Creative Careers in
Hollywood
In this candid guide, entertainment industry
veteran Laurie Scheer offers a witty and informative inside look at the primary
professions in the movie biz. Readers will discover real-life, yet upbeat
portraits of the "shredder" jobs of the industry, such as assistant or d-girl,
and how they can lead to the "keeper" jobs of actor, agent, or studio executive.
Each career overview features a clever analysis of the classic film characters
who memorably played these jobs on screen; an insightful rewards-risks
assessment of the job; and a brief look at such essential job qualities as
durability, length of stay, "food chain value," and desirability factor. Part
how-to guide, part historical document, and part social commentary, this book
will delight career seekers, Hollywood insiders, and film aficionados
alike!
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with
Asperger's
The two main things about this book that stood out
for me (from beginning to end) were: (1) Mr. Robison doesn't give many clues
about how he expects the reader to react to his stories. In other words, you get
to make your own judgments - whether about his legal and illegal pranks or about
his decision to not get involved with groupies (for two examples). He doesn't
spend much time defending his behavior and he isn't dogmatic about what's right
and what's wrong. (2) He thinks a lot and in unusual ways. As I read about his
sometimes-elaborate thought processes, I remembered what a friend told me long
ago: "If you're confused, good! It means you're thinking!" And I pondered some
of the social conflicts in my own life caused by what others have characterized
as "thinking too much."
In chapter 26 "Units One Through Three," Mr.
Robison hilariously describes in frank terms the thought processes he went
through when choosing his wife. ("Choosing" isn't the right word, but I promised
myself I wouldn't write any spoilers into my review.) Here's a short sample from
the book, from chapter 26, about his logic concerning choosing a wife:
"Unfortunately, when picking a mate from a set of three sisters, it is usually
necessary to establish a relationship with one in order to meet the other two.
That usually precludes a person from selecting a different sister once an
initial choice has been made."
Though I ultimately found "Look Me in the Eye" to
be a satisfying and often funny book, it didn't fully capture my interest until
the author began vividly describing a major prank (performed during his teenage
years) related to fire. From there on (through many chapters) until he finishes
talking about his work with rock and roll bands (which included creating
pyrotechnically flamboyant guitars for KISS), I was utterly captivated by Mr.
Robison's exciting stories. The chapters after that point aren't bad either.
Yes, Mr. Robison does think somewhat differently.
He demonstrates an inspiring, practical approach to dealing with some of life's
challenges. With his book, he managed to place those challenges under a
microscope for all to see. I recommend that you take a look.
Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan
Cookbook
From the moment the book arrives, you'll love it!
It's not just because of the beautiful photographs and intriguing recipes - it's
because the authors and their style of writing capture you, fascinate you, and
make you excited to try each and every recipe that they have created.
I'll admit that I am a fan of both Vegan With a
Vengeance and Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. But I wanted to review
Veganomicon without those two prior books in mind. The fact is, I couldn't. I
knew that the recipes would be outstanding; the usual nervousness that comes
with serving a guest that new pasta recipe was not present. I have a confidence
when making Isa and Terry's recipes, a confidence that sometimes does not exist
when trying other recipes out for the first time.
I think that each of these reviews, each
Veganomicon recipe photograph on Flickr, on blogs, on the Post Punk Kitchen
forums, are a testament that many people, experienced chefs and novices alike,
absolutely adore this cookbook. And there's no reason why you wouldn't, either.
My favorites so far have been the Eggplant
Rollatini and the Lemon Bars. The Pumpkin Ziti with Sage Bread Crumbs is not far
behind; I love the cashew ricotta that is used (there are two ricotta recipes in
the book - both delicious!). There is something for everyone here, whether you
hate vegetables but love mushrooms, choose seitan over tempeh, want breakfast at
all times of day, or want to eat a light lunch of bok choy with shallots.
There are excellent recipes for autumn and
fall-time meals. The Thanksgiving spread would be more colorful and delectable
if you added in a few of the mix and match sides and appetizers, such as Mashed
Spiced Sweet Potatoes, Chestnut-Lentil Pate, and Butternut Squash & Pumpkin
Seed Rice Paper Rolls.
True History of the Kelly
Gang
This is a book that has everything - murder, love,
family, loyalty, betrayal, action and most of all, it is able to draw the reader
into the situation to feel what all the characters are feeling. It forces the
reader to think about whether Kelly was in the right or in the wrong and it
creates debate between knowledge that we all might have past before about this
character.
It is hard for someone who had never heard of the
Kelly story before to really get into this book and to truly appreciate it, some
history has to be studied. This is what makes the book fascinating as it is
remarkable to see how Carey has weaved the events to make it feel like a flowing
river of events. Basically, these parcels/manuscripts that have been written are
from Ned Kelly himself to his daughter so as to give evidence that he is not the
man the newspapers portray him as. It is a touching and very emotional account
of a man that has been wronged for most of his life. But we also have to pause
and think whether what all he is saying is true or what he wants to be
true.
I recommend it to all age groups as it can be read
on many levels - as a story or as a trip into real history.
This book serves its purpose of bringing Ned Kelly
to life and I salute and thank Peter Carey for doing that for me.
Encyclopedia of Contemporary British
Culture
In over 970 alphabetically arranged entries, this
single-volume encyclopedia examines both high and popular culture in the UK, and
encompasses everything British--from architecture to pubs to film to internet to
the monarchy. This unique encyclopedia casts its net over the whole range of
British contemporary life. Entries range from short biographical synopses of the
careers of key individuals to longer overview articles exploring the main issues
within contemporary cultural debates. Bringing together subjects rarely found in
one volume, the Encyclopedia defines "culture" in its broadest
sense,
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The Peloponnesian War
The Peloponnesian War resonates with contemporary
events like few other episodes in ancient history. Though a democracy, Athens
warred with its neighbors for decades in a doomed bid to secure its Aegean and
Mediterranean empire. The ambitious city-state's eventual reward was defeat and
tyrannical rule, effectively ending Athens's Golden Age, which flourished during
the war in the fifth century BC. Not coincidentally did Athens flourish
economically, militarily, artistically, and philosophically during the fifth
century BC. Empire created great wealth, which supported the then novel
democratic government. Wealth also supported the arts and letters. This was the
time of Socrates, Plato, Aristophanes, Perikles and Thucydides, figures whose
works and musings on war and its effects are widely read to this
day.
Designed as an accessible introduction to this
immensely important event, The Peloponnesian War offers readers and researchers
an appealing mix of descriptive chapters, biographical sketches, and annotated
primary documents. An overview of the war is presented, followed a presentation
of Thucydides' account of the war's causes. A look at the intertwined, some
would say poisoned, relation of democracy and empire is offered, as are chapters
on how the war was represented in plays, statuary, and pottery. The ethics of
war are delved into by detailing the life, teachings, and eventual death of
Socrates. And, critically, a chapter is devoted to those who most often suffer
the harmful consequence of war: women. A glossary of terms is present, as is an
annotated timeline, maps, useful illustrations, an annotated bibliography, and a
thorough index.
Faith and Sword: A Short History of
Christian-Muslim Conflict
In today’s tense geopolitical climate, terrorist
groups avow their allegiance to the Islamic faith in their edicts, while the
president of the United States undertakes controversial wars in Islamic nations
and openly refers to his Christian faith as a key component of his
decision-making. With the recent surge in terrorist acts and military
confrontations, as well as ever-strengthening fundamentalist ideologies on both
sides, the Christian-Muslim divide is perhaps more visible than ever—but it is
not new. Alan G. Jamieson explores here the long and bloody history of the
Christian-Muslim conflict, revealing in his concise yet comprehensive study how
deeply this ancient divide is interwoven with crucial events in world history.
Faith and Sword opens with the tumultuous first
centuries of the conflict, examining the religious precepts that framed clashes
between Christians and Muslims and that ultimately fueled the legendary
Crusades. Traversing the full breadth of the Arab lands and Christendom,
Jamieson chronicles the turbulent saga from the Arab conquests of the seventh
century to the rise of the powerful Ottoman Empire and its fall at the end of
World War I. Faith and Sword then explores the complex dynamics that emerged
later in the twentieth century, as Christendom was transformed into the secular
West and Islamic nations overthrew European colonialism to establish governments
straddling modernity and religiosity.
From the 1979 Iranian revolution to the Lebanon
hostage crisis to the present-day war in Iraq, Faith and Sword reveals the
essence of this enduring struggle and its consequences.
The Darwin Awards Countdown to
Extinction
With five previous books and more than 1.5 million
copies sold, The Darwin Awards is a pop culture phenomenon. Honoring those who
improve the species by accidentally removing themselves from it, The Darwin
Awards countdown (to human extinction) is well under way-and we won't exit this
mortal coil without one last laugh. In The Darwin Awards Countdown to
Extinction, readers will find all-new stories chronicling humans who step onto
the lowest rung on the evolutionary ladder, including:
• Nine no's with power tools
•
Eight ways to incinerate yourself
• Seven safety warnings you should
not ignore
• Six romance tips for "safe" sex...
Featuring illustrations and brilliant
science-of-evolution essays, this latest volume of The Darwin Awards enumerates
just how uncommon common sense still is.
Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life
of a Mortuary Technician
I gave this book 5* because it was a book that was
impossible for me to put down once I started reading it. Williams mixes her ever
increasing job duties with vivid and often humorous descriptions of her
co-workers and the easy camaraderie found in the mortuary. She at times gets
descriptive regarding difficult or unique situatons and challenges encountered
on the job. Sometimes it gets gross, but the visions she conjures up are
bearable and fairly clinical.
As the author is british, she uses plenty of
slang which may not be familiar to american readers. Surprisingly, this is very
easy to get used and refreshing because she is so frank and realistic regarding
her chosen profession and the things she encounters on a daily basis.
Overall, this is a great book as it provides a unique perspective on death
from the eyes of someone who faces it on a daily basis.
There Goes the Bride: Making Up Your Mind,
Calling it Off and Moving On
There Goes the Bride is your personal guide to
calling off a wedding— maybe your own! It walks the reader through the reasons,
logistics, and emotions associated with breaking an engagement and provides
down-to-earth advice, support, and encouragement from women who have been there.
Rachel Safier— the widely recognized expert on the topics of cold feet and
broken engagements— addresses all your concerns, including figuring out if it's
more than just cold feet, dealing with friends and family who don't understand,
giving back the ring, and more. Filled with stories from sixty-two 'almost
brides' from twenty-five. states and four countries whove been through this
difficult process themselves, There Goes the Bride offers comfort, inspiration,
practical advice, some tears, and quite a few laughs.
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Coach Wooden's Leadership Game Plan for
Success
Coach Wooden’s Leadership Game Plan for Success
presents a unique opportunity to study under the man ESPN hails as “the greatest
coach of the 20th century.” Practicing character-based leadership before the
term was invented, John Wooden consistently led his legendary teams to victory
and has since taught countless business leaders his fundamentals for achieving
and sustaining success.
Now, using this hands-on book based on the
acclaimed John Wooden Leadership Course©, you can “interact” with Coach to learn
and apply his philosophy of world-class leadership. This unique tutorial
introduces you to his core fundamentals of success as a leader and reinforces
them with examples, exercises, quizzes, and quotations. You’ll learn how to
* Create a relationship of respect and camaraderie with those you lead
* Remain alert to opportunity, threats, trends, and changes
* Act with confi dence—but never arrogance
* Practice
moderation and balance in all that you do
* Be a model of poise,
grace, and reason—especially under pressure
Coach Wooden’s Leadership Game Plan for Success
drives home Mr. Wooden’s trademark 12 Lessons in Leadership and his famous
Pyramid of Success.
When you base your leadership style and substance
on Coach’s straightforward attitudes, values, and principles, you’ll lead your
team and business to success the Wooden way.
Dancers' Body Book
Ballet dancers have the strongest, most beautiful,
probably the most envied bodies in the world. How do they stay slender and
willowy while maintaining the extraordinary energy it takes to perform night
after night? Can a nondancer or an amateur attain a dancer's figure and a
dancer's vitality? And keep it?
Here, in The Dancers' Body Book, the legendary
ballerina Allegra Kent discloses the health, weight-watching, and relaxation
secrets of some of the world's greatest ballet dancers -- from Suzanne Farrell
and Fernando Bujones to Darci Kistler and Madame Alexandra Danilova. Combining
them with two well-balanced diets -- one to lose weight by and one to live by --
and an exercise regimen that can be tailored to the individual, she provides a
fabulous fitness program for everyone who longs to be slimmer, healthier, and
more energetic.
Fourteen varied menus incorporate delicious recipes
from the dancers themselves (such as Jacques D'Amboise's Wonderful Dinner Salad
and Dierdre Carberry's Almond Meringue Kisses), along with calorie guides and
advice on how to create additional menus using your own favorite dishes. Helpful
discussions on sports and exercise systems -- ranging from jogging and swimming
to the sophisticated "Pilates" workout -- are also included, and in a special
chapter entitled "A Healthy Outlook," the dancers talk candidly on such issues
as smoking, anorexia, vitamins, doctors, massage, junk foods, fad diets, and
injuries.
Dancers take meticulous care of all their equipment
because training and performance depend on it. Of course, the most essential
piece of equipment, the body, needs the most care of all, and that is what this
book is about: how to take care of the world's greatest machine.
Allegra Kent joined the New York City Ballet at the
age of fifteen and was a principal dancer with the company for thirty years,
during which time she created a number of starring roles in ballets by
Balanchine and Robbins. The mother of two daughters and a son, she is also the
author of Allegra Kent's Water Beauty Book.
LOVE'S WAY: The Union of Body, Ego, Soul
and Spirit
LOVE'S WAY is by best selling author Brenda
Schaeffer, who is also a psychotherapist in the treatment of love and sex
addiction. As a child, Schaeffer experienced love as "the big something": an
energy coursing through her body that started from the heart and filled it.
Conversely, hurtful words could take away the "big something," leaving her heart
empty and aching. That childlike purity and direct connection to the heart is
often what's missing from love today. With wisdom and insight, Schaeffer is the
navigtor who guides us back on course.
Crochet Lace Innovations: 20 Dazzling
Designs in Broomstick, Hairpin, Tunisian, and Exploded
Lace
Doris Chan is not just a crochet designer—she is a
self-described “fiberazza, tinkerer, and crochet advocate.” And yet, when it
came to exploring a few of the more traditional crochet techniques, such as
Broomstick, Hairpin, and Tunisian crochet, she resisted. Why would anyone be
interested in these antiquated methods? Who wants to struggle with strange
hooks, sticks, and looms anyway?
After Doris took a few choice crochet classes
taught by her peers, the answer soon became abundantly clear. Broomstick,
Hairpin, and Tunisian lace are incredibly cool. The methods are easy to learn,
and the results look spectacular—completely unlike anything else.
So now, Doris has officially caught the bug, and
she is eager to share her own twist on these techniques. Crochet Lace
Innovations is a collection of 20 stylish designs that use these treasured
crochet lace methods to create garments that are not only modern and flattering,
but custom-fit to a broad range of sizes.
Chapters include designs using not only these three
classic methods, but also the “exploded”lace (working lace patterns in thicker
yarn for a completely eye-opening effect) that has become Doris's signature. In
all, you will find:
• Broomstick Lace
• Hairpin Lace
• Tunisian
Lace
• Exploded Motifs
• Exploded Doily Lace
• Exploded Lace
Trim
Tutorials at the beginning of chapters help the
reader learn the simple methods necessary for making each kind of lace. And a
special Garment 101 section provides an essential template for crocheters to
follow in order to make infinitely adaptable and wonderfully versatile
patterns.
With 20 projects from wraps and scarves to skirts
and dresses to collars and belts, Crochet Lace Innovations brings this enduring
craft into a new, decidedly contemporary, light.
Exploring the Outdoors With Indian
Secrets
Indian secrets on tracking through forest growth,
stalking wildlife, and seeing without being seen.
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Winter's Tale
In Winter's Tale, anything that can happen, does
happen, and while some of it is impossible, though still always glorious, much
of it really is possible, though not quite probable. There is Beverly, who
sleeps on the roof of her father's mansion, in the cold, winter air, in a
specially-made bed of furs and canopies, watching the stars and defying the
advent of death; there is Lake, himself, who makes his home in the rafters of
Grand Central Station; there are midnight horse-drawn sleigh rides from the
heart of New York City to the almost mythical Lake of the Coheeries which can
only be found by the light of the moon across almost endless expanses of ice and
snow; there are the clouds that drop a living man into the icy waters beside the
Staten Island Ferry; and there are boats that simply vanish into an opaque,
lightening-flickered fog bank, never to be seen again.
Winter's Tale, however, is fantasy and intense
romanticism, not magic realism. But fantasy and intense romanticism are exactly
what are called for in this fantastic and intensely romantic tale.
The protagonists of Winter's Tale all meet, lose
contact with one another and then meet again as destinies cross, lose their way,
and then double back to cross again.
Helprin drops many hints along the way that New
York is heading for its Armageddon, a point where all good and evil will finally
meet in one climactic moment and a golden light of peace, love and justice will
usher in a new life for this glorious city. It could happen, and then again,
maybe not, but Winter's Tale is certainly worth the trip to see.
Told in gorgeous prose throughout, Winter's Tale
weaves an insanely magical tapestry of beauty and love that is both
death-defying and life-affirming. After you read it, you will feel that it is
something you could not have lived without.
XVI
Karr throws Nina into the world of The Resistance
and forces her to question all she has ever known, while introducing her to the
mysterious Sal too. Nina's only hope at escaping a life of forced sex and
possible death, is in the whispered words of a dying woman. Those words drive
Nina to become a stronger person, with an unbreakable determination.
At times an emotional thriller, XVI touches on many
aspects of the society that we live in and pushes the limits on what could be.
Tense, horrifying to imagine, but impossible to put down - I was enthralled in
this future world, the technology, and the characters. All the characters are
developed and no one felt flat to me. My only complaint is that the ending is
rushed. I would have liked to see all of Nina's struggling and worrying pay off
in a more fleshed out way, instead of the quick wrap-up. But still, this is a
dystopian that cannot be missed.
The Tunnels
I just finished this book and I must say I'm very
impressed. I couldn't put it down. I'm usually very skeptical about reading an
author's first book, but Michelle Gagnon has a talent for storytelling. The
characters are very likeable and believable, and the storyline is enthralling.
I've never written a review before, but I felt I needed to for this one. If you
like suspense, you have to read this book.
The Gatekeeper
Michelle Gagnon's THE GATEKEEPER is a page-turning
thriller that speeds up to an action-packed shocking ending. She takes Kelly
into the most dangerous case she has faced to date. Readers of the Kelly Jones
series will discover even more development of Kelly Jones as a character. Her
relationship to both Jack and the FBI receives more attention here, building up
the depth of her character for hopefully more development in future novels.
Michelle Gagnon's thriller achieves its goal in part due to recent headlines.
Set against the backdrop of the escalation of the divisive political volume in
this country over recent years, THE GATEKEEPER is frighteningly realistic
although her novel does not make use of any real life political personalities.
The more independent or introspective type of reader might find THE GATEKEEPER
even more chilling as one reflects on one's own political positions while
uncovering the terrifying nature of the Gatekeeper, a force more deadly than any
individual group or political persuasion, a force that turns one against
oneself.
Darkness Falls
Working with Homeland Security and with the highest
levels of government, Neal finds himself in a desperate race to catch those
responsible for spreading the bacteria before the world's entire oil supply is
destroyed. As they come to realize that losing oil means losing the power
necessary to produce and transport food supplies, to generate heating and
cooling for billions, and to fuel the economy and military, Neal and his team
understand that only they can prevent the ultimate loss of millions of lives. If
they fail, mankind will be reduced to a standard of living not seen for hundreds
of years.
Kyle Mills has written a first rate thriller, a
nightmarish reminder that our way of life is almost completely dependent on a
natural resource that is less and less found within our own borders. Love them
or hate them, it is clear that this way of life is dependent on the success that
oil companies have in replacing oil reserves for at least the next several
decades.
If you don't believe me, read Darkness
Falls.
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Boneyard
I'm not usually a fan of serial killer thrillers.
But Michelle Gagnon writes fluidly, has a winning hero, sets up a realistic
scenario, and drives the suspense up to a level reached only by top thriller
authors. We root for her hero, Kelly Jones of the FBI, as she relentlessly
tracks the murderer even while beset by a crew of squabbling locals and by her
own too human doubts. Gagnon does a fabulous (and fabulously creepy) job of
getting us in the heads of two very sick psychos. Make sure you read this with
the lights on. Bravo.
You've Been Warned
Kristin Burns is making her way in New York City.
Her photos are being considered at a major Manhattan gallery, she works by day
with two wonderful children, and the man of her dreams is almost hers for keeps.
But just as everything she's ever wanted is finally within reach, her life
changes forever--with one murderous nightmare. Kristin wakes up every morning
from the same chilling, unforgettable dream. And suddenly, it's visiting her
during the day too. As her life turns stranger by the minute, Kristin is haunted
and terrified. Is it all in her head? Or is the nightmare becoming her life?
Kristin searches desperately for what's real through the lens of her camera,
only knowing two things for sure: that no place is safe and the fate of everyone
she loves lies in her hands.
The Gate House
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille
delivers the long-awaited follow-up to his classic novel The Gold Coast.
When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her
mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year
journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later,
he has come home to the Gold Coast, that stretch of land on the North Shore of
Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in
America, to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up
temporary residence in the gatehouse of Stanhope Hall, John finds himself living
only a quarter of a mile from Susan who has also returned to Long Island. But
Susan isn't the only person from John's past who has reemerged: Though Frank
Bellarosa, infamous Mafia don and Susan's ex-lover, is long dead, his son,
Anthony, is alive and well, and intent on two missions: Drawing John back into
the violent world of the Bellarosa family, and exacting revenge on his father's
murderer--Susan Sutter. At the same time, John and Susan's mutual attraction
resurfaces and old passions begin to reignite, and John finds himself pulled
deeper into a familiar web of seduction and betrayal. In THE GATE HOUSE,
acclaimed author Nelson Demille brings us back to that fabled spot on the North
Shore -- a place where past, present, and future collides with often unexpected
results.
Ground Zero: A novel
This book draws heavily from the story and
characters that FPW created for the Young Jack novels. Jack's "client" in Ground
Zero, is none other than Weezy, his good friend from childhood. Turns out that
Weezy has hit upon a small but critical part of The Otherness' minion's "Opus
Omega". Rasalom and The Order of Septimus are attempting to expedite the descent
into Nightworld with a new evil targeting The Lady. Weezy has stumbled upon a
kernel of truth behind the 9/11 attacks, and her life is put in danger: Enter
Jack.
I would have to say that of the last few books,
Ground Zero suffers the most from Wilson's self-described "River novel" approach
to the end of the Jack series. While I found myself enjoying the book very much,
there was much less Jack action and adventure in this book. I believe that taken
in full context, once the series is complete, this one will seem better, but as
a stand alone it is definitely one of the weakest in the series. It is missing
any real RJ "fix" moments, and is very light on the action, with only a couple
scenes of butt-kicking. Jack also seems to spend way too much time just walking
around in this one, even takes a trip out West and basically just walks
around!
But do not get me wrong, I still very much enjoyed
this book, and there was a TON of action in By The Sword, so really being only
one chapter in a much larger novel, this one was bound to be more expository.
That is the true strength of the book. By this time there are MANY unanswered
questions and secrets about the True History of the World, and this book really
delves into many of those. In a sense, much of the book is as if the reader is
actually reading from the Compendium of Srem!
Jack has had that ancient tome for a while now, and
it has kinda sat there just waiting to be explored. With Weezy's brains and
perfect memory, we finally have a guide through the First Age. So much has
transpired without taking a moment to catch the reader up on all the elements
and concepts introduced into the series, so this book is essential in that
regard. Many answers are finally given about The Lady, Glaeken and The
Conflict.
It was inevitable to have a book that answered the
questions and delved into the Compendium, so in that sense the book is great. It
was also inevitable that the closer the end came and the more involved Jack
became in The Conflict, that the less time there would be to dedicate to the
minor "fixes" he used to do, which is somewhat disappointing. I was also
somewhat disappointed that Jack was more like Jake Fix than Repairman Jack in
this book. He was just like an ex-CIA badazz, instead of manipulating people
into doing his work for him. That was one of the things I enjoyed about By The
Sword, even though the conflict was huge he still utilized his Repairman Jack
skills to have disparate problems resolve one another!
The Island: A Novel
This is another excellent offering of smart chick
lit from Elin Hilderbrand. The novel is told from the rotating perspectives of
the four women, which gives the reader the opportunity to identify with each of
the women and her story. Each of the women has her own internal demons that she
must overcome on the island--from Chess' anguish over her fiance, to India's
memories of her famous husband, to Tate's uncertainty at first love, and
Birdie's challenge of starting again after a difficult divorce. The different
experiences of the four women gives every reader a character that she can
identify with, and makes for an never dull read.
If you are a fan of Hilerbrand's brand of smart and
fun women's fiction, this is a novel for you. It's light enough for a beach read
but with enough genuine emotion and real life to suck you in for this genuine
good read.
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The Crippled God
Savaged by the K’Chain Nah’Ruk, the Bonehunters
march for Kolanse, where waits an unknown fate. Tormented by questions,
the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not
relent. One final act remains, if it is in her power, if she can hold her
army together, if the shaky allegiances she has forged can survive all that is
to come. A woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing,
displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, Tavore Paran of House Paran
means to challenge the gods – if her own troops don’t kill her
first.
Awaiting Tavore and her allies are the Forkrul
Assail, the final arbiters of humanity. Drawing upon an alien power
terrible in its magnitude, they seek to cleanse the world, to annihilate every
human, every civilization, in order to begin anew. They welcome the coming
conflagration of slaughter, for it shall be of their own devising, and it
pleases them to know that, in the midst of the enemies gathering against them,
there shall be betrayal.
In the realm of Kurald Galain, home to the long
lost city of Kharkanas, a mass of refugees stand upon the First Shore.
Commanded by Yedan Derryg, the Watch, they await the breaching of Lightfall, and
the coming of the Tiste Liosan. This is a war they cannot win, and they
will die in the name of an empty city and a queen with no subjects.
Elsewhere, the three Elder Gods, Kilmandaros,
Errastas and Sechul Lath, work to shatter the chains binding Korabas, the
Otataral Dragon, from her eternal prison. Once freed, she will rise as a force
of devastation, and against her no mortal can stand. At the Gates of Starvald
Demelain, the Azath House sealing the portal is dying. Soon will come the
Eleint, and once more, there will be dragons in the world.
Lion's Heat
The mating urge cannot be ignored...
Bad boy Jonas Wyatt knows it is fate that Rachel
becomes his mate. He can sense it. He can also sense her reluctance. But she has
little power over the mating heat of the Breeds. It is Jonas's destiny to claim
her. And nothing will stop him from having his way.
Bengal's Heart
Reporter Cassa Hawkins has always supported Breed
rights-especially in light of a specimen like Cabal St. Laurents, the epitome of
the male animal. But when the Breeds are incriminated in a series of violent
murders, it's left to Cassa and Cabal to discover the truth before they become
prey.
Beyond the Dark
Lora Leigh does it... in the lair of a strange
breed, part man, part wolf, on the hunt for the woman he craves-and needs-to
fulfill a hunger clawing at him from within
Angela Knight does it... in the psychic realm of a
woman attuned to the touch of strangers-and the powerful temptations of a
seductive and mysterious protector.
Emma Holly does it... in the fantastic Demon World
where a powerful Queen rules-until she commits the sin of falling in love with
the handsome son of her worst enemy.
Diane Whiteside does it... in an alternate universe
of Regency magic where two lovers are threatened by a vicious mage, and swept up
in a turbulent war off the Cornish cliffs.
Entangled
One lost summer is time best left forgotten... When
Minneapolis divorce attorney, Billie Fredrickson, inherits her uncle's small
California winery, she has no intention of actually moving to the west coast and
starting a new life. Her only thought is to get it off her hands as quickly as
possible. But her return to the winery after an absence of twenty years opens up
more than the reading of her uncle's will. Childhood memories, long-buried,
begin to surface, prompting more questions than anyone is able or willing to
answer. A late night prowler, a break-in at the winery, and an unearthed box of
shocking photographs is someone's way of pulling the Welcome mat out from under
Billie's feet, but it only makes her dig her heels in deeper. More secrets lie
buried beneath Fredrickson Winery's innocent facade and Billie intends to get to
the root. But disturbing the past lays bare the skeletons of others, including
her mother's. Can she live with the consequences of full disclosure or will she
run home where everyone is Minnesota Nice?
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Brooklyn Knight
Professor Piers Knight is an esteemed curator at
the Brooklyn Museum and is regarded by many on the staff as a revered
institution of his own if not an outright curiosity. Knight’s portfolio includes
lost civilizations; arcane cultures, languages, and belief; and more than a
little bit of the history of magic and mysticism.What his contemporaries don't
know is that in addition to being a scholar of all things ancient he is schooled
in the uses of magical artifacts, the teachings of forgotten deities, and the
threats of unseen dangers.
