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01-01-00 |
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R.J. Pinero |
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Twenty days remain until the year 2000 and the activation of the infamous Y2K bug. Suddenly, an incredibly complex, global computer virus begins a countdown to the millennium, shutting down machines for the number of seconds equal to the number of days left until January 1, 2000. Add a mix of torturing terrorists and ancient prophesies, and what you get is Pineiro's (Breakthrough) enticing new novel, almost guaranteed to add more paranoia to the lives of the paranoid, yet, finally, to offer hope as well. Susan Garnett, chief of the FBI's high-tech crimes unit, whose family was recently killed in a hacker-induced car accident, is about to commit suicide. She is yanked back into the thick of life by the virus, which turns out to be linked to an extraterrestrial/Mayan mystery. Taking a cosmic approach to setting, the novel's omniscient narrator puts the Y2K countdown in perspective before zooming in on Susan, the expert Mayan archeologist who helps her, a SETI team whose search for alien life may be over and the terrorists who want to control the virus for their own ends. There is little chance of readers getting lost in the science of the book, as every aspect of it is explained, often using one character's ignorance to allow another to explain something. Paced at a steady rhythm, the narrative oscillates between the technical and the poetic. The proximity of the future predicted may shorten the shelf life of this work, but the paranoia and superstition surrounding the advent of Y2K should give it a vigorous, if brief, run |
| Copyright Year: | 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0312870582 |
| Publisher: | Forge | Format: | Hardcover |
| First Edition: | Yes | Collection: | Fiction |
| Fiction Collection: | Adventure | Non-Fiction Collection: | |
| Price: | $24.95 | LCCN: | 99024573 |
| Series: | Notes: | ||
| Number of Pages: | 320 pages | Copy Number: | 1 |
1776 |
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David McCullough |
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Esteemed historian David McCullough covers the military side of the momentous year of 1776 with characteristic insight and a gripping narrative, adding new scholarship and a fresh perspective to the beginning of the American Revolution. It was a turbulent and confusing time. As British and American politicians struggled to reach a compromise, events on the ground escalated until war was inevitable. McCullough writes vividly about the dismal conditions that troops on both sides had to endure, including an unusually harsh winter, and the role that luck and the whims of the weather played in helping the colonial forces hold off the world's greatest army. He also effectively explores the importance of motivation and troop morale--a tie was as good as a win to the Americans, while anything short of overwhelming victory was disheartening to the British, who expected a swift end to the war. The redcoat retreat from Boston, for example, was particularly humiliating for the British, wh Some of the strongest passages in 1776 are the revealing and well-rounded portraits of the Georges on both sides of the Atlantic. King George III, so often portrayed as a bumbling, arrogant fool, is given a more thoughtful treatment by McCullough, who shows that the king considered the colonists to be petulant subjects without legitimate grievances--an attitude that led him to underestimate the will and capabilities of the Americans. At times he seems shocked that war was even necessary. The great Washington lives up to his considerable reputation in these pages, and McCullough relies on private correspondence to balance the man and the myth, revealing how deeply concerned Washington was about the Americans' chances for victory, despite his public optimism. Perhaps more than any other man, he realized how fortunate they were to merely survive the year, and he willingly lays the responsibility for their good fortune in the hands of God rather than his own. |
| Copyright Year: | 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0743226712 |
| Publisher: | Simon and Schuster | Format: | Hardcover |
| First Edition: | Yes | Collection: | NonFiction |
| Fiction Collection: | Non-Fiction Collection: | US History | |
| Price: | $32.00 | LCCN: | 2005042505 |
| Series: | Notes: | ||
| Number of Pages: | 386 pages | Copy Number: | 1 |
1984 |
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George Orwell |
