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The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club: A Debutante Dropout Mystery (Debutante Dropout Mysteries)
Susan McBride Manufacturer: Avon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060564083 Release Date: 2006-01-31 |
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WEALTHY TEXAS WIDOWS NEED LOVING TOO...
...which is why Bebe Kent joined a dating service for "discriminating" seniors soon after relocating to the swanky Belle Meade retirement community. Unfortunately, Bebe didn't live long enough to meet "Mr. Right." And though doctors declared her death totally natural, extravagant blue-blooded Dallas socialite Cissy Blevins Kendricks believes her old friend's demise was hastened -- and she's ready to check herself into Belle Meade incognito to prove it.
Cissy's rebellious, sometime-sleuthing daughter, Andrea, wants no part of her mother's glittering social whirl -- and she's anything but pleased to have Cissy muscle her way into Andy's milieu. She has no choice, however, but to join her mom in search of the truth -- especially when more well-heeled widows start turning up dead...
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Andrea ends up helping Cissy solve a mystery this time.......2007-04-17
The Characters Weren't Given Enough Plot.......2006-12-05
Retirement Community Murder..........2006-05-25
An Absolute Delight.......2006-04-19
the lone star lonely hearts club.......2006-04-01
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The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club (A Debutante Dropout Mystery)
Manufacturer: Avon Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0739464868 |
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The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club : A Debutante Dropout Mystery
Susan McBride Manufacturer: Avon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OF0NTY |
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The Golden Harpy II: Feather Lost On The Wind
S. C. Klaus Manufacturer: The Peppertree Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1934246468 |
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On the jungle planet Dora, the handsome half-human, half-bird creatures called harpies finally dwell in peace. Shail, their golden ruler, has made a truce ending years of slaughter by human hunters. Reigning over the western outback, he settles down with his mate, Kari, to raise a family. Now evil forces conspire against him. He and his foster brother Aron face a formidable enemy, the ultimate challenge to the harpy flock. But the greatest threat to Shail may lie in his wild animal nature and his demons within. The Golden Harpy II, Feather Lost on the Wind, sequel to The Golden Harpy, received superb reviews. Harpy II is a fast-paced, action-packed fantasy. It raises a haunting and realistic question: Can the harpies - can nature - survive mankind?
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The Golden Harpy
S. C. Klaus Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0595316905 |
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What is a Harpy? To the human inhabitants of the jungle planet, Dora, a harpy is a half bird, half man winged monster guilty of stealing and molesting their women. Despite having willowy seductive human torsos, the mute feral harpies are precarious game animals, hunted and prized by the men for their lofty trophy wings. . But to a beautiful young woman named Kari, the harpies are timid handsome creatures, unfairly persecuted. As a child, she experienced a harpy encounter when an adolescent blond male saved her from the deadly jaws of a giant eel. Kari returns to Dora after ten years in Earth's schools determined to unravel the mysteries surrounding the elusive harpies despite her father's warnings. She is plagued by questions. Are the harpies truly dangerous thieving animals, who deserve the hunting extinction? Why does her father despise them and the most haunting question of all, why, in spite of the harpy treachery, is she blindly drawn and devoted to this elegant golden male harpy? The Golden Harpy is a futuristic adventure fantasy shrouded in mystery and suspense, intertwined with deadly hazards and horrendous cruelty, as well as beauty, wonder and undying love.Download Description
What is a Harpy? To the human inhabitants of the jungle planet, Dora, a harpy is a half bird, half man winged monster guilty of stealing and molesting their women. Despite having willowy seductive human torsos, the mute feral harpies are precarious game animals, hunted and prized by the men for their lofty trophy wings. . But to a beautiful young woman named Kari, the harpies are timid handsome creatures, unfairly persecuted. As a child, she experienced a harpy encounter when an adolescent blond male saved her from the deadly jaws of a giant eel. Kari returns to Dora after ten years in EarthCustomer Reviews:
Escape To The Planet Dora.......2006-03-07
SiFi Fantasy Story is Exciting, Mystical and Action Packed!.......2006-01-20
The Pepper Tree Literary Magazine by Ellie Parnes.......2005-07-08
CAPTIVATING.......2005-03-22
exotic adventure love story.......2004-10-28
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YOU ONLY DIE TWICE SHADOW WARRIOR 2 (Shadow Warrior, No 2)
Ryan Hughes Manufacturer: Pocket ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0671018809 |
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Compelling and Action-Packed.......2004-02-09
pretty good.......1999-12-02
pretty good.......1999-12-02
Not as Good.......1999-07-07
Not as good.......1998-12-23
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Southern Living Annual Recipes 2003 (Southern Living Annual Recipes)
Manufacturer: Leisure Arts ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0848727444 |
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A handy compilation of every single recipe from an entire year of the magazine. All-new recipes-almost 1,000-are each tested and made foolproof by the famous Test Kitchens of Southern Living. From down-home dishes to sophisticated fare, these recipes and casual entertaining ideas have a decidedly Southern accent.Customer Reviews:
Grab this book while you can!.......2004-07-15
Finally!.......2004-02-07
Also recommended: Fried Green Tomatoes (the book AND the recipe book), Jackson McCrae's Bark of the Dogwood (for a good fiction read) and the book "Grits."
