Kenny and the Dragon



Tony DiTerlizzi
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, August 05, 2008
Review: Storyteller and Caldecott Honor artist Tony DiTerlizzi introduced us to a most magical world of fantastical creatures in The Spiderwick Chronicles. Now, he’s back with Kenny and the Dragon, a beautifully illustrated tale about the unlikely friendship between a young rabbit named Kenny and a misunderstood dragon called Grahame. When Grahame first comes to Roundbrook the villagers are certain that this “giant reptilian bloodthirsty lion” is intent on destroying their town with one gust of his fiery breath. But as Kenny soon discovers, this gentle dragon would rather read than fight. When the legendary dragon slayer known as George is called out of retirement to save the village, will Kenny be able to save his new friend? (Ages 9-12)


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The First Ladies, 4th Edition (Large Print)



Betty Boyd Caroli
Publisher: Betty Boyd Caroli, June 26, 2009
Review: Once considered to be a ceremonial backdrop to the president, the role of First Lady has certainly developed over the years. Now, in fascinating detail, The First Ladies provides profiles of all the women—from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama—who have held this prestigious title. And what a diverse group they are!
Eliza Johnson, for example, was shy and remote, while Elizabeth Monroe’s courage helped to save Mme. Lafayette from the guillotine. What’s more, a surprising number were superior to their husbands, socially and economically.
These classic portraits and photos provide not only an engaging look at these remarkable First Ladies, but show how, in many cases, they helped change the image of women in America.


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A Time to Heal: Quilts of Lancaster County #2



Barbara Cameron
Publisher: Abingdon Press, April 27, 2011
Review: In A Time to Heal, the second novel in Barbara Cameron’s Quilts of Lancaster County series, an ex-military man and a pacifist Amish woman meet in a conflict of wills, never expecting it to lead to deep love.
Chris Marshall is a wounded soldier who just wants peace in his life. He met Jenny in the hospital, and when he visits her and her husband, Matthew, he also meets Matthew’s sister, Hanna. The ex-warrior and the gentle Amish woman fall in love. When Chris is later suspected of setting a fire in the barn, and he and Hannah are seen together without a chaperone, he decides to leave for her sake.
Can these two, so opposite yet so alike, have a life together? Includes Amish recipes and a dictionary of Amish words.


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Bambi / The Yearling



Felix Salten
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Bks for Young Children, August 17, 2011
Review: Own two of the most beloved novels of the 20th century! Bambi by Felix Salten and The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings hold a dear place in the hearts of all who have read them, and with good reason.
Chronicling the experiences of a young deer as he grows from fawn to stag and learns sometimes-painful lessons about surviving in the forest and the danger posed by man, Bambi is considered one of the first and best environmental novels ever written. It has become a cultural touchstone across the generations, and its themes of friendship, family and the circle of life are as timeless as they are universal.
The Yearling is no different. Tracing the coming of age of a young boy who adopts a fawn as a pet, this novel—part naturalist study of the Florida interior, part rollicking adventure and part family drama—is a classic that well deserves its Pulitzer Prize.
Over the years, these two stories have been stretched into many forms, but the original novels are not to be missed. Layered in meaning, rich in wisdom, they’re as compelling now as when first written. This exclusive 2-in-1 edition brings them together in one beautifully bound volume. It’s a must for every book lover’s library.


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Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell



Gerald D. Mahan
Publisher: Princeton University Press, March 01, 2009
Review: Quantum mechanics is a mathematical description of the motion and interaction of elementary particles. Covering the basics of the field as well as many topics of current interest, Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell offers a concise and accessible introduction to this powerful branch of physics.
One-, two- and three-dimensional problems
Looking for a top-notch guide through a subject notorious for its anti-intuitive concepts? Gerald Mahan is your man! Emphasizing the use of quantum mechanics to describe atoms and solids, Mahan’s book describes the properties of a single particle in potential; solves for two particles (e.g., the helium atom); addresses many-particle systems; and more. Applications include electron gas, magnetism and Bose-Einstein condensation.
As Mahan explains in his introductory chapter, quantum mechanics is based on the wave-particle dual description formulated by Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg, Schrodinger and others. The basic units of nature are indeed particles, but the description of their motion involves wave mechanics. The so-called wave function is the fundamental function for a single particle; the particle’s position at a given time is described as a probability by the square of the function. Following the introduction, we turn to the study of one-dimensional problems and their exact solutions. Here Mahan addresses the square well and linear potentials, as well as the harmonic oscillator, exponential potential and more.
Instead of immediately proceeding with more advanced problems in dimensions higher than one, the book offers a chapter that shows how to solve Schrodinger’s equation using a pair of approximate methods: WKBJ and variational. We see how each of these methods can be used to describe the harmonic oscillator and other systems. Following this is a chapter devoted to spin and angular momentum. Angular momentum is an important entity in quantum mechanics; the two main contributors to the angular momentum are the spin of the particle and the orbital angular momentum from the rotational motion. Mahan derives the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues for both spin and orbital angular momentum.
We next come to problems involving two and three dimensions. Nuclei, atoms, solids and stars are all examples of systems that must be solved in three dimensions. In contrast, two-dimensional solutions are required when a particle is restricted to move on a surface; examples include electrons moving on the surface of liquid helium or in a semiconductor quantum well. We find that many of techniques developed in prior chapters can be applied to two and three dimensions.
From matrix methods to scattering theory
The second half of the book features chapters on matrix methods and perturbation theory, time-dependent perturbations and electromagnetic radiation. There are also introductions to many-particle systems, scattering theory and relativistic quantum mechanics.
Mahan explains how electromagnetic radiation is composed of elementary particles called photons. Massless and chargeless, they possess a specific momentum, energy and frequency. The correspondence between the classical electric field and the quantum picture of photons is that the intensity of light is proportional to the number of photons. The main difference between the classical and quantum picture is that in classical physics, the electric field can have any value whereas in quantum physics the number of quanta in a given volume must be an integer.
Up until the final chapter, the book is concerned with nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, where the basic equation is Schrodinger’s equation. However, this equation does not apply when particles have kinetic energies of the same size as their rest energy. In these situations, we require a full relativistic equation. Accordingly, Mahan discusses two different equations of this type: Klein-Gordon and Dirac. The first of these applies to spinless particles


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Madeline in London



Ludwig Bemelmans
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA), January 25, 2011
Review: Fall in love with Madeline all over again with a picture book that’s every bit as glorious as it was when Ludwig Bemelmans wrote it back in 1961!
Ever since Madeline’s next door neighbor Pepito moved to London, he misses Madeline and her friends terribly. So, the twelve little girls in two straight lines head to England to cheer him up on his birthday. They forget to bring a toy for the birthday boy, but no worries. They quickly find a gentle horse that Pepito’s sure to love.
With fanciful illustrations and plenty of twists and turns—especially Madeline and Pepito’s unexpected adventure through the streets of London on the back of a spirited horse—Madeline In London makes for great read-aloud fun. (Ages 4-6)


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At the Gates of Darkness


Book Two of the Demonwar Saga
Raymond E. Feist
Publisher: HarperCollins, April 06, 2010
Review: Raymond E. Feist, the acclaimed author of the Riftwar trilogies, returns with book two of the Demonwar Saga—At the Gates of Darkness.
Acting as an agent of the Conclave of Shadows, Jim Dasher has been trying to find the nest of the Servants of Dahun, the Demon King. His investigations lead him to the ruins of an abandoned fortress deep in the Jal-Pur desert. There, he stumbles upon a horrific ritual in progress. Summoned by the mad necromancer Belasco, dozens of faithful have given themselves willingly, even eagerly, to be slaughtered…burned, hanged, impaled…for some dark purpose. But this monstrous rite is just the beginning, as the Servants of Dahun grow ever closer to opening a gate between the demon realm and Midkemia.
Barely escaping with his life, Jim rushes back to Sorcerer’s Isle, desperate to alert the great magician Pug to the coming onslaught. Still in mourning after the loss of his wife and son to the demon legion, Pug puts aside his pain to lead the Conclave and their allies—Pug’s surviving son, Magnus, two renegade Star Elves, a Warlock, and an untested Knight-Adamant—to the Jal-Pur desert and into the dread Valley of Lost Men, to defeat a fearsome enemy before Hell is unleashed.


