Melbourne 2006 - XVIII Commonwealth Games - Pocket Guide (Various)

Melbourne 2006 - XVIII Commonwealth Games - Pocket Guide

Various

Blurb: The must-have guide to the Commonwealth Games.

Packed full of interesting facts and figures, and colour photographs of everyone's favourite athletes and events, this pocket guide includes information on all of the Commonwealth sports, results tables to fill in the 2006 Games winners and keep, fold-outs of Commonwealth Games highlights and much, much more.

This special guidebook has everything you need to know about the Games, just in time for the XVIII Commonwealth Games! 15-26 March.

ISBN: 1741171350 (Hardback)

Year: 2005

Publisher: Explore Australia

Pages: 64 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Page on the 2006 Games

2. Wikipedia page for the Games

3. PDF Government Documents on the games

4. Page on the book

5. Order the book from McLeods Booksellers in NZ

Unspoken Truth - Star Trek: The Original Series (Margaret Wander Bonanno)

Unspoken Truth - Star Trek: The Original Series

Margaret Wander Bonanno

Blurb: A social experiment was conceived. Its goal was to breed the best, the brightest, the most malleable and most loyal soldiers to ever serve. To this end, the Romulan Empire used its own children, blinded by the belief that anything that would bring glory to the praetor was justified. And when the winds of politics changed, these children were abandoned, left to die on a world so horrifying that it was dubbed - by those who dared to cling to life - Hellguard.

One wild cild, Saavik, was rescued by Spock. He took the half-Vulcan, half-Romulan child home to his parents, knowing that if anyone could reach and rescue Saavik, it was them.

Now a Starfleet officer, Saavik has striven to honor her mentor and her Vulcan heritage. But recent events have shaken her. Left behind on Vulcan while the rest of the Enterprise crew goes to face court-martial for stealing and destroying their ship, the young science officer is adrift when two men from her past confront her. Tolek, another Hellguard survivor, tells Saavik that the survivors are being killed one-by-one and only they can discover who and why. The other, a Romulan who claims to be her father, swears it is the Vulcans who are eliminating the Hellguard survivors because they are an embarrassment to all of Vulcan, but that she has the power to stop it, by bringing down the Vulcan ambassador, Sarek.

Not knowing where to turn, not knowing whom to trust, Saavik must find her own answers, and discover who she truly is.

ISBN: 9781439102190 (Paperback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: Pocket Books

Pages: 386 (Fiction)

Links

1. Good reads page

2. Star Trek Wiki on the book

3. Buy from Amazon

4. Review of the book

5. Another review

Captain Kirk's Guide to Women (John 'Bones' Rodriguez)

Captain Kirk's Guide to Women

John 'Bones' Rodriguez

Blurb: Cassanova, Don Juan, James Bond - these are men of legendary romance, but only one man can boast that his seductive powers take him boldly where no man has gone before: James T. Kirk.

Captain Kirk's status as an interstellar stud is proven by his ability to seduce any woman, in any situation, in any part of the galaxy. From high-society princesses to unbalanced Orion slave girls, from gender-switching shape-shifters to emotional-deprived androids - they all swoon, acquiesce, and malfunction from just one kiss.

But a single question remains in the minds of millions: How does he do it?

Captain Kirk's Guide to Women is the first book to answer this question by probing deeply into Kirk's character, charisma, and seductive techniques, making it possible for any man to model himself after the Casanova of the Cosmos. It is also the only warp-powered romance manual written with enough wit, charm, and humor to help the female of the species make first contact.

Employing meticulous research, along with fanatic-level detail and the kind of pointy-eared logic even a Vulcan would find fascinating, Captain Kirk's Guide to Women shows you how to be as effective as Captain Kirk.

ISBN: 9781416543152 (Paperback)

Year: 2008

Publisher: Pocket Books

Pages: 86 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Buy the e-book

3. Goodreads page for the book

4. Google books page

5. Review of the book

Voyages of Imagination - The Star Trek Fiction Companion (Jeff Ayers)

Voyages of Imagination - The Star Trek Fiction Companion

Jeff Ayers

Blurb: Through four decades, five television series comprising over seven hundred episodes, ten feature films, and an animated series, fandom's thirst for more Star Trek stories has been unquenchable. From the earliest short-story adaptions by James Blish in the 1960s, followed by the first original Star Trek novels during the seventies, and on throughout the eighties, nineties, and into the twenty-first century, fiction has offered an unparalleled expansion of the rich Star Trek tapestry. But what is it that makes these books such a powerfully attractive creative outlet to some and a compelling way to experience the Star Trek mythos anew to others?

