey, Sarah +comments: +timestamp: 2022-04-30T17:33:00-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: eng +pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 1638585 +tags: +title_sort: River of Teeth +id: 1434 +uuid: e7c027fa-2465-45fd-ba73-df43dd24591f + +author_sort: Strugatsky, Arkady & Strugatsky, Boris +comments:

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a “full empty," something goes wrong. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he'll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems.

First published in 1972, Roadside Picnic is still widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novels, despite the fact that it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty years. This authoritative new translation corrects many errors and omissions and has been supplemented with a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky... +timestamp: 2022-04-30T17:39:56-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: 9781613743447 +identifiers: isbn:9781613743447 +languages: eng +pubdate: 2012-04-15T00:00:00-06:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 1066273 +tags: +title_sort: Roadside Picnic +id: 1435 +uuid: d7c1bd2a-2210-4f91-9f9c-25a9fa655c4f + +author_sort: JAMES, MATT +comments:

Matt James, the first Black bachelor on ABC’s beloved television show, The Bachelor, shares his views on the controversial topics that defined his season and confronts matters of race, opportunity, and his biracial identity head on.

When The Bachelor franchise announced Matt James as the first Black lead, it was celebrated as long-overdue progress on the primetime show. America fell in love with Matt—the Christian, former NFL athlete, and nonprofit CEO—who charmed millions of viewers each week. But the off-screen conversations around the show revealed the realities and inescapable challenges of being Black in America and the depth of racism that still exists.
 
On the show, Matt could only go so far in sharing his own story with America. In First Impressions, Matt shares his views on controversial topics like race and opportunity that defined his season on The Bachelor. Matt lives at the intersection... +timestamp: 2022-05-03T08:31:01-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: eng +pubdate: 2022-03-04T17:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 1183047 +tags: +title_sort: First Impressions +id: 1438 +uuid: 669a2f31-c5bb-49b5-9608-b657ca8cdef9 + +author_sort: Waters, John +comments: **A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind of John Waters, the legendary filmmaker and bestselling author of *Mr. Know-It-All*. ++ **Marsha Sprinkle: Suitcase thief. Scammer. Master of disguise. Dogs and children hate her. Her own family wants her dead. She's smart, she's desperate, she's disturbed, and she's on the run with a big chip on her shoulder. They call her "Liarmouth"--until one insane man makes her tell the truth. ++ John Waters's first novel, *Liarmouth* , is a perfectly perverted "feel-bad romance," and the reader will thrill to hop aboard this delirious road trip of riotous revenge. ++ +timestamp: 2022-05-03T08:31:01-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: eng +pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 954568 +tags: +title_sort: Liarmouth--A Feel-Bad Romance +id: 1439 +uuid: 2f421425-fac0-43c2-a6c7-a52026decad9 + +author_sort: W.Hamming, Richard +comments: Engineering, Computing & Technology +timestamp: 2022-05-09T20:23:20-06:00 +formats: pdf +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: +pubdate: 2005-10-08T11:09:18-06:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 3185486 +tags: Engineering, Computing & Technology +title_sort: Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn, The +id: 1441 +uuid: 327f62f3-b523-46fe-8e7e-f018e2edb69e + +author_sort: Björn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankler, Navid Modiri, Agnes Broomé +comments: +timestamp: 2022-05-12T16:56:17-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: eng +pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 388702 +tags: +title_sort: I May Be Wrong +id: 1442 +uuid: 69465dc7-4398-485e-bbd7-c95f96a0be5b + +author_sort: Lindow, John +comments: +timestamp: 2022-05-14T16:53:58-06:00 +formats: pdf +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: +pubdate: 2014-01-27T08:55:59-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 5686815 +tags: +title_sort: Trolls: An Unnatural History +id: 1443 +uuid: 025d636e-8f23-40b4-a08e-45e061a2e01e + +author_sort: Fink, Joseph +comments:

A New York Times Bestseller

From the bestselling co-author of It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale comes a fast-paced thriller about a truck driver searching across America for the wife she had long assumed to be dead.

"This isn't a story. It's a road trip."

Keisha Taylor lived a quiet life with her wife, Alice, until the day that Alice disappeared. After months of searching, presuming she was dead, Keisha held a funeral, mourned, and gradually tried to get on with her life. But that was before Keisha started to see her wife, again and again, in the background of news reports from all over America. Alice isn't dead, and she is showing up at every major tragedy and accident in the country.
Following a line of clues, Keisha takes a job as a long-haul truck driver and begins searching for Alice. She eventually stumbles on an otherworldly conflict being waged in the quiet corners of our nation's highway... +timestamp: 2022-05-29T06:17:59-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: eng +pubdate: 2018-10-29T18:00:00-06:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 1806897 +tags: +title_sort: Alice Isn't Dead +id: 1444 +uuid: cbdc7f2f-5831-4abe-b3ee-3be8370a303e + +author_sort: Brafman, Ori +comments: If you cut off a spider's leg, it's crippled; if you cut off its head, it dies. But if you cut off a starfish's leg it grows a new one, and the old leg can grow into an entirely new starfish.

What's the hidden power behind the success of Wikipedia, craigslist, and Skype? What do eBay and General Electric have in common with the abolitionist and women's rights movements? What fundamental choice put General Motors and Toyota on vastly different paths? How could winning a Supreme Court case be the biggest mistake MGM could have made?

After five years of ground-breaking research, Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom share some unexpected answers, gripping stories, and a tapestry of unlikely connections. The Starfish and the Spider argues that organizations fall into two categories: traditional "spiders," which have a rigid hierarchy and top-down leadership, and revolutionary "starfish," which rely on the power of peer relationships.

