The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club: A Debutante Dropout Mystery (Debutante Dropout Mysteries)
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  • Andrea ends up helping Cissy solve a mystery this time
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The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club: A Debutante Dropout Mystery (Debutante Dropout Mysteries)
Susan McBride
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0060564083
Release Date: 2006-01-31

Book Description

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...

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Andrea ends up helping Cissy solve a mystery this time.......2007-04-17

Andrea Kendricks doesn't want to be at Bebe Kent's memorial service, but her mother talked her into going to be her moral support. Bebe was one of her dear friends. After the service, Andrea's mother, Cissy, announces she believes Bebe was murdered. Andrea's afraid the grief is too much for Cissy.

Bebe had recently moved into Belle Meade, a swanky retirement community. When Cissy takes her there, she runs into an old friend she hasn't seen for years.

Then another resident is found dead. Another friend of Cissy's. Now Cissy is insistent that they were both murdered, even though there is no evidence to support her claims.

Andrea agrees to help her mother prove it was murder to humor her. But as Cissy begins digging, Andrea realizes something is going on and joins in the investigation. Can they get to the truth without finding themselves pushing up daisies?

I love this series. Andrea is such a fun character. I'm actually warming to her mother with each book. I'm not into the society scene. That's probably why I like Andrea so much. I thought this book was the best glimpse into the real Cissy and now I like her better.

I really enjoyed the mystery in this book and the retirement community was a great backdrop. I highly recommend this book and the complete series.

3 out of 5 stars The Characters Weren't Given Enough Plot.......2006-12-05

Andrea Kendricks was looking forward to a nice relaxing Saturday alone. However, one of her mother's best friends, Bebe Kent, has died, and "Andy" gets talked into attending the memorial service to be Cissy's moral support. After the service, Andy learns that Cissy thinks her friend was murdered. Clearly, Cissy's grief is affecting her mental health.

Bebe had recently moved into the Belle Meade, a plush retirement community for the extremely rich. When another resident is found dead, Cissy again finds the normal looking circumstances suspicious. Could she be right?

Having read the previous two books in the series, I expected the plot of the book to be a little slow right out of the gate. However, I wasn't prepared for this. The plot moved forward with glacial speed, with too much of it being revealed on the back of the book. Frankly, the back of the book may be my complaint more then anything else. I love Andy and Cissy, so I was highly disappointed by the lack of development. One of Andy's childhood friends makes an appearance, and I loved learning more about Andy from their interactions.

Die hard fans of the series will still enjoy reading the book. But don't bother reading if you don't love the characters.

4 out of 5 stars Retirement Community Murder..........2006-05-25

In the 3rd Debutante Dropout Mystery, Andrea Kendricks Blevins (aka Andy) feels even more pressure than usual from her wealthy Texas mother, Cissy Blevins. Normally, the pressure facing Andy has to do with the fact that she shuns high society, and lives without her trust fund. Always trying to marry her off to a rich suitor, Cissy spends a lot of time worrying about her independent daughter. But when one of Cissy's friends is found dead, Cissy enlists the help of her daughter to prove that the death was not from natural causes as the retirement community claims. Adding insult to injury, Andy soon learns that an old camp buddy, Annabelle, is the proud owner of the swanky community. Annabelle begs Andy to get Cissy off the case, and puts Andy is a difficult situation. And when Cissy goes deep undercover, will a killer be unmasked or will Cissy find herself as the latest victim?

I really enjoy this fun series! It is nice to see the relationship between Andy and Cissy grow with each new installment, and I have enjoyed watching Andy become more understanding of her mother's point of view. Some of the mystery itself was a bit unbelievable, but it did not take away from the story itself. For example, I found it a bit implausible that a retirement community could have a doctor on staff that could rule a death "natural causes" or not, especially with more than one death so close together. It seemed to me that Annabelle would have been more than willing to have an autopsy done just to prove no foul play was involved, which added to the mystery. I was kept guessing almost to the end, and still have some questions that I believe could be answered in future books. There is also a hint of a romance for Cissy, which could be a welcome addition to the series.

The first book in the series is called "Blue Blood". Enjoy!

