Pasta Imperfect: A Passport to Peril Mystery

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IT WAS AN OFFER SHE COULDN'T REFUSE....

The discount travel package to Italy seemed like a great deal: Emily Andrew could lead her globe-trotting Iowans on the trip of a lifetime and bring her family to boot. Maybe she should have read the fine print....Sharing their itinerary with a group of hyper-competitive aspiring romance writers is just a prelude to more Machiavellian drama than an Italian opera.

First, their hotel burns to the ground. Then, when Emily's lost luggage turns up found, the disgruntled literary ladies raid her clothing supply like she's a one-woman Gucci outlet. But the real killer is a contest sponsored by a publishing house -- and the depths to which the dime-novel divas will plunge to win a book contract. Amid backstabbing and catcalling, bodies start turning up -- in Emily's favorite outfits! Now, Emily will need more than a phrasebook to say ciao to someone with a hot and spicy passion for murder.

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"IT WAS AN OFFER SHE COULDN'T REFUSE.... The discount travel package to Italy seemed like a great deal: Emily Andrew could lead her globe-trotting Iowans on the trip of a lifetime and bring her family to boot. Maybe she should have read the fine print....Sharing their itinerary with a group of hyper-competitive aspiring romance writers is just a prelude to more Machiavellian drama than an Italian opera. First, their hotel burns to the ground. Then, when Emily's lost luggage turns up found, the disgruntled literary ladies raid her clothing supply like she's a one-woman Gucci outlet. But the real killer is a contest sponsored by a publishing house -- and the depths to which the dime-novel divas will plunge to win a book contract. Amid backstabbing and catcalling, bodies start turning up -- in Emily's favorite outfits! Now, Emily will need more than a phrasebook to say ciao to someone with a hot and spicy passion for murder. "

Customer Reviews:

Delightfully funny mystery.......2007-02-17

I love all in the Passport to Peril mysteries by Maddy Hunter. The characters are delightful, the situations interesting, and the actual mystery keeps me guessing. I find Maddy Hunter's books to be laugh-out-loud funny. I can't wait for the next in the series as soon as I finish one.

Marinara Mess.......2007-02-11

Well titled- this is truly Imperfect fiction.
Maddy Hunter bored me to death using hyperbole to the max!
I stalled around p. 50, put it down, and recently tried again, to NO avail. The main character, Emily, is not believable. The group she tours Italy with exceeds the imagination.
Yuck!!!

A real cliff-hanger.......2007-01-19

The only bad thing I can say about the third book in the series is that, for the time being, it's the last one! And, of course, there is a huge cliff-anger ending. The thing I most loved about this book is that it showed than sometimes you jump to suspect things when there is no cause - and don't notice a murder right under your nose! This one will keep you guessing until the very end, and in the case of Etienne - beyond! C'mon, book four!

Perfectly Funny Mystery.......2005-10-13

In this, the third book in Maddy Hunter's funny Passport to Peril Series, Emily Andrew escorts her group of senior citizens from Iowa on a trip to Italy. Also on the trip are a bunch of would be romance authors. As usual, calamity strikes early and often starting with Emily's suitcase getting lost and their hotel burning down. But things really heat up when the publishing company sponsoring the trip holds a contest where the prize is a book contract with a cash advance of $10,000. Some people will do anything to win and before long the bodies start piling up. All the people who were killed were judges in the contest and Emily's mother is the last judge still around. Emily wants to solve the murder - fast - before her mother becomes the next victim.

This is a funny cozy mystery. Hunter uses the story line to poke gentle fun at romance authors and readers, critics, agents, awards, publishers, Oprah's book club and even Amazon reviewers. Hunter populates the book with humorous, eccentric characters, including Emily's hot to trot millionaire grandmother; her mother who likes to alphabetize everything, including people; Emily's ex-husband Jack, who is now a gorgeous female named Jackie (who reminds me a lot of Lula in Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series); and the assorted Iowans on the trip, including one who wears on readers with her habit of rhyming everything. Etienne, Emily's long-distance, boyfriend appears in a series of phone calls and Hunter intriguingly throws in a handsome tour guide named Duncan, who also is attracted to Emily.