The Starfish and the Spider explores... +timestamp: 2022-06-02T14:39:48-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: 1429571322 +identifiers: isbn:1429571322 +languages: eng +pubdate: 2006-06-15T00:00:00-06:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 373012 +tags: +title_sort: Starfish and the Spider, The +id: 1445 +uuid: 6ca399d3-3c54-4f03-9235-6594ab3e718a + +author_sort: Hine, Phil +comments: +timestamp: 2022-06-10T20:10:57-06:00 +formats: pdf +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: +pubdate: 2010-01-22T04:51:18-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 76800894 +tags: +title_sort: Condensed chaos: An introduction to chaos magic +id: 1446 +uuid: 050caec9-3b04-4328-a140-aa363a9e5d5b + +author_sort: Ruecker, Bernd +comments: +timestamp: 2022-06-24T14:05:58-06:00 +formats: pdf +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: +pubdate: 2021-03-16T08:04:17-06:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 17912736 +tags: +title_sort: Practical Process Automation +id: 1447 +uuid: be5b1873-1c8a-4b34-92cf-cc9d976f58d7 + +author_sort: Bujold, Lois McMaster +comments:

On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the ground, her maidservant and guardsmen distraught. As he approaches to help, he discovers that the lady is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world. Her avowed god is The Bastard, "master of all disasters out of season", and with her dying breath she bequeaths her mysterious powers to Penric. From that moment on, Penric's life is irreversibly changed, and his life is in danger from those who envy or fear him.

Set in the fantasy world of the author's acclaimed novels THE CURSE OF CHALION, PALADIN OF SOULS and THE HALLOWED HUNT, this novella has the depth of characterization and emotional complexity that distinguishes all Bujold's work. +timestamp: 2022-06-30T07:06:26-06:00 +formats: epub, mobi +isbn: 978-1-62578-159-8 +identifiers: isbn:978-1-62578-159-8 +languages: eng +pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 589039 +tags: +title_sort: Penric's Demon +id: 1448 +uuid: dee6484f-db7c-4d06-b87e-111c155bb41f + +author_sort: Bujold, Lois McMaster +comments: A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril returns to the noble household he once served as page and is named secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to rule. It is an assignment Cazaril dreads, for it must ultimately lead him to the place he most fears: the royal court of Cardegoss, where the powerful enemies who once placed him in chains now occupy lofty positions. ++ But it is more than the traitorous intrigues of villains that threaten Cazaril and the Royesse Iselle here, for a sinister curse hangs like a sword over the entire blighted House of Chalion. And only by employing the darkest, most forbidden of magics can Cazaril hope to protect his royal charge -- an act that will mark him as a tool of the miraculous . . . and trap him in a lethal maze of demonic paradox. ++ +timestamp: 2022-06-30T17:53:29-06:00 +formats: epub, mobi +isbn: +identifiers: 9780061793042:9780061793042 +languages: eng +pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 1105107 +tags: +title_sort: Curse of Chalion, The +id: 1449 +uuid: 818441a1-a9c6-4ce5-afe8-03838c6b88af + +author_sort: McDougall, Christopher +comments: From the bestselling author of Born to Run, a heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in America, and, in the process, discovering the life-changing power of the human-animal connection.
"A delight, full of heart and hijinks and humor." —John Grogan, author of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
When Christopher McDougall decided to adopt a donkey in dire straits, he had no idea what he was getting himself into. But with the help of his neighbors, Chris came up with a crazy idea. Burro racing, a unique type of competition in which humans and donkeys run side by side over mountains and through streams, would be exactly the challenge Sherman and Chris needed. In the course of Sherman’s training, Chris would enlist Amish running clubs, high-spirited goats, the service animal community, and two Sarah Palin–loving long-distance... +timestamp: 2022-07-04T11:21:08-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: eng +pubdate: 2019-10-14T18:00:00-06:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 65415510 +tags: +title_sort: Running with Sherman +id: 1450 +uuid: 5b04ab84-f444-4c69-bf20-4164a231f2ce + +author_sort: Crichton, Michael +comments: "Crichton's ultimate adventure." ++ --San Francisco Chronicle ++ "Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action....A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure." ++ --USA Today ++ "Riveting....Great entertainment....The pages and minutes fly by." ++ --Cleveland Plain Dealer ++ #1 New York Times bestselling author, the incomparable Michael Crichton ("One of the great storytellers of our age" --Newsday) takes to the high Caribbean seas for an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates, lost treasure, sword fights, duplicity, and hair-breadth escapes in the New World. ++ +timestamp: 2022-07-13T10:28:27-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: 9780061938740 +identifiers: isbn:9780061938740 +languages: eng +pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 702121 +tags: +title_sort: Pirate Latitudes +id: 1451 +uuid: e2c4422f-e2a5-4fe8-8e5b-03c74d0591af + +author_sort: Moore, Scotto +comments:

"This is a stand-alone novel with material enough for six... By the halfway point, it had blown my mind twice... an audacious, genre-bending whirlwind." —New York Times
"It reads like Snow Crash had a dance-off with Gideon the Ninth, in a world where language isn't a virus from outer space, it's a goddamn alien invasion." —Charles Stross
In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire.
Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle Dungeon. Her prowess in the game makes her an ideal candidate to learn the secrets of "power morphemes"—unnaturally dense units of meaning that warp perception when skilfully pronounced.
But Isobel's reputation makes her the target of a strange resistance movement led by spellcasting anarchists, who may be the only thing stopping the cabal... +timestamp: 2022-07-18T08:49:50-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: eng +pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 2607432 +tags: +title_sort: Battle of the Linguist Mages +id: 1452 +uuid: 47348a85-e935-4a3e-8d8d-3063ca854a7d + +author_sort: Guin, Ursula K. Le +comments: +timestamp: 2022-07-19T10:05:27-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: eng +pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 655234 +tags: +title_sort: Worlds of Exile and Illusion +id: 1453 +uuid: 33d1b3f5-3560-4cd2-93eb-f40486fb1f72 + +author_sort: Wiseman, Liz +comments:

A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better results.

