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Milk Glass Moon: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Adriana Trigiani Manufacturer: Ballantine Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0345445856 Release Date: 2003-07-01 |
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Milk Glass Moon, the third book in Adriana Trigiani's bestselling Big Stone Gap series, continues the life story of Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney as she faces the challenges and changes of motherhood with her trademark humor and honesty. With twists as plentiful as those found on the holler roads of southwest Virginia, this story takes turns that will surprise and enthrall the reader.Download Description
Milk Glass Moon, the third book in Adriana Trigiani's bestselling Big Stone Gap series, continues the life story of Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney as she faces the challenges and changes of motherhood with her trademark humor and honesty. With twists as plentiful as those found on the holler roads of southwest Virginia, this story takes turns that will surprise and enthrall the reader.
Transporting us from Ave Maria's home in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Italian Alps, from New York City to the Tuscan countryside, Milk Glass Moon is the story of a shifting mother-daughter relationship, of a daughter's first love and a mother's heartbreak, of an enduring marriage that contains its own ongoing challenges, and of a community faced with seismic change.
All of Trigiani's beloved characters are back: Jack Mac, Ave Maria's true love, who is willing to gamble security for the unknown; her best friend and confidant, bandleader Theodore Tipton, who begins a new life in New York City; librarian and sexpert Iva Lou Wade Makin, who faces a life-or-death crisis. Meanwhile, surprises emerge in the blossoming of crusty cashier Fleeta Mullins, the maturing of mountain girl turned savvy businesswoman Pearl Grimes, and the return of Pete Rutledge, the handsome stranger who turned Ave Maria's world upside down in Big Cherry Holler.
In this rollicking hayride of upheaval and change, Ave Maria is led to places she never dreamed she would go, and to people who enter her life and rock its foundation. As Ave Maria reaches into the past to find answers to the present, readers will stay with her every step of the way, rooting for the onetime town spinster who embraced love and made a family. Milk Glass Moon is about the power of love and its abiding truth, and captures Trigiani at her most lyrical and heartfelt.
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Book Review.......2007-10-01
GOOD READ.......2007-06-01
Milk Glass Moon.......2007-02-11
The third book in the "Big Stone Gap" quartet.......2006-09-09
Wonderful book!.......2006-05-24
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Trigiani 3-Copy Box Set: "Milk Glass Moon," "Big Cherry Holler," and "Big Stone Gap"
Adriana Trigiani Manufacturer: Ballantine Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 0345465822 Release Date: 2003-09-30 |
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Big Stone Gap.......2005-10-22
Big Stone Gap.......2003-10-23
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BIG STONE GAP, BIG CHERRY HOLDER, MILK GLASS MOON
ADRIANA TRIGIANI Manufacturer: Unknown ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000S54H9W |
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Milk Glass Moon - A Big Stone Gap Novel
Adriana Trigiani Manufacturer: Ballantine Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000K1KTP0 |
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3 Titles By Trigianai (Trade Paperback) - The Queen of the Big Time - Milk Glass Moon - Big Cherry Holler
Adriana Trigiani Manufacturer: ballantine ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000MURHRW |
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3 Titles By Trigianai (Trade Paperback) - The Queen of the Big Time - Milk Glass Moon - Big Cherry Holler
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4 Book Set By Adriana Trigiani; Big Stone Gap; Milk Glass Moon; the Queen of the Big Time;big Cherry Holler.
Adriana Trigiani ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000WNU6D6 |
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4 Book Set By Adriana Trigiani; Big Stone Gap; Milk Glass Moon; the Queen of the Big Time;big Cherry Holler
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Milk Glass Moon
Adriana Trigiani Manufacturer: Fawcett ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OW6FKI |
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MILK GLASS MOON
Manufacturer: Ballantine ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000GS46EM |
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Stone Quarry
S. J. Rozan Manufacturer: Minotaur Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0312209126 |
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It's Bill Smith's turn to take center stage in this sixth entry in S.J. Rozan's memorable Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series of mysteries, and the tough and taciturn private eye really comes into his own. Smith has cloistered himself in his remote cabin in upstate New York, where he escapes from his private devils by fishing, hunting, and practicing Mozart and Bach on his piano, when he is sucked into two local crime cases.The first involves Tony Antonelli, the brother of a young man whom Smith once helped out of trouble. Tony finds the body of a murdered local hoodlum in the cellar of his roadhouse. His brother Jimmy suspiciously goes missing and becomes the leading suspect. The second case involves a reclusive older woman (who turns out to be a world-famous painter). She asks Bill to track down some of her early works, which had been stolen from her studio. There's also a very nasty sheriff who hates Smith, a moderately tolerant state trooper who grudgingly helps, a corrupt executive of a babyfood company and his sad, dangerous teenage daughter, plus a crew of smalltime crooks who give the lie to the myth of rural safety. Lydia doesn't get called in from the Big Apple until quite late, and when she arrives she attracts stares in the local 7-Eleven "as though she were a black-petalled orchid that had sprung up in the daisy patch. Back in the car, Lydia grinned, said, 'Not many Asians up here, huh?' 'Especially in black leather,'" Bill answers."