4 out of 5 stars An Absolute Delight.......2006-04-19

This was my very first Susan McBridge book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Since I'm in the age group of most of the characters in The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club I could relate to some of what went on though made me wary of high-class communities for seniors. If you want light reading that will make you giggle at times while stretching your brain to figure out "who done it", give this one a try.

Marilyn Meredith, author of Wingbeat and other Deputy Tempe Crabtree mysteries.

2 out of 5 stars the lone star lonely hearts club.......2006-04-01

Disappointing. Our heroine spends 300 pages convinced her mother (as sane as any wealthy Texas matron) is crazy. Not believable even in the pretend world. I was looking forward to this third outing of Ms. Kendricks but had to keep reading faster to not put it down completely. Surely #4 will be back on track.
The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club (A Debutante Dropout Mystery)
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    The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club (A Debutante Dropout Mystery)

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    Binding: Hardcover
    ASIN: 0739464868
    The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club : A Debutante Dropout Mystery
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      Susan McBride
      Manufacturer: Avon
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      The Golden Harpy II: Feather Lost On The Wind
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        The Golden Harpy II: Feather Lost On The Wind
        S. C. Klaus
        Manufacturer: The Peppertree Press
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        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?
        The Golden Harpy
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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.

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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

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars Escape To The Planet Dora.......2006-03-07

        I happened upon author S.C. Klaus at a book signing one day recently and bought a copy of her novel, The Golden Harpy. This was a very good decision on my part because I found myself quickly engrossed in her story once I started reading her book. A futuristic adventure fantasy, the story unwinds a seemingly unending series of obstacles that interfere with the undying love between a young woman, named Kari, and Shail (The Golden Harpy). Klaus writes with an engaging style that allows the reader to float through her story, as if on a hovercraft over the planet Dora. I really enjoyed rading this book and I think you will too. Review by Ray Ryder, Author The Rockwater Mountain Murders and The Spirit of Whiskey River

        5 out of 5 stars SiFi Fantasy Story is Exciting, Mystical and Action Packed!.......2006-01-20

        The story of the Golden Harpies on the planet Dora is action packed, mystical, exciting, and at the same time a touching love story. It's a real page tuner that will keep you captivated with it's descriptive passages and intricate plot twists and turns. The characters are well developed and provide an intimate look into relationships, as well as question our own prejudices about the human condition. All this leads to a climax that is sure to please and leave you wanting more.

        5 out of 5 stars The Pepper Tree Literary Magazine by Ellie Parnes.......2005-07-08

        In The Golden Harpy, a fantasy love and suspense story by S.C. Klaus, we meet the beautiful, inquisitive Kari. Her father banished her from their lush, exotic planet, Dora, to Earth for ten years in order to protect her from a "malicious" golden harpy, one of the half-human, half-bird beings, who cohabit on their "kaleidoscopic jungle' of a planet. The novel, which contains a few mature scenes, is ideal not only for science fiction lovers, but also for readers who want to delve into a mystical yet relatable world of passion and danger.

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        5 out of 5 stars exotic adventure love story.......2004-10-28

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        The Beginner's Guide to Animal Communication: How to Listen and Talk With Your Animal Friends (The Beginner's Guides)
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        5 out of 5 stars Organized to "reach" you........2004-05-03

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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.
                      Georganne Deen (exhibition).: An article from: C: International Contemporary Art
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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

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                        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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                        Title: Georganne Deen (exhibition).
                        Author: Steve Reinke
                        Publication: C: International Contemporary Art (Magazine/Journal)
                        Date: December 22, 1998
                        Publisher: C The Visual Arts Foundation
                        Issue: 60 Page: 42

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                        Willie Brown: A Biography
                        Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                        • A Great Political Biography
                        • The other slick Willie
                        • left-leaning love letter to a fascinating political figure
                        • Plodding hagiography
                        • An insanely detailed overview of an amazing career
                        Willie Brown: A Biography
                        James Richardson
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                        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.

