In this practical yet entertaining work, the Professor shows how to track down anything that’s been misplaced. Keys, cash, documents, jewelry, household items—all can be located with ease, using his method.
HOW TO FIND LOST OBJECTS takes the reader on a comprehensive tour of the art of finding. You’ll learn about:
- the Three C’s
- Pocket Gobble
- the Camouflage Effect
- Saint Anthony
- Grandma’s Principle
- hrönir
- the Eureka Zone
- Domestic Drift
- the Cool Once-over
- the Basic Blunder
- the Valley of Lost Things
- phantom possessions
Plus Freud on why we misplace things…Sherlock Holmes and the Three C’s…a photo-fable (“Betsy Finds Her Keys”)…advice on lost luggage…instructions for making a Eureka-Stik…and more. For anyone who regularly—or even occasionally—misplaces things, Professor Solomon’s book will prove invaluable.
“his seminal work”
—London Times
“How to find anything you’ve lost…a rib-tickling new book.”
—Weekly World News
(1 votes, average: 1 out of 10)
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When a pig named Pig discovers a magic box able to make twenty-seven copies of anything you throw in it, his life is turned upside down with excitement! But as word spreads about his new toy, he finds it’s not as easy as it seems to be in charge of infinite possibilities, and he maybe overreacts just a smidge. Of course, it doesn’t help to have a crazy squirrel around, dancing ballet in his underwear. That never made anyone stay calm.
“The Pig and the Box” is a modern fable that teaches kids and adults alike that sharing is always a good idea.
“Who knew that barnyard animals would have so much to teach us about the evils of Digital Rights Management?”
— Cory Doctorow (Editor, Boing Boing; author of “Little Brother“)
PDF free, ePub $2.99
33 pages
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Sarah finds herself clinging for life aboard a small boat that is being tossed about by a raging storm in the Flores Sea. Sarah is an attractive young lady and a leading authority on the study of the great apes but she is questioning her own sanity for having taken this journey. This is one of many trips Sarah has made to assist her academic mentor but this trip takes a decidedly wrong turn when the boat’s engine dies forcing her and her guides to seek shelter on a small, uncharted island in the Flores Sea.
As the guides repair the motor of their stranded boat, Sarah wanders off from the beach, heading to the woods to observe the local bird population. While she is sitting in the woods she suddenly feels as if she is being watched. Sarah is not easily scared, since she has spent many days alone in the wild while observing her beloved chimps and gorillas. But this experience is entirely different to her and she begins to feels a strange presence closing in about her. Then she actually hears the presence! Strange human-like voices, much like the mumbling’s of the damned, begin to fill her ears coming from all directions. Sarah is terrified and paralyzed with fear as they begin to surround her. In the distance Sarah can hear the guides frantically searching for her but they are too late to rescue…
For more about the Novel and upcoming Trilogy please visit www.FloresGirl.com
(1 votes, average: 10 out of 10)
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It’s a little over a month until this year’s Read an E-Book Week kicks off. The main aim is to introduce as many new people as possible to ebooks and hope they have a really positive experience. One of the keys to this is to make it as easy as possible to download and view an ebook.
The two most confusing aspects to ebooks are:
- DRM restrictions and the arcane techniques used to enforce them. Good luck explaining this without putting your listener to sleep or evoking the response ‘So why would I want to put up with all that when I can just go and buy a paperback or borrow a book from the library?’
- The multitude of formats. Although I’m not a big fan of PDF when it comes to ebooks, PDF does have the advantages of being ubiquitous (just about everyone has Adobe Reader installed) and providing great screen rendering of text. The other format that also works well is good old HTML.
If you’re looking to promote ebooks friends, especially those who are not particularly technically literate, make sure you take some time to show them how to download and read an ebook on their device of choice.
For existing ebook converts, Read an E-Book Week provides a great opportunity to pick up some excellent freebies. To get an idea of what’s in store, have a look at the partners page.
When I first started hunting for DRM-free ebooks to announce on this site a few months ago, I stumbled upon last year’s Read an E-Book Week site. This provided a number of free ebooks and links to independent authors who publish their works DRM-free.
This year’s site looks really professional and is well laid out and easy to navigate. The only ambiguity I noticed was the Readers menu - is that readers as in people who read or as in ebook reading devices (the latter it turns out). Steve Jordan, an independent author who’s published numerous DRM-free ebooks put the together site and deserves congratulations for a great job.
Rita Y. Toews is the other partner behind Read an E-Book Week. Rita is the co-author of 3 award winning ebooks, including The Centurion announced here on eBooks Just Published.
If you want to help out and promote Read an E-Book Week, then there are a number of great banners you can use on your site.
