Blackout



Connie Willis
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books/Random Hous, February 02, 2010
Review: Celebrated author Connie Willis returns with her first novel since Passage! The opening salvo of a powerful two-book campaign, Blackout is a sweeping time-travel adventure with ties to Willis’ most popular novels, The Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog.
It’s the year 2060, and the time-travel lab at Oxford is sending three scholars into one of the most dangerous periods of the 20th century—the Second World War. Eileen’s drop point is a remote British manor where she can research the Children’s Evacuation at the outbreak of the war. Polly will be masquerading as a London shop girl while she studies people’s behavior during the Blitz. And Mike Davis is going to observe the rescue of soldiers from Dunkirk to discover what qualities turn ordinary people into heroes.
But when each of their drops back to the future refuses to open, these three refugees must jump from the safety of remote vantage points to total embeddedness. Can they find each other and figure out how to return to their own time before it’s too late?
Told with passion, humor, sympathy and a historian’s understanding of the time, Blackout once again proves why Connie Willis is so beloved by both critics and readers alike.


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Reading in the Brain


The Science and Evolution of the Human Mind
Stanislas Dehaene
Publisher: Viking Penguin, November 12, 2009
Review: Something is going on inside your skull right now that is translating irregular shapes into meaningful letters, words and sentences. What is it? As Stanislas Dehaene shows in Reading in the Brain, our minds harbor a sophisticated set of mechanisms admirably attuned to the task. Here he shares cutting-edge insights from neuroscience that offer an intriguing new perspective on how it happened.
We begin with a puzzle: Writing was born only 5,400 years ago, far too short a time for humans to have evolved specialized reading circuits from scratch. So how can we read? Here Dehaene proposes what he calls the “neuronal recycling” hypothesis: Part of our brains’ visual processing system—which evolved very long ago—is not hardwired, but retains a degree of plasticity that allows it to interpret symbols as well as images. In these pages, Dehaene shows how neuronal recycling can account for literacy and its mechanisms in the brain.
The book begins with a look at how our visual systems collect information from the printed page. We then see how a specific sector of the brain—Dehaene dubs it “the brain’s letterbox”—extracts the identity of a string of letters in less than one-fifth of a second and transmits it to areas in the temporal and frontal lobes that encode sound pattern and meaning. Later on, the book explains how our brains house neurons that respond to visual stimuli that mirror letter shapes such as “T”, “Y” and “L”—the root of our ability to read text. Dehaene goes on to suggest that early scribes invented letter systems that fitted the organization of our brains: “Writing,” he argues, “evolved to fit the cortex.” How do children learn to read? What explains dyslexia? And why are we the only species that has learned to read? These are among the additional questions we cover.
Reading in the Brain opens our eyes to the mechanics of a ubiquitous human activity.


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Heart of the Matter



Emily Giffin
Publisher: St. Martins Press, May 11, 2010
Review: New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin’s new pageturner is her best to date! In Heart of the Matter, we’re caught up in the brewing love triangle between a beautiful accomplished wife and mother, her charismatic husband, and a woman who, for the first time in her life, meets someone who actually cares about her....
College professor Tessa Russo has no regrets about her decision to become a stay-at-home mom; why not enjoy the privileged lifestyle afforded her by her husband, a renowned pediatric plastic surgeon? Indeed, Tessa lives a charmed life, the kind that Valerie Anderson has never known. An attorney and single mother to 6-year-old Charlie, a boy whose father was never part of their family picture, Valerie has no illusions about love. But when Charlie is injured in a terrible accident, Valerie is quite certain the attention given them—or her, to be more precise—by her son’s handsome surgeon goes beyond professional courtesy.
Alternating between each woman’s voice, Giffin shows us how good people can get caught in untenable situations, leading them to question everything they once believed about love and happiness...and what, in the end, matters most.


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Pale Demon


Book in the Hallows Series
Kim Harrison
Publisher: HarperCollins, February 22, 2011
Review: Kim Harrison delivers a new twist to her bestselling Hollows series in Pale Demon—road trip!
Rachel Morgan is so-o-o not looking forward to attending the annual witches convention in San Francisco, but she has to go. Condemned to death for doing black magic and consorting with demons, she has three days to get there and clear her name. If she can’t pull it off, she’ll be hiding out in the demonic ever-after forever after.
Banned from the flight lists, Rachel has no choice but to hitch a ride with elven tycoon Trent Kalamack, who’s driving to the West Coast on his own mysterious business. But Rachel isn’t Trent’s only passenger—Ivy and Jenks are going with him, too. Can a witch, an elf, a living vampire and a pixy keep from killing each for more than 2,300 miles, or will the assassin on their tail catch up to them first?
A fearsome demon walks in sunlight, freed from centuries of torment to devour innocent souls—but his ultimate prey is Rachel Morgan. While the powerful witch with nerves of steel will do whatever it takes to stay alive, embracing her demonic nature may not be enough to save the day. Or keep her hard-fought-for family together....


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Love You More



Lisa Gardner
Publisher: Bantam Books, Inc./ Div. of Random Hous, March 08, 2011
Review: It’s a grisly sight that greets Boston detective D.D. Warren when she enters the home of Tessa Leoni, a fellow cop who admits to having just killed her abusive husband. She certainly looks like she’s gone 10 rounds. But of more concern to D.D. is Tessa’s missing child. Where is 6-year-old Sophie? Having just learned she is expecting a child of her own, a fact that’s put her soon-to-be-husband, Alex, over the moon—D.D. is particularly sensitive to the little girl’s fate, and finds it troubling that Tessa, who’s been read her rights, isn’t talking.
In Love You More, Lisa Gardner’s chilling new thriller, psychological suspense is the name of the game, and she proves she has no rival as a homicide suddenly becomes a desperate race to find a missing child. Sophie’s trail proves exhausting to follow as one twist and turn after another leads D.D. to the same brick wall: Tessa. What’s her role in all this? Incremental clues give D.D. insight into a mother’s heart, but they emerge slowly—too slowly as time is of the essence. For somewhere a little girl is crying out to be saved, and D.D. won’t rest until whoever put her innocent life in jeopardy pays the ultimate price.


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Civil War Wives


The Lives & Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis & Julia Dent Grant
Carol Berkin
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc./Random House, September 01, 2009
Review: In Civil War Wives, historian Carol Berkin, author of the acclaimed Revolutionary Mothers, tells the stories of three fascinating 19th-century wives. Her first subject, Angelina Grimke Weld, was a successful abolitionist orator before she married fellow abolitionist Theodore Weld. The next two, Varina Howell Davis, the wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and Julia Dent Grant, wife of Civil War general and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, were more completely defined by their marriages. Examined together, these three women’s marriages provide unique perspectives on the turbulent times they lived through and on the social forces that guided and constrained the women of the day.
Each of these wives left behind significant written records, allowing their stories to be heard in their own voices, rather than filtered through their famous husbands’ commentaries. And each story is fascinating. Angelina Grimke began life as a pampered and self-absorbed child of South Carolina’s slaveholding planter elite, then renounced her family’s values to become one of the most effective antislavery speakers of the 1830s and one of the first Americans to demand equality for women. Yet when she married her mentor, the abolitionist Theodore Weld, she abandoned her career as a public advocate for a life as wife and mother.
Varina Howell, a child of Mississippi’s social elite, had an independent spirit that drew the disapproval of her husband and made her ill-suited to be the first lady of the Confederacy, yet served her well when she was forced to lobby for her husband’s release from prison after the war and made her a great social success when she moved to New York City after her husband’s death.
And in Julia Dent Grant’s story we see the domestic archetype of the 19th-century American woman. The daughter of a successful Missouri merchant, Julia Dent lived a childhood she described as “one long summer of sunshine, flowers and smiles,” was swept off her feet by the man she loved, and sacrificed herself completely for her husband and his career. Only after she was widowed did she, in taking upon the task of memorializing her husband, finally find her own voice.
Berkin finds common threads in these stories: all three women were born into slaveholding families but ended their lives in the free society of the Northeast. And they all had to grapple with—and resist or accept—the 19th-century ideology that regarded men and women as occupying separate spheres, with the latter always measured against an idealization of “true womanhood.
Drawing from diaries, letters, essays, speeches and memoirs, Berkin brings these wives to vivid life, giving us an intimate look at their famous relationships, and revealing the joys and hardships of being a 19th-century woman.


