Gideon's gift: Based on the novel

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Gideon's gift: Based on the novel
Karen Kingsbury
Manufacturer: Christian Drama Publishing
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ASIN: 0972315683

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beautifully plotted

Great New Mystery Series; You Will Love MacLaren Yarbrough

complex small southern town mystery
Who Invited the Dead Man?
Patricia Sprinkle
Manufacturer: Signet
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ASIN: 0451206592
Release Date: 2002-07-02

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Whether handling customer calls at the Yarbrough's Seed, Feed, and Nursery or close calls while solving crimes, sixty-something Southerner MacLaren Yarbrough knows how to charm her way through anything.

When a local man is found murdered at her husband's birthday gala, MacLaren sweet-talks clues out of affluent matriarchs, shady drifters, and even a disgruntled parrot to uncover the roots of the crime.

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beautifully plotted.......2005-10-11

any mystery lover knows how hard it is to find an author who can fool you. well, patricia sprinkle can fool her readers completely.

in addition to a first-rate plot, there are well-drawn characters, sprinkle's wonderful turns of phrases--the woman can write--good dialogue, and realistic responses to situations.

i enjoyed this book a lot, but i'm giving it four stars instead of five because it will probably not end up in my permanent collection, as sharyn mccrumb and margaret maron, for two examples, automatically do. however, i will be loaning it out with an enthusiastic recommendation to all my mystery-reading friends.

Great New Mystery Series; You Will Love MacLaren Yarbrough.......2002-07-24

While growing up, Nancy Drew was always my heroine. Although about my age she seemed so much more clever and independent than I. Her relationship with her friends, her car, everything about her was interesting. All in all she was a great role model for negotiating those adolescent years. And she was so good at the business of detecting. She made me a life long mystery reader!
Now that I am of an age where AARP is looking for me, I have found my new Nancy Drew in the character of MacLaren Yarbrough. She is such an interesting woman with a great zest for life. Never preachy (or almost never), she yet stands out as a shining light of mature womanhood. She bears the responsibilities which come with age so well that the word burden becomes the word challenge. She makes being a mature citizen a very proud thing indeed. And the best part for an avid mystery reader is that she really gets involved in some very interesting murders and very cleverly works out the mysteries which lie behind them. Who Invited The Dead Man? is a wonderful book - read it yourself and get copies for your mystery reading friends. They will love MacLaren Yarbrough and the mystery she solves.

Oh, yes, I should add that even the current Nancy Drew fans will enjoy the Southern comfort and charm of this book. This is a mystery which can be savored by all!

complex small southern town mystery.......2002-07-08

Judge MacLaren Yarbrough has her hands full running Yarbrough's Feed, Seed, and Nursery, managing her magisterial duties, keeping care of her home and taking care of her husband Joe Riddley. Joe is recovering from a head injury and has to relearn how to care for himself as well as read and write. His memory is cloudy and he is prone to violent episodes.

To show their support for Joe, two hundred people come to his birthday party and he enjoyed it as much as a kid would. Only a very few knew that in the house was the body of a dead man, shot to death by a bullet to his head. The sheriff conspired with MacLaren to keep it quiet until the guests left and they succeeded. Once the investigation got underway, MacLaren does her best to find out who the killer is and to prove to the authorities that Joe had nothing to do with it.

Patricia Sprinkles has created a complex mystery with many viable suspects who had ample reason to see the victim dead. Life in a small southern town where everyone knows their neighbor and a stranger sticks out is seen as a positive thing. The heartache of living with someone who has undergone severe brain trauma is shown in agonizing detail and readers can't help but empathize with the protagonist for caring for her man.

Harriet Klausner

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Who Invited the Dead Man?
Patricia Sprinkle
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We mast unit our forces!

It's like the END OF THE WORLD!

The Chaos Spawn: A Chaos War Adventure (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Accessory: Dragonlance Chaos War Adventure)
Wizards Team
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Seeds of Chaos (AD&D/Dragonlance 5th Age Chaos War Adventure)

ASIN: 078691372X
Release Date: 1999-12-01

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In the waning days of the Fourth Age, the agents of Chaos roam the land. Ancient enemies must somehow work together or all hope will be lost. The great city of Palanthas finds itself under attack by daemon warriors astride ferocious fire dragons, and the heroes are its only hope. Players can choose to be either Solamnic Knights-proud defenders of all that is good-or Knights of Takhisis-dark paladins who have sworn a blood oath to the Queen of Darkness-but these ancient rivals must find a way to put their differences behind them and repel the advancing Chaos spawn!