The solutions to the murders is a bit of a let down, but don't let that stop you from reading this very funny mystery.

My first visit to the series - I will read them all.......2005-09-28

What a fun read this is. I enjoyed myself thoroughly. The main character is someone you can relate to - flawed (meaning human), quick witted, funny, plagued by bouts of self doubt, and throughout it all, she remains a caring individual.

I am a fan of travel mysteries and when the travel destination is Italy, I am totally hooked. I try not to look to deeply through the reality lens with books like this. Like the Cat Who series and the alphabet books by Sue Grafton, the fun for me comes from the crisp writing, intricate plot twists, and the challenge of reading subtle clues clever authors have planted along the way.

Why only 4 stars? I think that if all of these deaths happened on a fun tour, I would have gone packing for places unknown. But the author kept me distracted and I hung in until the end, still guessing "who dun it?"

I'll read the rest of the series based on this edition if only to find out if people keep going abroad with a this Typhoid Mary of death and destruction.

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Cornell Woolrich reinvented suspense fiction for the twentieth century. His unnerving tales of the psychological terrors lurking on the underside of the commonplace earned Woolrich epithets like "our poet of the shadows," the twentieth century's Edgar Allen Poe, and the father of noir.

The twilight years of Woolrich's career did not soften his vision; they darkened it, as the selections in Tonight, Somewhere in New York, rivetingly show. In addition to nine masterly stories from the late 1950s and 1960s, some of them never before collected, this Woolrich anthology offers two evocative episodes from the autobiographical manuscript on which he worked during his latter years as well as five chapters of the novel he left unfinished at the time of his death in 1968.

Page after suspenseful page, this collection amply demonstrates the power of his vision. Again and again, ordinary individuals get caught up in everyday circumstances that spin perversely, murderously, out of control. Unexpected perils lie in wait everywhere—in a hotel corridor, in the insistent ring of a telephone, on a street one day in Rome, or inside a black sedan that without wheels would look like a coffin.

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WONDERFUL AND TRAGIC!.......2007-07-08

I love reading 'crime', 'mystery', 'noir' novels. After I finish, no matter how I much I enjoyed them, I give the copies away. But with Woolrich's novels and short stories, like with Raymond Chandler's, I keep them and reread them. They are Tragic, Haunting.... This is a wonderful book and the unfinished novel is heart barking.

Woolrich Jubilee.......2006-02-20

It's great to have so much of THE LOSER here, for though we've had bits and pieces of it over the years since Woolrich's death, never have we been able to see the whole manuscript. Nevins has renamed it TONIGHT SOMEWHERE IN NEW YORK, an earlier title Woolrich abandoned, I'm not sure why.

Nevins is a great partisan of Woolrich's and it would be worth buying this book if only for his introduction, in which he displays his superb find, meeting and making the acquaintance of the psychiatrist Carlos Burlingham, who was able to provide him with tons of new information about Woolrich's mysterious father. I think a new biography is in order, but in the meantime we can all piece things together in a different way than we have before. Nevins dates the beginning of the decline in Woolrich's writing to 1948, a year when he heard his father had died, and he surmises that for some reason, Woolrich perhaps wanted to prove something to his dad, and when Woolrich Senior passed on, that exigency wasn't so important any more . . . thus the strange, sad silence of the last twenty years.

I think however Nevins is trying to have it both ways. Bombastically he dismisses the final 20 years as a period in which Woolrich wrote little of value, while on the other hand having the temerity to try to sell the present book, written during exactly the same period!

