Inside the Hornet's Head: An Anthology of Jewish American Writing

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When compiler Jerome Charyn first read Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March, a world of letters opened up to him. It was his first exposure to the full potential of language, rendered breathlessly. In those pages he felt the terror and delight and buzz and ceaseless clatter of the inside of a hornet's head.

Here, he shares with us nineteen stories, including one from Augie March, that evoke similar feelings of passion and pain and joy. Selected from some of America's most celebrated Jewish writers, as well as a few lesser known ones, Inside the Hornet's Head is a moving, daring, appealing, and indispensable work.

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Spanning six years in Ginny Shortt's life, this is a remarkable novel about growing up in a small mining town in Appalachia. A "novel of aspiring proportions...This is a haunting story, well written." --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

A "triumph." --The New York Times Book Review

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Not appropriate subject matter.......2006-02-28

I was very happy when my daughter started reading this book because it offered a different setting than she usually read about. There are not many books for girls set in the Appalacian mountains.

At first I enjoyed reading and discussing the book with my daughter but then I became disturbed by the subject matter. I do not believe that pedophilia, teen pregnancy, incest and suicide are appropriate material for a pre-teen.

While the book is an enjoyable read I highly reccommend a parent read it first to make sure it is appropriate for their child.

A Great find! And Wonderful Read!.......2006-02-21

I actually picked this book up at my local library's annual book sale. I purchased it for my 5th grade daughter. The title is what caught my attention. I am orginally from Appalachian West Virginia, and come from a long line of miners. I notice that many people who are not from the mountains often use correct language usage when referring to a "Holler" (Hollow)

Although, I purchased this book for my daughter I found myself reading the entire book in a single afternoon. The dialect that the author uses is beautiful, and very accurate. the story brought back many happy memories for me.

I do not know if Ms. White is from the South or not. If she isin't, she should be commended for accurately and beautifully, capturing one of the worlds most beautiful cultures, that often goes unnoticed, or is stereotyped in a negative manner. If Ms. White is in fact from the mountains, she should be commended for writing this book that shares a forgotten heritage.

The only thing is, if you are not from the south you may have a difficult time reading and understanding the dialect in this book. You will also not reconize many terms and words that are commonly used in the mountains. And since this the setting takes place around the time my Gradmother was growing up, you will find some notions that may seem strange to the average "northerner" For example; "Feed sack dresses" (which were very pretty, and if you had one you were lucky!)

I gave the book to my daughter to read. She came to me later that day and said "Mom, this book is written the way you talk!!!" I had to laugh at that one!
She had a little bit of a hard time reading the dialect. So I read the book aloud for both her, and my youngest. It has since become one of our favorite books.
I plan on picking up other books by this author!

Amazing!.......1999-07-27

This is an incredible book. It's about a girl and her friends and how her whole world seems to be changing. I think Ruth White did an incredible job. I read it in two days then I read it again in one day! Everybody should read this book. It's one of the best books I've ever read!

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Some fun to be found
Wonderful Story Telling
Well written but hard to follow
Drop a line in the waters of sweet creek
Simply masterly

Sweet Creek
Lee Lynch
Manufacturer: Bold Strokes Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Some fun to be found.......2007-10-03

I enjoy this author's work so I got this one. There many characters to get to know. And their names are orginal Jeep and Chick are a couple. It had a wide range of ages for the characters. from their 20's to late 40's.
There were parts of this book that made me laugh. Alot of self examination by the characters. Which I am sure if you are like me or them you have asked yourself the same questions.
I liked this book ok. I don't think I would read it again. It was hard for me to get through it the first time. If you want a couple of laughs and wonder what the characters results of "what do I do with my life?" And "do I have a purpose when I am this old?" then you may enjoy this book

Wonderful Story Telling .......2007-02-15

I could not be happier with this book. Each character is so unique that you would hope one day to meet each of them - enthusiastic & dear 'Jeep', and Katie who is more in tune with her work than the people in her life. Strong & dependable Donny and her partner the warm and loving Chick. 'R' who dominates all who come into her sphere but who isn't as one dimensional as you might think, and Abe/Abeo who is completely audacious. M.C. (boo-hiss!) and Sheriff Joan Sweet who is an enigma I would like to read more of. And several other folks inhabit the pages of Sweet Creek and you will long remember them.