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We mast unit our forces!.......2000-04-07

It's cool to play for dark paladin. It's amasing adventure in Dragonlance.

Its WAR, but not usual war of Good and Evil, no here paladin will save lawful evil lich. It classical war of Chaos and Law. If you ever test it you'll never forget it.

It's like the END OF THE WORLD!.......2000-04-07

Krynn had many hard times in a long hystory of wars and disasters. But in this book Chaos itself claims the life and the existence of all people on Krynn. In an epic conflict, a group of heroes must destroy the most terrible creation of Chaos, made only to kill and destroy the creation of the Gods. And this group of heroes hold the secret to win the battle and save the day. But beware! Even the Gods themselves cannot help the players, in this adventure that marks an important episode in the devastating Chaos War.

Lord of Chaos (The Wizard's War, Book 4)

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Lord of Chaos (The Wizard's War, Book 4)
Elizabeth H. Boyer
Manufacturer: Del Rey
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A Wizard In Chaos: The Fifth Chronicle of the Rogue Wizard (Chronicles of the Rogue Wizard)

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The Rogue Wizard's So-So Adventure.
WOW

A Wizard In Chaos: The Fifth Chronicle of the Rogue Wizard (Chronicles of the Rogue Wizard)
Christopher Stasheff
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ASIN: 0812549287

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Under the nom de guerre of Gar Pike, renegade psychic wizard Magnus D'Armand travels the stars fighting injustice and oppression, like his father, Rod Gallowglass, the Warlock in Spite of Himself. But unlike his famous father, Magnus refuses to play the rules, sowing the seeds of freedom and revolution throughout the galaxy.The Rogue Wizard has met his match--a crumbled civilization on a distant colony planet, where all hope has been lost to war and greed. The history and knowledge of the colonists has been forgotten over the centuries, and the people have reverted to a medieval state. It seems impossible to restore peace and order--until Gar discovers the hidden knowledge harbored in the countryside's hollow hills.

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The Rogue Wizard's So-So Adventure........1999-12-30

Stasheff's Rogue Wizard series is a bit uneven and A Wizard in Chaos is on the ordinary side of the series. This installment is a sort of amalgam of all the Rogue Wizard novels, we are given nothing new here except Magnus finally sheds his annoying sidekick, Dirk. It it a good novel for Stasheff fans but isn't the author's best work. All in all, a decent novel but it could of used a shot of originality.

WOW.......1999-10-07

WOW, just WOW, This story blew me away, I LOVED it! =

4 Titles By Christopher Stasheff Rogue Wizard Series : A Wizard in Chaos A Wizard in Midgard A Wizard and a Warlord A Wizard in a Feud

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4 Titles By Christopher Stasheff Rogue Wizard Series : A Wizard in Chaos A Wizard in Midgard A Wizard and a Warlord A Wizard in a Feud
Christopher Stasheff
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A Conspiracy of Wizards: Book One of The Cloven Accord

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Steve Harvey
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In the land of Calambria, things are not always as they seem, though the naked truth is no less marvelous than the myths that clothe it. Come join the winged muses of Ilyaria as they carve from the clouds this tale of interwoven journeys of discovery set amidst the backdrop of a millennial struggle between mischievous imps and solemn wizards, a struggle which shapes the destinies of giants and gods, nymphs and monsters, heroes and messiahs, kings and conquerors, rebels and rogues, and one extraordinary young woman through whom their many paths converge.

Dragon Arms: Chaos Blade Pocket Manga #2

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The King of Landres, Eon, once beloved hero of legend, has become corrupted by his power. His armies, allied with the monstrous Majin, swarm across the continent of Lordez, annihilating all who resist them and conquering nation after nation in a seemingly unstoppable tide of violence. However, new hope has arisen with the reemergence of the legendary wizard Anrack, who once fought side by side with Eon against the abominable Dragon Kings. Gathered about him is a small yet powerful assemblage of would-be heroes, each wielding items and abilities far beyond the norm. With a cache of powerful weaponry having been destroyed, Anrack prepares to lead his band to acquire the legendary and heavily guarded Chaos Blade. When Eon decides to take a more personal hand in things, though, Anrack's allies find they may not be able to overcome their newest task.