If a mysterious object surfaces, Professor Knight
makes it his job to figure it out--and make sure it stays out of dangerous
hands.
A contemporary on an expedition in the Middle East
calls Knight's attention to a mysterious object in the collection of the
Brooklyn Museum … just before it becomes the target of a sorcerous attack that
leads to a siege on a local precinct house by a fire elemental.
What looks like an ordinary inscribed stone may
unlock an otherworldly Armageddon that certain dark powers are all too eager to
bring about--and only Piers Knight stands in their way.
Dull Boy
What do you do if you can deadlift a car, and you
spend your nights flying to get away from it all? If you’re fifteen-year-old
Avery Pirzwick, you keep that information to yourself. When you’re a former jock
turned freak, you can’t afford to let the secret slip.
But then Avery makes some friends who are as
extraordinary as he is. He realizes they’re more than just freaks—together,
maybe they have a chance to be heroes. First, though, they have to decide
whether to trust the mysterious Cherchette, a powerful wouldbe mentor whose
remarkable generosity may come at a terrible price.
To Cut a Long Story
Short
To Cut a Long Story Short reads like a series of
modern fairy tales. In each story, Jeffrey Archer presents a moral problem, and
a character finds himself tested in a dark hour. Evil manifests itself in the
form of selfish relatives, corrupt cops, racist men. Good arrives in the form of
unselfish minor characters who suddenly emerge as the real center of the story,
or lost souls who come out the other side of corruption and renounce their old
ways.
In "The Endgame" Cornelius Barrington decides
to fake a bankruptcy. As one of the richest men in his small town, he hopes his
sudden plunge into poverty will reveal the true character of his friends and
relatives. He calls in debts, asks to borrow money from those he has lent to in
the past, only to be turned away time and again. After lunch Cornelius
took a bus into town--a novel experience. It was some time before he located a
bus stop, and then he discovered that the conductor didn't have change for a
twenty pound note. His first call after he had been dropped off in the town
centre was to the local estate agent, who didn't seem surprised to see him.
Cornelius was delighted to find how quickly the rumour of his financial demise
must be spreading. "The Endgame" is a complex tale with a clear message.
Not all the stories in To Cut a Long Story Short attempt such weightiness. "The
Expert Witness" is a delightful parody of the legal system, a portrait of two
pub mates--a lawyer and an expert witness--who often find themselves facing off
in the courtroom, pretending not to know each other. Certain pieces (glimpses,
vignettes) last a mere two pages, but whatever the length or weight of the
story, throughout this collection Archer has a light touch, a quick wit, and a
thorough understanding of the mechanics of suspense.
Twelve Red Herrings
Jeffrey Archer, the internationally bestselling
author of Honor Among Thieves, As The Crow Flies, and Kane & Abel, now
serves up this inventive new collection of a dozen short stories -- with a
twist. Cleverly styled, with richly drawn characters and ingeniously plotted
story lines, each of the twelve pieces ends with a delightfully unexpected turn
of events.
An imprisoned man is certain that his supposed
murder victim is very much alive....A female driver is pursued relentlessly by a
menacing figure in another vehicle....A young artist gets the biggest break of
her career....A restless beauty manages the perfect birthday celebration....An
escaped Iraqi on Saddam Hussein's death list pays an involuntary visit to his
homeland. In each tale, human beings are given an opportunity to seize, a
crucial problem to solve, or a danger to avoid. How will they react? How would
you? Capping off the collection are two additional rewards. In the final story,
Archer offers a choice of four endings. And buried in each story is another
diversion -- a red herring which Archer challenges his readers to
uncover.
Kane and Abel
William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son
of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant. Two men, born
on the same day, on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross
in their ruthless struggle to build a fortune.
An unputdownable story, spanning sixty years, of
two powerful men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought together by fate to
save—and finally destroy—each other.
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Fourth Estate
At first glance, Richard Armstrong and Keith
Townsend seem to have little in common, but both of them are gamblers and are
prepared to risk everything in their battle to control the biggest media empire
in the world. Only one of them will succeed.
The Wild Breed
Yakima Henry ventures south of the border to save
an old flame's brother from a Mexican prison-only to incur the wrath of deadly
Apaches, scalp-hunting Rurales, and zealous revolutionaries...
The Ferguson Affair
The Ferguson Affair gets 5 stars from me because of
its intricately constructed and engaging plot, its highly descriptive and
imaginative prose and its very compelling and moving character sketches.
Ross Macdonald took his craft quite seriously and the results of that are
apparent in the pages of this remarkable book. Do yourself a favor and read
it.
The Orchard Keeper
THE ORCHARD KEEPER, Cormac McCarthy's first novel,
explores the nature of new versus old ways of life. It's a novel on nature. It
deals primarily with three men: John Wesley, a young man coming of age; Marion
Sylder, a bootlegger; and Uncle Ather, a hilarious, elderly man who refuses to
take any crap from anyone. While these three run into each other throughout the
novel, they are also connected to each other in a way through which none of them
are aware--through the death of Kenneth Rattner. McCarthy's novel appears to be
more of a character analysis than a plot driven story. While a plot does exist,
it is not incredibly strong nor prominent. It's more like a series of anecdotes.
However, the character depth and symbolism found in the pages of this book are
tremendously wonderful. It's definitely a book worth reading again in order to
catch all of these symbols and meanings. I would recommend this book to people
who enjoy analyzing works, not someone who is just looking for something
pleasurable to read. It's definitely not like reading Harry Potter : ). For
example, at the beginning of this work, the narrator jumps from person to
person, telling part of each one's story with little or no signal of whom is
being spoken of. You have to take your time to figure out who the narrator is
talking about. This can be rather frustrating at first, so beware! However, if
you can tolerate this writing style and don't expect much of a plot, the piece
is rather enjoyable, filled with comic elements and brilliance.
Resistance: The Gathering
Storm
Excellent book!! Enjoyed the many facets the story
offered and the spirit of the American characters was balls to the wall. This
book sets the stage for books 2 & 3, I hope. It would be a shame to let the
story end like this cause you just know Lt. Hale will recruit his adopted sister
Susan to smoke some Chimera butt!!
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Perfect Murder
Unfortunately this, who will kill who interesting
reading plot, is over pretty early on in the word count. I won't tell you who
was successful but the quality of the story does drop a little when there's only
one left. The stupidity of the characters lessens the enjoyment as you read
thinking, as if you'd do that, no one could be that stupid. It's still a fun
short read but doesn't maintain the very high quality and tension of the first
few chapters all the way to the end.
The Perfect Murder is part of the Quick Reads
series of books to increase literacy levels by encouraging those who don't like
to read beyond magazines and comic books to try fiction through cheap priced
short story length fiction and non fiction. Like a various author anthology
collection novel, some of these individual short story books are really good,
and others not that great.
My Life as a Fake
Carey's handling of this tale is masterful. Even
had it not been based on true events, his relation of it is flawless. The
characters may seem outlandish in many respects, but the author conveys them
with precision and finesse. Sarah is obsessed with her lust for the collection -
one is almost reminded of the editors of the post-modernist journal "Social
Text" blindly gobbling Alan Sokal's wonderful hoax. Post-modernism has launched
many bizarre tales. Carey's knowledge of place is equally compelling as he takes
us from KL, through Melbourne, Sydney and back to the Malay jungles. There are
warlords, asides in time and place - none of which interrupt the narrative,
since each provides enhancement - and a bruising finale. This is one of Carey's
supreme works, standing with "Illywhacker" and his fabricated history of Ned
Kelly's career.
Perfect Grave
Seattle Mirror Reporter Jason Wade is back in the
third thriller featuring him. He is again in Dutch with his boss and pressured
to get more news stories on his crime beat. Sister Anne, a much loved nun is
brutally murdered by a knife-wielding assailant and the city is in an uproar. He
scoops the other newspapers when he reports the bloody knife found outside
Sister Anne's apartment, but his boss still is riding him for more. It turns out
that his father and a widow with a young son are eventually involved in the
story. Jason's relationship with a female detective on the Seattle Police force
is also brittle and falling apart. The author skillfully weaves all these story
elements into a great story that keeps you guessing right up to the final
chapter.
Also recommended: Any other thriller by Rick Mofina. Creepers and
Scavenger, both by David Morrell
Confessions of a Teenage Drama
Queen
"High school has always been this stressful, but
rarely this hilarious." —BOOKLIST (starred review)
More famous than ever after hitting the silver
screen, the ever-dramatic Lola Cep is still in the spotlight — vying with
Born-to-Win, Born-to-Run-Everything Carla Santini to snag the lead in the high
school play. Can Lola survive Carla's attempts at retaliation? Once the curtain
goes up, which drama queen will take center stage?
Lean on Me
Andrea wants to submit, but not to just any
so-called Dom. He has to be tougher than the slum-bred bullies she grew up with.
She'd given up finding a true Dom when her friend finagles her a place as a
trainee in an exclusive BDSM club with the powerful Shadowlands Masters.
Andrea's thrilled...and terrified.
Forced to accept an unknown submissive into his
carefully run trainee program, Master Cullen is furious. Not only is the young
woman new to BDSM, but she's unsuited to her role--armoured in leather like a
Domme, she's more liable to punch a Dom than kneel. He decides to push her right
back out the door. But as he ruthlessly intimidates her, punishes her, then
comforts her, his glimpses of the woman inside the emotional armour intrigue him
and her utter surrender captures his heart.
Although Master Cullen is famous for his unfettered
lifestyle, Andrea believes he might be interested in her, until she discovers
he's not just a bartender--he's a cop. Maybe he'd overlook her past brush with
the law, but when another trainee accuses her of stealing money, Andrea's sure
she's lost the Master she wanted with all her heart.
Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit
sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find
objectionable: BDSM theme and content (includes/not limited to: bondage,
spanking, tethering), voyeurism.
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Breaking Free
Beth must yield to become aroused, but she's too
scared to give up control. The last thing she wants is a ruthless, powerful Dom.
But that's just what she gets, and exactly what she needs...
A sadistic husband left Beth scarred, inside and
out. Only at the Shadowlands BDSM club does she feel like a woman. But her fears
limit her to Doms who won't overwhelm her--the very ones who cannot arouse her.
The Master of the Shadowlands gives her an ultimatum: accept the Dom he assigns
or lose her membership. The last thing Beth wants is a ruthless, powerful Dom,
but that's just what she gets.
Asked to take on a problem sub, Nolan sees the
issue immediately--although truly submissive, the little redhead is too scared
to relinquish control and her Doms have let her get away with it. That will
change right now.
As Master Nolan takes Beth under command,
compelling her submission, she's terrified, but the experienced Dom brings her
pleasure, not pain. His only demand is that she never lie to him. Under his
capable hands, her body comes alive, and she begins to heal. As he pushes her
limits, she learns to trust...and then to love. And she realizes he is beginning
to care for her in return.
But now her cruel husband has found her, and Master
Nolan discovers she's been lying and lying and lying...
Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit
sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find
objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, BDSM theme and elements (including/not
limited to bondage, caning, domination, restraint, paddling, spanking,
submission, tethering); exhibitionism, menage, violence.
Basket Case
Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger
now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, "plotting to resurrect my
career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff." Jimmy Stoma, the infamous
front man for Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba
"accident" may be just the stiff Jack needs-if only he can figure out what
happened. Standing in the way are (among others) an editor who wants Jack to
"break her cherry," Stoma's ambitious pop-singer widow, and the soulless,
profit-hungry newspaper owner Jack once publicly humiliated. As clues from
Stoma's music give Jack Tagger the chance to trade obits for a story that could
hit the front page, murder gives his career a new lease on life.
Deadly Little Lies
Time and time again, I'd try and fall asleep while
reading this novel, but found myself getting up to check the door locks and make
sure I had the house alarm on. Just like when I read Deadly Little Secret, I was
almost dizzy from wondering and worrying who could be trusted in Camelia's
world. And that is the best thing about Laurie Faria Stolarz's writing. She
knows how to captivate the reader- inserting a bit of romance here, some eerie
voices there, secrets untold, threatening antics and creepy diary entries. All
of these devices are perfectly blended to create an intense air of mystery and
keep your pulse pounding. I kept trying to go to sleep after reading this book
but couldn't stop thinking about Camelia. Who was stalking her again? What about
the new guy Adam? But most importantly, what was going on with those creepy,
whispered voices? I have to say that it was the voices which spooked me the most
and left me unable to fall asleep, listening to the house creak and settle into
the very late hours of the night....
The Grave Tattoo
In a novel reminiscent of The Rule of Four, The
Dante Club and The Historian, suspense master McDermid spins a psychological
thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century
and the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty. After torrential summer rains uncover a
bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, long discarded old wives'
tales takes on a chilling new plausibility. For centuries, Lakelanders have
whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he
could return home. And there, he told his story to an old friend and schoolmate,
William Wordsworth, who turned it into a long narrative poem--a poem that
remained hidden lest it expose Wordsworth to the gallows for harboring a
fugitive. Wordsworth specialist Jane Gresham, herself a native of the Lake
District, feels compelled to discover once and for all whether the manuscript
ever existed--and whether it still exists today. But as she pursues each new
lead, death follows hard on her heels. Suddenly Jane is at the heart of a
200-year-old mystery that still has the power to put lives on the line. Against
the dramatic backdrop of England's Lake District a drama of life and death plays
out, its ultimate prize a bounty worth millions.
A Grave in the
Cotswolds
An undertaker makes his business in death, but
death is the last thing this one wants to deal with. "A Grave in the Cotswolds:
Death Visits a Sleepy Country Village" tells the story of Drew Slocombe as he
brings his undertaking business on the road to the small town of the Cotswolds
where he finds himself not just the burier of the dead, but the accused murderer
as well. An exciting read with a certain morbid humor, "A Grave in the
Cotswolds" will prove very hard to put down.
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Hunger Trace
The sudden death of David Bryant, the charismatic
owner of a rambling Derbyshire wildlife park, leaves an indelible mark on three
very different people. David's young widow, Maggie, struggles to preserve the
park and to forge friendships untainted by the suspicions of others. His old
friend Louisa, a falconer who lives on the grounds, just wants to be left alone
with her hawks and the dark secret she has shared with David since their youth.
Meanwhile, Christopher, David's eccentric teenage son from an earlier marriage,
strives for a life beyond the park and trawls the internet for a woman who
shares his family values. With the arrival of a stranger, and unforeseen
disaster amid the worst rains for a hundred years, the loyalties of Maggie,
Louisa and Christopher will be stretched to breaking point, and each must face
the decisions which will define them...
A Twist in the Tale
No one can weave a web of suspense, deliver a jolt
of surprise, or teach a lesson in living like bestselling author Jeffrey Archer.
From Africa to the Middle East, and from London to Beijing, Archer takes us to
places we've never seen and introduces us to people we'll never
forget.
Meet the philandering husband who thinks he's
committed the perfect murder; the self-assured chess champion who plays a
beautiful woman for stakes far higher than cash; and the finance minister who
needs to crack the secrets of a Swiss bank. Jeffrey Archer's collection of
twelve spellbinding stories will sweep you on a journey of thwarted ambition,
undying passion, and unswerving honor that you'll never forget.
A Quiver Full of
Arrows
From London to China, and New York to Nigeria,
Jeffrey Archer takes the reader on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern
romance, of cutthroat business and kindly strangers, of lives lived in the
realms of power and lives freed from the gloom of oppression. Fortunes are made
and squandered, honor betrayed and redeemed, and love lost and
rediscovered.
Embracing the passions that drive men and women to
love and to hate, A Quiver Full of Arrows will captivate the hearts and souls of
readers of everywhere.
The Wedding Girl
At the age of eighteen, in that first golden Oxford
summer, Milly was up for anything. Rupert and his American lover, Allan, were an
important part of her new, exciting life, so when Rupert suggested to her that
she and Allan should get married to keep Allan in the country, Milly didn’t
hesitate.
Ten years later, Milly is a very different person
and engaged to Simon—who is wealthy, serious, and believes her to be perfect.
Milly’s secret history is locked away so securely she has almost persuaded
herself that it doesn’t exist—until, only four days before her elaborate
wedding. To have and to hold takes on a whole new meaning when one bride’s past
catches up with her and bring the present crashing down.
With her trademark style of keen insight, and razor
sharp wit, Madeleine Wickham introduces her fanatical fan-base, plus a host of
new readers to a fresh and irresistible heroine in The Wedding
Girl.
Sleeping Arrangements
Chloe needs a holiday. Her partner, Philip, has
troubles at work, and the whole family wants a break. Hugh is not a happy man.
His immaculate wife, Amanda, seems more interested in her new kitchen than in
him—and he works so hard to pay for it, he barely has time for his children.
Maybe he’ll have a chance to bond with them on holiday…
When the two families arrive at a villa in Spain
for their respective vacations, they all get a shock—it has been double-booked.
An uneasy week of sharing begins, and tensions mount in the soaring heat. But
the temperature isn’t solely to blame: What no one else realizes is that Chloe
and Hugh have a history—and that the “accidental” overlap might not have been so
accidental after all…
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The Unfortunate Miss
Fortunes
I purchased this book because I'm a huge Crusie
fan, and the website for the book won me over, reading how much the writer's had
enjoyed their characters. As a Crusie fan, I was not disappointed. And I'll be
checking out the backlists for Dreyer and Stuart because their storylines were
written so well.
A collaborative effort, the effect is seamless.
Three romances, packed into a weekend. I know, a weekend? But these writer's
know what they're doing because it's believable and you root for the characters
to defeat Xan (an entertaining--twisted, but entertaining--villain) and find
their happy-ever-afters.
The pacing is flawless, and how could it not be?
Three days to resolve a lifetime of conflict, and they make every scene
count.
But after the last page, my favorite part of the
book was how fun it was. Sure, the dialogue was hillarious, and the situations
magic-gone-wrong causes are imaginative and engaging. But, it's a fun read.
You'll enjoy this book.
The Welcome Home Garden
Club
Caitlyn Marsh stopped believing in
happily-ever-after when high-school sweetheart, Gideon Garza, left for Iraq. Now
she raises her small son while her matchmaking gardening club members drive her
crazy. Then Caitlyn's world turns upside-down when Gideon swaggers back to
Twilight.
Gideon had left town in the middle of night with
threats ringing in his ears. A lot of things have changed since then. This bad
boy-turned-Green Beret bears scars from the war, the timid girl he loved is an
independent mother, and the father who refused to recognize his son in life has,
in death, left him a vast cattle ranch.
He still aches for Caitlyn, and now there's a
dark-haired boy who looks exactly like Gideon did at that age. Could the child
be his? And can this war-weary soldier overcome the scars of the past to claim
the family he so richly deserves?
Moonstruck
Peace was for little girls
And Coalition starship admiral Brit Bandar was one
tough woman. A mere intergalactic treaty could never get her to trust the
Drakken Horde. There was too much bad blood between the Coalition and the Horde
and, for intensely personal reasons, Brit wasn't sure that she was through
spilling it! But now a peaceful accord had made Finn Rorkken, a notorious
Drakken rogue, second in command on her starship, and through some grand cosmic
irony front and center in her thoughts...and her heart.
Zero Sum Game
A lot is packed into this fast-paced novel. The
suspense and intrigue of Bashir and Sarina's mission is fantastic and intense.
And Bashir's infatuation with Sarina finally comes to a resolution. With fun
twists and surprises around every turn, there is never a dull moment. And though
it helps to have read the Destiny trilogy before simply for background and
explanation of where certain characters are, it's not necessary to enjoy this
excellent miniseries debut. Ending in a shocking cliffhanger, readers will be
clamoring for the next in this inspired series.
Village Affairs
Though it lacks the Wimsey of Lord Peter's
mysteries (as much of the key cast is stereotyped), the second Gibbons tale (see
THE YOUNG WIDOW) once again reverently brings Dorothy Sayers into the
twenty-first century with a delightful Cotswold cozy. The story line is fun as
Jack finds the biggest obstacles to solving the case are the myriad of silly
sleuths. Fans of Ms. Sayers will enjoy Jack's look into the wealthy
businessman's VILLAGE AFFAIRS and other dealings.
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Those in Peril
It is well written, sometimes with brutal and
chilling descriptions of the violence, but also with good description of how
living through the dangerous events draws the main characters together and
sparks romance and lasting relationships.
Overall I would recommend this
novel to anyone interested in a good action thriller. I noticed that Wilbur
Smith has written quite a few other novels, and I would like to read more from
this author.
The Phantom of
Pemberley
I would imagine if Jane Austen met and decided to
write a novel with Agatha Christie this would be the result. It has all the
style and romance of an Austen novel along with the complexities of a
traditional British mystery. This is not a cookie cutter CSI episode nor is it a
pompously overwritten Austen wanna be. The characters are facinating. The
situations well thought out. Anyone who has been stuck with difficult family
members over the holidays will completely relate to this Mr. Darcy. I will warn
readers now. If you start reading this book make sure you don't have to get up
early the next morning. Putting this one down will be difficult.
So Much for That
The downside of Shriver's acerbic, epigrammatic
style is that the novel becomes a bit like a series of riffs on taboo subjects
--- entertaining and provocative but emotionally unsatisfying. Although the
characters are tested by adversity, they do not really evolve, and the parallels
between Shep and Jackson, and Glynis and Flicka, are too heavily signposted. I
also felt slightly cheated by shifts in tone toward the latter part of the book.
First there is the intrusion of a grand guignol shocker (I won't be a spoiler,
but believe me, this event is bizarre and off-key --- the plot is not so much
twisted as totally distorted), then a sort-of-happy trick ending. Ironic fables
are not my thing.
Still, in a world where books seem ever more
formulaic, I love Shriver's willingness to take chances. She is to be
congratulated for addressing the hard subjects that most people gloss over, and
for doing so with complexity, honesty and humor. SO MUCH FOR THAT, with its
explicit critique of the current state of medicine and this culture's benighted
attitudes toward death, is horrifyingly timely.
Seals
I enjoyed this first book of his, but I had some
problems with some of the details of the story. The weapons are not as up to
date, as the weapons that are described in the Seal Team Seven Series. And the
other part of this first book that I had a rela problem with is that when this
seal team goes into combat in Afghanistan, they are not equipment with weapons
and ammo the way they should have been and they only took in one radio. What
happens if that radio gets killer, which in the first book the radio gets killed
by a helicopter attack. They have had supply drop made to them to bring in food,
water, weapons, ammo, beer clothes and other needed supplies, why was another
radio not brought in? The old Seal Motto, if 1 is good then 2 is better, when it
comes to equipment to survive behind enemy lines. Why don't they have the new
weapons, half rifle and half gernade weapon, and its all computer operated. Why
was the intel on this area and this Warload of this area so weak and lacking in
information. Thsi Warload has 3 working Hind Helicopters, yet no one knows about
them at all. Where is the intelligence on this Warload and his people. How do
you hide 3 Hind Helicopters, and keep it a secret? It is only logical that
someone is going to know about them. Even with these things lacking in the story
line, I still found Jack Terrals writting enjoyed and I would read more of his
books.
Silver Wedding
Another great book by Maeve Binchy ! I love most of
her books. This one is no exception. The characters become real to you, and you
tend to miss them when the book is over. My only complaint would be that after
all the painstaking attention to detail about each character, the Silver Wedding
anniversary party comes and the book is over ! I'd have liked a little more of
an ending, not quite so sudden an ending.
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I Came to Say Goodbye
It took a few pages to get used to the voice of the
narrator (who is central to the story). Once you get used to it the voice is
just so natural and the character is well constructed. A well written, easy to
read book with a great story line that was unpredictable to the
end.
The Eagle's Prophecy
It is spring ad 45 in Rome, and Centurions Macro
and Cato, dismissed from the Second Legion in Britain, are waiting for an
investigation into their involvement in the death of a fellow officer. It is
then that the imperial secretary, the devious Narcissus, makes them an offer
they can't refuse: to rescue an imperial agent who has been captured by pirates
operating off the Illyrian coast. With him were scrolls vital to the safety of
the emperor and the future of Rome.
But Narcissus also sends Vitellius, an
old enemy of the two centurions. The three officers set out from Ravenna with
the imperial fleet but the pirates are forewarned and the Romans pay a heavy
price. Outnumbered by the enemy, surrounded by rumors of treachery, and
endangered by Vitellius's desire to redeem himself, Centurions Macro and Cato
must find the pirate base to avert a disaster that could destroy the emperor and
the very core of Rome.
Hunter's Run
Usually a collaboration, and still more a three-way
collaboration, is less than the sum of its parts. These three have produced a
book as seamless and fresh as one by an individual writer -- and a very good
one. It's an intriguing modern-space-opera setting, combined with a frontier
tale and a 'first contact' story with some very intriguing aliens. But the hero
(or given his character, the protagonist) steals the show even from the strange
world aand stranger aliens. Bravo!
Two's Company
The story didn't seem to explain why in the world
Jack hooked up with Imogen to begin with or how Rory went from wanting to marry
Cass to not really caring that she dumped him to get back with her husband.
There was a lot going on with the storylines of the three kids too that
distracted from the so called main characters. Wasn't an incredibly deep book
but it wasn't a horrible one either. It was just a light, slightly entertaining
read.
Dead Girls Don't Wear
Diamonds
In Nancy Martin's second installment to her
Blackbird Sisters cozy mystery series, newly-minted society columnist &
middle red-headed Blackbird sister Nora attends the party anticipating the
appointment of her old college beau's father as the next Secretary of the
Department of Transportation. The plot thickens when a body is found in their
koi pool the next day.
In my opinion, "Dead Girls" read more quickly than the
first Blackbird Sister mystery "How to Murder a Millionaire."
I looove the
knowledge and references to Philadelphia high society rules and parties in this
series. The sister's characterizations are nuanced; Mafia don's prodigal son
Michael Abruzzo sizzles as Nora's on-again, off-again romantic interest. This is
a fun, light-hearted romp through Philadelphia social soirees. Nancy Martin's
series is as much fun as Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. Highly
recommended.
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The Sweethearts' Knitting
Club
I don't normally read romances, but this book
practically fell into my lap and I must say that once I started reading, I
couldn't stop. I found the story and the characters compelling, and the writing
quite good. It's predictable, but I guess that comes with the genre. All in all,
surprisingly good.
The Sky's the Limit
This book is one of the best! I recommend it also
for newcomers to the Star Trek universe.
Stackin' Paper
Deja's amazing literary skills are executed above
and beyond in this captivating read as she lures you in with the sexy and
thuggish Genesis. You're riveted to his story from the emotional beginning of
the first page to the tumultuous last page which leaves you breathless,
heartsick, and fiending for just a little more. She pens a myriad of issues
beginning with abuse, murder, betrayal, romance, drug dealing, sex, obsession,
and did I mention she managed to develop a love story in the midst of the
mayhem... I've been a Deja fan since my introduction to Precious and Tyler. In
following her literary accomplishments, the growth is evident and commendable,
her storylines are fascinating, her characters are viciously mesmerizing as well
as exciting, and her style is exemplary to say the least! I claim another best
seller with this one!!! Genesis' introduction into the literary field is
impressive and he is mos def `that dude.' Magnificente Deja!!
The Summer Hideaway
Never get attached—Private nurse and protected
witness Claire Turner lives by this motto. Fleeing a treacherous past, she knows
no other way.
Never give up—In the twilight of his life, George
Bellamy makes it his final wish to reconcile with an estranged brother. He and
Claire journey to Willow Lake—where it all went wrong for him fifty years
ago.
Never let go—George's grandson Ross is ruled by a
fierce devotion to family and a deep mistrust of the mysterious Claire…yet
sparks fly whenever she's near. In the face of a wrenching loss, amid the
enchantment of Willow Lake, Ross and Claire dare to risk everything for
love.
Summer at Willow Lake
Real estate expert Olivia Bellamy reluctantly
trades a trendy Manhattan summer for her family's old resort camp in the
Catskills, where her primary task will be renovating the bungalow colony for her
grandparents, who want one last summer together filled with fun, friends and
family. A posh resort in its heyday, the camp is now in disarray and Olivia is
forced to hire contractor Connor Davis—a still-smoldering flame from her own
summers at camp. But as the days grow warm, not even the inviting blue waters of
Willow Lake can cool the passions flaring or keep shocking secrets at bay. The
nostalgic joy of summers past breathes new promise into a special place and
people…a promise meant to last long after the season ends.
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Just Breathe
Sarah Moon tackles life's issues with a sharp wit
in her syndicated comic strip, Just Breathe. With both Sarah and her cartoon
heroine undergoing fertility treatments, her fiction often reflects her reality.
However, she hadn't scripted her husband's infidelity.
In the wake of her shattered marriage, Sarah flees
to the coastal town in California where she grew up. There, she revisits her
troubling past: an emotionally distant father, the loss of her mother and an
unexpected connection with Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob skewered
mercilessly in her comics. But he's been through some changes himself. And just
as her heart is about to reawaken, Sarah makes a most startling discovery. She's
pregnant. With her ex's twins.
The winds of change have led Sarah to this
surprising new beginning. All she can do is just close her eyesA…and
breathe.
The Drifter
Comes a drifter to a windswept island . . .
