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Davis, Lindsey Time to Depart
New York Mysterious Pr Jan-97 892966262 N Hardcover 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
From Publishers Weekly&newline;Fresh from Last Act in Palmyra, Marcus Didius Falco, that most modern of ancient Romans, takes on organized crime in this latest installment of Davis's impeccably executed series. Falco has a job everyone loves to hate: he's the Emperor Vespasian's informer, or private detective?and he does his work well. This time, he's up against Balbinus Pius, perhaps the original John Gotti. Balbinus has finally been convicted of a capital crime, but, in traditional Roman style, he's been given a chance to flee before his scheduled execution. The power vacuum created by his departure seems to have sucked up every miscreant in Rome: markets are plundered, children are kidnapped, centurions are murdered. While Falco sets out to determine whether the crime wave is the work of a new kingpin or a herd of small-time operators, his private life is also in a bit of a spin. Companion Helena, a senator's daughter whom Falco is forbidden by law to marry because of their differing rank, is pregnant. And he's also pitted against his old army buddy and best friend, Petronius, captain of the fourth cohort of the Aventine Watch, in a corruption investigation. The tale gets a bit bumpy, as Davis, compensating for a slightly subpar mystery plot, tosses in lots of action scenes and personal turmoil. But Falco remains as delightfully irreverent and insightful as ever; and Davis, as usual, brings the time to life while handling the eternals?worry, danger, love and in-laws?just as deftly. &newline;Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;From Library Journal&newline;Davis (Last Act in Palmyra, LJ 2/1/96) turns her prodigious talents once again to ancient Rome. Marcus Didius Falco, series &doublequote;secret agent,&doublequote; tracks an infamous criminal supposedly in exile who is exacting murderous revenge on his enemies. Dependable entertainment.&newline;Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Davis, Stanley M. Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy
Reading, Mass. Perseus Books Group Mar-98 201339870 N Hardcover 9.1 x 6.2 x 1 inches
Amazon.com&newline;Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer look at how three factors in the wired world--speed, connectivity, and intangibles--are driving the increasing rate of change in the business marketplace. Citing examples that include Mercedes-Benz automobiles, Otis elevators, and even Amazon.com, Davis and Meyer interpret how development in these three areas is causing the boundaries of other formerly distinct categories to blur. Once business tended to be either products or services. But what about a box that tracks your car if stolen? You are buying a product--a piece of electronics--but are actually receiving a service--the ability to track a stolen automobile. The distinction between buyers and sellers is also blurring; for example, in grocery stores vendors buy shelf space from the retailer but also sell their products to the store. Even the distinction between work time and home time is blurring with the development of Internet-powered home offices, where time can be used more flexibly. According to Davis and Meyer, blur should be embraced because it will only increase. The authors wrap up with 50 ways to add productive blur to your business and 10 ways to adapt to blur in your personal life. --Elizabeth Lewis &newline;&newline;Amazon.com Audiobook Review&newline;How do you see the world clearly when it's changing too fast for most of us to comprehend? Actor Jay Gregory's smooth, calming narration of Blur makes the blurring lines between production and service seem as simple and logical as a tape measure. This is an age in which you don't just sell a product to a customer, you have to be prepared to sell him an upgrade in six months. In other words, no product is ever the end product. Gregory makes this sound reassuring rather than frightening. If you're in business, you've got a blueprint for success. If you're an investor, this is the roadmap to the companies best equipped to profit off the rapid-fire economic shifts. (Running time: three hours, two cassettes) --Lou Schuler --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Davis, Wade Shadows in the Sun: Travels To Landscapes Of Spirit And Desire
Washington, D.C. Island Press 1-Sep-98 1559633549 N Hardcover 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
Amazon.com&newline;Renowned anthropologist Wade Davis shows us how preserving the diversity of the world's cultures and spiritual beliefs is just as important as preserving our endangered plants, insects, and animals. In this collection of personal essays, Davis tells of dramatic personal adventures during which he visits and often lives with indigenous communities in the remote regions of the world. He offers reports of toad-smoking shamanistic journeys in the Amazon forests, tracking an elusive cloud leopard in the mountains of Tibet, and a soulful lament for the lost American buffalo.&newline;&newline;Although he has been called a modern-day Indiana Jones, Davis has far more integrity. His stories are not in service to self-glorification, but rather to one resounding theme: If there is one lesson I have drawn from my travels, it is that cultural and biological diversity are far more than the foundation of stability; they are an article of faith, a fundamental truth that indicates the way things are supposed to be.... There is a fire burning over the Earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills, and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame and reinventing the poetry of diversity is the most important challenge of our times. --Gail Hudson &newline;&newline;From Library Journal&newline;Davis, who holds a Harvard Ph.D. in ethnobotany and degrees in biology and anthropology, is also a prolific writer (e.g., One River, LJ 7/96). His current work is an eclectic collection of essays, some previously published, dealing with topics that include hallucinogenic plants (of which he partakes), toad licking, disappearing rain forests, Haitian voudoun, and the elusive clouded leopard. While at first glance these may not seem related, an overall appreciation for native cultures and for the natural world is evident throughout. Davis is straightforward and clear but not quite spellbinding. Still, this enjoyable read takes the armchair traveler to places few have written about. Recommended for all travel collections.?Kathleen A. Shanahan, American Univ. Lib., Washington, DC&newline;Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Dawkins, Richard The Selfish Gene
Oxford ; New York Oxford University Press, USA 25-Oct-90 192860925 Paperback 7.5 x 4.7 x 0.8 inches
Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that our genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to answer many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven't thought of evolution in the same way since. Why are there miles and miles of unused DNA within each of our bodies? Why should a bee give up its own chance to reproduce to help raise her sisters and brothers? With a prophet's clarity, Dawkins told us the answers from the perspective of molecules competing for limited space and resources to produce more of their own kind. Drawing fascinating examples from every field of biology, he paved the way for a serious re-evaluation of evolution. He also introduced the concept of self-reproducing ideas, or memes, which (seemingly) use humans exclusively for their propagation. If we are puppets, he says, at least we can try to understand our strings. --Rob Lightner --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 'buy this book, read it and recommend it to your students...There is still nothing else quite like it. Not only are the new chapters and endnotes worthy additions to the original, but the 1976 text comes up as fresh as a primrose and, in its way, nearly as perfect.'l Animal Behaviour 'Learned, witty and very well written...Exhilaratingly good.' Peter Medawar in The Spectator 'This book should be read, can be read, by almost everyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution.' W.D. Hamilton, Science `Dawkins demonstrates that complex, theoretical or mathematical ideas can be expressed rigorously, in plain English. The book remains an excellent way for those who have not been trained in evolution to understand modern arguments.' Trends in Ecology and Evolution `An essential and value-for-money purchase for all biological libraries.' Journal of Applied Ecology `Richard Dawkins is one of a rare breed - a scientist with the gift of the good writer. He has succeeded here in conveying theories of neo-Darwinism with the excitement of a mystery story... He has revelled in pushing the novelty of language and metaphor to the brink, and has ended up with a new way of seeing, which can in its own right come full circle and make an original contribution to science. At the same time, he has produced a book which is highly readable both for the layman, without any note of condescension, and for the expert, giving hima new way of looking at familiar ideas.' Alternatives to Laboratory Animals 'A splendid example of how difficult scientific ideas can be explained by someone who understands them and is willing to take the trouble.' The New Yorker 'What is so refreshing about Dawkins is that he has confidence in the scientific method, in the testing of beliefs to destruction, no matter how cherished they may be' Benjamin Woolley, The Listener 'influential' The Sunday Correspondent 'An entertaining look at evolution for the general reader.' Publishing News
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Day, George S. Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies
New York John Wiley & Sons 30-Mar-00 471361216 Hardcover 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.7 inches
Gene therapy, electronic commerce, intelligent sensors, digital imaging, micromachines, superconductivity, and other emerging technologies have the potential to remake entire industries and obsolete established strategies, write George S. Day and Paul J.H. Schoemaker in the opening to Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies. Their book is a comprehensive look at the high-tech future facing existing firms and the ways they must weigh and accommodate its impacts in order to compete in the future. Based on six years of research with Charles Schwab, Amazon.com, and other techno pioneers, Day and Schoemaker present insights, tools, and frameworks developed by Wharton's Emerging Technologies Management Research Program for managers who want guidance in this fluid, new arena. For example, in demonstrating how the upstart PalmPilot solidly captured its market despite established competition, they identify the traps that stymied rival products from Apple, IBM, Sony, and Microsoft as delayed participation, sticking with the familiar, reluctance to fully commit, and lack of persistence. They then detail solutions that, in this case, are characterized as widening peripheral vision, creating a learning culture, staying flexible in strategic ways, and providing organization autonomy. Other similarly specific yet universal sections address public policy, financing, and alliances. --Howard Rothman Emerging technologies such as the Internet and biotechnology have the potential to create new industries and transform existing ones. Incumbent firms, despite their superior resources, often lose out to smaller rivals in developing emerging technologies. Why do these incumbents have so much difficulty with disruptive technologies? How can they anticipate and overcome their handicaps? Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies presents insights, tools, and frameworks from leading busi-ness thinkers based on the research of Wharton's Emerging Technologies Management Research Program. This pioneering industry-academic partnership, established in 1994, is one of the longest and broadest initiatives on the management of emerging technologies. For the first time, this book distills the insights from the program into a single volume for managers, covering a wide range of issues related to the successful management of emerging technologies. The editors contend that managing emerging technologies represents a different game, requiring a different set of management skills, frameworks, and strategies than those used by established firms to manage existing technologies. In this book, experts from diverse fields examine key issues such as: Common pitfalls and potential solutions for incumbent firms in managing emerging technologies Strategies for assessing the potential of new markets and designing technologies to take advantage of market lumpiness The need for scenario planning and disciplined imagination to develop strategies under uncertainty The limits of patents in protecting gains from technology, and the use of lead time and other strategies The power of innovative financial strategies and the use of real options in making investments Using alliances and new organizational forms Developing a customized workplace Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies represents a powerful survival kit for managers dropped behind the lines of these new technologies. The authors provide a comprehensive set of tools and insights that will help you understand the new challenges and develop effective strategies to succeed at this different game. Praise for WHARTON on MANAGING EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES New technologies are transforming markets, businesses, and society at an ever-increasing rate. We have a critical need for better road maps for managing our way through this new terrain. This book offers critical insights and useful new models for thinking through these challenges. -Professor Thomas Gerrity, Director of the Wharton e-Commerce Forum Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies c
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Day, George S. (Editor) Wharton on Dynamic Competitive Strategy
New York Wiley 2-May-97 471172073 Hardcover 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
WHARTON on DYNAMIC COMPETITIVE STRATEGY A valuable contribution, this insightful book makes it clear that strategy is not a one-time search for a sustainable competitive advantage, but a continuous monitoring of the environment, consumers, and competitors with the object of making the right moves in a dynamically changing competitive landscape. -Philip Kotler S.C. Johnson & Sons Distinguished Professor of International Marketing J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management Northwestern University. An ambitious and welcomed effort at addressing strategy from an interdisciplinary perspective. -Professor Don Lehmann Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Wharton on Dynamic Competitive Strategy weaves together an unprecedented interdisciplinary analysis of competitive strategies that any global manager should consider indispensable reading...An impressive book. -Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. Chairman and CEO Huntsman Corporation. Provocative and meaningful . . . Provides an excellent framework for formulating strategy. -Sam Morasca Vice President, Marketing Shell Oil Products Company. A Rosetta stone for strategy. Read it and keep it by your side! -Dale Moss Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing USA British Airways, New York The competitive challenges facing you are more complex and fast-moving than ever. This environment demands dynamic competitive strategies-strategies that anticipate and adjust to competitors' countermoves, shifting customer demands, and changes in the business world. Wharton on Dynamic Competitive Strategy offers new perspectives on competitive strategy from a distinguished group of faculty at Wharton and other leading business schools around the world. This book presents the best insights from decades of research in key areas such as competitive strategy, simulations, game theory, scenario planning, public policy, and market-driven strategy. It represents the most cohesive collection of insights on strategy ever assembled by a leading school of business. Developed for the thinking manager, Wharton on Dynamic Competitive Strategy provides deep insights into the true dynamics of competition. In contrast to popular, quick-fix formulas for strategic success, this book provides perspectives that will help you better understand the underlying dynamics of competitive interactions and make better strategic decisions in a rapidly changing and uncertain world. The insights and approaches presented here are illustrated with real-world examples which demonstrate how these approaches can be applied to your strategic challenges. These chapters will help you better address key strategic issues such as: * Anticipating competitors' responses using game theory, simulations, scenario planning, conjoint analysis, and other tools-and designing the best strategy in light of these expected responses * Planning for multiple rounds of competition in the way that chess players think through multiple moves * Understanding how changes in technology and public policy or moves by competitors can undermine your current advantages or neutralize future advantages * Broadening your range of options for reacting to moves by competitors * Signaling and preempting rivals. This groundbreaking new book will change your view of strategy and give you the tools you need to succeed in a dynamic and intensely challenging world. Book Info Presents the best insights from decades of research in key areas such as competitive strategy, simulations, game theory, scenario planning, public policy, and market-driven strategy. DLC: Competition.
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Dayton, Gail The Barbed Rose
New York Luna 1-Mar-06 373802250 Paperback 7.8 x 5 x 1.4 inches
Explorations on The Compass Rose . . . will absolutely blow away fans of romance-powered fantasy. In a word: wow! Demons are coming. One woman has been chosen to face them . . . Demon hordes still threaten the Kingdom while open rebellion has broken out within its cities, separating Kallista from her new family. Assassination attempts, magical attacks -- she's surrounded by devastation unlike anything she's ever known, and her unique magic power no longer works as it should. Yet her own pain must yield to the needs of her country, for this military mage is charged with searching the four directions of the world for the other Godmarked -- the only ones who can help her keep demon invaders from shattering her world. But can she find them in time? The One Rose Fourfold Magic Barely Understood- Or Contained . . .
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Dayton, Gail The Compass Rose
New York, NY Luna 1-Mar-05 373802161 Paperback 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.4 inches
The legends of the Godstruck were just that -- legends. Until, in an attempt to defend her people, Captain Kallista Varyl called on the One for aid and was granted abilities such as no one had seen in centuries. Now Kallista has been charged with a new destiny as one of the most powerful women in the land -- but her power is useless if it cannot be controlled. Mastering her Godstruck abilities is the first step. The next, learning that she cannot unlock the secrets of the Compass Rose and defeat her nation's enemy alone. And finally she must stop a demon-possessed king . . .