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Wicked River


The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild
Lee Sandlin
Publisher: Pantheon Books Inc./Random House, October 19, 2010
Review: Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing with the siege of Vicksburg in 1863, Wicked River takes us back to a time before the Mississippi was dredged into a shipping channel, and before Mark Twain romanticized it into myth. Drawing on an array of suspenseful and bizarre firsthand accounts, Lee Sandlin brings to life a place where river pirates brushed elbows with future presidents and religious visionaries shared passage with thieves—a world unto itself where, every night, near the levees of the big river towns, hundreds of boats gathered to form dusk-to-dawn cities dedicated to music, drinking and gambling. Here is a minute-by-minute account of Natchez being flattened by a tornado; the St. Louis harbor being crushed by a massive ice floe; hidden, nefarious celebrations of Mardi Gras and the sinking of the Sultana, the worst naval disaster in American history. And here is the Mississippi itself: gorgeous, perilous and unpredictable, lifeblood to the communities that rose and fell along its banks.
An exuberant work of Americana—at once history, culture and geography—Wicked River is a grand epic that portrays a forgotten society on the edge of revolutionary change.


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The Idea of America


Reflections on the Birth of the United States
Gordon S. Wood
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA), May 12, 2011
Review: Review by Sanford Levinson
Gordon Wood is the pre-eminent historian of the United States between the Revolutionary War and the beginning of the so-called Jacksonian Era. His most recent book was the 2009 contribution to the prestigious Oxford History of the United States, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815. This new book collects many of his most important scholarly articles on this period; an earlier 2008 anthology, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History, collected his shorter book reviews. Wood is an unusually incisive and graceful writer—among his many prizes is a Pulitzer Prize for his book on The Radicalism of the American Revolution—and every one of these essays bears reading and extended reflection.
His first essay (following a helpful introduction summarizing much of the historiography of the period), on “Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution,” analyzes the heightened rhetoric directed against the British, accusing them of a conspiracy to “enslave” brave Americans. Were our revolutionary forebears “paranoid” (the subject of a later essay reviewing Richard Hofstadter’s influential book on The Paranoid Style in American Politics), or does such a dismissive conclusion do injustice to some of our most illustrious Founders and also, along the way, disable us from understanding the fundamental differences in the ways we, and they, understand political events? For Wood, “the very nature of the Americans’ rhetoric—its obsession with corruption and disorder, its hostile and conspiratorial outlook, and its millennial vision of a regenerated society—that reveals, as nothing else apparently can, the American Revolution as a true revolution,” deeply rooted in the strains of the American social structure itself. “The hysteria of the Americans’ thinking was but a measure of the intensity of their revolutionary passions.” One is certainly tempted to reflect on the role of such thinking not only in the “birth” of the United States, but also in contemporary American politics.
Even if readers can indeed “connect the dots” between our past and aspects of our present, a central theme of the essays is the discontinuities between the modes of thought of then and now. The Founding Generation inhabited a quite different conceptual universe from our own. By and large, they disdained what we today call “interest-group politics” in favor of leadership by virtuous elites who subordinated “interests” to the “public good.” Although Wood devotes a fascinating essay to Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine as exceptions in their genuine esteem for popular democracy, most of the Founders were basically frightened of the possibility of what we would today regard as genuinely “democratic” rule. Madison was basically traumatized by what he observed while serving in the Virginia legislature, which, as much as any deficiencies in the Articles of Confederation, led him to believe that a far more nationalist political order, controlled by quite different elites, was the only hope for America.
Every single essay could easily generate a review of its own. The book is truly an intellectual feast that should be on the shelf of anyone seriously interested in understanding our past and aspects of the rhetoric of the American present.


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American Uprising


The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt
Daniel Rasmussen
Publisher: Harper Collins Pub., Inc. "Don'T U, January 04, 2011
Review: Review by Lucas A. Powe, Jr.
As long as there was slavery in North America there were fears of slave uprisings. These fears (and hopes for those enslaved) were heightened after the brutal but successful uprising in Santo Domingo. The major slave conspiracies in the United States—always known by the leader’s names: Gabriel (1800), Denmark Vesey (1822), Nat Turner (1831)—were, in the first two cases, suppressed before they began and with Nat Turner quickly put down. Yet the largest slave uprising in the United States was, until publication of American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt by Daniel Rasmussen, virtually unknown. (I had never heard of it.)
American Uprising is the story of a revolt, plotted over several years and encompassing many plantations, outside of New Orleans lasting three days in January 1811. It encompassed 500 slaves, and in its aftermath 30 slaves were executed—often savagely. Many found their heads severed and left as examples. Because they were tipped off by other slaves believing that their future freedom was more likely to come from aiding their masters, most whites successfully fled and only two were killed. The revolt ended in a pitched battle where the planters’ militia routed the slaves without the loss of any white lives. (Nat Turner’s two-day revolt saw about 60 slaves killing a like number of whites.)
Without minimizing the horrors of slavery, some slaves worked in better conditions than others. Being transported to the sugar plantations in the Caribbean guaranteed an early death. In the United States being “sold South” was never good. The rice plantations of South Carolina and the sugar plantations of Louisiana exemplified particularly harsh conditions of heat, humidity and disease. (The Louisiana plantations were bounded by the Mississippi on the east and swamps on the west.) The Louisiana planters enjoyed the yields from the most profitable cash crop in the hemisphere.
American Uprising is more than a narrative of the January 1811 revolt and its bloody aftermath. There is a discussion of how slavery operated in the cane fields. It offers a good history of how the slaves arrived in Louisiana and their background in Africa. And the story is set within the social and political split between the French planter class and the new American governor, a split that was healed after the uprising was put down. The governor created a narrative that minimized the organization of the revolt and treated those involved as common criminals. Subsequent white authors accepted the narrative and hence the largest uprising in American history was lost to American history.
A final observation about American Uprising is in order. This is a first book, and I know from experience how hard writing a first book is. Yet Daniel Rasmussen is a 2009 summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College. His is a name that is likely to be around for a long time and let’s hope there are many more books in his unlimited future.


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Eat This, Not That!® 2012



David Zinczenko
Publisher: Rodale Press, Inc., September 13, 2011
Review: With an angry food industry hot on their heels and a ravenous fan base clamoring for more, Zinczenko and Goulding once again redefine the American food landscape with the latest in the bestselling Eat This, Not That! series. Featuring up-to-the-minute information on the ever-changing array of supermarket and restaurant offerings, Eat This, Not That! 2012 reveals the shocking calorie counts, mind-bending sugar and fat loads and deceptive advertising and marketing techniques that are making America fat—and gives you the information you need to fight back. Packed with cool tips, industry secrets and essential nutrition knowledge, Eat This, Not That! 2012 is a must-have for anyone who cares about what they eat—and how they look.