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God's Battalions


The Case for the Crusades
Rodney Stark
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, October 13, 2009
Review: In his famous speech at Claremont on October 27, 1095, Pope Urban II graphically detailed the torture, rape and murder of Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land and the defilement of churches and holy places committed by the Turks. He then asked followers of Christ to become “soldiers of the living God” and go to war; the next year a Christian army set out for Jerusalem and the First Crusade was underway. Yet according to Rodney Stark, most scholars now seem to regard the Crusades as nothing more than the case of an expansionist, imperialistic Christendom brutalizing, looting and colonizing a tolerant and peaceful Islam. Stark takes issue with virtually every aspect of what he calls this “prevailing wisdom” in God’s Battalions.
Stark begins his history of the Crusades not with the pope’s speech at Claremont, but with the rise of Islam and the onset of the Muslim invasions of Christendom in the seventh century, when Islamic armies swept over the larger portion of what was then Christian territory, including the Middle East, Egypt and all of North Africa, Spain, southern Italy and numerous Mediterranean islands including Sicily, Corsica, Cyprus, Rhodes, Crete, Malta and Sardinia. And having thus ruthlessly conquered, Stark maintains that the Muslims were also brutal and intolerant rulers. Christian retaliation was inevitable.
Having thus set the stage, Stark gives a detailed history of the First Crusade, following the Christian army though the sieges of Nicaea and Antioch in 1097 to the siege and conquest of Jerusalem in 1099. He tells the history of the Crusaders’ kingdoms subsequently established by the First Crusade and the history of the four Crusades that followed. And he describes the founding of the two knightly religious orders of military monks—the Templars and the Hospitallers—dedicated to defending the Holy Land.
Throughout God’s Battalions, Stark attempts to debunk claims of Muslim technological and cultural superiority to Christendom. He also rejects the notion that the Dark Ages in Europe were in fact dark, arguing that during that time Europe actually began the technological leap forward that would put it far ahead of the rest of the world. Little wonder, Stark argues, that the Crusaders were able to march more than twenty-five hundred miles, defeat an enemy that vastly outnumbered them and continue to do so as long as Europe was prepared to support the fight.
Ultimately this provocative reassessment of the Crusades asserts that the Crusades were precipitated—perhaps even justified—by centuries of Islamic aggression and atrocities, and that the Crusaders themselves were not barbarians who victimized cultivated Muslims in search of land, loot and converts, but men of faith who “sincerely believed they served in God’s battalions.


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Jimmy the Hand


Legends of the Riftwar, Book III
Raymond E. Feist
Publisher: HarperCollins, August 01, 2008
Review: After the thieves’ guild aided Prince Arutha and Princess Anita’s escape from Krondor, secret police are combing the streets. No thief, beggar or wench is safe, and young cutpurse Jimmy the Hand is high on the list. Ordered to lay low among the shadows of the city, Jimmy instead sets out to rescue his fellows. But for breaking orders, he faces a cruel choice: disappear into the bay, or flee the only home he's ever known.
As Jimmy leaves Krondor in search of opportunity—other people’s wealth—he is called to a quest unlike anything he expected. Land's End is home to a dangerous presence unknown to even the local thieves and smugglers. And soon Jimmy’s youthful bravado and courage will thrust him deep into the maw of chaos and death.


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Fifty-Nine in '84


Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had
Edward Achorn
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution, March 01, 2010
Review: In 1916, a sports reporter polled 10 major-league managers to name the greatest feat in baseball history. Six of the 10—including Hall of Famers John McGraw and Connie Mack—gave the laurel to pitcher Charles “Old Hoss” Radbourn’s astonishing performance in 1884: 59 wins—the most of any pitcher in a single season. Thanks largely to his effort, the Providence Grays beat the New York Metropolitans that year in baseball’s first World Series.
Fifty-nine in ’84 is a fascinating trip back to one of the most exciting years in baseball history. The sport in the 19th century barely resembled American’s pastime today. Playing barehanded or wearing a thin, fingerless glove (by the end of a game, catchers’ hands were often covered with dirt and dried blood), the players were hard-drinking, hot-tempered, often illiterate guys who were in the game mainly to avoid working on the farm or in the mines. A good crowd rarely surpassed 3,000 people.
Pitchers, taking running starts (which not only helped them throw faster but also intimidate batters), launched the ball usually sidearm or underhand. And each team had only two pitchers; getting the most bang for their buck, team owners placed whoever wasn’t on the mound in the outfield. Radbourn’s counterpart in 1884 was a 22-year-old Californian named Charles Sweeney, a cocky alcoholic who may well have been a psychopath.
Fifty-nine in ’84 takes the reader through the remarkable season of 1884, with a focus on how Radbourn, worried about being overshadowed by the pitcher six years his junior, lived up to his nickname by pushing himself through the season with a resolve unseen in athletes today. Out of 75 games, he pitched 73 complete games, winning 59 and maintaining a 1.38 earned run average—all with a sore arm.
Through the story of Radbourn, readers get a lively behind-the-scenes look at the rough-and-tumble world of early baseball. Radbourn constantly wrangled with Grays' management over money and at one point left the team, only to return when offered the unprecedented salary of $4,000.
Alas, Radbourn’s almost superhuman effort served to burn him out: his record was 21-28 the following year. The Grays were disbanded after the 1885 season and over the next seven years, Radbourn pitched for the Boston Beaneaters, the Boston Reds and the Cincinnati Reds. He never again came close to his success in ’84—and, most likely, no one else ever will. “Old Hoss” was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939—more than 40 years after his death; his name is misspelled on the plaque.
Fifty-nine in ’84 provides unprecedented insight into one of the forgotten giants of the sport and paints a stark portrait of baseball as most fans don’t know it.


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Robert Ludlum's(TM) The Bourne Dominion


A New Jason Bourne Novel
Eric Van Lustbader
Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA, July 19, 2011
Review: Carrying on where Robert Ludlum left off, New York Times bestseller Eric Van Lustbader has kept the Bourne legacy alive and blazing through five breakneck adventures. Now, in Robert Ludlum’s™ The Bourne Dominion, Lustbader pits the tormented hero against Bourne’s deadliest enemy yet.
Jason Bourne is searching for Severus Domna, a secret international cabal working to influence world events for its own power and financial gain. He needs the help of his longtime friend, General Boris Karpov, the newly appointed head of Russia’s most feared spy agency, FSB-2. They’ve saved each other’s lives on more than one occasion, and Karpov is one of the most determined, honorable and justice-hungry men Bourne knows.
But Karpov has made a deal with the devil. In order to remain the head of FSB-2, he must kill his oldest friend, Jason Bourne.
Now, these two trusted allies are on a deadly collision course. From the Colombian highlands to Munich, Cadiz and Damascus, the clock is counting down to an irreparable disaster that will cripple America’s economic and military future. Only Bourne and Karpov have a chance to avert the catastrophe—but if they destroy each other first, that chance will be gone forever.


