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Steven Cedrone
10-17-2003, 09:11 PM
lost boy lost girl (http://12.149.108.82/authenticate.asp?Id=113&book=LBLG354)
by Peter Straub
"A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son—beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill—vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark’s inexplicable absence feels like a second death. After his sister-in-law’s funeral, Tim searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help him unravel this mystery of death and disappearance. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother’s suicide, Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house on Michigan Street whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain. With lost boy lost girl, Peter Straub affirms once again that he is the master of literary horror."

The Vor Game (http://12.149.108.82/authenticate.asp?Id=191&book=TVG1278)
by Lois McMaster Bujold
"Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Barrayaran Military Academy with high expectations of ship command, but is disappointed with an assignment as meteorologist to Lazkowski Base, an arctic training camp. His tenure in the windy, snow-covered north is cut short when Miles narrowly averts a massacre between the trigger-happy base commander and mutinous recruits. After a brief stay under 'house arrest', Miles is re-assigned to investigate a suspicious military build-up near a wormhole nexus. Reviving his undercover persona as mercenary Admiral Miles Naismith, his routine information-gathering duty expands to a rescue mission when the Emperor of Barrayar disappears during a political conference on a nearby space station. Miles must use his considerable negotiating skills to avoid a showdown between competing powers for control of the wormhole, find the Emperor... and watch his back for the arctic base commander seeking bloody vengeance."

The Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print and Sell Your Own Book (http://12.149.108.82/authenticate.asp?Id=1170&book=TSPM341)
by Dan Poynter
"The Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print and Sell Your Own Book shows the potential writer how to speed write a book; copyright it; bypass publishers; set up a book publishing company; promote books with book reviews, book signings, feature articles and radio/TV interviews; get a book into bookstores, specialty stores, catalogs and on the Web; and make spin-offs of a book. Nearly every one wants to write a book. Most people have the ability, some have the drive, but few have the organization. Therefore, the greatest need is for a simple system, a road map. The basic plan in this book will not only provide you with direction, it will promote the needed drive and expose abilities you never thought existed. Dan Poynter reveals to you the secrets of his own successful writing, production and promotion."

If the links don't work, go here... (http://www.microsoft.com/reader/promotions/free_shop.asp)

Steve

PetiteFlower
10-17-2003, 11:03 PM
Woot :) Thanks Steve!

That first one looks good, gonna have to grab that when I get home.

JimDantin
10-18-2003, 01:18 AM
To read it, you have to upgrade reader AGAIN!!!

JimDantin
10-18-2003, 01:31 AM
Even after reactivating I can't read them!

PetiteFlower
10-18-2003, 01:42 AM
Heh, not if you convert them to another format....read some other posts in this forum :)

karen
10-18-2003, 01:43 AM
I didn't have to reactivate....

davidspalding
10-18-2003, 01:55 AM
Something wierd goin' on. Ever since the last "reactivation requirement," some people have had to, others have not. I haven't (on my pc). ... Something's afoot.

dh
10-18-2003, 02:08 AM
The downloads have been fine for me since the last update and activation.

Thanks to Microsoft I'm getting to read types of book that I'd never even considered before. Cheers Bill :way to go:

JimDantin
10-18-2003, 02:42 AM
I ended up going through the whole "activate" routine -- the ActiveX routine that checks your activation ("Update now!" link) did not work.

After reactivating, the "convert" utility started working again.

What a confusing and frustrating mess!

Steven Cedrone
10-18-2003, 05:02 AM
What a confusing and frustrating mess!

Remember: TANSTAAFL... :lol:

Steve