The Ginger Cat and other Lost Plays

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The Ginger Cat and Other Lost Plays presents three of the rarest of Dunsany's plays, two of them never before published. The Ginger Cat is a brilliant comedy, about a seemingly foolish man who takes only laughter seriously. The Murderers is a crime melodrama with a surprising twist. Mr. Faithful is another comedy, the uproarious adventures of a young man willing to literally live a dog's life in order to marry the woman he loves.

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THE GINGER CAT AND OTHER LOST PLAYS
Lord & Darrell Schweitzer (editor) Dunsany
Manufacturer: Wildside Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000P0WDDC

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At the height of the cold war, a madman tricks the United States and the Soviet Union into launching their missiles and super-hero agents against each other. But instead of nuclear Armageddon, the act releases the secret cosmic potential of the human race. It was twenty years ago today that Rick Veitch took a bucketful of nuclear fear, added a healthy dollop of New Age mysticism, and served up a comic book super-hero series like no one had ever seen before. Written and drawn at the height of the final showdown between American style capitalism and Soviet era communism, The One spins an outrageous doomsday scenario that has proven even more relevant to today's ongoing global crisis. The One begins with the United States and the Soviet Union pushed into World War III by a certain blonde billionaire who has figured out how to turn a profit from a limited nuclear exchange. But the threat of Armageddon awakens a mysterious force in the human race that disarms the missiles and sets the world on a high-speed collision course with evolution. Finding themselves stripped of their atomic arsenals, both the American and Russian governments unleash top secret super-soldier projects to wage hand to hand combat against each other. The ensuing "Superior War" makes nuclear weapons seem like mere child's play.

Customer Reviews:

"The One: The Last Word in Superheroics" is the last in everything.......2007-01-10

I was severely disappointed with this book. Veitch was a pioneer for utilizing fear and the supernatural to deliver unprecendented work of series like "Swamp-Thing". "The One: The Last Word in Superheroics" fails to deliver fear or the supernatural, the themes we've come to expect from series by Veitch. The plot was tired. Whereas "Swamp-Thing" was innovative "The One..." falls flat without a sense of purpose or direction.

A Disturbing Deconstruction Of Super Heroes.......2003-11-02

I read The One when it came out as an Epic Comic and it disturbed me then. And you know what??? It disturbs me now even as it entertains me now which is a good thing.

It is a wake up call for the four color world.

The black and white printing only enhance the effect. If you thought Alan Moore's Watchmen was the last word in super heroes pick this one up.

A forgotten masterpiece.......2003-10-19

Okay, folks, this is it! THE ONE is finally back in print so now you can get a glimpse into what a true genius Rick Veitch was and continues to be! Before BRATPACK, before THE MAXIMORTAL, before RARE BIT FIENDS, there was Rick's run with Alan Moore on the SWAMP THING and there was THE ONE. It's dark, it's sick, it's funny, it's intelligent and more than anything else, it's mind-expanding! The story is a bit hard to explain because it touches on so many different themes, but it's ultimately a warning tale, a social satire and a poke in the ribs to super hero comics. Richie Rich (shown here as Itchie Itch to avoid a Harvey lawsuit) grows up into a Howard Hughes type megalomaniac bent on controlling the world's resources for his own amusement. His warmongering prematurely triggers the arrival of THE ONE who is the living embodiment of the collective souls of mankind (or maybe the living embodiment of the Planet's electromagnetic field). It is his predestined duty to lead mankind into it's collective evolution beyond our physical existance and move us up into life in the vast expanse of space and other dimensions. Unfortunately, mankind's warlike nature, and earth's impending nuclear destruction has forced his arrival too soon, so mankind has to be shocked into cooperating. This was written from the perspective of the cold war brinksmanship of the seventies and eighties. As war heats up between USA and USSR, they each bring their super-humans into play with both humorous and tragic results. Oh yea, did I mention the UBERMAUS? A giant rat (go figure) comes into play as well. Human mutation, Sixties psychedelia, super-heros, evolution and political satire are all present in this volume. It is seriously warped fun and seriously mind-expanding. For you fans of THE MATRIX, THE SANDMAN, THE INVISIBLES, THE FILTH, WATCHMEN and so many other stories of this ilk, I urge you to pick up this volume as it may have been a forerunner of all of these. I also highly recommend THE BRAT PACK and THE MAXIMORTAL, both of which have been recently made available. VEITCH RULES!