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Dark Predator


A Carpathian Novel
Christine Feehan
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Corp, September 06, 2011
Review: #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan treats us to another story of the Carpathians and their Dark Series with Dark Predator, the scorching tale of an immortal warrior haunted by his past…and threatened by a dangerous future.
Zacarias De La Cruz is a master executioner, a fearsome warrior who is as brutal as the undead he hunts. Over the long, dark centuries, he has fought so many battles, they’ve blurred into an endless river of blood that has hardened his soul and turned him into the merciless, ruthless and implacable dark protector.
Today, however, his savage journey is finally over. After a thousand years of war, he has accomplished his ultimate mission—the wellbeing of his brothers. Now, having found the lifemates they’ve been searching for, they’re all at peace. But where does that leave Zacarias? After living on the edge of madness for centuries as a killing machine, he is adrift, wondering who he really is.
The answer awaits him back home in Peru, in the betrayal of a woman who is readying her trap, in the vengeance of an old enemy, in the fallout of a bloody family legacy…and most of all, in the appearance of a lifemate he never could have imagined.


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Painted Ladies


A Spenser Novel
Robert B. Parker
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group/Member, Penguin Putnam, October 05, 2010
Review: Called upon by the Hammond Museum and Dr. Ashton Prince, a renowned art professor and forensic consultant at Walford University, Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange—money for a stolen painting.
The painting, a masterpiece by a 17th-century Dutch artist, is Lady with a Finch—and she isn’t the only lady that interests Prince. Spenser learns all about that after he fails to protect his client and Prince is blown to bits by a package bomb. Certain the painting is still out there, and looking to do right by his client, Spenser talks to leads. But everyone—including Morton Lloyd, the museum’s attorney; Winifred Minor, the insurance company’s beautiful head investigator; Prince’s odd, self-effacing widow, Rosalind Wellington; and Missy, one of the many coeds Prince pursued—seems to be holding their cards close to the vest.
Convinced that Prince played a bigger role in the heist than ransom delivery boy, Spenser enters into a daring game of cat and mouse with the thieves…but this time, he might not come out alive.
Completed the year before he passed away, Painted Ladies is Robert B. Parker and Spenser at their electrifying best.


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Pretty Little Mini Quilts




Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., March 02, 2010
Review: Leave it to the creators of the popular Pretty Little series to dream up more fabulous ways to get your creative juices flowing! This time around, an array of talented designers focus on 31 mini quilts that make it fun and simple to learn how to quilt or to try a new technique such as applique or trapunto. Club members who have made projects from the other Pretty Little books are especially happy with the expert instructions, lovely photos and fantastic variety. And with beautiful wall hangings ranging from traditional to artsy, these won’t disappoint! All the projects (the largest being 3' x 3') come with step-by-step directions, a photo and, when needed, reproducible templates to be enlarged to full size.


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The Secret Ingredient



Sally Bee
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., May 01, 2010
Review: Her three heart attacks in a single week turned Sally Bee into an advocate for a sound, nutritionally balanced diet. Still, she was determined her children would grow up to love food. As she says, “The key to eating well is balancing nourishment with enjoyment; moderation is essential and it is possible to eat for health and taste in equal measure.” So, she didn’t give up eggs, cheese, butter, red meat, potatoes and their vitamins and minerals; instead, she uses them with a light hand, along with a generous amount of veggies and fruits. Upbeat and brimming with heart-healthy recipes, The Secret Ingredient is essential reading for ANYONE who wants to reap the benefits of a healthy lifestyle without feeling deprived. Color photos.


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Bad Things Happen



Harry Dolan
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group/Mbr of Penguin Putnam, July 23, 2009
Review: Being asked to help bury a body in the woods would give most people pause, but crime-magazine editor David Loogan barely hesitates when Tom calls. He doesn’t buy Tom’s flimsy “I accidentally killed a burglar” tale, of course, but before he can convince his friend to come clean, Tom is defenestrated from his sixth-story office, an intern at the magazine is killed and a writer disappears. Now, as the prime suspect in a real-life whodunit with no shortage of motives, can he figure out who is killing his colleagues before he becomes the next victim?
Showcasing his talent for building atmosphere, crafting an intricate plot and writing whip-smart dialogue, author Harry Dolan’s Bad Things Happen is a winner. You’ll be hooked from page one.


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Heavy Metal Pulp: The Bloodstained Man


Netherworld Book Two
Christopher Rowley
Publisher: Tor Books, June 08, 2010
Review: In a future filled with thousands of witless, gene-grown pleasure models, Plesur is one of a kind: High-level secrets have been implanted in her head, and an earback upgrade has changed her into an intelligent fighting machine. In The Bloodstained Man by Christopher Rowley—book two in Heavy Metal Magazine’s adrenaline-filled, thrillingly illustrated line of noir SF—the government, the military or someone with big weapons, gunships and killer robots wants Plesur dead...and someone else wants her alive. Who is who? And why are Plesur’s secrets worth killing?
Separated in the dangerous, uninsured ruins of New Jersey, Det. Rook Venner, Mistress Julia and Plesur must stay alive long enough to find out. But time is running out....


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The Wise Man's Fear


Day Two of the Kingkiller Chronicles
Patrick Rothfuss
Publisher: Daw Books, Inc., March 01, 2011
Review: The long wait for Day Two of the Kingkiller Chronicle is over! In The Wise Man’s Fear, innkeeper Kote—aka Kvothe—continues the exciting life story he began in the critically acclaimed The Name of the Wind, as the boy he used to be embarks on the road into legend.
His whole young life, Kvothe yearned only to attend the University and learn magic from the Masters. But along with his gift for music, Kvothe has a talent for making enemies and drawing trouble. When he is put on trial for calling the wind against a fellow student, he is forced to leave the school and find his fortune abroad.
But what Kvothe encounters instead is adventure after adventure, and danger after danger. In the land of Vintas, he secures a wealthy patron and runs afoul of a rival magician. He leads the Adem, a band of legendary mercenaries whose secret art of fighting he must master...or die. He is tutored in true magic by Felurian, a faerie woman whose embrace no man but Kvothe has ever survived. And he encounters an Oracle—a being so dangerous that anyone who contacts it must not be allowed to live!
Along the way, he searches for the people who killed his parents, in a story wise men—and women—may fear to put down!