I’m looking forward to the week of March 8-14th. It’s going to be an exciting week for the ebook community!
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“The Way of the Bow” relates the story of Tetsuya, the best archer of the country, who conveys his teachings to a boy in his village. Using the metaphor of archery the author leads us through several essential thoughts : our daily efforts and work, how to overcome difficulties, steadfastness, and courage to take risky decisions.
‘Tetsuya.’
The boy looked at the stranger, startled.
‘No one in this city has ever seen Tetsuya holding a bow,’ he replied. ‘Everyone here knows him as a carpenter.’
‘Maybe he gave up, maybe he lost his courage, that doesn’t matter to me,’ insisted the stranger. ‘But he cannot be considered to be the best archer in the country if he has abandoned his art. That’s why I’ve been travelling all these days, in order to challenge him and put an end to a reputation he no longer deserves.’
The boy saw there was no point in arguing; it was best to take the man to the carpenter’s shop so that he could see with his own eyes that he was mistaken.
Tetsuya was in the workshop at the back of his house. He turned to see who had come in, but his smile froze when his eyes fell on the long bag that the stranger was carrying.
‘It’s exactly what you think it is,’ said the new arrival. ‘I did not come here to humiliate or to provoke the man who has become a legend. I would simply like to prove that, after all my years of practice, I have managed to reach perfection.’
– Excerpt
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 10)
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This e-book contains various guerilla filmmaking and marketing secrets I discovered and experimented with while working on “Amnesia.” This book is not intended to be used as a filmmaker’s Bible. Rather, I hope to motivate those who read this book to “think out-of-the-box” and create their first film, no matter what the odds.
As a mix between a memoir of my experiences and a “cheat sheet” of how to write, produce, direct, and market a film project within a tight budget, this e-book will permanently be treated as a work-in-progress. Some sections such as, “How to write a business plan for a feature film” will be added in the future. I believe that many people have incredible stories to tell. If they read this book and are inspired, we can revolutionize filmmaking forever by making the
STORY THE # 1 PRIORITY.
While writing this, I realize that not only guerrilla filmmakers, but anyone pursuing filmmaking or even those already in the business could benefit from my experiences.
– author, filmmaker John W. Bosley
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Who do you turn to? You!
There is little room for the status quo or traditional tactics as business and organizations strive for authentic leadership in these challenging times, and beyond. More than ever before, companies will rely on the media—mainstream and the fast-evolving online New Media of Web 2.0—as they seek to build brand awareness, leadership positioning, new opportunities to engage in trust-building conversations with customers and stakeholders, and, ultimately, better financial performance, sales and results.
- Do you want news of your organization to be heard above the competitive racket?
- Do you want to capture the media’s attention when the time is right?
- Do you want media coverage that translates directly into enhanced reputation, shareholder value and greater sales?
- Do you want your messages and vision to be reported clearly and accurately?
- Do you want to connect, engage and have dialogue with your stakeholders, prospects, customers, employees and friends?
- Do you, as an executive, want to be accurately quoted by the media in a way that boosts your own value and visibility?
Then, read on. But be prepared to consider bold new directions.
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In this rich and engrossing tale, Vonda N. McIntyre proves once again that her plotting and mastery of language are among the best in the business. The Moon and the Sun, which won the 1997 Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is the story of Marie-Josèphe, a young lady in the court of Louis XIV. When her brother Yves returns from a naturalist voyage with two sea monsters (one live, one dead), Marie-Josèphe is caught up in a battle of wills involving the fate of the living creature. The king intends to test whether the sea monster holds the secrets of immortality, but Marie-Josèphe knows the creature to be an intelligent, lonely being who yearns only to be set free. In a monumental test of the limits of patience and love, Marie-Josèphe defies the will of the king, her brother, and the pope in defense of what she knows is right, at any cost. McIntyre’s atmospheric prose envelops the reader in a fully realized world–sights, smells, and sounds are described in great detail. The author completely represents the Sun King’s court at Versailles–her research for the book must have been quite extensive. The blend of history, science, and fantasy makes for a book you will want to gulp down.