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The Nymphos of Rocky Flats



Mario Acevedo
Publisher: HarperCollins, March 01, 2006
Review: Felix Gomez went to Iraq a soldier. He came back a vampire. Before he can even take off his combat boots, he's drawn into a web of new intrigue. An old friend wants him to investigate an outbreak of nymphomania at a secret government facility in Rocky Flats. Naturally, he is determined to uncover what's getting the women so worked up.
But first, Felix must contend with some suspicious government agents, mysterious vampire hunters and a bunch of oversexed women who want his body. Fortunately, he has the supernatural strength needed to complete his mission!
Skewering sexual myths, conspiracy fables and government bureaucracy, The Nymphos of Rocky Flats reveals the bizarre world of the undead with a humorous slant and a fresh twist.


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Look Again



Lisa Scottoline
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, Llc, April 14, 2009
Review: Switching venues from the courtroom to the newsroom, Edgar® Award winner and bestselling author Lisa Scottoline breaks new ground in Look Again, a searing and emotional thriller that plays on a mother’s worst nightmare.
When Ellen Gleeson, a Philadelphia journalist and single mom, gets a “Have You Seen This Child?” flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away, but something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops. The boy in the photo is identical to her adopted 3-year-old, Will: same sky blue eyes, same small nose, same lopsided grin.
Ellen’s every instinct tells her to deny the similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was lawful; as a reporter, she knows she won’t be able to stop thinking about the photo until she figures out the truth.
While she follows up a story about a family abduction, she can’t shake the question: If Will rightfully belongs to someone else, should she keep him or give him up? As Ellen investigates, she uncovers clues no one was meant to discover, and when she digs too deep, she risks losing her own life—and that of the son she loves.
Packed with twists that will throw you for a loop, Look Again is Lisa Scottoline at the top of her game.


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Thunder Dog


The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust At Ground Zero
Michael Hingson
Publisher: Thomas Nelson, August 02, 2011
Review: Thunder Dog, by Michael Hingson and Susy Flory, transcends one of our country’s darkest days to bring us a story of unwavering faith—in God and in a guide dog whose loyalty saved the lives of so many.
12:30 a.m., 9/11: Roselle whimpered at Michael’s bedside. A storm was coming and Roselle sensed it while her owners slept. As a trained guide dog, when she was “on the clock” nothing fazed her. But without her harness, she was free to be scared. Roselle nudged Michael’s hand with her wet nose.
With a busy day ahead, Michael got out of bed and went to his home office. Roselle settled at his feet and rode out the storm while he typed. By all indications, it was going to be a busy, but normal, day.
Until they went to the office in the World Trade Center, where their lives were changed forever by two explosions and 1,463 stairs.
When the first plane struck Tower One, an enormous boom swept through Michael’s office. Shards of glass and burning scraps of paper fell outside the window—and their amazing journey of faith began.
As you walk down those 1,463 stairs with Michael, Roselle and the others, your own heart fills with the faith that got them through that terrible—yet wonderfully miraculous—day.


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Blood Promise


A Vampire Academy Novel (Book 4)
Richelle Mead
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA), August 25, 2009
Review: Richelle Mead’s Blood Promise is the fourth thrilling Vampire Academy novel.
The recent attack on St. Vladimir’s Academy devastated the entire Moroi world. And, for the few victims carried off by Strigoi, their fates are even worse. A rare tattoo now adorns Rose’s neck, a mark that says she’s killed many Strigoi. But only one victim matters…Dimitri Belikov. Rose must now choose one of two very different paths: honoring her vow to protect Lissa, her best friend, and the last surviving Dragomir princess or dropping out of the Academy to hunt down the man she loves. She’ll have to go to the ends of the earth to find Dimitri and keep the promise he begged her to make. But the question is, when the time comes, will he want to be saved?


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The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse


A Breakthrough Program for Connecting with Your Soul's Deepest Purpose
Debbie Ford
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, September 01, 2009
Review: There’s an ego-driven force in each of us that always craves more, whether it’s money, fame, attention, or material possessions. If left unchecked, it grows stronger and influences all aspects of our lives. We get stuck in the past, avoid the present, and feel discouraged about our future.
The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse, Debbie Ford’s most practical and prescriptive book to date, delivers a three-part process that empowers us to let go of toxic thoughts and destructive behaviors and discover the deep peace that resides within.
As we release the past, get honest about the present, and envision the future of our dreams, we embark on an incredible journey that will open our eyes to all that we are and all we desire to be.


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Luis Muino
Publisher: Circulo de Lectores, October 01, 2006
Review: En la actualidad, y especialmente en Estados Unidos, uno de los principales retos que encaran los padres en la educacion de sus hijos es la falta de tiempo. Sin embargo, el secreto de una buena educacion, segun este libro, reside en la calidad, no en la cantidad, del tiempo que le dediquemos. Ademas de unas nociones basicas de psicologia infantil, esta guia practica aporta estrategias concretas para entender el magico mundo de la infancia y resolver con eficacia diferentes conflictos cotidianos de la vida familiar (si tienen miedo, estan disgustados, les es dificil conciliar el sueno), en funcion de la edad del pequeno, desde su nacimiento hasta los 6 anos. Escrito por un experto en la materia, este ameno y clarificador manual es un magnifico aliado para criar a sus ninos y propiciar su buen desarrollo con serenidad y confianza. Tapa dura


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A Blue Sea of Blood



Donald M. Kehn, Jr.
Publisher: Motorbooks International Publishers, January 02, 2009
Review: On the morning of March 1, 1942, the destroyer USS Edsall—under orders to deliver Army Air Force fighter crews to the beleaguered island of Java—split off from her sister ship, the USS Whipple and the tanker USS Pecos, never to be seen again by Allied forces. Donald M. Kehn’s A Blue Sea of Blood explores the mystery of the Edsall’s disappearance, and the discovery of her crew’s remains on the Indonesian island of Celebes—an area known for numerous alleged Japanese war crimes. By telling the story of the Edsall, from her wide-ranging pre-war career to the curious uses to which her story was put, A Blue Sea of Blood redresses six decades of official indifference to uncover a significant chapter missing from the history of World War II.


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Everybody In The Church Ain't Saved



Patti Trafton
Publisher: Kensington Pub, September 30, 2008
Review: Patrice, Lorene, Glen and Dwayne may be members of the church choir but that doesn’t mean they’re saved. Patrice is a sex addict who’s also been stealing from the restaurant where she works. And her relationship with Glen is packed with landmines. His baby’s mama has not let him see his daughter in nearly three years—even though she’s no saint, what with her dealing drugs and such. Dwayne blames his being gay on his now-dead dad having had molested him—and has only just learned that his mother murdered him because of it.... Then there’s Lorene, who’s getting married to Keith—but what did she do to make the women in his life so mean? And there’s plenty more drama to savor in this wild cast of characters!


