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Discussion about piracy on audiobooks

buck rider — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:09:15 +0000

Hello everyone! I know you’ve all been dying to know how it will go on with abook.ws. Well, I can reveal this much: It will be a forum, it will have to do with usenet and there won’t be any direct links anymore. All that change needs some preparing and I’m ...

No more Filesonic, no more Fileserve

buck rider — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:59:31 +0000

Hello everybody, it’s been a long time… I have some unfortunate news for you all. Fileserve disabled our account and Filesonic just disabled all download functionality. In addition to that, ul.to blocks all incoming traffic from the US, so all that is left for now, is uploading.com. For now there will ...

David Lubar – The Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies

buck rider — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:44:28 +0000

A girl doesn’t have a date for the school dance – until her dad makes one for her in his lab. “Lily – meet Stitchy.” A family enjoys a nice Thanksgiving dinner – until they are interrupted by a torrent of turkeys out for revenge. A princess meets a pea-brained ...

William Shatner – Get A Life

buck rider — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:40:04 +0000

Poking fun at Star Trek fans during a now infamous ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketch, William Shatner’s comic rallying cry of ‘Get A Life!’ has been indelibly emblazoned into the collective psyche of Trekkers everywhere. Uncomfortable with speaking to fans onstage, the actor had spent the better part of the previous ...

Vicki Robin – Your Money or Your Life

buck rider — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:38:27 +0000

There’s a big difference between “making a living” and making a life. Do you spend more than you earn? Does making a living feel more like making a dying? Do you dislike your job but can’t afford to leave it? Is money fragmenting your time, your relationships with family and ...

Stephen Davis – Jim Morrison – Life, Death, Legend

buck rider — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:37:33 +0000

As the lead singer of the Doors, Jim Morrison’s searing poetic vision and voracious appetite for sexual, spiritual, and psychedelic experience inflamed the spirit and psyche of a generation. Since his mysterious death in 1971, millions more fans from a new generation have embraced his legacy, as layers of myth ...

Keith Richards – Life

buck rider — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:36:42 +0000

ith the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics, and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock-and-roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that no one before him had ...

Robert J. Sawyer – Flashforward

buck rider — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:35:13 +0000

A scientific experiment begins, and as the button is pressed, the unexpected occurs: everyone in the world goes to sleep for a few moments while everyone’s consciousness is catapulted more than 20 years into the future. At the end of those moments, when the world reawakens, all human life is ...

Gena Showalter – Twice As Hot

buck rider — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:32:58 +0000

Belle Jamison is finally starting to feel like a normal girl again. Her job as a paranormal investigator is going well, she’s learned to control her supernatural abilities (mostly), and she’s just gotten engaged to Rome Masters, the ultra-sexy operative who once tried to neutralize her! But planning a wedding is ...

Gena Showalter – Playing With Fire

buck rider — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:31:44 +0000

Twenty-four-year-old barista Belle Jamison dreams of a better job and a decent love life – until a crazy scientist spikes her mocha latte! Suddenly, Belle can wield the four elements – earth, wind, fire, and water – with only a thought. Coffee too hot? No problem. Hair in need of ...

Gena Showalter – Catch A Mate

buck rider — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:30:26 +0000

Jillian Greene is always getting caught in the act – it’s her job! Working at Catch a Mate, Jillian gets paid by suspicious wives to smile, flirt, and prove that no man can be trusted around the opposite sex. But she never gets physical – until a heart-stoppingly gorgeous male ...

Derek Landy – Skulduggery Pleasant 5 – Mortal Coil

buck rider — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:44:41 +0000

Following the shocking revelations of DARK DAYS, get ready for the fifth instalment of the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series – guaranteed to contain at least 40% humour, 50% action, and 100% thrills… “The blonde girl with the black lips turned to Valkyrie. ‘We know,’ she said. ‘We’ve seen the future. We ...

Derek Landy – Skulduggery Pleasant 04 – Dark Days

buck rider — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:43:10 +0000

What can we say, without giving too much away? Not much, is the answer. But what we CAN say is that this book is hilarious, it’s tense, and it’s packed with all the eye-popping action, crackling one liners and imaginative set pieces you’ve come to expect. There’s a new threat to our ...