The uniqueness of each character and moment kept me turning the page long after my tired eyes complained that I should call it a night - thanks to the publisher for publishing such a substantial book.

Perfect for the beach or evenings spread out over the week. The characters leap off the page at the reader. You will find yourself holding your breath, the tension in some moments is so real. Loaded with humor and thrilling rollarcoaster moments. The town itself is wonderfully depicted, and what a great name "Waterfall Falls" - lol.

Sweet Creek was selected by the Q Syndicate's Book Marks in their 2006 Top 10 Fiction List, chosen by Richard Labonte. Also nominated for the upcoming Lambda Literary Award as Best Lesbian Fiction of 2006.

From the publisher's website - Author Lee Lynch tackles broad themes that affect us all: love, death, gender, and aging in a novel rich with love, friendship, passion and romance.

Sweet Creek is a story of love, community, and the changing tides of time set in a town where trannies, lesbian cops, aging gay hippies, womyn's landers, and rural couples come in search of a lesbian paradise. Two left over lesbian hippies, now in their 50's, Donny and Chick run the vegetarian Natural Woman Foods store. In Donny, a black lesbian and Chick, her lover, Lee Lynch continues to depict the struggles of working class butch lesbians and femmes. Sweet Creek is set in a town near a vortex in the Pacific Northwest. Emerging and changing relationships challenge the women who inhabit this special space, and as the four central women who move to this dyke magnet become family, they learn to lay their fears and ghosts to rest.

Lee Lynch has been proudly writing lesbian stories since the 1960s when she was a frequent contributor to "The Ladder," the only lesbian publication at the time. Since then she has published a dozen books, her stories have appeared in a number of anthologies, and she has written reviews and feature articles for "The Lambda Book Report" and many other publications. Her syndicated column, "The Amazon Trail," has been running since 1986.

Well written but hard to follow.......2006-07-06

While this book is extremely well written, the story and characters are also extremely hard for me to follow. There are some great lines, but it was a struggle to finish the book and for me to actually figure out what the point of it was. Maybe the book was trying too hard to be unique. Too many stereotypical butch/femmes and "earthy" lesbians too.

Drop a line in the waters of sweet creek.......2006-05-26

From the pen of the venerable lesbian author Lee Lynch comes a novel set in the small rural community of Waterfall Falls, Oregon, at the turn of the millennium and populated by an amusingly high volume of lesbians. One character suggests an inverted energy draws women to the community.

"A dyke vortex. I like it." Chick made a mental note to suggest it to the sheriff, a native who was completely baffled, and not particularly pleased, at the disproportionate numbers of lesbians in Elk County.

... [Jeep responds] "Cool beans! I moved to the poor dyke's Palm Springs."

"Yeah," added Donny. "We don't golf, we fish." (60)

The heart of the area's queer community rests in Natural Woman Foods, a small organic general store and cafe run by ex-hippie, earth-mother dyke, Chick, and her tough but mellowing, working-class, former player, butch partner Donny. Together nearly a decade, the two are struggling with the changes of advancing crone-hood. Chick has a family history of mental illness and worries her current struggle with depression might be symptomatic of something worse. Meanwhile men from their pasts are stirring trouble for both women.

If Natural Woman Foods is the heart of the community, Chick is its reigning queen, er, "femme in charge." (34) She looks after several women in this role, and has many amused, often indulgently affectionate observations about butches, the butch/femme dance in general, and the changes she's seen in community politics (gay and straight).

