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#Meltzer, Brad. Book of fate.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1817005-62d
Wes Holloway, a hotshot presidential aide, is wounded in an assassination
attempt that
kills the president's close friend. Eight years later, the dead
man reappears, disfigured but very much alive and apparently stalking the
former
president. Wes thinks he can figure out what's going on, but to do so
he must decipher a two-century-
old code and penetrate the secrets of Masonic
history. From
his first novel, The Tenth Justice (1997), through his sixth,
Identity Crisis (2005), Meltzer has served up exciting thrillers that take
readers behind
the scenes of American politics. The pattern doesn't change this
time. Like the television series The West Wing, Meltzer's novels focus on
the
political
people the public never sees and tells the stories we never hear.
He could be accused here of jumping on the Da Vinci Code bandwagon, but that
wouldn't
really be fair. He's too good a writer to waste his time imitating
someone else's work, and this novel is much more skillfully written--and far
more
plausible--than Dan Brown's tedious best-seller. The characters are genuine
human beings--not all that common in the world of high-concept
thrillers--and
the plot
fluidly integrates historical fact and fiction, which is even less
common. Fans of thrillers that reach far back into history will be, well, .
.
. thrilled.

#Meltzer, Brad. dead even.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1762417-fcc
Sara Tate starts her job as a New York City assistant district attorney the
day before
massive budget cuts. To keep her job, she grabs a case slated for
one of the DA office's hot shots, thinking it will be the kind of showpiece
that'll make
her a hero. The next day, she learns that the defense attorney
on the case is her husband, Jared Lynch. To make matters worse, what
appeared
to be a
simple breaking and entering is beginning to look more like a murder.
Someone is pitting Sara and Jared against each other and both are being
threatened: win
the case or your spouse dies. Sara and Jared have struggled and
suffered more than your ordinary young lawyers and their desperation to
protect one
another and their life together is almost palpable. But the more they
fight to win the case, the more they put each other's lives in jeopardy.
Dead Even is truly gripping. Brad Meltzer has created characters that are
realistic enough
to be believable, but quirky enough to be captivating. The lawyers
are especially determined and the criminals are especially sinister. Even
more impressive
than his characters is his don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-something
plot, which grabs you on page one and doesn't let go until you close the
cover. When
reading Dead Even, you may find yourself holding your breath as you
furiously turn the pages. It's a legal thriller that gives Grisham's books a
run for their
money.

#midsomer Murders All these are not described and recorded from TV, so they
have adverts
etc.
eps 28 and 38.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1276441-8c0

#Mills, kile. Burn Factor.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1414950-82c
When carrying out routine computer maintenance work on the FBI's Combined
DNA
Index
System, Quinn Barry finds a link between five unsolved, brutal murders.
The discovery costs her her job, and could cost her her life, as she
unearths
one of the
agency's darkest secrets.

#mitchell, Kirk. Sky Woman falling.
Book 4.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1337099-a96
Mitchell combines a great story line with an authentic Native-American
background in his
flawless fourth mystery (after 2001's The Ancient Ones) to feature
FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed, a Modoc, and Bureau of Indian Affairs
investigator
Emmett Parker, a Comanche. When the body of Brenda Two Kettles turns
up in a frozen field near her New York reservation, her severe injuries
leave
no doubt
that she fell from the sky, just like Sky Woman in the Oneida story
of creation. Enter the Feds' Indian hunting party, Turnipseed and Parker.
The
Oneida
nation's 1985 win in a Supreme Court decision has still not succeeded
in the return of their rightful ownership of 270,000 acres now in the hands
of about
60,000 white people. Finding an answer seems impossible, though many
forces are at work to reach a peaceful resolution. Yet how does an Oneida
Indian take a
commercial airliner and end up falling to her death? Anna becomes
increasingly aware that the solution is somehow connected to the Oneidas'
creation story.
As the body count rises, she and her almost-lover, Emmett, realize
they have no time to work on their damaged personal lives. As a former
deputy
on the
Paiute-Shoshone Indian reservations in California, the author knows
the real issues facing Native Americans today. Packed with suspense and
action, this
intricate tale delivers a conclusion that is nothing short of brilliant.


#Monk kidd. Sue. The mirmaid's Chair.
http://www.divshare.com/download/921884-0b2
The Mermaid Chair is set on a tiny island off the coast of South Carolina,
where a
monastery has a chair carved with mermaids and dedicated a saint who
was supposedly once a mermaid. Jessie Sullivan leaves behind her husband to
come back home
to this island after her mother's violent and unexplained self-mutilation.
Jessie finds herself relieved to be without her husband and also finds
herself falling for
Brother Thomas, a Benedictine monk about to take his final vows.
Jessie embarks on a period of self-discovery while the secret of her
father's
death
decades before appears to hold the key to her mother's actions. Sue
Monk Kidd's second novel (after
The Secret Life of Bees
) has received mixed reviews with BookPage saying, "Reconciling the
spiritual
with the
human, The Mermaid Chair is a captivating metaphorical and sensual
journey into one woman's soul."

