Month: February 2017

By Francis Slakey

A trip to the main severe issues in the world and deep contained in the human spirit
    
Before Georgetown physics professor Francis Slakey got down to climb the top mountain on each continent and surf each ocean, he had close himself off from folks. His lectures have been mechanical; his relationships have been little greater than how one can fill the evenings. yet as his trip veered dangerously astray, every little thing approximately him started to swap.
    
A gripping event of the physique and brain, To the final Breath depicts the hunt that leads Slakey around the world, virtually takes his existence, demanding situations his fiercely held ideals, and opens his middle. The scientist in Slakey explores the historical past of Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed Antarctica day trip, the know-how of hiking, and the geophysics of waves. however it is the demanding situations he endures and the folk he encounters—a Lama who supplies him a mysterious amulet, a life-or-death selection atop Everest, an ambush at gunpoint in Indonesia, a head-on collision within the excessive desert—that culminate in a relocating lesson approximately what it capacity to be human.

By Francis Parkman

In 1846, a tender guy of privilege left his cozy Boston domestic to embark on a strenuous overland trip to the untamed West. This undying account of Parkman's travels and travails offers an expressive portrait of the tough frontiersmen, immigrants, and local americans he encounters, set opposed to the elegance of the unspoiled barren region. whereas Parkman's patrician air and unabashed racism occasionally jolt the trendy reader, this is still a colourful vintage via one of many nineteenth century's so much trendy narrative historians. A circumspect abridgment and a laudable interpretation through veteran narrator Frank Muller increase this audio model. hugely recommended.?Linda Bredengerd, Hanley Lib., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Bradford, Pa.

By Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler

Retail ePub direct from OverDrive to fill a request

Dirk Pitt returns within the awesome new novel from the number 1 big apple Times--bestselling author.

In A.D. 327, a Roman galley slightly escapes a pirate assault with its outstanding shipment. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the midst of the North Sea. immediately, a cluster of vital mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by way of explosions. Does something tie them together?

NUMA director Dirk Pitt is set to determine, as Roman artifacts found in Turkey and Israel unnervingly hook up with the increase of a fundamentalist circulate decided to revive the respect of the Ottoman Empire, and to the life of a mysterious "manifest," misplaced some time past, which if came across back . . . simply could switch the heritage of the area as we all know it.

By Peter Abrahams

Welcome to Echo Falls.Home of 1000 secrets,where Ingrid Levin-Hill, tremendous sleuth, by no means understands what's going to take place next.Ingrid is within the flawed position on the fallacious time. Or no less than her sneakers are. Getting them again potential becoming concerned in a homicide research rivaling these solved by way of her idol, Sherlock Holmes, and Ingrid has adequate on her plate with membership football, tuition, and the plum function of Alice within the Echo Falls creation of Alice in Wonderland. yet a lot as in Alice's adventures down the rabbit gap, issues in Ingrid's small city continue getting curiouser and curiouser. Her favourite director has a significant coincidence onstage (but is it an accident?), and the police leader is on Ingrid's tail, grilling her approximately every thing from bike-helmet legislations to the colour of her cleats. Echo Falls has become a nightmare, and Ingrid is decided to wake up.Edgar Award'nominated novelist Peter Abrahams builds suspense as a sensible younger woman reveals that her small city isn't approximately as secure because it turns out.

By Tim Cahill

The Intrepid voyager and writer of A Wolverine Is consuming My Leg provides one other pleasant number of adventure-travel writings which are jam-packed with the irreverent wit and appreciation for the absurd which are uniquely--and hilariously--his.

By Brian Jacques

The otters of eco-friendly Isle have lengthy been enslaved to the Wildcat Riggu Felis. They paintings and watch for the day their savior will arrive?the prophesized excessive Rhulain, who will lead them in conflict and a go back to glory. in the meantime, younger Tiria Wildlough, an ottermaid at Redwall Abbey, pines for her likelihood to benefit the methods of the warrior, a lot opposed to the needs of her father. So while an injured osprey arrives on the Abbey, looking aid for its wounds and wearing stories of an embattled extended family of otters, younger Tiria is familiar with what she needs to do.