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The Other Side



J.D. Robb
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, December 01, 2010
Review: Suspense, desire and love know no bounds in The Other Side, a heartwarming and heart-hammering rich anthology by five of today’s hottest authors:
J.D. Robb’s “Possession in Death”—Lieutenant Eve Dallas is possessed by a murder victim who won’t rest until justice is served.
Mary Blayney’s “The Other Side of the Coin”—An earl and his countess are forced to spend a day in each other’s shoes…and bodies.
Patricia Gaffney’s “The Dancing Ghost”—A woman troubled by ghosts hires a spirit investigator with some decidedly earthly appetites.
Ruth Ryan Langan’s “Almost Heaven”—A deceased couple try to save their daughter from the wrong man.
Mary Kay McComas’ “Never Too Late to Love”—A woman must contend with ghosts who refuse to rest in peace.


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Kings of the Earth



Jon Clinch
Publisher: Random House, Inc., July 06, 2010
Review: Jon Clinch, author of the prize-winning novel Finn, secures his status as a writer to watch with this powerful and utterly compelling tale of life, death and family in rural America.
Told in a chorus of voices that spans a generation, Kings of the Earth is a psychologically powerful narrative that hums with suspense as it draws us into the lives of the Proctor brothers, an elderly—and decidedly peculiar—trio living in a kind of crumbling stasis in their decaying upstate New York farm. It’s a solitary existence, one with few ties to the outside world, until one of them dies in his sleep and a state trooper—suspecting the other two of murder—launches an investigation that sheds harsh light on their hidden lives.


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Love Finds You in Paradise Pennsylvania (Large Print)



Loree Lough
Publisher: Ellie Claire Gift & Paper Corp., April 15, 2009
Review: Bestselling author Loree Lough’s Love Finds You in Paradise Pennsylvania will inspire your heart and energize your faith.
Tourists flock to the quaint town of Paradise, Pennsylvania, where Amish buggies are as common as shops selling handcrafted goods. But to attorney Julia Spencer, it’s anything but a paradise. The close-knit Amish people are a mystery to her—but veterinarian Simon Thomas knows them well and is fiercely protective of their simple ways. When Julia agrees to defend a local teenager charged in a case involving an Amish boy, she and Simon find themselves on opposite sides of an intense legal battle.
They soon learn that God has something to teach them both about forgiveness...and the joys to be found in Paradise.


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The Pallbearers


A Shane Scully Novel
Stephen J. Cannell
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, Llc, March 16, 2010
Review: After his parents abandoned him as an infant, the only positive force in Shane Scully’s life was Walter “Pop” Dix, director of the orphanage where Shane grew up. That was 30 years ago. Now Pop has been found dead, and police are writing the case off as suicide.
Shane and his fellow pallbearers—all orphans chosen by Pop—don’t believe it. Pop was too upbeat and active to take his own life. That leaves murder. But why, and by whom?
To find justice for the only father he ever knew, Shane must revisit his painful childhood. At first, he’s reluctant to work with a bunch of amateurs, but they’re all determined to find the truth…even when they run afoul of an adversary whose power far exceeds anything they could imagine or defend against.


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30 Lessons for Living


Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans
Karl Pillemeer
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, November 10, 2011
Review: In Karl Pillemer’s 30 Lessons for Living, as inspiring as it is useful, over 1,000 extraordinary Americans over the age of 65 share the wisdom they have gained on living, loving and finding happiness.
What do older people know that the rest of us don't—and how can we benefit from it? All the big issues—money, career, relationships and more—are covered through moving stories and uncompromisingly honest, often surprising, answers that consistently point to 30 lessons for living. Personal recollections of lives well lived are woven into this timeless book filled with the hard-won advice these older Americans wish someone had given them when they were young.
And now, they give it to you in this book to keep—and to give.


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All I Could Bare



Craig Seymour
Publisher: Atria Books, June 01, 2008
Review: He “took the road less clothed”—and that made all the difference
Craig Seymour was a grad student when he decided to drop the books—and his pants—and moonlight as a stripper in the infamously anything-goes gay strip clubs of 1990s Washington, D.C. Soon he was g-string-deep in a world of gay-for-pay dancers, divorces with double lives and customers nicknamed Mr. Tickles. But it wasn't all wild times, hot guys and easy money: He still had to hide from his parents, maintain a relationship and deal with prostitution, porn—and his Ph.D.
Now a respected English professor and journalist, Seymour bares all once again in All I Could Bare—an explicit, entertaining and insightful memoir about losing your inhibitions and finding yourself.


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The Paris Wife



Paula McLain
Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc./Random House, February 22, 2011
Review: The Paris Wife is Paula McLain’s deeply evocative retelling of a love affair thwarted by ambition and betrayal that begins in Chicago, 1920, when Ernest Hemingway meets the love of his life, Hadley Richardson. After a whirlwind courtship, the couple marries, sails to Paris and gets caught up in a lifestyle that will change their lives forever.
Befriended by such icons as F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and others belonging to the fabled “Lost Generation,” the Hemingways are ill-prepared for hard-living, hard-drinking Jazz Age Paris. And though Ernest finds the inspiration for his great masterpiece, The Sun Also Rises, Hadley’s lost sense of self paves the way to deception and indescribable heartbreak.


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Censored 2011


The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009-10
Mickey Huff
Publisher: Seven Stories Press, October 12, 2010
Review: Each year, as it’s done for the past quarter century, Project Censored releases a collection of their top 25 censored stories—articles that were ignored, under-reported or flat-out killed by a mainstream press too busy covering the latest junk food news story.
Censored 2011 is truly “Media Democracy in Action,” taking an unflinching look at the corporate media spin that led to the Iraq War and allegedly hides atrocities in the Middle East. Look for expansive articles about internet privacy, global plans to replace the dollar, the Western lifestyle’s environmental footprint, the true cost of Chevron and much more! Whatever your stance on these issues, this book makes for gritty, thought-provoking reading.


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La cocina de Eva


Cocina con amor para la familia y los amigos
Eva Longoria
Publisher: Vintage Books/Random House Inc., April 05, 2011
Review: Criada en un rancho tejano, donde toda la comida se preparaba a base de productos cultivados por su familia, Eva Longoria esta convencida de que la buena cocina depende de ingredientes frescos y sencillos. En este libro, la galardonada actriz presenta 100 de sus platos preferidos, muchos provenientes de recetas familiares (tamales, tortillas, chile, frijoles refritos, pan de polvo…) y otros inspirados por sus viajes por el mundo, como el Lenguado al limon y los Frijoles cannellini. Ademas, revela trucos, tecnicas y consejos sobre la compra, coccion y conservacion de alimentos, comparte recuerdos de su ninez y retratos de sus seres queridos, y nos deja echar un vistazo a su vida tras bambalinas. Tapa dura


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Zero Day



David Baldacci
Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA, October 31, 2011
Review: Bestselling author David Baldacci has delivered white-knuckle thrillers, enigmatic characters and thought-provoking ideas since he first burst on the literary scene with Absolute Power, from the eccentric conspiracy theorists of The Camel Club to the hardened covert agents of the A. Shaw series. Now, in Zero Day, he introduces us to perhaps his most intriguing protagonist yet—a reclusive combat vet with a talent for sniffing out the truth.
Special Agent John Puller is a loner with few possessions and fewer friends. What he does have is an indomitable spirit, one that’s served him well on the battlefield, and that’s made him the best of the best in the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigative Division (CID). In Zero Day, this spirit will be tested to the fullest. A family has been brutally murdered, and Puller has been called in because the husband was in the Army and the wife worked as a contractor for the Pentagon. The local homicide detective isn’t happy with Puller’s involvement in the case, but she’s not his only problem. The people in this small town are not what they seem. Now, far from any military outpost, he’s truly one man against an overwhelming force. And things are about to get ugly….