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God's Battalions


The Case for the Crusades
Rodney Stark
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, October 13, 2009
Review: In his famous speech at Claremont on October 27, 1095, Pope Urban II graphically detailed the torture, rape and murder of Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land and the defilement of churches and holy places committed by the Turks. He then asked followers of Christ to become “soldiers of the living God” and go to war; the next year a Christian army set out for Jerusalem and the First Crusade was underway. Yet according to Rodney Stark, most scholars now seem to regard the Crusades as nothing more than the case of an expansionist, imperialistic Christendom brutalizing, looting and colonizing a tolerant and peaceful Islam. Stark takes issue with virtually every aspect of what he calls this “prevailing wisdom” in God’s Battalions.
Stark begins his history of the Crusades not with the pope’s speech at Claremont, but with the rise of Islam and the onset of the Muslim invasions of Christendom in the seventh century, when Islamic armies swept over the larger portion of what was then Christian territory, including the Middle East, Egypt and all of North Africa, Spain, southern Italy and numerous Mediterranean islands including Sicily, Corsica, Cyprus, Rhodes, Crete, Malta and Sardinia. And having thus ruthlessly conquered, Stark maintains that the Muslims were also brutal and intolerant rulers. Christian retaliation was inevitable.
Having thus set the stage, Stark gives a detailed history of the First Crusade, following the Christian army though the sieges of Nicaea and Antioch in 1097 to the siege and conquest of Jerusalem in 1099. He tells the history of the Crusaders’ kingdoms subsequently established by the First Crusade and the history of the four Crusades that followed. And he describes the founding of the two knightly religious orders of military monks—the Templars and the Hospitallers—dedicated to defending the Holy Land.
Throughout God’s Battalions, Stark attempts to debunk claims of Muslim technological and cultural superiority to Christendom. He also rejects the notion that the Dark Ages in Europe were in fact dark, arguing that during that time Europe actually began the technological leap forward that would put it far ahead of the rest of the world. Little wonder, Stark argues, that the Crusaders were able to march more than twenty-five hundred miles, defeat an enemy that vastly outnumbered them and continue to do so as long as Europe was prepared to support the fight.
Ultimately this provocative reassessment of the Crusades asserts that the Crusades were precipitated—perhaps even justified—by centuries of Islamic aggression and atrocities, and that the Crusaders themselves were not barbarians who victimized cultivated Muslims in search of land, loot and converts, but men of faith who “sincerely believed they served in God’s battalions.


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Devoured


A Mystery
D.E. Meredith
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, Llc, October 26, 2010
Review: Not since The Alienist has there been a debut mystery as rich in Victorian detail and sinister intrigue as Devoured by D.E. Meredith.
It’s 1856, and the glamorous Lady Bessingham has just been found murdered in her bedroom, surrounded by her vast collection of fossils—one of which was the murder weapon. Prof. Adolphus Hatton and his assistant, Albert Roumande, are called to the scene since they are practitioners of the new and suspect science of forensics.
Though Lady Bessingham was a woman of letters, Hatton sees no sign of this. In fact, all her correspondence seems to be missing—as is her maid, Flora. Their search for the purloined letters will lead Hatton and Roumande on a bloody chase through the netherworld of London society.


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Exploration and Empire


The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
William H. Goetzmann
Publisher: Bookspan, January 18, 2006
Review: From Lewis and Clark to the rise of the conservation movement, this is a sweeping and colorful account of the opening of the West and its impact on the world. Features photos, illustrations and maps.


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To Kingdom Come



Robert J. Mrazek
Publisher: New American Library/Div of Penguin, March 01, 2011
Review: On September 6, 1943, three hundred and thirty-eight B-17 "Flying Fortresses" of the American Eighth Air Force took off from England, bound for Stuttgart, Germany. It was the largest force ever assembled against a single target in the war. The 20-mile-long armada of Fortresses was on a mission to bomb Nazi weapons factories at Stuttgart. Another force of B-24 bombers was tasked with flying diversionary raids across the North Sea and Holland in order to draw the Luftwaffe fighter squadrons away.
The aerial bombing mission resulted in a staggering defeat of U.S. Army Air Forces. Not one of the Fortresses was able to locate its target. In To Kingdom Come Robert Mrazek presents a riveting account of the mission historians have labeled a “fiasco” and a “disaster.” A Navy veteran and former U.S. congressman, Mrazek draws from a rich source of material, including declassified documents, confidential diaries, internal memos from top commanders and gripping first-person accounts from B-17 airmen to re-create the ill-fated air battle.
The man who propelled the mission into action, Colonel Henry “Hap” Arnold, was one of the first pilots to become a qualified army aviator in the newly formed branch of military aviation. Taught to fly by the Wright Brothers, Arnold was a staunch advocate for the expansion of the Air Force. In England, he slowly built up the Eighth Air Force, against the ongoing opposition of Winston Churchill and others. Arnold maintained that the division could bring Germany to its knees and quash its ability to wage war.
Such confidence was largely inspired by Boeing’s resilient, four-engine heavy B-17 bomber. With a crew of 10, the plane bristled with Browning .50 caliber machine guns. Arnold believed that the Flying Fortresses could protect themselves by flying in tight formations that gave the machine gunners inside each plane interlocking fields of fire. The British did not share his optimism. They argued that conducting daylight bombing raids against heavily defended German military targets without long-range fighter escort would lead to crushing losses. In the end, they were right.
During the mission, dense clouds obscured the targets and one commander's critical decision to circle three times over the city and its deadly flak proved disastrous. Forty-five planes went down that day and hundreds of men were lost or missing. The Stuttgart mission would become a defining moment in the conduct of the aerial warfare over Germany. Revealing both the astonishing valor of the airmen who survived being shot down, and the tragic fate of those who did not, To Kingdom Come is a stirring testament to the courage and sacrifice of American flyers in the face of incredible odds.


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The Temporal Void



Peter F. Hamilton
Publisher: Ballantine/Delrey Books, March 24, 2009
Review: For sheer scope and wonder, few writers of science fiction equal the inventiveness of Peter F. Hamilton. With The Temporal Void—book two in the trilogy that began with The Dreaming Void—he once again displays his skill at setting very human stories against convincing far-future technology.
The Intersolar Commonwealth is in turmoil as the launch of the Living Dream's pilgrimage into the Void draws near. The Second Dreamer, a young woman named Araminta who is just coming to terms with what she is, has refused the Skylord’s bidding to lead billions of pilgrims to their nirvana—triggering a retaliatory devourment phase from the center of the Void. As Living Dream forces invade her home world in a desperate attempt to identify and seize the Dreamer, Araminta finds herself on the run from just about everybody.
At the same time, an Ocisen Empire fleet is fast approaching on a mission of genocide. Defying the increasingly desperate Factions is Paula Myo, the ruthlessly single-minded investigator. Beset by foes from her past and colleagues of dubious allegiance, she is losing a race against time as she realizes the shocking truth of how far some people will go to determine the course of evolution.


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The Lady of the Rivers



Philippa Gregory
Publisher: Touchstone/Imp Simon & Schuster, October 11, 2011
Review: In her thrilling tale, The Lady of the Rivers, Philippa Gregory revisits the sensational War of the Roses.
A descendent of the river goddess, Melusina, Jacquetta’s second sight is the reason England’s Regent of France, the cold and calculating Duke of Bedford, sought her hand. Upon his death, Jacquetta and Richard Woodville, her husband’s squire, enter into a secret marriage they reveal upon their return to England, where, as a duchess, Jacquetta is invited to serve at the Lancaster king’s court. But her struggle to protect Queen Margaret when Henry VI falls into a mysterious sleep conflicts with the future Jacquetta “sees” for her own daughter, Elizabeth: a seat on the throne of England, bearing the white rose of York….


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Smokin' Seventeen


A Stephanie Plum Novel
Janet Evanovich
Publisher: Bantam Books, Inc./Div. of Random House, June 21, 2011
Review: It’s always a surprise where Stephanie Plum will land next, but guaranteed that her seventeenth adventure penned by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich is just as fun, sexy and impossible to put down as ever!
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum. Stephanie is no stranger to trouble on the job, to say the least, but when the job itself runs into trouble—that’s like walking a tightrope without a net. Which is what it feels like when her cousin Vinnie’s bail bond business burns to the ground…and bodies start turning up in the empty construction lot! The blue-collar “Burg” can be rough, but this is ridiculous!
To make matters worse, Stephanie is forced to work out of a motor home she shares with a dancing bear, and Joe Morelli’s old-world grandmother declares a vendetta against her! And just when she decides it might be time to choose between the two men in her life—“Officer Hottie” Joe and mysterious security specialist Ranger—a third man from Stephanie’s past moves back to Trenton. Holy Smokes!
Break out a cold drink and slap on some sunscreen, this summer is sure to be a scorcher with Smokin' Seventeen.