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Let your mind play with the ideas

Lathe of Leaven

Not *NEARLY* as good as his later work . . .

A Must-Read for Philip K. Dick Fans

This is the world when you don't recognize it

Amnesia Moon
Jonathan Lethem
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 015603154X

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A funny post-apocalyptic road noir tale of Chaos, who lives in an abandoned projection booth at the Multiplex in Hatfork, Wyoming, and his journey to find the truth at the heart of his own American nightmare.

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In Jonathan Lethem's wryly funny second novel, we meet a young man named Chaos, who's living in a movie theater in post-apocalyptic Wyoming, drinking alcohol, and eating food out of cans.

It's an unusual and at times unbearable existence, but Chaos soon discovers that his post-nuclear reality may have no connection to the truth. So he takes to the road with a girl named Melinda in order to find answers. As the pair travels through the United States they find that, while each town has been affected differently by the mysterious source of the apocalypse, none of the people they meet can fill in their incomplete memories or answer their questions. Gradually, figures from Chaos's past, including some who appear only under the influence of intravenously administered drugs, make Chaos remember some of his forgotten life as a man named Moon.

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Let your mind play with the ideas.......2007-09-21

This is a road story where the main character leaves his town in Wyoming to find his identity and answers to key questions that churn over & over in his mind. It all sounds straight ahead, simple, but there's been an apocalyptic event some indeterminate time ago that has changed the face of the USA; the town he's leaving is full of mutants; he leaves with one of them, a girl covered in fur; his dreams suggest that he's not who he thinks he is and others can see his dreams when they sleep nearby. The story hooked me early.

On their travels Chaos and the girl, Melinda, encounter widely different communities - aside from the mutant town, there's one encased in a green fog, another where government officials star in their own TV show and also police the community...all of which seem to be conjured by those in the community that have the ability to broadcast their dreams to the masses around them. Is Letham commenting on how people can be brainwashed and controlled by those with power? Some of the communities are cult-like, with inhabitants doing as they are told by their demi-god.

No-one seems clear on the nature of the "disaster" that led to this post-apocalyptic world or at what point in time it occurred. There is no shared reality on this point beyond acceptance that a disaster of some sort happened. This makes the book intriguing, especially in a time where we all accept that we're waging a "war on terror". Even if we can't define the scope of what that encompasses, we accept that it needs to be done. It is one shared reality in my world.

This book made me think about how we become communities, how we arrive at shared values, how we are governed/controlled, the power of "group-think" & how much we are prepared to accept at face-value without questioning. The story may seem slight, more novella than novel, but it's thought-provoking if you let your mind play with the ideas.

Lathe of Leaven.......2007-04-01

In 1971, Ursula Le Guin wrote the short novel, _Lathe of Heaven_ in which George Orr's "effective dreaming" tranforms reality in just the arational way you'd expect from the subconscious. Le Guin's novel ends with "the break," an event that changes reality in contradictory and chaotic ways. In both content and form, Lethem's novel feels like a sequel to that novel. Chaos, Everett, Moon--whatever name you go by--lives in a world permanently and madly altered by effective dreaming. The difference is that the talent was unique in _Lathe of Heaven_. In _Amnesia Moon_ dreaming transforms reality locally, producing overlapping and confusing realities. In this case, the aftermath proves less interesting than an inciting incident deep in the background of the Lethem's novel. Though ably written, _Amnesia Moon_ is ultimately less satisfying than Le Guin's work, a less exciting and less interesting continuation. By itself, the novel is compelling enough, but juxtaposed with Le Guin, it seems mere fluff.

Not *NEARLY* as good as his later work . . ........2007-01-12

I've read most of Lethem's novels and all of them are different, so you never know what to expect. And most of them are pretty good, especially _Motherless Brooklyn_ and _The Fortress of Solitude_. Lethem is obviously getting better and better as he goes along -- which may explain some of my dissatisfaction with this one, which was his second effort. It's a post-holocaust story, though it never becomes clear what the holocaust actually consisted of; various characters have differing memories of what happened. Chaos -- whose real name may, or may not, be Everett -- is living in an abandoned multiplex in a small desert town, dividing his time between drinking and dreaming contagious dreams. Circumstances lead him to leave, taking with him a thirteen-year fur-covered girl named Melinda. Their subsequent travels lead them to a settlement high in the mountains that is blinded by some sort of green fog, then to Vacaville, California, where the survivors change houses twice a week and maintain order and curb antisocial behavior by writing each other tickets. They end up in San Francisco, where Chaos/Everett apparently came from originally. Through all of it, his dreams impinge on the sleep of those around him. And at that point, a little over halfway through, I have to confess I lost what little interest I had been able to maintain and withdrew my bookmark. I hate not finishing a book. More than that, I resent it. Especially when the author, like Lethem, has proved his bona fides.

