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International Council of Scientific Unions/Task Group on Chemical Thermodynamic Tables: CODATA Thermodynamic Tables: Selections for Some Compounds of Calcium ... Related Mixtures: A Prototype Set of Tables
D. Garvin , and Et Al
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This is an excellent study guide for Biology

The Ultimate Study Guide For Biology: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations (Topics: Evolution, Ecology, Kingdom Bacteria, Kingdom Protista, Kingdom Fungi & Viruses, Plant Form and Function) Volume 2
Patrick Leonardi
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This is the most specific and thorough study guide for college biology. It is written in an "easy to understand style." This test preparation study guide covers the following: Evolution, Ecology, Kingdom Bacteria, Kingdom Protista, Kingdom Fungi & Viruses, Plant Form and Function.

This is Volume 2 of a three volume series. Volume 1 covers Origin of Living Things & Chemistry of Life, Structure and Function of the Cell & Energy Pathways, Reproduction, Heredity and Genetics. Volume 3 covers Kingdom Animalia, Organization of the Animal Body, Animal Form and Function. In addition, Volume 3 also covers Animal Reproduction, Development and Behavior.

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This is an excellent study guide for Biology.......2004-10-10

This book was so helpful for my college classes, biology I and II. It had all the kind of questions that prepared me for the exams. The explanations were great and quite easy to read. I also used The Ultimate Study Guide for Biology: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations Volume 1 which coverd Organization of Living Things & Chemistry of Life, Structure and Function of the Cell and Energy Pathways, Reproduction and Heredity, Genetics. I also studied Volume 3 which had topics of Kingdom Animalia, Organization of the Animal Body, Animal Form and Function, Animal Reproduction, Development and Behavior. I must say these 3 books really did for me for helping me get excellent grades.

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Aphids As Virus Vectors
K. Harris
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Matthews' Plant Virology, Fourth Edition

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Matthews' Plant Virology, Fourth Edition
Roger Hull
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It has been ten years since the publication of the third edition of this seminal text on plant virology, during which there has been an explosion of conceptual and factual advances. The fourth edition updates and revises many details of the previous editon, while retaining the important older results that constitute the field's conceptual foundation.

Key features of the fourth edition include:
* Thumbnail sketches of each genera and family groups
* Genome maps of all genera for which they are known
* Genetic engineered resistance strategies for virus disease control
* Latest understanding of virus interactions with plants, including gene silencing
* Interactions between viruses and insect, fungal, and nematode vectors
* New plate section containing over 50 full-color illustrations

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Excellent.......2006-01-10

That the study of plant viruses is of very important does not even need to be said, given the destruction that they cause to food plants every year. This sizable book, having appreciable gravitational pull, is written for experts and students who intend to specialize in plant virology. However, anyone who is curious about the subject will find the book packed full of information, even though at times it reads more like a literature survey. In addition, many of the techniques in genetic engineering were first applied to food crops and other plants. Therefore anyone who is interested in transgenic technologies or functional genomics will find the book very informative. This reviewer was mostly interested in the effects of plant viruses on photosynthesis and the role of gene silencing, if any, in plant viruses. These topics are discussed at various places in the book.

Some of the questions that arise when reading the book include the following (not all of which are answered in the book):