Up and coming television reporter, Katie, with her flame of the moment, Jeep, arrives looking for something new for her life. She finds herself quickly enamored with the leader of the women's land, a fierce, enigmatic woman named Rattlesnake, or R for short. Katie consequently develops an interest in documenting the struggles the local separatist commune has with the traditional logging industry.

Soon, Jeep, (a melding of "G. P." for Gina Pauline) who appeared in Waterfall Falls sporting a city-styled buzz haircut and a restless attitude, finds herself nursing a broken heart, looking for a new place to live, scrambling to make a living, and trying to sort out what she wants to do with her life. Jeep's coming of age is one of the themes of Sweet Creek and several of the story threads depict transitional life periods.

As is frequently the case with small communities, everyone seems to know everyone else's business. Still, a few surprises arise over the course of the book. Lynch portrays this ensemble cast of charming and interesting characters with humor and insight. Sweet Creek originally appeared as a series of short-short stories in Girlfriends Magazine and the brief episodic structure has been retained in the chapters. This allows for bite-sized consumption of the various storylines that struck this reader as a dyke hybrid of Keillor's Lake Wobegon stories and Maupin's Tales of the City series. While this format makes for easy episodic reading, it sometimes results in meandering plotlines that might distract some readers and could have benefited from some tighter editing. Nevertheless, Sweet Creek is filled with engaging life stories and charming snapshots of the locale. Fans of Lynch are bound to enjoy Sweet Creek, and hopefully new readers will discover her work as well.

Simply masterly.......2006-03-07

If you want one of the clone lesbian romances (with white, plastic, over-achieving, gun-toting, wealthy, unbelievably sexy, perfect characters who wear designer clothes and all have simultaneous orgasms--and often) "Sweet Creek" is not for you.

If, on the other hand, you want to read a book with depth of feeling and breadth of insight, and which deals with deftly-drawn, genuine, 3-D characters who lead awkward, lumpy, difficult lives in the real world without shying from the hard facets of our lives and without dishing up palliative, trite, unrealistic solutions, then this is your book.

Lee Lynch writes with the understated, seamless, deceptively effortless style that only true masters of the craft can achieve. I wish I could write something half as good: I'll settle for being able to read and re-read "Sweet Creek".

It's books like "Sweet Creek" that prove that lesbian writing can be truly literary and meaningful and entertaining. This is the best book I've read in a long time. I'll proudly put it on my shelf beside "The Female Man".

Autograph Letters & Documents Mainly American Including Specimens by Hamilton, Jackson, Paine, Washington. Collected by the Late Forest G. Sweet, Battle Creek MI [Parke-Bernet, Oct. 22/23, 1957]

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Autograph Letters & Documents Mainly American Including Specimens by Hamilton, Jackson, Paine, Washington. Collected by the Late Forest G. Sweet, Battle Creek MI [Parke-Bernet, Oct. 22/23, 1957]

Manufacturer: NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc.
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ASIN: B000GGMLV4

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417 lots in 112 pages; occasional photos of content.

Home Sweet Home (Willow Creek Hills, GP-484)

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Home Sweet Home (Willow Creek Hills, GP-484)
Terri Gick
Manufacturer: Gick Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JPGOME

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Color illustrated with full instructions for, crocheted heart rug, beaded cross-stich sampler, cross-stitch pillow, appliqued placemats and pillow, tin punch wallhangings, hearts, hearts, hearts, pierced lampshade, miniature quilts, antigued panted blocks. Full size patterns included.

Negotiating For Georgia: British-Creek Relations In The Trustee Era, 1733-1752

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English-Native American relations and diplomacy

Negotiating For Georgia: British-Creek Relations In The Trustee Era, 1733-1752
Julie Anne Sweet
Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0820326755

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The first two decades of colonial Georgia's existence--known as its Trustee era--have come down through history as a well-intentioned but failed experiment. In one largely overlooked way, contends Julie Anne Sweet, the first attempt to establish Georgia was a success. The climate of respect and cooperation sustained between the British settlers and the Native American group with whom they had the greatest contact--the Lower Creeks--strengthened the fledgling colony and helped prevent the armed conflict between Europeans and Indians that had plagued other American colonies.