–Therese Littleton
“Inspired by tales of ancient sea-monsters, McIntyre spins a marvelous alternative-history fable about greed and goodness, power and pathos set at the 17th century court of Louis XIV, France’s glittering Sun King…. McIntyre vividly re-creates a Versailles poised on the cusp between alchemy and modern science. Her imaginings enliven her history with wonder, but, as in the best fantasy, they serve less to dazzle by their inventiveness than to illuminate brilliantly real-world truths — here, humanity’s responses, base and noble, when confronting the unknown.” — Publishers Weekly
“The finest alternate history ever, lighthearted and wise — a gorgeous visit to the court of the Sun King, a marvelous fireworks illumination of human history, human nature, and the nature of the people who live in the sea — a luminous, radiant novel.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Susie Brooks is a nineteen-year-old dance teacher whose main stability through an uncertain childhood was her best friend, Evan Scott, a guitarist with a flair for the business world. Evan’s other best friend is Duncan O’Neil, also a guitarist, but with a flair for attracting women’s attention while hiding his past. When Duncan moves into Evan’s world, he changes the dynamics not only within the band, but within Susie and Evan’s relationship. The three friends find themselves struggling with love, loss, and secret passions during the turbulent Seventies. “A Different Drummer” is the first of a series of four.
Rehearsal assembles an ensemble cast to tell the story of a rock band, Raucous, that comes of age in the 1970’s. The main plot focuses on the relationship between Evan, Susie, and Duncan. Ultimately, Susie pursues a relationship with Duncan, leaving Evan, her childhood friend, to wonder where he fits into her life. There are various subplots involving Kate and Mike, and the band’s adventures on the road as an opening act for an established band.
Hunsaker tells an engrossing tale that takes the reader through every facet of the character’s lives. There are numerous references to the 1970’s that evoke the era. The characterization is “spot on,” but the pacing slows the reader down. A satisfying ending leaves the reader looking forward to the sequel.
– Steph
(2 votes, average: 10 out of 10)
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An historical novel originally published by Villard to rave reviews, BLACK BODY is the story of a white witch, Alba, and her struggles to survive 18th-century English society.
BLACK BODY is a sweeping tale of good and evil, and the captivating woman intimately acquainted with both. Set in England and Wales, the story is told in the form of testimony given by an imprisoned witch who must reveal all the secrets of her race or be burned and become a “black body.” Both literary fiction and convincing fantasy, BLACK BODY is as compelling as magic, as touching as a daughter’s love.
Alba is the rarest example of her race: the invert or white witch. An anomaly to her equally gentle but unsightly sisters on Man’s Isle because of her uncommon beauty, Alba alone is able to pass as a “sinner”—as witches refer to normal humans—and to excite the desire of mortal men. After her mother is executed for witchcraft, Alba becomes the ward of a sinner, Lady Amanda Rathel, who brings the girl to London and instructs her in the ways and wiles of society. Lady Amanda’s design for Alba is a consummate act of revenge. Appreciating that sexual contact between this witch and a male sinner can be fatal to the latter, Rathel plans on raising Alba as a lady, then marrying her off to Eric Denton, handsome son of a man who jilted Amanda. During the next several years, in which she survives not only Rathel’s stratagems but the British constabulary and her own prejudice against sinners, Alba comes to love Eric deeply, even though she can only satisfy his passion at an unspeakable price.
“BLACK BODY is hypnotic, eerie, erotic. An exploration into the very bedrock of sense and sexual instinct, of human good and evil, it compels the reader’s admiration and fascination. H. C. Turk possesses the touch of a poet and the skill of a shaman. He has Barbara Tuchman’s ability to bring the historical past leaping to life, and H. G. Wells’ to articulate the mysterious realms of possibility that exist enfolded in the familiar. He has taken a theme that in its beauty will recall Hans Andersen’s LITTLE MERMAID and in its terror Carl Dreyer’s DAY OF WRATH, and has ingeniously, masterfully rooted it in the smell and buzz of the world we know. The book is not only a virtuoso, utterly satisfying achievement, but a blood-thumping good story.”
– Edward Stewart (author of PRIVILEGED LIVES, & ARIANA)
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Why is a young Westerner living in a seedy Tokyo apartment with a crew of crazed cultists? To end the world, of course…
“Cyberpunk meets a Tarantino Universe where every moment is filled with non-stop action and plot twists.”
The premise of Marc Horne’s Tokyo Zero: “I want to end the human race. But not because I don’t like it. I just have a better idea.”
On this wildly amusing romp down a Vonnegut-like rabbit hole, you don’t learn this until you’re 93 percent of the way through the novel (commercial POD title from Amazon; free e-book from Horne and the multiformat Manybooks.net).
Originally bearing the far-superior title of My Tokyo Death Cult, the book is very loosely based on 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. The “fulcrum of human history” is a plot to eliminate the human race by means of a device a device that “strongly resembles a drinking bird toy.” To get there, you cruise wildly imaginative waters where would-be fascist billionaires consort with female assassins, mothers are killed by the Khmer Rouge, plastic surgeons manipulate human DNA, bearded cult leaders levitate on the Tokyo subway, and a superpowerful artificial intelligence employs an irony filter.