1. To what extent are humans responsible for spreading viruses to plants by moving them from one place to another?
2. How is viral infection dependent on the manner of crop rotation? On the sowing time of seed?
3. How does the ecology and epidemiology of viruses with nematode vectors differ from that of viruses with air-borne vectors?
4. What role do weeds play in the incidence of virus diseases?
5. Why does viral transmission by grafting result in a different disease than from transmission by mechanical inoculation?
6. How do nepoviruses and cryptic viruses infect the gametes?
7. How many viral particles are actually needed for a successful infection?
8. Are there plant viruses that specifically target the chloroplasts?
9. How do plant viruses affect the photosynthetic processes?
10. How does the susceptibility to infection depend on light intensity?
11. How are viruses transmitted to plants by beetles?
12. What role does gene silencing play in cross-protection?
13. How are viruses used to induce sequence-specific suppression of gene expression?
14. How does post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) affect virus infection? How is PTGS related to transgenic resistance?
15. What factors are responsible for the differences in symptoms caused by different strains of a plant virus?
16. Do plant viruses inhibit programmed cell death?
17. Is there any evidence for the existence of `viral genes' whose role is only in the induction of disease?
18. What are the nature of the mosaic patterns and symptoms?
19. How does viral infection affect ethylene production?
20. What are the mechanisms by which virus infection stunts growth?
21. Do plant viruses suppress the expression of genes that compete with it and enhance the expression of those that help it?
22. How do viruses move from the external phloem to the internal phloem?
23. What are the effects of viruses on plant metabolism and can the metabolism be engineered by the use of viruses?
24. What is the nature of asymmetric infection?
25. What is the connection between the triple gene block and viral movement from cell to cell?
26. What experimental methods are used to study virus movement?
27. What is the nature of subliminal infection?
28. What are the three types of viral replication?
29. In terms of field release of transgenic plants, what risks are there in the recombination between episomal and transgenic viral sequences?
30. What are the mechanisms for RNA recombination?
31 What is the difference between mutation frequency and mutation rate?
32. What proteins are involved in the replication of viral RNA?
33. How many different species of plant viruses are there?
34. What is the oldest recorded virus?
35. What species of plants have never been susceptible to viral infection?
36. Does viral infection always cause disease in the infected plant?
37. Can two viruses, each of which is deleterious to the plant, be combined to form a virus that is not?
38. Can viral infection ever induce growth in the infected plant?
39. For plants having nectar guides and infected by a virus, does this infection have an effect on the behavior of the honeybees that access the plant?
40. Why does on species of virus infect one plant species but not another?
41. How can a virus be blocked from infecting the plant?
42. How long can a virus remain in pollen or seed before it loses its power to infect?
43. Can two different viruses infecting the same plant result in an easier infection for both than each one acting alone?
44. Why do plant viruses have the shapes that they do?
45. How many genes do plant viruses have?
46. Why are cell recognition proteins not necessary for plant viruses?
47. What strategies do viruses use to overcome eukaryotic translation constraints?
48. What is ribosome shunting?
49. What is cap-snatching?
50. Where does the virus get its energy to carry out its functions?
51. What advantages are there for viruses to replicate in their insect vectors?
52. What mechanisms do plant viruses use for RNA recombination?

Testing Methods for Seed-Transmitted Viruses: Principles and Protocols

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Testing Methods for Seed-Transmitted Viruses: Principles and Protocols
S. E. Albrechtsen
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ASIN: 0851990169

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Yield losses and reduced crop quality, caused by plant viruses are an increasing problem. Several important plant viruses are, in addition to their sap and vector transmission, also transmitted through seed. Seed transmission of plant pathogens plays an important role for the early outbreak of
disease in a crop, for the survival of inoculum from one crop season to the next, and for its international dispersal. Freedom from seedborne viral infection can be revealed by certain seed health testing methods. This book provides a practical guide to the commonly used detection methods for
seed-transmitted viruses and viroids affecting both tropical and non-tropical crops.

Plant Virology Protocols: From Virus Isolation to Transgenic Resistance (Methods in Molecular Biology)

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Plant Virology Protocols: From Virus Isolation to Transgenic Resistance (Methods in Molecular Biology)

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A comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art techniques for generating transgenic plants that are resistant to plant viruses via the cloning and expression of the coat protein gene. Its unfailingly reproducible methods, perfected by hands-on masters, cover the entire process from virus isolation, RNA extraction, and cloning coat protein genes, to the introduction of the coat protein gene into the plant genome and the testing of transgenic plants for resistance. Methods for testing for transformation by PCR and Southern blotting, the detection of RNA transcripts by Northern blotting, and the production of protein by Western analysis are provided, as are methods for challenging the transgenic plants produced and for detecting and measuring the levels of virus.

