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A Walk in the Woods [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Bill Bryson
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 A Walk in the Woods is a laugh-out-loud account of an outrageously rugged hike by a beloved comic author. Bill Bryson decided in 1996 to walk the 2,100-mile Appalachian trail. Winding from Georgia to Maine, this uninterrupted "hiker's highway" sweeps through the heart of some of America's most beautiful and treacherous terrain. Bryson risked snake bite and hantavirus to trudge up unforgiving mountains, plod through swollen rivers, and yearn for cream sodas and hot showers. This amusingly ill-con... more info>> 2003
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Voyage of the Space Beagle: The basis for ALIEN [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by A. E. Van Vogt
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"On and on Couerl prowled!" reads the first sentence of Black Destroyer (in the book version which also begins with that sentence the exclamation point has been removed), one of the most famous openings in science fiction. Through the novel, Couerl is just the first of a series of malevolent space-cats who invade the eponymous Space Beagle and threaten not only its crew but human destiny.The novel's protagonist is Elliott Grosvenor, a social scientist whose specialty is the unfamiliar discipline... more info>>
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Slan [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by A. E. Van Vogt
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"Fans are Slans," became the catchphrase of early science fiction fandom in the wake of this novel. Like the Slans--telepathic mutants hiding out in a hostile population--science fiction fans considered themselves a haunted special minority, imbued with transcendent and visionary insight, sure to prevail in the fullness of time. Communes were called "Slan shacks" and fans occupied them. In the wake of the atomic bomb and theories of atomic mutation, the premise of SLAN seemed ever more credible.... more info>>
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The Source [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by James A. Michener
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In The Source, in his signature style of grand storytelling, James Michener sweeps us back through time to the Holy Land, thousands of years ago. By exploring the lives and discoveries of modern archaeologists excavating the site of Tell Makor, James Michener vividly re-creates life in and around an ancient city during critical periods of its existence, and traces the profound history of the Jews, including that of the early Hebrews and their persecution, the impact of Christianity on the Jewish... more info>>
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And Then There Were None [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None is probably the signature novel of one of the best-selling authors of all time, a masterpiece of mystery and suspense that has been a fixture in popular literature since it was published in England in 1939. American readers might know the novel better as Ten Little Indians, the original title under which it was published in the U.S. in 1940. A simple sketch of the plot will remind readers of this enduring tale without robbing the mystery of its delectab... more info>> 2002
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Tau Zero [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Poul Anderson
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Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two qualities that are often at odds in this genre: an interest in the emotional lives of its characters and a fascination with all things technological and scientific. In Tau Zero these components are not merely fused; they work together with a remarkable synergy that makes the novel much more than just a deep space adventure story.
The novel centers on a ten-year interstellar voyage aboard the sp... more info>>
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Slaughterhouse-Five [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Unstuck in time, the hero of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five--an unforgettable Everyman named Billy Pilgrim--is never sure what part of his life he is going to have to act in next. Vonnegut's wildly imaginative, witty and affecting novel tells Billy Pilgrim's story in just that fashion. It spins back and forth through time, layering in the elements of Billy's life, which begins, chronologically, in 1922 in the upstate New York town of Ilium, and ends over 50 years later, when he is a success... more info>> 2002
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Make Room! Make Room!: (Basis for Soylent Green) [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Harry Harrison
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It is the year 1999 and the world has become grimly, terribly overpopulated. This is the premise of Harry Harrison's 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room! and fans of his more comic work may be surprised at this bleak, foreboding novel. But Harrison's purpose in writing this book was serious and his concerns were real. Although his fears thankfully did not become a reality for the inhabitants of New York and the rest of the United States, the novel remains a gripping, thought-provoking work about pri... more info>>
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Six Sigma: The Breakthrough Management Strategy Revolutionizing the World's Top Corporations [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Mikel Harry, Ph.D. & Richard Schroeder
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The sub-title tells it all: The Breakthrough Management Strategy Revolutionizing the World's Top Corporations. Mikel Harry is the founder and chief executive officer of the Six Sigma Academy, Inc. He was one of the original architects of Six Sigma while working at Motorola in the 1980s. Six Sigma is the most powerful breakthrough management tool ever devised, promising increased market share, cost reductions, and dramatic improvements in bottom-line profitability for companies of any size. The d... more info>>
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A Fine Balance [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Rohinton Mistry
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A Fine Balance displays a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens. This magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village-... more info>>
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Fury [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Henry Kuttner
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Under the roiling seas of Venus, under the deadly atmosphere are the Keeps, fully enclosed cities, and within them live the descendants of those survivors who used atomic energy to propel the spaceships which first took them to Venus. In the massive superstructures that were built under the Venusian seas a complex feudal society devoted to decadence has evolved. Presiding over that society are the Immortals--genetic throwbacks to the mutant atomic survivors--who control the culture. This is a st... more info>>