#Mortman, Doris. Out Of Nowhere.
This Book is in one long MP3.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1762423-ab0
A skillful manipulator of the heartstrings, bestseller Mortman (The Lucky
Ones) adds a
thriller dimension and some convincing details to her latest romantic
novel. Amanda Maxwell, a slim beauty who coolly photographs corpses for the
NYPD, came by
her sangfroid the hard way. Born Erica Baird, she was forced
to disappear into the Witness Security Program (WITSEC) at age nine, when
her
mother,
Cynthia, testified at two trials to avenge the death of Erica's Uncle
Ken, a drug enforcement agent. Not even Erica's father, Lionel Baird, whom
Cynthia had
divorced, could know that Erica and Cynthia survived the firebombing
of their Miami house, staged by the U.S. Marshall as cover. After two
decades
of shadowy
self-invention, described in harrowing detail by

#Niven, larry. lucifer's Hammer.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1762421-b59
The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand
times too
powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of
feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was
the beginning
of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified
men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for
survival--a
struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known....
"Massively entertaining."
CLEVELAND PLAIN-DEALER

#Niven, larry. The mote In God's Eye.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1613688-afc
In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems,
thanks to the
faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings
have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human
system carrying a
dead alien. The probe is traced to the Mote, an isolated star
in a thick dust cloud, and an expedition is dispatched.
In the Mote the humans find an ancient civilization--at least one million
years old--that
has always been bottled up in their cloistered solar system for
lack of a star drive. The Moties are welcoming and kind, yet rather evasive
about certain
aspects of their society. It seems the Moties have a dark problem,
one they've been unable to solve in over a million years.
This is the first collaboration between Niven and Pournelle, two masters of
hard science
fiction, and it combines Pournelle's interest in the military and
sociology with Niven's talent for creating interesting, believable aliens.
The novel
meticulously examines every aspect of First Contact, from the Moties'
biology, society, and art, to the effects of the meeting on humanity's
economics,
politics, and religions. And all the while suspense builds as we watch
the humans struggle toward the truth.


#O'brian, Patrick. HMs Surprise
http://www.divshare.com/download/1451450-8f0
Jack Aubery Book 3.
Aubrey and Maturin
are in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India
Company, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying
overwhelming local superiority.


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#oBrian, patrick. Blue At The Mizzen.
http://www.divshare.com/download/926434-d1a
Jack Aubrey book 20.
Almost three decades after commencing his
maritime epic
with
Master and Commander
, Patrick O'Brian is still at it. The 20th episode, Blue at the Mizzen, is
another
swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, complete with romantic escapades
from smoggy London to Sierra Leone, diplomacy, espionage, the intricacies of
warfare, and
imperial brinksmanship. As always, these events are bound up
in the ongoing friendship between two officers of the Royal Navy. Jack
Aubrey
is the naval
captain, bold yet compassionate, innovative yet cautious, as
fearless in war as he is bumbling in affairs of the heart and household. His
boon
companion Stephen Maturin is the ship's surgeon--and additionally a spy
for the British government, a wealthy Catalonian aristocrat, a doting Irish
father, and an
avid naturalist.
That may sound like a lot to keep track of. However, it's not necessary to
carry around a
scorecard or ship's roster while reading Blue at the Mizzen. The
ostensible issue is whether Jack will finally be promoted to Admiral of the
Blue. But long
before he hears any word from the Napoleonic era's eqivalent
of Personnel, he loses half his crew to desertion, his ship undergoes a
disastrous
collision, and the entire company comes close to perishing in the ice-choked
seas off Cape Horn. Meanwhile, the widowed Maturin issues a surprising
proposal of
marriage to a beautiful, mud-bespattered fellow naturalist while trekking
through an African mangrove swamp. (The two lovebirds happen to be searching
for a rare
variant of Caprimulgus longipennis, the long-tailed nightjar, which
they hope to surprise in full mating plumage.)

#O'neill, Gilda. Sins Of Their Fathers.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1514736-eda
This is the first in a Family saga series called Eat End. Gilda O'Neill has
been called
The Catherine Cookson born withint the sound of Bow bells.

#Paretsky, Sarah. Bloodshot
http://www.divshare.com/download/1593907-0d2
This copy has a pretty low bit rate.
Returning to her South Side alma mater for a reunion, private detective V.I.
Warshawski
becomes involved in the search for a former classmate's long-lost
father, a quest that uncovers a web of corruption, danger, and murder.



#Paretsky, Sarah. Indemnity Only.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1553767-f32
The vice-president of a Chicago bank hires V.I. Warshawski to find his son.
She's pleased.
The head of the International Brotherhood of Knifegrinders hires
her to find his daughter. She's not so pleased. Who's the boss in this
dangerous game of
insurance fraud, murder contracts and gunmen?


#Paretsky, Sarah. Burn Marks
http://www.divshare.com/download/1553765-efb
When her seedy and importunate Aunt Elena turns up on her doorstep at
midnight, having
been burned out of her old people's home, V.I. Warshawski is exasperated
rather than curious. Her interest is aroused only when an old friend, now a
rising
politician, puts pressure on her not to investigate ... and what she
discovers isn't pretty: massive corruption and collusion among Chicago
politicians and the
construction industry. In the complex threads of past loyalties
and big aspirations, the political stakes are high and friendship is cheap.