He wanted to tell her everything. About the lost
years that had changed him from a desperate young boy into a man hardened by
life. About the night he'd sold his soul for a woman who wasn't worth the price
. . .
But Jackson Underhill said nothing. After all, he
was an outlaw, clearly on the run -- reason enough for silence.
The truth was Dr. Leah Mundy scared him. She made
him want to trust again, to share his burden. She made him want a home, a
family. And it was dangerous to want such things. Because the past would find
him if he stayed -- and there could be no future with a woman who would not
leave.
A Glimpse of Evil
Professional psychic Abigail Cooper is about to
discover that some cold cases are better off dead...
As the FBI's newest Civilian Profiler, Abby Cooper
is using her powers of intuition to help solve a backlog of the bureau's cold
cases. But when she's the only one who's convinced that several separate cold
cases are related, she'll have to call on every intuitive bone in her body
before she's the one put on ice...
What's a Ghoul to Do?
M.J., her partner Gilley, and their client, the
wealthy, de-lish Dr. Steven Sable, are at his family's lodge, where his
grandfather allegedly jumped to his death from the roof-although Sable says it
was foul play. But the patriarch's isn't the only ghost around. The place is
lousy with souls, all with something to get off their ghoulish chests. Now M.J.
will have to to quell the clamor-and listen for a voice with the
answers...
The Bullet Trick
When down-at-heel Glasgow conjurer, William Wilson
gets booked for a string of cabaret gigs in Berlin, he's hoping his luck's on
the turn. There were certain spectators from his last show who he'd rather
forget. Like the one who's now a corpse. Amongst the showgirls and tricksters of
Berlin's scandalous underground Wilson can abandon his heart, his head and, more
importantly, his past. But secrets have a habit of catching up with him and, as
he gets sucked into certain lucrative after-hours work, the line between what's
an act and what's real starts to blur.
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Thirsty
The writing style I think is more a matter of
aesthetic than anything. I didn't really like it the first time I read it, but
it grew on me.
As for Chris, and his personality, it's actually
pretty realistic. If I look objectively, I can see a lot of myself in him.
Especially me a few years ago when I was his age. For the guy who said he was
swept away by other people's actions and never did anything, well, he actually
mentions that IN THE NARRATION. That was intentional, too. How many teenagers do
you know that actually take charge of their life? I certainly didn't.
And the people who are complaining about vampires
being a fact of life, come on man, it's an allegory!
So, ok, this book isn't for everyone, I guess. But
before you criticize it, make sure that you're not missing the point.
Then again, maybe I don't know what the hell I'm
talking about. In which case, just ignore me.
Twice a Spy
Keith Thomson once again takes us to a place where
the suspense is justified, and the adrenaline is fuel laced, and the hits keep
right on coming! What hits me is that it isn't exactly so far-fetched that it
could never happen. Terrorism can come in all shapes and sizes, and when you
least expect it. Thomson isn't afraid to open up such possibilities, and he
keeps the pages turning while doing so. And in the end, he does it so well that
he has me starving for more! I'm hoping he cranks another one out just as good,
just as quickly! Thanks again, Keith!
Turbulent Priests
Despite its cover 'Turbulent Priests' has little to
do with bedraggled young women who smoke. It's actually a very cleverly plotted
story about a young girl on a island off Ireland who is claimed to be the
messiah. A reporter is sent out to chronicle events and, to no surprise, all is
not what they appear to be. 'Turbulent Priests' is fresh and funny. It lamblasts
both the (Catholic) church and Irish society in equal measure without taking it
all too seriously. Only the most sensitive will be offended (..although much of
the language is crude). I should also add that the book is rather Irish-centric.
Folks from outside Ireland/Britain might not understand much of the verbage or
the sarcastic humour.
Bottom line: perhaps Colin Bateman's best book. No
small praise.
The English Patient
Set at the end of World War II in an Italian villa,
The English Patient brings together four unlikely characters: Hana, an
emotionally-wounded army nurse who refuses to leave her last patient even when
ordered to evacuate; Caravaggio, a friend of Hana's father, thief and spy, a man
who is drawn to Hana in ways he cannot articulate; Kip, an Indian sapper loyal
to the British military who disarms bombs by day, loves Hana by night; and the
mysterious burned invalid, the English patient of the title, who unites them all
in unexpected ways. Told in poetic, often elliptical language, this novel
demands to be savored instead of read voraciously. The images are just as likely
to be visually precise as they are inexplicable. Unlike the movie, which
concentrates on the love story between the English patient and the woman he
loved, the novel is more about the confusing impulses that lead to both passion
and danger in all the characters.
Serious readers of literature should read this
novel more than once, for its subtleties, imagery, and the force of its
lyricism. More casual readers may find it tough reading, not because the
language is inaccessible but because of the way Ondaatje backs into his story.
Those who stick with the author's poetic turns will be well-rewarded by the
end.
The Inheritance of
Loss
A careful observer of behavior, with a fine eye for
revealing details, Desai brings her narrative and characters to life,
illustrating her themes without making moral judgments about her
characters--creating neither saints nor villains, just ordinary people leading
the best lives they can, using whatever resources are available. Her characters,
like people from all cultures, make sacrifices for their children, behave
cruelly toward people they love, reject traditional ways of life and old values,
rediscover what is important to them, suffer at the hands of faceless government
officials, and learn, and grow, and make decisions, sometimes ill-considered,
about their lives. Dealing with all levels of society and many different
cultures, Desai shows life's humor and brutality, its whimsy and harshness, and
its delicate emotions and passionate commitments in a novel that is both
beautiful and wise.
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The Grail Conspiracy
This is not Da Vinci. It's not any less than Da
Vinci either in it's plot and scope . I have become addicted to these
historical/religious thrillers that have a central premise built around the
Bible, Christ, the Holy Grail, Knights Templar, Virgin Mary, the possible
bloodline of Jesus etc. In this particular novel, the central premise is that
the Book of Revelation may be true and that the world could possibly see the
second coming of Christ (another novel that also uses the Book of Revelation to
great effect is The Rozabal Line). The book starts off in the Iraqi desert where
a dying man hands over a box to a news reporter who then manages to smuggle it
out of Iraq, authenticate it and then have the "holy grail" delivered to the
Vatican only to see it stolen from there. This leads to a raging battle between
the good and bad forces, while the dead bodies pile up around the central
characters. Given the tremendous fan following of the Da Vinci Code, it is but
obvious that several "clones" will flourish. This is not a clone. A great book
that keeps you wanting to turn the pages.
Some Like it Lethal
While Nora is covering the annual "fox hunt"
breakfast event for the newspaper, Rush Strawcutter, the husband of a dog food
heiress, is found murdered in a horse stall. Nora's job of rescuing her siblings
only escalates when she discovers that her sister, Emma, is drunk and
unconscious in the stall as well.
Fortunately for Nora and her siblings, Michael is
nearby to help lend a "streets smart" hand as Nora deals with blackmail,
mystery, and romance.
An excellent and fun novel! Nancy Martin is quickly
turning into one of my favorite writers.
Snow
Published in Turkey and Europe before September 11,
the novel has an ominous prescience to it. Rich with insights into rapidly
rising fundamentalist movements and why they seek our destruction, this haunting
novel is many-leveled, beautifully wrought, and complex. Packed with ironies,
dark humor, and enough symbolism to keep a symbol-hunter busy for days, this
realistic depiction of the environment in which extremist movements take root
and flourish is a chilling reminder of how the world has changed.
Shiver of Fear
I thought this book was really great, it's the
second in the Guardian Angelino series and it grabbed me as much as the first. I
really loved the suspense part of the book, I just couldn't put the book down
until I was done because I just had to know what would happen next. It's set in
Ireland with a very real and current story that could be right out of the news.
The relationship develops slowly and it's very believable and tense, especially
because the two characters have different goals, but they need each other to
accomplish them. The hero, Marc, is a dream...funny, sexy and smart. And Devyn
has deep emotional issues that really touched my heart. But in this book, the
mystery and suspense are just as compelling as the romance. The action is
non-stop and the twists and turns in the story are the kind that make you gasp
out loud. And all the secondary characters - Vivi, Chessie, Uncle Nino, and even
Agent Lang -- are essential for the story and just as much fun in this book as
they were in the first.
The Left Hand of
Darkness
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best
Science Fiction Novel of the Year
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left
Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien
world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate
Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must
bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar
culture that he encounters. Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and
human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark
achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.
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Strange Candy
The #1 New York Times bestselling author's short
story collection-including an all-new Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter story-now in
paperback. From a woman who marries into a family of volatile wizards to a
couple fleeing a gang of love-hungry cupids, from a girl who seeks sanctuary in
the form of a graceful goose to the disgruntled superhero Captain Housework,
readers will revel in the many twists and turns of fortune in these fantastical
fairy tales and lush parables. Even hardened vampire hunter and zombie animator
Anita Blake gets blindsided by the disturbing motives of her clients in the new
"Those Who Seek Forgiveness" and in "The Girl Who Was Infatuated with
Death."
The Lathe Of Heaven: A
Novel
In a future world racked by violence and
environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his
dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber,
a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must
preserve reality itself as Dr. Haber becomes adept at manipulating George's
dreams for his own purposes.
The Lathe of Heaven is an eerily prescient novel
from award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin that masterfully addresses the
dangers of power and humanity's self-destructiveness, questioning the nature of
reality itself. It is a classic of the science fiction genre.
Sheer Mischief
It may not have many laugh-out-loud moments, but I
liked the main characters from the start to the very satisfying ending, and the
story never got boring. Janey, the good girl and heroine, is not an irritating
doormat like those you meet so often e.g. in Jilly Cooper's stories, and her
unscrupulous sister Maxine is also utterly likeable. Add the gorgeous Guy with
his two adorable children, and the rest is history. I particularly enjoyed how
the two bad boys are made to suffer, although I ended up feeling somehow sorry
for selfish but charismatic Bruno.
Not to forget the Cornwall setting, which
makes this a (too short!) holiday trip between two covers.
Hard Evidence: A
Novel
I found DI Jack Delaney hard to like at first but
he improved as you got to know him better, towards the end of the book. This is
a standard police procedural and you can tell that the author was as a TV
scriptwriter as it reads a bit like the Bill.
Half
Moon-Investigations
In typical Eoin Colfer style the supporting
characters are large in number, but are definitely not without distinction: a
tyrant school principal aided by menacing twin Dobermans, and Fletcher's older
sister, Hazel, who works out her boy troubles by writing plays and poetry while
locked in her bedroom, Moon's eight-year-old, snot-nosed snitch who always has
green yo-yo's hanging from his nostrils that he snorts in and out. And Fletcher
himself, who with the world-weary..I mean...school-weary style of the dime=store
detective, tells his tale, and the process gets: brained, nearly beat up,
knocked out, knock-down and more. If only it were in black and white. It is
plain to seen Colfer enjoyed writing about characters he really knew growing up,
and this book has some of his best banter and most likable characters. This time
Colfer's setting is suburban, but as always tailored specifically to Ireland,
which is part of his series' charm. It's got `hurling" and "Step-dancing" how
can you not love it? While the ending leaves a trail for future
investigations.
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Ghost Stories
In 2010 thousands of people submitted ghost stories
to The Daily Telegraph's first ghost story competition. Standards were
chillingly high and only the spookiest went through to the shortlist of six.
Presented here are short stories from Gill Baconnier, Justin Crozier, Ceri
Hughes, Pat Black, Craig Drew and the winner, Richard Crompton, whose story
'Friends' is an uncanny take on social networking. Currently available only in
ebook form they are the perfect company for a long winter's night.
Blood Work
The story is written from different points of view,
letting you enter the mind of various characters, even the smaller ones. While
it could be confusing at times, this "technique" managed to give form and depth
to some characters that otherwise wouldn't have been as interesting as they are
in the end. Moreover, continuing to read you find out how many of those details
you could have easily categorized as irrelevant were instead fundamental in
resolving a particular enigma.
The fact that till the end I wasn't quite
sure about who was the bad guy, get this book other points (not that I'm a
professional investigator but I like to be surprised when I'm reading a
mystery).
The only thing I could say as a critique to this book is that I
was expecting something more from the resolving of Jack's wife case...but
otherwise I really liked it!
Sepulchre by James
Herbert
An outsider must protect a house and its
inhabitants from danger. Halloran will combat men who thrive on physical
corruption; he will find love of a perverse nature; he will confront his soul's
own darkness. And eventually he will discover the horrific and awesome secret of
the Sepulchre...
Bookman
A masked terrorist has brought London to its knees
-- there are bombs inside books, and nobody knows which ones. On the day of the
launch of the first expedition to Mars, by giant cannon, he outdoes himself with
an audacious attack.
For young poet Orphan, trapped in the screaming
audience, it seems his destiny is entwined with that of the shadowy terrorist,
but how? His quest to uncover the truth takes him from the hidden catacombs of
London on the brink of revolution, through pirate-infested seas, to the
mysterious island that may hold the secret to the origin not only of the shadowy
Bookman, but of Orphan himself...
Like a steam-powered take on V for Vendetta, rich
with satire and slashed through with automatons, giant lizards, pirates,
airships and wild adventure. The Bookman is the first of a series.
Dirty Little Secrets
Dirty Little Secrets is a novel that announces the
welcome arrival of a truly fresh new voice. Loosely based on her life, Joy tells
a riveting story while exploring the effects of physical and mental abuse. For a
young woman, such wrenching experiences must have left a mark and Joy King, in
this novel, leaves that mark with the reader.
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Divisadero
This is not a novel that concerns itself heavily
with plot. It is an exploration of its themes first and foremost. I don't want
to speak for the author, but it seems to me it was not written to be a page
turner. If that is what you're expecting I think you'll probably be
disappointed. Any hope of that will be gone with the abrupt end to the opening
section. But don't give up because of it. There are many novels with compelling
stories: there are few that treat its reader with as much respect as Divisadero.
Ondaatje tells you a story, but not all of it. He leaves the unwritten to the
reader to piece together. What does it mean that Coop/Anna and Segura both have
blue tables they treasure? What does it mean that Coop becomes a card player and
Segura names Ramon's sidekick `One-eyed Jaques'? What does it mean that the
colors of Anna's five flags are all represented in Segura's story, from the
color of Marie-Neige's dress to the white mucus of diphtheria? My hat is off to
you if you were able to decipher their meanings on your first read. I sure
couldn't. But multiple readings are exactly what this book is all about. I'm not
sure I agree with Amazon's description of the links between past and present as
being `explosive', but they are definitely meaningful, and I would argue they
are the core of the novel. I never -- NEVER -- reread books within a year, but
this is going to be a notable exception.
A Cool Head
Purchased this book as an Ian Rankin fan without
reading that it had been written specifically for a project involving people
with literacy problems. Compared to the normal Rankin flashes of his style and
evocation of Edinburgh but translated into a short format and simple language.
An admirable attempt to get those who would not normally read to access the book
but ultimately unsatisying for the more advanced reader.
Cold Case
Playing detective in a mystery simulation, Net
Force Explorer Matt Hunter investigates the high-profile murder of a wealthy
young socialite.
Gameprey
A computer game convention becomes a hunting ground
when the monsters from a new game escape-and attack the Net Force Explorers in
virtual reality!
Shadow Warriors: Inside The Special
Forces
The war in Afghanistan has given the public an
unprecedented look at what America's special forces can do--their extraordinary
skill and stamina and the sacrifices they are willing to make. Now, Tom Clancy
and Carl Stiner--the second commander of SOCOM, the U.S. Special Operations
Command--take readers deep inside the history, training, resourcefulness, and
creativity of the Special Forces soldier.
These are first-hand accounts of soldiers fighting
outside the lines: counterterrorism, raids, hostage rescues, reconnaissance,
counter-insurgency, and psychological operations-from Vietnam and Laos to
Lebanon, from Panama to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq, to the new wars of
today...
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Two Women
Danger and violence have always been part of Sue
Dalston's East End upbringing. Unloved by her mother, abused by her father, and
brutalised throughout her entire marriage, she smashed her husband's skull in a
final act of desperation. All that keeps her sane is knowing that she's done it
to protect her four children. At last, they are safe from harm. When she is
celled up with murderess Matilda Enderby, their fates become inextricably
linked. And no one - least of all Sue - could have predicted the
consequences...
Shalimar the Clown: A
Novel
This is the story of Maximilian Ophuls, America’s
counterterrorism chief, one of the makers of the modern world; his Kashmiri
Muslim driver and subsequent killer, a mysterious figure who calls himself
Shalimar the clown; Max’s illegitimate daughter India; and a woman who links
them, whose revelation finally explains them all. It is an epic narrative that
moves from California to Kashmir, France, and England, and back to California
again. Along the way there are tales of princesses lured from their homes by
demons, legends of kings forced to defend their kingdoms against evil. And there
is always love, gained and lost, uncommonly beautiful and mortally
dangerous.
Blueeyedboy
A gripping psychological thriller played out in
cyberspace, from the bestselling author of Chocolat and The Lollipop
Shoes.
"Once there was a widow with three sons, and their
names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive.
Brown was the middle child, timid and dull. But Blue was his mother's favourite.
And he was a murderer."
Blueyedboy is the brilliant new novel from Joanne
Harris: a dark and intricately plotted tale of a poisonously dysfunctional
family, a blind child prodigy, and a serial murderer who is not who he seems.
Napier's Bones
The numerological stuff in the novel is as good as
anything I've read and the action is fast and furious with no let-up till the
powerful climax. The character roles are the expected ones, but with enough
specific traits to make them distinctive - even if still relatively stock - and
some of the major twists are easily seen but the writing flows well, the pages
turn by themselves and the book is a very entertaining reading experience with a
great ending.
I think that if you are a math aficionado or a fan
of Urban Fantasy that goes beyond vampires and zombies, you have to try Napier
Bones (A+ for superb content and very good execution) since the author makes the
premise work with brio. While the book is a standalone with a definite ending,
there is a lot of scope for more in the intriguing numerological universe of
Derryl Murphy and I would be quite interested in such.
The Madman's Tale: A
Novel
It’s been twenty years since Western State Hospital
was closed down and the last of its inmates reintegrated into society. Francis
Petrel was barely out of his teens when his family committed him to the asylum,
after his erratic behavior culminated in a terrifying outburst. Now middle-aged,
he leads an aimless, solitary life housed in a cheap apartment, periodically
tended to by his sisters, and perpetually medicated to quiet the chorus of
voices in his head. But a reunion on the grounds of the shuttered institution
stirs something deep in Francis’s troubled mind: dark memories he thought he had
laid to rest, about the grisly events that led to Western State Hospital’s
demise.
It begins in 1979, when twenty-one-year-old Petrel
descends into the state-run purgatory of an overcrowded, understaffed
Massachusetts mental hospital. Surrounded by inmates roaming the halls like
drugged zombies and raving behind locked doors, well-meaning orderlies, jaded
nurses, and patronizing doctors, Francis finds friendship with a motley
assortment of fellow patients: a would-be Napoleon, a wise ex-firefighter, and a
man obsessed with battling imagined devils. But there’s nothing imaginary about
the young nurse found sexually assaulted and brutally murdered late one night
after lights-out.
The police suspect an inmate, while patients
whisper about visions of a white-shrouded “angel.” But the striking and
mysterious prosecuting attorney who arrives to investigate has her own chilling
theory—about the grim, telltale “signature” left on the victim’s body, a string
of unsolved sex killings, and a very real devil who, by chance or design, has
come to turn a madhouse into a slaughterhouse.
Now, with the past creeping back to haunt his
thoughts, and nothing but a pencil and the bare walls of his bleak apartment,
Francis surrenders to the overwhelming need to tell the story of those
nightmarish days. But because the crime was never solved, it’s a story doomed to
remain unfinished. Until, like Francis’s long-buried recollections, the killer
resurfaces . . . with a vengeance.
A tour de force narrative journey through the
eerily unpredictable mind of an utterly unusual hero, The Madman’s Tale will
keep even the most astute thriller reader uncertain, unnerved, and unable to
resist the tantalizing twists and turns of this fiendishly suspenseful shadow
show.
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Bossypants
Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before
"Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress
dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym
teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on
TV.
She has seen both these dreams come
true.
At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her
youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from
her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother
eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly
fatal honeymoon — from the beginning of this paragraph to this final
sentence.
Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all
suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.
Quick Step Q-Hook
Rugs
You'll quickly finish all eight of these
fun-to-make rugs, using multiple strands of worsted weight yarn. Projects
include the Striped Rectangle rug, the Oval rug, a Half Round mat, the
Jewel-Toned Round, the colorful Checkerboard, and much more!
Do It Yourself Advertising and Promotion:
How to Produce Great Ads, Brochures, Catalogs, Direct Mail, Web Sites, and
More
"Mr. Hahn's background in an industry where the
creative stretching of promotional budgets is a daily necessity serves well the
reader of this book. His advice is both practical and imaginative, and delivered
with wit as well as wisdom."
-Andrew McNally III, Chairman of the Board, Rand
McNally
Create Madison Avenue advertising on a Main Street
budget with Do-it-Yourself Advertising & Promotion
Now the most complete guide to do-it-yourself
advertising includes totally new sections on branding, the Internet, and Yellow
Pages advertising. This updated edition of Do-It-Yourself Advertising and
Promotion offers the latest information on launching your own homegrown,
successful advertising campaigns and new desktop publishing techniques. As an
entrepreneur or small business owner, you'll find tried-and-true, low-budget
promotional tactics. With every chapter updated and expanded, this new third
edition is better-and more comprehensive-than ever.
Author Fred E. Hahn and expert contributors show
you how to create successful high-impact advertising on a limited budget using
practical, time-tested techniques. This friendly and accessible guide explains
each method step by step-with concrete advice on planning, scheduling,
budgeting, creative issues, and production procedures to help you develop
effective:
Newspaper and magazine ads * Flyers, brochures, and
invitations * Direct mail campaigns
* Catalogs * Web sites * E-mail and Internet
advertising * Teleservicing * Audiovisual materials * Publicity tools and
techniques * And more!
The Big Book of Weekend Woodworking: 150
Easy Projects
Every woodworker will want to own this colorful,
information-packed, mammoth resource for weekend crafting. It's filled with 150
classic projects, and features an introductory section that walks readers
through the various planning stages. It's all covered: selecting the right wood,
working with patterns, gluing, and finishing. Novices can effortlessly make
simple mirrors, shelves, clocks, and jewelry boxes, while those with slightly
more advanced skills can try the small cupboard, blanket chest, or side table.
For outdoors, there are whimsical weathervanes, whirligigs, plants stands, and
trellises. Some of the sweetest items are just for kids, such as animal pull
toys, wheeled cars, puzzles, a winged rocking chair, and vintage-style doll
accessories. Every project include finishes or surface decoration options, plus
drawings and patterns.
Crafter's Hemp
Handbook
Perfect starter book for new knotters of hemp. 16
pages of knotting instructions from basic to imtermediate.
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May Gibbs Knits
This is a collection of 20 original designs based
on May Gibbs imagery, featuring characters such as Snugglepot and Cuddlepie,
Gumnut Babies and Flower Fairies. The 20 designs include cardigans and jumpers
for children from the age of two up to adult sizes. The designs feature picture
knitting and embroidery in wool for the delicate details. There are plenty of
hints and tips throughout to enable new knitters to complete these designs
successfully.
Bows Step-By-Step
The ultimate bow making book...this best seller has
been fully updated and features even more styles of bows! Includes: Complete
step-by-step illustrations Color photographs throughout Charts to show and
explain ribbon sizes Helpful bow making hints Ideas for when to use each
bow.
Love Kills Slowly Cross-Stitch: 30
Cross-Stitch Patterns from Ed Hardy
This ain't your grandmother's cross-stitch. Ed
Hardy's Love Kills Slowly Cross-Stitch is a counted cross-stitch book for a new
generation of crafters. From pierced hearts to images of skulls and crossbones,
Hardy's colorful, tattoo-inspired designs are perfect for stitchers looking for
something bold and graphic. Each pattern comes complete with a full-color
illustration of the original art, an illustration of the final product, and a
full-color pattern and key. A how-to section teaches the basics of counted
cross-stitch.
The New Kayak Shop: More Elegant Wooden
Kayaks Anyone Can Build
From coast to coast, home boatbuilders have turned
to Chris Kulczycki for everything they needed to know about making their own
kayaks from high-grade marine plywood and epoxy. In The Kayak Shop, a long-time
popular standard, Kulczycki provided explicit directions and plans for building
three sea kayaks: a high-performance single, an expedition single, and a touring
double. The New Kayak Shop details three new Kulczycki designs that are more
elegant and even more suitable for today’s paddlers. The building instructions
are also updated, with new sections on paint and varnish, seat construction,
power tools, computer programs for amateur designers, and tips on building
multi-chine and round-bottom boats. The New Kayak Shop offers the best, most
refined designs and building methods in a single, accessible
volume.
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The Handy Answer Book for Kids (and
Parents)
Answers a variety of questions about such topics as
nature, weather, geography, city and country life, technology, family life,
death, and disabilities.
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian
Culture
This new addition to Routledge's acclaimed
Contemporary Culture series features authoritative and engaging coverage of
post-1945 Italian culture, from major political, economic and legal concerns to
previously neglected issues and locations. With 1,000 entries by an
international group of expert contributors, the Encyclopedia covers virtually
every aspect of Italian culture.
Great Age Guide to Online
Travel
The Internet is an amazing travel tool, offering us
everything we need—if we just know how and where to look. This book was created
specifically for adults 50 and older who would like to take advantage of what
the Internet has to offer.
Even if you are new to computers, this book gives
you the tools you need to become your own travel agent! It covers
everything from planning your trip, getting the best prices, and choosing
activities to keep you from getting lost during your journey. Regardless of what
type of travels you are planning, this book provides essential do’s and don’ts
that will help lessen your surprises when reaching your destination.
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of
Spells
Here are fun spells for all needs: to revive
passion, to find love, for health, to attract money, and to help job seekers.
There's one for cat lovers—88 white-magic spells in all. The Ultimate
Encyclopedia of Spells contains everything one needs to make their dreams come
true, including practical steps to take if the spells don't take effect
immediately. With step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions and easy-to-find
tools and ingredients, this comprehensive volume emphasizes how to use spells
and magic positively, for self-development. Discover your true nature and
destiny with this fun guide to self-help magic!
The Handy Science Answer
Book
Presenting a fun and educational way to explore the
wonders of the world of science this guide collects more than 1,300 the most
commonly asked and interesting questions in a succinct, fun, and educational
manner. Children and adults alike will enjoy uncovering some of life’s greatest
mysteries, including how does a fax machine works, which color car is the
safest, the difference between male and female lobsters, and what city have the
record for most snowfall. With straightforward writing, more than 100
photographs, and dozens of graphs and tables, this guidebook is the perfect
reference for solving the mysteries of science.
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Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese
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Offering extensive coverage, this Encyclopedia is a
new reference that reflects the vibrant, diverse and evolving culture of modern
Japan, spanning from the end of the Japanese Imperialist period in 1945 to the
present day. Entries cover areas such as literature, film, architecture, food,
health, political economy, religion and technology and they range from shorter
definitions, histories or biographies to longer overview essays giving an
in-depth treatment of major issues.
With over 700 alphabetically arranged
entries, this Encyclopedia will be an invaluable reference tool for students of
Japanese and Asian Studies, as well as providing a fascinating insight into
Japanese culture for the general reader. Suggestions for further reading, a
comprehensive system of cross-referencing, a thematic contents list and an
extensive index all help navigate the reader around the Encyclopedia and on to
further study.
101 Chess Opening
Traps
The only thing more humiliating than losing a game
quickly is to lose a game quickly to a known opening trap. On the other hand,
the easy point scored by the trapper is a great confidence booster, and allows
the winner a good rest before the next game in a competition.
This book
shows that no-one should feel safe from an opponent armed to the teeth with
cunning traps. Steve Giddins (who lived in Russia for a time) has collected his
material from a wide variety of sources, some not normally available in the
West.
Exploring the Solar System: A History with
22 Activities
Grade 5 Up–This oversize book is an intriguing and
engrossing mix of facts, history, and hands-on activities. Beginning with a
two-page table of contents with chapters arranged as planets in our solar system
and an introductory time line, the author takes readers on a historical journey
of what was known and/or discovered in each of eight time periods. Each chapter
has sidebars containing biographical sketches of noteworthy astronomers and
other scientists, additional information on subjects such as telescopes, and
activities relating to ideas of that time. The last chapter is a projection into
the next decade with the launch of New Horizons, the first spacecraft to visit
Pluto. A 20-page Field Guide to the Solar System gives concise, pertinent
information about the planets, our sun and moon, asteroids, and comets. The
facts for each celestial object include its symbol, color, size, rotation,
temperature, and an exploration time line. Well organized and authoritative,
this title has plenty of material for research projects and
reports.
Arthur's Teacher
Trouble
friends on their first day of school.
Arthur is
a little apprehensive on his first day of school. Especially when he meets his
new teacher, Mr Ratburn. Find out what happens as the school year progresses.
Arthur represents his school in the school spellathon. Kids can practice along
with Arthur as he studies for the spelling bee.