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Dean, John W. Conservatives Without Conscience
Penguin 28-Aug-07 143038869 Paperback New 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
In Conservatives Without Conscience, John Dean, who served as White House counsel under Richard Nixon and then helped to break the Watergate scandal with his testimony before the Senate, takes a vivid and analytical look at a Republican Party that has changed drastically from the conservative movement that he joined in the mid-1960s as an admirer of Senator Barry Goldwater. Listen to our interview with Dean as part of our July 13 Amazon Wire podcast (along with interviews with Garrison Keillor and Henry Rollins) to hear how he originally conceived of the book with the late Senator Goldwater, and the social science research he drew on to put together his portrait of the conservative authoritarian. (You can subscribe to regular Wire podcasts here.) And take a look at Dean's choices for the best books to read on the American presidency in our Grownup School feature. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. In his seventh book, Dean, the former Nixon legal counsel whom the FBI has called the master manipulator of the Watergate coverup, weighs in with a rebuke to Christian fundamentalists and other right-wing hard-liners. A self-described Goldwater conservative (indeed, Goldwater had planned to collaborate on this book before his death), he rails against the influence of social conservatives and neoconservatives within his party. Suffused with bitterness stemming from the controversies in which he has been embroiled, Dean's book paints a thin social science veneer over a litany of mostly ad hominem complaints. Purporting to show that social conservatives and neoconservatives are, on the whole, demonstrably authoritarian, bigoted, irrational and amoral, Conservatives Without Conscience offers helpful hints such as Conservatives without conscience do not have horns and tails, and evinces a telling fascination with politicians' shady book deals. Though there is clearly much to condemn in the policies and tactics Dean deplores, assailing everyone from French political theorist Joseph de Maistre to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to the chairman of Yale University's conservative association as Double High social- dominance-oriented authoritarians undermines his journalistic credibility. Dean's lurid accusations may be entertaining, but they add little to the reasoned debate that Washington so sorely lacks today. (July 11) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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DeAngelis, Lissa Recipes for Change: Gourmet Wholefood Cooking for Health and Vitality and Vitality at Menopause
Dutton Adult 1-May-96 052593894X N Hardcover 9.5 x 7.6 x 1.3 inches
From Publishers Weekly&newline;In a well-organized fashion, DeAngelis, former director of a cooking school, and Siple, a dietician, advocate eating habits that can lessen the discomforts of menopause. &doublequote;Without rejecting what western medical science has to offer,&doublequote; the authors present their nutritional ideas as a preferable alternative to hormone-replacement therapy and its poorly understood side effects. Most of the advice here is basic; e.g., avoid refined sugars and grains, processed oils and caffeine because either they've had their nutrients washed out in processing (white rice) or they deplete the body of nutrients (coffee). Lists of foods helpful for specific problems include those for beating hot flashes, alleviating fatigue and &doublequote;boosting sexuality.&doublequote; The nutrient-packed recipes cover a wide spectrum (Kasha and Red Pepper Timbales; Beef Ribs with Black and White Pepper Rub; Hearty Rigatoni with Sausages, Garlic, and Broccoli) and generally aren't too concerned with fat content. The authors are sticklers for real, rather than technologically enhanced, food: butter instead of margarine, fresh vegetables instead of canned. An appendix, including recommended products, new ingredients and vitamin, mineral and fat tables, rounds out this valuable guide. &newline;Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;From Booklist&newline;Ever since medical researchers identified specific foods as the source of good-for-us ingredients, the link between what we eat and who we are--mentally, physically, and emotionally--has grown even stronger. Dietitian Siple and writer/cook DeAngelis have simply applied updated food knowledge to midlife health matters, not solely menopause, as they are quick to point out, but also ailments such as heart disease, hypertension, and osteoporosis. The needs of both genders are addressed in the explanations of special nutrients and recommendations of what to avoid and what to eat when, and those words of advice are not lost once the 200 recipes appear. Barbara Jacobs
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Deaver, Jeffery Stone Monkey
Simon & Schuster Audio 1-Mar-02 743520653 Audio CD 5.1 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
When a vicious smuggler known as the Ghost scuttles a ship filled with undocumented Chinese immigrants less than a mile from New York harbor, only a handful of survivors--and the Ghost himself--manage to escape the burning vessel. Lincoln Rhyme, the quadriplegic NYPD forensic detective first introduced in 1997's The Bone Collector, and Amelia Sachs, his partner and lover, must stop the Ghost before he murders the two families who made it to shore. The families have gone to ground in the all but impenetrable world of Manhattan's Chinatown, a fact that makes the pair's two allies--Sonny Li, a Chinese cop, and Dr. John Sung-- invaluable partners. The group's race against time showcases Jeffery Deaver's many talents, particularly intricate plotting, plenty of surprising twists, and breakneck pacing. This is a real standout from a writer whose previous thrillers have earned him a solid following among mystery fans. --Jane Adams --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal This title got pushed up from May to March, moving readers that much closer to Deaver's harrowing tale of a smuggler whose cargo is human. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Deaver, Jeffery The Twelfth Card
New York Simon & Schuster 7-Jun-05 743260929 Hardcover New 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.8 inches
Lincoln Rhyme, Deaver's popular paraplegic detective, returns (after The Vanished Man) in a robust thriller that demonstrates Deaver's unflagging ability to entertain. But even great entertainers have high and lows, and this novel, while steadily absorbing, doesn't match the author's best. Geneva Settle, who's 16 and black, is attacked in a Manhattan library while researching an ancestor, a former slave who harbored a serious secret (not revealed until book's end). Amelia Sachs, Rhyme's lover/assistant, and then Rhyme are pulled into the case, which quickly turns bloody. After Geneva are a lethally cool white hit man and a black ex-con--but even when they're identified, their motive remains unclear: why does someone want this feisty, hardworking Harlem schoolgirl dead? To find out, Rhyme primarily relies, as usual, on his and Sachs's strength, forensic analysis; the book's tour de force opening sequence consists mostly of a lengthy depiction of their painstaking dissection of evidence left during the initial attack on Geneva, and every few chapters there's an extensive recap of all evidence collected in the case. Deaver offers more plot twists than seem possible, each fully justified, but this and the emphasis on forensics give the novel more brain than heart. Geneva, a wonderful character, adds feeling to the story, and there are minor personal crises faced by other characters, but as the novel's focus veers from police procedure to odd byways of American history, execution techniques and one more plot twist, the narrative loses grace and form. Even so, this is one of the more lively thrillers of the year and will be a significant bestseller. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. While the plot of Deaver's most recent Lincoln Rhyme thriller strains credulity, Dennis Boutsikaris's narration makes it a winning hand. Rhyme must find out why a seasoned killer is attempting to kill a 16-year-old Harlem girl. Geneva is researching a one-hundred-forty-year-old mystery concerning a disgraced ancestor. Rhyme and his sidekick, Amelia Sachs, have always been an engrossing pair. The trouble is there's not enough of them. Boutsikaris's glib narration saves the day, propelling listeners through the twists and turns of the complex plot. Boutsikaris also comfortably handles the street talk of Geneva and her friends. While Deaver's latest isn't all aces, because of Boutsikaris's performance, it's not a pass either. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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Deaver, Jeffery Wilds Garden Of Beasts
Pocket Star 2005 1416513191 N Paperback 8 x 5.3 x 1.8 inches
Amazon.com&newline;Jeffery Deaver's Garden of Beasts introduces anti-hero Paul Schumann, a notorious rubout man for the New York Mafia known for his cold and professional approach to his job. But the jig is up when he is duped by high-ranking feds who give him a choice--prison or one more impossible job: assassinate the man who's running Hitler's plan for rearming Germany. The hard-nosed German-American lands on the streets of Berlin where immediately the best-laid plans of the United States Government go awry. Schumman finds himself in a city living in fear, tracked by Berlin's best homicide detective. As the intricate chase wears on, both men will discover that the greatest evil is the ascendant Nazi party. &newline;&newline;Deaver's novel, equal parts noir thriller and historical extrapolation, is a page-turner that offers a twisting visceral experience of the tension in Berlin during that fateful summer. He draws sympathetic portraits of everyday Germans caught between duty to country and their consciences. Into this mix, Deaver drops his coldly dangerous hitman who brawls with brownshirts, chums with Olympic athletes, collaborates with criminals, fraternizes with poets, and discovers the hero inside his hardened soul. --Jeremy Pugh&newline;&newline;&newline;&newline;Amazon.com Interview&newline; When starting a new book by author Jeffery Deaver, expect to have the wool pulled over your eyes. His plots twist and turn and juke and jive like no others, never ending as expected and always including a jaw-dropping plot development. His latest effort, Garden of Beasts, is no exception. Amazon.com caught up with Deaver to discuss plotting, characters, and the perils of soap opera acting. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. &newline;&newline;From Publishers Weekly&newline;Deaver fans expect the unexpected from this prodigiously talented thriller writer, and the creator of the Lincoln Rhyme series and other memorable yarns (The Blue Nowhere, etc.) doesn't disappoint with his 19th novel, this time offering a deliciously twisty tale set in Nazi Berlin. The book's hero is a mob &doublequote;button man,&doublequote; or hit man, Paul Schumann, who's nabbed in the act in New York City but given an alternative to the electric chair: to go to Berlin undercover as a journalist writing about the upcoming Olympics, in order to assassinate Col. Reinhard Ernst, the chief architect of Hitler's militarization, seen as a threat to American interests. A German spy onboard Paul's transatlantic liner grows suspicious and sends a warning to Germany before Paul discovers and kills him. Then in Berlin, Paul, en route to meet his contact, kills a second suspicious man who may be a storm trooper, setting Insp. Willi Kohl of the Berlin police, or Kripo, on his trail. Deaver weaves the three manhunts--Paul after his target, Kohl after Paul and the Nazi hierarchy after Paul--with a deft hand, bringing to frightening life the Berlin of 1936, a city on the brink of madness. Top Nazis, including Hitler, Himmler and Göring, make colorful cameos, but it's the smart, shaded-gray characterizations of the principals that anchor the exciting plot. An affecting love affair between Paul and his German landlady goes in surprising directions, as do the main plot lines, which move outside Berlin as heroes become villains and vice versa. This is prime Deaver, which means prime entertainment. &newline;Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Decesare, Angelo Anthony the Perfect Monster
New York Random House Books for Young Readers 12-Mar-96 679868453 N Hardcover 9.2 x 6.8 x 0.5 inches
From School Library Journal&newline;Kindergarten-Grade 2?Anthony works hard at being an obedient, &doublequote;perfect&doublequote; child, but when he starts school, he has trouble fitting in and no one seems to like him. Overnight, he becomes cranky and angry and turns into a monster. He is disruptive and uncooperative, but now that he's not &doublequote;perfect,&doublequote; his classmates welcome him. Stereotypical Anthony fails to engage readers' sympathy. DeCesare's cartoon illustrations feature characters who look like adults in children's clothes. Contrived and cliche-ridden, this tale is one that beginning readers can easily afford to pass up.?Marilyn Taniguchi, Santa Monica Public Library, CA&newline;Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;Book Description&newline;Illustrated in full color. Anthony always does everything he's supposed to, from eating his spinach to wearing his raincoat--even when it's not raining! Then one day, Anthony cracks from the strain and, with one hiccup, becomes a horrible monster who rants, raves, and won't wear his raincoat no matter how nicely he's asked. When he turns back into a little boy, Anthony discovers that his family and friends still love him, because whether he's a perfect kid or a perfect monster, he's always perfectly himself.
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Decuffa, Carol In Search of Home: An Essential Guide for the Evolving Soul
Writer's Showcase Press Mar-01 059516286X Paperback
In 1990 the author was visited by Jesus and was given a message for the world. This experience began her search for Home a place we are all from and will eventually return to. This book is a compilation of her revelations, inspirational stories, personal pearls of wisdom and step by step exercises to remember who you are and from whence you came. Ancient wisdom in modern day form. This book is bursting with knowledge to light your way home. Carol believes that as each person learns about themselves their contribution is essential for the evolution of all of humanity. Her goal is to tell you what she has learned thus far to help you as she has been guided by those before her. A must have for the soul seeker.
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Dees, Morris A Lawyer's Journey: The Morris Dees Story
Chicago American Bar Association 25-Oct-03 1570739943 Paperback 9.4 x 6.2 x 1 inches
This book dramatically chronicles the significant events that led Morris Dees to the front lines of the civil rights struggle and his ongoing crusade against hate groups.This is the story of the courageous and often lonely journey of a skilled and controversial trail lawyer whose career has paralleled a nation's struggle to ensure freedom and equality for all its citizens.
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Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe: Childrens Classics
New York Children's Classics 25-Feb-90 517017571 N Hardcover 9.5 x 7.8 x 1 inches
From School Library Journal&newline;Grade 7 Up-Defoe's classic novel of shipwreck and survival, now nearly 300 years old, is abridged competently in this recording. The flavor of the 18th century language is retained, but the plot moves along at a pace more appealing to 21st century ears. The reader, Martin Shaw, has a pleasant voice, but unfortunately tends to trail off at the ends of sentences, losing whole words. As with all abridgements, large sections of the story and entire characters are omitted, but since most of the book tells of Crusoe's solitary sojourn on the island, this is not a major problem. This version is no substitute for the original, but it would be a supplemental purchase in libraries where abridgements are popular.&newline;Sarah Flowers, Santa Clara County Library, Morgan Hill, CA &newline;Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. &newline;&newline;From AudioFile&newline;Though sometimes tedious and moralistic, Crusoe has become an emblem of human survival in a lonely and hostile world. In this recording British reader Tom Casaletto preserves Defoe's tone and point of view with perfect fidelity. There isn't much dialogue until the end of the book when Friday appears, but that is fully and richly voiced. If, like me, you haven't visited Crusoe's island since your youth, this excellent recording is the perfect opportunity for a return trip. P.E.F. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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Defoe, Gideon The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab: A novel
New York Pantheon 4-Oct-05 375423850 Hardcover New 6.5 x 4.7 x 0.8 inches
They're back!!! The Pirate Captain and his irascible crew of scoundrels return in their soggiest saga yet. Fresh from their mishaps with Charles Darwin and the evil Bishop of Oxford, the Pirates set sail in a bouncy new vessel--purchased on credit. In order to repay his debts, the Pirate Captain is determined to capture the enigmatic White Whale, hunted by the notoriously moody Ahab, who has promised a reward. Chaos ensues, featuring the lascivious Cutlass Liz, the world's most dangerous mosquito, an excerpt from the Pirate Captain's novel in progress (a bodice ripper, of course), whale ventriloquism, practical lessons in whale painting, a shanty-singing contest in a Las Vegas casino, and a dra-matic climax in which the Pirate Captain's prize ham saves the day! Move over, Herman Melville. About the Author Gideon Defoe, who lives in London, is the author of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists. The pirate books are just the first stage of his plan to topple the global economy and create a glorious workers' utopia.