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Published in 1949, Ninety Eighty-Four is Orwell's terrifing vision of a totalitarian future. Its hero, Winston Smith, is a worker at the Ministry of Truth, where he falsifies records for the party. Secretly subversive, he and his colleague Julia try to free themselves from political slavery but the price of freedom is betrayal. |
| Copyright Year: | 1949 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0451524934 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishers | Format: | Mass Market |
| First Edition: | Yes | Collection: | Fiction |
| Fiction Collection: | Political Fiction | Non-Fiction Collection: | |
| Price: | $6.95 | LCCN: | |
| Series: | Notes: | ||
| Number of Pages: | 267 pages | Copy Number: | 1 |
1984 / Animal Farm |
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George Orwell |
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This Collection of Two Classic Tales includes 1984 and Animal Farm. |
| Copyright Year: | 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | 1402511477 |
| Publisher: | State Street Press | Format: | Audio Tape |
| First Edition: | Yes | Collection: | Fiction |
| Fiction Collection: | Fiction | Non-Fiction Collection: | |
| Price: | $19.95 | LCCN: | |
| Series: | Notes: | Unabridged | |
| Number of Pages: | 8 Tapes | Copy Number: | 1 |
1st To Die |
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James Patterson |
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The Women's Murder Club pits four San Francisco women professionals against a serial killer who's stalking and murdering newlyweds in bestselling author James Patterson's newest thriller. Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector who's just gotten some very bad news. She deals with it by immersing herself in her newest case and soliciting the personal as well as professional support of her closest friend, who happens to be the city's medical examiner. The two women, along with an ambitious and sympathetic reporter and an assistant DA, form an unlikely alliance, pooling their information and bypassing the chain of command in an engaging, suspenseful story whose gruesome setup is vintage Patterson. |
| Copyright Year: | 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0446610038 |
| Publisher: | Warner Books | Format: | Paperback |
| First Edition: | Yes | Collection: | Fiction |
| Fiction Collection: | Mystery Fiction | Non-Fiction Collection: | |
| Price: | $7.99 | LCCN: | |
| Series: | Women's Murder Club | Notes: | |
| Number of Pages: | 471 pages | Copy Number: | 1 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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When an enigmatic monolith is found buried on the moon, scientists are amazed to discover that it's at least 3 million years old. Even more amazing, after it's unearthed the artifact releases a powerful signal aimed at Saturn. What sort of alarm has been triggered? To find out, a manned spacecraft, the Discovery, is sent to investigate. Its crew is highly trained--the best--and they are assisted by a self-aware computer, the ultra-capable HAL 9000. But HAL's programming has been patterned after the human mind a little too well. He is capable of guilt, neurosis, even murder, and he controls every single one of Discovery's components. The crew must overthrow this digital psychotic if they hope to make their rendezvous with the entities that are responsible not just for the monolith, but maybe even for human civilization. |
| Copyright Year: | 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0451457994 |
| Publisher: | ROC Publishers | Format: | Paperback |
| First Edition: | Yes | Collection: | Fiction |
| Fiction Collection: | Science Fiction | Non-Fiction Collection: | |
| Price: | $6.99 | LCCN: | |
| Series: | Space Odyssey | Notes: | 01 |
| Number of Pages: | 296 pages | Copy Number: | 1 |
2010: Odyssey Two |
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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2001: A Space Odyssey shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s. An instant book and movie classic, its fame has grown over the years. Yet along with the almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years, for example: who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in space? What could drive HAL to kill the crew? Now all those questions and many more have been answered, in this stunning sequel to the international bestseller. Cosmic in sweep, eloquent in its depiction of Man's place in the Universe, and filled with the romance of space, this novel is a monumental achievement and a must-read for Arthur C. Clarke fans old and new. |
| Copyright Year: | 1982 | ISBN/ASIN: | 1568653077 |
| Publisher: | DelRey Books | Format: | Hardcover |
| First Edition: | Yes | Collection: | Fiction |
| Fiction Collection: | Science Fiction | Non-Fiction Collection: | |