This CD helps children
develop essential skills in reading, spelling and vocabulary.
Kids love the
Living Books with great stories, beautiful graphics and tons of clickable
hotspots. Text is highlighted as the story is read increasing reading
comprehension and confidence. Kids can also click on individual words to hear
them read.
Choose to have the story read to you or play in the story. This is
a great story with the characters kids love.
The Battle for
Guadalcanal
'Masterful pacing, vivid character sketches, and
gripping action blend with rigorous historical detail in Samuel B. Griffith's
"The Battle for Guadalcanal". Launched on August 7, 1942, to protect Allied
control of the strategic South Pacific islands, the Guadalcanal operation was
the most costly American offensive of World War II in the history of the U.S.
Navy up to that time'.'Griffith, who fought with Edson's Raiders on Guadalcanal,
describes in gritty detail the vicious close-range fighting, the valiant defense
of the Henderson Field airstrip, and the dramatic naval engagements that led, in
February 1943, to an American victory. Drawing on American and Japanese sources,
Griffith delineates the strategic decisions that shaped the conflict as well as
the determination and endurance of combatants on both sides. A breathtaking
narrative of military action anchored by a historian's objectivity, "The Battle
for Guadalcanal" is a story of raw courage, desperate measures, and ultimate
triumph.
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Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in
America after 9/11
Islam is America's fastest growing religion, with
more than six million Muslims in the United States, all living in the shadow of
9/11. Who are our Muslim neighbors? What are their beliefs and desires? How are
they coping with life under the War on Terror?
In Mecca and Main Street,
noted author and journalist Geneive Abdo offers illuminating answers to these
questions. Gaining unprecedented access to Muslim communities in America, she
traveled across the country, visiting schools, mosques, Islamic centers, radio
stations, and homes. She reveals a community tired of being judged by Americans'
perceptions of Muslims overseas and eager to tell their own stories. Abdo brings
these stories vividly to life, allowing us to hear their own voices and inviting
us to understand their hopes and their fears.
The younger generation of
Muslims in particular is charting a different way of life. They are following
new imams and placing their Muslim identity before their American one. And
unlike their parents, they do not define themselves by their ethnic background,
as Pakistani, Palestinian, or Yemeni. Instead they see themselves as belonging
to a universal faith. Through their new organizations and websites, they
exchange ideas about how to create a more Islamic lifestyle.
Inspiring,
insightful, tough-minded, and even-handed, this book will appeal to those
curious (or fearful) about the Muslim presence in America. It will also be
warmly welcomed by the Muslim community that it depicts.
After the Fire: A True Story of Friendship
and Survival
I LOVED this book. It's the true story of two young
men, terribly burned in a dormitory fire at Seton Hall University a few years
back. Living overseas at the time of the fire, I had no knowledge this tragedy
ever occurred; but I bought the book on the recommendation of a friend and
immediately found that I couldn't put it down.
It's an incredibly well-written story that will
draw you into the lives of these two courageous young men and the medical staff
who helped bring them back from the brink of death.
I was completely moved by this story and it touched
my heart in a way that no book ever has. This is easily one of my favorite books
of all time.
Burned Alive: A Victim of the Law of
Men
This book is about a woman who survives an
attempted honor killing after she has gotten pregnant by a neighbor.
the
neighbor professes his love for her, impregnates her and then, leaves her to
deal with the consequences. she discusses village traditions which mandate that
she be killed for premarital sex. She is also quite honest about her
difficulties after moving to Switzerland. What makes this book a wonderful read
is that she does not portray herself as "cured" after replanting herself in
Switzerland. she discusses the psychological challenges that await her, as she
tries to make a new family and also connect her old one, as her child from the
improper union was adopted by another family . My only problem with the book is
that Souad seems quite eager to adopt western traditions, morals and actions. I
wonder if this is a product of translation.
Come to the Edge: A
Memoir
What's best about the book, for many readers, I
suspect, is that it's the first credible portrait of John Kennedy, Jr. He's not
that smart. He's had no father. His mother terrifies him. He doesn't have the
courage to stand up to his family and declare his interest in acting. In a word,
he's lost. And so he throws himself into extreme sports and blood-tingling
hook-ups --- anything to feel the vitality of his own life. His death seals him
as a tragic figure, but some kind of bad end was inevitable. Tragedy was his
birthright. The poor bastard was doomed.
Your Money or Your Life!: The Tyranny of
Global Finance
This volume provides a thorough understanding of
the Third World debt crisis. Eric Toussaint traces its development in the 1980s
and 1990s, analyzes the role of the World Bank, the IMF and the political
restrictions they impose, and assesses the structural adjustment programmes of
the 1990s. Toussaint puts into perspective the process of globalization and the
neo-liberal offensive, which he argues, is now running out of steam. The book
features case studies of differing experiences of debt in Argentina, Mexico,
Algeria and Rwanda, and demonstrates the failure of the IMF/World Bank models of
development in the light of the Asian crisis. It provides alternative systems to
deal with Third World debt which are more humanitarian and
egalitarian.
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Harvard Medical School Guide to Overcoming
Thyroid Problems
A complete guide to understanding, treating, and
living with thyroid disease, from Harvard Medical School
More than 13 million people in the United States
suffer from some form of thyroid disease, and that number is expected to rise
precipitously as the baby boomer generation approaches its sixties.
Written by an internationally respected authority
on thyroid disease, Dr. Jeffrey R. Garber, The Harvard Medical School Guide to
Overcoming Thyroid Problems is an up-to-the minute, authoritative source of
practical information for thyroid patients and those who think they may have a
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and why, and how to work with a doctor
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* Dispels common myths and misconceptions about thyroid disease and
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Telling the Time
"DK Readers" help a child learn to read and
encourage a life-long love of reading. Tick, tock. Long ago, people told time
using the sun or water - follow a historical timeline and find out how clocks
have changed and become more accurate. "DK Readers" are part of a five-level
highly pictorial reading scheme, which uses lively illustrations and engaging
stories to encourage reading. Level 2 have long sentences, increased vocabulary,
information boxes and a simple index - read them together with children who are
beginning to read alone and with early or reluctant readers. There are over 70
titles in the series.
The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View
of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace
Afflictions
The creator of Dilbert, the fastest-growing comic
strip in the nation (syndicated in nearly 1000 newspapers), takes a look at
corporate America in all its glorious lunacy. Lavishly illustrated with
Dilbert strips, these hilarious essays on incompetent bosses, management
fads, bewildering technological changes and so much more, will make anyone who
has ever worked in an office laugh out loud in recognition.
The Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers
will be systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage --
management.
Since 1989, Scott Adams has been illustrating this
principle each day, lampooning the corporate world through Dilbert, his
enormously popular comic strip. In Dilbert, the potato-shaped, abuse-absorbing
hero of the strip, Adams has given voice to the millions of Americans buffeted
by the many adversities of the workplace.
Now he takes the next step, attacking corporate
culture head-on in this lighthearted series of essays. Packed with more than 100
hilarious cartoons, these 25 chapters explore the zeitgeist of ever-changing
management trends, overbearing egos, management incompetence, bottomless
bureaucracies, petrifying performance reviews, three-hour meetings, the
confusion of the information superhighway and more. With sharp eyes, and an even
sharper wit, Adams exposes -- and skewers -- the bizarre absurdities of everyday
corporate life. Readers will be convinced that he must be spying on their
bosses, The Dilbert Principle rings so true!
World of Adventure
In three stories—Escape from Fire Mountain; Hook
’Em, Snotty!; and Danger on Midnight River—the characters meet danger at every
turn in the great outdoors and learn to face their fears head on. From a forest
fire to a raging river to a scary bull named Diablo, the action doesn’t
stop.
Magyk
Ever since Harry Potter, the world of children's
literature has been swarmed by wanna-bes, filling bookstore shelves with stories
ranging from mediocre to absymal. This book breaks that mold. Magyk is filled
with characters so real they practically leap off the pages. The plot is
engaging, and the setting is, indeed, magykal. Kids who have been searching for
another great fantasy world will love this book. I can't wait for the next one
to come out. The only complaint I had about the book was that the font is
different every time something magykal happens. That stylistic choice didn't add
anything to the story for me. In fact, I found it a bit distracting. Not enough
to knock it down to four stars though. It was still great.
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Physik
Unfortunately for the majority of the characters,
old and new, major or minor, there's a new villainess in town, and when the
quite substantial ghost of the dreaded Queen Etheldredda is accidentally let
loose, along with her venomous pet Aie Aie, you can make a safe bet that there's
going to be lots of trouble. Coincidentally, or maybe not, a deadly "sickenesse"
befalls the populace, and just at the wrong time, a young trader named Snorri
(who sees dead people) arrives with not much else but her boatload of
merchandise and her pet cat for protection. She soon finds herself in the middle
of a time warping adventure with Septimus, Jenna and Nicko, as they muck around
with not only boats, but looking glasses, fume cupboards, ancient potions, sheep
bones and a flatulent dragon that needs to be in diapers. With a little help
from their friends, they must get Septimus back to Marcia's for safe keeping,
cure the deadly "sickenesse", and foil the evil Queen's plan for living forever.
You should be warned that the author has no
misgivings about killing off a character here and there, and of course, some
characters have actually been dead for centuries, but the story is so well told
that the only part sure to send a shiver up your spine is the thought of the
Queen's duckling a l'orange dinner. Highly recommended if you've read Magyk and
Flyte, but not until then.
Syren
I think the character development in this one was
perfect, and do not understand the comment another reader made that it was not.
I felt we learned more about these "tweens" as they are approaching adulthood,
and I felt it was realistic development, too. The story line is, as always with
Ms. Sage, engaging, and new characters come on the scene smoothly. The new
characters themselves are interesting, and I find myself very pleased with this
book...
The Magykal Papers
You can tell that this book was written with love.
Even the physical book itself is exceptional, with glossy pages and full-colored
drawings of all the main players in the books, along with their backstories. I
love books that give behind the scenes tidbits about the stories, and I have
them for Artemis Fowl and Leven Thumps, and I'm glad that now there's one for
Septimus Heap.
Queste
"Queste" is yet again a fantastic book in the
Septimus Heap series. I love the skill with which Angie Sage puts in the action,
adventure, and the tad of humor that makes the book amazing. "Queste" focuses
mainly on Septimus, Jenna, and Beetle as the trio search to find the place where
All Times Do Meet in order to save a Heap son, Nicko. Meanwhile, Septimus's
enemy, Merrin Meredith, is seeking a way to destroy Septimus in revenge.
Angie Sage has a unique way of writing her books, and this is one of her
best. Although it is meant for 9-year-olds, her series should be picked up by
people of every age. They are perfect books for children and adults everywhere,
and anyone who decides to read it will be sure to enjoy it.
Flyte
In 'Flyte', Sage continues Septimus' story with her
trademark offbeat humor and quirky magic. All the little details that readers
have come to love about her writing are abundant in this sequel, and all old
favorite (and not quite so favorite) characters make reappearences. However, the
middle book in a trilogy always suffers from some problems. The adventure feels
very loosely created, with no defenite climax. The characters wander around from
place to place in the supposed big finale for the last hundred pages, meeting
and overcoming new obstacles just like a video game. The villain Dom Daniel was
defeated so quickly with about a hundred more pages to go, that I felt confused
about what was the climax and what wasn't. Also, in the first book, you felt
like your were actually there with the characters on their adventure, but in
'Flyte' Sage sometimes opens chapters with brief descriptions of what happened
to her characters simply so she can get them to their next destination. But,
seeing as this is light fantasy meant for younger readers, 'Flyte' still is
consistent and ejoyable enough to hold on to young and older readers' attention.
And how can anybody not fall for Sage's wonderful characters, quirky magic, and
fantastical world full of swimming bogarts and pet dragons?
While somewhat sloppy in its plotting, 'Flyte' is
still an enjoyable entry into the Septimus Heap series. I highly reccommend it
to all readers who enjoy a little 'magyk' when it comes across them, and a good,
solid read that entices their imaginations.
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The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy
Eating During Pregnancy
No strict diets, no scary guidelines--just the
essential nutrition expectant moms need to start their babies on the road to
lifelong health
All parents know that kids need nutritious foods as
they grow. But new research confirms that what you eats during pregnancy can
also profoundly affect the health of your baby when that baby becomes an
adult--for better or for worse. Endorsed by the Harvard Medical School and
written by one of the world's leading experts in nutrition for pregnant women
and babies, this guide offers more solid information and medically sound advice
on prenatal nutrition than any other book on the market.
Able-Bodied Womanhood: Personal Health and
Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Boston
As urban life and women's roles changed in the 19th
century, so did attitudes towards physical health and womanhood. In this case
study of health reform in Boston between 1830 and 1900, Martha H. Verbrugge
examines three institutions that popularized physiology and exercise among
middle-class women: The Ladies' Physiological Institute, Wellesley College, and
the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics. Against the backdrop of a national
debate about female duties and well-being, this book follows middle-class women
as they learned about health and explored the relationship between fitness and
femininity. Combining medical and social history, Verbrugge looks at the
ordinary women who participated in health reform and analyzes the conflicting
messages--both feminist and conservative--projected by the concept of
"able-bodied womanhood."
Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine:
Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and
Wellness
Use the power of nature to heal your body and enjoy
a lifetime of good health
In Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine,
naturopathic physician Tori Hudson shows you how to safely and effectively
combine conventional and natural medicine to maintain health and address
specific medical conditions. Her groundbreaking work offers sound information on
complementary therapies such as bio-identical hormones, vitamin supplementation,
herbs, diet, and exercise and helps you make informed choices about your health.
Learn how to:
* Treat a whole range of
female health issues, from contraception to menopause, heart conditions to
infections
* Safely integrate alternative therapies with traditional
medicine
* Determine when you should seek a practitioner's help
* And much more
Compassionate and authoritative, Women's
Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine demonstrates that an informed, integrative
approach to staying well is often the best medicine.
“This is a book that should be in every woman's
health library and every alternative practitioner's library. It is a resource
for the new breed of conventional practitioners who are open to a more
integrative health-care system.”
--Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
Harvard Medical School Guide to Achieving
Optimal Memory
This is the latest, best information on how to make
your memory the best it can be, from a leading doctor in the field. It covers
how much lifestyle factors such as sleep, nutrition, and exercise, affect
memory, how to tell if you need to see a doctor, and gives proven ways to build
your memory power. It is written by a world-renowned authority at Harvard
Medical School and Brigham and Women's, consistently ranked as one of the
leading hospitals in the U.S. It contains the latest, best, medical practices as
well as what we know about alternative approaches, and a recommended lifestyle
program. It covers the latest research on topics such as sleep's role in memory,
what is "normal" memory as we age, and what to do about "senior moments." It
contains boxed items sprinkled throughout, on topics such as "Medical Myths" and
"Questions Patients Ask."
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the
Forging of Britain
This is the first major biography for a generation
of a truly formidable king - a man born to rule England, who believed that it
was his right to rule all of Britain. His reign was one of the most dramatic and
important of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an
unprecedented scale, and leaving a legacy of division between the peoples of
Britain that has lasted from his day to our own.
Edward I is familiar to millions as 'Longshanks',
conqueror of Scotland and nemesis of Sir William Wallace (??˜Braveheart'). Yet
this story forms only the final chapter of the king's astonishingly
action-packed life. Earlier Edward had defeated and killed the famous Simon de
Montfort in battle; travelled across Europe to the Holy Land on crusade;
conquered Wales, extinguishing forever its native rulers, and constructing - at
Conwy, Harlech, Beaumaris and Caernarfon - the most magnificent chain of castles
ever created. He raised the greatest armies of the English Middle Ages, and
summoned the largest parliaments; notoriously, he expelled all the Jews from his
kingdom. The longest-lived of all England's medieval kings, he fathered no fewer
than fifteen children with his first wife, Eleanor of Castile, and after her
death he erected the Eleanor Crosses - the grandest funeral monuments ever
fashioned for an English monarch.
In this book, Marc Morris examines afresh the
forces that drove Edward throughout his relentless career: his character, his
Christian faith, and his sense of England's destiny - a sense shaped in
particular by the tales of the legendary King Arthur. He also explores the
competing reasons that led Edward's opponents (including Llywelyn ap Gruffudd
and Robert Bruce) to resist him, and the very different societies that then
existed in Scotland, Wales and Ireland. The result is a sweeping story,
immaculately researched yet compellingly told, and a vivid picture of medieval
Britain at the moment when its future was decided.
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How the Arabian Nights Inspired the
American Dream, 1790-1935
Americans have always shown a fascination with the
people, customs, and legends of the "East"--witness the popularity of the
stories of the Arabian Nights, the performances of Arab belly dancers and
acrobats, the feats of turban-wearing vaudeville magicians, and even the antics
of fez-topped Shriners. In this captivating volume, Susan Nance provides a
social and cultural history of this highly popular genre of Easternized
performance in America until the Great Depression.
According to Nance, these traditions reveal how a
broad spectrum of Americans, including recent immigrants and impersonators,
behaved as producers and consumers in a rapidly developing capitalist economy.
In admiration of the Arabian Nights, people creatively reenacted Eastern life,
but these performances were also demonstrations of Americans' own identities,
Nance argues. The story of Aladdin, made suddenly rich by rubbing an old lamp,
stood as a particularly apt metaphor for how consumer capitalism might benefit
each person. The leisure, abundance, and contentment that many imagined were
typical of Eastern life were the same characteristics used to define "the
American dream."
The recent success of Disney's Aladdin movies
suggests that many Americans still welcome an interpretation of the East as a
site of incredible riches, romance, and happy endings. This abundantly
illustrated account is the first by a historian to explain why and how so many
Americans sought out such cultural engagement with the Eastern world long before
geopolitical concerns became paramount.
World Fascism : A Historical
Encyclopedia
From Benito Mussolini's use of poison gas against
Abyssinian tribesmen in 1935 and Adolf Hitler's unparalleled use of mass murder
on an industrial scale during the Holocaust to present-day right-wing fascist
movements in Europe, this meticulously researched encyclopedia shows how
fascism's history is filled with horror and bloodshed.
Here is a major contribution to the scholarship of
Fascism. The more than 500 separately authored entries are written by 125
experts in Fascism studies. Like the authors, the entries represent the
multidisciplinary nature of Fascism studies, covering history, political
science, philosophy, and religion in entries on people, political parties and
movements, and key geographical areas. Entries average 1 to 2 pages, but there
are some longer articles, such as the 6-page article on France. Although the
majority of entries deal with the twentieth century, meaning there should be no
shortage of available images, there are only a few black-and-white
illustrations, mostly attached to biographical entries.
Features
• 500 A–Z entries on fascist leaders
and the movements, doctrines, and key events associated with fascism
• An
extensive index that enables readers to locate topics quickly and easily
•
Information about fascism as a worldwide movement from a wide range of
sources
• Contributions from over 100 scholars from more than 20
nations
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True
Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
A riveting true crime story that vividly recounts
the birth of modern forensics.
At the end of the nineteenth century, serial
murderer Joseph Vacher, known and feared as “The Killer of Little Shepherds,”
terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities for years—until he ran
up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne, the era’s
most renowned criminologist. The two men—intelligent and bold—typified the Belle
Epoque, a period of immense scientific achievement and fascination with
science’s promise to reveal the secrets of the human condition.
With high drama and stunning detail, Douglas Starr
revisits Vacher’s infamous crime wave, interweaving the story of how Lacassagne
and his colleagues were developing forensic science as we know it. We see one of
the earliest uses of criminal profiling, as Fourquet painstakingly collects
eyewitness accounts and constructs a map of Vacher’s crimes. We follow the tense
and exciting events leading to the murderer’s arrest. And we witness the twists
and turns of the trial, celebrated in its day. In an attempt to disprove
Vacher’s defense by reason of insanity, Fourquet recruits Lacassagne, who in the
previous decades had revolutionized criminal science by refining the use of
blood-spatter evidence, systematizing the autopsy, and doing groundbreaking
research in psychology. Lacassagne’s efforts lead to a gripping courtroom
denouement.
The Killer of Little Shepherds is an important
contribution to the history of criminal justice, impressively researched and
thrillingly told.
The Litvinenko File: The Life and Death of
a Russian Spy
On December 7 2006, in a Highgate Cemetery drenched
with London rain, a Russian was buried within a stone's throw of the grave of
Karl Marx. He was Alexander Litvinenko, Sasha to his friends, a boy from the
deep Russian provinces who rose through the ranks of the world's most feared
security service. Litvinenko was the man who denounced murder and corruption in
the Russian government, fled from the wrath of the Kremlin, came to London, and
allied himself with Moscow's sworn enemies. ?Now he was a martyr, condemned by
foes unknown to an agonizing death in a hospital bed thousands of miles from
home.
Martin Sixsmith draws on his long experience as the
BBC's Moscow correspondent and his contact with the key London-based Russians to
dissect Alexander Litvinenko's murder. Myriad theories have been put forward
since he died, but the story goes back to 2000 when hostilities were declared
between the Kremlin and its political opponents. This is a war that has blown
hot and cold for over six years, and that has pitted some of Russia's strongest,
richest men against the most powerful Russian president since Josef Stalin.? The
conflict is also beginning to revive horrors of the days of the KGB, in a
conflict that looks set only to intensify as the March 2008 presidential
election approaches.
The Litvinenko File is a gripping inside account of
a shocking act of murder, when Russia's war with itself spilled over onto the
streets of London and made the world take notice.
L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of
America's Most Seductive City
Other cities have histories. Los Angeles has
legends.
Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as
"the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome
Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world’s most famous
police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world
of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt
politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two
men–one L.A.’s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police
chief–each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.
Former street thug turned featherweight boxer
Mickey Cohen left the ring for the rackets, first as mobster Benjamin "Bugsy"
Siegel’s enforcer, then as his protege. A fastidious dresser and unrepentant
killer, the diminutive Cohen was Hollywood’s favorite gangster–and L.A.’s
preeminent underworld boss. Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, and Sammy Davis Jr.
palled around with him; TV journalist Mike Wallace wanted his stories;
evangelist Billy Graham sought his soul.
William H. Parker was the proud son of a pioneering
law-enforcement family from the fabled frontier town of Deadwood. As a rookie
patrolman in the Roaring Twenties, he discovered that L.A. was ruled by a
shadowy "Combination"–a triumvirate of tycoons, politicians, and underworld
figures where alliances were shifting, loyalties uncertain, and politics were
practiced with shotguns and dynamite. Parker’s life mission became to topple
it–and to create a police force that would never answer to elected officials
again.
These two men, one morally unflinching, the other
unflinchingly immoral, would soon come head-to-head in a struggle to control the
city–a struggle that echoes unforgettably through the fiction of Raymond
Chandler and movies such as The Big Sleep, Chinatown, and L.A. Confidential.
For more than three decades, from Prohibition
through the Watts Riots, the battle between the underworld and the police played
out amid the nightclubs of the Sunset Strip and the mansions of Beverly Hills,
from the gritty streets of Boyle Heights to the manicured lawns of Brentwood,
intersecting in the process with the agendas and ambitions of J. Edgar Hoover,
Robert F. Kennedy, and Malcolm X. The outcome of this decades-long entanglement
shaped modern American policing–for better and for worse–and helped create the
Los Angeles we know today.
A fascinating examination of Los Angeles’s
underbelly, the Mob, and America’s most admired–and reviled–police department,
L.A. Noir is an enlightening, entertaining, and richly detailed narrative about
the city originally known as El Pueblo de Nuestra Se–ora la Reina de los
Angeles, "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels."
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Redemption: A Story of Sisterhood,
Survival, and Finding Freedom Behind Bars
There were a few places where I wished for more
insight, though I don't know if the author had the answers I was hoping for
inside her. For instance, I wanted to understand why she denied to her mother
what was happening even when directly questioned. Despite that her mother came
across as very uncaring and self-centered, I don't understand why Stacey didn't
say something, even in a burst of rage (she had plenty of angry blow-ups at her
mom... considering how angry she was that she thought her mom knew and didn't do
anything, why would she not have confronted her about it?).
I was also left with the impression that Christy's
role in the murder was probably more than what Stacey implicitly wrote. Unless
I'm completely off-base, it seems she intentionally hinted that she was taking
the full blame even though it wasn't entirely her crime. I closed the book
wondering it Christy was really the one who pulled the trigger any of the three
times.
Overall, this book does a terrific job of painting
a picture that the courts, police, social services, and others have managed to
whitewash for so long. What went on in the Lannert household is unusual, but not
rare. Incest happens in households across the world every day, and few women
have the courage to be this open about it in the hopes of helping others. Part
of what makes Stacey so brave is that she doesn't depict her father as just a
cartoonish monster; she describes her love for him, her conflicted feelings
about "good Daddy" and "bad Daddy," and her decision to live with him even after
he'd been raping her for years.
I'm so happy that Stacey was released from prison,
and I hope she'll write a follow-up book in a few years, when she's had more
time to get rooted in her new life. I'm glad to see that both sisters have been
able to move forward. The book certainly makes you feel for these women and hope
for their despite-all-odds happy endings.
Sit, Ubu, Sit: How I Went from Brooklyn to
Hollywood with the Same Woman, the Same Dog, and a Lot Less
Hair
The thing that surprised me the most in this
breezy, charming bio by Goldberg, who made Michael J Fox a star when he created
'Family Ties', is how choked up I got while reading it. It reads like those
light, smart sit-coms you're watching and laughing hysterically at, and then
suddenly something happens that's so touching, so human, you're welling up
before you know it. A large portion of the book is, like so many have previously
stated, a love letter to his wife, and it's nice to see Hollywood endings can
come at the end of a romantic fairy tale.
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a
Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied
Victory
Presenting previously top secret material, Ben
Macintyre brings the reader right into the minds of intelligence officers, their
moles and spies, and the German Abwehr agents who suffered from wishfulness and
yesmanship. He weaves together the eccentric personalities of Cholmondeley and
Montagu and their near-impossible feats into a riveting adventure that not only
saved thousands of lives but paved the way for a pivotal battle in Sicily and,
ultimately, Allied success in the war. Most importantly, the corpse does not
remain anonymous.
Macintyre's discovery of the identity of the
corpse, its route into the hands of the British intelligence officers and then
its delivery into the sea currents that took it ashore is astonishing and
compelling. At the end of the book, the reader is conveyed to a Spanish cemetery
that holds the body of an improverished and mentally disadvantaged Welshman who
inadvertently committed suicide and afterward heroically served his
country.
The Battle of Mogadishu: Firsthand Accounts
from the Men of Task Force Ranger
This is a great book if you would like to get
details of what its like to be in a battle. Yes some of the stories seem rushed
or "not complete" but one must remember how much goes on during an actual fire,
and how much information a person has to process. It is impossible for one man
to remember every little detail that these guys want. The book did do a good job
as to offer some different views and perspectives of the battle so that you can
get a feeling for the battle as a whole. I recommend this to anyone who wants to
know more about the conflict in Somalia, or even just what its like to be a
ranger when you put your training to use.
The 2-hour Tarot Tutor: The Fast,
Revolutionary Method for Learning to Read Tarot in 2 Hours
For centuries, the Tarot has been regarded as a
powerful means of telling fortunes and predicting fates. Now, you too can learn
the techniques and skills to read the Tarot - in just two hours! Using this
breakthrough manual, anyone with a desire to discover the secrets of the Tarot
can find easy-to-follow instructions that will lead to success in Tarot reading,
including: the Celtic Cross and Seven Sisters spreads; spreads to answer those
unfathomable love questions; sample readings; tips and troubleshooting for
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Stand Your Ground: Building Honorable
Leaders the West Point Way
West Point is the ideal laboratory for studying the
dynamics of character, honor, and leadership: first, it operates a comprehensive
honor education and enforcement program that has been subjected to rigorous
Congressional scrutiny; second, it builds all of its academic, athletic, and
military programs on this bedrock of honor. As a result, West Point invests
heavily in mentoring, training, and evaluation to ensure the leadership and
character development of its 4,000 cadets. From Civil War General Robert E. Lee
to astronaut Edwin E. Buzz Aldrin to basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, West
Point has groomed leaders whose contributions far exceed the successful
management of their immediate charges. By illuminating the principles by which
West Point teaches leadership, Stand Your Ground not only provides a unique tour
behind the scenes at this revered institution, but, more generally, imparts
lessons of honor and character-building that can be adopted by any aspiring
leader.
Management professor and West Point graduate Evan
Offstein approached leaders at the U.S. Military Academy and the Department of
the Army with two primary questions: (1) How does West Point develop its
leaders?; (2) Can other individuals and organizations apply these methods
effectively? Two years later, after conducting extensive on-site research at
West Point and with business leaders in a variety of industries, he offers
unprecedented access to the process of leadership development at West Point, and
practical insights that can, indeed, be applied in any type of organization that
strives to operate on the principle of integrity.