A Must-Read for Philip K. Dick Fans.......2006-12-12

Sometimes I find myself reading the old Philip K. Dick books and thinking: Where did Dick get these ideas? Were they transmitted to him from an alien satellite brain (or Vast Active Living Intelligent System)? Who's picking up those transmissions now?

Here's the answer. Except for the 1990s references, this book could easily have been written by Dick himself. (There is a brief reference to Dick's DR. BLOODMONEY at a San Francisco cocktail party). This book bespeaks an enormous freedom of imagination: "something" has happened, nobody knows what (shades of Delany's DHALGREN), but afterwards some are "dreamers" able to construct oneiric "Fictitious Subjective Realities," and others are trapped in these FSRs. The narrator Chaos (or Everett) and his sidekick, the furry little girl Melinda, travel through a variety of these dreams, from the postapocalyptic wasteland of Hatfork, Wyoming, to the zombified media-slave suburbia of Vacaville, to the fog-shrouded Oedipal struggles of San Francisco. to the wars with the alien hives in LA.

This book is truly an explosion of creative promise, drawing out those threads first revealed in Lethem's short stories in CRANK! and elsewhere. I'm eager to pick up more old Lethem SF, before he caved to the exigencies of verbosity for mainstream acceptance.

This is the world when you don't recognize it.......2006-07-01

Lethem gets a lot of credit from me for trying different scenarios in his novels. He doesn't do the same thing over and over again and I can admire that in a writer because it shows someone willing to take risks and stay away from their comfort zones. Watching someone attempt that, I can forgive the occasional misstep or misfire, because sometimes watching the author trying to put it all together right down before you on paper is enough. The process is fascinating to me, sometimes, even if it doesn't amount to anything. Is Lethem a science-fiction writer? Maybe, maybe not. He certainly uses the trappings of the genre to drape his stories in, without even really committing fully, taking the bits that he likes and casting the rest aside. Like Iain Banks, he shoots for a different target each time and takes a new approach. But unlike Banks, he doesn't sidetrack the more science-fictional work (like this one) into a pseudo-pseudonym like "Jonathan L Lethem", both this and the more "normal" stuff (ie Motherless Brooklyn) all fall under the same canopy. The setting makes the point and the point is what you're looking for, buried under the weirdness. In this case, the novel opens with an apparently post-nuclear war America recovering, taking us into a small town ruled by an overlord, one of the inhabitants is a man called Chaos. But just when you think the struggle is going to be one thing Lethem starts to turn it and basically say "Things are not meant to be this way" and has Chaos eject himself from the town, with furry girl Melinda in tow. What transpires then is a journey West, going constantly outward, trying to find what went wrong and if it really is wrong, how it can be fixed. And, if it can't be, what will happen next. Lethem uses the setting to make a comment on modern America and does the reader a service but not playing the surrealist landscape for laughs, for the most part he plays it straight and he plays it serious, this is the world they live in and it is no joke, even when the events seem to demand somebody laugh at them, at the pure absurdism of it all. By the time he gets to the third town and starts debating the nature of luck, you realize that the landscape may be more malleable than you previously thought it was and that Chaos (if that's who he is) isn't so much in it as a part of it. Throughout the novel Lethem seems to be shooting for a Philip Dick vibe, with the characters and the reader ultimately questioning the very nature of reality and its subjectivity and trying to determine how much we really know. What separates it is that Lethem's surrealism is more calculated, he's got a plan here and he's leading us, if not to a conclusion, to a point where we can make our own conclusions and debate how viable they are. In Dick's case, especially toward the end, I think he really believed it was happening, in some aspect of this world. Lethem is trying to make a point and Dick is showing us how he thought the world actually was and in that sense Lethem lacks some of that author's cascading intensity, the driving need to push through just one more veil to show you how things really are. Chaos goes to California and discovers things, which lead to more things. He gets some control over the things he learns and finds out that he may be powerless, or maybe all-powerful. The novel doesn't end neatly, in fact it really doesn't end at all, and one gets the sense that Lethem really had no idea how to wrap it up in a way that would be satisfying to everyone and instead just left it there dangling and let us write out own endings, or at least decide at which point to snip it off. In the end that makes the book a little less than it could be but the journey itself is interesting enough. And maybe the next one will be sharper, a little more incisive. But for the moment we have this and even if it doesn't succeed grandly like you hope it would, it's an attempt and if we don't give some credit for attempting, we'll never produce anything at all.