The plot might have one or two tangles too many for its own good, but as usual Rozan proves herself to be one of the best descriptive writers in the genre, bringing to indelible life everything from a modern painter's latest work, to a depressed countryside where the last stone quarry is about to close down and grind away a few more dreams.
Other books in this award-winning series: A Bitter Feast, Concourse, Mandarin Plaid, and No Colder Place. --Dick Adler
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For the past twelve years that private investigator Bill Smith has owned his cabin in the woods in a small upstate New York town. He has used it as an escaping, a place of refuge, never letting city life or his work intrude. All that changes, however, when Eva Colgate, a local farmer, summons Bill to meet with her. She wants him to quietly recover some recently stolen possessions - items which, if known to be hers, would expose her past and a secret she has kept for thirty years.
As Bill, with the help of his sometime-partner Lydia Chin, begins the search for the stolen goods, the usual quiet of this rural county abruptly shatters. A local hoodlum is found murdered in the basement of a local bar, the young daughter of a prominent businessman runs away from home, and Jimmy Antonelli, a teenager with a troubled past who is tied to these events, is missing. Now Bill and Lydia have to find the missing boy - and uncover the connection among these events - in time to save him.
A gripping story of power, corruption, and long-held secrets, Stone Quarry is the most compelling novel yet from one of the finest mystery novelists of our time.
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the more I read Rozan, the more I admire her writing ability........2005-12-22
Wholly average.......2001-07-15
Bill Smith, private detective, and his on-again/off-again partner, Lydia Chin, are the stars of this current installment of an ongoing series. While vacationing in his deceased uncle's cabin in upstate New York, Smith becomes engaged in a what appears on the surface to be a simple burglary involving a reclusive artist who wants to remain anonymous but still recover some valuable paintings that were stolen from her. The situation devolves quickly into a fight to the death with local crooks who may-or-may-not have mob ties, along with some bought-off cops on the local force.
While Rozan does an able job with telling this story, it follows a well-trodden path and ends in a place we've all been many times before. By the end of the story, I found myself being able to skip ahead without missing anything, which to me, says a lot about a book. While it appears that Rozan may have a huge following, she didn't gain a new one with me.
Excellent, as usual.......2001-05-30
IT"S BILL SMITH!!!!!.......2000-08-29
Anyway, all of the Bill Smith/ Lydia Chin books are terrific, especially since the point of view for each book switches from Lydia to Bill. Lydia's problems with being female and Chinese in a white man's world are my favorite part of the books. Poor Bill! Carrying a torch for Lydia and trying not to mess up a fine partnership. They have such a strange relationship, but it works. Get the books or tapes, curl up in a chair and enjoy.
A new departure.......1999-10-14
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The Art of Splitting Stone: Early Rock Quarrying Methods in Pre-industrial New England 1630-1825
Manufacturer: Powwow River Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0971791023 |
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"The Art of Splitting Stone" is a detailed study of the history, tools, and methods used to split, hoist, and transport quarried stone in pre-industrial New England (1630-1825). It is an invaluable resource for historians, archaeologists, and stone masons interested in identifying, dating, or experimenting with early stone splitting and quarrying methods. The amateur researcher and avid outdoors person will find the book useful as a field guide to identifying split boulders and stone quarries abandoned in the woods.
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Limestone Lives: Voices From The Indiana Stone Belt (Quarry Books)
Katherine Ferrucci Manufacturer: Quarry Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 025334512X |
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Look up at the Empire State Building in New York City and you will see an almost endless ribbon of soaring stoneIndiana limestone, to be precise. The Empire State Building, Pentagon, Chicago Tribune Building, and many university structures, state capitols, post offices, and churches in every state (and buildings in other countries) are constructed of this exceptional material, renowned for its durability, consistency, and capacity to accept and retain fine detail. When part of the Pentagon was destroyed after 9/11, an Indiana quarry went to work, mining 46 truckloads of limestone to be sent to the Washington site and enabling reconstruction to be completed ahead of schedule.Limestone Lives pays tribute to the skill and dedication of the men and women who work with stone. It combines 79 striking fine art photographic images with engaging oral histories, representing a range of voices of the workers themselves. We hear from sculptors, drill runners, stone polishers, planermen, forklift operators, a union leader, and the president of a stone company. The book also features brief descriptions of the region's stone companies, a map locating Indiana quarries and stone mills, and a look at how the industry has changed over the years.