For one thing, the outright dismissal is too sweeping. Despite what Nevins says, such late products as STRANGLERS SERENADE, SAVAGE BRIDE and HOTEL ROOM are actually very good. Personally I prefer SERENADE to any of Woolrich's other novels. And what came before wasn't all that great--or at least as consistently great as Nevins argues. Like all artists, Woolrich had his ups and downs--and even within the same novel this is so.

I notice that he drops the homosexual angle from Woolrich's career this time around, without a word of explanation. Has Woolrich somehow been "de-gayed" for the new century? Had Nevins found "The Idol with the Clay Bottom" good enough to reprint, we would not be so susceptible to the newly minted heterosexual model of Cornell Woolrich. Check it out, everyone (it's one of the stories in the unjustly impugned late collection "The Dark Side of Love.")

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The creation of three of fantasy's stellar talents, the Trillium Saga is a tour de force of magic, mystery, and romance. Now best-selling author Andre Norton picks up the story she began with Julian May and Marion Zimmer Bradley--a story that continues with a perilous quest into darkness. . .Once the famed triplet princess who defeated the evil sorcerer Orogastus, Kadiya ventures forth into the choked swamp lands of Ruewena to seek her own destiny among the Oddlings she once led in battle. Armed with her mystical three-eyed sword, she reaches the lost city of the Vanished Ones and discovers a strange race of dream-catchers, called Hassitti, whose visions bring chilling warning of a lethal plague that sows the land with death. Now Kadiya, with only three comparisons to aid her, journeys into the Thorny Hell, realm of the cannibalistic saurian Skritek, to stop the carrier of the evil disease. Here they discover a portal leading to a universe of awesome darkness--an entranceway to a horror that threatens the very existence of The World Of The Three Moons.

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The book was okay, not spectacular, but okay........2001-10-18

The story was relatively interesting, if a bit dry. The biggest problem I had with it was the lack of continuity with the rest of the series.

This book chronologically takes place a short time after Black Trillium. That would be fine if May and Norton had discussed it, but the lines of communication apparently failed.

If May knew how Norton was to conclude her story, she must have ignored it, because the character traits displayed by Kadiyah in Golden Trillium were not displayed by her in Blood Trillium.

Overall, I prefer the Kadiyah of Golden Trillium, to her through the eyes of May in Blood Trillium. I wish that something of that had been carried on.

The World of Three Moons did not seem the same world as that in the earlier works, or the later works. The appearance of the Sidonna didn't match the reference to them in the later works. It also did not have the strength of The Trillium due to the limited role of Haramis (maybe a paragraph), and the non-appearance of Anigel.

I do not think this is the best of Norton's work. If you are interested in the ongoing storyline of the World of Three Moons, you can safely ignore this book and miss none of that storyline. If you are an ANdre Norton fan, try to find it second hand.

Readable, but I wish I'd known. . ........2000-06-06

I have to admit I've read better books than this. It was better than Black Trillium, which I found practically nauseating, but I read through Golden Trillium only because I kept thinking the plot would pick up a little. It never did-- at least not until the very end, where a novel's worth of conflict is squeezed into about two chapters.

If you managed to plow your way through Golden Trillium and/or Black Trillium, read Marion Zimmer Bradley's Lady of the Trillium--it's infinitely better. If you haven't read Golden Trillium yet, do yourself a favor and check it out of the library, so you won't feel cheated.

I loved this book.......1999-09-19

I liked this book a lot, I think It can easily be one of the best of the saga, the fact that Kadiya was the only triplet in the story troubled me a little but a part from that it was great!

This Book was very Intriguing........1999-04-29

I loved this book...in fact, it is the book that took me the shortest time to read, in all the the series. But somehow it is the only one of the series so far, that is anticlimactic. I found No discrenpancies. However the story could have had a lot more to offer. Maybe more emphasis on the guy from Varm...more interaction from the 2 forces prior to the last 20 pages.....that is the only thing that disapponted me about the book

Muddy.......1998-09-15

I loved Black Trillium, and found Blood Trillium a worthy, if darker, sequel, but reading Golden Trillium only reveals what a thorough editing job May and Bradley must have done on Norton's text while writing the first novel. The story is vague, and the language impenetrable. I forced myself to finish it, but didn't pick up much. For Norton fans only.

