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Super addicted/compulsive reader of pretty much anything that has something interesting to say. Prone to return library books late because the fine is the only way I can pay back those lovely people for letting me use their books in the first place.
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| Fan of Authors: | Isaac Asimov, Terry Pratchett, Robert Ludlum, Patrick O'Brian, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Clive Cussler, Bernard Cornwell, Anne Perry, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, Henning Mankell, Alexander Kent, Chang Sau Sheong, Timothy Severin, Michele Martinez, Douglas Reeman, Nathan Lowell |
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by Herman WoukUpon its original publication in 1951, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was immediately embraced as one of the first serious works of fiction to help readers grapple with the human consequences of...Yesterday . . Comment -
by Bruce A. TateRuby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell. With Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, by Bruce A. Tate, you'll go beyond the syntax-and beyond the 20-minute tutorial you'll find someplace online...Yesterday . . Comment -
by Steven LevyFew companies in history have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives. How has Google done it? ...6 days ago . . Comment -
by Peter RobinsonTwo murders . . . two towns . . . two determined cops . . . One morning in March, on the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea, a woman named Karen Drew is found in her wheelchair with her throat ...1 week ago . . Comment -
by Peter RobinsonFormer London policeman Alan Banks relocated to Yorkshire seeking some small measure of peace. But depravity and violence are unfortunately not unique to large cities. His new venue, the quaint lit...1 week ago . . Comment -
by Peter RobinsonWithout a doubt, the family and friends of fictional sleuths are two of the most endangered species on the planet. Crime novelists seem to have no qualms about sacrificing the people nearest and de...1 week ago . . Comment -
by Evan HahnGet a concise introduction to Jasmine, the popular behavior-driven testing framework for JavaScript. This practical guide shows you how to write unit tests with Jasmine that automatically check for...1 week ago . . Comment -
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by Oliver PötzschGermany, 1660: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play. So begins The...1 week ago . . Comment -
by W.E.B. GriffinWorld War II. On the island of Mindanao, the Philippines, a man calling himself "General" Fertig has set himself up as a guerrilla leader to harass the Japanese. Army records show that the only o...1 week ago . . Comment -
by W.E.B. GriffinAs Japanese forces close in for an all-out effort to recapture Guadalcanal from the American forces occupying the island, many fates converge and intertwine. First Lieutenant William Dunn, twenty-o...1 week ago . . Comment -
by Liza MarklundJournalist Annika Bengtzon is asleep when the call comes in at 3:22 am on a frozen December night. Within minutes, all thoughts of seasonal goodwill are left behind as Annika tries to get the best ...1 week ago . . Comment
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by Robert McCammonHis epic masterwork Speaks the Nightbird, a tour de force of witchhunt terror in a colonial town, was hailed by Sandra Brown as "deeplysatisfying...told with matchless insight into the human soul."...2 weeks ago . . Comment -
by Henning Mankell*Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award*[Read by Grover Gardner] When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in the northern forests of Sweden, police fin...2 weeks ago . . Comment
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by Jack Goldsmith, Tim WuIs the Internet erasing national borders? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net--Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? In this p...2 weeks ago . . Comment