#Paretsky, Sarah. Blacklist
http://www.divshare.com/download/1342707-962
Warshawski book 11.
Privilege, politics, and perfidy jointly propel the circuitous plot of
Blacklist, Sara
Paretsky's 11th novel featuring tenacious Chicago private-eye V.I.
Warshawski. By the time this story runs its course, V.I. will have harbored
an alleged
Arab terrorist, resurrected the ghosts of America's 1950s anti-Communist
hysteria, and questioned the integrity of a man she once admired "to the
point of hero
worship." In other words, it's a typical case for this hard-headed,
sarcastic, and perpetually sleep-deprived sleuth.

Still suffering from "exhaustion of the spirit" in the aftermath of the 9/11
attacks, V.I.
is hired to find out who may be sneaking into a vacated suburban
mansion. Geraldine Graham, the home's 91-year-old former owner, who still
lives nearby,
claims she's seen lights in the attic at night. Our heroine suspects
this is simply a bid by the wealthy dowager for greater attention, but
agrees
to do some
nocturnal prowling--only to stumble (literally) across the body
of a dead black journalist, Marcus Whitby, in the estate's ornamental pond
and encounter a
teenage girl fleeing the scene. The girl turns out to be Catherine
Bayard, the granddaughter of Calvin Bayard, an unapologetically liberal book
publisher who
survived a hounding by the U.S. House Un-American Activities
Committee in the '50s without being blacklisted like so many of his authors.
Digging
deeper, V.I. learns that Whitby was doing research for a book about
an African-American dancer and anthropologist who had enjoyed Bayard's
support before she
too was branded a Communist. Was Whitby killed en route to visit
Bayard, one of Graham's neighbors--and a man who has strangely vanished from
public view?
And is there any connection between this murder and the disappearance
of an Egyptian dishwasher, or the recent demise of a right-wing attorney and
Bayard foe,
in whose apartment V.I. is attacked by an intruder?


#Perry, Anne. no graves As Yet.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1804036-d4c
This absorbing mystery/spy thriller, set in tranquil Cambridge just before
the onset of
the Great War, marks a powerful start to bestseller Perry's much
anticipated new series. In a lush and deceptively peaceful opening scene,
college
professor and chaplain Joseph Reavley is interrupted while watching a
cricket game by his intelligence officer brother, Matthew, who reports the
sudden death of
their parents in a car crash. This horrifying news sets off
a long but compelling investigation by the brothers that takes them across
verdant
summertime England, looking for a secret document that their father
was trying to deliver to Matthew at the time of his death. Against a
backdrop
of ominous
news from the continent, Perry artfully weaves connections between
pacifist students at Cambridge, one of whom is also murdered, and German
agents who may be
planning "a conspiracy to ruin England and everything we stand
for." The intrigue is further complicated by jilted lovers and jealous
spouses at the
university, all with grudges against an alleged blackmailer in their
midst who may also be privy to exam cribbing and other illicit goings-on.
Perry's title, a
quotation from G.K. Chesterton, is a portent of the carnage
that soon awaits the youth of England, yet by the final resolution of this
gripping case,
many graves have regrettably already been filled in Cambridge's
serene churchyards.

#Reeman, Douglas. 12 seconds to Live.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1804029-03b
The mine is an impartial killer, and defusing it requires steady nerves,
steady hands, and
an intrepid flirtation with death. Haunted by the mine that destroyed
his first command, H.M. Submarine Tornado, Lieutenant-Commander David
Masters
now defuses
mines on land and teaches the same deadly science to others.

#Reilly, Matthew. Contest
http://www.divshare.com/download/1817008-3f4
ETs with a mordant sense of drama turn the New York Public Library into "the
labyrinth"
for an interstellar survival game show in this ungainly thriller
from Australian Reilly (Ice Station). Seven players, each from a different
world, compete
for their lives, combating not only each other but also a monster
called the Karanodon. The earthly representative is Dr. Steven Swain, chosen
for his
courage in successfully fighting off a gang of thugs who invade his
operating room. Unfortunately, Swain happens to be holding Holly, his plucky
little
daughter, at the moment he's transported into the labyrinth, so she
goes with him. The most devilish trick the "sponsors" provide is an
unremovable digital
bracelet, whose face shows how many opponents remain, and will
commence a deadly 15-minute countdown should its wearer manage to escape the
library's
electrified confines. Derivative of Michael Crichton's techno-thrillers
as well as Stephen King/Richard Bachman's The Running Man, the book offers
constant,
nail-biting action, but not a lot of reverence for one of New York
City's greatest public institutions.

#Rosenfeld, Harvey. Raoul Wallenberg.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1235657-d31
Now an international symbol of twentieth-century humanitarianism, Raoul
Wallenberg, the
Swedish diplomat, issued countless "false" visas and
other documents which were virtual life certificates that saved
approximately
100,000 Jews
from Nazis in wartime Hungary. Then in 1945, as the war drew
to a close, he disappeared after being taken into custody by Soviet military
police. Today
his fate is still unknown.
The expanded version of this authoritative biography of Wallenberg discusses
previously
sealed prison records and archives; reports of recent sightings
of Wallenberg; the Wallenberg family's historic multi-million-dollar lawsuit
against the
former Soviet Union; and the worldwide activities in honor of
this great man who could not be a bystander.