As Sweet focuses on negotiations between James Oglethorpe, the English leader, and Tomochichi, the Lower Creek representative, over issues of trade, land, and military support, she also looks at other individuals and groups who played a role in British-Creek interactions during this period: British traders; missionaries, including John Wesley and George Whitefield; the Salzburgers of Ebenezer; interpreters such as Mary Musgrove; the Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Cherokees; British colonists from South Carolina; and Spanish and French forces who vied with the Georgia settlers for land, trading rights, and Indian support.

This study of conflict and compromise, dominance and accommodation, will alter previous judgments about the Georgia Trustee colony-and the role of Tomochichi and the Lower Creeks in ensuring its survival.

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English-Native American relations and diplomacy.......2005-03-29

During the short time of the Trustee Era, the leader of the British colony of Georgia James Oglethorpe worked to establish a mutually beneficial, peaceful relationship with the Creek Indians, whose leader in this was Tomochichi. The activities between the two parties have a resemblance to the diplomatic activities between two countries. On a trip to England to get guidance on the developing negotiations, Oglethorpe took Tomochichi and other Creeks as representatives of the Creek nation. The relationship between the Creeks and the Georgia colony eventually worked out involved trade, land rights, and legal protections; and it was the basis for a military alliance in the War of Jenkin's Ear against the Spanish over differences in north Florida. The "charter" between the English colonists and the Creeks did not hold up with the coming of the Revolutionary War. In the early 1800s, the Creeks were relocated to Oklahoma. Sweet's account of this exceptional charter, or treaty, between European colonists and Native Americans evidences sophisticated and enlightened political behavior by both parties. This author is an assistant professor of history at Baylor.

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Sacred Stories of Sweet Grass Creek
Leonard Bloomfield
Manufacturer: Fifth House Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1895618274
Release Date: 1993-09-15

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Sacred Stories of the Sweet Grass Cree, first published in 1930, is once again available, allowing readers to enjoy these wonderful Native stories that have been passed down from generation to generation.

These stories concern the time when the earth was not in its present, definitive state, and tell of the origins of the world, its people, and the creatures that eventually took the shape of present-day animals. The collection includes stories such as "The Birth of Wisahketchahk and the Origin of Mankind", "The Origins of Horses", "Why the Dead are Buried", "Thunderbird and Winter", and many others.

In 1925, Leonard Bloomfield, a linguistics professor at Yale University, spent five weeks on the Sweet Grass Reservation near Battleford, Saskatchewan, recording stories told to him by members of the tribe. The storytellers -- none of whom spoke English -- included Coming-Day, an extemely articulate blind old man who was said to know more traditional stories than any other member of the band; Adam Sakewew, a gifted storyteller; Maggie Achenam, a middle-aged woman full of interesting lore; and others. The stories, dictated to Bloomfield in Cree, are presented in the book in the original Cree and in English translations.

A valuable treasury of traditional stories from the Sweet Grass Cree, this collection provides insights into the language, culture, and sacred teachings of some of North America's First Nations.

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Sweet Creek Holler
Ruth White
Manufacturer: FARRAR STRAUS & * GIROUX
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000Q12Z9M

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Sweet Creek's springtime babies
Betty Whitehill
Manufacturer: MAC-CAT Publications
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Sweet Creek is cure for what ails you.(Columns)(This is the spot to forget about the endless rain and remember what's great about this place)(Column): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000FIM1O0
Release Date: 2006-04-26

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on April 21, 2006. The length of the article is 494 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sweet Creek is cure for what ails you.(Columns)(This is the spot to forget about the endless rain and remember what's great about this place)(Column)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: April 21, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: E3

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Analytical results for 42 fluvial tailings cores and 7 stream sediment samples from High Ore Creek, northern Jefferson County, Montana (SuDoc I 19.76:98-215)