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Dekker, Ted Skin
Nashville, Tenn. Thomas Nelson 3-Apr-07 1595542779 Hardcover 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.5 inches
Derivative of such puzzle dramas as Lost, The Usual Suspects, Fight Club and The Matrix, this thriller by Dekker (Thr3e; Blink) reads more like a screenplay than a novel. Its third-person omniscient narrator includes mostly dialogue, blocking and description of scenery and little else. Early in the novel, five young adults are sucked into a serial killer's evil game. While experienced Dekker readers will see some of what is coming, a number of plot points are entirely unpredictable, due in large part to the constant barrage of red herrings the reader must endure before discovering the novel's final revelations. Unfortunately, the dialogue-dominated prose is hackneyed and juvenile; a reason is given for the childishness of some of the language, but this does not fully excuse the many clichéd passages of the book. These problems, however, are secondary to the novel's central flaw, which is that the ambitiously twisty plot does not make sense. The characters' backstories are implausible, and their actions and experiences in the present never quite add up. The novel is clearly intended to be a challenging exploration of the nature of beauty, morality and truth, but despite having put lots of words about these concepts in his confused characters' mouths, Dekker offers no new insights. (Apr. 3) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. *Starred Review* A freak tornado drives five characters together in the little Nevada town of Summerville in this striking morality tale superficially reminiscent of Stephen King's Desperation (1996). Dekker's philosophical considerations are his own, however. It seems that as the storm descended a serial killer named Sterling Red began his killing spree. The reader won't understand why for a long time, but, apparently, the killer is partially motivated by the desire for revenge against a nervous deputy--a Las Vegas emigre--named Colt. Sterling Red makes a curious demand of the group: kill the ugliest person among you within six hours. Otherwise, he will wipe out the rest of Summerville. Not that the little group will accede, but just suppose. Is it beauty or ugliness that's skin deep? John Mort Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Delffs, D. J. The Martyr's Chapel
Minneapolis Bethany House Publishers Aug-98 764220861 N Paperback 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
Book Description&newline;Redemption and greed collide in the quaint town of Avenell.&newline;&newline;Griffin Reed is the widowed rector for the prestigious campus of Avenell University, nestled in the rolling hills of Tennessee. A man of deep spirituality with a penchant for classic literature, Father Grif thoroughly enjoys the gentle atmosphere of Avenell accented by the thriving undercurrent of university life. &newline;&newline;But that fine balance is jolted when a Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright is found dead in the Martyr's Chapel, a 150-year-old church on the campus property. Gentry Truman had served as writer-in-residence at the private university, and though his term had not been without its stormy moments, the community is reeling from his death's sinister intrusion. While local authorities suspect a local hermit of the crime, Father Grif believes otherwise. With the somewhat comic assistance of his intrusive, spinster sister and his long-standing friendship with a Baptist prison chaplain, Father Grif uncovers a surprising list of suspects as he struggles to shed the light of faith on the darkness plaguing his small parish community. &newline;&newline;About the Author&newline;D.J. Delffs is a writer and English instructor at Colorado Christian University, and the former fiction editor for the literary journal Mars Hill Review. His essays have appeared in Discipleship Journal, Inklings, and numerous other periodicals. He is the author of A Repentant Heart, and The Prayer-Centered Life, as well as the novel Forgiving, which was a nominee for Colorado Book of the Year, 1993. The Martyr's Chapel and The Judas Tree are his first works of mystery. &newline;&newline;Delffs and his wife make their home in Colorado. size : 5.4 x 8.3
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DeLillo, Don Libra
New York Penguin 1-May-91 140156046 Paperback 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
DeLillo's ninth novel takes its title from Lee Harvey Oswald's zodiac sign, the sign of balance. And, as in all his fiction ( Running Dog , The Names , White Noise ), DeLillo's perfectly realized aim is to balance plot, theme and structure so that the novel he builds around Oswald (an unlikely and disturbingly sympathetic protagonist) provokes the reader with its clever use of history, its dramatic pacing and its immaculate and detailed construction. The plot of the novel is history itselfand history, here, is a system of plots and conspiracies: the U.S. government has plotted to invade Cuba, and there are CIA agents who want retribution against President Kennedy for his halfhearted support of the Bay of Pigs operation; there are Cubans plotting revenge on JFK for the same reason and for, they fear, his plot to forge a rapprochement with Castro; there is a lone gunman, Oswald, who is conspired upon by history and circumstance, and who himself plots against the status quo. The novel bears dissection on many levels, but is, taken whole, a seamless, brilliant work of compelling fiction. What makes Libra so unsettling is DeLillo's ability to integrate literary criticism into the narrative, commenting throughout on the nature and conventions of fiction itself without disturbing the flow of his story. The characters are storytellers: CIA agents and Cuban immigrants retell old plots in their minds and write fantasy plots to keep themselves alive; Nicholas Branch, also of the CIA, has spent 15 years writing an in-house history of the assassination that will never uncover its deepest secrets and that in any case no one will read; Oswald, defecting to the Soviet Union, hopes to write short stories of contemporary American lifedyslexic, he is aware of words as pictures of themselves not simply as name tags for the material world. DeLillo interweaves fact and fiction as he draws us inexorably toward Dallas, November 22. The real people (Jack Ruby, Oswald, his mother and Russian wife) are retrieved from history and made human, their stories involving and absorbing; the imagined characters are placed into history as DeLillo imagines it to have come to pass. By subtly juxtaposing the blinding intensity of DeLillo's own crystal-clear, composite version of events against the blurred reality of the Zapruder film and other artifacts of the actual assassination, Libra ultimately becomes a comment on the entire body of DeLillo's work: Why do we understand fiction to reflect truth? Why do we trust a novelist to tell us the whole story? And what is the truth that fiction reveals? 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection; QPBC selection; first serial to Esquire. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy? In his ninth novel, American Book Award winner DeLillo (for White Noise , LJ 2/1/85) addresses this question, skillfully weaving together fact and fiction to create an engrossing tale. It is a measure of his success that while reading, one must keep reminding oneself that this is, indeed, a novel making no claim to literal truth. DeLillo's vision is not of a single, perfectly working scheme but rather of a rambling affair that succeeded in short term mainly due to chance. The cast, both real and fictional, ranges from scheming CIA agents to Mafia dons, but what haunts the reader most is the image of Oswald as a confused young man searching for an identity and accidentally caught up in something bigger than himself. Sure to be a best seller. David W. Henderson, Eckerd Coll. Lib., St. Petersburg, Fla. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Dellabough, Robin The Beardstown Ladies' Guide to Smart Spending for Big Savings: How to Save for a Rainy Day Without Sacrificing Your Lifestyle [LARGE PRINT]
New York Hyperion Books Jan-97 786862653 N Hardcover 9.3 x 6 x 1.1 inches
From Publishers Weekly&newline;The two previous bestsellers by the &doublequote;Ladies&doublequote; dealt with commonsense stock-market investing. Here they tell how to economize on everything from baby cribs to cemetery plots to have more money to invest. Their no-nonsense text, sprinkled with personal anecdotes, systematically ferrets out money-saving angles on weddings (don't splurge), mortgages (don't overpay) and new-car buying (don't) and divulges income tax secrets &doublequote;the rich already know.&doublequote; The Ladies deal sympathetically but firmly with those two super bugaboos of modern life-credit card spending and skyrocketing health care costs-and show how air travel and home-appliance buying are loaded with frugal possibilities. Finally, the far-reaching study of auto, home and life insurance, retirement planning and ways to prepare for ever-growing college costs should be particularly valuable. The budget-minded will find here all they could wish for. Author tour. &newline;Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;From Booklist&newline;In order to take full advantage of their 15 minutes of media fame (which, in this case, must have been calculated cumulatively), those ladies from Beardstown have come out in quick succession with three books on investing and personal finance. The Beardstown ladies' folksy shtick has already shown signs of wearing thin among business writers, who barely concealed their disdain for the ladies' first two books. The fact is that those who choose to read the ladies' simple, practical advice trust them more than they do those who make a living offering the same advice. This time, the 14 women of the Beardstown Ladies' Investment Club show how to save money and shop smart for items in the 10 categories people spend the most money on: housing, automobiles, insurance, major appliances, health care, banking and credit, travel, utilities, taxes, and children. Nothing really new here, but consumers have shown a preference for the homespun packaging. David Rouse
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Delong, Barbara M. The Cosmic Deck of Initiation
U.S. Games Systems Jun-92 088079514X Cards New 4.9 x 4.6 x 1 inches
From the Publisher Geometrical patterns and bursts of color convey a variety of energies in this deck of 52 circular mandala cards by Barbara M. DeLong. Synopsis Geometrical patterns and bursts of color convey a variety of energies in this deck of 52 circular mandala cards by Barbara M. DeLong. More About the Author
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DeMarco, Kathleen Cranberry Queen
New York Miramax Books 30-May-01 786867655 N Hardcover 9.8 x 6.5 x 1 inches
From Publishers Weekly&newline;Dominated by dialogue in the form of verbal jousting, film producer and television writer DeMarco's first novel reads a lot like a screenplay for the film it's already slated to become, optioned by Miramax Films. At 33, Diana Moore, good-looking, bold and sassy, is the marketing manager for a successful Internet company. She still broods, however, about the &doublequote;Monster&doublequote; who dumped her three years ago and now dates a younger woman. She blames herself. As she tells her therapist, &doublequote;No wonder I have no boyfriend; I say awful things.&doublequote; But her life is otherwise enviable: she has loving parents, a brother she cherishes and a hefty 401(k) until a devastating accident destroys everything that makes her life worth living. Well-meaning friends and sympathetic co-workers become smothering. She quits her job, leaves the city and ends up in rural New Jersey, her Volvo disabled after a collision with an elderly woman riding a motorcycle who turns out to be a major cranberry farm owner named Rosie. Rosie and her granddaughter, Louisa, take Diana in for a few days, and Diana vacillates between enjoyment of a jolly situation and her familiar self-criticism. Meantime, Louisa's former-but-not-forgotten boyfriend finds Diana attractive. She proves receptive, infuriating Louisa; and an older man named Sam turns up with a business proposal, assuming that Diana recognizes him he was best man at her parents' wedding. This is a quick and easy evening's read, but Diana's self-absorption doesn't inspire much empathy. In the film treatment, perhaps Julia Roberts could make this heroine lovable, but it'll be a stretch. Agent, Laura Dail. 11-city author tour; rights sold in Germany, Holland and the U.K. &newline;&newline;Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;From Library Journal&newline;Diana Moore's biggest problem is &doublequote;The Monster,&doublequote; the ex-boyfriend who left her for another woman. Then the unthinkable happens: Diana's entire family, her parents and brother, are killed by a drunk driver. Diana can barely cope and drives off from her New York City home, headed for nowhere. A fluke leads her to the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey, a rural enclave where forests and cranberry bogs are as common as skyscrapers in New York. Quirky new friends who don't know of her past enable Diana first to deny her pain and then to come to terms with it. The descriptions of cranberry farming and the landscapes of this little-known part of the country are fascinating. The story, however, is not as interesting as the setting. DeMarco is a film producer, so her debut novel is, of course, already headed for the silver screen. Its visual storytelling may work better in that format. Recommended for public libraries. Beth Gibbs, Davidson, NC &newline;Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Dematteis, Bob The Patent Writer: How to Write Successful Patent Applications
Garden City Park, NY Square One Publishers 20-Apr-06 757001769 Paperback 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
If you're an inventor or product developer, it's a huge mistake to try to patent an invention yourself-unless you have a clear understanding of good patent writing. Every year, thousands of uninformed inventors waste their time and money in the false pursuit of worthless patents. The Patent Writer explains in detail how to write effective patent applications that can be filed for less than $100. In simple layman's terms, the book reveals pertinent patent laws and facts, discusses superior word usage, and explores the methodologies required to ensure that your patents cannot be exploited by others. First-time and experienced inventors / engineers alike will learn how to write powerful patent applications that support and protect their product's potential. Endorsed by leading inventors, patent attorneys, and government agencies, The Patent Writer takes the mystery out of writing patents. It will save the reader thousands in attorney's fees, speed up product development, and help avoid the consequences of poorly written patent applications. About the Author: Bob DeMatteis is the inventor-marketer of twenty U.S. patents that have been licensed and successfully commercialized. He is the founder of the From Patent to Profit¨ and the Patents in Commerceª training series, two programs designed to assist fellow inventors. He is also a Certified Seminar Leader¨ and an advisor to several small company development organizations. Mr. DeMatteis has written several books in the area of invention, including the bestseller From Patent to Profit. Andy Gibbs is the founder and CEO of PatentCafe.com, the Internet's largest intellectual property network. During the past twenty-five years, his business experiences have ranged from being a VP of a Fortune 500 company to founding seven manufacturing and professional service companies. He is also the developer and patent-holder of nearly a dozen patents. Mr. Gibbs is the author of over 100 articles on patents and intellectual property, and the coauthor of Essentials of Patents. Michael Neustel is a U.S. Registered Patent Attorney with a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering. He is licensed to practice in front of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and is the founder of the National Inventor Fraud Center, Inc. He regularly presents intellectual property seminars for various inventor organizations throughout the United States, and is the creator of popular software products such as PatentWizard and PatentHunter. Synopsis If you're an inventor or product developer, it's a huge mistake to try to patent an invention yourself-unless you have a clear understanding of good patent writing. Every year, thousands of uninformed inventors waste their time and money in the false pursuit of worthless patents. The Patent Writer explains in detail how to write effective patent applications that can be filed for less than $100. In simple layman's terms, the book reveals pertinent patent laws and facts, discusses superior word usage, and explores the methodologies required to ensure that your patents cannot be exploited by others. First-time and experienced inventors / engineers alike will learn how to write powerful patent applications that support and protect their product's potential. Endorsed by leading inventors, patent attorneys, and government agencies, The Patent Writer takes the mystery out of writing patents. It will save the reader thousands in attorney's fees, speed up product development, and help avoid the consequences of poorly written patent applications. About the Author: Bob DeMatteis is the inventor-marketer of twenty U.S. patents that have been licensed and successfully commercialized. He is the founder of the From Patent to Profit¨ and the Patents in Commerceª training series, two programs designed to assist fellow inventors. He is also a Certified Seminar Leader¨ and an advisor to several small company development organizations. Mr. DeMatteis has written several books in the area of invention, including the bestseller From Paten