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Sisterhood of Dune



Brian Herbert
Publisher: Tor Books, January 03, 2012
Review: Eighty-three years after the last of the thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, great changes are brewing that will shape and twist all of humankind.
The war hero Vorian Atreides has turned his back on politics and Salusa Secundus. The descendants of Abulurd Harkonnen have sworn vengeance against Vor, blaming him for the downfall of their fortunes. Raquella Berto-Anirul has formed the Bene Gesserit School on the jungle planet Rossak as the first Reverend Mother. The descendents of Aurelius Venport have built Venport Holdings, using mutated, spice-saturated Navigators who fly precursors of Heighliners. Gilbertus Albans, the ward of the hated Erasmus, is teaching humans to become Mentats…and hiding an unbelievable secret. And the Butlerian movement—rabidly opposed to all forms of “dangerous technology”—is beginning to sweep across the known universe, destroying everything in its path.
As Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s Sisterhood of Dune unfolds, every one of these characters, and all of these groups, will become enmeshed in the contest between Reason and Faith. And they will all be forced to choose sides in the inevitable crusade that could destroy humankind forever....


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God's Supernatural Power in You



Frank DeCenso
Publisher: Destiny Image, May 01, 2009
Review: In John 14:12 (NIV), Jesus says to His disciples, “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing.” But who is inspiring us to do as Jesus did in this hurting world?
In God’s Supernatural Power in You, compiled by Frank DeCenso Jr., experts James W. Goll, Heidi Baker, Marc A. DuPont and Marguerite Evans, among others, examine the need for powerful ministry in today’s world—a need as strong now as it was when Jesus and the apostles walked the earth. Only then will God’s all-encompassing love, exhibited through His church, demolish strongholds of unbelief and tear down cultural barriers.
This book is a call to engage the mission of bringing God’s love to the world as our own call to action.


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Super Scary Crochet


35 Gruesome Patterns to Sink Your Hook Into
NICKI TRENCH
Publisher: Cico Books, August 01, 2011
Review: Put a little bit of the macabre into your stitching basket with 35 creepy and kooky crochet projects. Adorable, funny, and just a little bit twisted, these little dolls and toys are a scream! Famous scaries like Jaws, The Body Snatcher and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes are sure to delight anyone who loves classic horror movies. And that's just for starters. If you love werewolves, murderous villains, the living dead, even shruken head necklaces and all things that go bump in the night, Nicki Trench’s Super Scary Crochet is almost impossible to resist. Crocheting dolls and toys doesn’t have to be scary—especially with a comprehensive techniques section that lets everyone get in on the fun. Once you give it a try, you'll be hooked!


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An Irreverent Curiosity


In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town
David Farely
Publisher: Gotham Books, Penguin Putnam Inc, July 09, 2009
Review: In December 1983, a priest in the Italian hill of Calcata was shocked and horrified to find that the pride of their town, the foreskin of Jesus, had been stolen. Accusations flew wildly. Many blamed Satanists. Others thought that the priest himself was to blame. Some even pointed fingers at the Vatican.
In 2006, travel writer David Farley moved to Calcata in search of the missing foreskin, and the result is An Irreverent Curiosity. Farley recounts the relic’s storied past, from Charlemagne to the papacy to a marauding 16th-century German soldier to its home in Calcata, and the book interweaves this strange history with his own travels. The result is perhaps the oddest story in all of Christian lore.


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An Irish Country Courtship



Patrick Taylor
Publisher: St. Martins Press, Llc, September 09, 2010
Review: Treat yourself to An Irish Country Courtship as beloved storyteller Patrick Taylor chronicles the latest goings-on in the charming town of Ballybucklebo. For young doctor Barry Laverty, an unexpected romantic reversal gives him second thoughts about continuing his rough-and-tumble life as a country doctor. Meanwhile, Barry’s eccentric mentor, Doctor Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly, has his own problems. After years of mourning his late wife, he’s finally found a new love…and encountering unexpected opposition from his housekeeper, Kinky Kincaid, who fears that his new flame might usurp her position. Fortunately, for both doctors, love can conquer all, especially when it’s helped along by a bit of luck…and a generous helping of blarney.


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Silks



Dick Francis
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, Mbr Penguin Putnam, August 26, 2008
Review: Crime writers who focus on horse racing are a rare breed, but among them, there’s just one hands-down winner—Dick Francis. For Silks, the retired jockey, three-time Edgar® Award-winner and Mystery Writers of America Grand Master once again teams up with his son, Felix, to give readers a thrill-a-minute ride with a big payoff.
Defense barrister Geoffrey Mason knows from the first that accepting the case file of Julian Trent is a mistake. It’s not just that he’s certain his thuggish young client is guilty of attempted murder. It’s also that the lengthy trial may foil Mason’s longed-for chance to ride in the Foxhunter Steeplechase.
An amateur jockey, Mason’s true passion is pounding the turf in the saddle of a thoroughbred, Sandeman. And so he’s eager to get to Sandown to don his riding silks. But when a fellow rider is brutally murdered with a pitchfork through his chest, Mason’s racing life and working life converge.
All evidence points to champion jockey Steve Mitchell, who wants Mason’s legal advice, but Mason doesn’t want to get involved. Then two things happen: He’s attacked by an unexpectedly released Julian Trent and he receives a threatening message: Take the Mitchell case—and lose it.


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A Flickering Light



Jane Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Waterbrook Press, April 21, 2009
Review: Award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick returns to her Midwestern roots in A Flickering Light. Drawing a page from her grandmother’s photo album, Jane captures the interplay between shadow and light, and temptation and faith, that marks a woman’s pursuit of her dreams.
Fifteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele takes exquisite photographs, but, if truth be told, her heart is the true image exposed. Jessie Ann loves nothing more than capturing a gorgeous Minnesota landscape when the sunlight casts its most mesmerizing shadows. So when F.J. Bauer hires her in 1907 to assist in his studio and darkroom, her dreams for a career in photography appear to be coming wonderfully true. With the hazards of the explosive powder used for lighting and the toxic darkroom chemicals, however, photography is considered to be a man’s profession. Yet, Jessie Ann shows remarkable talent in both the artistry and the business of running a studio. She proves less skillful, however, at managing her growing attraction to the very married Mr. Bauer.
This luminous coming-of-age tale deftly exposes the intricate shadows that play across every dream worth pursuing—and the irresistible light that beckons the dreamer on.


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Little Kitchen



Sabrina Parrini
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, January 15, 2011
Review: Kids love to show off the fruits of their labor and the 40 sweet and savory recipes in Little Kitchen, by Sabrina Parrini, are written so little chefs can do just that. With its emphasis on safety and adult supervision, you won’t worry and kids 6 and up will take their first steps to kitchen confidence as they cook delicious dishes—from Tacos to Perfect Potato Gnocchi to Mini Chocolate Souffles—almost all by themselves.
Parrini was an early childhood teacher before she started her own child-inspired cookware line and opened a children’s cooking center. Now she shares her passion for cooking with recipes that use fresh, wholesome ingredients and come with “equipment you’ll need” illustrations and tips for grown-ups. Color photos.