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Analytical results for 42 fluvial tailings cores and 7 stream sediment samples from High Ore Creek, northern Jefferson County, Montana (SuDoc I 19.76:98-215)
David L. Fey
Manufacturer: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
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ASIN: B00010ZR9S

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It is not scifi

Prometheus Award Winner

Not Free SF Reader

An amazing work of science fiction

Pointless Violence

Glasshouse
Charles Stross
Manufacturer: Ace Hardcover
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ASIN: 0441014038

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When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to discover that someone's trying to kill him. It's the twenty-seventh century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees' personalities-including Robin's earlier self.

On the run from unknown enemies, he volunteers to participate in a unique experimental polity, the Glasshouse, constructed to simulate a preaccelerated culture. Participants are assigned anonymized identities: it looks like the ideal hiding place for a posthuman on the run. But in this escape-proof environment, Robin will undergo an even more radical change, placing him at the mercy of the experimenters-and at the mercy of his own unbalanced psyche.

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It is not scifi.......2007-10-09

To be honest, I couldn't get through the entire book, so here is my impression of the beginning:

It's not a science fiction, at least it doesn't feel like one. If you're expecting the high tech feel like from Accelerando (I just read that before buying this), you will be sorry. The "experiment" the protagonist goes through (which I think lasts through the bulk of the book) is a replica of the 20th century. So you'll be reading much about how our era sucks and how bass ackwards it is as opposed to reading how incredible the future is.

Not what I expected and I just don't want others to buy it for the reason I bought it.

Prometheus Award Winner.......2007-09-05

Great book.

Just thought I'd add that this novel won the Prometheus Award for best novel from the Libertarian Futurist Society.

Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03

Starting with a backhanded, commentary on the nuttiness of data format changes for the sake of cash, you get some insight into the ability of this society to change their minds and their bodies.

Also the fact that this is lower-tech and less able place to live than what went before, because of a conflict.

This all ties into a supposedly sociological simulation experiment of a 20th century 'Dark Age' that they do not know much about.

The people in there realise it is a fair bit more than that, and groups at work tie back in to the war situation. You are given flashbacks and insight into this during the rest of the novel, through their experiences in the past.

Certainly not as brilliant as Accelerando or as amusing as Singularity Sky, I'd probably give it a 3.75 so far, but a writer like this certainly deserves some rounding up!

An amazing work of science fiction.......2007-08-26

"Glasshouse" is an amazing and thought-provoking work of science fiction. This is the first book I have read by Charles Stross and I read it slowly over the course of several days and nights so I could absorb it better, because it is very multi-faceted and dense. Let me preface the following by saying that trying to describe any of the plot is nearly impossible without providing spoilers; I'm writing only a bit of bare-bones to give you, the reader, an idea of what the book is about. Since the story is multi-layered and the characters are solving the mystery as they go along, providing any more information would spoil the book for you.

That said, the point-of-view is first person, present tense and told by Robin, who has just emerged from a complete memory excision - a procedure that is rarely performed as it leaves people fragmented and damaged in its wake. Robin doesn't know why he decided to have his memories completely removed and all he has to go on is a three-page letter from his former self, which is rambling and disjointed, full of paranoid mutterings about cartels and death threats, which leaves Robin on edge and angry because he doesn't know who might be after him, or why - or who he is or why he made this decision. When he meets Kay, another patient in the clinic recovering from memory excision, he finds himself settling down; she seems to exude a calming influence and he finds himself falling for her. She tells him of an experiment being run where participants live in a setting created to represent the "dark ages" - approximately old-style time 1950 to 2040 - for a period of time (approximately 3 years "old" time) in order to understand how humanity evolved from "primitives" to their current evolved state of being. However, when he awakens in his memory back-up booth in the body of a woman, already inside the "experimental protocol," (as they call the habitat in which the people who have agreed to be part of the experiment will be living) with no memory of having decided to sign up for the experiment but with a tablet showing he (or rather, now, SHE - Reeve is the name assigned to his new persona) did indeed sign up, things become even more weird, especially when the members of the group she is assigned to are told they must each pick a spouse before they leave the orientation session.