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Golden Trillium
Andre Norton
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Andre Norton
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Golden Trillium
Andre Norton
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Excellent coffee table Chinese Medicine book!

Great resource for Chinese/Eastern medincine

Ancient tradition, many modalities

lfoote

Good introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine

Complete Illustrated Guide to Chinese Medicine: Using Traditional Chinese Medicine for Harmony of Mind and Body
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The Complete Illustrated Guide to Chinese Medicine is a fine prescription for those tired of the bureaucracy or the ineffectiveness of Western medicine. It's also a good resource for those who are just interested in exploring ways to improve their general health. Replete with hundreds of color photographs that lucidly introduce and explain the arts of acupuncture, meditation, acupressure massage, and herbalism, the book includes fitness programs such as qigong and taiji, which help to unblock Qi (pronounced "chee"), the body's life force. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) focuses on Qi and maintains that imbalances of Qi cause illness. The Complete Illustrated Guide shows the meridians, or energy fields, that determine the placement of acupuncture needles to stimulate the Qi. It also explains shen the mental aspect of the body; jing, the constitution; and zangfu, the organ systems. Numerous case studies show how traditional Chinese medical techniques have been used to diagnose and treat patients with various complaints, including heartburn, PMS, and exhaustion. Overall, this is a solid, beautifully organized resource for the family that you'll turn to again and again.

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This beautifully illustrated, full-color book explains the basic principles of Chinese medicine, the causes of disharmony in the body that lead to disease and the Chinese approach to diagnosis and treatment.

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Excellent coffee table Chinese Medicine book!.......2007-01-22

Concise and clear introduction to Chinese Medicine. Easy to read and understand.

Great resource for Chinese/Eastern medincine.......2005-09-22

This is an excellent book to have as a reference fo eastern methodologies in medicine and healing. Unfortunately it is long out of print, but if you can get your hands on a copy of this text, you will not be dissappointed. In fact, if you are unhappy with it, I will be happy to purchase it from you as I have many peers that would happily use it.

Ancient tradition, many modalities.......2004-07-27

Over 3000 years old, Chinese medicine is based on the Taoist holistic vision of balancing all the body harmonies. This book is a lavishly illustrated and complete guide to every aspects of this tradition. It is not a self-help book, but a guide explaining the concepts and principles and providing a detailed description of certain therapeutic exercises that everyone can use to optimise health.

Part One explores the theories behind the medicine, including basic principles like Yi and Yang, the basic substances like Qi and energy flow, the meridian system, the zangfu system and the causes of disharmony.

Part Two considers the Chinese approach to diagnosis, including diagnostic techniques like looking, hearing, questioning and touching, and includes an overview of the patterns of disharmony.

Part Three deals with Chinese approaches to treatment, including the principles of treatment and diagnosis and specific modalities like acupuncture, herbalism, qigong and lifestyle factors such as exercise, diet and feng shui.

The Further Reading section consists of bibliographies under headings like general, herbal, diet and others. A list of useful addresses in various countries is supplied and the At-A-Glance Directory is an illustrative index to finding treatments. The book concludes with a glossary and index and contains full colour illustrations and photographs.

lfoote.......2000-08-06

This book was loaned to me by a fellow physician and I had a hard time giving it back. It's a great resource for information that covers a little of everything in Chinese Medicine. I practice acupuncture and have found much of the information useful for preparing lectures, not only for the general public, but for other physicians as well. It's a versatile book good not only for it's comprehensive content, but also as a coffee table book as the illustrations are great. Would heartily recommend it to anyone interested in understanding the vast offerings of Chinese Medicine.