Spring, Michelle. Nights in White satin.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1461600-3f7
Anglophiles will delight in this Cambridge-based tale, which convincingly
weaves the
city's geography and history into its well-crafted plot. Spring thankfully
avoids the bane of many mysteries set in a famous city, breaking the history
into easily
digestible tidbits and never sounding like a travel guide. Readers
will quickly warm to protagonist Laura Principal, a private investigator who
helps support
the agency by taking seemingly mundane gigs like providing security
for Cambridge's annual May Ball. When a female student disappears after the
ball, however,
the job quickly turns menacing and eventually leads to murder.
Meanwhile, a handsome academic makes a play for Laura, whose relationship
with boyfriend
Sonny has been a little shaky of late. Spring effectively mixes
plenty of humor into her realistic, hard-edged crime story; readers will
find
themselves
chuckling frequently at Laura's wit and ironic view of the world.
A good choice for fans of P. D. James.

#Sandford, John. Night Prey
http://www.divshare.com/download/1671132-289
prey Series Book 6.
The pseudonymous Sandford (he's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp)
keeps turning
out better and better thrillers. In this sixth entry in his
Prey series, streetwise Minneapolis deputy police chief Lucas Davenport is
beleaguered by
perplexing females. Charged with saving the political life of
Rose Marie Roux, the ambitious police chief who has her eye on a Senate
seat,
he's given
the assignment of tracking to ground the sex-crazed perpetrator
of a series of murders of young women. Davenport's unwelcome colleague in
this case is
feminist Meagan Connell, an abrasive State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
investigator who's obsessed with catching the killer before she dies of
cancer. Also
bedeviled by the ill-timed assignment of a new partner, a yuppie who
was formerly assigned to the grade schools as "Officer Friendly" and who
happens to be the
husband of the mayor's niece, Davenport is additionally saddled
with the mystifying death of an elderly woman who died rather conveniently,
freeing some
local hoods to profit from a real-estate scam. Juxtaposing the
dark consciousness of the sex-fixated murderer against the narrative
perspective of
Davenport, Sandford builds a compelling counter-rhythm of suspense.
The narrative is sensitively embued with Davenport's humaneness as, in awe,
he watches
Connell courageously fight to postpone her impending death. Yet,
credibly flawed, the cop also displays a roving eye when he's momentarily
distracted from
his deep commitment to the lovely physician Weather Karkinnen
by a beautiful and seductive TV anchor.

#Sandford, John. Secret Prey.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1613677-867
Book 9.
John Sandford is back with his dapper, dangerous Minneapolis deputy police
chief Lucas
Davenport for a ninth "
preyer
" meeting. Fans of the series will be glad to hear that it's full of smart
suspense and
deduction as well as explosive action. Davenport and his fellow
cops are still recovering from the deadly revenge scheme that maimed them in
Sudden Prey
, which seems to have ended the relationship between Lucas and his doctor
lady friend.
This accounts for the depression that dogs him as he is sent to investigate
the killing of top banking executive Daniel Kresge in a hunting lodge north
of
Minneapolis. Any of Kresge's four fellow hunters--all employees at his
Polaris
Bank--could have shot him, and all had motives, as did his almost ex-wife.
About halfway
through the book we find out who the real killer is, just a few
pages before Lucas does, and that villain is a masterful creation, an
example
of the
banality of evil worthy of
Hannah Arendt
.. This is where Sandford's beautifully honed skills at creating suspense
really kick in:
he keeps us fascinated as Davenport, revitalized by an affair with
a jaunty colleague, tries to turn what we all know into hard evidence. --


#sandford, John. easy Prey.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1479252-a8c
Lucas davenport Book 11.
Easy Prey is the 11th mystery to feature Lucas Davenport, who began his
career back in
Rules of Prey as a maverick homicide detective reminiscent of "Dirty
Harry" Callahan. He did things his way and was often at odds with his
superiors in the
Minneapolis Police Department. Since those early days, Davenport
has mellowed a little, and his background as a computer game-designing,
Porsche-driving
womanizer has been somewhat reduced. Possibly age has become a
factor, or it may be the fact that Davenport has been deputy chief since the
sixth book in
the series, Night Prey. The character may have changed, but
the writing has remained consistently taut: the bad guys creepy, the myst
eries
suspenseful.
In this newest episode, Davenport is called to a house after an A-list party
has taken
place there. Alie'e Maison, a top model, has been found strangled,
and evidence shows that she ingested drugs and recently made love--most
probably to a
woman. Before Lucas leaves the house, things get even more complicated:
a second body is found stuffed in a closet with a deep dent in the skull. In
addition, one
of Lucas's own men had been at the party and is now a suspect.
As always, Lucas's own life is not exempt from complications. An ex-lover
comes back into
his world--a woman he has never been able to forget--and she has
secrets of her own. Also making an appearance this time out is a childhood
friend to whom
he turns for advice about women and life. Sister Mary Joseph,
born Elle Kruger, is a professor of psychology and one of the computer
brains
who helps
Lucas design his software. He calls her Nun the Wiser, and he often
turns to her for spiritual as well as more concrete advice. Lucas is going
to
need all the
help he can get to unravel his case as secrets pile upon secrets
and the ground constantly shifts under his feet.
Easy Prey is another powerful link in this chain of muscular, exciting
thrillers by one of
the most distinguished practitioners in the field.