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DeMille, Nelson Night Fall [AUDIOBOOK] [UNABRIDGED]
Hachette Audio 1-Nov-04 1586217097 Audio CD 5.5 x 5.3 x 2 inches
John Corey, former NYPD homicide detective, assigned to the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force in the pre-millennium 90's, makes a return appearance in a thoughtful novel offering an alternative to the government's official position on what really happened to TWA Flight 800, which crashed off the Long Island coast in the summer of 1996. Accompanying his wife Kate to a memorial marking the five-year anniversary of the crash, Corey's curiosity is aroused by what appears to be a concerted effort by Kate's fellow federal agents to keep him--and her--from investigating a case that appears to be closed. Corey's detecting skills lead him to two witnesses to the crash, who were enjoying an adulterous interlude on the beach at the time the plane went down--and videotaping their sexual escapades while what appears to be a terrorist missile attack takes place in the background. What ratchets up the tension in this capably written thriller is what the reader knows but Corey doesn't as he heads for a showdown with those responsible for the official cover-up as the clock ticks down to the morning of September 11, 2001. DeMille's deft touch with a riddle wrapped in an enigma--what really happened to Flight 800--makes his what if scenario a more than plausible theory; you don't have to believe in conspiracies or government cover-ups to find his latest engrossing, entertaining, and enlightening. --Jane Adams
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DeMille, Nelson Wild Fire
New York Grand Central Publishing 6-Nov-06 044657967X Hardcover 9 x 6.2 x 1.8 inches
Starred Review. Set in October 2002, bestseller DeMille's can't-put-it-down fourth thriller to feature ex-NYPD detective John Corey (after 2004's Night Fall) involves an American right-wing plot to suitcase-nuke two U.S. cities. The idea is to provoke an existing government plan called Wild Fire that automatically responds to nuclear terrorism in the homeland with a nuclear attack that will wipe out most of the Middle East. That such a plan probably exists, according to an opening author's note, heightens the tension. Corey and his FBI agent wife, Kate Mayfield, set off to find antiterrorist agent Harry Muller, who has disappeared after being assigned surveillance duties at the Custer Hill Club, a rich man's hunting lodge in upstate New York. John and Kate are a wisecracking, affectionate, deadly duo, with a new resolve born in the tragedy of the World Trade Center bombing. This tour de force of relentless narrative power neither stops nor slows for twists or turns, but charges straight ahead in the face of danger. (Nov.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. In their fourth outing together, the husband-and-wife antiterrorism team of John Corey and Kate Mayfield must foil a plot to provoke our government into launching a massive nuclear attack on the Muslim world. Golden Voice Scott Brick proves himself a superb match for bestselling suspense writer Nelson DeMille. With his trademark tones of irony, sarcasm, and self-confidence, Brick brings to life the wisecracking and independent Corey in ways that will make the listener laugh even as the tension builds. Brick's quiet and level tones for the more even-tempered Mayfield make it seem as though there are two narrators at work. The fact that DeMille has chosen the first person to tell the story is another reason this makes a fine production. S.K. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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Denenberg, Barry When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864
New York Scholastic Inc. 1-Sep-96 590228625 Library Binding 7.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
Grade 5-8?This book could greatly mislead readers, as the cover implies that it is the diary of a 14-year-old girl in Virginia during the Civil War, and nothing within the book would lead them to think otherwise. Upon first reading it, one is likely to attribute the many lapses in character and plot development to the fact that this was a teenager's diary. Even the epilogue telling of the young woman's life after the war adds to this illusion. So it is likely to come as a great surprise to read in the About the Author section at the end that this is fiction. The book is disappointing. One never gets a true feeling for Emma Simpson, and it is often difficult to follow the thread of the story. The factual information on daily life is good, but is not well incorporated into the plot. This offering does not measure up to other fictional works about this era.?Elizabeth M. Reardon, McCallie School, Chattanooga, TN Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Card catalog description The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War.
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Dennis, Robin Darcey Our Violent Earth
Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society Jun-82 870443836 N Hardcover 28 cm.
Card catalog description&newline;Describes the causes and effects of such geologic and atmospheric phenomena as earthquakes, volcanoes, storms, drought, fire, and flood. Includes a wall poster, games, and puzzles.
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Denslow, Sharon Phillips Radio Boy
Simon & Schuster Sep-95 689802951 N School & Library Binding 11 x 8.8 x 0.5 inches
From School Library Journal&newline;Kindergarten-Grade 3?Young Nathan is fascinated by electricity and the rural Kentucky townsfolk are fascinated by his constant tinkering and experimenting. He shows one townsman, Mr. Gainey, how wire can carry sound, and a few years later he fixes a crackling telephone belonging to Mr. Gainey's cousin from St. Louis. Nathan's success is celebrated by the whole town, but he is looking forward to making a wireless telephone. This is a quiet story filled with images of a bygone country lifestyle. Near Nathan's house is a pigeon roost where thousands of passenger pigeons sleep and the images of these now-extinct birds emphasize just how much life has changed both naturally and technologically. While primary-grade teachers will find this a fine additional source for units on communities, inventions, or history, there is not much tension or action in the plot. The pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations excel in re-creating the town and rural life of the mid 1800s. Several small detailed scenes are often grouped on a page opposite a more dramatic full-page illustration. An author's note explains that while the story is fiction, it is based on the life of the inventor Nathan Stubblefield, 1860-1928. Budding historians will enjoy contrasting Nathan's life with theirs and may want to learn more about the real Stubblefield after reading this story.?Louise L. Sherman, Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, NJ&newline;Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;From Booklist&newline;Ages 5^-8. Although this fictionalized account of the life of &doublequote;boy inventor&doublequote; Nathan B. Stubblefield is attractive and entertaining, it is short on substance. Readers learn more about life in a small Kentucky town in the 1870s than about the accomplishments of Stubblefield. Indeed, the story ends before the &doublequote;radio boy&doublequote; ever invents the radio. Were it not for an appended note briefly describing Stubblefield's inventions, children would be left with the impression that Nathan's biggest accomplishment was fixing a broken telephone for his neighbor's cousin in St. Louis. Still, the story may inspire youngsters to look elsewhere for hard facts, and teachers will find the book an appealing complement to a social studies unit, with colorful watercolors that capture the spirit and flavor of the 1800s. Lauren Peterson
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Dent, Susie The Language Report
Oxford University Press, USA 1-Nov-03 198608608 Hardcover 7.5 x 4.4 x 0.7 inches
Perplexed by rap language (ay yo trip = check this out)? Befuddled by cyberspeak (meatspace = the physical world, as opposed to cyberspace)? All shall be made clear in this delightfully browseworthy compendium, in which we are given current slogans, quotes memorable and moronic, and learn that in the past 100 years, some 90,000 new words have come into the English language. There's even an amaze-your-friends new word a year chart that takes us from gamma rays in 1903 to SARS in 2003. Nirvana for lexophiles, and that's no small matter.' Globe and Mail `This small volume (151 bite-sized pages) is a breathtaking guided tour to the state of the English language in 2003...the book gives a thoroughlt entertaining and informative look at the way our language is constantly evolving.' Beachcomber, Daily Express Catch up on all the latest slang and delve into linguistics, pop-culture style. The tiny book is hours of fun, with chapters devoted to fashion industry lingo, sports terms, idioms and famous slogans. If you're itching for a word fix after finishing Eats, Shoots and Leaves, The Language Report is for you. Calgary Herald Infinitely browsable and completely up to date, The Language Report is a collection of topical and fascinating facts and observations on today's spoken and written English. Using the resources of the world's largest language research programme at Oxford University Press, it presents an up-to-the-minute snapshot of English language today: tracking the latest new words to have entered its usage; investigating old words revived by current events in, for example, the worlds of politics and pop; and examining the most recent trends of language development. This intriguing survey covers language issues reported by the media in recent times, including memorable quotes and sayings of the year; nicknames in the news; new venues for language, such as the Internet chatroom; and controversial developments in usage and grammar. It also analyses English around the world, finding out the latest words and phrases to enter the US or Australian English vocabulary for example; and looks at what the new words were 100 years ago, and how they've developed or disappeared.
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dePaola, Tomie Tomie's Little Mother Goose
New York Putnam Juvenile 19-May-97 399231544 Board book 7 x 5 x 0.8 inches
Over twenty-four wonderful rhymes and verses -- taken from Iona and Peter Opie's classic versions -- will reach an even younger group of children in this charming new board book that lovingly brings to life not only the familiar faces of Little Miss Muffett, Humpty Dumpty, Mary, Mary Quite Contrary, and Little Boy Blue, but a host of other favorites for children to laugh with and treasure. Card catalog description A collection of familiar nursery rhymes, including Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, The Three Little Kittens, and Wee Willie Winkie.
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Depree, Max Leadership is an Art
Dell 10-Aug-90 440503248 N Paperback 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
From Publishers Weekly&newline;Rather than offering a how-to manual on running a business, DePree, CEO of Herman Miller Inc., a manufacturer of office furniture, details, in deceptively simple but imaginative language, a humanitarian approach to leadership. The artful leader, he argues, should recognize human diversity and make full use of his or her employees' gifts. Further, he believes, a leader is responsible not just for the health of a company's financial assets, but for its ethics. Advocating management through persuasion, and the exercise of democratic participation rather than concentrated power, he favors covenantal relationships with employees that rest on shared purpose, dignity and choice. The author stresses the need for communication, but his only direct guidance concerns the need for job performance reviews and self-evaluation. &newline;Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. &newline;&newline;Review&newline;&doublequote;This book is thoughtful, personal, human, persuasive. Give to a daughter, son, or Fortune 500 chairman. They should bless you for years to come.&doublequote;&newline;--Tom Peters&newline;&newline;&doublequote;Max DePree has written two books: Leadership Is an Art and Leadership Jazz. I highly commend them to al of you. They are very well done and very much worth the cost of the books. They're astonishing.&doublequote;&newline;--Bill Clinton
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Dershowitz, Alan M. Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000
Oxford ; New York Oxford University Press, USA 21-Jun-01 195148274 N Hardcover 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
From Publishers Weekly&newline;Harvard Law's Dershowitz (Reasonable Doubt, etc.) takes on the now famous, or infamous, Supreme Court decision Bush v. Gore, which ended the recount of votes in Florida and in effect handed the election to Bush. This decision, writes Dershowitz, was &doublequote;the single most corrupt decision in Supreme Court history,&doublequote; based not on law but on the desire for &doublequote;partisan advantage&doublequote; and &doublequote;personal gain.&doublequote; He launches a three-pronged attack, first on the decision itself, which found that different counties using different methods of hand counts violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. This is, Dershowitz argues in detail, a bizarre and unique application of this clause with no precedents, no clear victim of discrimination and no clear intent of discrimination, and as the Court stated applicable to this case alone. He next examines prior decisions of the Court in general and the five individual justices who formed the majority and concludes that nothing in their past remotely indicated their actions here. He thus looks to motivation, and while he finds no &doublequote;smoking gun,&doublequote; he does suggest the justices were sufficiently partisan that they should have recused themselves from the decision. In short, Dershowitz offers a forceful condemnation of the Court's action, in findings that are strikingly similar to those of Vincent Bugliosi's The Betrayal of America (Forecasts, May 21). But where Bugliosi's prose recalls the fire-and-brimstone of a fundamentalist preacher, Dershowitz, at least at times, writes as if he were addressing a constitutional law seminar at Harvard interesting if not always exciting. Still, this is an excellent analysis of a troubling case. If these two books are any indication, controversy over Bush v. Gore is not soon to go away. (June 18) Forecast: Dershowitz, a popular media commentator on legal issues, will be quite busy promoting this new book: On June 18, he'll do the Today Show, Charlie Rose and Rivera Live, and in the following days a host of other national media, as well as national TV and radio satellite tours. Review coverage will undoubtedly be solid. Expect this to pop up on bestseller lists. &newline;Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;From Library Journal&newline;Dershowitz renowned lawyer, best-selling author, and member of the Harvard Law Faculty skillfully analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court's role and controversial ruling in Bush v. Gore. After outlining the central political and legal aspects of the Supreme Court's arguments, he uncovers key inconsistencies in the majority ruling and shows how they altered key &doublequote;equal protection&doublequote; ideas. He also examines possible constitutional foundations for this ruling. Dershowitz argues that Supreme Court justices &doublequote;hijacked Election 2000 by distorting the law, violating their own expressed principles, and using their robes to bring about a partisan result.&doublequote; He seriously asks whether the Supreme Court has damaged its ability to decide national issues and has damaged the political system as well. This well-reasoned and controversial book asks central questions about American democracy and the role of citizens and courts in our society. Highly recommended for both public and academic libraries. Steven Puro, St. Louis Univ. &newline;Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Dewey, Ariane Pecos Bill
New York Mulberry Books May-94 688131085 N Paperback 8 x 6.2 x 0.2 inches
Card catalog description&newline;An account of the remarkable exploits of legendary hero Pecos Bill.