Good introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine.......2000-03-08

As a physician who is studying and doing acupuncture, I find this a good basic introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is heavily illustrated, which helps the reader to understand some very difficult concepts, which are alien to the Western mind, especially for medical personnel. I can highly recommend it for someone who is interested in becoming familiar with Acupuncture and other Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The Complete Illustrated Holistic Herbal: A Safe and Practical Guide to Making and Using Herbal Remedies

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The best home herbal I've found so far
PERFECT!
One of the Best
Well organized information, great pictures
a useful introduction and reference to herbal medicine

The Complete Illustrated Holistic Herbal: A Safe and Practical Guide to Making and Using Herbal Remedies
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The best home herbal I've found so far.......2007-04-25

David Hoffman's "The Complete Illustrated Holistic Herbal" is one of those rare books I keep nearby, as I'm constantly referring to it. Developed for the layman, Holistic Herbal provides sufficient overview of various herbal remedies to allow one to get their feet wet and feel competent while doing so. Part 1 of the book is a mere 16-page overview of the holistic concept - short, but if you weren't already sold on it, you wouldn't be reading the book, would you? Part 2 covers the practical aspects of herbalism, including the collection and preparation of the various herbs. This is one the areas where the work shines through, as Hoffman's descriptions and photographic accompaniments clearly and succinctly illustrate the process of making not only infusions, tinctures and decoctions, but also capsules, lozenges and suppositories. The latter part of this section also familiarizes the reader with the technical terms associated with herbalism, from abortifacients to vulneraries, in clear layman's terms. Part 3 begins the herbal itself, and its clearly expounded sections will have you referring back to it often. Each page has one to two herbs, with a photograph of the herb in question, a description of the parts used and their preparation, dosages and possible combinations with other herbs for varied therapeutic effects. Seemingly in recognition that this information could overwhelm the layman, Hoffman outlines on page 49 a home herbal medicine chest, with around 30 basic herbs as well as the (minor) equipment one will need in order to make use of them. The therapeutic index which lists the various ailments and their herbal remedies also emphasizes several herbal remedies within each category that are particularly efficacious for the ailment in question.

PERFECT!.......2006-05-22

What a SUPERB release. This is my medicinal herbal bible; it's quite complete, very nice graphics, and is easy to understand. It sits right next to my magickal herb books and has been an invaluable reference. HIGHLY recommended.

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One of the Best.......2003-09-24

I own a later 2002 version of the 1996 book. Except for cover design the content has remained very much the same. That is one of the best available books on herbs and herbology. It shows the herb with a color photograph for those unfamiliar with what each herb looks like. It gives a detailed description of the herb amd exact formulas of how to use it singularly or in combination.There are other features like how to cultivate and dry the herbs and how it relates to a body system. One of the Best herb books available

Well organized information, great pictures.......2003-02-17

The pictures and profiles on the herbs are a pleasure to read and look at. I would have given the book 5 stars, but there is a dearth of safety information for some herbs (e.g. comfrey, coltsfoot, lily of the valley, sassafras)which I feel is a serious omission. Someone just starting to learn about herbs may start consuming them on a regular basis before coming across the safety information elsewhere. Also, in the section on body systems, the recommended herbal recipes are accompanied by symbols which are not explained anywhere in the text (or if they are, the explanation is very well hidden because I can't find it!) Other than that, the book contains a great introduction to how the body's various systems work and also a lot of common sense advice on optimizing health (not just illness prevention). The philosophy of herbal treatment (treating the whole person as opposed to treating a symptom or a disease) is nicely discussed. Also the therapeutic index makes it easy to find herbs that you can try for specific health needs. A nice addition to the herbal library as long as you have other books that offer the safety info that this one lacks!

a useful introduction and reference to herbal medicine.......1999-03-27

This work offers a satisfying introduction to herbalism for the general reader, and is enhanced by useful sections on medical terminology, when to gather herbs, useful addresses, and further reading. Medical practicioners will probably find that the book contains insufficient detail and inadequate references to other literature and experimental data.