Voyages of Imagination takes a look back on he first forty years of professionally published Star Trek fiction, revealing the personalities and sensibilities of many of the novels' imaginative contributors and offering an unprecedented glimpse into the creative processes, the growing pains, the risks, the innovations, the missteps, and the great strides taken in the books. Author Jeff Ayers has immersed himself in nearly six hundred books and interviewed more than three hundred authors and editors in order to compile this definitive guide to the history and evolution of an incomparable publishing phenomenon. Fully illustrated with the covers of every book included herein, Voyages of Imagination is indexed by title and author, features a comprehensive timeline, and is a must-have for every fan.

ISBN: 9781416503491 (Paperback)

Year: 2006

Publisher: Pocket Books

Pages: 782 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Author's official site

3. Google books page

4. Buy from the Star Trek store

5. Wiki on the book

Captain's Blood - Star Trek (William Shatner with Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens)

Captain's Blood - Star Trek

William Shatner with Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens

Blurb: When Spock is publicly assassinated at a Romulan peace rally, Starfleet and the Federation are unable to search for the criminals responsible without triggering an intergalactic war. It falls to James T. Kirk, now retired, to investigate his friend's murder. Given clandestine assistance by Captain Will Riker of the Starship Titan, and accompanied by good friend Jean-Luc Picard, Kirk travels to Romulus as a civilian, along with his five-year-old child, Joseph. On the Romulan world Remus, Kirk unexpectedly encounters an alluring enemy from his past as Picard and he discover that Spock's apparent murder hides an even deeper mystery, literally reaching beyond the limits of the galaxy.

Trapped on an alien world on the eve of a Romulan civil war that could drag the entire galaxy into the conflict, Kirk discovers a hidden Reman fortress. There, he learns of the true threat facing the Romulans, and is forced into the heartrending realisation that for peace to prevail, he must sacrifice the freedom of his son, whose very blood holds a staggering secret.

ISBN: 0671021303 (Paperback)

Year: 2003

Publisher: Pocket Books

Pages: 333 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page on the co-authors

2. Buy the ebook from Simon and Schuster

3. Wikipedia page for the book

4. Buy from Amazon

5. Google books page

The Stallion (Harold Robbins)

The Stallion

Harold Robbins

Blurb: Continuing the phenomenal story in The Betsy, The Stallion reintroduces the Hardeman family and the cut-throat world of their vast automobile empire, where the stakes are high and everyman, and woman, is a gambler.

Loren Hardeman, known as 'Number One', is gradually transferring control of Bethlehem Motors to his grandson, Loren Hardeman III - a man possessed with his father's cunning, but sadly lacking in his ability to go for the kill. So when Angelo Perino, an outsider previously nurtured by 'Number One', threatens the position held by Hardeman III, what ensues is a battle of wills in which integrity takes a backseat to animal instinct, and in which there can only be one winner.

Bursting with huge ingredients of lust, greed, sex and intrigue - and a plot full of twists and double-crosses - this is Harold Robbins at his sizzling best.

ISBN: 9781849835404 (Paperback)

Year: 1996

Publisher: Pocket Books

Pages: 364 (Fiction)

Links

1. Google books page

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Author's Wikipedia page

4. Review of the book

5. Another review

A Time to Sow - Star Trek (Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore)

A Time to Sow - Star Trek

Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore

Blurb: On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to Counselor Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher's new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the Starship Enterprise has never been told.

Until now.

More than two centuries ago, the Dokaalan sent an unmanned probe into the void, bearing a distress call for anyone who could save their doomed world. But the message reached Federation space too late to save the planet or its people. Or so it was believed...

Generations later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-E are stunned to discover the last of the Dokaalan - now only a colony, fighting to stay alive in a decrepit asteroid mining complex. Although their home planet was destroyed long ago, the survivors hope to someday transform a nearby planet into a new home for their people. But bitter divisions exist among the Dokaalan, sowing seeds of sabotage and terrorism - and placing Picard and the Enterprise in the middle of an escalating crisis that can only lead to total destruction!

ISBN: 0743482999 (Paperback)

Year: 2004

Publisher: Pocket Books

Pages: 316 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for book

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Wiki for the book

4. Review of the book

5. Another review

Orion's Hounds (Star Trek: TITAN) (Christopher L. Bennett)

Orion's Hounds (Star Trek: TITAN)

Christopher L. Bennett

Blurb: As the U.S.S. Titan ventures beyond the outermost reaches of known space, the telepaths in her crew - including Diplomatic Officer Deanna Troi - are overwhelmed by an alien cry of distress, leading the ship to the scene of a shocking act of carnage: a civilisation of interstellar 'whalers' preying upon and exploiting a familiar species of sentient spaceborne giants.