We've all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest person in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who use their intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them. When these leaders walk into a room, light bulbs go off over people's heads; ideas flow and problems get solved. These are the leaders who inspire employees to stretch themselves to deliver results that surpass expectations. These are the Multipliers. And the world needs more of them, especially now when leaders are expected... +timestamp: 2022-07-28T09:58:37-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: 9780062663061 +identifiers: isbn:9780062663061 +languages: eng +pubdate: 2017-04-19T00:00:00-06:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 3255236 +tags: +title_sort: Multipliers, Revised and Updated +id: 1454 +uuid: 8d931cfa-434b-46e8-9be4-b460b16ccc1b + +author_sort: Wangerin, Walter +comments: +timestamp: 2022-08-03T11:55:13-06:00 +formats: pdf +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: +pubdate: 2012-09-27T16:59:35-06:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 33702376 +tags: http://archive.org/details/lter00walt +title_sort: lter +id: 1455 +uuid: 0217f44e-8475-404e-920f-fea12114ec65 + +author_sort: Wangerin, Walter +comments: +timestamp: 2022-08-03T11:56:10-06:00 +formats: pdf +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: +pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 19743123 +tags: http://www.archive.org/details/bookofsorrows00wang +title_sort: book of sorrows, The +id: 1456 +uuid: 8edbf574-a0ff-476d-9456-96b8f10af39b + +author_sort: Wangerin, Walter Jr. +comments: +timestamp: 2022-08-03T11:57:26-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: eng +pubdate: 2013-09-02T16:00:00-06:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 2850169 +tags: FICTION/General +title_sort: Third Book of the Dun Cow: Peace at the Last, The +id: 1457 +uuid: ff0201d1-7fb7-4329-a12b-5e5e1fbb02c7 + +author_sort: Rhinehart, Luke +comments: +timestamp: 2022-08-05T22:51:01-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: eng +pubdate: 0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 827470 +tags: +title_sort: Dice Man, The +id: 1458 +uuid: be6b3534-341e-4399-8df7-52b3734262b4 + +author_sort: Rhinehart, Luke +comments: The â??bibleâ?? for dice living â?? for everyone who has been inspired by the cult classic THE DICE MAN. From the author of the cult bestsellers THE DICE MAN and SEARCH FOR THE DICE MAN comes a new book, guaranteed to appeal to the hundreds of thousands of people who continue to be fascinated by the thought of â??living by the diceâ??. Luke Rhinehart, after a long period of silence, has delivered a playful book of parables, essays, thoughts, ideas and practical instructions and reminsces on dice-ing that is designed to be dipped into for thoughts and views on dice living. It is a â??handbookâ??, a reference â??bibleâ??, for the hundreds of thousands of people who turn to the dice to shake up convention and taking risks and chances. It will be a â??mustâ?? for Rhinehartâ??s thousands of devoted followers. ++ +timestamp: 2022-08-05T22:51:31-06:00 +formats: epub +isbn: 978-0-00-732220-6 +identifiers: mobi-asin:925654c3-c9d0-42f4-9b27-90635df8c05c,isbn:978-0-00-732220-6 +languages: eng +pubdate: 2000-01-31T09:00:00-07:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 547065 +tags: +title_sort: Book of the Die, The +id: 1459 +uuid: f7b6c9bb-71f7-44c4-85ed-0ec5b222d39d + +author_sort: Rhinehart, Luke +comments: +timestamp: 2022-08-05T22:54:43-06:00 +formats: pdf +isbn: +identifiers: +languages: +pubdate: 2015-10-13T05:58:46-06:00 +series: +series_index: 1.0 +size: 55457275 +tags: http://archive.org/details/whim00luke +title_sort: Whim +id: 1460 +uuid: 84a7a0b5-2135-4483-94a4-7189210062b4 diff --git a/feed.xml b/feed.xml index 57c1fe2..d9a2081 100644 --- a/feed.xml +++ b/feed.xml @@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ https://git.tilde.town/dozens/books en-US - Thu, 31 Mar 2022 15:22:11 +0000 + Sun, 07 Aug 2022 19:04:31 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification dozens@tilde.town (~dozens) - Python 3.9.10 + Python 3.7.7 monthly 1 1971-01-01T00:00+00:00 @@ -7675,7 +7675,7 @@ Staying true to the mission of the first), Garr combines solid principles of des Raven Tower, The Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:20:18 -0600 49ff9919-3e56-47ed-ac14-fa5c2beb852d - <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Ann Leckie</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2019-02-25T17:00:00-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>5735511</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Raven Tower, The</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>995</dd></dl><p><b>Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down from the throne in this breathtaking first fantasy novel from Ann Leckie, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. </b> <br><p>For centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven. He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful port of Vastai. His will is enacted through the Raven's Lease, a human ruler chosen by the god himself. His magic is sustained via the blood sacrifice that every Lease must offer. And under the Raven's watch, the city flourishes.<p><br><p>But the power of the Raven is weakening. A usurper has claimed the throne. The kingdom borders are tested by invaders who long for the prosperity that Vastai boasts. 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In <i>Traitor's Blade</i> a disgraced swordsman struggles to redeem himself by protecting a young girl caught in the web of a royal conspiracy.<br>The King is dead, the Greatcoats have been disbanded, and Falcio Val Mond and his fellow magistrates Kest and Brasti have been reduced to working as bodyguards for a nobleman who refuses to pay them. Things could be worse, of course. Their employer could be lying dead on the floor while they are forced to watch the killer plant evidence framing them for the murder. Oh wait, that's exactly what's happening.<br>Now a royal conspiracy is about to unfold in the most corrupt city in the world. A carefully orchestrated series of murders that began with the overthrow of an idealistic young king will end with the death of an orphaned girl and the ruin of everything that Falcio, Kest, and Brasti have fought... + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>de Castell, Sebastien</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub, mobi</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2014-08-11T18:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>2514719</dd><dt>Tags</dt><dd>FIC009000 Fiction / Fantasy / General</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Traitor's Blade</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1379</dd></dl>With swashbuckling action that recall Dumas' <i>Three Musketeers</i> <b> </b>Sebastien de Castell has created a dynamic new fantasy series. In <i>Traitor's Blade</i> a disgraced swordsman struggles to redeem himself by protecting a young girl caught in the web of a royal conspiracy.<br>The King is dead, the Greatcoats have been disbanded, and Falcio Val Mond and his fellow magistrates Kest and Brasti have been reduced to working as bodyguards for a nobleman who refuses to pay them. Things could be worse, of course. Their employer could be lying dead on the floor while they are forced to watch the killer plant evidence framing them for the murder. Oh wait, that's exactly what's happening.<br>Now a royal conspiracy is about to unfold in the most corrupt city in the world. A carefully orchestrated series of murders that began with the overthrow of an idealistic young king will end with the death of an orphaned girl and the ruin of everything that Falcio, Kest, and Brasti have fought... de Castell, Sebastien FIC009000 Fiction / Fantasy / General @@ -10666,7 +10666,7 @@ This is the first English translation of the 1905 German text and the first volu This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It Sun, 26 Sep 2021 12:52:59 -0600 a4a0c96d-94ac-4d2e-9904-ae0531bfec11 - <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Wong, David</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2017-03-23T18:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>1443967</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1391</dd></dl><p>Now with never before seen pages from David Wong's next book <i>Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits. </i></p><p>From the writer of the cult sensation John Dies at the End comes another terrifying and hilarious tale of almost Armageddon at the hands of two hopeless heroes.