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                        5 out of 5 stars A Great Political Biography.......2001-09-13

                        Willie Brown is a politician regarded as both a political reformer and a modern political boss, a sometime political progressive and sometime defender of corporate interests, and a man of humble background who flaunts a flashy lifestyle. The book, "Willie Brown", presents a study of a man's contrasts and complexities.
                        This biography neither glorifies nor lambastes its subject. The reader is allowed to thoroughly understand the gray areas between the good and evil which is the human nature of most public figures. We learn about Willie Brown and the events shaping his life and histroy.
                        We learn that Willie Brown sought being the center of attention from childhoold and how this trait was internalized through lifelong quests for leadership. Willie Brown emerged from a life of gambling and nightlife into a life or politics and nightlife.
                        Controversy has followed Willie Brown's life. Branded as both a radical liberal and a conservative coalition builder, Willie Brown has learned that power and personal feelings can change and that these changes can be used for advantage. Readers learn how Willie Brown, upon becoming Speaker of the California House of Representatives, was adept at maintaining power.
                        The author demonstrates that Willie Brown enjoyed political power games more for the sake of power than for setting policy. Willie Brown played the legislative power game very well for a long time. When he finally lost the power game, he exited the legislature by becoming a big city Mayor. This book presents a remarkable study of one of America's most resilient politicians.

                        4 out of 5 stars The other slick Willie.......2001-02-01

                        I found this book to be very interesting and informative. Without a doubt it gave me a look into the life and times of Willie Brown and the state of California. From growing up under the repressive laws of Jim Crow and segregation to becoming one of the most powerful men in California,Willie Brown is a courageous and complex figure in California's history. In the tradition of "showmen politicians" like Adam Clayton Powell, Huey P. Long, and Lyndon Johnson, Brown is a part of a by-gone era. With term limits well in place, we will never see the likes of such a powerful and personable politician. President Clinton could not have said it better when he arrived in Sacramento and met Willie Brown in person for the first time. He stated, " now i have finally met the real slick Willie". Whether demon or devil, Willie Brown changed the face of legistlative politics in Califonia and paved the way for the state to expand in many other areas. After reading this book, you wonder how California can survive without Willie Brown.

                        2 out of 5 stars left-leaning love letter to a fascinating political figure.......2000-08-19

                        Parts of the book are overly detailed, yet some parts are quite sparse. The portrait of Brown's hometown of Mineola, Texas is riveting yet there are few details of what Brown was like as a child -- readers wanting to find out what books, philosophers or anything that inspired Brown will be left wanting. We must settle for the unsupported statement that he was a voracious reader. Also, there seems to be a mismatch in focus -- over half of the book is devoted to Brown's career before becoming speaker when he really was a marginal figure. Perhaps a dozen pages are devoted to obscure delegate credentialling details about the '72 convention that could have been covered in a fraction of the space.

                        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.

                        3 out of 5 stars Plodding hagiography.......2000-07-14

                        Willie Brown may be an interesting figure, but you won't find much here about him that you didn't see in the newspapers over the years. Richardson goes over his impoverished youth in Texas, and his stunning rise in California, but doesn't go very far into how it occurred. For example, Brown was said to be an intellectual, a voracious reader in his youth. Richardson says virtually nothing about WHAT Brown read. We learn nothing of the thinkers or writers Brown admired. Nothing is said about his work habits, his passions, his view of history, the kind of society he would like to shape.

                        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?

                        5 out of 5 stars An insanely detailed overview of an amazing career.......1999-01-26

                        Richardson has overlooked no musty archive, no potential interviewee, and no pesty detail in his amazing book about Assemblyman, Speaker, Speaker Emeritus, and now Mayor Brown. An essential read to understand Northern California and California politics from the seventies to the present day.
                        Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times
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                          Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times
                          Willie L. Brown Jr.
                          Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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                          Binding: Hardcover

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                          ASIN: 074329081X
                          Cousin Willie & Me - A Collection of Stories
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                            Cousin Willie & Me - A Collection of Stories
                            James A. Brown
                            Manufacturer: Self Published
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                            Binding: Hardcover

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                            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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                              James Richardson -
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                              Willie Mae (Brown Thrasher Bks)
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                                Willie Mae (Brown Thrasher Bks)
                                Elizabeth Kytle , and Joyce A. Ladner
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                                Reflections
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                                  Reflections
                                  Willie L Brown
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                                  Willie Brown - a Biography
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                                    James Richardson
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