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The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays (Everyman's Library)
Albert Camus
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Release Date: 2004-08-17 |
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From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century–two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913—1960) de-ployed his lyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing an affirmation of the brave assertion of humanity in the face of a universe devoid of order or meaning.
The Plague–written in 1947 and still profoundly relevant–is a riveting tale of horror, survival, and resilience in the face of a devastating epidemic. The Fall (1956), which takes the form of an astonishing confession by a French lawyer in a seedy Amsterdam bar, is a haunting parable of modern conscience in the face of evil. The six stories of Exile and the Kingdom (1957) represent Camus at the height of his narrative powers, masterfully depicting his characters–from a renegade missionary to an adulterous wife –at decisive moments of revelation. Set beside their fictional counterparts, Camus’s famous essays “The Myth of Sisyphus” and “Reflections on the Guillotine” are all the more powerful and philosophically daring, confirming his towering place in twentieth-century thought.
Customer Reviews:
Moving, Thought-Provoking, and Genius.......2006-02-08
I had read Camus's "The Stranger" and was taken aback by the wonderful understanding he had of the human mind. I needed to read more, and in this handsome book was a great feast for the mind. It is not meant to be read all at once, I found it helpful to read another book inbetween the full-length novels within the collection.
There has been no singular work that has moved me as much as the "The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays", it goes beyond existentialism and his philosophy. It delves into the very mind, that which makes us human. The stories are not lost through their translation from French, the characters are the people you see in the streets, but they are put under the eye of a profound intellectual. It is more than worth the price, and the time spent reading the words is time well spent. His contribution to modern philosophy and existentialism is unchallenged, but he is also an amazing author and voice. The Plague may be the highlight of the book, but one will not lose enthusiasm reading that which follows.
Excellent.......2005-10-10
Albert Camus is one of my favorite authors. His stories are some of the greatest of the past century.
The Ultimate Albert Camus Anthology.......2005-02-27
If you're a fan of existentialism or just great literature then this is the book for you. Just by buying this set you're already saving money and the hardcover makes it great for book shelf eye candy. If you want to read what each section is about then just read the next review but if you're reading this, take into consideration that Camus wasn't awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for nothing. He was deeply involved in the struggles for Algerian freedom and you can tell from his novels that he is consciensly involved with the questions of the absurd and the freedom of man in a messed up world. These books and essays will make you think and start to ask yourself questions.
Love, Exile, and Suffering Illuminated by Life around Death.......2004-09-11
What is the meaning of life? For many, that question is an abstraction except in the context of being aware of losing some of the joys of life, or life itself. In The Plague, Camus creates a timeless tale of humans caught in the jaws of implacable death, in this case a huge outbreak of bubonic plague in Oran, Algeria on the north African coast. With the possibility of dying so close, each character comes to see his or her life differently. In a sense, we each get a glimpse of what we, too, may think about life in the last hours and days before our own deaths. The Plague will leave you with a sense of death as real rather than as an abstraction. Then by reflecting in the mirror of that death, you can see life more clearly.
For example, what role would you take if bubonic plague were to be unleashed in your community? Would you flee? Would you help relieve the suffering? Would you become a profiteer? Would you help maintain order? Would you withdraw or seek out others? These are all important questions for helping you understand yourself that this powerful novel will raise for you.
The book is described as objectively as possible by a narrator, who is one of the key figures in the drama. That literary device allows each of us to insert ourselves into the situation.
Let me explain the main themes. Love is expressed in many ways. There is the love of men and women for each other. Dr. Rieux's wife is ill, and has just left for treatment at a sanitarium. Rambert, a journalist on temporary assignment, is separated from his live-in girl friend in Paris. Dr. Rieux's mother comes to stay with him during his mother's absence, so there is also love of parent and child. The magistrate also loses his son to the plague after a desperate battle. Separations occur because of the quarantine on Oran, which causes love to be tested. What is love without the other person being present? The characters find that their memories soon become abstractions. But they reach out to establish new love with each other. Tarrou, who is also caught in Oran, decides or organize a volunteer corps to help with the sick and dead. Rambert decides to stay in Oran to help after having arranged to escape the quarantine. The survivors find succor in increasing closeness with each other. Rieux and Tarrou become close, almost like brothers. Even Rieux's patients become people with whom he develops an emotional bond, even though the waves of death become an abstraction as he can do little to avert them. The priest figure also helps to explore the notion of love for God and God's love for us. The exile theme is reinforced by the quarantine. People cannot leave Oran. The disease itself causes that exile to become worse. If someone in your household becomes ill, each well person has to be quarantined. So you may be living in a tent in the soccer stadium wondering what is happening to the rest of your family. Cottard is a criminal who is on the run from the authorities. He is in despair as the plague begins, and tries to kill himself. The distractions of the plague keep the authorities from troubling him, so the period of the plague is an exile from his criminal past.