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Dexter, Pete Paris Trout: Tie-In Edition
Penguin 1-Apr-91 140156852 N Paperback 7 x 5 x 1 inches
Amazon.com&newline;In this novel of social drama, a casual murder in the small Georgia town of Cotton Point just after World War II and the resulting court case cleave open the ugly divisions of race and class. The man accused of shooting a black girl, a storekeeper named Paris Trout, has no great feeling of guilt, nor fear that the system will fail to work his way. Trout becomes an embarrassment to the polite white society that prefers to hold itself high above such primitive prejudice. But the trial does not allow any hiding from the stark reality of social and racial tensions. Dexter, a former newspaper columnist, is also the author of Deadwood and God's Pocket. Paris Trout won the 1988 National Book Award. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. &newline;&newline;From Publishers Weekly&newline;An expertly crafted and bleakly fascinating tale of social conflict and madness in the deep South, this novel centers on the eponymous Paris Trout, owner of a general store and other property in Cotton Point, Ga., during the years just after World War II. A cunning, violent man, with deep roots in the community, Trout has become an economic predator of the town's poor blacks by running a loan service for them out of the safe in his store's back room. The tensions between Trout and the blacks reaches a critical point when Trout, along with a strong-arm goon, murders an 11-year-old black girl and badly injures a black woman while collecting a debt. Into the vortex of this storm are drawn a number of other characters, highlighting the racial and social divisions of Cotton Point: lawyer and gentleman Harry Seagraves, who is repelled by the case; Paris's wife Hannah, brutalized by her husband and in powerful psychological bondage to him; and Carl Bonner, a young, idealistic lawyer who seesaws between his past in the town and his recently acquired sense of being an outsider in its circumscribed society. Trout's murder trial forces Cotton Point to face some dark truths, while setting in motion a chain of events that lead to a crescendo of violence. Dexter (Deadwood, God's Pocket) is a deft and economical storyteller and a cruel but observant chronicler of deep South customs and characters, with something of a Faulknerian feeling for the bullying violence that can lay at the heart of an inbred small town. &newline;Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Diamant, Anita The Last Days of Dogtown: A Novel
Scribner 11-Jul-06 743225740 Paperback New 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
Fans of Diamant's The Red Tent who were disappointed by her sophomore effort (Good Harbor) will be happy to find her back on historical turf in her latest, set in early 1800s Massachusetts. Inspired by the settlement of Dogtown, Diamant reimagines the community of castoffs--widows, prostitutes, orphans, African-Americans and ne'er-do-wells--all eking out a harsh living in the barren terrain of Cape Ann. Black Ruth, the African woman who dresses like a man and works as a stonemason; Mrs. Stanley, who runs the local brothel, and Judy Rhines, an unmarried white woman whose lover Cornelius is a freed slave, are among Dogtown's inhabitants who are considered suspect--even witches--by outsiders. Shifting perspectives among the various residents (including the settlement's dogs, who provide comfort to the lonely), Diamant brings the period alive with domestic details and movingly evokes the surprising bonds the outcasts form in their dying days. This chronicle of a dwindling community strikes a consistently melancholy tone--readers in search of happy endings won't find any here--but Diamant renders these forgotten lives with imagination and sensitivity. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com In one of his short stories, Richard Ford wrote that we do not remember the past; we only imagine it. For no contemporary novelist is this truer than for Anita Diamant, whose latest book is set in the early 19th century on Cape Ann, a stony nubbin of Massachusetts coastline that, according to an old local joke, was the last place that God created, since it was where He dumped all the rocks that were of no use elsewhere. Diamant's new novel is not, as its publisher claims, a work of historical fiction. More accurately, what she has created -- as she did in her bestselling first novel, The Red Tent -- is the overlay of a modern sensibility on an imagined past. Dogtown is the derisive name for a once-promising settlement, which by 1814 has been reduced to a collection of broken huts and hovels inhabited mostly by spinsters and widows without children, and few with so much as an extra spoon in her cupboards. Legends about the place flourish in every barroom in the neighboring towns: It's said that only witches and whores remain there, and that they dally with their dogs. Diamant's casually episodic plot aims to reveal the real folk behind the Dogtown legends. She tracks the community's disintegration through interlocking vignettes that are punctuated by a series of funerals, while gradually exposing the secret loves and hatreds that bind these stragglers together. Among those vignettes is the tale of Tammy Younger, a foul-mouthed skinflint universally loathed because of her taste for blackmail and her appalling mistreatment of her orphaned great-nephew. To counter the whispers of witchery that surround this figure, Diamant underscores her frailties. In one scene, Tammy nearly bleeds to death after an unsympathetic acquaintance performs some barbaric dentistry with a wedge and a mallet. Some years later, she's found face-down in a bowl of decomposing stew. Another tragicomic scene features the drunkard and pimp John Stanwood, who is compelled to mend his ways after he spies what looks like an angel in a tree. Sober, Stanwood proves to be twice as tedious as when he was drunk, and the town sighs with relief when he abandons his religious calling. Stanwood's partner in prostitution is Mrs. Stanley, an aging ex-beauty who presides imperiously over two miserable trollops. What makes this ménage worse than the saddest excuse for a whorehouse its customers have ever seen is the tenancy of Mrs. Stanley's 11-year-old grandson, who's forced to work as their house servant. The settlement's former slaves fare even worse. Cornelius Finson's mother survived the middle passage but died of fever when he was 10. When he was 18, his mast
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Diamant, Anita The Red Tent
Picador 15-Sep-98 312195516 Paperback 9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
The red tent is the place where women gathered during their cycles of birthing, menses, and even illness. Like the conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent, this sweeping piece of fiction offers an insider's look at the daily life of a biblical sorority of mothers and wives and their one and only daughter, Dinah. Told in the voice of Jacob's daughter Dinah (who only received a glimpse of recognition in the Book of Genesis), we are privy to the fascinating feminine characters who bled within the red tent. In a confiding and poetic voice, Dinah whispers stories of her four mothers, Rachel, Leah, Zilpah, and Bilhah--all wives to Jacob, and each one embodying unique feminine traits. As she reveals these sensual and emotionally charged stories we learn of birthing miracles, slaves, artisans, household gods, and sisterhood secrets. Eventually Dinah delves into her own saga of betrayals, grief, and a call to midwifery. Like any sisters who live together and share a husband, my mother and aunties spun a sticky web of loyalties and grudges, Anita Diamant writes in the voice of Dinah. They traded secrets like bracelets, and these were handed down to me the only surviving girl. They told me things I was too young to hear. They held my face between their hands and made me swear to remember. Remembering women's earthy stories and passionate history is indeed the theme of this magnificent book. In fact, it's been said that The Red Tent is what the Bible might have been had it been written by God's daughters, instead of her sons. --Gail Hudson From Library Journal Skillfully interweaving biblical tales with events and characters of her own invention, Diamant's (Living a Jewish Life, HarperCollins, 1991) sweeping first novel re-creates the life of Dinah, daughter of Leah and Jacob, from her birth and happy childhood in Mesopotamia through her years in Canaan and death in Egypt. When Dinah reaches puberty and enters the Red Tent (the place women visit to give birth or have their monthly periods), her mother and Jacob's three other wives initiate her into the religious and sexual practices of the tribe. Diamant sympathetically describes Dinah's doomed relationship with Shalem, son of a ruler of Shechem, and his brutal death at the hands of her brothers. Following the events in Canaan, a pregnant Dinah travels to Egypt, where she becomes a noted midwife. Diamant has written a thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating portrait of a fascinating woman and the life she might have lived. Recommended for all public libraries. -?Nancy Pearl, Washington Ctr. for the Book, Seattle Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Diamond, Jared M. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
New York NORTON & COMPANY 1-Apr-99 393317552 Paperback 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Most of this work deals with non-Europeans, but Diamond's thesis sheds light on why Western civilization became hegemonic: History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves. Those who domesticated plants and animals early got a head start on developing writing, government, technology, weapons of war, and immunity to deadly germs. (LJ 2/15/97) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Diamond, Marilyn The American Vegetarian Cookbook from the Fit for Life Kitchen
New York, NY Grand Central Publishing 1-Apr-90 446515612 N Hardcover 11.2 x 8.7 x 1.5 inches
About the Author&newline;Marilyn Diamond has a certification of nutritional counseling from the American College of Health Science and has worked and studied in the nutrition/health field for over 20 years. She is the also the co-author of Fit For Life and most recently co-authored Fitonics for Life with her new partner, Dr. Donald Burton Schnell.
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Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
Harmondsworth Penguin Classics 30-Sep-70 140430547 N Paperback 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.9 inches
From AudioFile&newline;It was the best of books and possibly the best of recorded versions. Dickens's dramatic narrative of the French Revolution and the unremitting vengeance of both Mesdames Defarge and La Guillotine are brought to life by Gordon Griffin's fully voiced reading. His reading is not as rushed as some, but is equally dramatic with flawless enunciation and a broad tonal range. What's more, each thirty-five minute side of the twelve tapes has a certain narrative completeness, ending with about thirty seconds of period harpsichord music. Classroom teachers might find these tapes useful for introducing the book, dealing with difficult passages or simply encouraging reluctant readers. P.E.F. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. &newline;&newline;Book Description&newline;&newline;&newline;It's time to rediscover the wonderful books we all cherish.&newline;&newline;First published in 1859, A Tale of Two Cities is one of Dickens's most famous and popular novels. This stirring tale, set in the late eighteenth century against the backdrop of the French Revolution, is a novel for all generations. Filled with adventure and love, revolution and terror, it transports the reader to a time of political upheaval and solutions by guillotine. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Dickens, Charles Hard Times
R.S. Means Company Dec-93 039399774X N Paperback 9.1 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
From School Library Journal&newline;Grade 7-12-Dickens' satire on the Victorian family and the philosophies of a society which sought to turn men into machines. &newline;Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. &newline;&newline;From AudioFile&newline;In Dickens's story of the horrors of a utilitarian upbringing, reason and facts are everything, and imagination and creativity are nothing. The narrator's British accent goes well with Dickens's overly dramatic and lush prose. He uses different English accents for the numerous male characters, some speech defects for others and a breathy falsetto voice for all the women. While a straight rendition of the dialogue would be an improvement, luckily the story is mainly narrative. Some classics simply may not translate well either to audiobooks or to the 1990's. E.F. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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Dickey, James To the White Sea
Delta 1-Sep-94 385313098 Paperback 8 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
From Library Journal His bomber hit by anti-aircraft fire, an American gunner must parachute into Tokyo days before the great firebomb raid on that city. Fortunately, this recorded version of Dickey's macho story of survival against the odds is abridged, making the hero more believable and the tale more mesmerizing. The book, unfortunately, contains too many instances of poetic flights of fancy and philosophical baggage for a blood-and-guts action story wherein the hero commits a large number of murders, both necessary and gratuitous. The main focus here is how to escape and how to become invisible in a nation where you are the outsider. Dickey's solution is highly imaginative and entertaining. This production, well narrated by Dick Hill, will appeal to those who love war and adventure stories. Recommended for large popular collections. - James Dudley, Copiague, N.Y. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Hill presents Dickey's powerful first-person account, conveying savagery and mystical transcendence into nature in a dynamic balance. R.F.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Dickey, Page Cats in Their Gardens
New York Stewart, Tabori and Chang 1-Sep-02 1584791608 Hardcover 8.7 x 6.3 x 0.4 inches
The author of Dogs in Their Gardens turns her attention to felines among flowers in a little giftbook more for fans of cats than of plants. A cat, Dickey suggests, is a more benign presence in a garden than a snuffling, lily-tromping dog; then there's the added benefit that cats seem naturally fond of photogenic poses. Visiting special gardens at home and abroad armed with a camera and a tendency toward whimsy-and, it must be admitted, toward being a bit too cutesy-Dickey showcases humble mixed-breeds in garden designer Allen Haskel's nursery and Himalayans in Martha Stewart's well-appointed Connecticut yard. She also includes a few photomontages (pusses in poses; kitten klatch). The text accompanying the pictures breezily recounts the genesis of various pets and the tidbits about their owners' lives and gardens. While the layout of the book is far from sophisticated and the pictures are a bit small, Dickey's slim volume is sure to please soft-hearted cat lovers. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. In this companion volume to the popular Dogs in Their Gardens, 20 outstanding gardens in the United States, Canada, and England are featured with their ideal companion-cats. A wide range of cat breeds and garden styles make this the perfect gift book for every cat and garden lover. 120 color photographs.
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Didion, Joan Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Touchstone Books
New York Simon & Schuster Apr-79 671248065 N Paperback 22 cm.
Review&newline;&doublequote;In her portraits of people, Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naive acid-trippers, left wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful . . . A rich display of some of the best prose written today in this country.&doublequote;--Dan Wakefield, The New York Times Book Review&newline;--This text refers to the Paperback edition. &newline;&newline;Book Description&newline;Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has become a modern classic. More than any other book of its time, this collection captures the mood of 1960s America, especially the center of its counterculture, California. These essays, keynoted by an extraordinary report on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, all reflect that, in one way or another, things are falling apart, &doublequote;the center cannot hold.&doublequote; An incisive look at contemporary American life, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for several decades as a stylistic masterpiece.&newline;&newline;Contents:&newline;&newline;I. LIFE STYLES IN THE GOLDEN LAND &newline;Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream&newline;John Wayne: A Love Song&newline;Where the Kissing Never Stops&newline;Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.)&newline;7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38&newline;California Dreaming&newline;Marrying Absurd&newline;Slouching Towards Bethlehem&newline;&newline;II. PERSONALS&newline;On Keeping a Notebook&newline;On Self-Respect&newline;I Can't Get That Monster out of My Mind&newline;On Morality&newline;On Going Home&newline;&newline;III. SEVEN PLACES OF THE MIND&newline;Notes from a Native Daughter&newline;Letter from Paradise, 21° 19' N., 157° 52' W&newline;Rock of Ages&newline;The Seacoast of Despair&newline;Guaymas, Sonora&newline;Los Angeles Notebook&newline;Goodbye to All That
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Didion, Joan The Last Thing He Wanted
Vintage 2-Sep-97 679752854 Paperback 8 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
Elena McMahon is a reporter for the Washington Post and the unlikely inheritor of her father's complex and secretive life as an arms dealer for the U.S. Government in Central America. The year is 1984, and as she flies to an unnamed island off the coast of Costa Rica, she is oblivious to the spies, American military personnel, and the consequences of her father's errors that await her. She's also unprepared for the advances of Treat Morrison, an American diplomat whose service under six administrations has made him a crisis junkie. Treat narrates this story, offering a unique perspective on Elena, a woman who abandons one life for another. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Brilliantly written and flawlessly structured, Didion's first work of fiction since 1984's Democracy employs her trademark barbed-wire prose to tell a highly elliptical tale of political intrigue. Elena McMahon, a middle-aged woman of substantial wealth, is divorced and covering the 1984 presidential campaign for the Washington Post when she abruptly walks off her beat and goes to Florida to visit her ailing father. Soon, she has passively allowed herself to drift into a shady arms deal running between Florida and Central America, an enterprise that her father had set up but is physically incapable of seeing through. Didion takes risks in her choice of a nameless narrator, a writer who has only a peripheral knowledge of the people and events around which the story revolves. Indeed, the narrator is piecing together that story considerably after the fact. As a result, the characters are virtually ciphers: the narrator explicitly refuses to provide traditional motivation for their actions. The book is compulsively readable, however, an intellectual thriller that recalls Graham Greene?except that whereas Greene was concerned with the spirituality of desolation, Didion's characters operate in a spiritual void. The cold, detached tone is more than compensated for by the sharpness of Didion's prose and the artful suspense of her plot. This is a major work by one of the shrewdest observers of America's political and cultural life. 100,000 first printing; Random House Audio book. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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didion, Joan White Album
New York Simon & Schuster 19-Jun-79 671226851 N Hardcover 23 cm.