By Mike Carey, Linda Carey, Louise Carey

The sultan Bokhari Al-Bokhari of Bessa has 365 concubines - until eventually a violent coup places the town within the palms of the spiritual zealot Hakkim Mehdad. Hakkim has little need for the pleasures of the flesh: he condemns the ladies first to exile - after which to dying forged into the desolate tract, the concubines needs to depend upon themselves and every different to flee from the recent sultan's fanatical pursuit. yet their ambitions transcend mere survival: by using the champions who emerge from between them, they intend to topple the usurper and retake Bessa from the repressive energy that now controls it. The murderer, Zuleika, whose arms are guns. The seer, Rem, whose tears are ink. The clever Gursoon, who was once the useless sultan's canniest consultant. The camel-thief, Anwar Das, who deals his mendacity tongue to the concubines' reason. jointly, they need to forge the ladies of the harem into a military, a seraglio of metal, and use it to beat a urban. yet no matter if they prevail, their issues will simply be starting - simply because their most deadly enemy is inside their very own number...

By Alexandre Dumas père

"We learn the 3 Musketeers to adventure a feeling of romance and for the sheer pleasure of the story," mirrored Clifton Fadiman. "In those violent pages all is motion, intrigue, suspense, surprise--an virtually unending chain of duels, murders, amorous affairs, unmaskings, ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, wild rides. it's all most unlikely and it's all magnificent."
        First released in 1844, Alexandre Dumas's swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of D'Artagnan, a gallant younger nobleman who trips to Paris in 1625 hoping to affix the ranks of musketeers guarding Louis XIII. He quickly reveals himself combating along 3
heroic comrades--Athos, Porthos, and Aramis--who search to uphold the dignity of the king through foiling the depraved plots of Cardinal Richelieu and the attractive undercover agent "Milady."
        "Dumas may be learn 100, nay, 300 years on," wrote John Galsworthy. "His maximum production is certainly D'Artagnan, sort immediately of the battling adventurer and of the trusty servant, whose wily blade is ever behind these whose hearts have neither his magnanimity nor his braveness. Few, if any, characters in fiction encourage one with such trust of their
individual existences. . . . to at least one who made D'Artagnan all might be forgiven." Clifton Fadiman agreed: "Dumas loved writing his tales. . . . The excitement he should have felt in
creating D'Artagnan's issues and triumphs
flashes out of those pages. . . . Dumas rampaged in the course of the heritage of France, inventing, altering, distorting--doing no matter what was once had to produce a story to carry the reader breathless."

By Amy McCulloch

Fifteen-year-old Raim lives in an international the place you tie a knot for each promise that you just make. holiday that promise and also you are scarred for all times, and forged out into the desert.

Raim has worn an easy knot round his wrist for so long as he can bear in mind. nobody is familiar with the place it got here from, and which promise of his it symbolises, yet he slightly thinks approximately it at all—not when you consider that changing into the main promising younger fighter ever to coach for the elite Yun protect. yet at the most crucial day of his existence, while he binds his lifestyles to his ally (and destiny king) Khareh, the string bursts into flames and sears a gloomy mark into his skin.

Scarred now as an oath-breaker, Raim has concepts: run, or be killed.

A gripping YA action-adventure delusion, the 1st a part of a deliberate duology

By Tania Aebi, Bernadette Brennan

2012 e-book liberate. fortunately filling a request!

What starts off because the sheer wish for event becomes a religious quest as a tender girl involves phrases along with her kin, her desires, and her first love.

Tania Aebi used to be an unambitious eighteen-year-old, a bicycle messenger in ny urban through day, a reduce East part barfly at evening. in brief, she used to be going nowhere—until her father provided her a problem: Tania might decide on both a faculty schooling or a twenty-six-foot sloop. the one capture used to be that if she selected the sailboat, she’d need to sail round the world—alone.

She selected the boat, and for the following and a part years and 27,000 miles, it was once her domestic. With purely her cat as significant other, she came upon the wondrous beauties of the good Barrier Reef and the death-dealing horrors of the pink Sea. She suffered via a terrifying collision with a tanker within the Mediterranean and a lightning typhoon off the coast of Gibraltar. And, eventually, what all started with the sheer wish for experience changed into a non secular quest as Tania got here to phrases along with her afflicted kin existence, fell in love for the 1st time, and—most of all—confronted her personal wishes, wants, goals, and goals…