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Developing Backbone.js Applications

by Addy Osmani

If you want to build your site’s frontend with the single-page application (SPA) model, this hands-on book shows you how to get the job done with Backbone.js. You’ll learn how to create structured JavaScript...

MongoDB: The Definitive Guide

by Kristina Chodorow

Manage the huMONGOus amount of data collected through your web application with MongoDB. This authoritative introduction—written by a core contributor to the project—shows you the many advantages of using...

Westward: A Fictional History of the American West

by Dale L. Walker

The American West. Just as America attracted millions to her shores by building upon a foundation of freedom, democracy, and a new start, the lands beyond the Mississippi would also attract people from all over...

The Stone Canal

The Fall Revolution #2

by Ken MacLeod

Life on New Mars is tough for humans, but death is only a minor inconvenience.  The machines know their place, the free market rules all, and only the Abolitionists object. Then a stranger arrives on New Mars,...

The Star Fraction

The Fall Revolution #1

by Ken MacLeod

Britain in the 21st century is a Balkanized mess. Moh Kohn is a security mercenary unaware that he holds the key to information which could change the world. Janis Taine is a scientist who needs Mohs help. And...

Legends-Vol. 2 Stories By The Masters of Modern Fantasy

by Robert Silverberg, Terry Goodkind, Anne Mccaffrey & George R.R. Martin

The Great Anthology of Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy Terry Goodkind tells of the origin of the Border between the lands in the world of The Sword of Truth, in "Debt of Bones." George R. R....

Legends-Vol. 1 Stories By The Masters of Modern Fantasy

by Robert Silverberg, Raymond Feist, Orson Scott Card & Stephen King

The great anthology of short novels by the masters of modern fantasy.

Stephen King tells a tale of Roland, the Gunslinger, in the world of The Dark Tower, in "The Little Sisters of Eluria."

Robert Silverberg returns...

Beginner's Guide to Quilting: 16 Projects to Learn to Quilt

by Elizabeth Betts

Learn how to make beautiful quilts with this comprehensive guide to patchwork and quilting for beginners.

• Covers all aspects of quilting from piecing and patchwork to quilting and binding.
• Includes quick and...

Access Database Design & Programming

by PhD Steven Roman

Access Database Design & Programming takes you behind the details of the Access interface, focusing on the general knowledge necessary for Access power users or developers to create effective database applications....

Bootstrap

by Jake Spurlock

Discover how easy it is to design killer interfaces and responsive websites with the Bootstrap framework. This practical book gets you started building pages with Bootstrap’s HTML/CSS-based tools and design...

Microsoft Lync 2013 Plain & Simple

by Darren Lloyd

Get the full-color, visual guide that makes learning Lync 2013 plain and simple! Follow the book’s easy steps and screenshots and clear, concise language to learn the simplest ways to communicate and collaborate...

Fire Above, Fire Below

by Garth Nix

"Fire Above, Fire Below" is about the crisis that the dying of a dragon living below a major city causes, and the pact made many years earlier to deal with such a situtation.

At the publisher's request, this...

The Way West

by James A. Crutchfield

The history of America is, at its core, the story of the American West. In this new volume from the Western Writers of America, we are taken deep into true stories that helped America form its identity, and...

Tunnel Out of Death

by Jamil Nasir

Heath Ransom, former police psychic turned machine-enhanced “endovoyant” private investigator, is hired to find the consciousness of the rich and comatose Margaret Biel and return it to her body. Tracking...

A Taste of Magic

Five Senses #5

by Andre Norton & Jean Rabe

"The Green Ones favored me this day."

Thus begins A Taste of Magic, the latest magical world creation by Andre Norton.

Wisteria is magically attuned to the world around her. Her senses relish the tastes of magic...

Shattered Trident

Jerry Mitchell #4

by Larry Bond

While trailing a Chinese nuclear attack sub, Jerry Mitchell, the captain of USS North Dakota, is shocked to see the Chinese boat torpedo a Vietnamese merchant ship.

This blatant act of aggression is the opening...

Sagas of Conan

by L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter & Bjorn Nyberg

Imagine a world of gods and demons, where men are warriors, women are beautiful, life is a fantastic adventure, and the fate of kingdoms balances on the bloody blade of a fabulous hero: Conan of the iron thews,...

Mirror Image

by Ice-T & Jorge Hinojosa

Marcus “Crush” Casey should have it made. After two long decades in Attica, he's back on top and ruling the streets he left behind. But maintaining control of New York's underworld is harder than he anticipated....

Legends-Vol. 3 Stories By The Masters of Modern Fantasy

by Robert Silverberg, Tad Williams, Ursula K. Le Guin & Robert Jordan et al.

The great anthology of short novels by the masters of modern fantasy.

Robert Jordan relates crucial events in the years leading up to The Wheel of Time in "New Spring."

Ursula K. Le Guin adds a sequel to her famous...

Hell or Richmond

by Ralph Peters

Between May 5 and June 3, 1864, the Union and Confederate armies suffered 88,000 casualties.  Twenty-nine thousand were killed, wounded or captured in the first two days of combat. The savagery shocked a...