</p><br><p>WARNING:</p><p>You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR. </p><p>You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection &#8212; the creature secretes a chemical into the brain to stimulate skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That's just as well, since the "cure" involves learning what a chainsaw tastes like. </p><p>You can't feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings. You can't see it, because it decides what you see. You won't even feel it when it breeds. And it will breed. So what happens when your family, friends and... + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Wong, David</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub, mobi</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2017-03-23T18:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>1667008</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1391</dd></dl><p>Now with never before seen pages from David Wong's next book <i>Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits. </i></p><p>From the writer of the cult sensation John Dies at the End comes another terrifying and hilarious tale of almost Armageddon at the hands of two hopeless heroes.</p><br><p>WARNING:</p><p>You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR. </p><p>You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection &#8212; the creature secretes a chemical into the brain to stimulate skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That's just as well, since the "cure" involves learning what a chainsaw tastes like. </p><p>You can't feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings. You can't see it, because it decides what you see. You won't even feel it when it breeds. And it will breed. So what happens when your family, friends and... Wong, David @@ -10687,7 +10687,7 @@ This is the first English translation of the 1905 German text and the first volu Howl's Moving Castle Sat, 02 Oct 2021 17:17:26 -0600 e088a357-a97a-4862-af31-f22d275633e6 - <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Jones, Diana Wynne</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Isbn</dt><dd>9780062244512</dd><dt>Identifiers</dt><dd>isbn:9780062244512</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>694197</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Howl's Moving Castle</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1394</dd></dl><p><strong>This entrancing classic fantasy novel is filled with surprises at every turn. An international bestseller, this much-loved book is the source for the Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature.</strong></p><p>Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl's castle.</p><p>To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. Along the way, she discovers that there's far more to Howl&#8212;and herself&#8212;than first meets the eye.</p><p>In this giant jigsaw puzzle of a fantasy, people and things are never quite what they seem. Destinies are... + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Jones, Diana Wynne</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub, mobi</dd><dt>Isbn</dt><dd>9780062244512</dd><dt>Identifiers</dt><dd>isbn:9780062244512</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>1643337</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Howl's Moving Castle</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1394</dd></dl><p><strong>This entrancing classic fantasy novel is filled with surprises at every turn. An international bestseller, this much-loved book is the source for the Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature.</strong></p><p>Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl's castle.</p><p>To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. Along the way, she discovers that there's far more to Howl&#8212;and herself&#8212;than first meets the eye.</p><p>In this giant jigsaw puzzle of a fantasy, people and things are never quite what they seem. Destinies are... Jones, Diana Wynne @@ -10889,7 +10889,7 @@ Two of the Delaney children think their father is innocent, two are not so sure Powers of Darkness Sun, 23 Jan 2022 19:49:05 -0700 47c83930-d9fd-4d00-adbc-a87099d80bd1 - <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>STOKER, BRAM; ÀSMUNDSSON, VALDIMAR</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Isbn</dt><dd>9781468313376</dd><dt>Identifiers</dt><dd>isbn:9781468313376</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2016-09-06T00:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>3856757</dd><dt>Tags</dt><dd>FIC019000 FICTION/Literature FIC015000 FICTION / Horror FIC004000 FICTION / Classics</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Powers of Darkness</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1418</dd></dl><p>The first ever translation into English of a newly discovered Icelandic adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic gothic novel, Dracula</p><p>Powers of Darkness is an incredible literary discovery: In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar &#193;smundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker's world-famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna (literally, "Powers of Darkness"), this Icelandic edition included an original preface written by Stoker himself. Makt Myrkranna was published in Iceland in 1901 but remained undiscovered outside of the country until 1986, when Dracula scholarship was astonished by the discovery of Stoker's preface to the book. However, no one looked beyond the preface and deeper into &#193;smundsson's story.</p><p>In 2014, literary researcher Hans de Roos dove into the full text of Makt Myrkranna, only to discover that &#193;smundsson hadn't merely translated Dracula but had penned an entirely new version of the story, with all new characters and a... + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>STOKER, BRAM; ÀSMUNDSSON, VALDIMAR</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub, mobi</dd><dt>Isbn</dt><dd>9781468313376</dd><dt>Identifiers</dt><dd>isbn:9781468313376</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2016-09-06T00:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>4316809</dd><dt>Tags</dt><dd>FIC019000 FICTION/Literature FIC015000 FICTION / Horror FIC004000 FICTION / Classics</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Powers of Darkness</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1418</dd></dl><p>The first ever translation into English of a newly discovered Icelandic adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic gothic novel, Dracula</p><p>Powers of Darkness is an incredible literary discovery: In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar &#193;smundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker's world-famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna (literally, "Powers of Darkness"), this Icelandic edition included an original preface written by Stoker himself. Makt Myrkranna was published in Iceland in 1901 but remained undiscovered outside of the country until 1986, when Dracula scholarship was astonished by the discovery of Stoker's preface to the book. However, no one looked beyond the preface and deeper into &#193;smundsson's story.