The Knitter's Bible by Claire
Crompton
The essential handbook for knitters of all skill
levels. Getting Started goes back to basics, with an overview of the yarns and
equipment available today. It then takes you, step-by-step, through the basics
of knitting, with knit and purl, casting on and binding (casting) off, and
reading patterns. Creative Options expands upon the basics with further
techniques, while Exploring Choices will provide even the experienced knitter
with new ideas for interesting projects. The Stitch Library will become an
indispensable reference to be constantly referred to. Finally, a wide selection
of Patterns and Projects, linked back to the techniques throughout the book,
provide plenty opportunites to explore your developing skills and experiment
with a variety of motifs to liven up any knitting.
Adventure Guide to
Germany
This guide covers all of Germany in detail, from
Berlin to Dresden, the Black Forest to Hamburg, Cologne, Munich and Bavaria. How
to get special discounts (some 20 for train and bus travel alone), with tips for
saving on gas, on hotels, on museums – insights only an insider would know. The
best shopping, the foods and wines – what to look for and where to find it. All
the places to stay described in detail, from guesthouses and hostels to the most
luxurious hotels. Germany has the world’s largest Gothic church at Cologne and
more medieval castles than any country in the world. Hundreds of small towns are
barely changed from the Middle Ages. The author guides us through all of the
best castles, churches, museums and other historic sites. Rhine cruises, wine
tours, concerts, theater, town and country walks, canoeing and kayaking, cycling
– it’s all here.
Hunter Travel Guides Cruising the
Mediterranean: A Guide to the Ports of Call
This is a thorough update for this cruising season,
with extensive details on every vessel travelling in the Med. The author, a
cruising veteran, covers all facts from level of service, cabin size, decor and
layout, to ship amenities, passenger/crew ratio and dining options. Sailing
routes are reviewed candidly, and the pitfalls and bonuses of each are given,
making you an educated cruise traveller. Port profiles are tailored to the
cruising visitor - taxi tours, dockside phones, the best shops, plus a list of
operators who are familiar with cruise schedules and will get you back to your
ship on time. You'll find walking tours and out-of-town attractions keyed to
detailed maps. The coverage includes Portugal, Spain, France, Monaco, Corsica,
Sardinia, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Black Sea, Lebanon, Syria, Israel,
Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and the Atlantic Isles of the Canaries, Madeira and the
Azores.
Frommer's 500 Places for Food and Wine
Lovers
Coverage is global, including food festivals,
farmer's markets, cooking schools, street food, wineries, wine trails, and
restaurant wine lists-as well as the world's best restaurants in several price
ranges and categories throughout the world, including:
* Open-air markets, farms,
culinary festivals, and street food
* Cookbook and
kitchenware shops
* Gourmet and specialty food
stores
* Food vacations, including inns/resorts, cruises,
and cooking schools
* Vineyards, breweries, and
distilleries
* Must-visit restaurants, coffee bars, and
dessert places
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Miama Alive! & the Florida
Keys
Are you looking for a day at the beach or a night
on the town? Do you want to sail the Intracoastal Waterway by day or to cruise
South Beach by night? How about a little bit of each? It's all here, from the
neon excitement of Miami to the laid-back style of the Keys, from spas to
sports, from romantic getaways to family fun.
Miami & the Florida Keys Alive! is certain to
entice first-time and long-time visitors alike. You'll find comprehensive
information in every chapter, whether you are looking for the finest
international cuisine, world-class shopping, challenging dive excursions or just
some fun in the sun. You'll also find a vacation for every budget; a price scale
is included for hotels and restaurants, and fees are listed for most
attractions. Maps and index.
The Oxford Essential Guide to
Writing
Rich Dad's Guide to
Investing
The rich are different from the rest of us, if for
no other reason than U.S. tax and securities laws allow them to invest in ways
that keep us from catching up to them. That's why 90 percent of all corporate
shares of stock are owned by 10 percent of the people. Kiyosaki believes it's
possible for anyone to move up into that 10 percent, but it takes a different
view of investing than most people have: it takes a plan to be a successful
investor. And a plan is more than simply buying and selling, or collecting
"assets" that bring in no cash and are thus more akin to liabilities. The way
most people invest, "they might as well be pushing a wheelbarrow in a circle,"
he writes. A plan is "mechanical, automatic, and boring," a formula for success
that has worked historically for most of those who've used it. Kiyosaki's "rich
dad" (actually, the father of his best friend) tells him the simplest analogy is
the game Monopoly: buy four green houses, trade them for one red hotel, and
repeat until you become rich.
The overall message of Rich Dad's Guide to
Investing is that this is an abundant world, full of opportunity for the
sophisticated investor. However, it sometimes takes a while to find this point.
Much of the book is told in dialogues between young Kiyosaki and his rich dad,
and these conversations can ramble. There are rewards for the careful
reader--for example, in the middle of a section on the basic rules of investing,
Kiyosaki's rich dad compares investor education to toilet training: difficult at
first but eventually automatic. But getting to these inspired metaphors means
wading through a lot of repetitive dialogue. It's a bit ironic that someone who
advocates investor discipline should show so little as a writer. But by the end
of the book, even the rambling starts to make sense. By the hundredth time you
read that the rich don't work for money, and that you don't need money to make
money, both concepts start to make sense. It still looks difficult to apply
these ideas, but Rich Dad's Guide to Investing certainly makes the case that
they'll work for anyone bold and smart enough to practice them.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach
Their Kids About Money - That the Poor and Middle Class Do
Not!
Rich Dad Poor Dad has been around long enough now
so that everyone should know it's the true story of Robert Kiyosaki's 2 fathers;
one rich, one poor and how Kiyosaki developed financial literacy. This book will
tell you some things that you don't want to hear like a house is not an asset.
That financial literacy is different from educational literacy. That your income
is not your wealth. Investors are different from savers and so on.
Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert
Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to a pair of
disparate influences: his own highly educated but fiscally unstable father, and
the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend. The
lifelong monetary problems experienced by his "poor dad" (whose weekly
paychecks, while respectable, were never quite sufficient to meet family needs)
pounded home the counterpoint communicated by his "rich dad" (that "the poor and
the middle class work for money," but "the rich have money work for them").
Taking that message to heart, Kiyosaki was able to retire at 47. Rich Dad, Poor
Dad, written with consultant and CPA Sharon L. Lechter, lays out his the
philosophy behind his relationship with money. Although Kiyosaki can take a
frustratingly long time to make his points, his book nonetheless compellingly
advocates for the type of "financial literacy" that's never taught in schools.
Based on the principle that income-generating assets always provide healthier
bottom-line results than even the best of traditional jobs, it explains how
those assets might be acquired so that the jobs can eventually be shed. --Howard
Rothman
Am I Crazy, or Is It My
Shrink?
With over 400 types of psychotherapy available,
ranging from the highly effective to the highly questionable to the downright
fraudulent, the task of choosing a therapist can be daunting. Now, Am I Crazy Or
Is My Shrink? gives you all the information you need to get the most effective
help and to know when your therapy is working--or when it's time for a
change.
Drawing on years of practical experience and the most up-to-date
research, the authors give you expert guidance on all the issues you should
consider, whether you're seeking therapy or uncertain about the therapy you're
receiving: What questions should I ask my therapist about a recommended
treatment? What personal qualities and professional qualifications should I look
for in a therapist? What do research studies say about the effectiveness of a
particular therapy? How do I recognize when a therapist is not right for me? How
can I tell when my therapist's behavior is unethical or unprofessional? What
strategies can I use to evaluate my progress? The authors also provide an
overview of the main branches of psychotherapy and suggest which approaches are
best suited to the most commonly occurring problems, such as depression,
anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorders, eating disorders, relationship and
sexual difficulties, and many others. Finally, the authors stress that because
therapies don't come with warning labels, and because a therapist will typically
apply his or her theory to whoever walks through the door, regardless of their
unique symptoms and circumstances, it is essential to choose your therapist
wisely, with as much forethought as possible.
Am I Crazy Or Is My Shrink?
empowers you to make that choice with confidence and to be a knowledgeable
participant in your own treatment.
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Origami Sea Life
Illustrated instruction book features 38 unusual
subjects, from simple to complex, each graded for difficulty. Sailfish, tadpole,
killer whale, bay barnacle, dolphin, horseshoe crab, barracuda, blue crab,
American lobster, and many more. Step-by-step instructions, notes on animals,
technique of wet folding, much more. Over 2,400 black-and-white
illustrations.
Rowan Kidsilk Dream
A collection of thirteen designs using Rowan
Kidsilk Haze, Kidsilk Night & Kidsilk Spray
Terror in Black September: The First
Eyewitness Account of the Infamous 1970 Hijackings
On Sunday, September 6, 1970, the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked four airliners bound from Europe for
New York. One, a brand new Pan Am 747, was taken to Cairo and blown up
only seconds after its passengers escaped. The attempt to hijack a second
plane, an El Al flight, was foiled and the plane landed safely in the UK.
Two other planes, one TWA and one Swissair, were directed to the desert floor
thirty-five miles northeast of Amman, Jordan, where a twenty-five day hostage
drama began. With the additional hijacking of a British airliner, over
four hundred and fifty hostages had landed in the Jordanian desert. David Raab
was on the TWA flight with his mother and siblings but was separated from them
and taken to a refugee camp and then to an apartment in Amman where he was held
hostage through a civil war. This is his story.
And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with
21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft
Every great joke has a punch line, and every great
humor writer has an arsenal of experiences, anecdotes, and obsessions that were
the inspiration for that humor. In fact, those who make a career out of
entertaining strangers with words are a notoriously intelligent and quirky lot.
And boy, do they have some stories.
In this entertaining and inspirational book, you'll
hear from 21 top humor writers as they discuss the comedy-writing process, their
influences, their likes and dislikes, and their experiences in the industry.
You?ll also learn some less useful but equally amusing things, such
as:
* How screenwriter Buck Henry came up with the famous ?plastics?
line for The Graduate.
* How many times the cops were called on
co-writers Sacha Baron Cohen and Dan Mazer during the shooting of
Borat.
* What David Sedaris thinks of his critics.
* What
creator Paul Feig thinks would have happened to the Freaks & Geeks crew if
the show had had another season.
* What Jack Handey considers his
favorite ?Deep Thoughts.?
* How Todd Hanson and the staff of The Onion
managed to face the aftermath of 9/11 with the perfect dose of humor.
*
How Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais created the original version of The
Office.
* What it?s really like in the writers? room at SNL.Funny and
informative, And Here's the Kicker is a must-have resource - whether you?re an
aspiring humor writer, a fan of the genre, or someone who just likes to
laugh.
American Pie: My Search for the Perfect
Pizza
On the subject of pizza, there is never a shortage
of opinions. Allegiances run from the general (Chicago versus New York style,
Neapolitan versus Roman) to the particular (Pepe's versus Sally's, Gino's East
versus Pizzeria Uno), and new interpretations ever extend the pizza frontier.In
AMERICAN PIE, master bread baker Peter Reinhart follows the trail from Italy to
the States, capturing the stories behind the greatest artisanal pizzas of the
Old World and the New. Beginning his journey in Genoa, Reinhart scours the
countryside in search of the fabled focaccia col formaggio. He next heads to
Rome to sample the famed seven-foot-long pizza al taglio, and then to Naples for
the archetypal pizza napoletana. Back in America, the hunt resumes in the
unlikely locale of Phoenix, Arizona, where Chris Bianco of Pizzeria Bianco has
convinced many that his pie sets the new standard in the country. The pizza
mecca of New Haven, grilled pizza in Providence, the deep-dish pies of Chicago,
California-style pizza in San Francisco and Los Angeles—these are just a few of
the tasty attractions on Reinhart's epic tour. Returning to the kitchen,
Reinhart gives a master class on pizza-making techniques and provides more than
60 recipes for doughs, sauces and toppings, and the pizzas that bring them all
together. His insatiable curiosity and gift for storytelling make AMERICAN PIE
essential reading for those who aspire to make great pizza at home, as well as
for anyone who enjoys the thrill of the hunt.
* A fascinating look into the great pizzas
and pizzerias of Italy and America.
* Peter Reinhart's last book, THE
BREAD BAKER'S APPRENTICE, was named Cookbook of the Year by both the James Beard
Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals.
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The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures
of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic
Animal
Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth
Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds,
trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a
bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely
cold mountains. In The Lady and the Panda, Vicki Constantine Croke gives us the
remarkable account of Ruth Harkness and her extraordinary journey, and restores
Harkness to her rightful place along with Sacajawea, Nellie Bly, and Amelia
Earhart as one of the great woman adventurers of all time.
Ruth was the toast of 1930s New York, a dress
designer newly married to a wealthy adventurer, Bill Harkness. Just weeks after
their wedding, however, Bill decamped for China in hopes of becoming the first
Westerner to capture a giant panda–an expedition on which many had embarked and
failed miserably. Bill was also to fail in his quest, dying horribly alone in
China and leaving his widow heartbroken and adrift. And so Ruth made the fateful
decision to adopt her husband’s dream as her own and set off on the adventure of
a lifetime.
It was not easy. Indeed, everything was against
Ruth Harkness. In decadent Shanghai, the exclusive fraternity of white male
explorers patronized her, scorned her, and joked about her softness, her lack of
experience and money. But Ruth ignored them, organizing, outfitting, and leading
a bare-bones campaign into the majestic but treacherous hinterlands where China
borders Tibet. As her partner she chose Quentin Young, a twenty-two-year-old
Chinese explorer as unconventional as she was, who would join her in a romance
as torrid as it was taboo.
Traveling across some of the toughest terrain in
the world–nearly impenetrable bamboo forests, slick and perilous mountain
slopes, and boulder-strewn passages–the team raced against a traitorous rival,
and was constantly threatened by hordes of bandits and hostile natives. The
voyage took months to complete and cost Ruth everything she had. But when,
almost miraculously, she returned from her journey with a baby panda named Su
Lin in her arms, the story became an international sensation and made the front
pages of newspapers around the world. No animal in history had gotten such
attention. And Ruth Harkness became a hero.
Drawing extensively on American and Chinese
sources, including diaries, scores of interviews, and previously unseen intimate
letters from Ruth Harkness, Vicki Constantine Croke has fashioned a captivating
and richly textured narrative about a woman ahead of her time. Part Myrna Loy,
part Jane Goodall, by turns wisecracking and poetic, practical and spiritual,
Ruth Harkness is a trailblazing figure. And her story makes for an
unforgettable, deeply moving adventure.
Guarding the United States and Its
Outposts
The area covered in this book is vast, and so are
the topics. The reader will embark upon a long journey and become involved in a
complex series of events, ranging from guarding inland waterways to fighting the
Japanese, from rounding up one forlorn German on the coast of Greeland to
battling German submarines, from conducting staff conferences with the Navy to
negotiating with His Britannic Majesty?s ministers, from withstanding the cold
of the arctic or the heat of the tropics to overcoming the ever-present ennui of
soldiers who wait for the stress of battle that never comes. Guarding the United
States and Its Outposts is instructive. Dealing often with the twilight between
peace and war, it focuses upon problems of immediate relevance to the Army and
the nation today. Then as now the nation found itself in a revolution in
doctrine, weapons, and methods of defense. The way in which men caught in this
revolution faced the situation can be a guide to those meeting similar
circumstances today and in the future. This book highlights problems in unified
command and contains excellent examples of military diplomacy, of how to get
along, or fail to get along, with other armed forces of the United States and
with our Allies. In contains authoritative accounts of several highly
controversial events, especially the Pearl Harbor attack and the evacuation of
the United States citizens of Japanese descent from the west coast of the
continental United States. William H. Harris Brigadier General, United States
Army Chief of Military History
Softbox Lighting Techniques for
Professional Photographers
Softboxes—specialized photographic lighting devices
that produce a flattering and soft, low-contrast look—are the main focus of this
resource for photographers. Professional and amateur photographers alike will be
able to apply the thorough explanations on the simple, yet highly effective,
light- and shadow-altering methodologies found in this guidebook to any subject
matter in portrait, fashion, and editorial images. Additional chapters cover the
use of softboxes in partnership with other light sources, including sunlight and
various types of studio lighting treatments.
Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The
Person You've Always Wanted To Be
Whether you're self-employed, a middler manager, or
a Fortune 500 executive, its easy to get get stuck in a humdrum life and only
fantasize about what could have been. Motivational speaker Steve Chandler helps
you transform what could have been into what will be. You'll learn numerous
techniques for breaking down negative barriers and letting go of pessimistic
thoughts that prevent you from fulfilling, or even allowing yourself to conceive
of, your goals and dreams. Drawing on many years of work in the field since the
original publication of the book, Chandler has added numerous new stories,
quotes, insights, and recommendations on how to reinvent yourself from the
fictional, limited personality of old to a fresh level of creative
action.
Master Lighting Guide for Commercial
Photographers
From lighting glass objects to photographing models
indoors and out, this handbook demonstrates how to effectively use and
manipulate light using a variety of traditional and unconventional lighting
equipment. Written for both the professional and the serious amateur
photographer, this guide explains the different types of light and how to work
with modifiers such as panels, umbrellas, grids, and mirrors. More than 100
detailed lighting diagrams help ensure proper placement and are useful while
pitching ideas to clients. Money-saving equipment and accessory alternatives are
discussed along with strategies for working through obstacles during a shoot,
making this manual a must-have resource for success on every
project.
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Professional Portrait Posing: Techniques
and Images from Master Photographers
A brief introduction to the basic principles of
creating a flattering pose accompanies chapters devoted to 12 acclaimed
photographers who present and discuss their favorite, most successful, and most
challenging photos. Widely regarded for their flattering, inventive, and
cutting-edge posing techniques, these professionals cover why the pose was
selected, how it complemented the subject and the scene, and how it works to
make the subject look his or her best. The special challenge of group portraits
is also covered by many of the contributors. Additional topics of discussion
include personalized tips for learning the art of posing, common problems they
see in portraits and their solutions, and suggestions and ideas for researching
poses.
Codes & Cheats Winter 2010: Prima
Official Game Guide
The Codes & Cheats Winter 2010 Edition includes
over 18,000 codes, cheats, and unlockables for over 1,500+ of the most popular
current and next-gen games on the biggest platforms, including PS3, Wii, and
Xbox 360! We also have Wii Virtual Console game codes! Some of the new games
recently added to our code books are Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,
Borderlands, Dragon Age: Origins, Halo 3: ODST, Brutal Legend, WWE Smackdown vs.
Raw 2010, Tekken 6, and much more!
The Best of Digital Wedding
Photography
This guide to digital wedding photography offers
everything a wedding photographer needs to take full advantage of digital
technologies. Essential aspects of digital photography are examined, from image
capturing to creating wedding albums—a photographer's greatest source of
revenue. Featuring 200 examples of professional digital photography, this book
takes a detailed look at many common digital problems and provides techniques
for fixing them with Adobe Photoshop.
Touch Me There!: A Hands-On Guide to Your
Orgasmic Hot Spots
This lively hands-on guide is the first book to
focus exclusively on all of the body’s titillating hot spots, offering lovers a
new realm of sexual exploration and experience. Sexologist Yvonne K. Fulbright
gives readers of all sexual orientations a guided tour of the male and female
body’s wild attractions and explains how to maximize pleasure from head to toe.
Individual chapters detail her hot spots, his hot spots, mind-blowing spots for
both sexes, and positions and toys for ultimate stimulation. All four sections
help readers find nature’s hidden treasures, dispelling notions of what ?can’t”
be done. A plethora of sex tips, techniques, and tools that build intimacy and
communication skills leads to even greater sexual and emotional satisfaction.
The information is delivered thoroughly but not too thoroughly, encouraging
lovers to engage in their own sensual how-to sessions.
Tabletop Machining
Tabletop Machining gives the reader not just the
"hows" but also the "whys" of machining practices using the lathe and milling
machine for metalworking. Included are down-to-earth descriptions as well as
detailed photos and drawings. In addition, a large selection of project photos
illustrates the amazing work that has been produced by craftsmen using small but
capable miniature machine tools. Though the tools used in the examples highlight
the small end of the size scale in machining, the theories and practices can be
applied to metal working on machines of any size.
Whether you're a newly graduated engineer or a
beginning machinist, this book will help you gather some real, practical
knowledge of how machines and machinists actually go about working with metal.
This isn't theory, but rather it details "real world" practices and gives a good
insight into the challenges faced by machinists. Too often, good craftsmen are
stopped from venturing forth because the only information available shows just
the technically perfect way to do things rather than the simple, practical
methods everyone really uses. For those wishing to design and build their first
metal parts, it is a perfect starting point, as it highlights the fun that comes
from making small projects of precision and beauty.
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Creative Homemaking Guide To
Casseroles
At Home with Madhur Jaffrey: Simple,
Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri
Lanka
For all who love the magical flavors of good Indian
cooking and want to reproduce effortlessly some of the delectable dishes from
that part of the world, here is a groundbreaking book from the incomparable
Madhur Jaffrey that makes it possible. By deconstructing age-old techniques and
reducing the number of steps in a recipe, as well as helping us to understand
the nature of each spice and seasoning, she enables us to make seemingly exotic
Indian dishes part of our everyday cooking.
• First, she tantalizes us with bite-size delights
to snack on with drinks or tea.
• A silky soup is mellowed with coconut milk; a
spinach-and-ginger soup is perfumed with cloves.
• Fish and seafood are transformed by simple rubs
and sauces and new ways of cooking.
• A lover of eggs and chicken dishes, Jaffrey
offers fresh and easy ways to cook them, including her favorite masala omelet
and simple poached eggs over vegetables. There’s chicken from western Goa cooked
in garlic, onion, and a splash of vinegar; from Bombay, it’s with apricots; from
Delhi, it’s stewed with spinach and cardamom; from eastern India, it has yogurt
and cinnamon; and from the south, mustard, curry leaves, and
coconut.
• There is a wide range of dishes for lamb, pork,
and beef with important tips on what cuts to use for curries, kebabs, and
braises.
• There are vegetable dishes, in a tempting
array—from everyday carrots and greens in new dress to intriguing ways with
eggplant and okra—served center stage for vegetarians or as
accompaniments.
• At the heart of so many Indian meals are the
dals, rice, and grains, as well as the little salads, chutneys, and pickles that
add sparkle, and Jaffrey opens up a new world of these simple
pleasures.
Throughout, Madhur Jaffrey’s knowledge of and love
of these foods is contagious. Here are the dishes she grew up on in India and
then shared with her own family and friends in America. And now that she has
made them so accessible to us, we can incorporate them confidently into our own
kitchen, and enjoy the spice and variety and health-giving properties of this
delectable cuisine.
Tasting Beer: An Insider's Guide to the
World's Greatest Drink
Beer. It's the most popular drink in the world.
Enjoyed at ballparks, in home-away-from-home pubs, on the family room sofa, and
in every kind of restaurant, beer is at ease in any setting. For all beer lovers
who have known the pleasure of draining a pint, Randy Mosher explores and
explains the complete tasting experience as it applies to all the wonderful
brews of the world.
Beer may be the common beverage of the people, but
it is far from simple. With 10,000 years of history, more than 900 identified
flavors, dozens of styles, and thousands of breweries around the world, beer is
as complex as its grape-based neighbors in the liquor stores. It is an artistic
creation, brewed from dozens of possible ingredients and processed in hundreds
of different ways. Mosher guides readers to a better understanding of how every
batch of beer is affected by each of the brewmaster's choices — recipe
formulation, brewhouse procedures, yeasts, fermentations, carbonation,
filtration, packaging, and much more.
Beer can be light, dark, mild, strong, flat, or
fizzy. Hundreds of tastes can be detected in beer, from resin to toast, and from
apple to smoke. Readers will learn how to identify the scents, colors, flavors,
and mouth-feel of all the major beer styles. There are also chapters on proper
serving and storage conditions, and classic beer and food pairings.
The second half of the book is a style-by-style
compendium of the different brews within major beer families, including American
craft brews, British lagers, German ales, and Belgian Dubbels. For each style
there are historical and regional facts, taste and aroma characteristics,
seasonal availability, food pairings, and a few terrific recommendations for
readers to sample.
All Cakes Considered
Melissa Gray is National Public Radio's Cake Lady.
Every Monday she brings a cake to the office for her colleagues at NPR to enjoy.
Hundreds of Mondays (and cakes) later, Melissa has lots of cake-making tips to
share. With more than 50 recipes for the cakes that have been dreamed of and
drooled over for a lifetime including Brown Sugar Pound Cake, Peppermint and
Chocolate Rum Marble Cake, Lord and Lady Baltimore Cakes, Dark-Chocolate Red
Velvet Cake, and Honey Buttercream and Apricot Jam Cake All Cakes Considered is
an essential addition to every baker's library.
An Exaltation of Soups: The Soul-Satisfying
Story of Soup, As Told in More Than 100 Recipes
Throughout history and around the world, soup has
been used to bring comfort, warmth, and good health. A bowl of soup can
symbolize so much—celebrations, major life passages, and the everyday. Inspired
by Patricia Solley’s website, SoupSong.com, and organized according to
function—soups to heal the sick, recover from childbirth, soothe a hangover,
entice the object of your affection, and mark special occasions and holidays—An
Exaltation of Soups showcases more than a hundred of the best soup recipes of
all time, including:
• Festive Wedding Soup with Meatballs from
Italy
• Egyptian Fava Bean Soup, made to give strength to
convalescents
• Creamy Fennel Soup with Shallots and Orange Spice
from Catalonia—perfect for wooing a lover
• Hungarian “Night Owl” Soup, designed to chase a
hangover
• Spicy Pumpkin and Split Pea Soup from Morocco,
served to celebrate Rosh Hashanah
• Tanzanian Creamy Coconut-Banana Soup for
Kwanzaa
Spiced with soup riddles, soup proverbs, soup
poetry, and informative sidebars about the lore and legends of soup through the
ages, An Exaltation of Soups is a steaming bowl of goodness that is sure to
satisfy.
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Fast, Fresh &
Green
This new bible for all things vegetable from Fine
Cooking's Vegetable Queen is ideal for the millions of cooks who want to get
more veggies into their daily diet--and want to feed their families deliciously.
Susie Middleton shares her love of great-tasting veggies with a guide to
stocking up the pantry, shopping for vegetables, and cooking those veggies in 9
different ways. Fast, Fresh & Green is uniquely organized by technique so
that cooks can add new ways to cook veggies to their weeknight repertoires. More
than 100 recipes for side dishes--many that can double as starters or main
dishes, and many that are vegan--include Spinach with Shallots and Parmigiano,
Sweet Potato Mini Fries with Limey Dipping Sauce, Roasted Broccoli with Two
Dipping Sauces, Braised Fingerlings with Rosemary and Mellow Garlic, and Summer
Vegetable Ragout. Fast, Fresh & Green is an excellent resource for
vegetarians and omnivores alike.
An Edge in the Kitchen: The Ultimate Guide
to Kitchen Knives -- How to Buy Them, Keep Them Razor Sharp, and Use Them Like a
Pro
Why are most of us so woefully uninformed about our
kitchen knives? We are intimidated by our knives when they are sharp, annoyed by
them when they are dull, and quietly ashamed that we don't know how to use them
with any competence. For a species that has been using knives for nearly as long
as we have been walking upright, that's a serious problem. An Edge in the
Kitchen is the solution, an intelligent and delightful debunking of the
mysteries of kitchen knives once and for all. If you can stack blocks, you can
cut restaurant-quality diced vegetables. If you can fold a paper airplane, you
can sharpen your knives better than many professionals.
Veteran cook Chad Ward provides an in-depth guide
to the most important tool in the kitchen, including how to choose the best
kitchen knives in your price range, practical tutorials on knife skills, a
step-by-step section on sharpening, and more——all illustrated with beautiful
photographs throughout. Along the way you will discover what a cow sword is, and
why you might want one; why chefs are abandoning their heavy knives in droves;
and why the Pinch and the Claw, strange as they may sound, are in fact the best
way to make precision vegetable cuts with speed and style.
An Edge in the Kitchen is the one and only guide to
the most important tool in the kitchen.
Confessions of a French Baker: Breadmaking
Secrets, Tips, and Recipes
In the first of his famous books about Provence,
Peter Mayle shared with us news of a bakery in the town of Cavaillon where the
baking and appreciation of breads “had been elevated to the status of a minor
religion.” Its name: Chez Auzet.
Now, several hundred visits later, Mayle has joined
forces with Gerard Auzet, the proprietor of this most glorious of Provencal
bakeries, to tell us about breadmaking at its finest.
Mayle takes us into the baking room to witness the
birth of a loaf. We see the master at work–slapping, rolling, squeezing,
folding, and twisting dough as he sculpts it into fougasses, batards, and
boules.
Auzet then gives us precise, beautifully
illustrated instructions for making sixteen kinds of bread, from the classic
baguette to loaves made with such ingredients as bacon, apricots, hazelnuts,
garlic, and green and black olives. There are tips galore, the tricks of the
trade are revealed, and along the way Mayle relates the delightful history of
four generations of Auzet bakers.
One of Provence’s oldest and most delicious
pleasures is now available at a kitchen near you, thanks to this charming guide.
Read, bake, and enjoy.
Culinary Tea: More Than 150 Recipes Steeped
in Tradition from Around the World
This cutting-edge tome on one of the world’s oldest
ingredients and most popular beverages will be an invaluable tool for both home
and professional cooks. Gold and Stern offer new ways of looking at tea: the
leaves with a history stretching thousands of years is now a secret weapon in
the culinary arsenal.