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The Hidden Man



David Ellis
Publisher: Penguin Putnam, Inc., September 03, 2009
Review: David Ellis’ thriller opens on a hot summer night in 1980 when two-year-old Audrey Culter is abducted from her bedroom, never to be seen again. Twenty-six years later, her brother, Sammy, is arrested for the murder of a pedophile the police suspected back then, but failed to convict. When a man offers attorney Jason Kolarich major bucks to defend Sammy on the condition that the case is heard quickly, Jason wonders why the rush? And why is this same man—who has ice water in his veins—rattled when Jason uncovers a cache of children’s bodies, one of which could be Audrey?
The Hidden Man is an intense legal thriller, where the plot doesn’t just thicken, it twists and turns, too, arriving at an ending nothing short of stunning.


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Praying for Strangers


An Adventure of the Human Spirit
River Jordan
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Corp, April 05, 2011
Review: In Praying for Strangers, River Jordan tells of her amazing journey as she prayed her way through the year for people she had never met.
As 2009 approached, New Year’s resolutions were the last thing on River’s mind. Her two sons were going to war and all she could do was pray for their safety and hope to maintain her strength. Then the perfect New Year’s resolution was revealed to her—pray for a complete stranger every day for a year. River not only discovered that her prayers touched the lives of strangers, but also that the connections she made with others changed her own life forever.
Try River’s praying for strangers resolution and see what happens within your deepest heart. It might be the best resolution you’ve ever kept.


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Never Far From Home


The Miller Family Series #2
Mary Ellis
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers Inc, January 01, 2010
Review: Mary Ellis follows her captivating Widow’s Hope with a new story of Amish life in Holmes County, Ohio.
In Never Far From Home, 15–year–old Emma finishes school, starts her own wool business—and longs for someone to court her. When the object of her affection is a handsome English sheep farmer with a fast truck and modern methods, her deacon father, Simon, knows he has more than the farm to worry about. Emma isn’t the only one with longings—Aunt Hannah wants a baby and Uncle Seth hopes he’ll reap financial rewards when he takes a risk with his harvest. But are these the dreams God has for this Amish family?
Will they discover that hopes planted close to home can grow a lasting harvest of love…but only in God’s good time?


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Legend



Marie Lu
Publisher: Putnam Publishing, November 01, 2011
Review: Ever since Suzanne Collins almost single-handedly ignited a hot new subgenre—the YA dystopia thriller—readers have been clamoring for the next Hunger Games—and this just might be it! Legend by Marie Lu has earned raves from USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, and a movie is already in development. Could Legend become a legend in its own time?
What was once the western United States is now the Republic of America, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic’s wealthiest districts, 15-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the highest military circles. Born into the slums, 15-year-old Day is the country’s most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.
From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths—until the day June’s brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family’s survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias’ death. Instead, the two discover the shocking truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.


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A Beautiful Friendship



David Weber
Publisher: Baen Books, October 01, 2011
Review: With A Beautiful Friendship, David Weber delivers the first entry in a teen series featuring the founder of a pioneering family destined to lead the fight for humanity’s freedom in a dangerous galaxy.
Twelve-year-old Stephanie Harrington hates being confined inside her family’s compound on the frontier planet Sphinx, a wilderness world populated by dangerous animals that could easily tear a human to pieces. She’s determined to make discoveries—and the biggest discovery of all is an intelligent alien species called treecats.
Resembling a cross between a bobcat and a lemur (but with six legs and much more deadly claws), treecats are also telepathic, able to bond with gifted humans such as the genetically-enhanced Stephanie. But Stephanie’s find, and her first-of-its-kind bond with a treecat, brings on a torrent of danger. Highly-placed enemies with galactic-sized wealth at stake are determined to ensure that Sphinx remains entirely in human hands—even if it means the extermination of another thinking species. Stephanie and Lionheart are about to undergo the greatest test two alien species can ever face together: how to survive first contact and win a future with liberty and justice for all!


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Invincible



Joan Johnston
Publisher: Harlequin Books, October 26, 2010
Review: Indulge your passion for romance, family intrigue and sin in Invincible, the thrilling first book in award-winning author Joan Johnston’s scorching Benedict Brothers series.
Belle Benedict, the Duchess of Blackthorne, has a problem. She’s dying. After a lifetime of power and wealth, she’s taking stock, and she’s come to an inescapable conclusion: money isn’t enough. Though the world is her oyster, her family is in ruins, and her five grown children are as lost as she was.
But all is not lost. Before she goes, Belle is determined to make amends and help her children find true love, and she has a secret weapon to help her in her quest: her famous family jewelry collection. Each of the five precious stones—one for each child—bears a legend…and perhaps the power to change its owner’s destiny. And she knows just how to start—with the Blackthorne Rubies. A gift to the very first Duke of Blackthorne by none other than Henry II for saving his life in a battle for the throne of England, these gems are valuable beyond any price, as her darkly handsome son is about to find out….
Complex, multilayered, and exquisitely told, Invincible is Joan Johnston at her best. It’s impossible to put down.


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Germany 1945


From War to Peace
Richard Bessel
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, June 30, 2009
Review: Review by Gerhard L. Weinberg
The author of books on modern European and German history, with special emphasis on the Nazi period, has written what is likely to be the definitive account for a long time of the transition from war to peace in Germany. Based on comprehensive knowledge of the relevant literature and some previously unpublished materials, Richard Bessel shows how the last months of World War II came into all parts of Germany the way World War I had not. With numerous quotations from contemporary and other accounts, we see a country that had lived off the loot of Europe reduced into a bombed, occupied, and in some cases despoiled and terrorized area. In this process, the German people, whether remaining in ruined cities and towns, fleeing before the Red Army, or expelled from their homes after hostilities, come to see themselves as victims of the war their enthusiastically supported regime had unleashed. They also separate themselves from the Party and ideology most of them had once cheered. The way in which the regime had insisted on fighting to the end and dissolved in the process ended ties that had provided it with massive support, a development illustrated by the many German soldiers who desert and/or surrender near the end in spite of numerous summary executions.
As Allied troops occupy the country, there is general dislocation slowly reduced as the occupation regimes establish themselves. Germans loot their own military and other depots; foreign soldiers begin to requisition space, goods, and factories. There is much crime, generally blamed by Germans on Displaced Persons (DP’s) who are one product of the war. Occupation in the Soviet zone and at first in the French zone is especially harsh. Having rejected the Versailles concept of adjusting boundaries to populations in favor of shoving populations to fit new boundaries, millions of Germans find themselves shoved out of their homes in accordance with the concept they had once preferred. Some five or more million of them would not have been displaced had the plan of Henry Morgenthau, agreed to by Roosevelt and Churchill, been implemented; but that was rejected as too soft on the Germans in favor of Stalin’s insistence on the Oder-Neisse line.
Bessel shows how the catastrophic ending of the war leads Germans to turn from strong belief in military power and nationalistic exuberance and helps prepare for the beginnings of a pacifically inclined democracy in the Western zones of occupation. This very well-written account will bring the reality of those confusing, desperate, and frightening months close to any wishing to know what 1945 meant for ordinary people in Germany. It will also assist a better understanding both of how so many Germans came to think of themselves as victims rather than perpetrators or accomplices and of how the country that twice dragged the world into disastrous wars came to wave flags only when their soccer team did well in the World Cup.


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Hidden Secrets, Hidden Lives



J. Leon Pridgen II
Publisher: Strebor Books Int'L, February 22, 2011
Review: Twelve years after he escaped his life of mayhem on the streets, Travis Moore thinks he can return home without any repercussions. But he ends up mentoring a sixteen-year-old named “Baby Jar,” hoping to prevent the boy from running dope and making the same mistakes he made. Then Travis learns that Baby Jar’s deeply involved with Travis’s ex-partner-in-crime, Kwame “Bone” Brown. Kwame’s never forgiven Travis for skipping town and allowing him to take the fall while Travis went on to graduate with honors from college, and he uses Baby Jar to lure Travis into his game of revenge. Travis has no choice but to play as he vies to hide a secret Kwame’s ready to expose, one that could land Travis behind bars—or even cost him his life.