The most useful part of this book - and the one offering the clearest exposition of the author's philosphy - is the 4th chapter entitled "Systems of the Body". This is the chapter that a reader with a specific complaint should turn to first. This includes sections on eleven bodily systems, including: the circulatory system; the lymphatic system; the respiratory system; ears, nose, throat and eyes; the reproductive system; and the digestive system.

Taking the digestive system to illustrate the author's approach, the whole section consists of 14 large pages. In the first two pages, the author explains with the help of illustrations the anatomy and function of the digestive system, and then gives general lifestyle advice on prevention of digestive disease. The next two pages are an introduction to the various kinds of herbs for the digestive system, among them bitters, hepatics, laxatives, emetics, demulcants, astringents and anti-spasmodics. The final 10-page subsection is titled "Patterns of Digestive Disease", in which Hoffmann offers his views on the nature of, and possible treatments for, problems as diverse as constipation, anorexia nervosa, mouth ulcers, duodenal ulcers, and gall-bladder inflammation. The herbs mentioned in this chapter can then be looked up in the preceding chapter, a traditional herbal which devotes half a page to each herb, mentioning the parts used; how and when to collect it; its chemical constituents; its actions; and preparation and dosage. I find half a page far too little, but combining this with the information in the rest of the book, the reader will usually find enough to suggest a possible remedy for common complaints - one that will usually require verification by a qualified practicioner.

The rest of the book includes chapters on "the holistic approach" and "practical herbalism". The latter explains how to gather herbs and make herbal preparations; the chemistry of herbs; the action of herbs; suggestions for a basic herbal medicine chest for the home; and a therapeutic index, which gives an alphabetical list of conditions with most of the potentially useful herbs.

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Best Herbal remedy book I own

The Complete Illustrated Holistic Herbal : A Safe and Practical Guide to Making and Using Herbal Remedies
David Hoffman
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Best Herbal remedy book I own.......2007-04-06

For me, this book is a must-have in efforts to grow and prepare herbal remedies.

Complete Illustrated Guide to the Holistic Herbal

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This book is a must-have.
A must for herbalists

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Beautifully illustrated with over 300 full-color photographs, this comprehensive guide is the ultimate reference for beginner and practitioner alike.

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This book is a must-have........2004-11-29

You will find beatiful picutures with no-bs descriptions, recipes, an overview of bodily systems and how to heal them, and quite a bit more - all in an easy-to-read and to-the-point manner. In comparison with other authors on herbs I would have to give Hofmann major credit for this book alone (he's written many other books on herbs). Buy this book if you're exploring herbs. You definitely will not be let down imo.

A must for herbalists.......2002-07-02

I bought an earlier version of this book probably 10 years ago and have found it to be indispensible. I, however, did want a better updated version (newer herbs gleaned from research, etc) so I bought this latest edition. I am very pleased with the book, as it offers advice on preparation, harvesting, keeping all systems of the body healthy, just like the old book. It does have some improvements, though, too. This book is in color throughout, and beautifully laid out. Each herbal entry has a photo either of the plant itself or of the root. The information is very well laid out for each entry, noting each herb's properties, uses, harvesting tips, and so on. The only real quirk that bothered me at first, was that the herbs were not listed by common name, but rather by botanical name. But in the long run I'm growing to like this, as it's forcing me to better learn the Latin names, and I think it's a good safety feature, too, since the Latin name is really the only accurate one, with all the varied names gleaned from folklore, etc. Ultimately it makes finding the right plant easier and makes it safer since you're less likely to make an error in finding the right herb for a particular ailment or condition.

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The Complete Illustrated Holistic Herbal: A Safe and Practical Guide to Making and Using Herbal Remedies
David; Hoffmann, David Hoffman
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