#Sandford, John. Hidden prey.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1613480-6bf
prey book 15.
Det. Lucas Davenport has battled some real demons over the past 15 Prey
novels and drifted
in and out of lust and love with a host of women. But now he's
happily married to the lovely Weather; has a nine-month-old son, Sam; and
takes care of
his 12-year-old ward, Letty West. Sure, he's got a measure of the
old angst, but he's growing accustomed to the good life, spending quality
time alone on
the couch drinking beer and watching TV golf. His new job is running
the Office of Regional Research at the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal
Apprehension where he
looks into various crimes and "fixes shit" for the governor.
So when a dead Russian shows up on the docks in Duluth, Lucas is assigned to
shepherd the
lady investigator, Nadya Kalin, being sent by the Russian government.
>From the very first pages, the reader knows it's teenager Carl Walther who
has killed the
Russian. What makes the book intriguing is the manner in which
the sagacious Davenport goes about uncovering the rest of the
co-conspirators-a gang of
Minnesota-based Communist spies headed by Carl's grandpa, 92-year-old
ex-KGB colonel Burt Walther. That Sandford makes this unlikely plot
believable is a mark
of his mastery of the technical aspects of the mystery form.


#Sandford, John. Broken Prey.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1479251-94e
lucas Davenport Book 16.
Sandford sends series hero Lucas Davenport's family off to London to ensure
that domestic
concerns never slow the action in this sexy, bloody thriller.
Davenport, a Minnesota State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator,
had lately been
doing political fix-it jobs for the governor, but this time
he's got a psychopathic serial killer on his hands. ("All major metro areas
had them,
sometimes two and three at a time. The public had the impression
that they were rare. They weren't.") The first victim, a young woman, was
"scourged" with
a wire whip; number two, a young man, had his penis cut off.
Evidence first points to recently released sex offender Charlie Pope. Though
Charlie is
pretty dumb and the killer is extremely smart, it takes Davenport
and his series partner, Detective Sloan, a while to realize they're chasing
the wrong guy.
Sandford introduces some lighter moments, the most entertaining
about Davenport's new iPod and his quest to compile a list of the 100 best
rock songs ever
recorded, which every cop on the force gives him suggestions
for. These moments allow readers to catch their breath amid the otherwise
nonstop tension
as the killer taunts the authorities while snaring more victims,
and the cops race around the countryside always just a few minutes too late.
For those who
thought Davenport (and Sandford) were slowing down and showing
signs of age and prosperity, this superlative entry will dispel all such
notions. This is
tough, unstoppable, white-knuckle fiction.


#Shreve, Anita. light on snow.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1822328-d45
An after-school stroll leads to a life-altering event for widower Robert
Dillon and his
12-year-old daughter, Nicky, in this delicate new novel by acclaimed
author Shreve (All He Ever Wanted,etc.). In the woods surrounding their
secluded home in
Shepherd, N.H., Robert and Nicky make a startling discovery-a
baby abandoned and left to die in the snow. The infant survives, but the
incident leaves
its mark. Still recovering from the painful loss of her mother
and infant sister two years earlier, and readjusting to the shock of a
sudden
move from
suburban Westchester to rural Shepherd, Nicky struggles to reconcile
her innocent notions of adult integrity with the bleak reality of their
discovery. The
tenuous sense of normalcy Robert manages to sustain is broken with
the appearance of Charlotte, the baby's young mother, on his doorstep.
Retold
18 years
later by an adult Nicky but written in the present tense, the story
shifts brilliantly between childlike visions of a simple world and the
growing realization
of its cruel ambiguities. Aside >from a few saccharine moments
and a rather pat ending, Shreve does a skilled job of portraying grief,
conflict and anger
while leaving room for hope, redemption and renewal. Her characters
are sympathetic without being pitiable, and her prose remains deceptively
simple and
eloquent throughout.

#Shreve, Anita. The Weight Of Water.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1514737-5ec
In 1873, two women living on the Isles of Shoals, a lonely, windswept group
of islands off
the coast of New Hampshire, were brutally murdered. A third
woman survived, cowering in a sea cave until dawn. More than a century
later,
Jean, a
magazine photographer working on a photoessay about the murders,
returns to the Isles with her husband, Thomas, and their five-year-old
daughter, Billie,
aboard a boat skippered by her brother-in-law, Rich, who has brought
along his girlfriend, Adaline. As Jean becomes immersed in the details of
the
19th-century
murders, Thomas and Adaline find themselves drawn together-with
potentially ruinous consequences. Shreve (Where or When; Resistance)
perfectly captures
the ubiquitous dampness of life on a sailboat, deftly evoking the
way in which the weather comes to dictate all actions for those at sea. With
the skill of
a master shipbuilder, Shreve carefully fits her two stories together,
tacking back and forth between the increasingly twisted murder mystery and
the escalating
tensions unleashed by the threat of a dangerous shipboard romance.
Written with assurance and grace, plangent with foreboding and a taut sense
of
inexorability, The Weight of Water is a powerfully compelling tale of
passion,
a provocative and disturbing meditation on the nature of love.