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At a loss for words.
We're not all hillbillies
no follow up on details
A Dubious Best Seller

Biting the Moon
Martha Grimes
Manufacturer: Onyx Trade
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0451409132

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A teenage girl wakes up alone in a bed and breakfast in Santa Fe with no memory of who she is or how she got there. The innkeeper explains that the man who brought her there said he was her father. But the one thing she knows for sure is that he is not--and that she must flee before he returns. Taking his jacket, money, and gun, she hikes into the surrounding mountains; in an unlikely scenario that only a writer as talented as Grimes can make plausible, she survives the harsh winter and even flourishes, seeking solace in the company of coyotes she frees from their illegal traps. When she reemerges from the wilderness a few months later, seeking to unravel the mystery of who she is, she walks into the life of 14-year-old Mary Dark Hope, a lonely orphan who becomes her ally and companion. Together they track the stranger who abducted her, who holds the key to the secret of her identity--the man she knows only as "Daddy."

The thrilling odyssey that takes the two girls into the murky world of illegal dogfights, hunting, and wild-animal profiteers culminates in a dramatic confrontation, but it is the brilliantly realized characters rather than the plot that capture the reader's imagination and keep the pages turning. Another tour de force for Grimes, and a cause for celebration for her many fans. --Jane Adams

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In a unique departure from her acclaimed Richard Jury novels, bestselling author Martha Grimes presents "a lyrical coming-of-age journey" (Chicago Sun-Times) featuring two characters from her previous novels.

A nameless young woman awakes in a strange bed-and-breakfast with a message that her "Daddy" will soon return. Fearing the worst, she flees into the wilderness and meets Mary Dark Hope. Together, the two track down the one person who holds the key to the girl's identity: The man who abducted her....

Phenomenal praise for Biting the Moon:

"A coming-of-age odyssey [that] inspires some grand nature writing from Grimes."--New York Times Book Review

"Grave and enchanting."--Kirkus Reviews

"[Biting the Moon] will expand Miss Grimes's readership base, her own scope, and her readers' horizons...a plot that keeps readers turning pages at breakneck speed to the harrowing conclusion....Darker than many of the Jury novels--and far more sinewy--Biting the Moon is an intriguing departure."--Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Characters to care about...evocative."--Chicago Tribune

"Suspenseful...satisfying...deeply moving."--Library Journal

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Don't Listen to the Negative Reviews........2006-01-12

I'm glad I read this book before its predecessor, Rainbow's End, because I might have believed all the amazingly bad reviews here. Inspector Jury needs to be placed before a jury and found guilty for being boring.

True, I found both Andie and Mary a bit too mature for teenagers, and they both got lucky too often, but I found their special and fast bond as two eccentric loners touching and unique as they travelled together saving animals and hunting down the man who'd abducted Andie many months before. Agreed, you had to suspend some disbelief, but the unfinished business of Mary not checking up on Andie after their time together was through had a distinctly sweet romantic aire that had nothing to do with any conventional love story, and I liked that she didn't persue it further. I didn't even know about the unfair and outrageous antics of canned hunting until discovering this book, and loved these characters all the more for trying to save animals, plus righting the wrongs of human injustices where they could. Full of interesting characters and unpredictable twists and turns, I saw this story as a bit of escapist heaven combined with elements of an author who is definitely a dreamer of unconventionally romantic tales. Animal welfare is also a big deal in my book, so I really enjoyed the adventures of Andie and Mary. Who was Andie? We never really find out, but we know that Mary is a better person for having known her. A positive tale that dares the reader not to care about its many characters and causes, I found it irresistibly hard to put down.

At a loss for words........2004-10-13

This books is laughable. The author portrays animals in such a manner that I first thought I was reading "Bambi". Also, the story skips from one scene to the next without any obvious purpose. The characters seem like they might have been written by a twelve year old. Very poorly written. This book is proof to the world that it is possible to get just about anything published these days.