Review&newline;&doublequote;All of the essays manifest not only [Didion's] intelligence but an instinct for details that continue to emit pulsations in the reader's memory and a style that is spare, subtly musical in its phrasing and exact. Add to these her highly vulnerable sense of herself, and the result is a voice like no other in contemporary journalism.&doublequote;--Robert Towers, The New York Times Book Review&newline;&newline;&doublequote;Didion manges to make the sorry stuff of troubled times (bike movies, for instance, and Bishop James Pike) as interesting and suggestive as the monuments that win her dazzled admiration (Georgia O'Keeffe, the Hoover Dam, the mountains around Bogota) . . . A timely and elegant collection.&doublequote;--The New Yorker &newline;&newline;&doublequote;Didion is an original journalistic talent who can strike at the heart, or the absurdity, of a matter in our contemporary wasteland with quick, graceful strokes.&doublequote;--The San Francisco Chronicle&newline;--This text refers to the Paperback edition. &newline;&newline;Book Description&newline;First published in 1979, The White Album is a mosaic of the late sixties and seventies. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson family, a Balck Panther Party press conference, the story of John Paul Getty's museum, the romance of water in an arid landscape, and the swirl and confusion of the sixties. With commanding sureness of mood and language, Joan Didion exposes the realities and dreams of that age of self-discovery whose spiritual center was California.
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Diehl, William Eureka
New York Ballantine Books 26-Feb-02 345411463 N Hardcover 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.4 inches
Amazon.com&newline;William Diehl clearly understands the three essentials of any bestselling 1940s-era crime thriller: gangsters, gunplay, and guilty secrets. But Eureka isn't just another noirish shoot-'em-up, as shallow and forgettable as a stoolie's grave. It's a combustible, epic-aspiring saga about long-ago violence and the limits of justice, about revenge and redemption and two rivalrous lawmen drawn together by common ideals.&newline;&newline;Most of the action centers around Zeke Bannon, a young L.A. cop whose probing into the murder of a mysterious widow--electrocuted in her own bathtub--leads him to the once-sinful town of Eureka, now called San Pietro. It's from there that she'd been receiving anonymous cashier's checks over the last two decades, money Bannon figures she earned by her silence. Was she helping to cover up the truth about a 1921 shootout that caused the death of Eureka's frontier-style sheriff? Nobody in modern San Pietro will talk, least of all Thomas &doublequote;Brodie&doublequote; Culhane, a World War I hero who cleaned up the town and is now running for governor of California. Torn between admiring Culhane and trying to link him to the widow's killing, Bannon ignites historical enmities that threaten to express both men to their graves.&newline;&newline;Although Diehl offers ample cinematic violence here, there's little true menace, and a romantic subplot involving Bannon with a gorgeous banker is neither credible nor effectively exploited. Still, Eureka is a polished work, full of careful character studies and drama, with a gasp-provoking solution that few readers will anticipate. --J. Kingston Pierce &newline;&newline;From Publishers Weekly&newline;HFollowing a four-year hiatus after the somewhat lackluster Reign in Hell, the third volume of the Martin Vail thriller series, legions of this bestselling author's readers will herald this triumphant comeback as his best novel ever. Combining the psychological chiaroscuro of L.A. Confidential with the dramatic sweep and stylish noir of Chinatown, this labyrinthine, multigenerational epic scrolls across the still-lawless frontier landscape of California. At the turn of the 20th century, Eureka, the railhead Sodom and Gomorrah of Southern California, is replete with whorehouses, gambling, dark political intrigues and steamy liaisons. Fast-forwarding through WWI to the last days of WWII, the plot examines the coming of age of this seedy patch. Recovering in 1945 from WWII wounds that earned him a Silver Star, LAPD Det. Zee Bannon is handed a briefcase containing files concerning a mysterious woman found dead in her bathtub. The case was left unresolved in 1941, just before he went off to war, and Bannon is unable to discover the victim's history before her move to L.A. in 1924. But her sizable bank account and a trail of anonymous cashier's checks eventually lead back to Eureka (since renamed San Pietro), where now legendary Sheriff Thomas Culhane's bid for state governor is at stake. Infidelity, murder, murky secrets, a deeply affecting love story and an old-fashioned showdown will keep fans spellbound right up to the fully satisfying if not so surprising denouement. Vividly cinematic, rich in atmosphere and peopled with believable characters, this novel serves notice that Diehl is one of the best thriller writers working today. (Mar.)Forecast: Expect this winner to hit bestseller lists early and hard. Southern regional author appearances and a teaser chapter in the mass market reissue of Primal Fear will further spur sales.&newline;&newline;Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Diehn, Gwen Science Crafts for Kids: 50 Fantastic Things to Invent & Create
New York Lark Books Mar-94 806902833 N Hardcover 9.8 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches
From School Library Journal&newline;Grade 5-7-This colorful, hands-on guide introduces a number of different branches of science. The projects range from the fairly simple (clay pot wind chimes, pinwheel helicopter) to the complex (model grist mill, powered model boats, xylophone). The detailed instructions include a list of materials needed and explanatory line drawings. The activities are divided into four sections: air, water, earth, and fire. Extensive informational sidebars explain the principles involved. Attractive, full-color photographs show a variety of actively involved, enthusiastic kids. However, only 8 of the 50 projects listed in the contents have a &doublequote;needs adult help&doublequote; symbol, yet many of them require the use of a saw, razor knife, and/or drill and could be dangerous without adult supervision. Judith Hahn's How Science Works (Readers Digest, 1991) is another excellent source with sound scientific information and more adequate adult supervision advisories.&newline;Eunice Weech, M.L. King Elementary School, Urbana, IL&newline;Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Dierker, Larry My Team: Choosing My Dream Team from My Forty Years in Baseball
New York Simon & Schuster 4-Jul-06 743275136 Hardcover 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
In a move sure to ignite passionate debate among the faithful, baseball vet Dierkerhe pitched for and managed the Astros for years and is currently a columnist and broadcast commentatorhas taken his argument for the best players of all time and put it into print. With his own personal Hall of Fame, Dierker goes through his fantasy team position by position and comes up with the [t]wenty-five guys who would be practically unbeatable. This is not for novices, for Dierker is a hardcore connoisseur of statistics and has the charts and analyses to prove it. He tries his best to keep the book from being the usual dry recitation of numbers and sprinkles in anecdotes from his history in the game to add some needed perspective. What's most rewarding is how often Dierker departs from the numbers, dismissing, for instance, the great-on-paper Gary Sheffield because he played for too many teams: My guess is that he has been a less than inspiring teammate. As for controversy: Dierker chooses Bonds for left field, but doesn't take McGwire for first base since the former had a better record than McGwire did outside of the years he was rumored to take enhancements. (July) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Mantle or Mays? A-Rod or Jeter? Biggio or Morgan? Clemens, Maddux, and Randy Johnson -- or Pedro, Palmer, and Carlton? These are questions baseball fans can spend endless hours debating. Former All-Star pitcher and National League Manager of the Year Larry Dierker has his own opinions, and he shares them in My Team, his fascinating discussion of the greatest players he has seen in his four decades in the major leagues. Dierker selects twenty-five players for My Team and another twenty-five for the opposition, the Underdogs, or Dogs. There are two players at each position, five starting pitchers, and four relievers. (When your starters are the likes of Roger Clemens, Greg Maddux, Bob Gibson, Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan, and Juan Marichal, you don't worry about bullpen depth.) All are players that Dierker has played with or against or watched in his years as player, coach, manager, and commentator. Each athlete must have played at least ten years in the major leagues to qualify, and players are judged on their ten best seasons. Leadership skills and personality -- critical components of team chemistry -- are highly valued. So how is it possible to select two teams composed of outstanding ballplayers from the past forty years and not have room for Sandy Koufax, Reggie Jackson, Carl Yastrzemski, or Cal Ripken Jr.? Dierker explains his choices, analyzing each position carefully, always putting the team ahead of the individual player. He provides statistics to back up his selections, and often relates personal anecdotes about the players. (From his first All-Star Game in 1969, Dierker offers a wonderful anecdote about Hank Aaron, by then an All-Star veteran.) My Team may start more debates than it settles, but Dierker's insights, and his passion for the game, will enlighten and fascinate true baseball fans.
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Dietrich, William Hadrian's Wall: A Novel
New York HarperCollins 2-Mar-04 60563710 N Hardcover 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
From Publishers Weekly&newline;The limit of Roman imperial expansion in Britannia is marked by Hadrian's Wall, a fortification constructed in the second century A.D. to keep the northern barbarians from invading Rome's island province. Award-winning author Dietrich's fourth novel is an epic historical drama of warfare, treachery and political intrigue centered on Rome's most remote and desolate frontier outpost. In the fourth century A.D., the Celtic barbarians are restless, revolt is imminent and the hard-pressed Roman garrison on the frontier has a new cavalry commander. Brutally efficient veteran soldier Galba is replaced by scholarly aristocrat Marcus, whose appointment is the payoff of an arranged marriage to a senator's daughter. When Marcus's beautiful young wife, Valeria, arrives at the frontier, she becomes an unwitting pawn in the plots of Galba, Marcus and the Celtic chieftain, Arden Caratacus. Marcus seeks glory and a return to the comforts of Rome; Galba seeks power and revenge; and Caratacus seeks freedom from Roman oppression. All three men covet Valeria, but for very different reasons, eventually driving her to betray them all in a desperate effort to save them from war and disaster. Murder, betrayal, witchcraft and shifting loyalties add suspense and tension to this vivid tale. Dietrich's descriptions of Roman-style battle are bloody and graphic, with legionnaires wielding shield and sword against naked barbarians shrieking and swinging battleaxes. Dietrich is in top form with this rousing tale. &newline;Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. &newline;&newline;From Booklist&newline;Dietrich realistically re-creates the tumult and the confusion that characterized Rome's last-gasp attempt to retain its stronghold in Britannia as the empire faltered and began to crumble in the latter half of the fourth century. Built early in the second century, Hadrian's Wall was both an engineering and a military marvel. Eighty miles long, the impressive barrier separated Roman Britain from the barbaric Celtic tribes ever threatening the border. Passed over as commander of the Petriana Cavalry for purely political reasons, battle-hardened Galba Bassidias hatches a treasonous plot to disgrace Lucius Marcus Flavius, the ambitious aristocrat sent to usurp him. When Marcus' betrothed, Valeria, a senator's daughter, arrives from Rome, Galba immediately begins to manipulate them both. However, Valeria proves more resourceful and resilient than Galba ever imagined. Kidnapped by a Celt employed by Galba, she falls in love with her captor, provoking a battle that signals the beginning of the end for both Hadrian's Wall and the mighty Roman Army in Britain. Page-turning historical fiction seething with action, adventure, and passion. Margaret Flanagan&newline;Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Diffie, Whitfield Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press 5-Jan-98 262041677 N Hardcover 9.5 x 6.8 x 1.2 inches
Amazon.com&newline;There was a time when cryptography--the making and breaking of secret codes--was of interest only to spies, diplomats, and the occasional eccentric. Those days are over, and the reason, as Diffie and Landau explain, is that secret codes have become the key to preserving traditional notions of privacy at a time when technology is rapidly altering the nature of human communication.&newline;&newline;When the vast majority of conversations happened face to face, keeping them private was a simple matter of stepping away from the listening crowd. But the growing number of conversations that take place over easy-to-intercept phone lines and e-mail channels requires more sophisticated safeguards. Above all, it requires online encryption tools of the highest grade, and this book does a good job of explaining how these tools work, both in principle and in practice. It does a better job, though, of explaining why the tools matter. The intense political battles that have surrounded digital cryptography in recent years are a testament to the profound political implications of privacy in the online era, and Diffie and Landau have delivered an admirably thorough overview of both the struggles and the stakes. If at times their thoroughness bogs them down in dry recitations of detail, their book at least generates more light than heat, and that can hardly be said of most contributions to the cryptography debate so far. --Julian Dibbell --This text refers to the Paperback edition. &newline;&newline;From Publishers Weekly&newline;Comsec, sigint, NSA, NIST, DES, Clipper chip, key escrow?such technobabble related to intelligence-gathering can baffle the uninitiated. This authoritative treatise helps unveil some of the mystery and puts contemporary freedom, privacy and security issues in perspective. After explaining basic concepts of cryptography, the authors cover the history of 20th-century intelligence gathering, then recount the long, discouraging saga of the U.S. government's invasions of its citizens' privacy. In World War II, census data were used illegally to round up Japanese Americans. In the 1950s and '60s, the CIA read private mail, and in the 1970s, it monitored research requests in public libraries. The electronic spying of our security agencies is not even a law-enforcement bargain?wiretapping is costly and produces arguably modest results. Issues of the 1990s include the 1992 Digital Telephone Proposal, the legal vicissitudes of &doublequote;Pretty Good Privacy,&doublequote; and the government's attempts to require key escrow (storage of keys so that the government can crack coded messages). As in earlier times, we still see competition between the various security bureaucracies. Diffie is a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems and the inventor of public-key cryptography (software that encodes a document with one key and deciphers it with another); Landau is a research associate professor in the department of computer science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Together, they bring formidable expertise to bear on complex topics. &newline;Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Dillard, Annie The Living: A Novel
Harper Perennial 14-Apr-93 006092411X Paperback 8 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches
Listening to Lawrence Luckinbill read Annie Dillard's historical novel The Living takes a little getting used to. The very first sentence reveals a pronounced and distracting lisp, but don't let that dissuade you from continuing. Luckinbill's voice also exhibits a simple honesty, a gruffness that is perfectly suited to the steely pioneer spirit of Dillard's story. Surprisingly quickly, the vocal idiosyncrasy fades away, leaving only the emotional resonance of Luckenbill's obviously heartfelt connection to this powerful tale. Dillard's finely crafted prose and Luckinbill's sincere voice carry you back to the early days of American expansion, into the truly Wild West and the stone-hard life these settlers would be forced to endure. She had cried out to God all day and maybe all night, too, that he would lend her strength to bear affliction and go on. She was not aware that underneath she prayed another prayer as if to a power above God, or at least to his better nature, that he was finished with the worst of it. Of course, God isn't finished, and neither are these brave souls. Dillard opens their world slowly, stretching the horizon generation by generation, tethering the fate of one small family to that of the struggling town that they are helping to build and, ultimately, to the inexorable rise of the emerging nation. (Running time: six hours, four cassettes) --George Laney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Pulitzer Prize-winner Dillard ( Pilgrim at Tinker Creek , HarperCollins, 1988) turns her hand to fiction with this historical novel of the American Northwest in the late 19th century. Focusing on the settlement at Whatcom on Bellingham Bay (near Puget Sound), Dillard offers a compelling portrait of frontier life. The novel has a large and richly varied cast of characters, from the engaging frontiersman Clare Fishburn and Eastern socialite-turned-pioneer Minta Honer to the disturbed and violent Beal Obenchain and kleptomaniac Pearl Sharp. The Living is unflinching in its delineations of pioneer life at its worst and best--racism and brutality on the one hand and optimism and charity in adversity on the other. Dillard's view of the living in its many senses is a fine novel that is an essential purchase for all fiction collections. - Dean James, Houston Acad. of Medicine/Texas Medical Ctr. Lib. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Dillard, Annie The Maytrees: A Novel
New York HarperCollins 12-Jun-07 61239534 Hardcover 8.4 x 5.8 x 1 inches
Starred Review. Lou Bigelow meets her husband-to-be, Toby Maytree, when Toby returns to Provincetown following WWII. In the house Lou inherits from her mother, they read, cook soup, play games with friends, vote and raise a child. Toby writes poetry and does odd jobs; Lou paints. Their unaffected bohemianism fits right in with the Provincetown landscape, which Dillard, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, describes with an offhand but deep historical sense. Years into the marriage, Toby suddenly decamps to Maine with another local woman, Deary Hightoe; flash forward six years to Lou reading Toby's semimonthly letters (and Deary's marginal notes) with affectionate interest. Dillard, stripping the story to bare facts-plus-backdrop, is after something beyond character and beyond love, though she evokes Lou and Toby's beautifully. Thus, when Deary's heart falters 20 years later and Toby brings her home to Lou for hospice care, Lou puts up water for tea and gets going. She feels too much, not too little, for mere drama, although people who don't know her misread her. In short, simple sentences, Dillard calls on her erudition as a naturalist and her grace as poet to create an enthralling story of marriage--particular and universal, larky and monumental. (June) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by Marilynne Robinson Annie Dillard's books are like comets, like celestial events that remind us that the reality we inhabit is itself a celestial event, the business of eons and galaxies, however persistently we mistake its local manifestations for mere dust, mere sea, mere self, mere thought. The beauty and obsession of her work are always the integration of being, at the grandest scales of our knowledge of it, with the intimate and momentary sense of life lived. The Maytrees is about wonder -- in the terms of this novel, life's one truth. It is wonder indeed that is invoked here, vast and elusive and inexhaustible and intimate and timeless. There is a resolute this-worldliness that startles the reader again and again with recognition. How much we overlook! What a world this is, after all, and how profound on its own terms. Dillard has always been fascinated by time -- by the fact that existence is charged with it, saturated with it, borne along by it into a future that makes the span of any life less than negligible. And time in its mystery and grandeur bestrides this novel. Its sea is wild and generative, its sky orders the constellations, and both are primordial, archaic, full of the fact of time past and persisting, unchanging, changing everything. If there were such a thing as cosmic realism, The Maytrees would be a classic of the genre. I hasten to say the book is full of the kind of pleasures one looks for in fiction. The few characters are engaging, and, though nothing especially remarkable happens, the story has import, and this is as potent as suspense in engrossing the reader. The narrative is a highly localized meditation on the question, Why are we here? The spare landscape and potent seascape answer that question even before it is asked. The novel is set on Cape Cod, on the most seaward curve of the hook. It transpires among a circle of people who live there through all weather over decades, people who know each other too well and are more charmed than they ought to be by their own gifts, which are nevertheless quite real. They are, in their way, fashionable, dilettantish, and yet as native to the place as they can manage to be. They embrace the rigors that go with living deeply in that landscape, and at the same time they seem idle, up to very little beyond cocktail parties, serial marriage and the reading of good books. At first glance, they and their lives seem both irritating and enviable, in other words, ripe for satire. But the novel absorbs them into a vision that ultimately blesses them all. The Maytrees is written for the most part from t
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Dinesen, Isak Out of Africa
New York Random House Publishing Group Jan-84 394604989 Hardcover 19 cm.
From the Publisher In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors - lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes - and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful. Synopsis In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors - lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes - and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.
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Diresta, David Cooking With Parchment Paper
San Leandro, Calif. Bristol Publishing Enterprises 1-Sep-94 1558671013 Paperback 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
Detailed directions for using parchment support 130 recipes for dishes cooked with it. A secret of professionals for years, cooking with parchment results in low-fat, moist foods and fast cleanup.
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Disch, Thomas M. The Priest: A Gothic Romance
New York Knopf 21-Mar-95 679418806 N Hardcover 9.5 x 6.8 x 1.2 inches
From Publishers Weekly&newline;While Disch (The M.D.) adroitly lampoons the loonier aspects of Catholicism and the religious right, the scattershot story line and glut of secondary characters defuse the effect of his latest effort. Minneapolis priest Pat Bryce is plagued by a host of distinctly unholy problems, including a fondness for altar boys, the blackmail efforts of underworld types (who know of the good father's indiscretions) and involvement in a plot by a fellow priest and an anti-abortion group called Birth-Right to ensure that pregnant girls come to term by holding them hostage in a pseudo-medieval fortress. Bryce's severest affliction, however, is a tendency to assume the identity of a 13th-century bishop in the Inquisition. Disch is at his best in a series of morbidly comic?and strangely plausible?scenes which capture Bryce's assorted addictions and inability to control his downward spiral. But the story's momentum is deflected by minor characters who, despite their brief moment in the comic limelight, have little overall impact: only a concluding summation ties together the loose threads. While much of the humor here will appeal to Disch's fans, readers looking for a more balanced narrative may wish to turn to his earlier titles. Author tour. &newline;Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;From Library Journal&newline;If the Roman Catholic Church still issued its Index of banned books, this one would certainly find its way onto it. It is a wickedly funny, often scathing attack on an institution seen as too often more concerned about avoiding scandal than truly serving the needs of its constituents. Father Patrick Bryce is a pedophile unable, even after a stint at the famous Arizona &doublequote;treatment&doublequote; facility, to control his urges?a fact that draws him inexorably into a world defined chiefly by physical and psychological torment. A mysterious young man blackmails the priest into submitting to the tattoo artist's needle. As an image of Satan takes shape on his chest, he begins to experience strange and very realistic nightmares in which he adopts the persona of a 13th-century French bishop who was a victim of the Inquisition. All the while he is supposed to be supervising, as part of his penance, a detention facility in which reluctant teenage mothers are forced to come to term by a pair of overeager right-to-lifers not averse to using violence to achieve their ends. As this black and biting fantasy careens toward its macabre denouement, it gives one pause to think?especially in light of the recent shootings at abortion clinics. Recommended for collections of popular fiction.?David Henderson, Eckerd Coll. Lib., St. Petersburg, Fla.&newline;Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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DiZazzo, Ray The Clarity Factor: A Parable of Understanding
Granite-Collen Communications Aug-03 964880016 Paperback 7.3 x 5 x 0.3 inches
The Clarity Factor gives us a way to connect with the people and the world around us. Kristi Dempsey, Phoenix Tribune I won't give away DiZazzo's revelations, but I felt I communicated better with the people around me...
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Djuna Barnes Nightwood
New York Harcourt, Brace and Company 1937 Hardcover VG-
Light green cloth boards unadorned but for title on spine. Corners roughed, spine is straight & tight but a scuff mark starts on front side of spine and a scratch then goes across the bottom of the front cover. Moderate shelf wear. T.S. Elliot introduces this not-novel, not-prose, poignant vignette in the vein of Anais Nin, in glowing terms. The story of characters so exquisitely wrought leaves you with a sense you have just witnessed private lives with a degree of intimacy rarely experienced, let alone achieved.
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Dobereiner, Peter The Book of Golf Disasters
New York Collins 2-Apr-86 60970170 N Paperback 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
Book Description&newline;For every golfer's sanity, a collection of 200 stories of desperation, ignominy, and self-sacrifice from some of the most famous names in and out of golf. Shows how the game can reduce even the mightiest players to nervous wrecks. &newline;&newline;From the Publisher&newline;For every golfer's sanity, a collection of 200 stories of desperation, ignominy, and self-sacrifice from some of the most famous names in and out of golf. Shows how the game can reduce even the mightiest players to nervous wrecks.
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Dobyns, Stephen The Church of Dead Girls: A Novel
Owl Books 15-Jun-98 080505104X N Paperback 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
Amazon.com&newline;Despite its superficial resemblance to a whodunit, The Church of Dead Girls is not a conventional thriller. Don't expect it to be suspenseful. This is a literary horror tale--slow paced, contemplative, meticulous in its descriptions--about a formerly sleepy small town in which the crucial distinction between public and private life is dissolving as suspicion spreads like a toxin. The reader's guide to this process of corruption is a high school biology teacher--reserved, somewhat snotty, but a thoughtful man, and reliable in spite of his cynicism. He says, &doublequote;It is dreadful not to be allowed to have secrets. Years ago I happened to uncover a nest of baby moles in the backyard and I watched them writhe miserably in the sunlight. We were like that.&doublequote; Ultimately you realize that the killer's identity, even the deaths of three girls, are small matters compared to the collapse of the town's very soul. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. &newline;&newline;From Library Journal&newline;Despite the lurid title, Dobyns's latest novel (he is a poet and author of the &doublequote;Saratoga&doublequote; mystery series) is a compelling mystery that shows how the people in a small town change because of a series of murders. First, a promiscuous woman is murdered. Then three girls disappear in succession. The narrator reports how the symptoms of fear escalate into a raging disease consuming the community. Cloaking prejudice and fear with righteousness, certain citizens target individuals who are on the community's fringe. By the story's end, no one escapes suspicion. Many characters and the complexities of human interactions receive well-rounded treatment. This absorbing tale, fit for any general collection, is highly recommended.?Michelle Foyt, Fairfield P.L., Ct.&newline;Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Doctorow, E.L. Billy Bathgate
New York Random House 4-Feb-89 394525299 N Hardcover 9.2 x 6 x 1.3 inches
Amazon.com&newline;In the Bronx of the 1930s, 15-year-old Billy Bathgate hooks up with a legendary mobster, Dutch Schultz. Schultz becomes an unlikely surrogate parent to the boy, introducing him to the ways of the world and training Billy to follow in his footsteps. After Billy falls for Schulz's latest girlfriend, he begins to question the actions of the mob he was so eager to join. As he seeks to protect the young woman, he gains strength in following his own heart and makes a courageous passage from boyhood to adulthood. E.L Doctorow won the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for this novel. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. &newline;&newline;From Publishers Weekly&newline;In the poorest part of the Bronx, in the depths of the Depression, a teenage, fatherless street kid who will adopt the name Billy Bathgate comes to the attention of his idol, master gangster Dutch Schultz. Resourceful, brash, daring and brave, the narrator understands that morality will have no influence in lifting him from his poverty; by hitching his wagon to the mobster's star he can hope to provide his gentle, mad mother and himself with a way to rise out of their desolate existence. The astonishing story of Billy's apprenticeship to Shultz and his education at the hands of the mobster's minions is related by Doctorow with masterful skill, grace and lucidity of prose, inspired inventiveness of scene and true-voiced dialogue. Equally a rollicking adventure and a cautionary tale, both parable of the prodigal son and poignant coming-of-age story, it is mesmerizing reading that soars from the shocking first scene of a gangland execution through episodes of horror, hilarity and sudden, deepening insights. In his odyssey, Billy will learn about human nature as well as extortion and policy rackets; he will travel to the upstate rural community of Onandaga where Schultz will be brought to trial by special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey; he will be exposed to the world of Park Avenue socialites; he will acquire a gun and better manners; he will discover that the &doublequote;glamor and class&doublequote; of a big time racketeer is achieved through good business methods as well as violence; he will comprehend the seamy relationship between criminals and politicians, and he will fall in love. Perhaps the most affecting example of the dichotomy that rules his life occurs when, after having witnessed the most vicious brutalities, he returns to the Bronx and goes shopping with his mother for his first suit. In this stunning, lyrical novel, Doctorow has perfected the narrative voice of a lower-class boy encountering the world (surpassing those of the protagonists of Ragtime , Loon Lake and World's Fair ). He falters only in a sentimental, almost fairytale ending that belies the harsh realities by which the narrative is propelled. But so fine and convincing is this story that the reader accepts in its entirety Doctorow's mythical vision, a dark version of the Horatio Alger fable related with a brilliant twist. 100,000 first printing; first serial to GQ and Granta; film rights to Touchstone/Disney; BOMC dual main selection; QPBC featured alternate; major ad/promo. &newline;Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Doctorow, E.L. City of God: A Novel
New York Random House 15-Feb-00 679447830 N Hardcover 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