#Smith, Alexander Mccall. Morality For Beautiful Girls.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1613668-d1a
No 1 Ladies book 3.
The last time I saw Mma. Precious Ramotswe, at the conclusion of "Tears of
the Giraffe,"
the entrepreneurial private eye was happily engaged to Mr J.L.B.
Matekoni, they were both making plans for a life together and bonding with
their two
foster children, the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency was firmly established,
as was Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, Mr. Matekoni's business, and the horizon
was filled
with sunshine as far as the eye could see. How drastically things
can change in just one book!
"Morality for Beautiful Girls" finds trouble on both personal and
professional fronts. Mr.
Matekoni is going through a bout of depression and is temporarily
unable to run his business. The detective agency, while enjoying tremendous
success with
clients and developing a fine reputation, is not making money.
The couple decide to merge and reorganize! Mma. Ramotswe closes her
detective
agency's
offices and moves her business into a small building adjacent to
Speedy Motors. Mma Makutsi, who had already been promoted to assistant
detective, is now
appointed acting manager of the mechanical garage AND she runs
the detective business while the owner is in the field. Not surprisingly,
the
strong woman
turns out to be an extremely efficient manager and a clever
investigator. Mma. Makutsi is one of my favorite characters and the way she
deals with the
lazy, girl crazy mechanics is priceless. Meanwhile, Mr. Matekoni,
who has been persuaded to see a doctor, is resting and working on getting
his
health back.
An important Government Man enlists Mma. Ramotswe's services when he becomes
convinced his
younger brother is being poisoned. While she is out in the countryside
working the case, the director of the "Miss Beauty and Integrity of Botswana
Contest" asks
Mma. Makutsi to help him with background checks for the contestants.
He wants a "good girl" to win, someone who will not bring shame to the
pageant or to
Botswana. The problem is that according to the country's norms and
moral codes, "good girls," don't compete in beauty contests.
As always, the mysteries may appear small but they deal with issues
important
to people's
lives, and some of them are extremely thought-provoking and emotional.


#Smith, Alexander Mccall. the Girl Who Married a lion.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1593913-82f
Straying from the safety net of a bestselling series (The No. 1 Ladies
Detective Agency,
etc.), Smith tells 40 traditional African folk tales with his
by now signature humor, simplicity and reverence for African culture. With
an
introductory
letter from No. 1 Lady Detective Mma Ramotswe as a preface,
he sets the literary stage for a nostalgic stroll down his own personal
memory lane. Born
and raised in what is now Zimbabwe, Smith began collecting these
stories as a child and combines them with several he gleaned from a friend
who interviewed
natives of Botswana. Many of the stories parallel classic Western
tales, from Aesop to Mother Goose. The ubiquitous wolf-in-sheep's-clothing
fable becomes a
parable about a girl who unwittingly marries a lion. Other stories
deal with familiar themes ranging from ingratitude (in "Head Tree," a man
cured of a tree
growing out of his head does not pay the charm woman her due)
to vanity (in "Greater Than Lion," a hare outwits a conceited and boastful
lion). However,
many are uniquely African, such as the stories that explain
why the elephant and hyena live far from people or how baboons became so
lazy. These are
pithy, engaging tales, as habit-forming as peanuts.

#Stonehouse, Joan. Yoga Retreat.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1102239-8e8
beginners Workout to learn Yoga.

#Strohmeyer. Bubbles A Broad.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1830270-d40
Broad humor, in more than one sense, permeates Strohmeyer's fourth amusing
adventure
(after 2003's Bubbles Ablaze) of Bubbles Yablonsky, Lehigh, Pa.'s
unique combination of hairdresser, single mother, aspiring journalist and
bumbling sleuth.
Bubbles doesn't so much solve a crime as wait until all the
dust settles and then see what's left standing. While the management and the
workers at
Lehigh Steel wage class war, the irrepressible Bubbles tries to
parlay her degree from Two Guys Community College and a one-week tryout at
the News-Times
into a full-time reporting gig. The appearance on her doorstep
of Carol Weaver, convicted for the murder of her husband, a Lehigh Steel
executive, newly
escaped from prison and claiming that someone is trying to kill
her, may be just the break Bubbles needs. Strohmeyer expertly plays
Bubbles's
blue-collar
working class background against the monolithic Lehigh Steel's
country club types and their wives. On the other hand, Strohmeyer's targets
are so big
that just hitting them isn't enough, and the frequent bull's-eyes
don't impress as much as they might. Bubbles may be Two Guys' "Biggest Loser
Ever," but
she's good-hearted, persistent and very, very funny.

#Sweet Misery.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1096444-1d3
This documentary is a close examination into what some consider to be a
"hoax": aspartame
toxicity. This documentary attempts to look at what is definitively
known about aspartame and discovers that the label "hoax" in this case is a
dangerous
misconception. This controversial documentary is sure to open eyes
to the possible dangers of what lurks in our food.
This documentary is not audio described.
documentary about aspartame, not described.


