Volume 56, Moncyclic Azepines: The Syntheses and Chemical Properties of the Monocyclic Azepines

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The newest volume in the prestigious series The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, this work covers synthesis, reactions, properties, structure, physical chemistry and utility of monocyclic azepines.

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Readers who complain that there's too much wisecracking and cute icon worship in Robert Crais's books about Los Angeles private eye Elvis Cole will be glad to find these traits downplayed (but not totally disappeared) in this story about Cole's search for a missing printer whose specialty is funny money. The book is centered by the presence of the printer's three children--especially the motherly 15-year-old Teri and the obnoxious 12-year-old Charles--who hire Elvis from the phone book. Cole, hoping to become the stepfather of the son of his own lady love, gets sucked in by the children's combination of need and family unity, and soon finds himself in the middle of a shooting war between Russian gangsters, Vietnamese patriots, and ambiguous Federal agents. Previous Elvis outings in paperback: Sunset Express, Free Fall, Lullaby Town, The Monkey's Raincoat, Stalking the Angel, Voodoo River.

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Life in the California sun suits Elvis Cole—until the day a fifteen-year-old girl and her two younger siblings walk into his office. Then everything changes.

Three years ago, a Seattle family ran for their lives in a hail of bullets. Hired by three kids to find their missing father, Elvis now must pick up the cold pieces of a drama that began that night. What he finds is a sordid tale of high crimes and illicit drugs. As clues to a man’s secret life emerge from the shadows, Elvis knows he’s not just up against ruthless mobsters and some very angry Feds. He’s facing a storm of desperation and conspiracy—bearing down on three children whose only crime was their survival. . . .

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Good read.......2007-08-24

This is my first Robert Crais book but it won't be my last. I especially enjoyed his (the author's and Elvis's) voice - casual, laid back, self-deprecating.

Crais gets a lot of meat in one descriptive paragraph and, as such, is a master of characterization. I especially liked what he did with the kids and the girlfriend.

The plot twist at the end might have been a tad too much, but it was forgivable given all that went on before.

Good read.

Loren Christensen - coauthor of On Combat and a bunch of others.

Good ,Light, Crime Novel.......2007-06-22

Elvis is involved in finding the father of three mother-less children. As you probaly will guess the story becomes more involved. Elvis is great. Lucy his girlfriend is interviewing for a television job.
Joe Pike protects the kids. And Russian mobsters show up in Los Angelos.
This is a relaxing read.

An excellent leisure choice for mystery fans........2007-03-06

Robert Crais' INDIGO SLAM provides an involving Elvis Cole novel which receives David Stuart's winning voice and tells of a teen who entices Elvis to search for her missing father. The case should be easy - but the father is involved in the criminal underworld and soon Elvis is in over his head in this fun, involving mystery. An excellent leisure choice for mystery fans.

Fast And Entertaining Detective Story.......2006-06-02

It starts out simple enough. A 15-year-old girl and her two younger siblings hire Elvis Cole to find their father who has been missing for eleven days. The situation becomes extremely complicated from there. If you were to plot this story on a graph, it might end up looking like a spider's web. But Crais makes it work. This book was originally published in 1997 and reissued in 2003. It's a fast and entertaining read.

A man keeps disappearing.......2006-05-16

3 1/2 to four stars - definitely not five. A counterfeiter who acted as a government witness against Russian gangsters in Seattle is put into a witness protection program in Salt Lake City by Federal Marshalls. He disappears, along with his three children. Three years later, his children appear in Elvis Cole's office wanting him to find there father. They had been living under a new name in Los Angeles, and he went out 11 days earlier and has not come back. His oldest daughter, fifteen-year-old Teresa, has a wad of cash. Events move on from there.

The story is generally well written as Elvis looks for the father, encounters bad guys, finds the father, loses him again, and eventually finds him again. Along the way, he discovers other people are looking for the man, including the Russian gangsters and the Federal Marshalls Service. The Secret Service is also interested, and the FBI becomes involved along with the local police. In a side plot, Elvis also has to deal with his girlfriend's ex-husband.

There were, perhaps, too many twists added to the end of the story, and it became a little unreal. Also, the author's description of Seattle settings seemed a little off. Has he ever visited the city? He also keeps referring to Los Angeles hills as mountains. Perhaps he has never seen a real mountain.