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Handbook of Plant Virus Diseases
Dragoljub D. Sutic , Richard E. Ford , and Malisa T. Tosic
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Handbook of Plant Virus Diseases presents basic information about viral-caused and viral-like diseases in many cultivated crops. The editors, internationally known plant pathologists, provide authoritative descriptive symptomatic signatures of virus diseases, to aid in the diagnosis and possible control of viruses. This handbook organizes cultivated plants into groups according to their final destinations and uses after harvest-a useful grouping system that indicates that some diseases, their resultant epidemiology, and control measures are characteristic within different groups.

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Handbook of Plant Virology

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All the information you need on plant viruses in a single volume

The Handbook of Plant Virology is a comprehensive guide to the terms and expressions commonly used in the study of plant virology, complete with descriptions of plant virus families down to the generic level. Rather than simply listing terms in alphabetical order, this unique book links each term to related terms within a theme and adds commentary from authors whose specific expertise adds additional dimensions to the topics. The result is an invaluable resource for research workers, educators, and students working in plant virology and pathology, crop protection, molecular biology, and plant breeding.

The Handbook of Plant Virology provides enough details and background in the discussion of each topic to present a clear and thorough understanding of terms without the lengthy analysis found in most textbooks. The book's first section covers:

the mechanics of virus classification

internal and external symptoms (with color illustrations)

isolation and purification

genome packaging

replication and gene expression

detection and identification

various methods of virus transmission

serology

forecasting disease development

recombination

control strategies

economic importance

and much more

The second section of The Handbook of Plant Virology is devoted to concise descriptions of the 81 genera and 18 families of plant viruses, including: positive-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses, such as Potyviridae, Sequiviridae, and Comoviridae

double-stranded RNA viruses, such as Reoviridae and Partitiviridae

negative-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses, such as Rhabdoviridae and Bunyaviridae

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Unlike most pathogenic organisms, viruses require a special approach to establish their presence in a diseased plant, since they are not visible, even with a light microscope. Due to the tremendous damage of crop plants caused by viruses various methods and techniques have been developed to enable the investigation of these pathogens. A variety of protocols for determining the properties and identity of a virus or its behaviour in an infected plant are described in this manual. For teaching purposes, a number of class exercises have been added. The protocols have been selected in such a way as to be useful for plant viruses in both tropical and non-tropical parts of the world.

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Very nice.......1999-11-27

This book is extremely well done. I am a plant virologist and have used several of the protocols included in this book with a high degree of success. The book would be a boon to a researcher as well as to an instructor wishing to conduct a laboratory course in virology at the undergraduate or graduate university level.

Algae and Symbosis: Plants-Animals-Fungi-Viruses-Interactions Explored

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Algae and Symbosis: Plants-Animals-Fungi-Viruses-Interactions Explored

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Applied Plant Virology
D.G. Walkey
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Mysterious and thought provoking. My kind of book!

A Classic Adventure in the Himilayas

What is paradise?

"...the whole atmosphere was more of wisdom than of learning, of good manners than seriousness."

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Lost Horizon: A Novel
James Hilton
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ASIN: 0060594527
Release Date: 2004-06-15

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While attempting to escape a civil war, four people are kidnapped and transported to the Tibetan mountains. After their plane crashes, they are found by a mysterious Chinese man. He leads them to a monastery hidden in "the valley of the blue moon" -- a land of mystery and matchless beauty where life is lived in tranquil wonder, beyond the grasp of a doomed world.

It is here, in Shangri-La, where destinies will be discovered and the meaning of paradise will be unveiled.

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Mysterious and thought provoking. My kind of book!.......2007-10-09

I loved this book. The writing was superb and had a wonderful, mysterious quality about it. I am recommending this book to my friends.

A Classic Adventure in the Himilayas.......2007-09-23

Note: I made some Mormon reader angry over my reviews of books written by Mormons out to prove the Book of Mormon, and that person has been slamming my reviews.

Your "helpful" votes are appreciated. Thanks.

On Lost Horizon: You'll love this story of lost civilization, where people live hundreds of years. Hidden in the Mountains of the Blue Moon, the survivors of an airplane crash wonder into a charmed valley, where no one thinks of death. The hero falls in love with one of the women.