Read the entire review
– Court Merrigan, TeleRead.org
(2 votes, average: 8 out of 10)
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Chris Thomas is an aspiring writer trying his best to make it, a thing hard enough to do with a failing economy, the constant threat of terrorism, and a chaotic war bristling overseas. He thinks life simply couldn’t get any worse. But things can, and do, get worse. They always get worse. He—and the rest of the world—is quickly, and abruptly sucked into a thing of ancient evils hiding behind the modern horrors of the world’s greatest scientific minds. A thing shrouded in the enigmatic mysteries of a government agency keeping its secrets quiet even as their pet project pulls the world toward an ending no one expected, least of all them. Chris is faced with the duties and love of family, and a hellish journey home. But it is, he resolves, a thing he must do. If the world is about to end, he doesn’t want to face it alone. In the end Chris finds the story he knows he was born to write, but in the face of writing it, he is no longer sure he wants to live long enough to see it through.
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Colonization is the theme of this exciting, complex page-turner that provides a provocative and entertaining look at Thoreau’s classic eco-text Walden. Eccentric billionaire Jack Winter has bought the planet Beekman’s Pea, renamed it Walden, and created a utopia in which members renounce the technologies of human civilization. Marginalized by these newcomers, the planet’s original inhabitants are resisting the colony’s dominance by setting fires to Walden’s artificial ecology. A member of Walden, Prosper Gregory Leung is a veteran firefighter who believes in protecting Winter’s utopian vision, but when he is wounded, he begins to learn of the terrible price that the people of Walden are paying for their paradise. Interwoven with themes of environmental responsibility, political struggle, and courage, this adventure novel nimbly combines political and social relevance with a flawless and gripping narrative from a veteran science fiction author.
I read this short novel on a long AMTRAK trip and imagine my surprise when part of the story took place on . . . a train! The setting is a planet that has been turned into a social experiment where the residents live in the sort of simple, utopian, agrarian society advocated by Henry David Thoreau. Unfortunately, their ideal world has displaced the planet’s original residents, the Pukpuks, who retaliate by setting fires in the forests planted by the utopians.
The science fiction element of the novel felt subtle and as a reader I was instead drawn in by the character of Spur, a firefighter wounded while battling the fires, and the rural community that could be anyone’s hometown. This is very much a novel about a damaged man trying to do the right thing, with a good mix of humor, action and thought-provoking moral questions that mirror those of our own 21st century world.
Good stuff. And who knew Thoreau was so fascinated by fire?
–David Healey
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I feel better than I have in days. I want to make bumper stickers for politicians and gay rights advocates. They’ll read “My other pro-tolerance message is also condescending.”
I want to destroy something.
I’m tired of the moral high ground. We’ve already got more than our share of gay Gandhis. We need a General Patton.
No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
I feel the way bank robbers must feel just before they go out on that last big job that ends up getting them all killed.
That is to say, optimistic.
- from “Lockpick Pornography”
It’s impossible to talk about a book like Joey Comeau’s Lockpick Pornography without first considering the way things like terror, gender, family values, and even the publishing industry are currently constructed, because every page in this grenade of a novel is written to blow them to bits. Everything is fair game to be smashed and reconstituted, from the boundaries of gender to the proper way to handle a closed door.
This tiny spitfire also manages in turn to be funny, awkward and tender, all strung together with explicit, cover-your-kid’s-eyes sex and violence.
-junk magazine
(3 votes, average: 9.33 out of 10)
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A few centuries into the future, not much has changed about the basic characteristic of civilization, which is incompetence and boorishness. Wishing to end the world, the angels are left to their own devices by a God more concerned with new prototypes of bigger boobs for the next universe. Ramses, obsessed with hamster love, is selected to be the prophet of doom in a travesty of a selection process and leads humanity after much travail to Heaven. Which, as matters turn out, has been somewhat overrated. And the mysterious intergalactic race of banjo players flees on.
Josef Assad’s novel should be the next Big Thing. Think Chuck Palahniuck meets Thomas Pynchon meets Douglas Adams. And all of it - or so the voices in my head seem to tell me - told in the familiar voice of Monty Python’s. On crack.
To be taken in small doses only - there’s so much stuff going on. And yes, some of the puns are not as funny as the author thinks, but some are outright brilliant.
and footnotes! read the footnotes!
mandaya
(1 votes, average: 9 out of 10)
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Finding Free eBooks is a site similar to eBooks Just Published, except that it announces complete free (free as in beer) ebooks. A few are limited time offers so you need to check the site regularly. Most of the ebooks listed are DRM-free but not all.
Finding Free eBooks has been running since November 2008 and has already built up a good collection of free ebooks. Well worth a visit and a useful addition to your RSS feed.
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