Tea in its many forms has been around for thousands
of years, and is a burgeoning industry in many countries as the demand for
specialty leaves grows. Read all about the picking and drying techniques
virtually unchanged for centuries, popular growing regions in the world, and the
storied past of trading.
Culinary Tea has all this, plus more than 100
recipes using everything from garden-variety black teas to exclusive fresh tea
leaves and an in-depth treatment of tea cocktails. The book will include
classics, such as the centuries-old Chinese Tea-Smoked Duck and Thousand-Year
Old Eggs, as well as recipes the authors have developed and collected, such as
Smoked Tea-Brined Capon and Assam Shortbread.
Easy Vegetarian: Uncomplicated and
Sophisticated Vegetarian Recipes for All Seasons (Quick &
Easy)
Vegetarian cooking has taken a firm foothold in our
culture. Here you'll find a variety of savory meatless meals. Though the
ingredients are simple to find and recipes a breeze to prepare, the emphasis is
placed on purchasing seasonal produce for optimum flavor, nutrition and cost.
Also included are tips on nutrition in a vegetarian
diet - a guide about how to get sufficient protien, profiles on legumes and
grains, and information about sweetening alternatives.
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56 Cooking e-Books
365 Foreign Dishes
A Little Cook Book for a
Little Girl
Awesome Restaurant Recipes
Barbecue Recipes
Beef
Recipes
Betty Crocker's Best Of Baking Recipes
Cajun Recipes
Chinese
Recipes
Chocolate And Cocoa Recipes
Click To Cook
Comfort Foods
Cook
It Juicy
Cooking By The Book
Creative Homemaking Guide To
Casseroles
Crockpot Recipies
Dale Recipe Book
Desserts Of
Vitality
E-Cookbooks Recipe Sampler
Every Step In Canning
Favorite
Dishes
For Breakfast
Generations Of Recipes
Grill
Recipes
Grillmaster- Barbecue Recipes
Hillbilly Hanks Roadkill
Recipes
Homebrew Favorites
Hotdog Recipes
Indian Recipes
Italian
Recipes
Jamie Oliver's Cookbook
Low-carb Recipe Secrets
Malaysian
Recipes
Many Ways For Cooking Eggs
Meals For A Healthy Weight
Mexican
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Native American Health Recipes
Now We're Cooking
One-Pot
Meals
Pasta Recipes
Pizzeria Recipes
Prizewinning Recipes
Recipes To
Spice Up Your Summer
Salads Recipes
Sauce Recipes
Secret
Ingredients
Simple Italian Cookery
Soup Recipes
Starbucks
Frappucino
Thanksgiving Recipes
The Belgian Cookbook
The Essential
Seafood Cookbook
The Greek Kitchen
The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook
The
Ultimate Grilling Guide
The World's Best Burger
Ultimate
cheesecakes
Veggies
Junk Jewelry: 25 Extraordinary Designs to
Create from Ordinary Objects
Designed to make people look twice, Junk Jewelry’s
beauty lies in featuring otherwise ordinary items in artful, surprising ways.
What looks like a metal cuff turns out to be made of safety pins; translucent
hoop earrings are actually computer chips; and a drawer pull transforms into a
pendant. As the world goes green, there’s never been a better time to pack a
visual punch with recycled materials and everyday objects or mementos found in a
dresser, at a flea market, or in the attic.
But Junk Jewelry isn’t just about throwing together
useless bits without some thought—artist and designer Jane Eldershaw shares
prin-ciples for assembling it successfully without sacrificing imagination.
You’ll learn how to find inspiration, create aesthetic rhythm, and pull off
wearing the pieces with panache.
With a focus on acquiring a visual vocabulary and
having fun without spending a lot of money, the 25 projects featured here are
perfect for anyone who appreciates thrift-store funkiness and avant-garde
fashion.
Hipsters and fashionistas will be pleased to find
that Eldershaw also delves into the high-fashion roots of the medium, starting
with Coco Chanel all the way up to recent collections by Jeffrey Chow. With
step-by-step instructions, tips on finding the best raw materials, and
instructional illustrations, Junk Jewelry is both a thoughtful how-to manual and
a unique, intellectually satisfying style guide.
Grannies Gone Wild
Everyone loves granny squares, but we bet you've
never seen them like this before. Crocheted with Caron Simply Soft yarn, these
creations are colorful, comfortable, and so much fun! From a bright floral wrap
to a fringed afghan, the six designs have fresh appeal. They're absolutely
lovely to share as gifts. With the luxurious feel of Simply Soft, you'll also
want to crochet a few for yourself! Grannies Gone Wild (Leisure Arts #75346)
presents 6 crochet afghans and wraps using Caron Simply Soft medium weight yarn
and requiring Easy skills for five and Experienced skills for one: Go Check on
Granny afghan, Funky Granny Wrap, Granny on the Corner wrap, Christmas Granny
afghan, Grannies Gone Wild Afghan, and Deep Sea Granny afghan.
101 Bears to Make
This resource for making teddy bears reveals how to
craft open-mouthed bears, sculpt teeth, create fur, make double-jointed necks
and use trapunto and silk ribbon embroidered paw pads. There are patterns for a
traditional teddy bear, a modern one and one for a realistic bruin.
Crochet
Embellishments
The book every crocheter has been asking for -- a
complete collection of crocheted embellishments that are sure to add a special
touch to crocheted or knitted projects. Here you'll find a wide variety of
colorful borders and decorative bands, dimensional flowers from life-like roses
to dainty daisies, elegant tassels, charming beads, all types of fringes,
versatile cords and braids, ruffles and curls, and much more. Easy-to-follow
instructions and nearly life-size photos of each piece make this book by Jean
Leinhauser a classic for every needleworker's library.
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Amigurumi World: Seriously Cute
Crochet
Get hooked into the quirky world of Amigurumi!
Crochet these irresistibly cute creatures today's coolest craze in crochet.
* Over 20 projects are super hip and super quick to
make you need only basic crochet skills and small amounts of yarn
* Funky
designs include mommy and baby owls, hedgehogs, and penguins, plus silly
crocheted treats like cupcakes and ice-cream cones
* Find complete
instructions for crocheting designs and adding facial features and other
embellishments
Felt toymaking: advanced
techniques
Noro Mini Knits - Knitting Book from
Noro
Noro Mini Knits Collection by Jane Ellison.The book
includes 30 simple and easy to knit designs, all using fabulous Noro
yarn.
Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles: 18
Three-dimensional Games for the Hands and Mind
For centuries, logic puzzles have entertained,
inspired and educated kids of all ages. Studies show these engaging "brain
teasers" provide unsurpassed benefits to the body and mind, increasing manual
dexterity, mathematical abilities and overall intellectual agility.
Crafting
Wood Logic Puzzles provides plans and instructions for crafting 18 of the most
popular manual puzzles. Projects range from traditional "put together/take
apart" games like pentominoes and soma cubes to more sophisticated "unlocking"
head-scratchers, such as the Burr and Heart Box puzzles. Readers will also learn
specialized cutting, drilling, sanding, gluing and finishing techniques that
make crafting wooden puzzles possible.
Making Toys for Preschool Children: Using
Ordinary Stuff for Extraordinary Play
What do you get when you combine a newspaper, paper
bags, tape, and markers? A Lunch Bag City, of course! This series is a teacher’s
dream! You’ll find more creative ways to use a tube sock, milk carton, and other
inexpensive things found around the house than you ever imagined. Create unique,
exciting toys and props to help children learn in appropriate ways. Don’t
recycle that cereal box . . . reuse it to make a simple puzzle! Each
age-appropriate Making Toys book will make you look at the everyday items around
you in a whole new way.
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How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A
Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling
Written in a clear, crisp, accessible style, this
book is perfect for beginners as well as professional writers who need a crash
course in the down-to-earth basics of storytelling. Talent and inspiration can't
be taught, but Frey does provide scores of helpful suggestions and sensible
rules and principles.
An international bestseller, How to Write a Damn
Good Novel will enable all writers to face that intimidating first page, keep
them on track when they falter, and help them recognize, analyze, and correct
the problems in their own work.
Papermaking Techniques Book: Over 50
techniques for making and embellishing hand
This book is thorough, maybe a bit basic for some,
but one I would classify as an intermediate papermaking book. It comes in strong
as my second (if not tied for first) favorite papermaking book in my library.
The images and guidelines are clear, thorough and appropriate for each step.
Coverage of the many variations of hand made paper end products is excellent.
Review "Search Inside this Book" for the table of contents in order to gain a
sense for what is covered in this book. Some techniques covered are normally not
found in a book of this level - water marks, batik, dry paper coloration etc. -
and I found this refreshing. The way the author describes each process takes the
mystery out and leaves you understanding the ease of the process. On the back
cover the book provides this statement - "Discover the pleasure of making your
own handmade paper!" And I sure did - for it is fun and wonderful to see what
you can do with many products on hand in order to make very unique handmade
paper.
Churchill and the Archangel Fiasco (Russia
and the Allies , 1917-1920)
This third volume in Michael Kettle's series on
Allied intervention in the Russian civil war, begins at the point when
small-scale Allied intervention in Bolshevik-overrun Russia had failed, but had
succeeded in covering the formation of some anti-Bolshevik White groups
sympathetic to allied aid.
Written on a panoramic basis which includes
detailed documents from both sides, Kettle reveals what each side's leadership
had to face as the Russian kaleidoscope constantly changed. Kettle argues that
British intervention was doomed to failure and that the White Russians became
expendable British pawns in a temporary forward holding position, designed to
contain the Bolshevik inferno within Russia. The strategic and military
miscalculations of British medium intervention thus prolonged the Russian civil
war, and caused a further 14 million Russian deaths. Using Churchill's
previously unpublished, last papers and recently available French documents,
Kettle provides a fascinating and in-depth analysis of the `Archangel
Fiasco'.
Possums and Bird Dogs: Australian Army
Aviation's 161 Reconnaissance Flight in South Vietnam
The story of 161 Reconnaissance Flight, the
Australian Army Aviation unit deployed to Vietnam from September 1965 to March
1972, told through unit and personal records, pilot and aircraft log books and
personal interviews with veterans.
The Real Bravo Two
Zero
Asher wasn't trying to "put the boot in" with this
book - quite the opposite. He was trying to rehabilitate the late Sgt. Vince
Phillips, who both McNab and Ryan criticized in their accounts.
Asher's background as both an Arabist and former
Territorial SAS member gives him a rare insight into the story of Bravo Two
Zero. He can explain both the tactical aspects of desert warfare (and spot where
McNab and Ryan's claims don't add up) and the reactions of the Bedouin and
Iraqis they were among. Against all the odds (and despite the efforts of his
Iraqi handlers) he manages to find and interview many of the key Iraqi players
in the story - the goatherd who first breaks their cover, for instance. These
interviews open up new perspectives on the B20 story, and give some insight into
Iraqi and Bedouin culture. Some things turn out to have happened differently
than McNab/Ryan claimed; some things they couldn't have understood at the time,
with their lack of Arabic and understanding of Arabic society.
The Real Bravo Two Zero isn't as racy as Bravo Two
Zero or The One That Got Away, but there are enough unexpected twists and
surprising revelations to keep you reading. If you enjoyed either of the above
books and want to know how much to believe, or want a wider perspective on the
story, this book's well worth it.
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Beware of Vegetarian
Sharks
This illustrated collection of Greeman's Radical
Rants and Internationalist Essays is a frontal attack on capitalism by a veteran
socialist, scholar and activist. Greeman's satirical studies, which range from
the Rebellious Sixties to our Decadent Decade, deal with globalized capitalism's
crisis, revolutionary history and future prospects for a new society. Some
titles: "Is There Life After Capitalism?""Where Are the Riots of Yesteryear?"
"The Invisible International," "Who are the Good Guys (if any) in Iraq?"
"Religion and Repression in the U.S. (a Case of Political Pathology)" "Back in
the U.S.S.R." "Victor Serge" and "Ecotopia: A Bet You Can't
Refuse."
The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and
Phrase Origin
In this entertaining compendium, Robert
Hendrickson, author of numerous popular works on language and literature, traces
the sometimes bizarre and always fascinating origins and developments of more
than 9,000 words and phrases, including slang, proverbs, animal and plant names,
place names, nicknames, historical expressions, foreign-language expressions,
and more. The emphasis throughout is on words and expressions with origins that
are not adequately explained-or not addressed at all-in standard dictionaries.
This greatly expanded and revised version of the critically acclaimed 1987
original offers more than 2,000 new entries, including:
paparazzi: Director Frederico Fellini named a
hyperactive photographer in his film La Dolce Vita Signore Paparazzo, after
Italian slang for "mosquito". The popularity of Fellini's film led to the
widespread use of the term paparazzi for relentless swarms of celebrity-chasing
photographers.
Quaaludes: The inventor of Quaaludes named his new
drug after a contraction of quiet interludes-which he hoped it would induce.
toady: In the 17th century, conjurer's assistants
would eat a toad, causing temporary illness that they would later "heal,"
thereby demonstrating their "miraculous" powers. The assistants came to be known
as "toad-eaters," from which derives our modern insult toady.
A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of
the East European Germans, 1944 - 1950
The closing phase and the aftermath of World War II
saw millions of refugees and displaced persons wandering across Eastern Europe
in one of the most brutal and chaotic migrations in world history.
The genocidal barbarism of the Nazi forces has been
well documented. What hitherto has been little known is the fate of fifteen
million German civilians who found themselves at the mercy of Soviet armies and
on the wrong side of new postwar borders. All over Eastern Europe, the
inhabitants of communities that had been established for many centuries were
either expelled or killed. Over two million Germans did not
survive.
Many of these people had supported Hitler, and for
the Czechs, Poles, Ukrainians, and surviving Jews, their fate must have seemed
just. However, the great majority--East Prussian farmers, Silesian industrial
workers, their wives and children--were guiltless. Their fate, sentenced purely
by race, remains an appalling legacy of the period.
Alfred de Zayas's book describes this horrible
retribution. On the basis of extensive research in German and American archives,
he outlines the long history of these German communities, scattered from the
Baltic to the Danude, and, most movingly, reproduces the testimonies of surviors
from the catastrophic exodus that marked the final end to Nazi fantasies of
Lebensraum.
God's Battalions: The Case for the
Crusades
In God's Battalions, award-winning author Rodney
Stark takes on the long-held view that the Crusades were the first round of
European colonialism, conducted for land, loot, and converts by barbarian
Christians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. To the contrary, Stark argues
that the Crusades were the first military response to unwarranted Muslim
terrorist aggression.
Stark reviews the history of the seven major
Crusades from 1095 to 1291, demonstrating that the Crusades were precipitated by
Islamic provocations, centuries of bloody attempts to colonize the West, and
sudden attacks on Christian pilgrims and holy places. Although the Crusades were
initiated by a plea from the pope, Stark argues that this had nothing to do with
any elaborate design of the Christian world to convert all Muslims to
Christianity by force of arms. Given current tensions in the Middle East and
terrorist attacks around the world, Stark's views are a thought-provoking
contribution to our understanding and are sure to spark debate.
What We Believe but Cannot
Prove
More than one hundred of the world's leading
thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete
proof
Scientific theory, more often than not, is born of
bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated leaps of
faith. Some of the most potent beliefs among brilliant minds are based on
supposition alone -- yet that is enough to push those minds toward making the
theory viable.
Eminent cultural impresario, editor, and publisher
of Edge, John Brockman asked a group of leading scientists and thinkers to
answer the question: What do you believe to be true even though you cannot prove
it? This book brings together the very best answers from the most distinguished
contributors.
Thought-provoking and hugely compelling, this
collection of bite-size thought-experiments is a fascinating insight into the
instinctive beliefs of some of the most brilliant minds today.
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Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of
the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece
Jan van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece is on any art
historian’s list of the ten most important paintings ever made. Often referred
to by the subject of its central panel, The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, it
represents the fulcrum between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is also
the most frequently stolen artwork of all time.
Since its completion in 1432, this twelve-panel oil
painting has been looted in three different wars, burned, dismembered, forged,
smuggled, illegally sold, censored, hidden, attacked by iconoclasts, hunted by
the Nazis and Napoleon, used as a diplomatic tool, ransomed, rescued by Austrian
double-agents, and stolen a total of thirteen times.
In this fast-paced, real-life thriller, art
historian Noah Charney unravels the stories of each of these thefts. In the
process, he illuminates the whole fascinating history of art crime, and the
psychological, ideological, religious, political, and social motivations that
have led many men to covet this one masterpiece above all others.
Who the Hell's in It: Conversations with
Hollywood's Legendary Actors
Peter Bogdanovich, known primarily as a director,
film historian and critic, has been working with professional actors all his
life. He started out as an actor (he debuted on the stage in his sixth-grade
production of Finian’s Rainbow); he watched actors work (he went to the theater
every week from the age of thirteen and saw every important show on, or off,
Broadway for the next decade); he studied acting, starting at sixteen, with
Stella Adler (his work with her became the foundation for all he would ever do
as an actor and a director).
Now, in his new book, Who the Hell’s in It,
Bogdanovich draws upon a lifetime of experience, observation and understanding
of the art to write about the actors he came to know along the way; actors he
admired from afar; actors he worked with, directed, befriended. Among them:
Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, John Cassavetes, Charlie Chaplin,
Montgomery Clift, Marlene Dietrich, Henry Fonda, Ben Gazzara, Audrey Hepburn,
Boris Karloff, Dean Martin, Marilyn Monroe, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, Frank
Sinatra, and James Stewart.
Bogdanovich captures—in their words and his—their
work, their individual styles, what made them who they were, what gave them
their appeal and why they’ve continued to be America’s iconic
actors.
On Lillian Gish: “the first virgin hearth goddess
of the screen . . . a valiant and courageous symbol of fortitude and love
through all distress.”
On Marlon Brando: “He challenged himself never to
be the same from picture to picture, refusing to become the kind of film star
the studio system had invented and thrived upon—the recognizable human commodity
each new film was built around . . . The funny thing is that Brando’s
charismatic screen persona was vividly apparent despite the multiplicity of his
guises . . . Brando always remains recognizable, a star-actor in spite of
himself. ”
Jerry Lewis to Bogdanovich on the first laugh Lewis
ever got onstage: “I was five years old. My mom and dad had a tux made—I worked
in the borscht circuit with them—and I came out and I sang, ‘Brother, Can You
Spare a Dime?’ the big hit at the time . . . It was 1931, and I stopped the
show—naturally—a five-year-old in a tuxedo is not going to stop the show? And I
took a bow and my foot slipped and hit one of the floodlights and it exploded
and the smoke and the sound scared me so I started to cry. The audience
laughed—they were hysterical . . . So I knew I had to get the rest of my laughs
the rest of my life, breaking, sitting, falling, spinning.”
John Wayne to Bogdanovich, on the early years of
Wayne’s career when he was working as a prop man: “Well, I’ve naturally studied
John Ford professionally as well as loving the man. Ever since the first time I
walked down his set as a goose-herder in 1927. They needed somebody from the
prop department to keep the geese from getting under a fake hill they had for
Mother Machree at Fox. I’d been hired because Tom Mix wanted a box seat for the
USC football games, and so they promised jobs to Don Williams and myself and a
couple of the players. They buried us over in the properties department, and Mr.
Ford’s need for a goose-herder just seemed to fit my pistol.”
These
twenty-six portraits and conversations are unsurpassed in their evocation of a
certain kind of great movie star that has vanished. Bogdanovich’s book is a
celebration and a farewell.
Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of
Famous Shipwrecks
Leading archaeologist and consummate storyteller
James Delgado takes readers on a rollicking deep-sea dive into his highly
unusual life's work: locating and exploring the world's most famous shipwrecks.
Colorful characters, near misses, and the thrill of standing — or floating — in
history's footprints make for a highly entertaining look at the fascinating
history and glittering bounty beneath the waves. Included are accounts of Pearl
Harbor, the Titanic, and Bikini Atoll, site of the world's first nuclear
tests.
The 30-Second Commute: A Non-Fiction Comedy
about Writing and Working From Home
Exploring the downfalls of being a freelance
writer, this cautionary tale explains what happens when one becomes
self-employed, celebrating cubicle-free living through a brilliant comic
narrative on the real-life ups and downs of a full-time writer. For more than a
decade Stephanie Dickison had been successfully publishing features and articles
while working a full-time job. But in December 2005 she left the secure world of
“9 to 5,” opting to write freelance in order to pay the bills and hoping to
finish a manuscript that was close to five years old. With valuable insights
about time management, networking with magazines and newspapers, as well as
conducting celebrity interviews and writing feature articles, this valuable
resource will inspire many industrious dreamers to take that long-delayed leap
and become their own boss.
Scene of the Crime: A Writer's Guide to
Crime Scene Investigation
Provides information on how evidence is measured,
collected, identified, and analyzed, the timetable of activity at a crime scene,
and technical terms and professional techniques used.
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Off-Season: Discovering America on Winter's
Shore
Just after Labor Day, Ken McAlpine said good-bye to
his family and began a drive up the East Coast, from Florida to Maine, on a
one-man quest to capture the elusive “forgotten season” of beach towns shuttered
until the return of warm weather. Off-Season is a moving portrait that brings to
life the magic of the sea and shore in winter, the charm of beach towns emptied
of summer crowds, and the warmth and eccentricities of year-round coastal
residents who revel in small-town spirit.
McAlpine skipped the more popular destinations like
Nags Head, Virginia Beach, Cape May, and the Hamptons, opting to visit lesser
known locales like Sharpes, Florida; Tangier Island, Virginia; and Montauk, New
York. There he found people who celebrated the departure of the tourists with
the cautious hope they’d return next summer. He encountered fishermen struggling
to make a living, a former playboy lifeguard now ministering to the elderly and
ill, a marine policeman both reviled and respected, a lone kayaker paddling away
his grief, a couple fighting to save the world’s coral reefs, divers searching
for everything from false teeth to dead bodies in dark waters, and deserted
snow-covered beaches more beautiful than anyone could describe.
More than a travelogue—and a whole new breed of
beach read—Off-Season is a stroll off the beaten path and a look at the people
and places in our country that keep the spirit of community alive.
Roads to Quoz: An American
Mosey
About a quarter century ago, a largely unknown
wanderer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called Blue Highways. It was
a travel book like no other, a book that revealed its author to be a chronicler
of rare linguitic genius and empathy, a listener who knew that the small places
can offer the biggest surprises. Heat-Moon, wrote one reader, was a travel
writer as Faulkner was a country historian.Road to Quoz is Heat-Moon's
long-awaited return to America's back roads. It is a lyrical, funny, and
magisterially told chronicle of American passage, a journey into the heart of a
nation almost desperate for meaning beyond consumerism and self-absorption, a
book that invites readers to "discover America anew.
Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady
Gaga
"I hate the truth. I hate the truth so much I
prefer a giant dose of bullshit any day over the truth."
--Lady Gaga, 2010
In little over a year, Stefani Germanotta, a
struggling performer in New York's Lower East Side burlesque scene, has become
the global demographic-smashing pop icon known as Lady Gaga. She is a
once-in-a-decade artist, a gifted singer, composer, designer, and performance
artist who mixes high and low culture, the avant-garde with the accessible,
authenticity with artifice.
Who is Lady Gaga? She is a twenty-four-year-old
woman whose stage mantra--"I'm a free bitch!"--is the polar opposite of who she
is offstage: isolated, insecure, and unable to be alone. She is an outrA© artist
who wanted to be a sensitive singer-songwriter, whose musical heroes include
Britney Spears, Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen. She is a woman who says no
man can ever compete with her career, but who still isn't over the ex-boyfriend
who said she was too ambitious. She claims not to care what people think, but
spends her downtime online, reading what people have to say about her. She
claims to be a con artist and utterly authentic. She is never less than
compelling.
Based on over fifty original interviews with
friends, employees, rivals, and music industry veterans, Poker Face is the first
in-depth biography of the extraordinary cultural phenomenon that is Lady Gaga.
Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain,
and America
Nearly twenty years in the making, Can’t Buy Me
Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical
criticism. That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In
Can’t Buy Me Love, Jonathan Gould seeks to explain why, placing the Fab Four in
the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, rooting their story
in the social context that girded both their rise and their demise.
Beginning with their adolescence in Liverpool,
Gould describes the seminal influences––from Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry to
The Goon Show and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland––that shaped the Beatles both
as individuals and as a group. In addition to chronicling their growth as
singers, songwriters, and instrumentalists, he highlights the advances in
recording technology that made their sound both possible and unique, as well as
the developments in television and radio that lent an explosive force to their
popular success. With a musician’s ear, Gould sensitively evokes the timeless
appeal of the Lennon-McCartney collaboration and their emergence as one of the
most creative and significant songwriting teams in history. And he sheds new
light on the significance of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band as rock’s
first concept album, down to its memorable cover art.
Behind the scenes Gould explores the pivotal roles
played by manager Brian Epstein and producer George Martin, credits the
influence on the Beatles’ music of contemporaries like Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson,
and Ravi Shankar, and traces the gradual escalation of the fractious internal
rivalries that led to the group’s breakup after their final masterpiece, Abbey
Road. Most significantly, by chronicling their revolutionary impact on popular
culture during the 1960s, Can’t Buy Me Love illuminates the Beatles as a
charismatic phenomenon of international proportions, whose anarchic energy and
unexpected import was derived from the historic shifts in fortune that
transformed the relationship between Britain and America in the decades after
World War II.
From the Beats in America and the Angry Young Men
in England to the shadow of the Profumo Affair and JFK’s assassination, Gould
captures the pulse of a time that made the Beatles possible—and even necessary.
As seen through the prism of the Beatles and their music, an entire generation’s
experience comes astonishingly to life. Beautifully written, consistently
insightful, and utterly original, Can’t Buy Me Love is a landmark work about the
Beatles, Britain, and America.
How the University Works: Higher Education
and the Low-Wage Nation
As much as we think we know about the modern
university, very little has been said about what it's like to work there.
Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus
employees—including the vast majority of faculty—really work in the low-wage,
low-profit sphere of the service economy. Tenure-track positions are at an
all-time low, with adjuncts and graduate students teaching the majority of
courses. This super-exploited corps of disposable workers commonly earn fewer
than $16,000 annually, without benefits, teaching as many as eight classes per
year. Even undergraduates are being exploited as a low-cost, disposable
workforce.
Marc Bousquet, a major figure in the academic labor
movement, exposes the seamy underbelly of higher education—a world where
faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates work long hours for fast-food
wages. Assessing the costs of higher education's corporatization on faculty and
students at every level, How the University Works is urgent reading for anyone
interested in the fate of the university.
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American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley -
His Battle for Chicago and the Nation
Now in paperback comes the story of Richard J.
Daley, the last of the big city bosses, the patriarch of a political dynasty,
and a major national figure in American urban politics. of photos.
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six
Million
Begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a
family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust, an
unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest
childhood.
Love in a Headscarf
When Shelina Janmohamed, an Oxford-educated Muslim
living in the bubbling ethnic mix of North London, opted for the traditional
“arranged” route to finding a partner, she never suspected it would be the
journey of her life.
Through ten long years of matchmaking buxom
aunties, countless mismatches, and outrageous dating disasters, Shelina
discovers more about herself and her faith. Along the way, she learns that
sometimes being true to her religion means challenging tradition, while readers
learn much about Islam that may surprise them.
Lost and Found in Russia: Lives in the
Post-Soviet Landscape
After the fall of communism, Russia was in a state
of shock. The sudden and dramatic change left many people adrift and
uncertain—but also full of a tentative but tenacious hope. Returning again and
again to the provincial hinterlands of this rapidly evolving country from 1992
to 2008, Susan Richards struck up some extraordinary friendships with people in
the middle of this historical drama. Anna, a questing journalist, struggles to
express her passionate spirituality within the rules of the new society.
Natasha, a restless spirit, has relocated from Siberia in a bid to escape the
demands of her upper-class family and her own mysterious demons. Tatiana and
Misha, whose business empire has blossomed from the ashes of the Soviet Union,
seem, despite their luxury, uneasy in this new world. Richards watches them grow
and change, their fortunes rise and fall, their hopes soar and crash.
Through
their stories and her own experiences, Susan Richards demonstrates how in
Russia, the past and the present cannot be separated. She meets scientists
convinced of the existence of UFOs and mind-control warfare. She visits a cult
based on working the land and a tiny civilization founded on the practices of
traditional Russian Orthodoxy. Gangsters, dreamers, artists, healers, all are
wondering in their own ways, “Who are we now if we’re not communist? What does
it mean to be Russian?” This remarkable history of contemporary Russia holds a
mirror up to a forgotten people. Lost and Found in Russia is a magical and
unforgettable portrait of a society in transition.
The Foremost Good
Fortune
Susan Conley, her husband, and their two young sons
say good-bye to their friends, family, and house in Maine for a two-year stint
in a high-rise apartment in Beijing, prepared to embrace the inevitable
onslaught of new experiences that such a move entails. But Susan can’t predict
just how much their lives will change.