| Price: | $14.95 | LCCN: | |
| Series: | Space Odyssey | Notes: | 02 |
| Number of Pages: | 245 pages | Copy Number: | 1 |
2061: Odyssey Three |
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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Fifty years after the alien message forbidding humans to approach the moon Europa, an expedition to Halley's Comet is forced to violate the prohibition in the name of mercy. Though lacking the lyrical prose of The Songs of Distant Earth , Clarke's latest addition to the story begun in 2001: a space odyssey will entertain fans of the "black monolith." |
| Copyright Year: | 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0345351738 |
| Publisher: | DelRey Books | Format: | Hardcover |
| First Edition: | Yes | Collection: | Fiction |
| Fiction Collection: | Science Fiction | Non-Fiction Collection: | |
| Price: | $17.95 | LCCN: | 87047811 |
| Series: | Space Odyssey | Notes: | 03 |
| Number of Pages: | 279 pages | Copy Number: | 1 |
A Nation Challenged |
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The New York Times |
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In an unprecedented effort, The New York Times opens its picture archive of September 11th and the aftermath at home and abroad. The result is groundbreaking photojournalism punctuated with authoratative prose. Culled from both published and previously unpublished material, A Nation Challenged highlights the best work of the paper's award-winning staffers-the work that has made the Times the paper of record for these events. |
| Copyright Year: | 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0935112766 |
| Publisher: | The New York Times | Format: | Hardcover |
| First Edition: | Yes | Collection: | NonFiction |
| Fiction Collection: | Non-Fiction Collection: | September 11, 2001 | |
| Price: | $34.95 | LCCN: | 2002070850 |
| Series: | Notes: | ||
| Number of Pages: | 240 pages | Copy Number: | 1 |
A Time To Kill |
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John Grisham |
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This addictive tale of a young lawyer defending a black Vietnam war hero who kills the white druggies who raped his child in tiny Clanton, Mississippi, is John Grisham's first novel, and his favorite of his first six. He polished it for three years and every detail shines like pebbles at the bottom of a swift, sunlit stream. Grisham is a born legal storyteller and his dialogue is pitch perfect. The plot turns with jeweled precision. Carl Lee Hailey gets an M-16 from the Chicago hoodlum he'd saved at Da Nang, wastes the rapists on the courthouse steps, then turns to attorney Jake Brigance, who needs a conspicuous win to boost his career. Folks want to give Carl Lee a second medal, but how can they ignore premeditated execution? The town is split, revealing its social structure. Blacks note that a white man shooting a black rapist would be acquitted; the KKK starts a new Clanton chapter; the NAACP, the ambitious local reverend, a snobby, Harvard-infested big local firm, and others try to outmaneuver Jake and his brilliant, disbarred drunk of an ex-law partner. Jake hits the books and the bottle himself. Crosses burn, people die, crowds chant "Free Carl Lee!" and "Fry Carl Lee!" in the antiphony of America's classical tragedy. |
| Copyright Year: | 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0922066728 |
| Publisher: | Wynwood Press | Format: | Hardcover |
| First Edition: | Yes | Collection: | Fiction |
| Fiction Collection: | Mystery | Non-Fiction Collection: | |
| Price: | $9.95 | LCCN: | |
| Series: | Notes: | ||
| Number of Pages: | 425 pages | Copy Number: | 1 |
Abarat |
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Clive Barker |
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Candy Quackenbush is growing up in Chickentown, Minnesota, yearning for more--which she finds, quite unexpectedly, when a man with eight heads appears from nowhere in the middle of the prairie, being chased by something really monstrous. And so begins Candy's epic adventure to the islands of the Abarat. Peopled by all manner of creatures, cultures, and customs, the islands should prove a fertile setting for the series that Barker is calling The Books of Abarat. Candy is an intelligent and likable heroine, and the many supporting characters are deftly drawn, both in words and in the full-color interior art that Barker has produced to give the story an extra dimension. |
| Copyright Year: | 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0060280921 |
| Publisher: | Joanna Colter Books | Format: | Hardcover |
| First Edition: | Yes | Collection: | Fiction |
| Fiction Collection: | Fantasy | Non-Fiction Collection: | |