</p><p>In 2014, literary researcher Hans de Roos dove into the full text of Makt Myrkranna, only to discover that &#193;smundsson hadn't merely translated Dracula but had penned an entirely new version of the story, with all new characters and a... STOKER, BRAM; ÀSMUNDSSON, VALDIMAR FIC019000 FICTION/Literature FIC015000 FICTION / Horror FIC004000 FICTION / Classics @@ -10904,7 +10904,7 @@ Two of the Delaney children think their father is innocent, two are not so sure Dream Lords : Rebellion, The Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:03:58 -0700 9db7bb8c-5184-4027-a0ee-59a9ce5e73d1 - <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Cole, Adrian & McLain, Bob</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Isbn</dt><dd>9781683902966</dd><dt>Identifiers</dt><dd>isbn:9781683902966,mobi-asin:B09764F6Y8,google:LqUczgEACAAJ,amazon:1683902963</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2021-06-11T16:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series</dt><dd>The Dream Lords</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>490327</dd><dt>Tags</dt><dd>Speculative</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Dream Lords : Rebellion, The</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1420</dd></dl>## FABULOUS INTERPLANETARY ADVENTURE + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Cole, Adrian & McLain, Bob</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub, mobi</dd><dt>Isbn</dt><dd>9781683902966</dd><dt>Identifiers</dt><dd>isbn:9781683902966,mobi-asin:B09764F6Y8,google:LqUczgEACAAJ,amazon:1683902963</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2021-06-11T16:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series</dt><dd>The Dream Lords</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>581537</dd><dt>Tags</dt><dd>Speculative</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Dream Lords : Rebellion, The</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1420</dd></dl>## FABULOUS INTERPLANETARY ADVENTURE ## IN THE TRADITION OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS AND LEIGH BRACKETT The Dream Lords—absolute rulers of an Empire of worlds, wielders of ultimate power, through an advanced technology far beyond the capabilities of the common people, coupled with darker powers of the mind. For centuries they have shaped the destiny of mankind, unrivaled and invincible. Galad Sarian—son of a Dream Lord and heir to a place among them. Impetuous, rebellious, he learns a sinister truth about his heritage that is to set him on a dangerous, bloody course that will cross worlds and unleash a terrible threat to the stability of the Empire. Daras Vorta, master of the darkest of all arts and servant of the gods of night, whose rise to power brings with it a promise of ultimate evil and the collapse of mankind into a frightful new satanic order. In this first volume of Adrian Cole’s pulsating Dream Lords saga, out of print for many years, Galad Sarian begins his epic quest, culminating in an explosive confrontation with the forces of nightmare, leaving him and his chosen people on the brink of annihilation. *Rebellion* is a revised and extended version, and includes a new introduction to the series. Volume 2, *Revolution* , and Volume 3, *Retribution* , will be published in spring 2021. ** @@ -10922,7 +10922,7 @@ The Dream Lords—absolute rulers of an Empire of worlds, wielders of ultimate p This Isn't Happening Sun, 13 Feb 2022 20:27:54 -0700 84889468-6ddf-4782-a567-2a292eae8f8b - <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>HYDEN, STEVEN</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2020-09-28T18:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>1212412</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>This Isn't Happening</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1423</dd></dl><b>THE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD'S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, <i>KID A</i>.</b></br> In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting them the time, money, and space to make a masterpiece. But Radiohead didn't want to make another rock record. Instead, they set out to create the future.</br> For more than a year, they battled writer's block, intra-band disagreements, and crippling self-doubt. In the end, however, they produced an album that was not only a complete departure from their prior guitar-based rock sound, it was the sound of a new era-and it embodied widespread changes catalyzed by emerging technologies just beginning to take hold of the culture. What they created was <i>Kid A</i>.</br> Upon its release in 2000, Radiohead's fourth album divided critics. Some called it... + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>HYDEN, STEVEN</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub, mobi</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2020-09-28T18:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>1567946</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>This Isn't Happening</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1423</dd></dl><b>THE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD'S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, <i>KID A</i>.</b></br> In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting them the time, money, and space to make a masterpiece. But Radiohead didn't want to make another rock record. Instead, they set out to create the future.</br> For more than a year, they battled writer's block, intra-band disagreements, and crippling self-doubt. In the end, however, they produced an album that was not only a complete departure from their prior guitar-based rock sound, it was the sound of a new era-and it embodied widespread changes catalyzed by emerging technologies just beginning to take hold of the culture. What they created was <i>Kid A</i>.</br> Upon its release in 2000, Radiohead's fourth album divided critics. Some called it... HYDEN, STEVEN @@ -10932,5 +10932,262 @@ The Dream Lords—absolute rulers of an Empire of worlds, wielders of ultimate p <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Beyer, Doug</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Isbn</dt><dd>978-0-7869-6455-0</dd><dt>Identifiers</dt><dd>isbn:978-0-7869-6455-0</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2012-11-27T00:00:00-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>2135369</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Return to Ravnica</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1424</dd></dl><b>As a planeswalker investigates an alarming mystery built into the very foundations of Ravnica, he realizes some secrets are better left hidden</b><br>&#160;<br>Jace Beleren has the power to travel between planes of the Multiverse, but with this gift comes isolation. He is one in a million. He is a planeswalker. And he is on the edge of a mystery that could alter the face of his adopted home&mdash;a vast, world-wide city known as Ravnica&mdash;forever.<br><br>Faced with a magical code that is built into the very foundations of the city-world itself, Jace marches into the numinous depths of Ravnica&rsquo;s underbelly in search of the promise of powerful magic. What he finds is perhaps more burden than boon. Once buried in past, the code resurfaces as Ravnica&rsquo;s power-hungry mage guilds&mdash;unbound by the Guildpact that had once maintained order&mdash;struggle for control of the plane. But in the drive for primacy, there is no neutral ground.<br><br>Jace knows that he... Beyer, Doug + + Software Tools in Pascal + Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:58:29 -0600 + e39292e2-30a6-4cd6-923e-4c52e51b3b1e + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Kernighan, Brian W. & Plauger, P. J.