This is just the beginning of the story, which consists of "Reeve" trying to determine what the purpose experiment is, as well as trying to understand the memories that are suddenly coming back in a flood - including memories of her former self writing a much longer letter than Robin received, explaining a great deal more than Robin knew.

Part space opera, part detective novel, part hard science fiction and all psychological thriller, this is not a book that should be missed by anyone who enjoys having their cerebellum stretched by a book requiring them to think outside the box a little. Writing the narrative in first person, present tense is a tricky proposition (I know this from personal experience) and it is something that works very well in this case, adding a sense of immediacy that fits nicely in with the personality of Robin/Reeve, who is essentially an amnesiac, albeit a deliberate one. I can see myself picking this book up again and again in the future and finding new nuances in it. A very strong recommend from me for this most intriguing work!

Pointless Violence.......2007-08-08

The books starts off ultra-violent, and quickly lost my interest.

I read and enjoyed Chales Stross's ACCELERANDO, and I routinely read a lot of Military SciFi which contains violence related to war scenarios and battle situations... but the violence in this book was pointless. Within the first dozen pages, the "hero", who has had most of his memories removed, enters a bar and almost immediately gets involved in a "fight to the death duel" with some unnammed woman.

I know I'll get a lot of negative feedback for this review; but the fact is, this book is not for everyone. I haven't written off Chales Stross just yet - but I have written off pointless violence.

Conservatory Style: Garden Rooms, Glasshouses, and Sunrooms

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Conservatory Style: Garden Rooms, Glasshouses, and Sunrooms
Jackum Brown
Manufacturer: Universe
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ASIN: 0789315211
Release Date: 2007-02-20

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Born out of the heritage of structures first imagined by and constructed for the British aristocracy, the contemporary conservatory represents the ultimate in traditional elegance married to informal comfort. With or without plants and flowers, they come in every conceivable size and shape-square, oblong, octagonal, or whatever your pleasure. The conservatory adds a treasured space to any home and makes a strong statement of individual style. The conservatories surveyed here play a rich architectural role through the use of classic detailing or sophisticated modern materials. Some are based on graceful Victorian antecedents while others are modernist sculptures of glass and steel. The evocative photographs in the book survey the spectrum of styles and interior design-everything from a Zen-inspired glass perch where the landscape outside becomes the room to a casual lounging area enclosed by a virtual jungle canopy. Specific chapters focus on decorating and accessorizing and demystify difficult decisions (color schemes, floor materials, and controlling natural light). Recent advances in weatherproofing, glass engineering, flooring, lighting, and zoned heating and cooling are covered. Also included is an A-to-Z glossary of recommended plants plus a directory of manufacturers and suppliers.

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Law & the Beautiful Soul (Glasshouse)
Norrie
Manufacturer: Routledge Cavendish
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Sentencing in the Age of Information: From Faust to Macintosh (Glasshouse)

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Sentencing in the Age of Information: From Faust to Macintosh (Glasshouse)
Franko Aas
Manufacturer: Routledge Cavendish
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The Glasshouse
John Hix
Manufacturer: Phaidon Press
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ASIN: 0714832111

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When John Ruskin attempted to disparage the Crystal Palace by referring to it as a great cucumber frame', he hit upon a truism. The Crystal Palace outdid its Victorian glasshouse contemporaries in public gardens around the world and represented the zenith of a building type that had developed spectacularly from humble horticultural roots. The Glasshouse traces the evolution of glass enclosures from the mid-seventeenth century when the desire to nurture exotic plants in a foreign and often hostile climate led to the development of the glasshouse and ingenious mechanical servicing systems, capable of creating its own artificial microclimate. Through tremendous technical advances in the early nineteenth century, large-scale constructions were built initially for private individuals and botanical societies. Towards the mid-century, with the advent of mass-production and specialist component systems, the fashioning of modular constructions, like the Crystal Palace, became possible. The Glasshouse charts the work of innovators such as Joseph Paxton and J C Loudon, and proceeds to examine their influence on the pioneers of twentieth-century design such as Paul Scheerbart and Bruno Taut.