I don't want to tell too much, but I do highly recommend this classic adventure first published in 1933. It has all the ambiance of that era, and as one Amazon reviewer said, it is the perfect book to curl up with on a slow day.

What is paradise?.......2007-08-29

The Lost Horizon really brings to mind the question of what is your paradise?
This is a book about a man who, along with three other companions, ends up in a mysterious civilization in some community lost among the mountains. This new life offers immortality (or close to it), but there is one catch. You may not leave. Some are able to become used to the confines of the little city but others (mainly one of the main character's companions) refuse to accept and make an attemt at an escape.
The main character has to decide if he will stay, because for him this new place is paradise, or if he will help the other young man escape.

It is an interesting book and, once you get past the first couple of pages, it goes by fast. I would recommend this book to anyone.

"...the whole atmosphere was more of wisdom than of learning, of good manners than seriousness.".......2007-08-20

After seeing Frank Capra's film version of this book, I had to read James Hilton's novel. The book and the film are very similar, so my love for the film has transferred to the original work. Lost Horizon is the story of four people, an American, a young British soldier, a middle-aged British man, and a female missionary, who have the misfortune of being kidnapped on an airplane. They are crashed near a mysterious and dismal mountain somewhere in Tibet, and all seems to be lost to them, including their pilot who dies in the crash. However, they are rescued by a group of men who live in a strange valley nearby. They call their oasis Shangri-La.

The middle-aged British man is named Conway; he has the best grasp of the goals of Shangri-La of any of the people in his group. Instead of fidgeting when he is told he and his friends will never leave the villiage, he embraces his new home where everything is done in moderation. He marvels over the expensive library of treasures and begins to love a tiny Chinese girl with a fondness for music. He has the good fortune to meet the High Lama of the monastary there and to be told the secrets of Shangri-La.

Conway's sentiments narrate the story, and his calm personality resonates with the reader and makes the sometimes outlandish beliefs of Shangri-La become vivid and desirable.

This is a magical book with the same feeling of hope and inspiration that is present in Frank Capra's films. Although it was written in the early 30s, the sentiments are applicable in today's world. Thus, it is a timeless classic that every person should have the good fortune of stumbling upon. It will never leave you.

A classic.......2007-07-12

Classic work - timeless. Psychological study of the protagonist - contast of who he is v. how he is perceived. Can't we all relate to that? And, contrast of Western v. Eastern mindset.

Shangri-LA: The Return to the World of Lost Horizon

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Barely a Sequel
Underwhelming
This is Good
It's great, thoroughly engrossing.
Most Fabulous Book Ever Written in the History of the World.

Shangri-LA: The Return to the World of Lost Horizon
Eleanor Cooney , and Daniel Altieri
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Barely a Sequel.......2006-06-11

I wouldn't consider this to be entirely a sequel to the original novel. It's more of a separate story that involves, briefly, characters and settings from the original novel. Maybe I just enjoyed Lost Horizon too much but I found Shangri-La to be a bit of a disappointment. The two different styles of writing get confusing at times, especially in the parts where no quotation marks are used to distinguish between different speakers. The flow of the story was very rigid also. Sure, there were words arranged into sentences and sentences into paragraphs, continuing on for pages, but there was nothing to draw me into the story. It was more like reading a newspaper than a novel in this respect. To top it all off, the ending seemed clichéd. Just because the original ends in a cliff hanger doesn't mean the sequel should also. It just didn't seem very original.

Overall it was good to see that James Hilton's brilliant work of literature carried on into the future, but the original far overshadowed the sequel. Instead of providing closure, Shangri-La left me waiting for something the book didn't deliver.

Underwhelming.......2005-08-31

Shangri La, that heaven on earth, is under attack. It's the 1960s, and the Chinese army is at the height of its ideological zeal for the Cultural Revolution. Originally, that army was marching against native Tibetan culture, in an attempt at forced assimilation of the disputed territory. Legend, then clues to that edenic valley begin to emerge, and then ...