Drum Calls (Drums of Chaos/Jo Clayton, Bk 2)

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The last of a great writer!

Drum Calls (Drums of Chaos/Jo Clayton, Bk 2)
Jo Clayton
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The last of a great writer!.......1999-02-18

Once agin we enter the tangled saga of two worlds threatned by magic. A complicated and complex tale, sadly this is the last complete work of writer Jo Clayton- she wil be greatly missed.

Drum Warning (Drums of Chaos/Jo Clayton, Bk 1)

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Chapter 1 is superb!
Too many wizards spoil the broth
Not unreadable, but disappointing

Drum Warning (Drums of Chaos/Jo Clayton, Bk 1)
Jo Clayton
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Chapter 1 is superb!.......2005-02-07

I bought this book because of scanning through chapter 1. This is my usual method for deciding if a particular book might likely be something I would enjoy. This time, however, my method failed me. Chapter 1 was superb. The subsequent chapters were just *okay.*

Chapter 1 introduces Cymel, an 8-year old who lives on a farm with her dad. Her experience of the sights, smells, & activities on that farm are so vivid that I felt like I was there. I immediately liked Cymel and her dad, & was eager to follow the fascinating plot threads that were introduced in her chapter.

Sadly, however, the chapter ended & the book started introducing new characters, new locales, & new plot lines, etc etc, in rapid fire fashion. I soon got rather confused. Worse yet, Cymel seemed to have been relegated to a minor role, & I neither liked nor disliked any of the several new characters sufficiently to get me past the sixth chapter.

Too many wizards spoil the broth.......2002-08-17

In "Drum Warning," Book One of "The Drums of Chaos," an apprentice wizard doesn't earn his diploma until he kills his teacher, tans the old mage's hide and fashions a drum out of it. One would expect this custom to lead to a dearth of wizards on the two magically merging planets of Glandair and Iomard, but just the opposite is true. There are wizards who walk between worlds, wizards who cast death spells, wizards who do nothing but scribe, and yet more wizards who exercise what fantasy readers might consider the whole magical repertoire. Adding to the confusion, "Drum Warning" is told from multiple points-of-view---not just wizards, but the occasional swamp witch and minor bureaucrat. I finally had to sort the characters out by function:

There are three bad wizards who are murdering all would-be students on their way to a school of magery (in which the teachers don't end up as drum-heads). There are two teen-agers, a boy and a girl, who refuse to admit to their magical potential until the bad wizards attempt to kidnap the girl, sink a couple of ships out from under the boy, then try to drop a mountain on him when he refuses to drown. There is a bandit-wizard, on the run from a troop of female warriors who want to geld him. He seduces an alcoholic wizard, who--

A plot does somehow stay afloat in this confusion of magic. One of the young mages is destined to become the Hero who saves the merging planets of Glandair and Iomard (I don't quite understand the astronomy here) from chaos. There had been a collision seven hundred years past, when everything went to chaos. Libraries burned. Empires crumbled. Network T.V. ratings declined.

Can a young Hero save Glandair and Iomard from another time of chaos and bad programming? We're not even positive who will assume the role of Hero, although my money is on the twice-drowned boy. Nevertheless lots of interesting stuff takes place in "Drum Warning" while we wait for the Hero to appear. Little Gods torment cats, sour milk, and trash vegetable gardens. Big Gods make an occasional appearance and precipitate weird happenings (rather in the style of British royalty). An emperor is seduced by the Dark Side. An army marches into the realm of the swamp witch. Ships sink. A wizard is turned into a drum.

All of this makes good reading for a rainy day, if you can keep track of who is telling the story.