Shadows in the Glasshouse (American Girl History Mysteries)

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A Book That You Need To Read!
THIS IS THE BEST BOOK
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Mysteries in Glasshouse

Shadows in the Glasshouse (American Girl History Mysteries)
Megan McDonald
Manufacturer: Pleasant Company Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1584850922

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A good book.......2001-12-06

Shadows In The Glasshouse is a good book. It has good descriptions. If you like a book that takes a while before the mystery; thats the book. In the book Merry is kidnapped from England and sent to Jamestown. She is forced to work in the glasshouse for five years. She later discovers that this glasshouse is no ordanary glasshouse. There was a murder, a missing book, and broken glass. I recommend this book for anyone. Megan McDonald is a good writer. She gives you a picture in your head. If you don't like this book look for more of Megan McDonald's books because she writes in different styles!!!!!!! She writes many history mysterys!!!!!!!!!

A Book That You Need To Read!.......2001-12-06

This is the kind of book that gets you thinking,(who did it?). Merry is an orphan and gets kidnapped. She finds herself on a smelly ship headed for Jamestown. Is she going to be a slave, or an indentured servant? How long wil she be there? Will she have enough food and clothes? Well, I'll leave that for you to find out. Her life is a threatening patch of thorn bushes. But at least her best friend, Angelo, is there to comfort her. The problem is that Angelo's new glass formula book is missing!Oh, no! This book is one of the best history mysteries that gets you on the edge of your seat. I like this book because my favorite mystery stories are when there is always trouble for the detective, even when it seems like the detective can almost do nothing wrong. Merry may be in harms way, but she is always on the path of victory! This book makes you want to know (automatically) what is going to happen next. My friends and I (in the fourth grade)have just finished reading it and we recommend it as a high winner with all the similes, metaphors, personifications, and vivid descriptions!

THIS IS THE BEST BOOK.......2001-12-06

A GIRL NAMED MERIDETH SHIPMAN WAS STOLEN FROM THE STREETS OF LONDON TO BE A SERVENT IN AMERICA. THEY CALL MERIDETH MERRY FOR SHORT. SHE FINDS A DAGGER UNDER MASTER WEBBE'S MATTRESS. A FEW DAYS LATER SHE FINDS ONE OF THE CHARACTER'S DEAD! SHE WENT TO LOOK FOR ANGELO, HER FRIEND'S BOOK, BUT MISTRESS WEBBE FINDS MERRY AND ASKS HER WHY SHE IS IN THERE? SHE ANSWERED LYING, "MASTER WEBBE CALLED ME OVER HERE TO FINISH HOUSE WORK." I LIKE THIS BOOK BECAUSE ..... IT USES SLANG'TALK, SIMILES, METAPHORS, AND PERSONIFICATIONS.

A Great Book.......2001-12-06

My book reveiw is a great book that everybody will like. It gives
great descriptions, and alot of similes. If you like history mysteries, this is the book for you. Also this book has alot of characters. There are maides that sovle the crime and bad villains. The cool part is that in this mystery, you solve along the way, it also has a good ending, that's why the book is for you.

Mysteries in Glasshouse.......2001-12-06

This book is about Merry and some glassmakers. One of the glassmakers is her friend,Angelo. His book is stolen and glass is broken in the Glasshouse. Merry has to find out who did it. In the begging it's slow, but at the end it is very good. I would recomend the book because it is exiting.

Modern Legal Theory & Judicial Impartiality (Glasshouse)

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American Girl History Mysteries, Books 10-12: Shadows in the Glasshouse, the Minstrel's Melody, Riddle of the Prairie Bride

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