The Sopranos.
These are MP3s of the series but are not audio described.
Series 1 part 1
http://www.divshare.com/download/1079775-4b4
Series 1 part 2.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1079800-b35
series 2 Episodes 1 to 4.
http://www.divshare.com/download/975864-e99
Series 2 Episodes 5 to 8
http://www.divshare.com/download/979984-cee
Series 2 Episodes 9 to 12.
http://www.divshare.com/download/981173-930
Series 3 Episodes 1 to 4
http://www.divshare.com/download/984793-ed5
Series 3 Episodes 5 to 8.
http://www.divshare.com/download/998086-3f0
Series 3 Episodes 9 to 13.
http://www.divshare.com/download/998094-854

#Taubman, Philip. secret empire.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1593909-20c
In this exciting, meticulously researched spy story, Taubman takes readers
behind the
closed doors of the Eisenhower administration to tell about the small
group of Cold Warriors whose technological innovations-including the U2 spy
plane and
Corona, the country's first spy satellite-revolutionized espionage
and intelligence gathering. The author, an award-winning New York Times
editor who has
reported on national security issues for more than two decades,
gives an account drawn from previously classified documents, oral history
archives and
scores of interviews with the men who were there. The new technology
was driven by the need for safer ways to spy on the Soviet Union-hundreds of
pilots had
been killed or lost in aerial reconnaissance missions-and, as Taubman
argues, it served as a peacekeeper by eliminating the fear of surprise
attack. Through the
U2 program, CIA analysts determined that the U.S.S.R. was neither
outpacing the U.S. in the manufacture of long-range bombers nor fielding
hundreds of
intercontinental missiles as feared. This book functions marvelously
as a history of science, detailing the research, engineering and policy
decisions behind
the U2 and Corona, but it's also an excellent social history of
the Cold War in the 1950s and early '60s. It's a page-turner as well,
notably
with
Taubman's narratives of the first U2 flight, Sputnik and the downing
of Francis Gary Powers's U2 over the Soviet Union and the resulting blow to
the Eisenhower
administration's credibility. Taubman sheds light on a era when
the nation's lawmakers were regularly kept in the dark about CIA and other
spy agency
activities. In an epilogue, the author addresses some unintended
consequences in light of September 11, exploring the neglect of conventional
manned
spying.


#Thomas, Rosie. White
http://www.divshare.com/download/1337100-38d
Sam McGrath, on impulse, follows a young woman all the way to Nepal. Finch
Buchanan flies
out as a doctor to an expedition - but she will be reunited with
a man she has never been able to forget. And Al Hood has promised his
daughter that once
he has conquered this last peak he will leave the mountains behind
forever...Everest towers over the group, silent and beautiful, watching as
their
relationships begin to play themselves out, with tragic consequences.

#Tucker, Jonathan b. Scourge.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1451447-9fd
Smallpox, the only infectious disease to have been eradicated, was one of
the
most
terrifying of human scourges. It covered the skin with hideous,
painful boils, killed a third of its victims, and left the survivors
disfigured for life.
In this riveting, often terrifying look at the history of smallpox,
Jonathan B. Tucker tells the story of this deadly disease, the heroic
efforts
to eradicate
it worldwide, and the looming dangers it still poses today.
Starting in the 16th century, the smallpox virus afflicted rich and poor,
royalty and
commoners, and repeatedly altered the course of human history.
No safe way of preventing smallpox existed until 1796, when an English
country doctor
named Edward Jenner developed a vaccine against it. During the ensuing
170 years, vaccination banished smallpox from the industrialized countries,
but it
remained a major cause of death in the developing world, killing almost
two million people per year. Finally, in 1967, the World Health Organization
launched an
intensified global campaign to eradicate smallpox. By early 1978,
the disease had been eliminated worldwide.
During the 1980s, Soviet leaders cynically exploited the world's new
vulnerability to
smallpox by mass-producing the virus as a strategic weapon. In recent
years, concern over the possible return of smallpox has taken an even
greater
urgency with
the realization that clandestine stocks of the virus may still
exist.

#Turtledove, Harry. How Few Remain.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1762419-871
In 1862, the Confederacy won the War of the Rebellion (not by interference
of
time
travelers, as in Turtledove's Guns of the South, LJ 9/1/92, but by their
own skillful military and diplomatic efforts). The defeated North has stewed
for nearly 20
years. In this alternate history, the South exercises an opportunity
to purchase Sonora and Chihuahua from the bankrupt Mexican Empire, having
already wrested
Cuba from Spain. James G. Blaine, now president of the United
States, arrogantly seizes upon this pretext and invades with the aim of
reunification.
Lincoln has become an outcast of the Republican Party and preaches
socialism while Custer is a frustrated and embittered colonel on the
frontier, Samuel
Clemens a fiery newspaper editor in San Francisco, and Rosecrans
the inadequate head of the Union Army. Turtledove is an accomplished
professional at this
sort of thing and has given us an entertainment that makes us
think somewhat about why we are the way we are. Highly recommended


#white, Gillian. Night Visitor.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1479253-f63
Rose's early life was full of tragedy. Her father disappeared one night,
presumed drowned
and her twin brother died when he was only ten, on a bike that
had been his cherished birthday present. No wonder that she depends on her
husband,
Michael. He is the only certainty in her life, and provides the love
and stability that her own family background lacked. All Rose asks of
Michael
is complete
fidelity, and when she has cause to doubt him she devises a terrible
revenge. Michael has planned an anniversary trip to Venice for the two of
them. But as
they ride in gondolas, dine on delicious seafood and wander the
sights of this most romantic of cities, Rose, racked with secret jealousy,
is
making
plans. By the time they return, Michael will have become seriously
ill - although not so ill that he cannot recognize the fact that something
truly dreadful
has happened to him. In this chilling novel Gillian White explores
the most destructive of human weaknesses - jealousy.



