The Upgrade

Carr, Paul

Weidenfeld &Nicholson

Imagine an enormous, breathtaking virtual world to explore, where land can be bought for less than a dollar and new construction is limited only by your imagination. An online tourist destination where you can shop for virtual designer clothes in a shopping mall atop a live volcano, teleport to an underwater gig by U2, before taking a new friend back to your personal spaceship for virtual coffee or...well, you get the idea. The Unofficial Tourists' Guide to Second Life is a fast, fun guidebook that introduces first-time visitors to the endless wonders offered by this exciting and rapidly developing online world. All of Second Life is here, including:
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<li>The Essentials. What to wear and how to behave.</li>
<li>The People. Finding likeminded souls—or soulmates.</li>
<li>The Major Destinations. Must-see tourist hotspots, shops, and shows.</li>
<li>Shopping and Nightlife. A guide to the lively virtual shopping scene, and all manner of debauchery.</li>
<li>For Entrepreneurs. How to buy land or start a Second Life business.</li>
</ul>

The Unofficial Tourists' Guide to Second Life

Computers & Technology

Pond, Graham

Games & Strategy Guides

St. Martin's: Griffin

STONE'S JUSTICES' MANUAL 2008 (THREE VOLUME SET)

BUTTERWORTHS LAW

Candi Moran is in trouble. Vince La Salle, a Miami loan shark, wants her dead because she knows too much about his secret in the Caribbean. Candi is shot by one of La Salle's men and turns to Sam Mackenzie for help. Sam, who is good with a gun, takes on the job, but he soon learns that Candi left out some dangerous details as he unravels La Salle's sordid past. La Salle is involved in a high-stakes project in the Caribbean, but where he's getting his money is the big mystery. Sam dodges bullets, missiles, karate kicks, and sharks. He gets help from an associate, John Templeton Smith III (J.T.), but Sam worries that J.T.'s greed might get them both killed as they navigate a serpentine trail of assassins, con artists and deadly financiers.

Long Way Down (Sam Mackenzie Thrillers)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Jack Craft is a con man. When he sells a Key West resort he doesn't own to a trio of crooks, the deal turns sour and he calls Sam Mackenzie for help. By the time Sam arrives, Jack is gone, and even the bad guys are in the dark. Delray Jinks is pretty unhappy about being swindled on the resort. Sam knows him from their past days in clandestine government work, and knows what he'll do if he doesn't get his money back. A fortuneteller, prescription drug dealers, and the mob, are all after a piece of the action. Mona Miles, a beautiful TV reporter, wants the big story, but her relationship with Sam puts her in the line of fire. As Sam unravels a deadly trail that leads to Grand Cayman, and back, he learns that Jack's resort scam is just the beginning of the con.

The Cayman Switch (Sam Mackenzie Thrillers)

Review\n"Bad Way Out is comparable to riding a thrilling rollercoaster in the dark! Sit down, buckle up and hang on for your life because you have no idea which way the plot will turn. I didn't want to get off this ride. When the story was over I wanted to either ride it again or read another one of Paul Carr's books. Fortunately for me, Bad Way Out is the newest release in the latest Sam Mackenzie thrillers by Paul Carr. The novel was easily a standalone book and I, for one, can't help but relate this book to a James Bond movie." Long and Short Reviews\nIn a case of corporate espionage, a Key West businessman hires Sam Mackenzie to retrieve technical information stolen from his company. He's told that confidence man Jack Craft recommended him. Sam has been burned by Jack before but this looks like easy money. The job turns out to be anything but easy, as a caper flush with government agents, assassins, and conspiracy ensues. Not to mention a beautiful CIA agent with questionable motives has her eye on Sam, and mob thugs are after him for fallout from a previous job. As the fireworks fly, Sam turns to his partner and a computer expert for help. The deeper they probe, the more they risk becoming collateral damage in a secret operation worth millions. There's no good way out of this one.

Bad Way Out

Thrillers & Suspense

The Wild Rose Press, Inc.

Gordon Sumner was born in a mainly working-class area of North Tyneside, England, in 1951. Decades later, we would come to know him as Sting, one of the world’s best-selling music artists. Sting was the lead singer of the Police from 1977 to 1984 before launching a hugely successful solo career. In Sting:From Northern Skies to Fields of Gold, popular music scholar Paul Carr argues that the foundations of Sting’s creativity and drive for success were established by his birthplace, with vestiges of his “Northern Englishness” continuing to emerge in his music long after he left his hometown. Carr frames Sting’s creative impetus and output against the real, imagined, and idealized places he has occupied. Focusing on the sometimes-blurry borderlines between nostalgia, facts, imagination, and memories—as told by Sting, the people who knew (and know) him, and those who have written about him—Carr investigates the often complex resonance between local boy Gordon Sumner and the star the world knows as Sting. Published to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the formation of the definitive line-up of the Police, this is the first book to examine the relationship between Sting’s working class background in Newcastle, the life he has consequently lived, and the creativity and inspiration behind his music.

Sting: From Northern Skies to Fields of Gold (Reverb)

Arts & Photography

Music

Reaktion Books

Long Way Down

epress-online, Inc.

Bored, broke, and struggling to survive in one of the most expensive cities on earth, Paul Carr comes to the surprising realization that it would actually be cheaper to live in a luxury hotel in Manhattan than in his tiny one-bedroom London apartment. Inspired by that possibility, he sells his possessions, abandons his old life, and starts living entirely without commitments as a modern-day nomad.
Thanks to Paul's ability to talk his way into increasingly ridiculous situations, what begins as a one-year experiment soon becomes a permanent lifestyle--a life lived in luxury hotels and mountain-top villas. A life of fast cars, Hollywood actresses, and Icelandic rock stars. Of 6,000-mile booty calls, of partying with eight hundred female hairdressers dressed only in bedsheets, and of nearly dying at the hands of Spanish drug dealers. And, most bizarrely of all, a life that still costs less than his surviving on cold pizza in his old apartment.
Yet, as word of Paul's exploits starts to spread--first online, then through a national newspaper column and eventually a book deal--he finds himself forced constantly to up the stakes in order to keep things interesting. With his behavior spiraling to dangerous--and sometimes criminal--levels, he is forced to ask the question: is there such a thing as too much freedom?

The Upgrade: A Cautionary Tale of a Life Without Reservations

Travel

Disinformation Books

Second Life/ The Unofficial Tourists' Guide to Second Life: La guia definitiva a un nuevo mundo virtual/ The Definitive Guide to a New Virtual World (Spanish Edition)

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