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The End of Fear


A Spiritual Path for Realists
Richard Schaub
Publisher: Hay House, March 01, 2009
Review: We’ll be free to realize our full potential for peace, joy and love when we face our fears with compassion and courage.
In The End of Fear, Richard and Bonney Schaub explore the origin of fear, concluding that it grows out of our innate love of life. No spiritual path grants exemption from the fact that life is unpredictable and we all are vulnerable. And more money or status can’t change that. Using examples from their own and their patients’ lives, the Schaubs draw upon their 30 years of experience as psychotherapists to explore the common methods people turn to in order to cope with their basic vulnerability.
The End of Fear takes us on a journey to freedom that teaches us to face our fear and transform it to our advantage.


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Seduce Me in Flames



Jacquelyn Frank
Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc./Random House, July 26, 2011
Review: Ambrea Vas Allay is the rightful heir to the throne of Allay, but dangerous court intrigue has left her with an impossible choice: renounce the crown…or waste away in prison.
So begins Jacquelyn Frank’s Seduce Me in Flames. But even as Ambrea ponders her decision, she’s rescued by the mysterious Rush “Ender” Blakely, an elite soldier of the Interplanetary Militia. Cursed with a dangerous secret ability that makes him literally too hot to handle, Ender knows all too well the peril of carrying a torch for anyone, least of all a princess fighting for her throne. But sometimes, desire cannot be denied. And as he and Ambrea give in to searing passion, little do they realize that the bonds they forge will decide the fate of an empire….


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Blank Spots on the Map


The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World
Trevor Paglen
Publisher: Dutton, Div of Penguin Putnam, February 05, 2009
Review: Geographer Trevor Paglen’s research into areas that officially “don’t exist” leads him on a globe-trotting adventure into the places where our military conducts its most clandestine operations. Paglen spies on the covert site at Groom Lake, Nevada, and learns of Walter Kazra, who, while working construction at Groom Lake, was poisoned by the toxic garbage pits there. (The U.S. Air Force defense to his estate’s suit? That the base does not exist.)
Whether it’s from a hotel room in Las Vegas, secret prisons in Kabul or deep in Central American jungles, Paglen’s reporting is impassioned, rigorous and relentless. Blank Spots on the Map is an unforgettable expose of a world that, officially, isn’t even there.


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You Can Heal Your Life



Louise Hay
Publisher: Hay House, August 15, 2003
Review: Louise Hay is a world-renowned metaphysical lecturer, teacher and author whose bestselling classic You Can Heal Your Life has helped thousands live richer, fuller and healthier lives.
The key message in this powerful, life-changing work is, “If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.” In You Can Heal Your Life, Louise explains how limiting our beliefs and ideas are often the cause of our illnesses, and how, if we can change our thinking, we can improve the quality of our lives.
As Louise so wisely says, “Life is really very simple. What we give out, we get back.” You'll love this gem of a book and make it a part of your life as you return to it again and again for information and inspiration.


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The Inner Circle



Brad Meltzer
Publisher: Hachette Book Group, USA, January 11, 2011
Review: With The Inner Circle, a gripping tale of lies and deception at the highest levels of government, Brad Meltzer proves why he’s a #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. In Meltzer’s newest thrill ride, we make the acquaintance of Beecher White, a congenial young guy, happy in his position as a researcher in the National Archives. Where else does a lover of history get paid to delve into the country’s hidden past? But Beecher’s dream job becomes a nightmare when Clementine Kaye, his childhood crush, reenters his life. First the pair stumble upon a priceless dictionary concealed in the office the president uses to review classified documents. Could it have been left as a message for the Culper Ring, a secret spy organization rumored to have served every president since Washington? Beecher isn’t sure he wants to know. And as troubling—if not more so—is the revelation that Clementine’s long-lost father is the man convicted of trying to assassinate a former president.
The tension mounts when Beecher’s friend is murdered…when Clementine and he are threatened…when Beecher no longer knows whom to trust! And it keeps on growing as we hurtle toward an ending both explosive and unexpected.


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No Surrender


A World War II Memoir
James J. Sheeran
Publisher: New American Library/Div of Penguin, February 01, 2011
Review: When James Sheeran died in 2007 at the age of 84, he left behind a great legacy of public service. The former mayor of West Orange, New Jersey, and the state’s two-term insurance commissioner, Sheeran had also been a highly decorated World War II hero. A paratrooper in the 101st Airborne, Sheeran was just 21 years old when he floated into Normandy on D-Day and into some of the most ferocious fighting of WWII. Taken prisoner, he escaped and joined the French Resistance. No Surrender is Sheeran’s remarkable story, told in his own words.
Hours after landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944, Sheeran was captured by the Nazis. “I looked at the sky,” he writes. “Ahead the horizon was beginning to lighten with the dawn. We followed a rough dirt lane until we arrived at a big French home with a large courtyard and barn. German soldiers in the black uniforms of the Gestapo were everywhere. I recognized them from the newsreels.
In his memoir, he admits that he worried most about losing not his life, but his connection to his family back home. He was carrying a wallet full of family photos and his mother’s Joan of Arc medallion. Inscribed “Avant Le Bataille,” the medallion was his mother’s most precious possession. She told him that the words meant “before the battle.” She hoped they would keep him safe. Put on a POW train bound for Germany, the young soldier was unwilling to concede defeat.
Sheeran escaped from the train and traveled behind enemy lines, heading for what he mistakenly believed was the Swiss border. Still in France, he connected with the French Resistance. In the village of Domremy, he was taken in by a French family and hidden from enemy troops. Domremy, the birthplace of Joan of Arc, had personal significance for Sheeran: it was where his parents—a French woman and an American soldier—met during World War I. Now, observing the devastation all around him, he understood why his mother was unable to bring herself to talk about what it had been like to live in France during the “war to end all wars.
After hooking up with General Patton's advancing army, Sheeran was shipped off to England. From there, he was to be reassigned and sent back to the United States. Rather than return to safety, Sheeran asked to be reunited with his unit. His request was granted and he fought admirably in Operation Market Garden and in the Battle of the Bulge. For his bravery and service, he was ultimately awarded the Bronze Star, a Purple Heart and the Chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honor.
Featuring accounts of terrifying capture, daring escape and fierce guerrilla resistance, No Surrender is an unforgettable and important chronicle of war from a true American hero.


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Tea Culture


History, Traditions, Celebrations, Recipes & More
Beverly Dubrin
Publisher: Imagine Publishing, Inc., April 01, 2010
Review: With charming vintage photos and ephemera galore, ancient lore throughout and recipes, this glorious celebration of the beverage that’s been providing an invigorating break for people around the globe throughout the centuries is a tea lover’s delight. Alongside drink recipes ideal for afternoon tea and happy hour, as well as finger sandwiches and sweet nibbles, you’ll learn about tea’s history and its health benefits, plus the best ways to brew it, serve it and enjoy it. Whether you like Southern Sweet Iced Tea, Chai, Bubble Milk Tea, Green Tea Madeleines, Cranberry Tea Spritzer or Long Island Iced Tea (with tea, vodka, tequila, rum, gin and triple sec!), it’s always time for tea with Beverly Dubrin’s Tea Culture. Color photos.