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The Beginner's Guide to Animal Communication: How to Listen and Talk With Your Animal Friends (The Beginner's Guides)
Carol Gurney Manufacturer: Sounds True ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
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ASIN: 159179109X |
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The ability to communicate with animals is not a rare gift, but a skill we all possess. On The Beginner's Guide to Animal Communication, author and teacher Carol Gurney brings nearly 20 years' experience in interpreting the language of animals to anyone seeking a "heart-to-heart" connection with the special companions in their lives. From developing deep intuition into the thoughts and feelings of animals to learning how to verify the information you receive, here is an illuminating course of useful exercises and expert guidance to help listeners open to the unconditioned love animals freely offer.Customer Reviews:
It works!.......2004-10-24
Organized to "reach" you........2004-05-03
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Teddy Bear Centennial Book
Linda Mullins Manufacturer: Hobby House Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0875886132 |
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Commemorate 100 years of teddy bears! This handsome book celebrates the ever-popular teddy bear with 230 color photographs and stories from around the world. This book will warm the hearts of everyone.From the first teddy bear in the days of President Theodore Roosevelt, now in the Smithsonian Collection, to the delightful creations of the 21st century, this souvenir book chronicles the evolution of the teddy bear. Share with world-renown museums, like the Smithsonian, and manufacturers such as Steiff their most treasured memories of teddy bears. Teddy bear artists and collectors are included too. Come celebrate a century of love and joy with the teddy bear!
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100 Years of Teddy Bears: A Centennial Celebration (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Dee Hockenberry , and Tom Hockenberry Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0764315137 |
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The teddy bear turns 100 this year! Celebrate the origins of the delightful toy bears that have charmed adults and children around the world for a century. Here are stories and over 350 color photographs of some of the most important people, events, and bears that have contributed to Teddy's enormous popularity. Theodore Roosevelt who inspired the toy bears in 1902, Seymour Eaton who wrote Roosevelt Bears stories from 1905 to 1909, Margarete Steiff who created bears in 1912, Peter Bull who wrote the nostalgic and inspiring Teddy Bear Book in 1969, and many others are featured with historical information about their importance to the bears. Designers, manufacturers, and collectors all will be enthusiastic about this sumptuous parade of the world's most charming bears. Happy Birthday Teddy!
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10 Patterns for Carving Whales (A Schiffer Book for Woodcarvers)
Brian Gilmore Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0887408559 |
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Here is a chance to get to know some of earth's most fascinating creatures through wood carving. Brian Gilmore provides patterns and easy to follow carving instructions for 10 species of whales. More than 150 color photographs lead the carver step-by-step through the carving and painting of the Great Right Whale and the Killer Whale and provide direction for the alterations needed to carve the other species. All of the projects in the book can be made as simple or as complex as the carver desires. A gallery of whale carvings will help provide ideas and inspiration, and for the budding naturalists, short descriptions of each of the ten species are provided., 150+ color photos, 8 1/2" x 11"
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Christianity and Imperial Culture: Chinese Christian Apologetics in the Seventeenth Century and Their Latin Patristic Equivalent (Studies in Christian Mission)
Xiaochao Wang Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9004109277 |
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Georganne Deen - An Exhibition of Paintings
Georganne Deen Manufacturer: Smart Art Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: 1889195111 |
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Georganne Deen
Philip Monk Manufacturer: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0921047355 |
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Season of the Western Witch
Georganne Deen Manufacturer: Perceval Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0972143653 |
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Season of the Western Witch marks the debut of Los Angeles artist Georganne Deen's poetry. Deen began compiling her poetry from her early childhood in Fort Worth, Texas and has since developed an intensely personal style by mixing nursery rhymes with perfume ads, new age ideas, beat poetry, and rock-n roll-madness. A peep show into a fierce and fragile comedy most would be loathe to lay open, the book features a foreword by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and a CD packed with material by Deen, Moore, and Mortensen.