Limestone Lives is a testament to men and women who take enormous pride in the quality of their work, as well as to the role this unique industry plays in creating buildings that last.
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Real People in Limestone.......2004-12-06
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A Guide to New England Stone Structures: Stone Cairns, Stone Walls, Standing Stones, Chambers, Foundations, Wells, Culverts, Quarries and Other Structures
Manufacturer: Powwow River Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Pamphlet ASIN: 0971791031 |
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A Guide to New England Stone Structures is a basic field guide to identifying the many different types of stone structures found while hiking through the forest and conservation lands in New England. It covers:Historic Structures: Foundations, Wells & Well Caps, Farm Roads, Culverts, Mill Dams, Field Clearing Piles, Walll Building Piles, Stone Walls, State & Town Boundaries.Native American Structures: Stone Cairns, Stone Walls, Enclosures, Chambers, Pedestal Boulders, Niches, Standing Stones, Manitou Stones.Stone Quarrying: Field Boulder Quarries, Surface Ledge Quarries, Hand Quarrying Tools, Round Hole Quarry Marks, Flat Wedge Quarry Marks, Triangular Hole Quarry Marks, Blasting Holes.
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Stone Country
Scott Sanders , and Jeffrey Wolin Manufacturer: Indiana Univ Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0253185157 |
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Ancient Stones: Quarrying Trade and Provenance (Acta archaeologica Lovaniensia)
Manufacturer: Leuven University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9061864941 |
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The art of splitting stone: Early rock quarrying methods in pre-industrial New England, 1630-1825
Mary Gage Manufacturer: Powwow River Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0971791007 |
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The Best Book About Colonial Stone Quarrying.......2006-06-30
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The Rock Quarry Book
Michael Kehoe Manufacturer: Carolrhoda Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0876141424 |
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The architectural, structural, and monumental stones of Minnesota., by George A. Thiel and Carl E. Dutton (Minnesota. Geological survey. Bulletin)
George A Thiel Manufacturer: The University of Minnesota press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00086BMJ4 |
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Bath stone: A quarry history
J. W Perkins Manufacturer: Kingsmead [for] Department of Extra-Mural Studies, University College Cardiff ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0906230268 |
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Sword of the Dark Ones: Volume 1 (Sword of the Dark Ones)
Yasui Kentaro Manufacturer: CMX ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1401206476 |
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In the late-medieval land of Barnard, between the mountains and sea, the peaceful lifestyle of the people has been shattered by fear. Monsters, known as the Dark Ones, roam the land, killing indiscriminately. The townsfolk fear to venture out from their homes, and travel from town to town has become a risk to life and limb. To protect the people from this terror, several guilds have sprung up, including the Guild of Assassins and the Guild of Mercenaries. To go out into the world, or travel across the wilderness, hired mercenaries are essential.One man has built a reputation as an especially fierce monster-killer#151;a man known as Leroy Schvartzer. A former high-ranking member of the Guild of Mercenaries, Leroy has struck out on his own. Many try to hire for his superior skills, but Leroy has his own agenda. He has a mission to accomplish, a vow to fulfill. This vow is known only to himself, and his one companion#151;his sentient long-sword Ragnarok.
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Diabetes & Pregnancy: What to Expect
American Diabetes Association Manufacturer: American Diabetes Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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ASIN: 158040071X |
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This is a comprehensive guide for the woman with Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes who is pregnant or is thinking about having a baby. Diabetes and Pregnancy: What to Expect explains the important elements of proper diabetes care during pregnancy, including meal planning, exercise, insulin therapy, and monitoring.
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This book needs better focus.......2007-07-09
not for diabetics.......2005-08-13
This was my first book and was very helpful!.......2004-07-27
All Fluff.......2002-10-14
Minimal benefits for gestational diabetic patients.......2002-08-04
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Gestational Diabetes: What to Expect
American Diabetes Association Manufacturer: American Diabetes Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 1580400728 |
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Gestational diabetes is a rare and little-understood form of diabetes. It only appears in pregnancy and usually disappears afterward, but proper self-care during pregnancy is still crucial. Gestational Diabetes: What to Expect, a comprehensive guide for the woman with gestational diabetes, explains the proper elements of self-care, including nutritious meal planning, proper insulin therapy, and accurate blood sugar monitoring.
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Too simplistic.......2000-02-01
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Diabetes & Pregnancy: What to Expect
The Task Force for the American Diabetes Association Council on Pregnancy Manufacturer: American Diabetes Association, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000JTJFSU |
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