I won't spoil the story. One family leads the hunt for Shangri La: a corrupt General Zhang, a son burning with missionary zeal for the revolution, and a daughter with quiet doubts about the party. A character from Hilton's original story learns of the threat, and leaves Shangri La to avert the threat. Leaving, of course, is a death sentence unless he returns soon enough, but the hero puts the safety of Shangri La ahead of his own.

This post-hoc collaboration never really captured my imagination. The writing is good enough, except for an especially magical resolution to the threat. I don't see it as a sequel, so much as an unrelated story in the same setting. That could have been good, but the characters never enticed me. The plot was very plain, an intellectual dead end: things happen, they're resolved, and that's it. Nothing more to think about.

Some people seem to this one - just not me.

//wiredweird

This is Good.......2001-07-03

Write a sequel to Lost Horizon? What hubris, what presumption! Just who do you guys think you are? Then I read it. It's wonderful. When James Hilton ordains that you leave Shangri-LA, you understand that you will never find it again. But Cooney and Altieri work their hermetic arts, and as you inch your way around the narrow ledge, hugging the rock like a lover, you pause to catch your breath, the mists below slowly clear, and there it is! I think Hilton would have been honored, and enchanted. How can this book be out of print? To Ms. Cooney and Mr. Altieri, Thank you.

It's great, thoroughly engrossing........1998-05-10

Read it. It's a great novel and highly worthy as a sequel. This book left me in the same dreamy state as the original. Thought provoking about Tibet and the state of the world for any socially conscious person.

Most Fabulous Book Ever Written in the History of the World........1996-11-16

Sequel. Ugh. What a horrible word. Most of them should never be born, or if they are, they should be left on a hillside to die of exposure. There ought to be a different word to describe SHANGRI-LA--THE RETURN TO THE WORLD OF LOST HORIZON by Eleanor Cooney and Daniel Altieri (Wm. Morrow, 1996). It is in fact the sequel to James Hilton's classic, but without the irrelevance and loss of tumescence you've learned to expect. It actually needed to be written.

LOST HORIZON leaves you dangling deliciously. Forget about the movie version--it was good, but they took huge liberties with the plot of Hilton's tightly constructed work. Most notably, the movie shows the hero, Hugh Conway, arriving back in Shangri-La to the accompaniment of a swelling chorus and heavenly beams of light. It was the era of happy endings in movies, so they stuck one on. But the book--ah, the book is very different indeed.

It starts with a group of British gents in a men's club talking about Conway, a likable but peculiar chap, and how one of them discovered him quite by chance in a hospital in Canton suffering from amnesia. Then we learn that his memory abruptly returned on board a liner bound for San Francisco, that he jumped ship in Honolulu and was never seen again. The middle part of the book is a flashback: Conway's story of being benignly abducted along with three other people into Shangri-La, meeting the two-hundred-year-old lama, finding himself annointed as his successor, and then having to make a decision of Hamlet-like proportions: stay or go. He goes. Dreadful things happened to him after he left, evidently, so that he wound up ill and amnesic in a hospital. Then he got his memory back and jumped ship--to try, we presume, to find his way back to his lost paradise. And that's the last we hear of him. The final words of the book echo down hauntingly over sixty years: "Do you think he will ever find it?"

The authors of SHANGRI-LA dip into that poignant mystery with respect, precision and imagination. Their account of what happened to Conway during his disastrous journey out of the hidden valley in the high Himalayas, how he lost his memory, and what happened to him after he got it back is uncannily Hilton-esque and fits with the unanswered questions in the original like the parts of a fine watch. This account, in turn, is part of a highly relevant story about the brutal Chinese occupation of Tibet in the 1960s, the real-life fulfillment of disaster prophesized by Hilton through his fictional character Father Perrault.