Not unreadable, but disappointing.......2000-09-06

This confused, unwieldy fantasy novel is one of the last written by Ms. Clayton, and unfortunately is far from her best work. It's the story of two worlds drawing closer and closer together until the boundary between them dissipates and characters can talk, or even travel, between one and the next. This is an original conception. Drum Warning also uses ritual magic in fresh, well-described ways. However, it is a severely flawed novel. There are too many characters and too many ill-defined subplots -- and most of the characters are young adults, a common fantasy novel device that I'm thoroughly sick of. Also, Clayton does something annoying to me, which is to use Welsh language and poetic forms for some of the names and poetry of one of her worlds -- without basing the culture on medieval (or any other period) Welsh culture in any way, and in many cases with the names and words being meaningless. I would have preferred her to have invented her own culture and language rather than "borrowing" something from Earth. I also disliked the pointlessly cruel death of the young girl's pets, which is depressing without advancing the plot. This book isn't unreadable -- there's certainly worse fantasy out there -- but I don't really recommend it.

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Rise of Magic
Kevin Siembieda
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Creatures of Chaos (Rifts Chaos Earth Sourcebook, 1)

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The return of magic has empowered humans with strange and wondrous powers unlike anything quite seen (and different from conventional types of magic). This only complicates things for Earth's defenders as the line of distinction between "good guys" and "bad guys" begins to blur. The Demon Plagues still rage and with them come demon worshipers, Witches, Necromancers, and cult figures all drawing magic from dark forces. Some make a bid to be kings over frightened survivors, others serve the lords of chaos and work to tear human civilization apart. - New types of magic - New magical O.C.C.s - More on NEMA and the Demon Plagues - Completely compatible with Rifts.

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WIZARD IN CHAOS (ROGUE WIZARD, NO 5)
CHRISTOPHER STASHEFF
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Meaner than girls

A Parents Call

Answers to an eras problem

I was expecting more.

Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence
Deborah Prothrow-Stith , and Howard R. Spivak
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"Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice is a groundbreaking book that offers parents and teachers a primer for understanding and preventing the increasing incidents of physical violence--hazing, brutality, fighting, weapons, murder--by young girls. Written by Drs. Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Howard R. Spivak—the renowned Harvard- and Tufts-based experts on preventing youth violence—this important book offers a plan to help our daughters become strong, confident, powerful, and independent young women without being violent. "

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Meaner than girls.......2006-03-10

Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls'
Violence (Hardcover)
by Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Howard R. Spivak
Publisher: Jossey-Bass (May 18, 2005) ISBN: 0787975710

This is another awful book on girls that should make the authors
and academics who endorsed it deeply ashamed. Packed with
sweeping stereotypes demeaning young people and mangled,
secondhand statistics, this book is another example of the fear and
hostility American adults today hurl at adolescents.

Rather than repeat my statistical criticisms of James Garbarino's
identical See Jane Hit (see my review for specifics) and the
avalanche of cloned books stigmatizing teens today as
hyperviolent, mean, and soulless, I will be blunt: These attacks on
young people amount to little more than grownup name-calling and
bullying of the sort their authors purport to deplore.

Let me buttress that charge with a simple question neither these
authors nor any others address: Why aren't they deploring the
"epidemic of violence" perpetrated by THEIR OWN, older age
groups?

Over the last 25 years, the FBI reports that violent crime rates
among MIDDLE-AGERS (ages 35 to 54--the parents of today's
teens) exploded: 217,000 arrests for violent felonies and
misdemeanors in 1980, 543,000 in 2004. In fact, 40-agers
constitute our fastest growing violence arrest group, with rates
rising two to three times faster than for teenaged girls.

Among middle-aged women, felony and misdemeanor assault
arrests skyrocketed 500%, from 18,000 in 1981 to 111,000 in 2004
(check for yourself--see FBI, Uniform Crime Reports, Tables 38,
39, 40). Among middle-aged men, assault arrests tripled from
126,000 in 1981 to 401,000 in 2004.

Adjusted for population increases, violence rates among
middle-agers--the parents, the grownups who are supposed to be
stable and mature--doubled over the last quarter century. That's far
more alarming than anything going on among teens, boys or girls.

In fact, there is no "epidemic of youth violence." Over the last
decade, FBI figures show violence by youth plummeted as never
before--down 32% for girls, in particular. Both the FBI and
National Crime Victimization Survey (our best measure of crime)
show murder, rape, and robbery by young people dropped by 50%
to 70% and now stand at 40-year LOWS. However, violence by
40-aged women has continued to rise and has now reached record
highs. Prothrow-Stith and Spivak's book is complete fiction.

