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The
Best of Mike Carlton
A selection of his well-loathed weekly column, 'On Television'
Mike Carlton has made a dishonest living in the
media since he began work as a cadet journalist at the ABC in
Sydney at the ridiculous age of sixteen. Dishonest, he
ways, because most of the time it doesn't seem like work at all.
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Dick Francis
Under Orders
It's
the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really
troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Former champion jockey
Halley knows the perils of racing all too well - but in
his day, jockeys didn't usually reach the finishing line
with three .38 rounds in the chest.
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Robert
Ludlum's The Altman Code. A Covert One novel
Robert Ludlum
and Gayle Lynds
Rumors of a mysterious prisoner of war detained in
China for countless years lead Jon Smith, Covert One agent, to
Taiwan. He searches for the POW, who has a sinister connection to a
ship manifest that details bioterrorist cargo bound for U.S. shores.
The pace is fast, the dialogue true to character. This one will
rivet your attention from beginning to end. |
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Sidney Sheldon
If
Tomorrow Comes
Lovely, idealistic Tracy Whitney is framed into a fifteen year
sentence in an escape-proof penitentiary. With dazzling
ingenuity she fights back to destroy the untouchable crime lords
who put her there.
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John Thornton
The
Foundations of Computing and the Information Technology Age: A
historical, sociological and philosophical enquiry
The Foundations of Computing and the Information
Technology Age is
a book both for undergraduate computing students and for anyone
seeking a deeper understanding of technology in the modern
world ...the reader is drawn to consider how
our technical, materialistic understandings have ignored the
underlying reality from which all technology emerges: human
consciousness. |
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Jennifer Weiner
Goodnight
Nobody
Kate Klein is a feisty, charmingly insecure Connecticut
housewife who trades in a life of late-night karaoke
sing-a-longs and West Village brunches with her best friend
Janie for a world of mini-vans and Mommy and Me Pilates
classes. Life in Upchurch, Connecticut, heats up when Kate
discovers picture-perfect wife and mother Kitty Cavanaugh
dead on the pickled maple hardwood floor of her recently
remodelled kitchen. |