Tibet is still under the heel of China, and SHANGRI-LA teaches the reader some of the harsh facts while delivering a taut tale of suspense, intrigue, romance and mystery. Suffice it to say that there's a rapacious Chinese General who's got hold of a series of ancient riddles that put him on the trail of the hidden valley. A really good villain is the heart and soul of a thriller, and this guy is full of the complexities and contradictions that satisfy our appetites. And instead of crudely killing him off, the authors reward him for his villainy with a highly eerie anti-Shangri-La that makes you think of some sort of hell out of Oriental mythology with Rod Serling as a consultant.

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James Hilton t ain't.......1999-12-28

Not so much a sequel to the original story as a place to hang some pretty fluffy self-help-ish advice. No mystery in it for me. Characters were utterly overshadowed by Hilton's work. Points for enthusiasm.

Insightful and engaging.......1999-10-04

Messenger is a special novel that expresses the concept of Shangri-La with insight and suspense. DeMarco's story left me thinking a great deal about the perfection that exists, often unexplored, within each of us, and of our inherent power to bring this significance into our lives. This book is a much needed reminder of the highest and best that exists always at our cores. My gratitude to the author for his wonderfully written message of hope and love.

A fun read with some very helpful tools for personal growth........1999-04-22

I enjoyed this book very much. It leaves one with a feeling of hope and optimism as well as some interesting techniques for meditation and personal growth.

I'm hoping there will be a sequel!

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Lost Horizon and Good-bye, Mr. Chips

Manufacturer: International Collectors Library
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"Lost Horizon was first published on both sides of the Atlantic in the autumn of 1933."

Lost Horizon by James Hilton. Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore Special ed. 1972.

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Lost Horizon by James Hilton. Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore Special ed. 1972.
James Hilton
Manufacturer: Pan Books
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Special ed. for Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore - Western Int'l Hotels.

Great Modern Short Novels(Lost Horizon, Red Pony,Third Man, A Single Pebble, Light in the Piazza, Seize the Day, Breakfast at Tiffany's)

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Great Modern Short Novels(Lost Horizon, Red Pony,Third Man, A Single Pebble, Light in the Piazza, Seize the Day, Breakfast at Tiffany's)
Graham Greene, John Hersey, Elizabeth Spencer, Saul Bello, Truman Capote James Hilton John Steinbeck
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A Great Little Book

Lost Cities of the Maya (New Horizons)
Claude Baudez , and Sydney Picasso
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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A Great Little Book.......2006-04-03

While this book is small in size it is large on content with great pictures of many Mayan sites. There are also many pictures from early expeditions that give you a real understanding of what these famous sites were like when first discovered. I have been to many of these places all over the Mayan lands but had not seen these early photos. There is a lot of information in this book for anyone who wants an overview of Mayan history, lands and sacred sites. I highly recommend it. Larry Schumacher

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LOST HORIZON
JAMES HILTON
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co.
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James Hilton's Three Famous Novels - Lost Horizon, Good-bye, Mr. Chips and Radom Harvest

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James Hilton's Three Famous Novels - Lost Horizon, Good-bye, Mr. Chips and Radom Harvest

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The Horizon Book of Lost Worlds
Leonard and Marshall B. Davidson Cottrell
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Very entertaining

The Saddlemaker's Wife

Unanswered questions

The Saddlemaker's Wife

Touching and rewarding

The Saddlemaker's Wife (Berkley Prime Crime Mysteries)
Earlene Fowler
Manufacturer: Berkley Hardcover
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0425207781

Book Description

After the death of her husband Cole, Ruby McGavin is shocked to learn that she's inherited part of a cattle ranch in Tokopah County, California. But she's even more surprised to find out that the family he claimed died years ago is very much alive.

Ruby arrives in town intent on simply selling her part of the ranch to the McGavins. But as she comes to know them-in particular the handsome saddlemaker Lucas McGavin-Ruby learns family secrets about her departed husband and his family that make her wonder if she ever really knew Cole.Driven to uncover the whole story, Ruby discovers a legacy of pain and denial.