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Cursed


Regan Reilly Mysteries
Carol Higgins Clark
Publisher: Scribner/Simon & Schuster, April 07, 2009
Review: Cursed, Carol Higgins Clark’s latest Regan Reilly mystery, opens on a wintry morning on Long Island. As Regan dumps a trunk full of her old L.A. case files into a storage unit, her cell phone rings. It’s Abigail Feeney, a former neighbor who believes her life has been cursed since birth, calling with a frantic request.
Can Regan come to L.A. and help her track down her ex-boyfriend—the “no-good bum” who disappeared without repaying the $100K he owes her? He’s been spotted in town, and Abbie desperately needs the money. Regan remembers the “no-good bum:” He’s Cody Castle, and he used to hang around the pool at their apartment complex, text messaging nonstop. She never liked him.
If Regan weren’t freezing, she might have made an excuse, but her husband, Jack, is away at a seminar, and Abbie was kind to her when she had the flu last winter. Within hours Regan is back in Los Angeles where her investigation keeps her racing from the beaches of Malibu to the mountains north of the city to the renovated lofts of downtown L.A. Soon she begins to feel as if Abigail’s curse is catching, as she encounters a cast of characters who are downright dangerous…and one who’s the most dangerous of all.


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Pearl Harbor


FDR Leads the Nation into War
Steven M. Gillon
Publisher: Basic Books Inc., October 25, 2011
Review: Review by Dennis Showalter
Steven M. Gillon, of the University of Oklahoma, is a highly regarded scholar of modern American politics. He also has a sufficient flair for visual effects to be the History Channel’s resident historian. Both elements come together in this minute-by-minute reconstruction of the most dramatic and traumatic day in Franklin Roosevelt’s presidential career.
Gillon does not introduce anything new. What he does is bring together everything that is known and can be verified about the president’s behavior. Franklin Delano Roosevelt remains an enigmatic figure. His presidency was engulfed in crisis from its beginning. His election to an unprecedented third term was as much recognition of a metastasizing global war as an affirmation of his domestic stewardship. And throughout, Roosevelt kept his own counsel. By his own admission he was a juggler, never letting his right hand know what the left was doing. His death in office meant no memoirs. His presidential papers tend toward the anodyne. Gillon presents the man behind the curtains.
Franklin Roosevelt on December 7, 1941, was a presidential figure in the highest sense: assuming leadership when the situation called for it, neither making hasty decisions nor passively awaiting events. Tired and ill, he was nevertheless in command of himself. He did not seek to project calmness. He was calm: confident in the country, its people, and not least himself. His advisers were worried and divided. There were no instant surveys of public opinion to guide his reactions. Roosevelt had to take every major decision himself, with no relevant information, drawing on his instinct, his experience, and his sense of right and wrong.
All three functioned optimally. Part of the day’s routine was an hour-long session with the White House physician, for treatment of the kind of sinus infection today routinely controlled with antibiotics. Gillon’s account of the elaborate and painful therapies of 1941 highlight another dimension of the crisis. Roosevelt had been preparing for December 7 since diagnosed with polio 20 years earlier. The willpower and the determination cultivated in those decades were focused on that day.
No less important than the story is Gillon’s analysis of December 7’s subtext. In this crisis Roosevelt managed the news to a degree impossible even at the time of the Kennedy assassination, to say nothing of contemporary communications systems. News spread slowly then; even radios were static instruments, restricted to living rooms. As the story filtered through, Roosevelt was able to conceal the extent of the catastrophe.
Gillon legitimately dismisses in footnotes the conspiracy theories, continuing to circulate though with ever lessening credibility, that Roosevelt “knew” about the attack beforehand. The deception was not for domestic political reasons but for fear of what Japan might do if the extent of its victory became clear. Yet this stimulating account raises a wider, more disturbing question. Can any chief executive, even one with Roosevelt’s character and determination, function similarly and successfully in this age of open information? And if the answer is negative, what are the potential consequences?


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Sci-Fi Art


A Graphic History
Alex Summersby
Publisher: HarperCollins, January 01, 2009
Review: Imagine science fiction without imagery. Impossible, isn’t it? That’s because sf is as inextricably bound with visions as it is with ideas. Now Sci-Fi Art: A Graphic History brings together the best visions created over the last 150 years.
Packed with vivid illustrations, this stunning book traces the evolution of sci-fi art from the works of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, through the classic cover art of early 20th-c. pulps, to films and posters. Here are the most groundbreaking, talked about visuals in every medium—comic books, movies, TV shows, toys, RPGs, video games and more—plus fascinating facts and secrets from the genre’s great creators. With a foreword by William Gibson, this is a must-have for all fans of sf art.


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A Christmas Promise


A Novel
Anne Perry
Publisher: Ballantine/Delrey Books, October 27, 2009
Review: Anne Perry is sure to delight her legion of fans with her seventh holiday mystery, A Christmas Promise.
It’s a freezing winter day in London, 1883, when two young girls have a chance meeting. The pair turns out to have much in common: Both are poor, both are parentless. But Minnie Maude, only 8, has even worse problems: The uncle with whom she lived has just been murdered, and on top of that, the family’s donkey has run away.
Her new friend Gracie, age 13, feels obliged to help her, and so the girls team up to solve the mystery—and find Charlie the donkey. Anne Perry fans will recognize young Gracie as Charlotte Pitt’s maid, a continuing character in the author’s bestselling Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Victorian Mystery series.


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U Is for Undertow



Sue Grafton
Publisher: Putnam Pub Grp/Member Penguin Putnam, December 01, 2009
Review: P.I. Kinsey Millhone takes on a cold case that soon turns red-hot in Sue Grafton’s latest installment in her enormously popular Alphabet series.
It’s just one month before her 38th birthday, which might explain why Kinsey Millhone is surprised to learn that the very young-looking guy who’s come seeking her expertise is actually in his late 20s. Once the boyish Michael Sutton starts pleading his case, though, he has Kinsey’s attention. As Sutton explains it, he’s had a flashback to a memory from when he was 6 years old and stumbled upon what he now realizes was the grave of a little girl whose disappearance is suddenly back in the news. He knows it’s a long shot, but he wants Kinsey to help him locate the girl's remains—and perhaps her killers. Even with his offer of cash upfront, Kinsey is reluctant to get involved and decides to give him one day. But as her investigation unfolds, Kinsey discovers that her impassioned client has a poor track record when it comes to telling the truth. Could it be that the boy who cried wolf in the past is getting his kicks out of telling another giant whopper? Sue Grafton’s U is for Undertow is unputdownable!