</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>djvu</dd><dt>Isbn</dt><dd>9780201103427</dd><dt>Identifiers</dt><dd>isbn:9780201103427,google:oM0mAAAAMAAJ</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>1981-04-15T09:58:37-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>2894216</dd><dt>Tags</dt><dd>computers, Programming Languages, Pascal</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Software Tools in Pascal</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1425</dd></dl>With the same style and clarity that characterized their highly acclaimed The Elements of Programming Style and Software Tools, the authors have written Software Tools in Pascal to teach how to write good Pascal programs that make good tools. The programs contained in the book are not artificial, but are actual tools that have proved valuable in the production of other programs. Structured programming and top-down design are emphasized and applied to every program, as are principles of sound design, testing, efficiency, and portability. All of the programs are complete and have been tested directly from the text. The programs are available in machine-readable form from Addison-Wesley. Software Tools in Pascal is ideal for use in a software engineering course, for a second course in programming, or as a supplement in any programming course. All programmers, professional and student, will find the book invaluable as a source of proven, useful programs for reading and study. Numerous exercises are provided to test comprehension and to extend the concepts presented in the book. 0201103427B04062001 + Kernighan, Brian W. & Plauger, P. J. + computers + Programming Languages + Pascal + + + JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Master the World's Most-Used Programming Language + Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:58:29 -0600 + 75ccb717-e6f2-4191-934c-37db26454b2c + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Flanagan, David</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>pdf</dd><dt>Identifiers</dt><dd>amazon:1491952024</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>6388284</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Master the World's Most-Used Programming Language</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1426</dd></dl>JavaScript is the programming language of the web and is used by more software developers today than any other programming language. For nearly 25 years this best seller has been the go-to guide for JavaScript programmers. The seventh edition is fully updated to cover the 2020 version of JavaScript, and new chapters cover classes, modules, iterators, generators, Promises, async/await, and metaprogramming. You’ll find illuminating and engaging example code throughout. This book is for programmers who want to learn JavaScript and for web developers who want to take their understanding and mastery to the next level. It begins by explaining the JavaScript language itself, in detail, from the bottom up. It then builds on that foundation to cover the web platform and Node.js. Topics include: * Types, values, variables, expressions, operators, statements, objects, and arrays * Functions, classes, modules, iterators, generators, Promises, and async/await * JavaScript’s standard library: data structures, regular expressions, JSON, i18n, etc. * The web platform: documents, components, graphics, networking, storage, and threads * Node.js: buffers, files, streams, threads, child processes, web clients, and web servers * Tools and language extensions that professional JavaScript developers rely on. + + Flanagan, David + + + Docker for Developers Develop and run your application with Docker containers using DevOps tools for continuous delivery (Richard Bullington-McGuire, Andrew K. Dennis etc.) (z-lib.org) + Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:58:29 -0600 + 69354f68-e915-4d16-832a-f4ad046247ce + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Unknown</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>pdf</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2020-08-17T07:26:07-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>5947484</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Docker for Developers Develop and run your application with Docker containers using DevOps tools for continuous delivery (Richard Bullington-McGuire, Andrew K. Dennis etc.) (z-lib.org)</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1427</dd></dl> + Unknown + + + Guards! Guards! + Wed, 06 Apr 2022 18:21:12 -0600 + a959db41-8926-43c5-a834-4514d0c3bec6 + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Pratchett, Terry</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub, mobi</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2018-08-28T18:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>2072962</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Guards! Guards!</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1428</dd></dl>Welcome to Guards! Guards!, the eighth book in Terry Pratchett's legendary Discworld series. +Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don't understand italics) has appeared in Discworld's greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all...). How did it get there? How is the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night involved? Can the Ankh-Morpork City Watch restore order - and the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork to power? +Magic, mayhem, and a marauding dragon...who could ask for anything more? + + Pratchett, Terry + + + Music Is History + Wed, 06 Apr 2022 18:21:12 -0600 + f8e1aea3-a5d5-43ec-ae18-9d897abb2558 + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Questlove</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2021-08-20T18:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>2102071</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Music Is History</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1429</dd></dl><B><I>Music Is History</I> combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years. </B><BR /> <BR /> Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapes- try, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way disco took an assembly-line approach to Black genius. And these critical inquiries are complemented by his own memories as a music fan, and the way his appetite for pop culture taught him about America.<BR /> <BR /> A history of the last half-century and an intimate conversation with one of music's most influential and original voices, <I>Music Is History</I> is a singular look at contemporary America. + Questlove + + + Advantage, The + Wed, 06 Apr 2022 18:21:12 -0600 + 229c8be0-6a53-4be5-8603-1f5dde612d2a + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Lencioni, Patrick M.</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub, mobi</dd><dt>Isbn</dt><dd>9781118266106</dd><dt>Identifiers</dt><dd>isbn:9781118266106</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2012-02-06T00:00:00-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>2074782</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Advantage, The</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1430</dd></dl>There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, <i>New York Times</i> best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides. <p>Simply put, an organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations and culture are unified. Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide an environment where star performers never want to leave. Lencioni's first non-fiction book provides leaders with... + Lencioni, Patrick M. + + + Confession Club, The + Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:16:53 -0600 + 32bfabbd-3287-4b4e-8389-f8c6c1ca065e + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Berg, Elizabeth</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2019-11-18T17:00:00-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>3895152</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Confession Club, The</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1431</dd></dl><b><i>USA TODAY</i> BESTSELLER &bull; An uplifting novel&#160;about friendship, surprising revelations, and a second chance at love, from the</b> <b><i>New York Times</i></b> <b>bestselling author of</b> <b><i>The Story of Arthur Truluv</i>.</b><br><br> When a group of friends in Mason, Missouri, decide to start a monthly supper club, they get more than they bargained for. The plan for congenial evenings&mdash;talking, laughing, and sharing recipes, homemade food, and wine&mdash;abruptly changes course one night when one of the women reveals something startlingly intimate. The supper club then becomes Confession Club, and the women gather weekly to share not only dinners but embarrassing misdeeds, deep insecurities, and long-held regrets.