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In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers


A Return to Easy Company's Battlefields with Sgt. Forrest Guth
Larry Alexander
Publisher: New American Library, May 04, 2010
Review: Through the epic war chronicle Band of Brothers, a new generation of Americans learned of the heroism, sacrifice and camaraderie of the soldiers who served, fought and died in Easy Company, 101st Airborne, during World War II.
Now, decades after the war’s end, Larry Alexander returns to the very battlefields that made Easy Company a legend. Accompanied by Easy veteran Sgt. Forrest Guth on his final tour, Alexander crosses an ocean and a continent to follow the path to victory taken by the famed Band of Brothers, exploring the living history of the places where they went into action, and revealing what makes their story so meaningful for us to this day.
Readers will experience the war through the eyes of Easy Company—from the men’s first stationing in the quiet town of Aldbourne, England, to Brecourt Manor, France, where they met their trial under fire; from the fields of Holland, where they first tasted defeat in Operation Market Garden, to the steely resolve they exemplified as they battled through the siege of Bastogne.
Part travelogue, part historical perspective, In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers is an unforgettable memorial to those who shined in our country's finest hour.


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The Wonder Of You



Nancy Tillman
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc., June 01, 2008
Review: Remember all of the wonderful things that happened when your child was born with Nancy Tillman’s exquisite baby book that builds on each and every lovely sentiment from her New York Times bestselling picture book, On the Night You Were Born.
Celebrate and record all of baby’s milestones here, from the details of his or her birth day to the first tooth, first steps, first playmates, and first birthday. With gorgeous artwork inspired by nature, a charming growth chart, a family tree, plenty of room for photos and other mementos, and a lovely 5" x 7" print suitable for framing, The Wonder of You is an elegant keepsake for every new family that will remind your little one just how special he or she is for years to come. (For parents)


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Terror on the Seas


True Tales of Modern-Day Pirates
Daniel Sekulich
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, Llc, May 12, 2009
Review: Pirates. To many, the word conjures up images of 18th-century swashbucklers and bottles of rum, but as recent headlines show, piracy is still with us, and it’s deadly serious.
In Terror on the Seas, Daniel Sekulich sails some of the world’s most dangerous waters to give us a bracing look at piracy in the 21st-century. You’ll see why Somalia and the Strait of Malacca have become today’s pirate havens, experience the terror of an attack and learn how governments are fighting back. Also allowing you to meet the pirates themselves—stoned killers who wage war using GPS, cell phones and rocket-propelled grenades—this is an eye-opening look at a $25 billion-a-year problem that threatens environmental disaster, economic chaos and holy war.


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Marked



P.C. Cast
Publisher: St. Martins Press, Llc, May 01, 2007
Review: In the first book of the bestselling House of Night series, sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird has just been Marked as a fledgling vampyre in the House of Night, a school where she will train to become an adult vampyre. That is, if she makes it through the Change—and not all do. But Zoey is more upset about starting this new life without her friends. When she’s chosen as special by the vampyre Goddess Nyx, and given amazing powers, Zoey thinks maybe things are looking up. How could she know that her new abilities have dangerous side effects? To add to her stress, Zoey learns that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school’s most elite group, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts. Will Zoey find the courage to make things right?


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A Thread So Thin



Marie Bostwick
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp., April 27, 2010
Review: Marie Bostwick’s A Thread So Thin is a timeless tale of choices made in the name of love.
Evelyn Dixon’s Cobbled Court Quilt Shop is a cozy haven for friends—and its growing customers thanks to her son Garrett’s brilliant advertising efforts. Evelyn adores Garrett, and she’s worried that he’s become too serious, too fast with his girlfriend, Liza—not because Evelyn doesn’t love her. It’s just that she fears once the young woman finishes art school, she’ll want to spread her wings and leave Garrett behind.
Sadly, Evelyn doesn’t realize how close she is to the truth. When Garrett proposes, Liza is torn between a career opportunity and the man she loves, and finds herself grasping at the thinnest of threads, praying it holds....


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Yesterday's Promise



Vanessa Miller
Publisher: Whitaker House, April 06, 2010
Review: Growing up a pastor’s daughter, Melinda Johnson has wanted to lead a ministry her entire life. So when her father, Bishop Langston Johnson, retires from his leadership post at Omega Christian Church, she’s sure he’s going to elevate her in the ministry. Apparently Langston has other plans and he appoints a widowed young dad, Steven Marks, to succeed him—a triple whammy as Steven is not against female pastors, he’s Melinda’s ex-fiance! Melinda has frequent interaction with the new bishop, which incites bitter sparring—but also rekindles long-suppressed attraction. Can Steven and Melinda set aside past pains, forgive each other and learn to love again? Or will their circumstances keep them forever at odds?


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Vision in White



Nora Roberts
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Corp, May 01, 2009
Review: Romance doesn’t get any better than a dazzling new series from the incomparable Nora Roberts. In Vision in White, the first book in The Bride Quartet series, she takes us for a walk down the aisle with four lifelong friends and professional wedding planners convinced that in their personal lives they’re destined to be bridesmaids, never brides. Are they right? We hear the sound of church bells ringing….
The Brown estate in Connecticut is where Mackensie, Parker, Laurel and Emmaline run Vows, the premier wedding planning company for couples ready to tie the knot. Despite their expertise, though, none of these fabulous women has been particularly lucky in love. Strong, independent-minded Mac, the resident photographer, doesn’t even want a relationship, having learned from a selfish mother—who married and divorced more times than she can count—that love doesn’t last. But when slightly rumpled, yet oh-so-cute Carter Maguire, a former college professor turned high school English teacher, gets involved with his sister’s upcoming nuptials, Mac can’t get him out of her mind. Unfortunately, his ex-girlfriend feels the same way—and she’s willing to play dirty to keep Mac from becoming a vision in white.


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The Self-Reliance Manifesto



Len McDougall
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, November 01, 2010
Review: Storm approaching? Need to build a fire? Out of water? Lost? Whatever situation you find yourself in, survival expert Len McDougall has probably been there himself, and knows how to keep you out of trouble. In this comprehensive, fully-illustrated guide, he reveals his way of living and teaches you how to have the same confidence in any scenario. The Self-Reliance Manifesto shows you how to make water safe for drinking, build a fire in any conditions, find and build shelter, use basic medical skills and more. McDougall has field-tested everything from kayaks, backpacks and boots to cameras, tents and water filters. His research and experience has resulted in an essential guide that prepares you for any survival situation, anywhere.


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H Is for Homicide



Sue Grafton
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co., Inc., May 01, 1991
Review: Kinsey investigates a case inherited from a murdered colleague—and blows the lid off a huge insurance scam! “As she works her way through the alphabet, Sue Grafton’s…series just gets better.”—The Boston Globe


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American Gods: The 10th Anniversary Edition



Neil Gaiman
Publisher: William Morrow & Co. Inc/Imp Of Har, June 21, 2011
Review: Neil Gaiman, acclaimed author of the Sandman™ comics series, has been working on something special—the 10th Anniversary Edition of his modern fantasy classic, American Gods. Longtime fans and new readers alike will enjoy this expanded, Preferred Text edition of the multiple award winning novel, complete with a new introduction by Gaiman and 12,000 words of additional text, including one brand-new scene written specifically for this edition.
Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed in a car crash, and a mysterious stranger offers him a job as his bodyguard. Thus begins an unforgettable road-trip across a nation that has rejected the venerable gods of old, to worship the technological wonders of Internet, mobile phone and digital media. Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is brewing—a battle for the very soul of America...and he and Shadow are directly in its path.
One of the most talked-about books of the new millennium, American Gods is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an American landscape at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It is, quite simply, a contemporary masterpiece.


