Wednesday, May 27, 2015

All the light we cannot see





WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Synopsis: Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.

Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).


Sunday, May 24, 2015

Recommended Paris Walking Tour





Synopsis: The joy that walking the Paris sights can give one is just breathtaking. With so much history to view and learn one simply cannot appreciate in its entirety the historical knowledge behind the views. 

This e-book directs you on a walking tour of some great attractions found in and around Paris. This e-book guide includes history and interesting information about 9 must see attractions giving you a better visitors understanding to aid your sightseeing.

Monday, May 18, 2015

How To Cheat And Not Get Caught





Synopsis: How To Cheat And Not Get Caught is a superb guide for sexual deviants with the authors own tried and tested strategies that has allowed him to easily be a serial cheater with thousands of elicit encounters over an 18 year period. The book covers the safety rules for success how to easily find sex buddys and the skills needed to keep them coming back for more plus the writers own secret weapon on how to simply yet effectively make your lover think you are on some sort of passion rocket fuel.

Cheating can be a lot of work, think about what you’re getting yourself into before you start. 99% of the time, cheaters get caught, and the relationship they were trying to protect from destruction almost always comes crashing down. If you really feel like you need a change from your current status, this book could be where to start. So it’s time to infuse some spice into your relationship, then check out Robbie Valley's book How To Cheat And Not Get Caught. 

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

the return of alex cross : hope to die : james patterson





Synopsis: Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family--his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children--have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life. The stakes have never been higher: What will Cross sacrifice to save the ones he loves?

Widely praised by the greatest crime and thriller writers of our time, Cross My Heart set a jaw-dropping story in motion. Hope to Die propels Alex Cross's greatest challenge to its astonishing finish, proving why Jeffery Deaver says "nobody does it better" than James Patterson.


Saturday, December 27, 2014

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions






WHAT IF? From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following.
Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last?
In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.
The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? will be required reading for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.


Friday, December 26, 2014

Red Sparrow





Synopsis: In the tradition of John le CarrĂ©, the bestselling, impossible-to-put-down, espionage thriller that is “a primer in twenty-first century spying” (The New York Times Book Review), written with the insider detail that only a veteran CIA operative could know—and shortlisted for an Edgar Award.

State intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the cast-iron bureaucracy of post-Soviet intelligence. Drafted against her will to become a “Sparrow,” a trained seductress in the service, Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a first-tour CIA officer who handles the CIA’s