<br><br> They invite Iris Winters and Maddy Harris to join, and their timing couldn't be better. Iris is conflicted about her feelings for a charming but troubled man, and Maddy has come back home from New York to escape a problem too big to... + Berg, Elizabeth + + + Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged : 6-Book Bundle, The + Wed, 13 Apr 2022 20:37:16 -0600 + fd77e2b5-613f-49dd-8e34-399bde8cfd8c + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Proust, Marcel</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Isbn</dt><dd>9780679645689</dd><dt>Identifiers</dt><dd>isbn:9780679645689</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>5311992</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged : 6-Book Bundle, The</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1432</dd></dl> + Proust, Marcel + + + THEE PSYCHICK BIBLE + Mon, 25 Apr 2022 11:59:58 -0600 + 04fc5fad-d6e5-4815-a0a3-333a694db273 + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>P-Orridge, Genesis Breyer</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Isbn</dt><dd>9781932595949</dd><dt>Identifiers</dt><dd>isbn:9781932595949</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2010-10-31T23:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>4249452</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>THEE PSYCHICK BIBLE</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1433</dd></dl> + P-Orridge, Genesis Breyer + + + River of Teeth + Sat, 30 Apr 2022 17:33:00 -0600 + e7c027fa-2465-45fd-ba73-df43dd24591f + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Gailey, Sarah</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>1638585</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>River of Teeth</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1434</dd></dl> + Gailey, Sarah + + + Roadside Picnic + Sat, 30 Apr 2022 17:39:56 -0600 + d7c1bd2a-2210-4f91-9f9c-25a9fa655c4f + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Strugatsky, Arkady & Strugatsky, Boris</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Isbn</dt><dd>9781613743447</dd><dt>Identifiers</dt><dd>isbn:9781613743447</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2012-04-15T00:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>1066273</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Roadside Picnic</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1435</dd></dl><p>Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. 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In <I>First Impressions</I>, Matt shares his views on controversial topics like race and opportunity that defined his season on <I>The Bachelor.</I>&#160;Matt lives at the intersection... + JAMES, MATT + + + Liarmouth--A Feel-Bad Romance + Tue, 03 May 2022 08:31:01 -0600 + 2f421425-fac0-43c2-a6c7-a52026decad9 + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Waters, John</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>954568</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Liarmouth--A Feel-Bad Romance</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1439</dd></dl>**A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind of John Waters, the legendary filmmaker and bestselling author of *Mr. Know-It-All*. +**Marsha Sprinkle: Suitcase thief. Scammer. Master of disguise. Dogs and children hate her. Her own family wants her dead. She's smart, she's desperate, she's disturbed, and she's on the run with a big chip on her shoulder. They call her "Liarmouth"--until one insane man makes her tell the truth. +John Waters's first novel, *Liarmouth* , is a perfectly perverted "feel-bad romance," and the reader will thrill to hop aboard this delirious road trip of riotous revenge. + + Waters, John + + + Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn, The + Mon, 09 May 2022 20:23:20 -0600 + 327f62f3-b523-46fe-8e7e-f018e2edb69e + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>W.Hamming, Richard</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>pdf</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2005-10-08T11:09:18-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>3185486</dd><dt>Tags</dt><dd>Engineering, Computing & Technology</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn, The</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1441</dd></dl>Engineering, Computing & Technology + W.Hamming, Richard + Engineering + Computing & Technology + + + I May Be Wrong + Thu, 12 May 2022 16:56:17 -0600 + 69465dc7-4398-485e-bbd7-c95f96a0be5b + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Björn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankler, Navid Modiri, Agnes Broomé</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>388702</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>I May Be Wrong</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1442</dd></dl> + Björn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankler, Navid Modiri, Agnes Broomé + + + Trolls: An Unnatural History + Sat, 14 May 2022 16:53:58 -0600 + 025d636e-8f23-40b4-a08e-45e061a2e01e + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Lindow, John</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>pdf</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2014-01-27T08:55:59-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>5686815</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Trolls: An Unnatural History</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1443</dd></dl> + Lindow, John + + + Alice Isn't Dead + Sun, 29 May 2022 06:17:59 -0600 + cbdc7f2f-5831-4abe-b3ee-3be8370a303e + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Fink, Joseph</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2018-10-29T18:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>1806897</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Alice Isn't Dead</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1444</dd></dl><p><strong>A New York Times Bestseller</strong></p><p><strong>From the bestselling co-author of It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale comes a fast-paced thriller about a truck driver searching across America for the wife she had long assumed to be dead.</strong></p><p>"This isn't a story. 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She eventually stumbles on an otherworldly conflict being waged in the quiet corners of our nation's highway... + Fink, Joseph + + + Starfish and the Spider, The + Thu, 02 Jun 2022 14:39:48 -0600 + 6ca399d3-3c54-4f03-9235-6594ab3e718a + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Brafman, Ori</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Isbn</dt><dd>1429571322</dd><dt>Identifiers</dt><dd>isbn:1429571322</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2006-06-15T00:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>373012</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Starfish and the Spider, The</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1445</dd></dl>If you cut off a spider's leg, it's crippled; if you cut off its head, it dies. But if you cut off a starfish's leg it grows a new one, and the old leg can grow into an entirely new starfish. <p>What's the hidden power behind the success of Wikipedia, craigslist, and Skype? What do eBay and General Electric have in common with the abolitionist and women's rights movements? 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It is an assignment Cazaril dreads, for it must ultimately lead him to the place he most fears: the royal court of Cardegoss, where the powerful enemies who once placed him in chains now occupy lofty positions. +But it is more than the traitorous intrigues of villains that threaten Cazaril and the Royesse Iselle here, for a sinister curse hangs like a sword over the entire blighted House of Chalion. And only by employing the darkest, most forbidden of magics can Cazaril hope to protect his royal charge -- an act that will mark him as a tool of the miraculous . . . and trap him in a lethal maze of demonic paradox. + + Bujold, Lois McMaster + + + Running with Sherman + Mon, 04 Jul 2022 11:21:08 -0600 + 5b04ab84-f444-4c69-bf20-4164a231f2ce + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>McDougall, Christopher</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2019-10-14T18:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>65415510</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Running with Sherman</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1450</dd></dl><b><b>From the bestselling author of <i>Born to Run</i>, a heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in America, and, in the process, discovering the life-changing power of the human-animal connection.