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Rachel's Secret


The Riverhaven Years, Book 1
B.J. Hoff
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers Inc, October 01, 2008
Review: BJ Hoff will delight her many faithful readers with her compelling new series, The Riverhaven Years, featuring the elements readers have come to expect: a heartwarming story about the faith journeys of people we come to know and love.
In the first book, Rachel’s Secret, Jeremiah Gant, a wounded Irish American riverboat captain, brings chaos and conflict to the Amish community of Riverhaven—especially for a young widow, Rachel Brenneman. The unwelcome “outsider” needs a safe place to recuperate before continuing his secret role as an Underground Railroad conductor.
Neither Jeremiah nor Rachel is prepared for the forbidden love that threatens to endanger a man’s mission, a woman’s heart—and a way of life for an entire community.


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All the Living



C.E. Morgan
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, March 31, 2009
Review: A mesmerizing debut that combines the quiet intensity of Marilynne Robinson with the charged eroticism of James Salter, C.E. Morgan’s All the Living takes us to rural Kentucky and into the lives of a young couple struggling to save their tobacco farm. While Orren grieves over the recent death of his parents, Alona struggles with the loneliness of farm life. Her budding friendship with a handsome preacher only complicates things, contributing to her growing sense of dissatisfaction…and threatening to add cracks in her already fragile relationship with Orren.
A tale of great depth and meaning that masterfully evokes its rural setting, this is a beautiful ode to the starve-acre Southern farm, the mountain landscape and difficult love.


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Storm Warning


Whether Global Recession, Terrorist Threats, or Devastating Natural Disasters, These Ominous Shadows Must Bring Us Back to the Gospel
Billy Graham
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc., May 11, 2010
Review: The news is jammed with alarming headlines and stories asking questions few can answer. Beloved evangelist Billy Graham takes on these questions in his hard-hitting book, Storm Warning, addressing the most challenging problems facing America today.
Revised and updated, with a new Foreword by Franklin Graham, Storm Warning fearlessly confronts the hard issues—including the imminence of Christ’s return in light of today’s headlines and the events recorded in Scripture—with biblical insight. There’s an in-depth analysis of the four horsemen of Revelation, the Apocalypse and standing before God.
With wisdom and calm reassurance, Billy Graham ultimately points us to hope and renewal for our families, our nation and our world.


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What My Best Friend Did



Lucy Dawson
Publisher: Avon Books/Imprint of Harper Collins, November 30, 2010
Review: Gretchen, a stunning actress who knows how to have fun, comes along just at the right time for Alice, whose job as a photographer has grown as unexciting as her relationship with steady, reliable, Tom. But while the two become fast friends, hiding behind Gretchen’s outgoing persona is a dark side Alice notices only when it’s too late….
The tension builds in Lucy Dawson’s What My Best Friend Did when Gretchen introduces Alice to her gorgeous brother, Bailey, and encourages their “friendship.” Why Alice complies, she isn’t sure. What grows increasingly clear, though, is that Gretchen is an unstable, simmering cauldron of emotion, and if she reaches the boiling point, Alice is afraid she’s the one who’s going to get burned.


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Seven Up



Janet Evanovich
Publisher: St Martin's Press, Inc., June 01, 2001
Review: New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has to bring in wily, semi-retired bail jumper Eddie DeChooch, who keeps giving Stephanie the slip—and, worse, he might even have a thing for Steph’s grandma.


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Daily Sex


365 Positions and Activities for a Year of Great Sex!
Jane Seddon
Publisher: Warner Books, Inc., July 01, 2004
Review: Do you ever feel like your sex life has gotten terribly stale? That you forgot that great sex is all about paying attention to your partner, about being adventurous, about being open to sharing new and exciting experiences with each other?
Put the bounce back into your bedsprings every day of the year with this explicitly detailed guide. 365 days (or nights) of exciting sexual possibilities are divided into 12 month-long calendars designed to help you explore and enjoy the five kinds of sex (romantic, humorous, clandestine, experimental and functional) so you can satisfyingly incorporate sex into your hectic lifestyle. With something new to try every day, sex will never feel routine again. Illustrations.


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There Will Be Rainbows


A Biography of Rufus Wainwright
Kirk Lake
Publisher: Harper Collins Pub., Inc., August 01, 2010
Review: Rufus Wainwright’s music is such an effortless blend of left-field innovation and superb songwriting that it becomes difficult to compare him to any other performer working today. In Kirk Lake’s insightful biography, There Will Be Rainbows, we’re invited deeper into a life that has been lived almost entirely in the public eye.
Wainwright embodies the three basic tenets of rock stardom—inside, we have ample evidence of raucous sex, unscrupulous drug abuse and more than enough rock ’n’ roll. As Kirk works to explain Wainwright’s place in the great pop pantheon, a more nuanced and unique story emerges, touching upon everything from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to opera, gay liberation, Canadian folk, neo-Conservatism and even Hollywood musicals. An ordinary career trajectory this is not.
We follow Wainwright's journey from Van Dyke Parks to rehab to Carnegie Hall, and along the way, we’re treated to commentary by the myriad entertainers who have crossed his path. We’re also privy to Wainwright’s self-deprecating humor and revered flamboyance—just two of the qualities that make him such an endlessly endearing character. This intelligent piece of music writing befits the artist’s life and work.


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The Bonehunters


A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen
Steven Erikson
Publisher: Tor Books, September 01, 2007
Review: The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed, but one rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y'Ghatan. The prospect of laying siege to this ancient fortress makes the battle-weary Malaz 14th Army uneasy. It was here that the Empire's greatest champion was slain and a tide of Malazan blood spilled. In this place of foreboding, built upon the bones of six dead cities, they will fight the most grueling battle of their lives.
Yet this is but the shadow of a far greater conflict. The Crippled God has been granted a place in the pantheon, and a schism threatens. Sides must be chosen—but whatever each god decides, the rules have changed, and the first blood to be drawn will be in the mortal world. (Approx. 784 pp.) 2007.


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How to Solve It


A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
George Polya
Publisher: Princeton University Press, April 01, 2004
Review: One of the most successful mathematics books ever written, George Polya’s 1945 classic How to Solve It—reissued with a new foreword by John Conway—shows how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof or finding an unknown can help attack any problem that can be reasoned out, from building a bridge to solving anagrams.
This quirky masterpiece is divided into four parts. The first two focus on the questions students should ask when faced with a series of unfamiliar problems, such as: What is the unknown? What are the data? Can the problem be restated in a clearer way? Do you know a related problem? Can you check the result once a solution is obtained? The third and longest section in the book, “Short Dictionary of Heuristic,” consists of 67 concise articles on various aspects of solving problems, such as analogies, setting up equations and working backward. The final section offers a set of 20 problems, hints to solving them and their solutions.
The book is filled with fascinating problems, including:
Bob has 10 pockets and 44 silver dollars. He wants to distribute his money so that each pocket contains a different number of dollars. Can he do it? (The problem restated: What’s the minimum number of dollars that can be put in 10 pockets so that no two pockets contain the same amount?)
To number the pages of a bulky volume, the printer used 2,989 digits. How many pages does the volume have? (A related problem: If the book has exactly 99 numbered pages, how many digits does the printer use?)
How can you bring up from the river exactly six quarts of water when you only have two containers, a four-quart pail and a nine-quart pail, to measure with? (Hint: Work backward.)
How to Solve It not only gives you the power to resolve specific problems, it reveals how mathematical thinking can enhance all problem-solving.