We're not all hillbillies.......2003-11-20

Colorado is not the south, the dialogue of those from Cripple Creek was very amusing, we don't really sound like that here but then the English probably think Americans all sound the same. And I agree with other reviewers, how can you focus on animal issues and not touch on slaughter-houses, the girls sure did enjoy many meat-laden meals in this book! Too bad they didn't also make a stop at a meat packing plant and free some cows, lambs and chickens!

no follow up on details.......2003-11-20

I assume Andi was a ghost from the bus crash but why did she take all those polaroids "just in case" and Grimes never followed up on that? Little details like that that she went to great pain to mention, that you assume she'll eventually bring all together and she never does!!! And what was the point of the river trip and the drowning? We never got an explanation. Did Grimes just get tired of writing or sacrifice detail to make her deadline? I think it would have been clever to have had Mary Dark Hope travel back through Utah and stop by the orphanage or the library and see Andi's picture and name and maybe learn a bit about her. I would have liked to have known Andi's real name but if the point was to make you wonder if she was a ghost and Mary Dark Hope was on a Quest then I can see why Grimes didn't go there.

A Dubious Best Seller.......2003-08-01

I listened to the audio version of this book, which may have helped some; it was engaging enough, in spite of the frequent sordid plot twists around every corner - the canned hunt was especially disheartening - the only thing at the end that left me shaking my head was, what the heck happened to Andi ?? Mary Dark Hope waxed reflective on the Sandias, and how Andi's name was in them. Did Andi go back to the cabin in the woods ?? Was she a ghost, from the bus crash ?? I finished the book, feeling like I'd been left hanging.
If anyone picked up on the what happened at the end, could you please clue me in ? !

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Amnesia Moon
Jonathon Lethem
Manufacturer: NY Harcourt Brace 1995.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000P8CNIO

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Amnesia Moon
Jonathan Lethem
Manufacturer: FABER and FABER
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WTI9ZM

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Amnesia Moon
Johnathan Lethem
Manufacturer: HARCOURT BRACE & COMPANY
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OJYGSE

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Amnesia Moon 1ST Edition
Jonathan Lethem
Manufacturer: HARCOURT BRACE & CO@
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PVFMM0

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AMNESIA MOON.
Jonathan. Lethem
Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace & Co,
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Advances in early memory development research: Insights about the dark side of the moon [An article from: Developmental Review]

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Advances in early memory development research: Insights about the dark side of the moon [An article from: Developmental Review]
M.L. Courage , and M.L. Howe
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000RR0HHW

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This digital document is a journal article from Developmental Review, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Over the past three decades impressive progress has been made in documenting the development of encoding, storage, and retrieval processes in preverbal infants and children. This literature includes an extensive and diverse database as well as theoretical conjecture about the underlying processes that drive early memory development. A selective review of some of this literature is provided to illustrate the extent and scope of this research, what is currently known about how memory develops over time, and some of the questions that remain to be answered. Importantly, research on early memory development has provided insights into a number of longstanding issues that have been prominent in the memory literature more generally (e.g., the memory systems question, infantile amnesia). It has also yielded practical information relevant to memory functioning in real world settings (e.g., for forensic and clinical psychology). We conclude that the basic processes needed to encode, store, and retrieve information are present very early in life and that although significant developmental advances take place across early childhood, many of the processes that govern memory in preverbal children are common with those of verbal children and adults. These issues are discussed and future directions for research are suggested.

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Amnesia Moon
Jonathan Lethem
Manufacturer: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KPWOCW

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Amnesia Moon
Jonathan Lethem
Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NQGRJE

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The timeless wisdom embedded in these humble rhymes is beautifully echoed by the observations of the ancient Zen masters which punctuate the text, and in the haiku-like drawing by Frederick Franck.

Customer Reviews:

Neat two sided cookbook!.......2003-07-12

This cook book is so neat because on one side it has regular everyday cookies, you turn it over and it has hoilday cookies. I have never seen another cook book like this before. There aren't many pictures which was kind of dissapointing, but there are cookie recipes from around the world so that make up for the number of pictures. The neatest recipe seems to be Maple leaves where you actually use maple syrup. I haven't made anything yet beacause I just checked this book out, but I can't wait to make the leaves this fall. There are also some neat bar cookie things that in this book also that would be neat to make for hoilday parties. One of the neatest holiday recipes is called Sledding Teddies, and Sledding Bears. The Sledding Teddies are 3-D which is really cute.

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applique, quilting

Sweet

Elly actually makes you want to start applique!