Appalled but reluctant to rush to judgment, Captain William Riker and his crew investigate, discovering a cosmic spawning ground in a region of active star formation - the ecosystem for a bewildering array of diverse but similarly vast life-forms. While attempting to negotiate an end to the victimisation of these creatures, Riker's crew inadvertently grants them the means to defeat their hunters' purpose... only to learn that things are not exactly as they seem.

ISBN: 9781416509509 (Paperback)

Year: 2006

Publisher: Pocket Books

Pages: 379 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Publisher's page for the book

3. Review of the book

4. Annotations of the book

5. Wiki page on the book

The Rugrats Movie: A Novelization (Cathy East Dubowski and Mark Dubowski)

The Rugrats Movie: A Novelization

Cathy East Dubowski and Mark Dubowski

Blurb: Things will never be the same...

While the growed-ups at the baby shower talk about the baby that Stu and Didi Pickles are expecting, Tommy Pickles, his friends Chuckie, Phil and Lil, and Angelica go through the baby presents looking for Tommy's new baby sister. After all, Angelica said that babies are 'a gift from Bob.' But Bob isn't at the party, and neither is Tommy's sister.

The babies have more luck when they go to the hopsical and find it's a baby store. Tommy proudly meets his sister, only to find out that she is a boy named Dil.

Baby Dil is a big pain. He cries all the time and messes up everything. Tommy won't let Phil and Lil take Dil back to the baby store, but before the babies know it, they're on the way to a great adventure in Stu's latest invention: the Reptar Wagon.

While Stu and Didi desperately search for Dil and the babies, Tommy tries to take responsibility for his little brother. But the growed-ups better find the babies soon, because Lil and Phil are about to trade Dil for a baby monkey...

ISBN: 0671021060 (Paperback)

Year: 1998

Publisher: Pocket Books

Pages: 137 (Fiction)

Links

1. Good reads page

2. Wikipedia page for the film of the same name

3. Google books page

4. More books based on the Rugrats Movie

5. Buy from Amazon

Blaze (Stephen King / Richard Bachman)

Blaze

Richard Bachman / Stephen King

Blurb: Once upon a time, a fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 ('cancer of the pseudonym') but this last gripping Bachman novel resurfaced after being hidden away for decades - an unforgettable crime story tinged with sadness and suspense.

Clayton Blaisdell, Jr., was always a small-time delinquent. None too bright either, thanks to the beatings he got as a kid. Then Blaze met George Rackley, a seasoned pro with a hundred cons and one big idea. The kidnapping should go off without a hitch, with George as the brains behind their dangerous scheme. But there's only one problem: by the time the deal goes down, Blaze's partner in crime is dead. Or is he?

ISBN: 9781416555049 (Paperback)

Year: 2007

Publisher: Pocket Books

Pages: 373 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the book

2. Author's page for the novel

3. Google books page

4. Review of the book

5. Buy from Amazon

Disney's The Lion King: Pocket Story (Various)

Disney's The Lion King: Pocket Story

Various

Blurb: Run away, Simba. Run away and never return.

When Simba, a lion cub prince, is banished from Pride Rock, he soon befriends Pumbaa, a warthog, and Timon, a meerkat. But will Simba return home and become king? Find out in this amazing adventure.

ISBN: 9781407576442 (Paperback)

Year: 2009

Publisher: Parragon

Pages: 24 (Fiction)

Links

1. Broadway tickets for The Lion King

2. Wikipedia page for the film

3. IMDB for the film

4. Trailer for the 3D re-release of the film

5. Review of the film

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (Dave Stern)

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Dave Stern

Blurb: The Power... An ancient relic called the All Seeing Eye that grants the owner the ultimate power in the universe. A power so immense that those who possess it could rule the world.

The Illuminati... A secret brotherhood hell-bent on finding the All Seeing Eye and taking over the world. A sinister band of men who will stop at nothing to fulfil their diabolical plot.

The Hero... Lara Croft! The greatest tomb-raiding high-flying adventurer of all time, who just so happens to hold the key to finding the All Seeing Eye.

Through the living jungles of Cambodia to the frozen wasteland of Siberia, Lara Croft takes you on her greatest adventure.

The clock is ticking and time is running out...