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The Good Neighbor Cookbook



Sara Quessenberry and Suzanne Schlosberg
Publisher: Andrews & McMeel, December 13, 2010
Review: Need to win friends and influence people? When you and your neighbors meet at some ungodly hour on a Saturday morning to do litter control along your neighborhood’s streets, wouldn't it be wonderful if you were handed a hot, homemade Peanut Butter Cup Brownie first? Start a trend and hand them out yourself! Flowers perk up someone who’s been sick, but Roast Sweet Potato and Apple Soup might make them better faster. Here are over 100 easy, healthy recipes for breakfast entrees, soups and salads, casseroles and desserts that qualify as random acts of kindness. Who knows? If U.N. diplomats shared homemade Chocolate Chunk and Toasted Pecan Cookies in the General Assemply, world peace might descend!”—Beth Goehring, Editor-in-Chief


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The Faith Instinct


How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
Nicholas Wade
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA), November 01, 2009
Review: Why did religious behavior evolve to become an ingrained part of human nature? This is the central question Nicholas Wade addresses in The Faith Instinct. In this brilliantly written book, he offers an intriguing theory: Religions evolved because they conferred essential survival benefits on ancient societies.
Wade takes us on a tour of human history, illuminating the fact that every known society has possessed some form of religion—a key hint that it is an evolved part of human nature. He spotlights the way religion has dictated the moral, reproductive and military behavior of its followers over time, stressing its power to promote social cohesion. This is a fascinating read for believers and nonbelievers alike.


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Listen to the Wind


The Story of Dr. Greg & Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA), January 22, 2009
Review: What would you do to thank the people who saved your life? When Greg Mortenson lost his way after attempting to climb K2, villagers from an impoverished Himalayan town helped nurse him back to health. This act of kindness inspired him to build schools for children in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Millions of us have already read his inspiring true story in Three Cups of Tea, the runaway bestseller that Tom Brokaw called “proof that one ordinary person, with the right combination of character and determination, really can change the world.” Now, Greg retells his story for kids in Listen to the Wind, an inspiring picture book filled with remarkable collages and lots of photos, too. (Ages 6-9)


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The Lone Drow



R.A. Salvatore
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast, October 01, 2003
Review: In Hunter’s Blades, Book 2, Drizzt is still mounting a one-man assault against insurmountable odds. But this time, does he choose to accept the help of two surface-dwelling elves in order to survive?


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Deathworld


Deathworld 1-3 and The Mothballed Spaceship
Harry Harrison
Publisher: Independent Publishers Group, April 01, 2005
Review: Harry Harrison’s Deathworld books return to the Club in an anthology that includes Deathworld (originally published in 1960), Deathworld 2 (1964) and Deathworld 3 (1968), along with the short story, “The Mothballed Spaceship.
Humans don’t belong on Pyrrus. It is everything a human-inhabited world should not be. Heavy gravity. Extreme climate. Active volcanos. And every lifeform a mortal menace. Pyrrus is a world rich in mineral ore…and death.
Three hundred years of colonization have bred solid determination, hair-trigger reflexes and brute physical strength into Pyrrus’ human settlers. These miners are the fiercest of warriors. With an entire planet against them, they fight an unending war that seems destined to have one outcome: their annihilation.
In an attempt to end the cycle of violence, they take a desperate chance, putting their faith in the psionic gambler, Jason dinAlt, whom they tap to win the millions needed for more lethal weapons.
But Jason, fascinated by this world of danger, isn’t content with wholesale destruction. He has a better idea. And it’s a good bet he’ll help the Pyrrans out of their no-win situation…if the planet, and other pitiless enemies, don’t kill him first.


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The Lost Gate



Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Tor Books, January 18, 2010
Review: Orson Scott Card has a gift for creating specially talented youngsters. First there was Alvin Maker. Then came Ender Wiggin. Now there’s a new kid on the block—Danny North.
Fourteen hundred years ago, great gates existed between the magical realm of Westil and the Earth. Through these gates passed Westilian families—the gods of the Celts, Greeks, Hindi and Norse—until Loki suddenly, inexplicably, shut them down. Trapped in our world, the gods’ powers gradually declined until they became mere mages.
Danny North grew up in a hidden enclave in Virginia, surrounded by family members who could create wonders as easily as ordinary people draw water from a tap. But among his magical cousins, Danny is the only drekka—powerless, worthless and despised.
Then one day he discovers he has a talent the world has not seen in centuries. Danny is a Gatemage—a powerful mage of the rarest kind. But to be a gatemage in the North family is worse than being drekka. For the last gatemage in the world had been Loki the trickster. And if Danny is discovered, he will be destroyed.
The first book of the Mithermages series, a thrilling contemporary fantasy adventure, The Lost Gate is Card at his storytelling best.


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A Star Shall Fall



Marie Brennan
Publisher: Tor Books, September 01, 2010
Review: Third in Marie Brennan’s stunning Onyx Court series, A Star Shall Fall raises the stakes of survival for the hidden faerie city below London.
Incapable of destroying the Dragon that burned London in 1666, the fae of the Onyx Court banished it to the cold heart of a comet. It's now 1757, and Halley’s calculations predict the comet will return in 1758. Soon the Dragon will awaken and return to the city it ravaged once before. Lune and her court—including new consort, Galen St. Clair—will have to answer the question that defeated them a century ago: How to kill a being more powerful than all their magic combined? Working secretly together, both fae magic and human science may save London—but reconciling the two carries its own danger.


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Angel Time



Anne Rice
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc./Random House, October 27, 2009
Review: Angels and assassins meet in a tale of unceasing suspense as The Vampire Chronicles author Anne Rice takes us on a thrilling tale of murder, time-travel and a man’s search for his soul.
As Angel Time opens, we meet Danny O’Dare, a man who kills for money, with no hesitation or remorse. It’s a dark nightmarish world, until a mysterious stranger—a seraph—offers him a chance to save rather than destroy lives. But at what price? O’Dare soon finds out when he’s taken back through the ages to 13th-century England, a dark realm torn apart by rumors of child disappearances and ritual murder. Tossed into the fray, Danny begins his quest for salvation, setting off a chain of events that could have unforeseen repercussions in the present….


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Thinking Straight



Robin Reardon
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp., May 01, 2008
Review: Robin Reardon, who first burst onto the scene with A Secret Edge, returns with this gutsy, empowering second novel about Taylor Adams, a sixteen-year-old boy taking those first awkward steps towards manhood against almost insurmountable pressure: he's gay and his parents have just booted him off to a strict religious camp.
The camp is something like a waking nightmare: there's no talking to newbies (who must wear yellow stickers on their clothing) and the severe, sadistic staff aims to wash all Satanic influences off the attendees, a motley crowd of gay teens, petty thieves and drug addicts. Through intellect and patience, Taylor discovers ways to survive in the fold—and comes to realize some staff members are not what they seem...


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Little Princes


One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
Conor Grennan
Publisher: William Morrow & Co, Inc/Imp of Har., January 25, 2011
Review: This is an extraordinary and inspiring story of how a regular guy went on vacation and ended up making a surprising impact on the world. At 29, Conor Greenan traded his day job for a yearlong trip around the globe, a journey that began with a three-month stint volunteering at the Little Princes Children’s Home in war-torn Nepal. Initially reluctant to volunteer, he’s quickly won over by the rambunctious, resilient children.
He soon learned their smiles hid untold pain, for many of them were not orphans at all, but victims rescued from human traffickers. Moved by their plight, he vowed to return and reunite them with their families. He’s soon risking his life on a journey through the mountains of Nepal, facing the dangers of a bloody civil war. His quest—told with humor and grace in Little Princes—not only changed the children’s lives, it also led him to a reward he never expected.
At turns tragic, joyful and hilarious, this book is a true story of families, children and what one person is capable of when faced with seemingly insurmountable odds. It’s a testament to the power of faith and the ability of love to carry us beyond our wildest expectations.


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