| Price: | $24.99 | LCCN: | 2002001299 |
| Series: | Abarat | Notes: | |
| Number of Pages: | 388 pages | Copy Number: | 1 |
Access 2000 Programming for Dummies |
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Robert Krumm |
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This Addition to the "For Dummies?" Collection allows the reader to quickly and easily learn the basics of Access 2000. |
| Copyright Year: | 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0764505653 |
| Publisher: | IDG Publishers | Format: | Paperback |
| First Edition: | Yes | Collection: | NonFiction |
| Fiction Collection: | Non-Fiction Collection: | Database Programming | |
| Price: | $24.99 | LCCN: | 99063213 |
| Series: | Notes: | ||
| Number of Pages: | 424 pages | Copy Number: | 1 |
Afternoon on the Amazon |
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Mary Pope Osborne |
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Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars. |
| Copyright Year: | 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0679863729 |
| Publisher: | Random House | Format: | Paperback |
| First Edition: | Yes | Collection: | Fiction |
| Fiction Collection: | Time Travel | Non-Fiction Collection: | |
| Price: | $3.99 | LCCN: | |
| Series: | Magic Tree House | Notes: | 06 |
| Number of Pages: | 67 pages | Copy Number: | 1 |
Allies of the Night |
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Darren Shan |
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The quest for the Vampaneze Lord continues for the hunters of the dusk. Darren gets an unwelcome taste of reality when he is forced to go back to school and his past catches up with him. THE SAGA OF DARREN SHAN BOOK 8 Maturing at one fifth the rate of a normal human, Darren has the looks of a fifteen year old, even though he is very much older. Vampire Prince and vampaneze killer he may be, but someone has shopped him to the authorities and it's time for Darren to go back to school. But school is not the only thing Darren has to come to terms with: faces from the past, the death of a clan member, a clash with a vampire hunter and blood-thirsty vampaneze mean Darren's past is catching up with him -- fast. It's time for the allies of the night to join forces. The hunt is on? |
| Copyright Year: | 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | 000713780X |
| Publisher: | Collins | Format: | Paperback |
| First Edition: | Yes | Collection: | Fiction |
| Fiction Collection: | Horror | Non-Fiction Collection: | |
| Price: | $6.35 | LCCN: | |
| Series: | Cirque Du Freak | Notes: | 08 |
| Number of Pages: | 192 pages | Copy Number: | 1 |
Altman Code |
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Robert Ludlum |
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Altman Code revolves around a Chinese freighter carrying weapons-grade chemicals to the port of Basra in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. There are also a couple of neat subplots, including an elderly American being held prisoner in China who claims to be the real father of U.S. President Sam Adams Castilla, and the dirty doings of a giant international business combine called the Altman Group, whose members make Ian Fleming's old adversaries look like the operatives of a corner candy store. All of this provides plenty of action and intrigue for the folks at Covert-One, the top-secret agency which now operates out of a private yacht club in Anacostia, Md.-close enough to the White House for President Castilla to drop in on agency boss Fred Klein of an evening with just one Lincoln Town Car full of Secret Service folk. Most of the heavy lifting, actionwise, falls on the capable shoulders of Covert-One's Col. Jon Smith, who as "a medical doctor and biomolecular scientist" as well as an army officer is the ideal combination of brains and muscle. He needs both, as well as the patience to endure dialogue like this from Castilla: "I don't know whether you realize it, but China is one of the signatories of the international agreement that prohibits development, production, stockpiling, or use of chemical weapons. They won't let themselves be revealed as breaking that treaty, because it could slow their march to acquiring a bigger and bigger slice of the global economy." |
| Copyright Year: | 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | 0312289901 |
| Publisher: | St. Martins Press | Format: | Paperback |
| First Edition: | Yes | Collection: | Fiction |
| Fiction Collection: | Techno Thriller | Non-Fiction Collection: | |
| Price: | $15.95 | LCCN: | 2003043141 |
| Series: | Covert One | Notes: | 04 |
| Number of Pages: | 410 pages | Copy Number: | 1 |
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