Applique 12 Easy Ways!: Charming Quilts, Giftable Projects, and Timeless Techniques
Elly Sienkiewicz
Manufacturer: C&T Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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applique, quilting.......2007-02-18

Another excellent book of Elly's. Highly recommend this wonderful source of applique techniques. You can learn so much from this one.

Sweet.......2006-08-29

This was one of my first applique books.It is a charming book for beginner appliquers.Many heart constructs,as well as simple piecing.Each pattern is labeled by ease of construction according to the various method(s) used to applique.Elly explains 10 different ways to applique.The directions are clear.Each project gives you the best method of applique to use(of course you can use which ever you want) for ease of construction. This is a great little book to learn how to applique.

Elly actually makes you want to start applique!.......1996-11-21

With twelve different ways to applique, this book makes it very easy for a beginner to actually sew an applique project that really looks great when done. From needle turn, to reverse applique, Elly provides all the details you need to learn from the beginning, or to perfect methods you are already familiar with.

Wearable Quilts: Sewing Timeless Fashions Using Traditional Patterns

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Some info about this book
Great Book for all Quilters

Wearable Quilts: Sewing Timeless Fashions Using Traditional Patterns
Roselyn Gadia-Smitley
Manufacturer: Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0806988002

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Some info about this book.......2007-01-10

These terrific projects are simpler and quicker to make than full size quilts - especially with the easy to follow patterns and step by step instructions.

Take your pick from the lovely designs for distinctive items, from meandering vine, rose medallion, and honeycomb quilt vests to crazy quilt kimono, drunkard's path, and octagon star jackets - and there are seven more complete projects plus a section of additional patchwork patterns.

You will also get instructions on how to adapt patchwork patterns to clothing designs you may have on hand, as well as special sections with valuable tips on coordinating your wardrobe, increasing and decreasing the sizes of patterns, and embellishing projects with special finishing techniques.

There are full color photos showing the completed projects.

Industry reviews:
"A good variety of garment patterns are accompanied by instructions for appliqué, trapunto (stuffed quilting), English or wadded quilting, and Italian quilting with raised channels...enough patterns to inspire beginners and to offer accomplished quilters a fine resource for future projects--there is plenty of material for every quilter."
Booklist

"A good variety of garment patterns are accompanied by instructions for appliqué, trapunto (stuffed quilting), English or wadded quilting, and Italian quilting with raised channels...enough patterns to inspire beginners and to offer accomplished quilters a fine resource for future projects--there is plenty of material for every quilter."

Great Book for all Quilters.......1999-09-05

Not only does Wearable Quilts explain in detail how to construct a quilted garment, it also gives many block patterns which make it an asset to any quilter's library!

Timeless Halloween Collectibles, 1920 To 1949: A Halloween Reference Book From The Beistle Company Archive With Price Guide (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

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What Would Halloween Be Without Beistle Decorations Filling Up The House?
Great Reference Book
For Beistle Vintage Halloween Lovers...

Timeless Halloween Collectibles, 1920 To 1949: A Halloween Reference Book From The Beistle Company Archive With Price Guide (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Claire M. Lavin
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0764321463

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What Would Halloween Be Without Beistle Decorations Filling Up The House?.......2006-08-30

"The Beistle Company" has been around for a long, long time, providing decorations and party supplies to a countless number of people in the United States and around the world.

The company was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the year 1900 by Martin Luther ("M.L.") Beistle. M.L.'s company has grown to become one of the largest producers of Halloween novelties and party supplies in the world.

When M.L. Beistle started his company, he worked out of the basement of his Pennsylvania home, mainly crafting decor for hotel lobbies.

Allow me to quote from Beistle's very own website (located at beistle.com), via an "FAQ" section at that site:

"We {The Beistle Company} are the world's largest manufacturer of party goods. We have been designing and producing decorations and party goods for over 100 years. Our hallmark is the quality of products and the high level of customer service we provide."

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I still have a couple of packages of old-fashioned Beistle halloween cutouts that I happily display around the house each and every October. It just wouldn't be Halloween-time without Beistle's first-class and spooky-looking cardboard decorations adorning the walls.

Beistle's nostalgic 1950s- and 1960s-era Halloween cutouts can still be obtained at some stores in the USA that sell holiday-themed party decorations and supplies. I can recall buying many of Beistle's products at "Woolworth's", when that store was still in business years ago. "Kresge's" (which later became "K-Mart") was another good place to pick up Beistle items many moons ago.