Amazon.com&newline;You want ambition? E.L. Doctorow's City of God starts off not merely with a bang but with the big bang itself, that &doublequote;great expansive flowering, a silent flash into being in a second or two of the entire outrushing universe.&doublequote; It doesn't, to be sure, remain on this cosmic plane throughout. There's a mystery here, along with a romance, a chilling Holocaust narrative, and a deep-focus portrait of fin-de-siècle Manhattan--not to mention cameo appearances by that Holy Trinity of contemporary mythmaking: Albert Einstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Frank Sinatra. But while the author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate is no slacker when it comes to entertainment, he has more in mind this time around. Even the title, with its Augustinian overtones, tips us off to the author's preoccupation with belief, human consciousness, and &doublequote;our wrecked romance with God.&doublequote;&newline;&newline;Let's return, however, to that mystery. In the early pages of the novel, an enormous brass cross is pilfered from a church on the Lower East Side. Father Thomas Pemberton of St. Timothy's promptly sets off in search of it, dubbing himself the Divinity Detective. Yet he suspects from the start that this is no ordinary theft, with no ordinary solution: So now these people, whoever they are, have lifted our cross. It bothered me at first. But now I'm beginning to see it differently. That whoever stole the cross had to do it. And wouldn't that be blessed? Christ going where He is needed? Where He seems to be needed is the opposite side of the ecumenical aisle. The cross turns up on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism, a tiny Manhattan institution to which Pemberton has clearly been led by fate. His encounter with the synagogue's rabbinical duo--a husband-and-wife team struggling to reclaim a pre-scriptural state of &doublequote;unmediated awe&doublequote;--transforms his life. It also destroys what's left of his conventional Christian belief. Augustine's spin on original sin, for example, now strikes him as &doublequote;a nifty little act of deconstruction--passing it on to the children, like HIV.&doublequote; And as his relationship with Judaism deepens, he discards the clerical collar altogether and embarks upon a penitential exploration of the Holocaust--which in turn allows Doctorow to loop his narrative back and forth between several generations of (mostly) Jew and Gentile.&newline;&newline;Astonishingly enough, the foregoing only scratches the surface of City of God. This marvelous hybrid also includes a metafictional framework (i.e., an author-as-character with a rather Doctorovian resume), an ongoing rumination on city life, and a dozen other major strands and minor players. There are, not surprisingly, a number of misfires. For example, Doctorow has long been interested in the power of American popular song--in the way that, say, Gershwin's work has come to function as a kind of secular hymnal. Yet the author's postmodernist variations on the standards, which appear at regular intervals throughout the novel under the ominous rubric of &doublequote;The Midrash Jazz Quartet Plays the Standards,&doublequote; are jaw-droppingly awful. One might also argue that the book is too centrifugal, too devoted to the storytelling principle of the big bang. Still, there is an undeniable power to the way Doctorow makes his fictional worlds collide, setting off all manner of historical and philosophical conflagrations. At one point he imagines &doublequote;the totality of intimate human narrations / composing a hymn to enlightenment / if that were possible.&doublequote; A tall order, yes. But despite its occasional longueurs, City of God suggests that it's possible indeed. --James Marcus &newline;&newline;From Publishers Weekly&newline;New York at the end of the 20th century--hardly St. Augustine's city of God--is the canvas on which Doctorow paints an impressionistic portrait of man's frail moral nature and the possibilities of redemption. Challenging and provocative, this rambling narrative is a mix of alternating voices that touch on such matters as theology, popular music, astronomy, physics and science, war, carnal love, the verisimilitude of film to life (and distortions thereof). The story
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Dodman, Nicholas The Dog Who Loved Too Much
New York Bantam 1-Mar-96 553101943 N Hardcover 9 x 5.7 x 1.1 inches
From Library Journal&newline;This is one of the best books for dog trainers and pet owners to come along in years. Dodman, a veterinarian, teaches behavioral pharmacology at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and is the director of its Behavior Clinic. He is well known and respected for his research on domestic animal behavior and holds three patents for pharmacological solutions to problem behavior. While he recognizes the power of medications to help provide answers to some training and behavior problems, he looks upon those solutions as a last resort and back-up to well-constructed assessments of the owner/dog relationships and thoroughly planned rehabilitation programs based on behavior modification and obedience training. The 14 chapters in this book relate actual cases from Dodman's clinical practice. He is clear in his explanations and cuts to the core of each problem. Part 1 deals with types of aggression: dominance, rage, territorial/fear, dog vs. dog, and dog versus baby. Part 2 discusses the fear of thunderstorms, inanimate objects, and separation, particularly geriatric separation anxiety. The final section deals with compulsive behaviors, hallucinations, lick granuloma, and house-soiling. A summary table follows each chapter, highlighting the key symptoms and treatments for the condition discussed. The information, practical advice, and treatments are well above average for problem-solving training books. This one deserves a place on every dog trainer's shelf and in every pet owner's home. Highly recommended.?Edell Marie Schaefer, Brookfield P. L., Milwaukee, Wis.&newline;Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;From AudioFile&newline;The author, who also narrates this abridgment, is a veterinarian, now practicing at Tufts University, who has years of experience treating &doublequote;problem&doublequote; dogs. He tells their stories here: fearful dogs (such as the dog in the title, who cannot bear to be separated from her owners), phobic dogs and dominant dogs, among others. Dodman's clear, expressive British voice, along with his personal interest in each dog and owner, enhances this interesting story of how we can better understand our dogs' behavior and the treatments that can help solve problem behaviors. Dog owners and dog lovers will find this a fascinating program. M.A.M. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Doerr, Anthony About Grace: A Novel
Penguin 27-Sep-05 143036165 Paperback 7.4 x 5 x 0.8 inches
The majesty of nature, the meaning of courage, the redemptive power of love and the pathos of isolation--all are gracefully explored in Doerr's story of the price paid for a gift. So why does so little seem to happen in this beautiful, ponderous and sometimes monotonous first novel by the author of the exquisite collection The Shell Collector? David Winkler has seen glimpses of the future ever since he was a boy. As a 32-year-old hydrologist in Anchorage, Alaska, he dreams of his future wife; soon they meet, fall in love and run away to Ohio, where she gives birth to their daughter, Grace. But when he dreams that he fails to save Grace from a flood, Winkler abandons wife and child, hoping to flee the future. He becomes a hermetic handyman on a Caribbean island near St. Vincent, befriended by a local family. The years pass until, emboldened by his surrogate family's grown daughter, a gifted marine biologist, Winkler realizes that he must embark on a journey to discover if Grace is alive. This is a lyrical tale tuned a bit too fine: Doerr's dreamy prose accords more attention to nature than character, so that Winkler, transfixed by the wonders of water and snowflakes but singularly unreflective about his actual life, is a frustratingly opaque protagonist. There are gorgeous moments here, but a stifling lack of story. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com David Winkler, the 59-year-old protagonist of Anthony Doerr's debut novel, About Grace, is a dreamer but not, alas, of the carefree, California kind. Instead Winkler is a modern-day Cassandra who dreams about future events -- some momentous, some trivial -- and when he tries to warn people, he meets, for the most part, with incredulity and skepticism. As a result of this questionable gift, he also shares characteristics with two other legendary figures: Like Oedipus, Winkler is cursed with a terrible prophecy about himself that he does his utmost to avoid, and, like Odysseus, he must go on a long journey and endure many hardships before he can return home. In the hands of a lesser writer, these mythic premises might prove disastrous, but in those of the wonderfully talented Doerr, the result is a beautiful and expansive novel. About Grace opens with an account of Winkler catching a plane from the Caribbean to Cleveland. Soon after takeoff he falls asleep in his window seat only to be awakened by the woman next to him. 'You were dreaming,' she said. 'Your legs were shaking.' . . . He sat awhile and studied the clouds. Finally, with a resigned voice, he said, 'The compartment above you isn't latched properly. In the turbulence it'll open and the bag inside will fall out.' Of course the woman doesn't believe him, and of course her souvenir martini glasses end up breaking in the aisle. The first half of the book goes on to detail why Winkler fled to the Caribbean in the first place and why, after more than two decades, he feels able to return to America. Like several of the characters in Doerr's first book, the highly acclaimed collection of stories The Shell Collector, Winkler is a scientist of sorts, an aspiring hydrologist who, fortunately for someone born in Alaska, particularly loves snow. Initially he shares this passion with his empathetic mother, one of the few people to understand about his dreams. Her death when he's a teenager leaves him bereft and solitary. He grows up, goes to college and graduate school, writes a dissertation that nobody reads and gets a job with the weather service. Then one March day when he's 32, Winkler walks over to the local market to buy a sandwich and sees a woman in a tan polyester suit standing at the magazine rack, tiny particles of dust drifting in the air between her ankles. Suddenly he knows what will happen next; he has dreamed this encounter a few nights before. The woman will drop a magazine, and he will pick i
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Dogi, Fiammetta My First ABC of Animals
Feb-01 760723907 Hardcover
The Barnes & Noble Twenty-six enchanting animals, shown here with their offspring, bring the alphabet to life in this unique ABC book for young children. As they journey from A to Z, children will also gather fascinating facts about the habits and habitats of each animal. From Our Editors Twenty-six enchanting animals, shown here with their offspring, bring the alphabet to life in this unique ABC book for young children. As they journey from A to Z, children will also gather fascinating facts about the habits and habitats of each animal.
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Dojny, Brooke Cheap Eats: Simple, Sumptuous Meals for Four You Can Make for Under $10
New York, NY William Morrow & Company Apr-93 60966173 N Paperback 7 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
From Publishers Weekly&newline;Saving money may be a good idea, but saving money while turning out nutritious, tasty meals is an even better one. Dojny and Barnard (coauthors of Sunday Suppers ) have compiled a thoughtful selection of recipes that proves delicious does not have to mean expensive. Their advice to readers who want to save money is simple: buy in bulk, buy what is seasonal and use common sense when shopping. The authors provide recipes that meet every taste, from jerked chicken to potato salad. Some vegetarian dishes are also included. The meals produced are long on flavor, and the authors have done their best to keep the fat and sugar content to a minimum. Directions are simple and clear. Novice cooks won't be intimidated, and the experienced will find some intriguing but easy recipes, like hot-and-sour peanut noodles. The book is divided into chapters for spring, summer, autumn and winter. In each one the authors provide a group of menus reflecting that season's produce. Menus all provide an appetizer, entree, side dish and dessert. Dojny and Barnard did their shopping in Connecticut markets while researching the book. Readers might not be able to keep under the $10 limit in some areas, but the slight extra cost they incur will be offset by the appealing and nutritious meals they can produce from this book. &newline;Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. &newline;&newline;From the Publisher&newline;An exciting cookbook with 49 fast, imaginative, and healthful three-course meals for four, all for under $10.00.
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Donald G. Mitchell Reveries of a Bachelor
Philadelphia Henry Altemus circa 1899 VG
Odd cloth boards, very dense, at edges where worn, you can see the weave but face of the boards is almost so dense at to be painted? Decorative gilt flowers on cover and 6 on the spine which also has embossed Ik. Marvel (author of the preface, dated New York, Nov. 1850) below the title. Color frontispiece copyright 1899. Higly decorative endpapers; Former owners name on blank pages, also a gift inscription dated 1899; a typed/laid in dedication to a friend in Hartford Connecticut, on this verso is a printed signature and date 1892, and inscription --as much truth in them as in most Reveries a line from the preface. An unrequited, or not? love story at its agonizingly tumultous best....full page illustrations are unattributed.
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Donaldson, Gerald (Editor) Frogs
New York Book Sales Jan-82 442226500 N Hardcover 29 cm.
From the Publisher&newline;&newline;&newline;The Frogs is a novel that portrays rural America at a crucial turning point in history. Not since the Civil War were the roots of the American ideology so deeply divided. This story is a metaphor of the transition that invariably changed a nation. The brutal slaying of a popular President, the involvement in the unpopular conflict of Viet Nam, South East Asia, a drug and music culture which would rise up against the establishment, only to prove that nothing really changes. The little town of Liberty represents the tarnished grandiose dreams of the past, a doomed edifice that must be drowned in a baptism. Yet, destined also to a less than perfect resurrection. Like a ship sunk with all hands, it re-emerges a derelict flushed of past generations to ensnare a new host of dwellers. There are several stories within stories, and many savory characters apparitional in nature, each caught in a shadowy purgatory of his or her past, adding an ephemeral quality to the unfolding of events. The greatest shadow of all being the inevitability of death. Only Westbaily exist in the present. He alone walks by faith, only he sees and is guided by light. Yet, in the eyes of the world, Westbaily is the monster they all fear. Just as the surviving characters at the end of the story are waiting, so do we all. We are all frogs waiting for Westbaily to come. He comes sooner than we think. L. A. Espriux 10/30/2000&newline;&newline;Author Biography: I am 48 years old, a graduate of UCLA, and a Veteran of the Viet Nam conflict. I served in Nam in 1970 and '71. I was a Marine Corps Sergeant with a special MOS of supply. I served with distinction, with pride, with honor. I survived. I graduated from UCLA in 1977 with a special degree in creative writing. I have since published a number of poems in the National Library of Poetry (www.poetry.com) and other poetry books and journals as well as some short stories. I presently live in a suburb community of Montreal, Quebec. This novel, The Frogs, has an important significance to me, as well as certain literary merit.&newline;&newline;&newline;&newline;Synopsis&newline;&newline;&newline;The Frogs is a novel that portrays rural America at a crucial turning point in history. Not since the Civil War were the roots of the American ideology so deeply divided. This story is a metaphor of the transition that invariably changed a nation. The brutal slaying of a popular President, the involvement in the unpopular conflict of Viet Nam, South East Asia, a drug and music culture which would rise up against the establishment, only to prove that nothing really changes. The little town of Liberty represents the tarnished grandiose dreams of the past, a doomed edifice that must be drowned in a baptism. Yet, destined also to a less than perfect resurrection. Like a ship sunk with all hands, it re-emerges a derelict flushed of past generations to ensnare a new host of dwellers. There are several stories within stories, and many savory characters apparitional in nature, each caught in a shadowy purgatory of his or her past, adding an ephemeral quality to the unfolding of events. The greatest shadow of all being the inevitability of death. Only Westbaily exist in the present. He alone walks by faith, only he sees and is guided by light. Yet, in the eyes of the world, Westbaily is the monster they all fear. Just as the surviving characters at the end of the story are waiting, so do we all. We are all frogs waiting for Westbaily to come. He comes sooner than we think. L. A. Espriux 10/30/2000&newline;&newline;Author Biography: I am 48 years old, a graduate of UCLA, and a Veteran of the Viet Nam conflict. I served in Nam in 1970 and '71. I was a Marine Corps Sergeant with a special MOS of supply. I served with distinction, with pride, with honor. I survived. I graduated from UCLA in 1977 with a special degree in creative writing. I have since published a number of poems in the National Library of Poetry (www.poetry.com) and other poetry books and journals as well as some short stories. I presently live in a suburb community of Montreal, Quebec. This novel, The Frogs, has an important significa
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