<br><b><b>"A</b> <b>delight, full of heart and hijinks and humor."&#160;&mdash;John Grogan, author of</b> <b><i>Marley &amp; Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog</i></b></b></b></b><br>When Christopher McDougall decided to adopt a donkey in dire straits, he had no idea what he was getting himself into. 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In the course of Sherman&rsquo;s training, Chris would enlist Amish running clubs, high-spirited goats, the service animal community, and two Sarah Palin&ndash;loving long-distance... + McDougall, Christopher + + + Pirate Latitudes + Wed, 13 Jul 2022 10:28:27 -0600 + e2c4422f-e2a5-4fe8-8e5b-03c74d0591af + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Crichton, Michael</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Isbn</dt><dd>9780061938740</dd><dt>Identifiers</dt><dd>isbn:9780061938740</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>702121</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Pirate Latitudes</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1451</dd></dl>"Crichton's ultimate adventure." +--San Francisco Chronicle +"Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action....A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure." +--USA Today +"Riveting....Great entertainment....The pages and minutes fly by." +--Cleveland Plain Dealer +#1 New York Times bestselling author, the incomparable Michael Crichton ("One of the great storytellers of our age" --Newsday) takes to the high Caribbean seas for an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates, lost treasure, sword fights, duplicity, and hair-breadth escapes in the New World. + + Crichton, Michael + + + Battle of the Linguist Mages + Mon, 18 Jul 2022 08:49:50 -0600 + 47348a85-e935-4a3e-8d8d-3063ca854a7d + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Moore, Scotto</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>2607432</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Battle of the Linguist Mages</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1452</dd></dl><p><b>"This is a stand-alone novel with material enough for six... 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Le + + + Multipliers, Revised and Updated + Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:58:37 -0600 + 8d931cfa-434b-46e8-9be4-b460b16ccc1b + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Wiseman, Liz</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Isbn</dt><dd>9780062663061</dd><dt>Identifiers</dt><dd>isbn:9780062663061</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2017-04-19T00:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>3255236</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Multipliers, Revised and Updated</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1454</dd></dl><p>A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better results.</p><p>We've all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest person in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who use their intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them. When these leaders walk into a room, light bulbs go off over people's heads; ideas flow and problems get solved. These are the leaders who inspire employees to stretch themselves to deliver results that surpass expectations. These are the Multipliers. And the world needs more of them, especially now when leaders are expected... + Wiseman, Liz + + + lter + Wed, 03 Aug 2022 11:55:13 -0600 + 0217f44e-8475-404e-920f-fea12114ec65 + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Wangerin, Walter</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>pdf</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2012-09-27T16:59:35-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>33702376</dd><dt>Tags</dt><dd>http://archive.org/details/lter00walt</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>lter</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1455</dd></dl> + Wangerin, Walter + http://archive.org/details/lter00walt + + + book of sorrows, The + Wed, 03 Aug 2022 11:56:10 -0600 + 8edbf574-a0ff-476d-9456-96b8f10af39b + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Wangerin, Walter</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>pdf</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>19743123</dd><dt>Tags</dt><dd>http://www.archive.org/details/bookofsorrows00wang</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>book of sorrows, The</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1456</dd></dl> + Wangerin, Walter + http://www.archive.org/details/bookofsorrows00wang + + + Third Book of the Dun Cow: Peace at the Last, The + Wed, 03 Aug 2022 11:57:26 -0600 + ff0201d1-7fb7-4329-a12b-5e5e1fbb02c7 + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Wangerin, Walter Jr.</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2013-09-02T16:00:00-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>2850169</dd><dt>Tags</dt><dd>FICTION/General</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Third Book of the Dun Cow: Peace at the Last, The</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1457</dd></dl> + Wangerin, Walter Jr. + FICTION/General + + + Dice Man, The + Fri, 05 Aug 2022 22:51:01 -0600 + be6b3534-341e-4399-8df7-52b3734262b4 + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Rhinehart, Luke</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>0100-12-31T17:00:00-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>827470</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Dice Man, The</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1458</dd></dl> + Rhinehart, Luke + + + Book of the Die, The + Fri, 05 Aug 2022 22:51:31 -0600 + f7b6c9bb-71f7-44c4-85ed-0ec5b222d39d + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Rhinehart, Luke</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>epub</dd><dt>Isbn</dt><dd>978-0-00-732220-6</dd><dt>Identifiers</dt><dd>mobi-asin:925654c3-c9d0-42f4-9b27-90635df8c05c,isbn:978-0-00-732220-6</dd><dt>Languages</dt><dd>eng</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2000-01-31T09:00:00-07:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>547065</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Book of the Die, The</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1459</dd></dl>The â??bibleâ?? for dice living â?? for everyone who has been inspired by the cult classic THE DICE MAN. From the author of the cult bestsellers THE DICE MAN and SEARCH FOR THE DICE MAN comes a new book, guaranteed to appeal to the hundreds of thousands of people who continue to be fascinated by the thought of â??living by the diceâ??. Luke Rhinehart, after a long period of silence, has delivered a playful book of parables, essays, thoughts, ideas and practical instructions and reminsces on dice-ing that is designed to be dipped into for thoughts and views on dice living. It is a â??handbookâ??, a reference â??bibleâ??, for the hundreds of thousands of people who turn to the dice to shake up convention and taking risks and chances. It will be a â??mustâ?? for Rhinehartâ??s thousands of devoted followers. + + Rhinehart, Luke + + + Whim + Fri, 05 Aug 2022 22:54:43 -0600 + 84a7a0b5-2135-4483-94a4-7189210062b4 + <dl><dt>Author</dt><dd>Rhinehart, Luke</dd><dt>Formats</dt><dd>pdf</dd><dt>Pubdate</dt><dd>2015-10-13T05:58:46-06:00</dd><dt>Series index</dt><dd>1.0</dd><dt>Size</dt><dd>55457275</dd><dt>Tags</dt><dd>http://archive.org/details/whim00luke</dd><dt>Title</dt><dd>Whim</dd><dt>Id</dt><dd>1460</dd></dl> + Rhinehart, Luke + http://archive.org/details/whim00luke + \ No newline at end of file