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Indigo Slam: An Elvis Cole Novel
Robert Crais
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000OAESIG

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Now, 25 years after it first took the world by storm, Colleen McCullough's sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback returns to enthrall a new generation. As powerful, moving, and unforgettable as when it originally appeared, it remains a monumental literary achievement –– a landmark novel to be read . . . and read again!

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A Very Enjoyable Read from Down Under!.......2007-10-04

Read this book several years ago and enjoyed it immensly. A young woman falls in love with a kindly young priest and gradually gets him to fall in love with her. This book may raise a few eyebrows today with what has been going on in the church.

Long and wonderful.......2007-09-17

This is a wonderful book, although very long. Some of the descriptions are tedious and you look forward to more dialoge or action. Overall, a very beautiful tale.

Fascinating Story.......2007-08-28

Yes, the story between meggie and Ralph (a Catholic priest) is fascinating and intriguing. It is also quite moving and tearful. Unfortunately, I found the book full of meanderings, psycho-babbles, ruminations, and lengthy, tedious descriptions of persons and places. These definitely reduced my interest and absorption in the fine story. Actually, they cluttered it, forcing me to skim and skip.

The almost 700 pages would have been fine at 400-450. And the author's inability to write suspensefully and provoke my curiosity bothered me immensely. When the novel ended, all I could say was whewww! Finally! By then I had actually become very bored, especially since that part became a new story about Meggie's kids, which had little relationship to the main theme of the book. Had Meggie not had any children, I think the book would have been much better, cleaner.

I found The TV mini-series FAR SUPERIOR--it was tightly written, perfectly focused, devoid of clutter and babble, and full of tension, suspense, and touching scenes. DO SEE THE MINI-SERIES--you will not waste a moment, as you will through many of the book's plodding, sometimes unclear pages.

Profound novel. The best I've ever read........2007-06-06

If I could give this book 10 stars I would. From the first page I was drawn into the Cleary family's world...into their colorful lives and the journey through their truimph and pain that spans a lifetime. This is a superb novel that centers around Meggie Cleary, a girl only but 7 years old at the start of the saga. Born into a poor Irish family of sheep shearers in the beautiful land of New Zealand, Meggie learns quickly that she must look after herself. From the time Meggie was a small child she was wise beyond her years. Having to hold her own against a family of all boys, save her mother Fee, who is but a shell of her former self. Fee being too busy with chores and duties, had no time to give love or affection to any of her children, except Frank...because he was different, he didn't resemble the Cleary's, he didn't behave as a Cleary. Meggie's oldest brother Frank was the only one who showed little Meggie any affection and she clung to him as if he were the only person who ever really loved her.

Fast forward 3 years....The Cleary's recieved a letter from their wicked, wealthy Aunt Mary Carson asking them to come to her home in Austrailia and learn how to tend her sheep and work her vast farm. Mary knew she was growing old and wanted the land and Drogedha, her home, to remain in the family once she died. So they left, with the promise of prosperity and a new future. Arriving after a trying journey by land and sea, they were met at the train station by priest Father Ralph De Bricassart, Mary's trusted confidant and friend.

From the moment Father Ralph and Meggie met they were both in awe of eachother. She being only 10, he being a man of 28. They shared a spiritual bond that neither could ignore from the beginning. He thought she was the most beautiful little girl he'd ever seen. She thought he closely resembled God because of his magnificant beauty and charm. He took Meggie under his protective wing and showed her an affection she had never known. She looked to him as a father, he to her as a daughter, but it was much more...

This is a tale of forbidden love, a love that cannot be consumated or entertained, but also can't be smothered and ignored. It is a love of two souls who are so entertwined it squeezes the heart with longing and desperation. Beyond their control, they fight their feelings and sometimes succomb to them over the period of their lives. Throughout this sweeping saga through generations of Cleary's, life lessons are learned the hard way and passed down to the next generations to learn all over again.

This book takes you on a long, winding road throughout time and the difficulties of the heart. It isn't just a romance, it is much more and any fan of great literature would appriciate this book. I recommend it highly.

Apparently a Classic!.......2007-05-24

The Thorn Birds (TTB) is about Meggie Cleary and Ralph di Brisscart. Meggie Cleary is the only girl in a Cleary family dominated by men. When Meggie is 10 the Cleary's move to Austrailia from New Zealand for a great job opportunity. At this time Meggie meets Ralph di Brisscart - a priest. Their love for one another at first seems quiet harmless as she is 10 and he is 28 but as she turns into a women and doesn't understand why she can't have Ralph to herself as her husband their love for one another is tested by distance, time apart, and decisions that they each make in their lives.