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Brain Wave [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Poul Anderson
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What if we're all designed to be smarter than we actually are? That is, in short, the premise of master science fiction novelist Poul Anderson's 1954 debut work, Brainwave. Unbeknownst to its inhabitants, the solar system has, for millions of years, been caught in a force field that has had the effect of suppressing intelligence. When, in the course of normal galactic movement the solar system finally breaks free of the force field and its inhibiting effects, a remarkable change begins to sweep ... more info>>
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A Passage to India [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by E. M. Forster
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Forster's 1924 masterpiece, A Passage to India, is a novel about preconceptions and misconceptions and the desire to overcome the barrier that divides East and West in colonial India. It shows the limits of liberal tolerance, good intentions, and good will in sorting out the common problems that exist between two very different cultures. Forster's famous phrase, "only connect," stresses the need for human beings to overcome their hesitancy and prejudices and work towards realizing affection and ... more info>>
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Lincoln [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Gore Vidal
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Over a twenty-five year period, Gore Vidal created a series of seven novels, which together are referred to as his American Chronicle novels. These novels capture American history in fiction in a way in which few writers have attempted, let alone succeeded. Lincoln is the fourth volume in the series. In this profoundly moving novel, a work of epic proportions and intense human sympathy, Lincoln is observed by his loved ones and his rivals. The cast of characters is almost Dickensian: politicians... more info>>
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Enduring Love [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Ian McEwan
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Enduring Love is an extraordinary exploration of love, faith, and obsession, the story of two delicately ordered lives thrown out of balance by a desperate, deranged passion. Joe Rose is a scientist by training and a science writer by trade, disappointed by the scientific career which might have been. His wife Clarissa is haunted by a medical mishap which left her unable to bear children. Despite these disappointments, they have established a careful emotional equilibrium between themselves and ... more info>>
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Only the Paranoid Survive [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Andrew S. Grove
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The founder of Intel, Andrew Grove is one of the great business leaders of our time--and 1997 "Time" magazine Man of the Year. Under Andrew Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the world. In Only the Paranoid Survive, Andrew Grove reveals his strategy of focusing on a new way of measuring the nightmare moment every leader dreads--when massive change occurs and a company must, virtually overnight, adapt or fall by the wayside... more info>>
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The Puppet Masters [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Robert A. Heinlein
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The USA is in the grip of malevolent invaders from another planet. They land at key points throughout the nation, attach themselves to human hosts and through them seize communications, industry and the government. The protagonist and narrator is the working head of the operations team which must stop the invaders and which can trust no one ... since the President, the Cabinet, key leaders may have already been taken by the Puppet Masters. The lead cannot even trust the commander of his team ...... more info>> 2002
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The Sirens of Titan [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Kurt Vonnegut
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"His best book," Esquire wrote of Kurt Vonnegut's 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan, adding, "he dares not only to ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it." This novel fits into that aspect of the Vonnegut canon that might be classified as science fiction, a quality that once led Time to describe Vonnegut as "George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer ... a zany but moral mad scientist." The Sirens of Titan was perhaps the novel that began ... more info>> 2002
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Cat's Cradle [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Kurt Vonnegut
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In this wild, hurtling, apocalyptic tale, we meet the grown-up children of Dr. Felix Hoenikker, the absent-minded "father of the atomic bomb," who have the only example of their father's last discovery--ice-nine. From Ilium, New York we travel to a Caribbean banana republic where Bokononism is practiced--and ice-nine begins to overtake mankind. 2001
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The Second World War: Volume 6: Triumph and Tragedy
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One of the most fascinating works of history ever written, Winston's Churchill's monumental The Second World War is a six-volume account of the struggle of the Allied powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis. Told through the eyes of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, The Second World War is also the story of one nation's singular, heroic role in the fight against tyranny. Pride and patriotism are evident everywhere in Churchill's dramatic account and for good reason. Having learned ... more info>> 2002
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The Second World War: Volume 2: Their Finest Hour [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Winston Churchill
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One of the most fascinating works of history ever written, Winston's Churchill's monumental The Second World War is a six-volume account of the struggle of the Allied powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis. Told through the eyes of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, The Second World War is also the story of one nation's singular, heroic role in the fight against tyranny. Pride and patriotism are evident everywhere in Churchill's dramatic account and for good reason. Having learned ... more info>> 2002
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