Today, however, you'll have to search around for other stores and specialty shoppes that may carry a few pieces of vintage Beistle decor.

The packages of Beistle Halloween decorations that I currently have feature a total of eight cardboard cutouts per pack, one of each of the following vintage Beistle-created designs (in vivid color). Remember these?.......

1.) "The Haunted House", with a spooky-looking witch standing in the front door of a house. The witch comes complete with a pointed hat and a cane. There's also a black cat sitting in a window. An owl can also be seen in the attic window above the witch. A flying bat is also part of this eerie hunk of decor. The bat is seen flying against a bright yellow full moon which looms appropriately above the witch's scary-looking dwelling. A leafless tree stretches its way skyward on this cutout too, with a well-placed lit lantern hanging from one of its branches just above the house's front door.

This colorful "Witch In The House" paperboard cutout is my all-time favorite Halloween decoration. It's a simple piece of cardboard -- but it depicts everything about Halloween so well within its 6" x 9" dimensions. Even the "howling wind" is represented here, via a series of lines drawn on the cutout near the witch and the door of the haunted house. I don't know who it was who designed this particular piece of Halloween artwork -- but I tip my hat to that artist.

2.) "Owl Perched On Tree Limb In Front Of Full Moon". .... This Beistle classic is my second-favorite among the cutouts made by that company. The owl's wide-open, piercing eyes are a standout feature. I've also taken note of the "extra markings" that have been added around the owl's eyes on post-1960s versions of this particular cutout. I had previous versions of this decoration which lacked these accentuated eye markings. Either version is first rate, and always worthy of being displayed each and every October. :)

3.) "Black Cat / Jack-O-Lantern On A Pole / Smiling Crescent Moon".

4.) "Jack-O-Lantern With Straw Hat".

5.) "Jack-O-Lantern With Corn-Cob Pipe".

6.) "Witch Flying On Broomstick Over A Crescent Moon".

7.) "Black Cat With Monocle".

8.) "Close Up Of Witch's Face In Front Of Full Moon".

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Beistle has manufactured some very simple designs for these cutouts, but they each emit an effectively-spooky and eerie quality that befits the "All Hallows Eve" season very well.

The Beistle Company, as referenced throughout this 160-page softcover book, makes many other Halloween-related items besides just the paperboard cutouts I've gushed about above.

But, to me, Beistle shall forever be exclusively associated with those simple, but absolutely perfect, pieces of thin colorful cardboard with pictures of owls, witches, cats, and jack-o-lanterns on them.

Just like that green tree that gets decorated each December, those hunks of Beistle cardboard are a looked-forward-to tradition every October. To borrow this book's title, I'd have to classify them as "Timeless Halloween Collectibles".

Great Reference Book.......2005-08-03

This book has good descriptions and great graphics for identifying and pricing old, hard-to-find Beistle Halloween paper goods.

For Beistle Vintage Halloween Lovers..........2005-03-04

Schiffer recently published a book that solely profiles vintage Halloween items made by Beistle from 1920-1949. Titled "Timeless Halloween Collectibles", the data was compiled by Claire M. Lavin who had access to Beistle's archives. The book has both strong and weak points. Among the strong is the photography. Done by Claire's husband, Phil Lavin, the images are crisp and are simply superb. The text is comprised almost entirely of quotes from various Beistle catalogs that helpfully point out the actual names Beistle assigned to their products. The 160-page book is logically arranged and has a generally pleasing layout. Curiously, the book has a 2005 publication date, although it was released in October 2004. As with any book, there are weaknesses. The pages largely contain items seen in previously published references. Although there is some new information unearthed, considering the possibilities any 160-page book provides, there wasn't as much as I had hoped. The book's serious shortcomings are a lack of explanation as to when catalogs were published during the year relative to the actual availability of the items shown (for instance was the 1929 catalog issued in January 1929 with product availability in February 1929, or was it issued in December 1929 with product availability in 1930?); a surprising lack of explanation or even discussion of the varying marks Beistle used during this time period; and a lack of definitive explanation as to which items shown were actually produced for public consumption versus those items residing in the archives that were never commercially produced. The captions are almost all mere recitations of Beistle catalog verbiage. I wish there would have been more of the compiler's voice here. That said, I do think the book is worth buying in order to more fully understand the importance of Beistle in the vintage Halloween memorabilia realm.

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