#White, Stephen. Manner Of Death.
http://www.divshare.com/download/924802-9fa
The spirit of D.B. Cooper--the legendary hijacking parachutist--hovers over
Stephen
White's latest book about Colorado psychologist Alan Gregory, and this
jaunty ghost gives the outing even more stylish substance than usual. By
adding elements
of Cooper's crime and disappearance (with a large amount of cash)
to a story of medical malpractice and resulting revenge, White--a practicing
Colorado
psychologist himself--pushes the envelope of what's real and what's
fictional to the advantage of both.
After attending the funeral of a former colleague from his days as an
intern,
Gregory is
accosted (and has a tempting Mexican lunch spoiled) by a pair of
edgy ex-FBI agents now working for a high-ticket private security firm. They
believe that
the colleague's "accidental" death on a hiking trip is really
part of an attempt to wipe out everyone who was part of a particular team in
a psychiatric
unit at the University of Colorado's Health Services Center
in Denver in 1982. As members of that team, Gregory--and his former lover,
Sawyer
Sackett--are among the few remaining survivors and the next likely targets.
Overhearing this news causes a waitress to drop two platters of green chili
burritos in a
messy clatter.

#Wilhelm, kate. Desperate Measures.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1830273-394
Oregon lawyer Barbara Holloway and her father, Frank, formerly her partner,
find
themselves on opposite sides in the murder of Gus Marchand, a case with
two suspects. Kate Wilhelm gives this smoothly told version of "Beauty and
the Beast" an
interesting added dimension, since the relationship between the
two equally hardheaded and talented lawyers has usually been collaborative,
at least
professionally. But when the school principal, who's Frank's client,
dies under mysterious circumstances, Frank's determined not to let Barbara
pin the blame
on the dead woman in order to deflect attention from her own
as-yet-unidentified
client. By the time Frank learns that the defendant in question is Alex
Feldman, a
horribly disfigured and immensely secretive young man who was accused
by Marchand of stalking his teenage daughter, the reader has begun to
understand why
Barbara is so convinced of Alex's innocence in Gus's death and so
determined to protect him from public scrutiny.
Alex is a man with a secret: was Frank's late client (and friend) killed to
protect it? As
usual, Wilhelm devises a clever plot and peoples it with a cast
of well-developed, fully human and complex characters. There's Alex himself,
who's found a
way to cope with the circumstances of his disfigurement and
the rage and bitterness that might otherwise have consumed him; Graham
Minick, the elderly
doctor who has been his friend and confidante since he was a
teenager; and Shelley, Barbara's beautiful young associate, who sees beyond
Alex's
ugliness and into his heart. By the time the trial of the man they call
"the devil's spawn" begins, Frank and Barbara are on the same side, but it's
the younger
Holloway's star turn in the courtroom, which is where the novel
really shines. A solid page turner that should delight the prolific
Wilhelm's
(
No Defense,
Defense for the Devil
) many fans.

#Wilson, laura. Hello Bunny Alice.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1430428-0cc
In 1967 Bunny Girl Alice Jones met Lenny Maxted - one half of the brilliant
comic duo,
Maxted and Flowers - and fell deeply in love with him. But, like
so many great comics, Lenny had a dark side. Their love affair ended when
Alice found his
body hanging from a beam in a Wiltshire cottage. Seven years
after his death, in the long hot summer of 1976, Alice is leading a quiet,
almost
reclusive life in an Oxfordshire farmhouse when, out of the blue, Lenny's
partner, Jack Flowers, turns up on her doorstep. Alice has not seen him
since
Lenny's
funeral, but her surprise and pleasure turn into an all too familiar
sense of unease when she discovers that he is distressed and drinking
heavily. At the same
time, a car containing human remains is fished out of a Wiltshire
lake...

#Woodman, Richard. The Privateersman.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1400728-367
After Liverpool shipowner William Kite is hit by both the death of his wife
and the
deceptions of a business partner, he returns to his life on the sea.
During a visit to the Colonies, the brutal murder of an old friend by
American

revolutionaries plunges Kite into a battle of wills with the rebels. This
British seafaring novelist presents a dissenting view of the American
Revolution that is
at once discomforting and compelling, chronicling with well-plotted
intensity the personal feud between Kite and an American rival. Joe Dunlop's
narration is
gripping even at the start, and grows more so as the story slowly
builds. American readers might not like its view of the revolution, but this
is undeniably
an exciting sea yarn.

York, Margaret. False Pretenses.
http://www.divshare.com/download/1479254-93d



#Young, Robyn. Brethren
http://www.divshare.com/download/1267326-5b9
The Crusades brought together two armies, on the one hand the Muslim's and
on
the other
the Christians.
This is the story of two men, one from either side. Will Campbell, striving
to become a
member of the powerful warrior monk's known as the Knights Templars.
He faces harsh discipline as he attempts to come to terms with the strict
Temple rules.
Meanwhile in the East, a ruthless fighter and master tactician, the one time
slave Baybars
has become one of the greatest generals and rulers of his time.
He is driven by an unquenchable desire to free his people from the Christian
invaders.
The destiny of the two men is closely intertwined and there lives are about
to collide in
the clash of two civilisations, known in the Western World as the Crusades.

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