Here's a sobering development: In 1975, California teen girls were
three times more likely to be arrested for violent felonies than their
middle-aged (ages 30-69) mothers. Today (2004), after violence
soared among middle-agers, the violence arrest rates of teenaged
girls and middle-aged women are EQUAL.

Drs. Prothrow-Stith and Spivak, and a lot of other PhDs authoring
and endorsing books disparaging girls, claim to be experts in
violence. They are well aware (or damn well should be) that
standard crime statistics show their own, older age groups show far
worse violence trends than teen girls do--most of it committed in
homes, in front of or against the very children and youths for
whom these authors express such emotional concern. These experts
should be writing terrifying books on mean, vicious 45 year-old
women and graying men than 15 year-old girls.

Yet, not one author I can find even mentions the leap in
middle-aged violence, property, drug, and felony arrests over the
last 30 years. It's a lot easier, much more comfortable for popular
authors to rant against the "epidemic of youth violence" and blame
fictional straw-targets like television, video games, music, and
mean-girl-culture than to undertake painful introspection of very
real violence and values infecting our own powerful, sacred, older
age groups. These authors' evident eagerness to attack girls instead
strikes me as a cowardly abdication of adulthood--and they are far
from alone.

Unfortunately, girls suffering abusive, addicted, disarrayed parents
and adults around them don't have the luxury these privileged
academic authors enjoy to simply ignore the severe troubles older
generations display, nor to retreat into comfortable pop-culture
evasions. In 15 years of working directly with teens, I never met a
messed-up youth who didn't have even more messed-up parents.
I'm sure such exist, but the studies of youth I've done since show
they're rarities.

A truly mature, responsible adult society doesn't smugly shovel
blame and stigma onto our kids--it frankly evaluates our own adult
behaviors first. This disgraceful book and the acclaim it has
received are just more examples of how troubled and escapist
today's aging Baby Boomers (and craven experts soothing us that
it's just those damn kids causing all the problems) have become.
We need scientists to tell us the truth, not what we want to hear.

Mike Males, Sociology Department, University of California,
Santa Cruz mmales@earthlink.net

A Parents Call.......2005-08-25

Many experts and famous people support this books: Marian Wright-Edelman, Bill Cosby, Alvin Poussaint etc. but as a parent I want to say this book has helped tremendously. The pain my daughter and I were experiencing together and respectively was enormous. This book was a really helpful step along the long road of healing. It is many tiny hurtful incidents that can leave a large wound. It is from this wounded place that people find their violent selves and lose control. This book helped me understand that and so I understand my situation and daughter better. I treat this situation with a level of understanding and calmness that I never had before. The absence of this often made me verbally violent towards my daughter, only making our situation worse. I thank the authors for calling out a problem that everyone wants to ignore. With or without the support of experts and famous people- as a real person-I can say book gave me tools and hope and combined with other measures has helped create a better life and better for me and my daughter.

Answers to an eras problem.......2005-08-25

This book does an excellent job of identifying, articulating and fleshing out a problem that is so ingrained in our culture, that few people realize what a problem it is. Often it is only hindsight that offers the insight that this book gives regarding the toxic levels of violence in our society. Hopefully, this book and books like it will offer a new, more sophisticated and enlightened way for humans to solve problems. Because it is all fun and games until someone loses and eye.

I was expecting more........2005-07-15

After reading an article on girl violence in Newsweek, this book was sited as a great resource to further understand this emerging problem in schools.

Too bad it didn't live up to the hype. Far to many repeats of already stated information...the book was like reading in circles.

By far the most unforgiveable crime was the lack of examples provided. Several introductory pieces were used...all of about 4 or 5. Granted, my main reason for reading this book was to read the sensational horror stories, but the book completely bailed on providing us voyeuristic readers that guilty pleasure! I was also curious about the relationship of violence in regards to feminism and the new "Sheroes" of pop culture such as Buffy, The Bride from Kill Bill and other mentions (Alias, Catwoman, etc.) but they were lightly (and I'm talking a few, faint sentences) touched upon.

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