While her husband is consumed with his job, Susan
works on finishing her novel and confronting the challenges of day-to-day life
in an utterly foreign country: determining the proper way to buy apples at a
Chinese megamarket; bribing her little boys to ride the school bus; fielding
invitations to mysterious “sweater parties” and tracking down the faux-purse
empire of the infamous Bag Lady; and getting stuck in an elevator, unable to
call for help in Mandarin.
Despite the distractions, there are many occasions
for joy. From road trips to the Great Wall and bartering for a “starter
Buddha” at the raucous flea market to lighting fireworks in the streets for the
Chinese New Year and feasting on the world’s best dumplings in back-alley
restaurants, they gradually turn their unfamiliar environs into a true
home.
Then Susan learns she has cancer. After
undergoing treatment in Boston, she returns to Beijing, again as a foreigner—but
this time, it’s her own body in which she feels a stranger. Set against
the eternally fascinating backdrop of modern China and full of insight into the
trickiest questions of motherhood—How do you talk to children about death?
When is it okay to lie?—this wry and poignant memoir is a celebration of family
and a candid exploration of mortality and belonging.
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The Year of Magical
Thinking
The book is raw. If you're looking for religous or
spiritual guidance and inspiration, this is not the book for you. As Didion
herself noted, writing about the book recently, it was intentionally written
"raw". I assume she didn't want to wait, to distance herself from the intensity
of the experience as she wrote it down, quite unlike many other books she has
written. Raw or not, it wasn't sloppy, overly sentimental or complete
despairing.
It was simply honest, heartwrenchingly so, and
Didion doesn't deviate from communicating, in absolute striking detail, the
sense of alienation and disorientation that separates mourners from those who
seem to be living "normal" lives. Grief is its own territory, separate from
so-called normalcy. In so many ways, it is an illness, an affliction of the
spirit and not one that can be cured in any one way.
An aside- the photo of Didion inside the dustjacket
is haunting. No question that those are the eyes of someone who has been scraped
to the core, wounded and, presumably, still recovering. There is something
beautiful in that portrait and, oddly, comforting. It is the face of a survivor,
however hard it might be to live as one.
This book will remain on my bookshelf and I expect
I'll be thumbing through it for solace time and again. Reading it was both
painful and cathartic and strangely comforting, with an intensity that left me
awestruck. I am still amazed that she was able to produce such a beautifully
written book in the throes of so much pain.
The Cosmic Code: Book VI of the Earth
Chronicles
Many thousands of years ago, a race of
extraordinary beings guided the evolution of life on Earth -- determining the
existence and nature of mankind as we know it today. All powerful, all knowing,
the proof of their genius is apparent in the mysterious monoliths at Stonehenge,
and in a strange but highly significant sturcture of concentric stone circles in
Israel's Golan Heights -- both requiring sophisticated astronomical knowledge.
Teaching man to look to the heavens, they bequeathed to us the Cosmic
Code.
The newest entry in a carefully researched
multivolume series tracing the creation and motivation of mankind, this book
identifies the turning point in our species' delicate balance between the
demands of destiny and the vagaries of fate. From deep inside ancient Sumerian
texts that predate even the Bible, Zecharia Sitchin dares to reveal the nature
of prophecy and historical truths that have long been obscured by disbelief and
misunderstanding: the code used to construct our kind by master builder from the
stars.
The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies
of the Return
Why is it that our current twenty-first century
A.D. is so similar to the twenty-first century B.C.?
Is history destined to repeat itself? Will biblical
prophecies come true, and if so, when?
It has been more than three decades since Zecharia
Sitchin's trailblazing book The 12th Planet brought to life the Sumerian
civilization and its record of the Anunnaki—the extraterrestrials who fashioned
man and gave mankind civilization and religion. In this new volume, Sitchin
shows that the End is anchored in the events of the Beginning, and once you
learn of this Beginning, it is possible to foretell the Future.
In The End of Days, a masterwork that required
thirty years of additional research, Sitchin presents compelling new evidence
that the Past is the Future—that mankind and its planet Earth are subject to a
predetermined cyclical Celestial Time.
In an age when religious fanaticism and a clash of
civilizations raise the specter of a nuclear Armageddon, Zecharia Sitchin
shatters perceptions and uses history to reveal what is to come at The End of
Days.
Divine Encounters: A Guide to Visions,
Angels, and Other Emissaries
Explains the links between the Bible and ancient
Sumerian texts, probing the age-old question of the relationship between
humanity and its creators.
• Challenges scientific maxims of the basis of
human life.
• Draws fascinating parallels between the leaders of the Anunnaki
(from the 12th planet) and Yahweh.
• A comprehensive new look at the history
of man.
• First time available in hardcover.
In Divine Encounters Zecharia Sitchin draws on
basic Judeo-Christian texts to analyze the creation myths, paralleling Biblical
stories to the myths of Sumer and Mesopotamia in order to show that humanity did
not evolve without assistance. Sitchin daringly hypothesizes instead that Enki,
one of the leaders of the Anunnaki from the 12th planet, created humanity as a
"primitive worker." Furthermore, Sitchin suggests that the extraterrestrial
encounters of today demonstrate the continued interest of the Anunnaki in the
Earthlings they created.
How to Become a Technical
Writer
If you are creative, with an orderly mind,
and can write clear, concise instructions, then you can be a technical writer.
This book will show you, step by step, how to turn your talents into a rewarding
and highly lucrative writing career!
This inspiring and invaluable guidebook will give
you the confidence and information you need to plunge into one of the hottest
fields in an industry that is only getting hotter!
Just a few years ago, as a freelance writer, I
barely earned enough to fill my gas tank. Today, I write what I want while
earning a LOT of money as a Technical Writer ... and you can too!
Whether you are writing the great American novel,
the news story of the century, or a Human Resources manual, the ability to put
words to paper in a clear, coherent manner is a gift and plays a vital role in
society. All forms of writing are necessary for the world to function. Without
story-telling, imagination is lost. Without journalism, truth is lost. Without
technical writing, skills are lost.
Technical writers are privy to the same joys as
other writers with one BIG difference:
Most of them get paid LOTS of money consistently to
use their writing talent.
AND YOU CAN DO IT TOO!
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Under the Boards: The Cultural Revolution
in Basketball
The true story of basketball lives as much off the
court as on the hardwood; it is about politics and race and cultural clashes as
heated as a final-four buzzer-beater. This story unfolds in all its gritty and
colorful detail in Under the Boards. From the birth of the Larry Bird legend to
the ascendancy of a hip-hop-infused NBA to the backlash against bling and the
contemporary American game, Jeffrey Lane traces the emergence of a new culture
of basketball, complete with competing values, attitudes, aesthetics, and racial
and economic tensions.
The revolution Lane describes resonates in the way
Latrell Sprewell’s assault on his coach forever changed NBA power relations; in
legendary coach Bob Knight’s entanglement in high school basketball history; in
the dramatic shift in attitude toward European players; in the impact of the
deaths of two rappers on rookie Allen Iverson’s career; and in conflicting
cultural models rooted in ideals of black masculinity and white nostalgia. In
these moments Lane’s book documents a profound change in basketball and in
American culture over the last thirty years.
Money Sense, Getting Smart With Your
Money
What do you do when you want to get somewhere? You
probably ask yourself – What is the best way to get there? Will there be traffic
jams? Is it better to take the LRT or bus, or should I get someone to drive me
there instead? There are therefore many options open for you to choose from. To
get the best option, evaluate the ones available to you. Think about what you
need to do, ask yourself questions and then make your decision. These are steps
in the process that is known as planning. Planning can be for the short-term,
medium-term or long-term. It is the same in financial planning, except that the
time frame is over a longer period. Ideally, you should be looking as far ahead
as your retirement years.
How to Draw Baby
Animals
It is a great book for children who like to draw.
There are many baby animals in this book. There is a little story and
step-by-step instructions for each baby animal.
Painting More Animals on
Rocks
Lin Wellford has introduced thousands of people to
the unique magic of transforming ordinary rocks into imaginative works of art.
The fun continues in this book as Lin takes "rock artists" through 13 more
acrylic painting projects. Step-by-step instructions show how to create frogs,
penguins, field mice, foals, bears, wolves and other colorful creatures. 318
illustrations, 290 in color
Think!: Before It's Too
Late,2010
The world is full of problems and conflicts. So why
can we not solve them? According to Edward de Bono, current thinking cannot
solve world problems because current thinking is itself the problem. And this is
getting worse: we are so accustomed to readily available information online that
we search immediately for the answers rather than thinking about them. Our minds
function like trying to drive a car using only one wheel. There's nothing wrong
with that one wheel—conventional thinking—but we could all get a lot further if
we used all four. De Bono examines why we think the way we do from a historical
perspective and uses some of his famous thinking techniques combined with new
ideas to show us how to change the way we think. If we strengthen our ability
and raise our thinking level, other areas of our life—both personal and business
success—will improve. De Bono is the master of the original big "concept" book
and his enticement to us to use our minds as constructively as possible should
appeal to a whole new generation of fans
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Painting Flowers on
Rocks
Fans get more of Wellford's creative artistry as
she shows readers how to turn ordinary rocks into tulips, daisies, petunias, and
many other flowers. Step-by-step instructions and a helpful, encouraging tone
ensure that anyone can get results they'll be proud of. By using exterior grade
paint and sealer, these colorful creations can bring color and beauty to any
space, indoors or out. 323 color illustrations.
The Twits
Mr. and Mrs. Twit hate everything, including their trained monkeys, the
Muggle-Wumps, who now want revenge.
Terry McMillan - The Interruption of Everything
A New York Times Bestseller
A Publishers Weekly Bestseller
A USA
Today Bestseller and a Washington Post Book of the Year
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst,
mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't
do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing
portfolios to folding the laundry and bringing home the bacon. She does it all
well, too, if her chic house, personal trainer, BMW, and her loving son are any
indication. So what if there's been no one to share her bed with lately, let
alone rock her world? Stella doesn't mind it too much; she probably wouldn't
have the energy for love - and all of love's nasty fallout - anyway.
But when Stella takes a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Jamaica, her world
gets rocked to the core - not just by the relaxing effects of the sun and sea
and an island full of attractive men, but by one man in particular. He's tall,
lean, soft-spoken, Jamaican, smells of citrus and the ocean - and is half her
age. The tropics have cast their spell and Stella soon realizes she has come to
a cataclysmic juncture: not only must she confront her hopes and fears about
love, she must question all of her expectations, passions, and ideas about life
and the way she has lived it.
Told in Stella's own exuberant, dead-on, dead honest voice, How Stella Got
Her Groove Back is full of Terry McMillan's signature humor, heart, and insight.
More than a love story, it is ultimately a novel about how a woman saves her own
life - and what she must risk to do it.
Geek Love: A Novel
Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and
paterfamilias set out–with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and
radioisotopes–to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the
Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of
Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino
hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him
the family’s most precious–and dangerous–asset.
As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S.,
inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct
their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its
sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and
the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.
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What I'd Say to the Martians: And Other Veiled
Threats
Jack Handey is one of America's favorite humorists, from his New Yorker
pieces to his Deep Thoughts books and Saturday Night Live sketches. Now, in What
I'd Say to the Martians, Handey regales readers with his incredible wit and
wacky musings.
The Zenith Angle
Like his peers William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, bestselling author Bruce
Sterling writes cutting-edge speculative fiction firmly rooted in today’s
reality. Now in The Zenith Angle, he has created a timely thriller about an
information-age security expert caught up in America’s escalating war on
terror.
Infowar. Cybercombat. Digital security and techno-terror. It’s how nations
and networks secretly battle, now and into the future. And for Derek “Van”
Vandeveer, pioneering computer wizard, a new cyberwarrior career begins on the
fateful date of September 11, 2001.
Happily married with a new baby, pulling down mind-blowing money as a VP of
research and development for a booming Internet company, Van has been living
extralarge. Then the devastating attacks on America change everything. And Van
must decide if he’s willing to use the talents that built his perfect world in
order to defend it.
“It’s our networks versus their death cult,” says the government operative
who recruits Van as the key member of an ultraelite federal computer-security
team. In a matter of days, Van has traded his cushy life inside the dot-com
bubble for the labyrinthine trenches of the Washington intelligence
community—where rival agencies must grudgingly abandon decades of distrust and
infighting to join forces against chilling new threats. Van’s special genius is
needed to make the country’s defense systems hacker-proof. And if he makes
headway there, he’ll find himself troubleshooting ultrasecret spy
satellites.
America’s most powerful and crucial “eye in the sky,” the KH-13
satellite—capable of detecting terrorist hotbeds worldwide with pinpoint
accuracy—is perilously close to becoming an orbiting billion-dollar boondoggle,
unless Van can debug the glitch that’s knocked it out of commission. Little does
he suspect that the problem has nothing at all to do with software . . . and
that what’s really wrong with the KH-13 will force Van to make the unlikely leap
from scientist to spy, team up with a ruthlessly resourceful ex–Special Forces
commando, and root out an unknown enemy . . . one with access to an undreamed of
weapon of untold destructive power.
Rotters
Rotters reminded me of Rick Yancey's The Monstrumologist. It exhibits the
same high quality writing and often times gruesome subject matter, only in a
contemporary setting. They are still quite different, but they both have
intricate stories that are uncommon for this genre.
There are some truly lyrical descriptive passages in this book. Never has
putrescence been described so beautifully and extensively. A foul odor permeates
this story; Joey goes to school every day stinking of the grave, his father
carries the odor as does their house. The author did such an effective job
setting this scene that by the end of the book, I was certain that the odor
really had begun to leak from the pages.
While there is not a lot of pulse pounding action here, the gruesome nature
of events and the strong characters will easily keep readers flipping the pages
long into the night. An insightful examination of death, the relationships
between fathers and sons and ultimately the value of life, Rotters is a chilling
look at things most don't want to think about. Best for older teens and adults,
the vivid imagery and the characters are the stars of this show. A recommend
only if you dare.
Sushi for Beginners
Marian Keyes does it again with "Sushi For Beginners". This talented Irish
author tackles the world of fashion magazines with her new tale, and does it
with her usual charm and humor.
The backdrop of "Colleen" magazine is the perfect place to set up the main
characters. First you have Londonite and fashionably dressed Lisa Edwards, who
thinks that her life is over when she is shipped off to the great north to be
the editor of this new magazine with a the smallest staff known to man, no
perks, and well ---- it's in Ireland (which she thinks is a fate worse than
death.)
The bright spot is the really sweet (sometimes overly sweet) Ashling
Kennedy. Ashling is everything that Lisa is not. She's not fashionable, she's
not worldly, she's not --- well, posh. But, she's the foundation of this book
and really the driving force behind this great tale of work, love and
friendships.
I don't think there is a better author out there than Marian Keyes and she
didn't let me down with this one. I love "Sushi for Beginners" and would suggest
it to any lover of this genre or great fiction in general.
Cheers!!!!!!
The Bargain
THE BARGAIN is an expansion and rewriting of the small traditional Regency
THE WOULD-BE WIDOW, first published by Signet in 1989. I had not yet read the
original--I was saving it for a rainy day when I needed a guaranteed great
read--and to me, THE BARGAIN contains nothing superfluous, no
obviously-tacked-on subplots, no detours from the relationship between Jocelyn
and David. There is a sweet secondary romance--no, make that two secondary
romances--but they serve to enhance the main attraction and nev er distract. I
savored all 373 pages of delving deeply into these people's minds and
hearts.
Ms. Putney should be applauded not only for being a marvelous writer and
craftsman, but for all the happiness she brings to millions of readers
worldwide. I thank you once again, Mary Jo, not only for a glorious evening, but
for all the warmth and joy your characters, their stories, and their worlds give
me long after I've closed the book with a happy sigh.
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The Black Cloud
"The Black Cloud." Hoyle is a terrific writer and brings to bear his
expertise as a scientist in producing a novel that is engrossing, with the
dialogue delightfully flavored with his subtle British sense of humor. I
particulary enjoy the interaction between the dignified 'Astronomer Royal' and
the chief character and maverick & rather unstable Professor Kingsly. The
book begins with a description of a cold wintry January morning on the prime
meridian in England, with the natives huddled around their fireplaces moaning
about the weather, and quickly moves to Mt. Palomar above the California orange
groves, where an underpaid Norwegian grad assistant finds that certain
photographic plates (didn't have CDC's back then) taken of the Orion region of
the sky show that an entire circle of stars is blinking on and off when compared
with the plate taken somewhat earlier….a condition that shouldn't exist…and the
action starts from there….of course the culprit is the "Black Cloud" heading
straight for the solar system. I'm a fan of Heinlein, Asimov, Arthur C. Clark,
et. al…but I gotta say this is my number one favorite of all time. Anybody who
likes sci-fi within the realm of what actually could happen as told by a writer
grounded in science…and who's got a flare for SETI will love this book. And the
way he writes, I find myself visualizing being right there on the scene.,
whether at Mt. Palomar, Pasadena, or Nortonstowe out in the English countryside
(where they all end up). Always felt it was too bad Hoyle wasn't a more prolific
writer of novels....
The Busy Woman's Guide to Murder
Another great entry in the Charlotte Adams series. The series continues to
delight with the professional organizer Charlotte, she of the unorganized life,
and her two little dogs who bring heart and soul to the books, as well as a
mystery of their own - will they ever qualify as therapy dogs? Not just for the
cozy lover.
The Cat, the Lady and the Liar
I love the Cats in Trouble series. From the small-town South Carolina
setting, to the cast of interesting characters, to the memorable animals,
reading books in this series is like going out for coffee with old friends. In
this third installment, a cat with a diamond collar is in trouble and behind the
closed doors of her owner's antebellum mansion, all is not as polished and
genteel as it appears. Jillian sets out to aid the abandoned animal and, in her
gentle and patient manner, uncovers an even more serious crime. Jillian's
passion for animals will resonate with all pet lovers. The perfect read for a
lazy spring or summer afternoon!
The Little Stranger
"The Little Stranger" is also about the dynamics of human relationships -
of the complex ties between parent and children [Roderick laments that he has
been a constant source of disappointment to his mother], the bonds between
siblings, and of human yearnings [for social acceptance, affection etc].
This is not a wisp of a novel but a hefty read, yet I found myself
compelled to finish it within two days. I'd rate this as my favorite of Sarah
Waters' work because I happen to love highly atmospheric novels and "The Little
Stranger" exceeds my expectations on that account. I'd also recommend works like
"The Sisters" by Poppy Adams, "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield, and
"The Forgotten Garden" by Kate Morton.
The Solomon Sisters Wise Up
While there are some humorous elements, this is actually one of the warmest
and most realistic chick lit books I've seen so far. The only thing that threw
me a bit at first was that the whole book is in first person, and yet there are
three main characters, but once I got to know them, it didn't matter. All three
stories were touching and enjoyable, and I found myself really rooting for the
characters. I also found the subplot with father and his young wife interesting,
and thought she did a great job of showing how these three girls get to know
each other and discover that their father isn't exactly what they thought.
This is the kind of book to curl up with for the evening, and then loan to
all your friends when you're done! I read her first one, See Jane Date, which
was cute, but this one is much deeper and overall just much more fun.
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The Ten-Year Nap
While I worried that the book was going to the "stay-at-home moms are
stupid" place, it really didn't go there at all, but was more about being true
to one's self and knowing how to do that in whatever circumstances you find
yourself in. In fact, what the main character went through with friends and
family telling her which jobs she was suited for and how she really should be
doing something with her life while she had been DOING what she wanted to do --
raise her son... well, I could relate. I could also relate with her needing to
do more upon the realization that her son was needing her less and less.
If you can read a book with an open mind and see stories as infinitely
human, you will enjoy this book. However, if your first impulse is to judge
people and you have no interest in looking deeper, you won't like this book at
all. It isn't adventure. It's just about life.
Amy Inspired
I really enjoyed the story. I love that the protagonist is flawed. I get
sick to death of sappy, cookie-cutter women in Christian fiction. Don't get me
wrong, I am all for books that communicate the message of Christ's love and
redemption. I just like to see it fleshed out in reality in a way that someone
living down the street can relate to. I sure know that I'm not perfect, but I do
know that I take my faith seriously and I learn from my mistakes. I love that
the author allowed Amy to be real. She messes up. She faces temptation and
sometimes falls short of making the best decisions. She has hopes and dreams.
She falls in love, but makes a mess of things. Her character is one that I think
many people can relate to in one way or another.
A beautiful love story and inspiring work of fiction. I look forward to
reading more of Pierce's work in the future.
Code Noir
The second Plessis' post-apocalypse thriller stars a female "Mad Maxine" in
a world filled with nasty individuals who abuse power supporting Voltaire's
philosophy about institutions. The gripping story line is much darker and
grittier than the first tale as the societal divides emphasizes class, species,
and authority differences in which power is everything. The heroine is a
terrific protagonist as she keeps the tale focused in her efforts to walk a thin
line where a misstep means death.
Crash Deluxe
Parrish Plessis a self-styled warlord over Torley's, a section of the worst
ghetto imaginable called the Tert, set in a dark, near-future Australia that is
completely controlled by the Media Elite. When a media reporter kidnaps a feral
child under Plessis' protection and leaves a trail of clues that set her on a
trip to the sprawling upper-class metropolis of nearby Vivacity, Parrish decides
to get the child back even if she has to take down the entire media structure to
do it.
If that doesn't sound daunting enough, Parrish must do so while in
disguise as a Amorato, a high-tech call girl solicited by the Media royalty for
their pleasurable abilities.
Shw also has to contend with an Eskaalim
parasite that is trying to take over her mind, body, and soul as it feeds off
her adrenaline. An internal war which Parrish is losing as she maintains her
cover as an Amorato, causes public mayhem and firefights, and still tries to
worm her way into the Media upper crust to save the feral child and maybe all of
Vivacity and the Tert as well.
When the Media dominate everything that the
public sees and hears and the truth only matters if it's good for ratings, not
even her allies believe Parrish can succeed. But when Parrish Plessis is
involved the only thing you can count in is that anyone and everyone in her way
is going to be sorry.
Crash Deluxe is the third in what will hopefully be a
long series of Parrish Plessis adventures. While not essential and not for
children, readers will get a lot more out the story if you pick up Nylon Angel
and Code Noir first. If you haven't read any of the Parrish Plessis books,
you're missing out on some of the best new cyberpunk available. Marianne De
Pierres has a real talent for taking a dark gritty vision of the future and
making it seem all too real. This series is a tightly written page-turner to
lose sleep over. I did.
Even the Dogs
The novel's narrative style is fractured, as are the characters. When Danny
is narrating, paragraphs typically end with unfinished sentences. Yet portions
of this novel are written in achingly beautiful prose. For that, I give the
novel four stars, but I can't say that it was a complete pleasure to read. It's
important for novels like this to be written, to reflect the dark and dismal
realities of life, but dismal reading isn't fun reading. If you're looking for a
story of redemption or personal growth, you won't find it here. If you don't
want to be depressed by your reading, find a different book. Even the Dogs is a
well-written chronicle of hopelessness, but it's a story that has been told many
times before. This snapshot of life's forgotten, invisible people is better than
most, but for all the power of McGregor's writing, I found myself reading it in
small doses and was glad when it came to an end.
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Deadly Notions
Elizabeth Lynn Casey once again brings her readers a charming, fun-filled
tale that combines a little mystery, a little romance, and a whole lot of
friendship. The combination guarantees an absolutely pleasurable read! Grab a
tall glass of sweet tea, a cookie or two and enjoy a trip to the South with
"Deadly Notions," where the ladies are feisty and the murders are
spine-tingling!
How to Bake a Perfect Life
With "How To Bake A Perfect Life," Barbara O'Neal once again demonstrates
why the Romance Writers of America awarded her their top prize for novels with
romantic elements in 2010. And, in my opinion, she's baked her own slice of
perfection in this book. Yummy recipes and sensual descriptions of bread making
and baking will satisfy the cravings of an ardent foodie. Those who want a story
about family rifts and healing will find it in Ramona's dealings with her
strong, restaurant-owning clan. Lost love and teenage angst play against a
hearty dose of war's realism.
The creation of a book, much like the making of a loaf of bread, requires
the careful combination and layering of many aspects--plot, structure,
characterization, voice. "How To Bake A Perfect Life" takes all those elements
and adds a dash of the unknown, a willingness to take a chance by focusing the
story on an older heroine. There's a lot going on, but somehow Ms. O'Neal simply
makes it work, and the result is one of the best books I've read in ages.
Julia
This novel opens with the protagonist, Julia Lofting, an American heiress,
impulsively purchasing a fading mansion. We learn she has just been released
from a mental institution proceeding the untimely and accidental death of her
daughter. As tormented as she is by the death, Julia realizes it has finally
broken the spell of enchantment of her domineering and brutal husband. She feels
the purchase of the mansion, where she plans to live alone and reevaluate her
life and its direction, will symbolically mark her first step down the road of
independence and personal will.
Ironically, it is the house which chooses her for its own expression of
will. Julia runs into an eerie little girl in the park across the way who bears
an uncanny resemblance to her own daughter. However, unlike her own sweet child,
this girl is prone to mutilating small animals and terrorizing the other
children of the park. Soon, the malevolent girl begins to appear in the bizarre
black and red mirrors of the upper floors of the mansion.
As a reader, we are uncertain at this point whether the sightings are
strictly the hallucinations of a distraught and nervous woman, the spectre of
her daughter come to haunt her or some demon, eminating from the mansion, toying
with her. The rest of the novel delivers the answer in a tense and unrelenting
series of climactic events.
The characterizations and conspiring of the characters puts one in mind of
Iris Murdoch. While characters bind together to make plans and imagine
themselves engineers of events and perceptions, they are in fact being
manipulated by outside forces of which they have no knowledge.
The Eyes of Darkness
This is the Koontz I love--this is the Koontz that wrote Intensity, not
Fear Nothing. Why can't he always right this well? The premise is a staple to
Koontz--a government science lab and the results of their expierements. The
result is a strong novel of suspense and horror set in vegas and packed with
emotion. This is the first "adult horror" novel I ever read and I still think it
is a particularly good one. It is the book that helped me bridge the gap between
Young Adult and Adult years ago (no, not R.L. Stine... I started reading the
better end of YA Fiction early on.) The story opens with a mother still grieving
the loss of her son a year ago in a scouting accident; after thinking she sees
him in a car, strange things start to happen which point to the possibility that
he's still alive.
A good read.
The Keep
The narrative about Danny and the ghosts of the Keep smoothly parallels
Ray's struggles in prison, and subtle connections can be made between the plot
twists in both Ray and Danny's lives. The stories converge in a natural manner
(yes, Egan can make the supernatural entirely real). The Keep is one of the best
books of the year, and it's nearly impossible for a reviewer to re-create the
experience in a few short paragraphs. Go ahead and pick this one up to see for
youself!
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Pillow Talk
A story of first love and second chances, Pillow Talk charms with its
effervescent wit. By day, Petra Flint is a talented London jeweller. By night,
she sleepwalks. She has rare gemstones under her mattress but it's the skeletons
in her closet that make it difficult for her to rest. Once a promising
song-writer, Arlo Savidge, Petra's old flame, now teaches music at a boys'
school. But, like Petra, ghosts from his past disturb his sleep. Their timing
wasn't right as teenagers, and now might be their only chance. But what keeps
them up at night just might keep them apart forever.
Going Too Far
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO?
All Meg has ever wanted is to get away. Away from high school. Away from
her backwater town. Away from her parents who seem determined to keep her
imprisoned in their dead-end lives. But one crazy evening involving a dare and
forbidden railroad tracks, she goes way too far...and almost doesn't make it
back.
John made a choice to stay. To enforce the rules. To serve and protect. He
has nothing but contempt for what he sees as childish rebellion, and he wants to
teach Meg a lesson she won't soon forget. But Meg pushes him to the limit by
questioning everything he learned at the police academy. And when he pushes
back, demanding to know why she won't be tied down, they will drive each other
to the edge -- and over....
The Wrong Hostage
Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and
violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace
believes in the rule of law -- lives it, breathes it. She has always been
buttoned up and buttoned down.
Except once.
Joe Faroe has learned that laws are made by politicians, and politicians
are all too human. He believes in the innocents, the ones getting ground up by
governments that are too polarized or too corrupt to protect their own citizens.
He's been through the political meat grinder himself. It cost him his career,
his freedom, and the woman who still haunts him. Since then Faroe has worked
outside the rules and politics of government as a kidnap specialist for St.
Kilda Consulting, a Manhattan-based global business that concentrates on the
shadow world where governments can't go. He is good at his work -- intelligent,
confident, ruthless.
Until a friend dies trying to kill him.
Now Faroe is out of the business. Retired. He's through trying to save a
world that doesn't want to be saved.
Then Grace comes to him, past and present collide, and Faroe finds himself
sucked back into the shadows, tracking a violent killer who holds the life of
Grace's son in his bloody hands.
Uncharted Territory
Noted planetary surveyors Carson and Findriddy undertake the task of
mapping the planetoid Boohte, a mission complicated by their companions, a young
intern specializing in mating customs and a native guide who levies fines to pay
for roulette wheels.
