Sunday, December 16, 2007

The Children of Men by PD James


The Children of MenThe Children of Men
Author: P.D. James
Format: Mass market paperback




Description:
The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiatt, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman leads him into contact with a group of dissenters. Suddenly, his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind.


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Ghost Rider by Greg Cox


Ghost Rider Ghost Rider
Author: Greg Cox
Format: Mass market paperback




Description:
Motorcycle stunt performer Johnny Blaze agrees to sell his soul to the demon lord Mephistopheles in exchange for his father's life and the safety of his one true love. Years later, their paths cross again, and this time Mephistopheles offers to release Johnny's soul if he agrees to become a host to the legendary 'Ghost Rider' - a fiery spirit of vengeance and justice - in order to defeat the demon lord's rival, the dreaded Blackheart, who promises to create a terrifying new hell on earth...


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The Secret History of Vampires by Darrell Schweitzer


The Secret History of VampiresThe Secret History of Vampires
Author: Darrell Schweitzer; Martin Harry Greenberg
Format: Mass market paperback




Description:
Garlic cloves and wooden stakes are no match for centuries of the undead's mischief and seduction. In this volume,13 original and imaginative stories reveal the vampiric truths behind certain historical happenings. Authors include Harry Turtledove, Tanith Lee, and Keith Taylor. Original.


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Spook Country by William Gibson


Spook Country Spook Country
Author: William Gibson
Format: Hardcover




Description:
Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer.

Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn't exist yet, which is fine; she's used to that. But it seems to be actively blocking the kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate before they start up. Really actively blocking it. It's odd, even a little scary, if Hollis lets herself think about it much. Which she doesn't; she can't afford to.

Milgrim is a junkie. A high-end junkie, hooked on prescription antianxiety drugs. Milgrim figures he wouldn't survive twenty-four hours if Brown, the mystery man who saved him from a misunderstanding with his dealer, ever stopped supplying those little bubble packs. What exactly Brown is up to Milgrim can't say, but it seems to be military in nature. At least, Milgrim's very nuanced Russian would seem to be a big part of it, as would breaking into locked rooms.

Bobby Chombo is a producer, and an enigma. In his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for manufacturers of military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. Hollis Henry has been told to find him.

Pattern Recognition was a bestseller on every list of every major newspaper in the country, reaching #4 on the New York Times list. It was also a BookSense top ten pick, a WordStock bestseller, a best book of the year for Publishers Weekly, theLos Angeles Times, Newsday, and the Economist, and a Washington Post rave.

Spook Country is the perfect follow-up to Pattern Recognition, which was called by The Washington Post (among many glowing reviews), One of the first authentic and vital novels of the twenty-first century.


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Jesus for the Non-Religious by John Shelby Spong


Jesus for the Non-ReligiousJesus for the Non-Religious
Author: John Shelby Spong
Format: Hardcover




Description:
Bishop John Shelby Spong has been on a life-long quest to rescue the church from irrelevancy. In FREEING JESUS FROM RELIGION'S PRISON, he takes aim at the church's core belief: who is Jesus. He first strips the superstitious barnacles that have attached themselves to this incredible person: such as that Jesus was born of a virgin in Bethlehem, that his father was Joseph, that he did miracles, that he had twelve disciples, and especially that he physically rose from the dead.

Next Spong explains how these traditions arose by the early disciples seeing all he did through the lens of the Hebrew Scriptures. With these new revelations, we are then able to see the true Jesus, a heroic figure who revealed divinity through his humanness and can still guide us today.

In short, Spong breaks Jesus free from the idol religion has created and restores for us a revolutionary and life-giving figure we all need to meet.


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Sourcery by Terry Pratchett


Sourcery by Terry PratchettSourcery
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Softcover




Description:
All this books and stuff, that isn't what it should all be about. What we need is real wizardry. All is not well within the Unseen University. The endemic politics of the place have ensured that it has finally got what it wished for: the most powerful wizard on the disc. Which could mean that the death of all wizardry is at hand. And the world is going to end, depending on whom you listen to. Unless of course one inept wizard can take the University's most precious artefact, the very embodiment of magic itself, and deliver it halfway across the disc to safety...


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The Dark Tower Volume 5 by Stephen King


The Dark Tower - Vol 5The Dark Tower Volume 5 - Wolves of the Calla
Author: Stephen King
Format: Softcover




Description:
In the fertile lands of the East, the farming community has been warned the wolves are coming back. Four gunslingers, led by Roland of Gilead, are also coming their way. And the farmers of the Calla want to enlist some hard calibers.

Torn between protecting the innocent community and his urgent quest, Roland faces his most deadly perils as he journey through the Mid-World towards the Dark Tower.


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Things every SA man should know by Dennis Cavernelis


Things every SA man should know293 Things every SA man should know
Author: Dennis Cavernelis
Format: Softcover




Description:
This title is exactly what it says - a compilation of 293 snippets of knowledge for the South African man - from worldly wisdom and indispensable advice to good-humoured observation and trivial facts.

But it's not as straightforward as all that.

There's zombie-killing advice, wheel-changing advice and cigar-lighting advice. There are facts to remember, facts to forget and facts to drop at fancy dinner parties. Entertaining all round, this is the thinking man's light read.

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