Customer Reviews:

Very entertaining.......2007-09-14

As always, Earlene Fowler, kept me entertained and engrossed. It is so refreshing to read a book that actually has a story plot and lifelike characters without resorting to smut and violence as a way of portraying what writers think people want to read. I feel Ms. Fowler brings her characters to life in situations that are real enough that keep me turning pages to find out what happens next. In this book a woman's husband dies and she finds out more about him after his death than she knew while they were together. The ending enables the reader to decide what happens next -- or formulate whatever kind of ending you want.

The Saddlemaker's Wife.......2007-08-28

I loved the story, it was a well written and entertaining story. The characters were believable and the story had a good plot. Would love to read the next one.

Unanswered questions.......2007-06-15

At first I thought I might be disappointed that this wasn't a Benni Harper tale, but was soon relieved of my worries. It's a good, solid book that's well written and fleshed out. There are some things that still bother me even long after finishing the book - and one of my concerns was even addressed by the protagonist within the storyline. Why, if the patriarch of the family could afford to retrofit the structure of the high school (which Ruby even mused must have cost millions), was the family ranch in such dire financial straights? There were no answers and the reader is left to wonder. Why even bring it up if it's not going to be resolved?
Also, editing could have been sharper. Troubling little things like the inconsistency of the name of the diner: on one page it's the Lone Pine then two pages later it's the Wagon Wheel.
But Ms. Fowler is a great read, shortcomings and all.

The Saddlemaker's Wife .......2007-06-13

As usual, Earlene Fowler has a wonderful mystery for us all. I am a
follower of her books, and have enjoyed watching her mature in her writting.

Touching and rewarding.......2007-05-16

I too was initially a little disappointed to discover this was not a Benni Harper book. I empathize with Earlene Fowler's family issues and hope things are going OK for her. It is so thoughtful of Earlene to keep us posted as to the schedule for upcoming books. Anyway, a good writer can create great characters, inside or outside of a series. Because this book is not a mystery but a novel, the focus is more on character than plot. I was totally drawn into the life of Cardinal. I was reading this book on an airplane, and it was a good thing I had a window seat. Several times I had to stare out the window, compose myself and wipe away tears. I would love to see this become a series. Ruby has so much to offer. In many ways, Earlene Fowler's best book - and I adore the Benni Harper series!

Select Editions Under Orders, The Saddlemakers Wife, The Angels Of Morgan Hill, Echo Park (select Editions By Reader's Digest)

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Select Editions Under Orders, The Saddlemakers Wife, The Angels Of Morgan Hill, Echo Park (select Editions By Reader's Digest)
Donna Vanliere, Michael Connelly Dick Francis Earlene Fowler
Manufacturer: Reader's Digest
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000W7NIQY

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Select Editions Under Orders, the Saddlemakers Wife, the Angels of Morgan Hill, Echo Park (Select Editions by Reader's Digest)
Earlene Fowler, Donna VanLiere, Michael Connelly Dick Francis
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000V0H1FQ

Select Editions: Under Orders by Dick Francis, The Saddlemaker's Wife by Earlene Fowler, The Angels of Morgan Hill by Donna VanLiere, Echo Park by Michael Connely (Select Editions, Vol. 2)

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Select Editions: Under Orders by Dick Francis, The Saddlemaker's Wife by Earlene Fowler, The Angels of Morgan Hill by Donna VanLiere, Echo Park by Michael Connely (Select Editions, Vol. 2)

ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000V611WY

Product Description

A quarterly publication by the Reader's Digest Association, Select Editions offers four excellent works of fiction packaged together in a single volume.

Select Editions: Under Orders, Yhe Saddlemakers Wife, Angels of Morgan Hill & Echo Park

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Select Editions: Under Orders, Yhe Saddlemakers Wife, Angels of Morgan Hill & Echo Park
Fowler, VanLiere & Connelly Francis
Manufacturer: Readers Digest
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VQWGSM

Under Orders, The Saddlemaker's Wife, The Angels of Morgan Hill, Echo Park (Reader's Digest Select Editions)

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Under Orders, The Saddlemaker's Wife, The Angels of Morgan Hill, Echo Park (Reader's Digest Select Editions)
Various
Manufacturer: Reader's Digest Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UOG29E

Product Description

574 pages. 4 separate stories.

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