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Georganne Deen (exhibition).: An article from: C: International Contemporary Art
Steve Reinke Manufacturer: C The Visual Arts Foundation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00098DEQ0 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from C: International Contemporary Art, published by C The Visual Arts Foundation on December 22, 1998. The length of the article is 535 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Willie Brown: A Biography
James Richardson Manufacturer: University of California Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0520213157 |
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This is the first comprehensive biography of Willie Brown, one of California's most enduring and controversial politicians. Audacious, driven, talented--Brown has dominated California politics longer and more completely than any other public figure. James Richardson, a senior writer for The Sacramento Bee, takes us from Brown's childhood, through his years as Speaker of the State Assembly, to his election as San Francisco's mayor. Along the way we get a riveting, behind-the-scenes account of three decades of California politics.Customer Reviews:
A Great Political Biography.......2001-09-13
The other slick Willie.......2001-02-01
left-leaning love letter to a fascinating political figure.......2000-08-19
On the objective side, the book does call Brown to task for several ethical and race-baiting missteps, and he largely accepts the common view of Brown as a fixer extraordinare who made the trains run on time in the legislature at the expense of an agenda. The author also perceptively highlights why Brown succeeded tactically in holding his Speakership for so long, sometimes by pulling absolute political miracles. This is when the book is at its best, showing how Brown has become one of the most powerful, savvy figures in California political history.
On the minus side (for those who prefer their history unfiltered by the author's personal politics) references abound throughout the book to "ultra right conservatives", "hard right conservatives" and the like but there are no similiar references to figures on the left; Jesse Unruh and Ronald Reagan have "cronies" while Brown has friends.
While clearly critical on occasions, at other times the author blatantly bends over backwards to make Brown look good. When Brown made some vicious personal public remarks about then Governor Duekmajian (sp?) the author criticizes Brown yet excuses him by saying he was just doing so to satisfy the Democrat Assembly members who disliked the Duke, yet its impossible (for me at least) to believe Brown's Assembly delegation ever included people who demanded hateful comments from the Speaker. Throughout the book, Brown is portrayed as a consummate, off-the-cuff showman who's unmatched with his rapier-like comments, yet we're expected to believe this one was done calculatingly to satisfy people who insisted that Brown engage in brutal personal insults. This doesn't hold water.
The author also uncritically accepts Brown's assertion that he went to law school on a whim and says if he hadn't seized this seemingly random impulse, he never would have gone into politics. This seems a stretch to say the least, largely because the author paints a quite vivid picture of Brown the showman who lives for thie limelight -- it's virtually impossible to imagine this truly unique personality not in politics. That, and the fact that he was running for office by the time he was 28 indicate to me that like Bill Clinton, Willie Brown was intent on being a politician at an early age.
In the "give Willie the benefit of the doubt" category, outrageous remarks that can be fairly categorized as inciting violence are excused because Brown, according to the author, was so personally devastated by RFK's assissination a few weeks before. Yet the author provides nothing to support this strange assertion. It seems reasonable to conclude the author is going to extremes to excuse some of Brown's most inexcusable conduct.
At the end, the author drops all pretense of objectivity and discloses that he was a McGovern delegate at the '72 convention (which explains why, although doesn't justify, the excessive focus on that convention's minutae) and highlights Brown's greatest achievement as stymying the agendas of numerous Republican governors during his Assembly career.
The book was enjoyable largely because the subject is so fascinating. Parts of it are extremely well written, filled with strong analysis and the author undeniably did a tremendous job researching the book, but even more, in landing firsthand interviews with the major participants. Nonetheless, the book is unevenly focused, lavishing attention on Brown's flamboyance at the expense of personal insights. There is also a sometimes subtle but unmistakable bias from beginning to end in favor of Brown's leftist politics and Brown himself.
Plodding hagiography.......2000-07-14
Over and over we are told of Brown's love of beautiful women, his "flamboyance", his expensive tastes. But who among us does not love beautiful women? And what, precisely, makes wearing an expensive suit flamboyant? If an expensive suit is flamboyant, then George Bush and Lloyd Bentsen must be flamboyant.
Is it not important to know what a politician thinks, in addition to what he wears and drives?
An insanely detailed overview of an amazing career.......1999-01-26
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Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times
Willie L. Brown Jr. Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 074329081X |
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Cousin Willie & Me - A Collection of Stories
James A. Brown Manufacturer: Self Published ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000RGZRGO |
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James Brown, born in Kentucky, raised in Tennessee has penned a collection of stories about growing up in the 1930s
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Willie Brown: A Biography -
James Richardson - Manufacturer: University Of California Press - ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OMNYQQ |
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Willie Mae (Brown Thrasher Bks)
Elizabeth Kytle , and Joyce A. Ladner Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0820323764 |
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Reflections
Willie L Brown Manufacturer: s.n ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00073EGGY |
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Willie Brown - a Biography
James Richardson Manufacturer: California ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000O60J06 |
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