Valediction
The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn't afraid to die. But the
most deadly is one who doesn't want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman
who made life his #1 priority.
So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can
make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man's bullet is wearing Spenser's name. But
Boston's big boys don't know Spenser's ready and willing to meet death more than
halfway.
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The Twelfth Card
Unlocking a cold case with explosive implications for the future of civil
rights, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protege, Amelia Sachs, must
outguess a killer who has targeted a high school girl from Harlem who is digging
into the past of one of her ancestors, a former slave. What buried secrets from
140 years ago could have an assassin out for innocent blood? And what chilling
message is hidden in his calling card, the hanged man of the tarot deck? Rhyme
must anticipate the next strike or become history -- in the bestseller that
proves "there is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver" (San Jose Mercury
News).
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect
English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of
his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country
drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he
has served humanity by serving “a great gentleman.” But lurking in his memory
are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s “greatness” and graver
doubts about his own faith in the man he served.
A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction
to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful
book.
Praying for Sleep
Praying for revenge...Psycho killer Michael Hrubek has escaped to find the
woman who put him away. He'll show her what killing is all about...Praying for
salvation...Lis knows he's out there. He's haunted every sleepless night,
watching and waiting to take her to hell with him...And now Lis is Praying for
Sleep.
I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story
The end is nigh and the Prince of Darkness has just been offered one hell
of a deal: reentry into Heaven for eternity?if he can live out a well-behaved
life in a human body on earth. It’s the ultimate case of trying without buying
and, despite the limitations of the human body in question (previous owner one
suicidally unsuccessful writer, Deelan Gunn), Luce seizes the opportunity to run
riot through the realm of the senses. This is his chance to straighten the
biblical record (Adam, it’s hinted, was a misguided variation on the Eve
design), to celebrate his favorite achievements (everything from the Inquisition
to Elton John), and, most important, to get Julia Roberts attached to his
screenplay. But the experience of walking among us isn’t what His Majesty
expected: instead of teaching us what it’s like to be him, Lucifer finds himself
understanding what it’s like to be us.
Enclave
WELCOME TO THE APOCALYPSE In Deuce's world, people earn the right to a name
only if they survive their first fifteen years. By that point, each unnamed
'brat' has trained into one of three groups-Breeders, Builders, or Hunters,
identifiable by the number of scars they bear on their arms. Deuce has wanted to
be a Huntress for as long as she can remember.
As a Huntress, her purpose is clear--to brave the dangerous tunnels outside
the enclave and bring back meat to feed the group while evading ferocious
monsters known as Freaks. She's worked toward this goal her whole life, and
nothing's going to stop her, not even a beautiful, brooding Hunter named Fade.
When the mysterious boy becomes her partner, Deuce's troubles are just
beginning.
Down below, deviation from the rules is punished swiftly and harshly, and
Fade doesn't like following orders. At first she thinks he's crazy, but as death
stalks their sanctuary, and it becomes clear the elders don't always know best,
Deuce wonders if Fade might be telling the truth. Her partner confuses her;
she's never known a boy like him before, as prone to touching her gently as
using his knives with feral grace.
As Deuce's perception shifts, so does the balance in the constant battle
for survival. The mindless Freaks, once considered a threat only due to their
sheer numbers, show signs of cunning and strategy... but the elders refuse to
heed any warnings. Despite imminent disaster, the enclave puts their faith in
strictures and sacrifice instead. No matter how she tries, Deuce cannot stem the
dark tide that carries her far from the only world she's ever known.
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A Hell of a Woman
Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a
hard man like Dillon couldn't bring himself to use. But when Mona told him about
the vicious aunt who had turned her into something little better than a
prostitute--and about the money the old lady has stashed away--Dillon found it
surprisingly easy to kill for her.
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15
This edition of The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror comes with another
generous sampling of the past year’s best horror fiction, earning acclamations
from the likes of Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly. With contributions from
such favorites as Ramsey Campbell and Kim Newman, along with the talented likes
of Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Graham Joyce, Paul McCauley, Stephen Gallagher,
Caitlin R. Kiernan, Jay Russell, Glen Hirshberg and many more, the hair-raising
tales in this edition hold nightmares for travelers in alien lands, unveil the
mystery and menace lurking in our everyday reality, explore the terrors of the
supernatural, and honor horror’s classic tradition. Like all of the other
volumes in this series, award-winning editor Stephen Jones once again brings us
the best new horror, revisiting momentous events and chilling achievements on
the dark side of fantasy in 2004.
A Place of Execution
Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester;
the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezlng
day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter
vanishes from her town, an insular community that distrusts the outside world.
For the young George Bennett, a newly promoted inspector, it is the beginning of
his most difficult and harrowing case: a murder with no body, an investigation
with more dead ends and closed faces than he'd have found in the anonymity of
the inner city, and an outcome which reverberates through the years.
Decades later he finally tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote,
but just when the book is poised for publication, Bennett unaccountably tries to
pull the plug. He has new information which he refuses to divulge, new
information that threatens the very foundations of his existence. Catherine is
forced to re-investigate the past, with results that turn the world upside down.
A Greek tragedy in modern England, A Place of Execution is a taut
psychological thriller that explores, exposes and explodes the border between
reality and illusion in a multi-layered narrative that turns expectations on
their head and reminds us that what we know is what we do not know.
The Accidental Time Machine
Grad- school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant
at MIT when he inadvertently creates a time machine. With a dead-end job and a
girlfriend who left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose in taking a
time-machine trip himself—or so he thinks.
Sweetsmoke
The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia
tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins.
"A fascinating and gripping novel about the Civil War. The slave, Cassius
Howard, is a great fictional character, and his story is part mystery, part love
story, and a harrowing portrait of slavery that reads with the immense power of
the slave narratives."
--Pat Conroy, author of Beach Music and South of
Broad
"David Fuller vividly and movingly describes the life of Cassius, a slave
on a Virginia tobacco plantation. Meticulously researched and beautifully
written, Sweetsmoke resonates with unforgettable characters, and is a gripping
story of loss and survival."
--Robert Hicks, author of The Widow of the
South
"Fuller works hard to give us a mid-19th century world that feels
authentic, from small details . . . to the larger sprawl of the plantation . . .
captivating."
--The New York Times Book Review
"The plot unfolds at a brisk pace, and Fuller does an especially good job
with the battle scenes . . . Cassius, who has never drawn a single breath as a
free man, is a compelling character from the start. Sweetsmoke is a
well-imagined and researched novel of survival and courage."
--Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
"Featuring slave traders, smugglers and spies, the novel transports us to a
chilling milieu in which human beings are humiliated, and the slaves have a
forlorn hope of freedom, decency and dignity . . . Sweetsmoke haunts us long
after the final page is turned."
--Tennessean.com
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St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
A San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune Best Book
of the Year
In these ten glittering stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the
ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are
reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a theme
park, and little girls sail away on crab shells. Filled with stunning
inventiveness and heart, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduces a
radiant new writer.
Beneath the Bleeding
When Dr.Tony Hill is attacked by an axe wielding madman at the mental
hospital where he works, he is forced to recover from the ensuing operation in
hospital, grumpy at being unable to walk and unable to help DCI Carol Jordan in
several cases in which she is involved. A local football hero has died from
poison and shortly afterwards, a bomb is exploded at the football stadium,
killing over 30 people. The bomber is identified as a member of a local Muslim
family and both the police and the press are convinced that this is a terrorist
act. Tony isn't so sure about this and continues to try to convince Carol that
the profile of this man doesn't fit the role of a terrorist. Carol is in one of
her dark moods and resists Tony's theories, which places another barrier between
them. It's a very good read with an ending which doesn't become obvious until
the end.
Kickback
Manchester's kickboxing detective Kate Brannigan returns to investigate a
strange case involving missing buildings and finds herself involved with
real-estate fraud and corrupt developers. By the author of Dead Beat.
Killing the Shadows
Stunning new psychological thriller from Britain's most exciting crime
writer, the award-winning Val McDermid...'Val McDermid is a roaring Ferrari amid
the crowded traffic on the crime-writing road' Independent A killer is on the
loose, blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey -- the writers of
crime novels who have turned psychological profilers into the heroes of the
nineties. But this killer shatters all conventional wisdom, and for one woman,
the desperate hunt to uncover his identity becomes a matter of life and death.
Professor Fiona Cameron is an academic psychologist who uses computer technology
to help police forces track serial offenders. She used to help the Met, but when
they screwed up an investigation after ignoring her advice she vowed never to
work for them again. Still smarting from the experience, she's working a case in
Toledo when her lover, thriller writer Kit Martin, tells her a fellow crime
novelist has been murdered. It's not her case, but Fiona can't help taking an
interest. Which is just as well, because before too long the killer strikes
again. And again. And Fiona finds herself caught in a race against time not only
to save a life but to bring herself redemption, both personal and
professional.
The Torment of Others
THE VOICE SEEPS LIKE BLOOD...
Two years ago, Derek Tyler confessed to a
sickening quartet of murders. Now the convicted perpetrator remains locked away,
as do the gruesome, inimitable details of his crimes, which is precisely why
this can't possibly be happening all over again--but it
is.
SOOTHING, CAJOLING, PRAISING, COMMANDING...
One by one,
mutilated corpses are turning up, each marked by the unmistakable calling card
of the same warped killer. Still shattered in the wake of her own unbearable
trauma, Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan is called in to make sense of the
implausible scenario, with criminal psychologist Tony Hill on hand to complicate
matters at every turn.
AS IMPOSSIBLE TO SILENCE AS IT IS TO
DEFY.
As a seasoned profiler, Tony is convinced that the new murders aren't
the work of a copycat killer. Together, he and Carol prowl the mist-shrouded
alleyways of tawdry Temple Fields, tracking a cunning serial killer who seems to
be safely locked away yet somehow simultaneously on the loose, preparing to
strike again...
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The Anatomy of Deception
A mesmerizing forensic thriller that thrusts the reader into the operating
rooms, drawing rooms, and back alleys of 1889 Philadelphia, as a young doctor
grapples with the principles of scientific process to track a daring
killer
In the morgue of a Philadelphia hospital, a group of physicians open a
coffin and uncover the corpse of a beautiful young woman. What they see takes
their breath away. Within days, one of them strongly suspects that he knows the
woman’s identity…and the horrifying events that led to her death. But in this
richly atmospheric novel–an ingenious blend of history, suspense and early
forensic science–the most compelling chapter is yet to come, as young Ephraim
Carroll is plunged into a maze of murder, secrets and unimaginable
crimes....
Dr. Ephraim Carroll came to Philadelphia to study with a leading professor,
the brilliant William Osler, believing that he would gain the power to save
countless lives. As America hurtles toward a new century, medicine is changing
rapidly, in part due to the legalization of autopsy–a crime only a few years
before. But Carroll and his mentor are at odds over what they glimpsed that
morning in the hospital’s Dead House. And when a second mysterious death is
determined to have been a ruthless murder, Carroll can feel the darkness
gathering around him–and he ignites an investigation of his own.
Soon he is moving between the realm of elite medicine, Philadelphia high
society, and a teeming badlands of criminality and sexual depravity along the
city’s fetid waterfront. With a wealthy, seductive woman clouding his vision,
the controversial artist Thomas Eakins sowing scandal, and the secrets of the
nation’s powerful surgeons unraveling around him, Carroll is forced to confront
an agonizing moral choice–between exposing a killer, undoing a wrong, and, quite
possibly, protecting the future of medicine itself….
Chasing Fire
I loved reading about the main characters Rowan and Gull. Rowan is strong
woman, she is hard but also fair. She is a good trainer and team leader. I loved
the scenes in which she trained the new smoke jumpers. The way she supported
them and joked with them was admirable.
Gull is a hero after my own heart.
He's intelligent, interested in a lot of different things and seems to live his
life exactly the way he wants to. Together he and Rowan make a wonderful pair.
Their banters were very entertaining and I loved the scenes in which Rowan let
him into her heart.
I also liked that there is a second, smaller love story
between Rowan's father and a woman he meets. Their relationship is so sweet and
shows that you are never too old to find love.
Besides the two main characters I especially loved reading about the
camaraderie of the smoke jumpers and about their missions. The smoke jumpers are
like a small family, they love to rib each other and there are a lot of funny
scenes between them. To read about them fighting the fire was thrilling and made
this book a fast read. I was always interested in reading about their operations
and I was impressed that with every jump into the flames they risked their
lifes.
The suspense part of the book fits to the fire theme. The first murder is
like a spark that sets the murderer on fire and makes him unpredictable and
dangerous for everyone. I had a suspicion about who the killer might but was
never sure about it.
The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a
major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon
sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood
boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys
observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the
family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of
adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of
youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story
unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia
Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of
sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American
life.
The Color of Death
Kate Chandler has accepted a commission that will solidify her reputation
as a world-class gem cutter. But during what should have been a simple transfer,
seven rare, priceless sapphires vanish without a trace, along with their
courier, her brother Lee, who now, quite possibly, is dead. And suddenly Kate is
on the run, pursued by federal agents who believe she's the criminal mastermind
of a cunning bait-and-switch.
Only Kate suspects the terrifying truth: that she's stumbled into a
conspiracy of deceit, betrayal, and cold-blooded murder that goes far beyond a
simple jewel heist. Getting Sam Groves, the FBI special agent who's her constant
shadow, to trust her is a step in the right direction -- but it may be too
little and too late in a bloody game where terror dictates her every move.
Because a ruthless assassin has already received the order that Kate Chandler
must die ...
Die in Plain Sight
When Lacey Quinn inherits the striking landscapes done by her late,
much-loved grandfather, she believes they are as good as anything hanging in
museums. But the paintings now in her possession are more than the works of a
talented master. They are anguished voices from the grave . . . crying murder!
Lacey begins researching her grandfather's past -- and is rocked almost
immediately by a strange series of violent events. Someone wants to steal her
inheritance, to reduce the paintings to unrecognizable ashes in a suspicious
blaze. Someone wants to prevent Lacey from examining her grandfather's work too
closely . . . by any means necessary.
Ian Lapstrake, a security specialist, has taken an interest in Lacey's
inheritance . . . and in her. Troubled by what he sees, he becomes Lacey's
shadow, as her search for answers leads them both down an ever-darkening road
paved with lies, blood, and devastating secrets.
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Maelstrom
This is the way the world ends:
A nuclear strike on a deep sea vent. The target was an ancient
microbe—voracious enough to drive the whole biosphere to extinction—and a
handful of amphibious humans called rifters who’d inadvertently released it from
three billion years of solitary confinement.
The resulting tsunami killed millions. It’s not as through there was
a choice: saving the world excuses almost any degree of collateral damage.
Unless, of course, you miss the target.
Now North America’s west coast lies in ruins. Millions of refugees
rally around a mythical figure mysteriously risen from the deep sea. A
world already wobbling towards collapse barely notices the spread of one more
blight along its shores. And buried in the seething fast-forward jungle
that use to be called Internet, something vast and inhuman reaches out to a
woman with empty white eyes and machinery in her chest. A woman driven by
rage, and incubating Armageddon.
Her name is Lenie Clarke. She’s a rifter. She’s not nearly as
dead as everyone thinks.
And the whole damn world is collateral damage as far as she’s concerned. .
. .
Till the End of Tom
Traditionally, Old Philadelphians keep a low profile. They associate with
one another and leave life as discreetly as they have lived it. So Philly Prep
English teacher Amanda Pepper, who thinks her only current problems are keeping
her well-meaning family from hijacking her wedding, is understandably stunned to
discover a perfect specimen of the species dying at the foot of the school’s
marble staircase.
It is anybody’s guess what led to Tomas Severin’s apparent fall and,
indeed, why he was in the building in the first place. More questions arise when
Amanda enters her otherwise empty classroom and finds a take-out cup of herbal
tea laced with the party drug her students call roofies. Why would a middle-aged
Philadelphian have a date-rape drug in his tea? Why does he have Amanda’s name
scribbled in his pocket notebook?
Hired by a member of the Severin family household, Amanda and her fiance,
C. K. Mackenzie, realize that many people felt their lives would improve if
Tom’s life ended–making it seemingly impossible to determine who’d been
harassing Severin with threatening phone calls. Tom Severin leaves behind angry
ex-wives, one recently dropped fiancee, and the current (about to be exed) Mrs.
Tomas Severin. As secrets are unearthed, and cruelties old and new revealed,
it’s apparent that The End of Tom is just the beginning of the grief he caused.
To thousands of adoring Amanda Pepper fans, Gillian Roberts’s new mystery
offers unmitigated delight. A note to the uninitiated: There could be no better
time for you to meet “the Dorothy Parker of mystery writers . . . giving more
wit per page than most writers give per book” (Nancy Pickard).
A Hole in Juan
No matter the season, the Philadelphia private school where Amanda Pepper
teaches English is never a center of tranquility. But with Halloween and the
annual Mischief Night party only days away, the hope is that nothing more than
old-fashioned vandalism and pranks will take place.
No such luck. Trouble erupts long before the witching hour, as the school
is plagued by a series of mishaps ranging from the trivial to the potentially
deadly–and most of which seem to center on a group of popular seniors.
A fire alarm rings during a test; all the orange and black paint is stolen
from the art room; the mustard packets are taken from the cafeteria. Perhaps
more serious: chemicals and equipment disappear from the science lab, as does
one of Amanda’s exams and her attendance book. And the dapper new science
instructor, Juan Reyes, receives a threatening message recalling that a teacher
was once flayed to death by his students.
As Amanda juggles teaching, moonlighting as a private investigator with her
husband, C. K. Mackenzie, and coping with C.K.’s visiting sixteen-year-old high
school-dropout nephew, she tries to find out what, or who, is behind the ominous
events.
Before she can unmask the tricksters, the turmoil in the school increases
when students rise up against the administration’s censuring (and censoring) of
a campus poet. Then unrest escalates into a lethally explosive menace, and
Amanda receives a warning that there is more–and far worse–to come.
Helen Hath No Fury
In the stately nineteenth-century homes on Philadelphia’s Delancey Street,
the wilder passions scarcely ruffle the peace. Murder is unthinkable,
particularly a murder involving an upscale book discussion group, of which
schoolteacher Amanda Pepper is a devoted member. Nevertheless, on the day after
a heated discussion of a fictional heroine’s suicide, book group member Helen
Coulter falls to her death from her roof garden. Helen’s death is declared a
suicide but Amanda is convinced otherwise. Why is this admirable woman dead? And
if she was killed, who performed the heinous act? Amanda’s investigations will
draw her into a zone of great danger, where Helen Coulter’s ice-hearted killer
is once more ready to strike. . . .
All's Well That Ends
Barring the usual teenage pranks, all seems peaceful at Philly Prep, the
private school in Philadelphia where Amanda Pepper teaches English. No doubt the
money that appears to be missing from funds collected to aid victims of a
catastrophic hurricane Down South will turn up. Probably the rumor that some of
Amanda’s students have discovered the thrills of gambling is totally
unfounded.
In any case, Amanda has other things to think about. Her husband, private
investigator C. K. MacKenzie, is struggling to help his Louisiana kinfolk
reconstruct their post-hurricane lives. Her friend Sasha’s stepmother has just
committed suicide–although, according to Sasha, Phoebe Ennis would never have
killed herself, especially not while having a drink and wearing a red silk
blouse and red sandals with four-inch heels.
Amanda isn’t persuaded but reluctantly agrees to help investigate the
woman’s demise, though the evidence for foul play is slim. True, the middle-aged
compulsive collector of knickknacks wasn’t universally loved. Phoebe’s own son
hated her and she bored her friends to death with hints of her “royal” lineage.
And with four marriages behind her, she was already preparing to announce her
renewed availability on the Net. But when another woman is found dead in
Phoebe’s house, it becomes clear that something is indeed murderously amiss, and
much closer to home than Amanda or anyone else could have imagined.
All’s Well That Ends is the final novel in Gillian Roberts’s acclaimed
Amanda Pepper series. It’s also the best, irresistibly intelligent, and richly
entertaining. Amanda’s farewell adventure brings the genius of “the Dorothy
Parker of mystery writers” (Nancy Pickard) into full flower, and the bloom is
sweet and a wonder to behold.
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The Trial: A Novel
A small town attorney is forced to battle a giant drug company in an
attempt to save his daughter’s life. She had volunteered for a clinical
trial of a drug that both the company and the FDA knew was dangerous. When
his daughter’s liver starts to fail, and he realizes a liver transplant is out
of the question, he decides to fight the drug company on the playing field he
knows best…the courtroom. Discovering what was hidden from the public, he
finds himself faced with a ruthless adversary willing to commit bribery,
kidnapping and murder to keep the drug on the market.
Behemoth: A novel
Lenie Clarke-amphibious cyborg, Meltdown Madonna, agent of the
Apocalypse-has grown sick to death of her own cowardice.
For five years (since the events recounted in Maelstrom0, she and her
bionic brethren (modified to work in the rift valleys of the ocean floor) have
hidden in the mountains of the deep Atlantic. The facility they commandeered was
more than a secret station on the ocean floor. Atlantis was an exit strategy for
the corporate elite, a place where the world's Movers and Shakers had hidden
from the doomsday microbe ?ehemoth-and from the hordes of the moved and the
shaken left behind. For five years "rifters" and "corpses" have lived in a state
of uneasy truce, united by fear of the outside world.
But now that world closes in. An unknown enemy hunts them through the
crushing darkness of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. ?ehemoth- twisted, mutated, more
virulent than ever-has found them already. The fragile armistice between the
rifters and their one-time masters has exploded into all-out war, and not even
the legendary Lenie Clarke can take back the body count.
Billions have died since she loosed ?ehemoth upon the world. Billions more
are bound to. The whole biosphere came apart at the seams while Lenie Clarke hid
at the bottom of the sea and did nothing. But now there is no place left to
hide. The consequences of past acts reach inexorably to the very floor of the
world, and Lenie Clarke must return to confront the mess she made.
Redemption doesn't come easy with the blood of a world on your hands. But
even after five years in pitch-black purgatory, Lenie Clarke is still Lenie
Clarke. There will be consequences for anyone who gets in her way-and worse
ones, perhaps, if she succeeds..
Starfish: A novel
Civilization rests on the backs of its outcasts.
So when civilization needs someone to run generating stations three
kilometers below the surface of the Pacific, it seeks out a special sort of
person for its Rifters program. It recruits those whose histories have
preadapted them to dangerous environments, people so used to broken bodies and
chronic stress that life on the edge of an undersea volcano would actually be a
step up. Nobody worries too much about job satisfaction; if you haven't
spent a lifetime learning the futility of fighting back, you wouldn't be a
rifter in the first place. It's a small price to keep the lights going,
back on shore.
But there are things among the cliffs and trenches of the Juan de Fuca
Ridge that no one expected to find, and enough pressure can forge the most
obedient career-victim into something made of iron. At first, not even the
rifters know what they have in them—and by the time anyone else finds out,
the outcast and the downtrodden have their hands on a kill switch for the whole
damn planet...
Adam and Evil
Philly Prep English teacher Amanda Pepper fears for her bright senior
student Adam Evans. Increasingly erratic and isolated, Adam is an accident
waiting to happen. So when a young woman is murdered at the landmark Free
Library while Amanda and her class are touring the premises, Adam, now
mysteriously missing, becomes the prime suspect. But unlike the police,
including her detective boyfriend, Amanda is dead certain that Adam is both
innocent and in terrible danger. And he's not alone. For the more Amanda sifts
through the layers of the victim's life, the closer she comes to losing her
own.
The Griffin's Flight (The Fallen Moon, Book 2)
Although he was once chosen as a griffin's companion, Arren Cardockson was
reviled, betrayed, and ultimately killed. Brought back to life by a power beyond
his understanding, Arren flees for the frozen sanctuary of the North. With the
man-eating griffin Skandar by his side, and an entire country hunting him, Arren
has little hope of reaching the place of his ancestry and of lifting his curse.
But then he comes across a wild woman who may hold the key to making his
lifeless heart beat once more.
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Angel Blood
The nurses call this place the Bin. We have to get out. We have to run away
before they hurt us for good. But there's no escaping Dr Dearly and his
brutality - is there? Four extraordinary children face a terrifying ordeal.
Their only hope is local hard-case Nail - but has he got what it takes to save
them? Brutal, tender and unforgettable, "Angel Blood" creates its own
extraordinary and brilliant world.
The Trophy Hunter
When attorney Diana Martin takes on a new client as a favor to her best
friend, PI Jessica Edwards, she has no clue that she and Jess will soon become
targets for a psychopathic hunter set on collecting beautiful women of diverse
ethnicities. And he's obsessed with keeping them perfectly beautiful
FOREVER.
Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and
language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no
American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the
entire span of Twain’s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to
the biting satire of his later years.
Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” to the bitter vision of
humankind in “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” to the delightful hilarity of
“Is He Living or Is He Dead?” Surging with Twain’s ebullient wit and penetrating
insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of
the career of–in the words of H. L. Mencken–“the father of our national
literature.”
The Bloody Crown of Conan
In his hugely influential and tempestuous career, Robert E. Howard created
the genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery–and brought to life one of
fantasy’s boldest and most enduring figures: Conan the Cimmerian–reaver, slayer,
barbarian, king.
This lavishly illustrated volume gathers together three of Howard’s longest
and most famous Conan stories–two of them printed for the first time directly
from Howard’s typescript–along with a collection of the author’s previously
unpublished and rarely seen outlines, notes, and drafts. Longtime fans and new
readers alike will agree that The Bloody Crown of Conan merits a place of honor
on every fantasy lover’s bookshelf.
Skin Folk
A new collection of short stories from Hopkinson, including "Greedy Choke
Puppy," which Africana.com called "a cleverly crafted West Indian story
featuring the appearance of both the soucouyant (vampire) & lagahoo
(werewolf),""Ganger (Ball Lightning)," praised by the Washington Post Book World
as written in "prose [that] is vivid & immediate," this collection reveals
Hopkinson's breadth & accomplishments as a storyteller.
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Dates From Hell
She thought her date was out of this world.
Actually, he was not of this
world . . .
We've all been on bad dates, nightmare dates, dreadful
experiences that turned out to be uniquely memorable in the very worst way. But
at least our partners for these detestable evenings were more or less . . .
human!
Now Kim Harrison, Lynsay Sands, Kelley Armstrong, and Lori Handeland
-- four of the very best writers currently exploring the dangerous seduction of
the supernatural -- offer up dating disasters (and unexpected delights) of a
completely different sort: dark, wicked, paranormally sensual assignations with
werewolves, demon lovers, and the romantically challenged undead. Sexy, witty,
chilling, and altogether remarkable, here is proof positive that some love
matches are made someplace other than heaven.
What the Duchess Wants
Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine and Henry of Anjou (future Henry II),
1152
As one of Europe's most powerful women, Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, has
a chance most can only dream of—to choose her own husband! One glance at the
young, forceful Henry of Anjou and her choice is made.
Able to match her wit for wit, Henry's a true warrior and not afraid to
disobey a royal command... But his love of life—and the bedroom—promises Eleanor
a brand-new world of excitement!
The Innocent:A Novel
Getting caught is simply not an option.
It's been a year since Jack Marconi's wife was killed. Ever since, he's
been slipping up at his job as warden at an upstate New York prison. It makes
him the perfect patsy when a cop-killer breaks out--with the help of someone on
the inside. Throwing himself into the hunt for the fleeing con, Jack doesn't see
what's coming.
Suddenly the walls are closing in. And in the next twenty-four hours, Jack
will defy direct orders, tamper with evidence, kidnap the con's girlfriend--and
run from the law with a .45 hidden beneath his sports coat. Because Jack
Marconi, keeper of laws, men, secrets, and memories, has been set up--by a
conspiracy that has turned everyone he ever trusted into an enemy. And
everything he ever believed in into the worst kind of lie.
Taken: A Thriller
Three people know the truth.
Three families will be changed
forever.
In the last days of World War II, a strange phenomenon saves a doomed Air
Force pilot named Russell Keys--and plunges him into torment. In a place called
Roswell, New Mexico, a man named Owen Crawford is drawn to a bizarre crash site
in the desert, and into a government cover-up. And in a remote Texas town, a
lonely woman named Sally Clarke finds a stranger hiding in her barn, and reaches
out to touch him…
This epic novel, based on the gripping ten-part SCI FI Channel® miniseries
from DreamWorks Television, spans sixty years of American history...as the lives
of three people are changed in an instant--and the consequences are played out
over three generations of harrowing encounters and unexplained events. While the
government lies, and a nation doubts, three families know they have been
touched, know that something has been taken from them...something that will
change their lives forever.
Woods Runner
Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family.
He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town,
or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near
Boston.
But the war comes to them. British soldiers and Iroquois attack. Samuel’s
parents are taken away, prisoners. Samuel follows, hiding, moving silently,
determined to find a way to rescue them. Each day he confronts the enemy, and
the tragedy and horror of this war. But he also discovers allies, men and women
working secretly for the patriot cause. And he learns that he must go deep into
enemy territory to find his parents: all the way to the British headquarters,
New York City.
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once downloaded, double click on it and install the
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