Derek Landy – Skulduggery Pleasant 03 – The Faceless One

buck rider — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:42:10 +0000

The third book in Landy’s fantastically imaginative and illustrious series about our favourite dead detective, Skulduggery Pleasant and his wonderfully cheeky and inquisitive side kick Valkyrie take us through another journey which promises to be filled with adventure, dark mysterious meetings, and classically funny moments. With all the characters read once ...

Derek Landy – Skulduggery Pleasant 02 – Playing with Fire

buck rider — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:41:10 +0000

With Serpine dead, the world is safe once more. At least, that’s what Valkyrie and Skulduggery think, until the notorious Baron Vengeous makes a bloody escape from prison, and dead bodies and vampires start showing up all over Ireland. With Baron Vengeous after the deadly armour of Lord Vile, and pretty ...

Derek Landy – Skulduggery Pleasant 01 – Scepter of the Ancients

buck rider — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:40:10 +0000

Stephanie’s uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that, while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn’t fiction. Pursued by evil forces intent on recovering a mysterious key, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source, the wisecracking ...

Rachel Vincent – Werecats: 05 – Shift

jolly_jumper — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:36:58 +0000

Being the first female werecat enforcer isn’t easy. Scars accumulate, but I’m stronger in so many ways. As for my personal life? It’s complicated. Choices worth making always are. Ever since my brother’s death and my father’s impeachment, it’s all I can do to prevent more blood from spilling. Now our ...

Rachel Vincent – Werecats: 04 – Prey

jolly_jumper — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:35:55 +0000

Sometimes playing cat and mouse is no game… Play? Right. My Pride is under fire from all sides, my father’s authority is in question and my lover is in exile. Which means I haven’t laid eyes on Marc’s gorgeous face in months. And with a new mother and an I-know-everything teenager ...

Rachel Vincent – Werecats: 03 – Pride

jolly_jumper — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:34:54 +0000

I’m on trial for my life. Falsely accused of infecting my human ex-boyfriend—and killing him to cover up the crime. Infecting a human is one of three capital offenses recognized by the Pride—along with murder and disclosure of our existence to a human. I’m two for three. A goner. Now we’ve discovered ...

Rachel Vincent – Werecats: 02 – Rogue

jolly_jumper — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:33:51 +0000

Okay, so cats don’t always land on their feet. I know that better than most. Since rejoining the Pride, I’ve made big decisions and even bigger mistakes: the kind paid for with innocent lives. As the first and only female enforcer, I have plenty to prove to my father, the Pride ...

Rachel Vincent – Werecats: 01 – Stray

jolly_jumper — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:32:48 +0000

I look like an all-American grad student. But I am a werecat, a shape-shifter, and I live in two worlds. Despite reservations from my family and my Pride, I escaped the pressure to continue my species and carved out a normal life for myself. Until the night a Stray attacked. I’d been ...

Suzy Welch – 10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea

buck rider — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:55:54 +0000

We all want to lead a life of our own making. But in today’s accelerated world, with its competing priorities, information overload, and confounding options, we can easily find ourselves steered by impulse, stress, or expedience. Are our decisions the right ones? Or are we being governed, time and time ...

Lara Adrian – Midnight Breed 8 – Taken by Midnight

buck rider — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:28:45 +0000

In the frozen Alaskan wilderness, former state trooper Jenna Darrow survives an unspeakable breach of body and soul. But with her narrow escape comes an even greater challenge. For strange changes are taking place within her, as she struggles to understand – and control – a new hunger. To do ...

Lara Adrian – Midnight Breed 7 – Shades of Midnight

buck rider — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:27:40 +0000

Something inhuman is stalking the frigid Alaskan wilds, leaving unspeakable carnage in its wake. For bush pilot Alexandra Maguire, the killings stir memories of a horrific event she witnessed as a child and evoke in her the inexplicable sense of otherness she has long felt within herself but never fully ...

Lara Adrian – Midnight Breed 6 – Ashes of Midnight

buck rider — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:26:34 +0000

As night falls, Claire Roth flees, driven from her home by a fiery threat that seems to come from hell itself. Then, from out of the flames and ash, a vampire warrior emerges. He is Andreas Reichen, her onetime lover, now a stranger consumed by vengeance. Caught in the cross ...