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Daddy Hugs 1 2 3



Karen Katz
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, May 01, 2005
Review: How many hugs does it take to say “I love you”? In Karen Katz’s loving tale, a daddy gives his baby hugs throughout the day to teach counting 1 to 10. Get ready for lots of hugs with your little one! (Ages 2 and under)


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De Gabo a Mario


El boom latinoamericano a traves de sus premios Nobel
Angel Esteban
Publisher: Vintage Books/Random House Inc., January 11, 2011
Review: Ganadores de casi todos los grandes premios literarios, Gabriel Garcia Marquez y Mario Vargas Llosa se cuentan entre los escritores mas influyentes del siglo XX. Este libro narra la historia de su legendaria amistad, siguiendola a traves de conflictos personales y politicos, e ilustra el impacto que tuvo cada uno, tanto en el otro como en los demas escritores del “boom” latinoamericano. Incluye un capitulo sobre el premio Nobel obtenido por Vargas Llosa y alude a la supuesta reaccion del Gabo. Parte biografia, parte cronica social, y parte mirada al proceso creativo, esta obra repasa la vida y obra de estos titanes de las letras y nos conduce en un recorrido por dos de las decadas mas convulsas de la realidad politica de nuestro continente.


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Collateral Damage (Large Print)



Fern Michaels
Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp, September 30, 2008
Review: Myra Rutledge knows her courageous band of female vigilantes have won legions of fans, even among law enforcers. But living as fugitives, away from their lovers, has not been easy. So when Charles Martin approaches the Sisterhood with a chance to wipe the slate clean, they jump.
It seems there’s been a theft of highly classified government information and a mysterious Washington operative has been given the go-ahead to pardon the women should they recover the loss. But something doesn’t feel right. And then there’s Erin Powell…. An ambitious FBI agent who grew up with Myra’s daughters, she’s now gunning for her old friends. Which means the assault on the Sisterhood is twofold—and the collateral damage could be deadly.


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Are You Ready To Play Outside?/ Elephants Cannot Dance!/ Watch Me Throw The Ball!-3 Vols. (Shrinkwrapped)


An Elephant & Piggie Book
Mo Willems
Publisher: Hyperion Bks For Children, June 01, 2009
Review: What could possibly be better than An Elephant & Piggie Book? Three (that’s right, three!) irresistible books featuring two of the most beloved storybook characters of all time! Mo Willems, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, six-time Emmy award-winner (for his stint as a writer for Sesame Street) and recipient of three Caldecott Honors, to top it all off, is back with a trio of brand new adventures starring everyone’s favorite overly cautious elephant, Gerald, and his best friend, the always optimistic yet sometime reckless Piggie. Are you ready to laugh? You will be the second you get your hands on Are You Ready to Play Outside?, Watch Me Throw the Ball!, and Elephants Cannot Dance!.…Or can they? (Ages 2-4)


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Claire Malloy Mysteries #17
Joan Hess
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, Llc, April 15, 2008
Review: After a long and, at times, strange courtship, bookseller Claire Malloy has finally said “I do” to her swain, Lt. Peter Rosen. Now they are on their honeymoon in Luxor, Egypt, accompanied by Claire’s teenage daughter, Caron, and Caron’s best friend, Inez. While Peter is away on mysterious consultations with government agencies, Claire is peacefully ensconced in Luxor’s glamorous Winter Palace.
But things go from sleepy to creepy when Caron and Inez are chased through dark and deserted alleys by persons unknown, and a blonde co-ed acquaintance is kidnapped by two men on horseback in a scene out of The Shiek. Something is clearly afoot in this tourist paradise, and soon Claire will be “wrapped up” in a most unconventional mystery!


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For a Few Demons More



Kim Harrison
Publisher: HarperCollins, March 13, 2007
Review: Rachel Morgan, bounty-hunting witch of Cincinnati’s Hollows district—has played fast and loose with the rules of high magic, taking deadly shortcuts and resorting to quick-and-dirty solutions to demonic power-plays. So it should come as no surprise when she wakes to the sound of the powerful—and insane—demon Newt ransacking the old church that she, her vampire roommate, Ivy, and pixie cohort, Jenks, call home.
Since no demon can enter hallowed ground, the fact that Newt has done it totally rattles Rachel. And the fact that Rachel has hidden the cursed Were object, the Focus, on church grounds makes Newt’s appearance all the more worrisome. In the hands of the wrong being, the artifact makes werewolves disappear, die or worse, and when dead werewolves start turning up, the most powerful Clan leaders blame each other.
To prevent all-out war between the Were clans—not to mention raise the hefty sum it will take to re-sanctify her home against further unwanted visitors—Rachel will take on more hazardous work against the forces of darkness than any self-respecting witch should have to. But, in Kim Harrison’s For a Few Demons More, the price could be the most costly of all: her immortal soul.


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#1 in the Seasons of Grace Series
Beverly Lewis
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers, March 30, 2009
Review: Hidden motives abound in the seemingly ordinary Amish home of Grace Byler, who is forced to question all she has been taught about love, family and commitment. Can she open herself to God’s loving hand?


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The Elves of Cintra


Genesis of Shannara, Book Two
Terry Brooks
Publisher: Del Ray Bks./Div of Random House, August 28, 2007
Review: Decades from now, the demonic servants of the Void control our world, and only two loyal Knights of the Word stand against them.
As Seattle comes under attack by feral once-men, Logan Tom and a band of street kids flee to the countryside. His quest to save Hawk, a boy with latent magical abilities, has failed…or so it seems. Hawk has awakened in the realm of the King of the Silver River, who knows everything about him and what he was born to do
While Logan Tom and the kids battle robots, mutants and a rogue Knight of the Word, Angel Perez encounters a hidden race of elves in the Oregon Wilderness. They are in a desperate race to recover the magical Loden Elfstone—the key to saving what’s left of the world. (Approx. 400 pp.) 2007.


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Chicken Big



Keith Graves
Publisher: Chronicle Books, June 01, 2010
Review: When Chicken Big pops out of the most enormous egg ever to be laid, the other chickens suspect that he’s everything but a chicken. Is he an elephant? (Ridiculous!) A squirrel? (Are you nuts?) An umbrella? (Really…an, umbrella?!) Can this big, enormous chick convince this flock of bird brains that he’s really one of them? As if that wasn’t enough to make any huge yellow fellow want to fly the coop, he also has to reassure them (time and time again!) that the sky is NOT falling.
Illustrator-storyteller extraordinaire Keith Graves has already created some of the wackiest characters in storybook history. This time around, he puts a wild and crazy new spin on an old favorite and the result is a real crack up! (Ages 4-6)


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Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein




Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, Inc., November 05, 2008
Review: Those who know comic books know the name Bernie Wrightson. A co-creator of Swamp Thing and the character Destiny (made famous by Neil Gaiman) and an artist who illustrated both DC and Marvel comic books, Wrightson achieved universal acclaim with his illustrated edition of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein in 1983.
Still considered one of the greatest achievements by any artist in the field, this beautiful new hardcover edition of Bernie Wrightson’s Frankenstein shows off the exquisitely detailed pen-and-ink drawings that the artist spent seven years to complete and includes the complete text of the original groundbreaking novel, with a special introduction by Stephen King. 47 b&w full-page illustrations. 9" x 12" format.


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