Set in the back drop of the Austrailian outback, TTB covers a 25 year time span and 3 generations of Cleary's. The book touches on important world events such as, WWI and WWII in the back drop at points. And also delves into two important issues: religion (and it's roles in society)and philosophy, beliefs, morals (and their role combined with religion in society.)

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and was enraptured with the Cleary's due to the amazing character description of the author. She brings you to Drogheda Farm and makes you understand what life is like for each and every member of this family and their surrounding neighbors and friends. I also enjoyed the manner in which the book was written: broken down into time frames marked by certain years and from a specific characters point of view, thus giving the reader a chance to better get to know that character and their role in the story.

While I enjoyed this book, it didn't blow me out of the water the way other books have. I would recommend this book as a definite good read however, I don't know that I would say it was a MUST read.

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This Novel Really Made An Impact On Me
The best novel I have ever read...
Magnificent!
don't have any patience to move on

The Thorn Birds
Colleen Mccullough
Manufacturer: Avon A
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0060837551
Release Date: 2005-09-06

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Colleen McCullough's sweeping saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback has enthralled readers the world over. This is the chronicle of three generations of Clearys, ranchers carving lives from a beautiful, hard land while contending with the bitterness, frailty, and secrets that penetrate their family. Most of all, it is the story of only daughter Meggie and her lifelong relationship with the haunted priest Father Ralph de Bricassart—an intense joining of two hearts and souls that dangerously oversteps sacred boundaries of ethics and dogma.

A poignant love story, a powerful epic of struggle and sacrifice, a celebration of individuality and spirit, Colleen McCullough's acclaimed masterwork remains a monumental literary achievement—a landmark novel to be cherished and read again and again.

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This Novel Really Made An Impact On Me.......2007-06-15

Of all of Colleen McCullough's novels, The Thorn Birds made the greatest impact on my ideas of what a great book should be. With her, I was drawn into the story and could not put it down until I finished it a week later.

The story between Ralph and Maggie is very timeless because it deals with forbidden love and wanting what we cannot have. Even though the two eventually give into their carnal desires, they can are never able to have a relationship. Interestingly, it is Maggie who makes herself suffer and yearn for Ralph for many years, while he goes on to pursue his great career in the church. I guess I found this book so interesting because through history, and even today, many woman will put their lives on hold yearning for a man, but will the man do that? Most of the time he will not. Maggie desires to have what she cannot because Ralph is the only person that truly love her. Her mother neglected her as a child and they only begin to have a relationship later in life when the two realize they have more in common than they ever thought they would. Talk about history repeating itself, but you can read the novel to figure out what I mean about that because I do not want to give too much away.

McCullough does a wonderful job with researching the historical facts of her books and I actually feel that I am transported to the times and places where Ralph and Maggie "lived" Once again I encourage you to read this book if you like good historical fiction and even though this book does not have the classic happy ending, it has much promise and hope for the future in the way this story comes full circle. You will have to read it for yourself to find out and I would check out Mccullough's other novels if you enjoy good historical fiction.

The best novel I have ever read..........2007-06-05

Magnificent!.......2007-05-02

Wonderful story, real characters. Of the many, many thousands of books I've read in my lifetime, this one is right up there in the top ten. McCullough writes from the heart and this book touched me deeply. The author has no need to pander to the glands, as so many authors today seem to do. Having also read "Lady Chatterly's Lover", this book is far superior in every aspect. If a reader prefers trashy stuff, this is not the book to choose. If, on the other hand, you're looking for depth and unforgettable characters, this is the book for you.

don't have any patience to move on.......2006-02-17

***possible spoiler***

I watched the movie first, and was then drawn to read the book. I don't mean to blame D.H. Lawrence, but it was his "Lady Chatterley's Lover" that I read first before "the Thorn Birds", which makes the latter so pale and kind of superficial. I mean the author is actually very great, and is very gifted in writing, but it just doesn't catch my heart. I don't care about what happened in the book. Maybe that's very weird (my fault), but my suggestion would be, never read any great authors before 'fast food' literatures.

Case History of a Film Score: The Thorn Birds

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THIS BOOK IS WONDERFUL !!