ISBN: 0743424298 (Paperback)

Year: 2001

Publisher: Pocket Books

Pages: 343 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Good reads page

3. IMDB for film the book is based on

4. Wikipedia page for the film

5. Rotten Tomatoes Page for the film

From Pieces To Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens (Curtis James Jackson aka 50 Cent)

From Pieces To Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside

Curtis James Jackson aka 50 Cent

Blurb: 'That's what this book is about - the good times and the bad times. I wrote this book to explain the world I come from. This is why I say the rhymes that I say. This is what happened when I was trying to get rich before I died in Southside Queens.'

From Pieces To Weight is a violent and introspective memoir that reveals not only 50's story but the story of a generation of youth faced with hard choices and very few options. A tale of sacrifice, transformation and redemption, it is also one of hope, determination and the power of self. Told in 50's own unique voice, the narrative drips with the raw insight, street wisdom and his struggle to survive at all costs... and behold the American Dream.

ISBN: 0743495837 (Paperback)

Year: 2005

Publisher: Pocket Books

Pages: 223 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. MTV's look at the book

2. Google books page

3. Buy from Amazon

4. Publisher's page of the book

5. Humorous look at the book

Cut and Run: CSI Miami (Donn Cortez)

Cut and Run: CSI Miami

Don Cortez

Blurb: By air, sea, and land the members of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab are called out. In a field outside the everglades a ballon has just set down; the lone man inside the basket is dead - an apparent suicide. A yacht riddled with bullets limps into the Port of Miami; only a gravely wounded hijacker survives, confessing that their are drugs somewhere on board, but he can't find them. A local journalist, looking to break out of the rat race with a novel based on the people he covers on his beat, is found dead.

In the yacht's gallery is a record-setting sunfish that seems to be the key piece of evidence to just what was being smuggled on the shop, yet the lab is stumped when they discover no more than the normal parasites infesting the fish. A raunchy video of a citrus heiress having sex in a public place gives her the motive to kill the journalist-turned-novelist, but she has an alibi. All small pieces of the puzzles that Horatio Caine and the member of his team have to unravel to find out why all these people were killed. Before it is over the members of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab are caught up in the intrigue that reaches to the heart of Castro's Cuba.

ISBN: 9781847390646 (Paperback)

Year: 2008

Publisher: Pocket Books

Pages: 345 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Good reads page

3. Publisher's page of the book

4. Fan wiki of the book and TV series

5. Urban dictionary definition for Horatio

Planet X - Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Men (Michael Jan Friedman)

Planet X - Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Men

Michael Jan Friedman

Blurb: On the planet Xhaldia, ordinary men and women are mutating into bizarre creatures with extraordinary powers. But is this a momentous evolutionary leap or an unparalleled catastrophe? The very fabric of Xhaldian society is threatened as fear and prejudice divide the transformed from their own kin.

Dispatched to cope with the growing crisis, Captain Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise receive some unexpected visitors from another reality, in the form of a group of mutant heroes known as the uncanny X-Men. Storm, leader of the team, offers her help in resolving a situation that is agonisingly similar to the human/mutant conflicts of their own time and space.

But when hostile aliens appear in orbit around Xhaldia to try and abduct the transformed for use as superpowered weapons in an attack on the Federation, even the combined forces of the crew of Starfleet and the X-Men may be unable to prevent an inferno of death and destruction.

Starfleet's finest crew and Earth's greatest mutant heroes will need all their powers and abilities to save Xhaldian people and stop a deadly threat to the Federation.

ISBN: 9780671019167 (Paperback)

Year: 1998

Publisher: Pocket Books

Pages: 265 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Author's Wikipedia page

3. Goodreads page for the book

4. Review of the book

5. Fiction db page

Pokemon Pokedex: Official Pocket Version (Michael Ryan)

Pokemon Pokedex: Official Pocket Version

Edited by Michael Ryan

Blurb: Keep all the Pokemon with you all the time!

The Official Pokemon Pocket Pokedex has details on the 493 Pokemon currently available, all in a handy size that can go with you anywhere!

1. -Detailed charts list all the Battle, Level-Up, TM & HM, Move Maniac, BP, and Egg Moves for all 493 Pokemon.
2. - All the details are updated for Pokemon HeartGold and Pokemon SoulSilver Versions.
3. - Portable size lets you take the book everywhere you take the game. Never be without the information every Trainer should know!

ISBN: 9780307469489 (Paperback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: The Pokemon Company

Pages: 520 (Fiction)

Links

1. Official Pokemon site

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Online Pokedex

4. Fan made Pokedex

5. List of Pokemon on Wikipedia