Case History of a Film Score: The Thorn Birds

Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 075792266X

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This text, designed as a tool for the college classroom, gives the reader insight to the creative process used by master film composer Henry Mancini. Edited by Roy Phillippe, the book provides 16 musical examples and includes a CD with recordings from the original soundtrack. The text provides detailed analysis of the ideology and technique behind Mancini's creation of music to be paired with the film's storyline and images. This is a must for any aspiring film composer, film music buff, or Mancini fan!

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THIS BOOK IS WONDERFUL !!.......2007-03-13

PEOPLE:

The DULCIMER is on THIS cd which is accompanying a book. You can buy here on AMAZON. The book with the 16-track cd calls:

"CASE HISTORY OF A FILM SCORE - BY HENRY MANCINI - EDITED BY ROY PHILLIPPE.
WARNER"
IT SAYS: "the book and cd are specially rewarding for Thorn Birds fans who spent $25 on Varese Sarabande's 2-CD soundtrack only to discover that the dulcimer- the central instrument of the score - was inexplicably missing from the main-title track and that the extensive liner notes barely discuss the score (and don't include a single quote from the composer about his music, despite the fact that a little resarch would have turned up three extensive interviews that Mancini gave about the music of The thorn birds). Both of these omissions are rectified by the book and accompanying CD. The main title is intact, complete with dulcimer overlay, and Mancini's discussion of the project is so thorough that all of our questions about this remarkable score are answered at last."

Plus the Dulcimer the book "Case History of a film score" has more: the piano when Ralph sees Meggy slowly coming down the stairs at Mary's birthday party... . This music is missing from the Varese cd, but it is here on this extra cd - Case History. It's wonderful!!

El Pajaro Espino/ the Thorn Birds (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura))

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El Pajaro Espino/ the Thorn Birds (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura))
Colleen McCullough
Manufacturer: Punto De Lectura
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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This is the chronicle of three generations of Clearys, ranchers carving lives from a beautiful, hard land. A sweeping saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback, it is the story of an only child, Meggie, and her lifelong relationship with the haunted priest Father Ralph de Bricassart-an intense joining of two hearts and souls that dangerously oversteps sacred boundaries of ethics and dogma. McCullough's acclaimed masterwork remains a monumental achievement-a landmark novel to be read again and again. Description in Spanish: En la Australia casi salvaje de los primeros años del siglo XX, se desarrolla una trama de pasión y tragedia que afecta a tres generaciones. Una historia de amor la que viven Maggie y el sacerdote Ralph de Bricassart que se convierte en renuncia, dolor y sufrimiento, y que marca el alto precio de la ambición y de las convenciones sociales. Una novela que supuso un verdadero fenómeno y que ha alcanzado la categoría de los clásicos.

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The Thorn Birds

Manufacturer: harper & row
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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Annie Hall

ASIN: B000BHUNIQ

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book club edition

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The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough
Manufacturer: Time Warner Paperbacks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0751506001

The Penguin Readers Level 6: "the Thorn Birds" (Penguin Longman Penguin Readers)

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The Penguin Readers Level 6: "the Thorn Birds" (Penguin Longman Penguin Readers)
Colleen McCullough
Manufacturer: Longman
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0582418232

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The Thorn Birds
Mccullough. Colleen
Manufacturer: Harper & Row
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GE07WG

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Swords and Crowns and Rings

Manufacturer: Dell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0440178428

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She was the banker's daughter, a highborn, golden beauty. He was a grocer's son, strong and proud, but fate had masked his strength and pride with a form that set him forever apart from other men. Compelling need drew them together, A bewitching fantasy encircled and sustained them. Then the Great Depression swept across Australia to impoverish the rich, humble the proud, and turn the poor into a stunned army of desperate vagrants and homeless vagabonds. Expelled from their enchated realm, brutally seperated, they each clutched a secret, a promise a dream of finding each other in a harsh world where only a perfect love like theirs could survive, overcome and triumph.

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fantabulous.......2005-12-04

This is a wonderful book!! My favourite. Ruth Park's writing is beautiful and the story is great.

3 Titles By McCullough - The Thorn Birds - An Indecent Obsession - A Creed for the Third Millennium

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3 Titles By McCullough - The Thorn Birds - An Indecent Obsession - A Creed for the Third Millennium
Colleen McCullough
Manufacturer: various
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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3 massmarket paperback Titles By McCullough - The Thorn Birds - An Indecent Obsession - A Creed for the Third Millennium

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