Suffering is easy to explain. Bubonic plague came in two forms in the book. Both brought painful and rapid death, with few reprieves. There is high fever, painful swelling or difficulty in breathing, and enormous pain. Those who tend the suffering also suffer, from the enormous workloads, the sense of futility, and the fear that they, too, will be next.
Camus does a nice job of pointing out that these themes also recur in everyday life. We just don't see them very clearly. The people in Oran live in an ugly city that deliberately built itself away from the beauty of the ocean on a sun-scorched plateau plagued by winds. They take little time to enjoy each other or the ocean, because they are caught up with making money. Commerce is their passion. So they cut themselves off from love, in an exile of spirit, which causes them to shrivel and suffer emotionally even before the plague comes. Tarrou also describes is own sense of the plague in everyday life when he discovers that his father is a prosecuting attorney who helps bring criminals to the justice of a firing squad. Even that faint connection of not trying to stop the legal killing causes Tarrou to feel like he carries the plague within him.
The book is masterful in its use of metaphor. In the beginning, dying rats and small animals presage the plague attacking humans. At the end, their return presages the return of normal life to Oran. The scenes alternate between illuminating the main themes in the context of the physical plague and the emotional plague. Religion is used as a bridge between the two, raising the fundamental question about what God's purpose is in unleashing the plague. The priest is fully tested in his love of God through this development, which is one of the most moving parts of the book.
I have read the book both in French and in English, and found this translation to be a perfectly appropriate one. There are few nuances that you will miss by reading this in English. Obviously, if you read French well, you should read the book in its original form.
This book is an excellent example of why Albert Camus was named a Nobel Laureate in Literature.
After you read this great novel, I encourage you to consider the subject of complacency. That's the author's ultimate target. Where are you complacent in ways that cost you love, closeness with others, and happiness? What else is complacency costing you? How can you help others learn to overcome complacency in loving, happy ways without the spectre of death to help you?
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- There's better X-mas anthologies out there
- Heartwarming? no..
- Super storyline,
- Erotic and sizzling, but with some loose ends
- A Fun Christmas Anthology
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Jingle Bell Rock
Lori Foster ,
Donna Kauffman ,
Susan Donovan ,
Janelle Denison ,
Alison Kent , and
Nancy Warren
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Customer Reviews:
There's better X-mas anthologies out there.......2006-08-17
I've read alot of anthologies and this one just doesn't measure up to the better ones out there. I can only recommend Kauffmans story for the surprise and originality and Warrens excellent piece on two feuding co-workers. 2 out of 6 recommended.
Try these excellent x-mas anthologies instead:
A Gift of Love -mixed genre (contemporary & historical) EXCELLENT!
The Night Before X-mas -contemporary VERY STEAMY!
Heartwarming? no.........2004-12-22
I bought this book thinking it was going to be sweet and something to bring a smile to my lips during the Christmas holidays. Unfortunately, all I found was filthy and obscene sex. At first I thought it was only the author, but after flipping through the next stories, I found that it was all of them. Unless you like reading lewd stories filled with sex and nothing romantic about them, I suggest you skip this one and don't waste your time on it.
Super storyline,.......2004-02-26
I enjoyed this book a lot and think the writers did a super job. I love romance novels and this book gave me a lot of what i read this genre for!
Erotic and sizzling, but with some loose ends.......2003-12-08
Jingle Bell Rock is an erotic anthology with some rather exquisite, albeit short, novellas featuring today's popular romance novelists. The anthology contains all of the sensual ingredients that make erotic stories memorable. However, there are some loose ends. For instance, story development and characterization are notably missing. I understand that it is difficult to do the same with a fifty-page long story, but a good writer is able to convey a good story and compelling characters nonetheless. The Christmas angle is a mere afterthought -- I got the impression that the authors threw in the holiday backdrop for good measure. Having said that, the erotica in this book is excellent. Lori Foster's "He Sees You When You're Sleeping" and Janelle Denison's "All She Wants for Christmas" are my favorites. Nancy Warren's "The Nutcracker Sweet" adds a sliver of humor to the anthology. The aforementioned stories are the better structured ones in this book. All in all, despite the loose ends, Jingle Bell Rock is an essential guidebook to great sex ideas to do during the holidays (I know I'll be trying a few of those scenarios!). It's not up to the earlier bad boy books' par, but an entertaining read for the holidays nevertheless.
A Fun Christmas Anthology.......2003-12-03
This was a very fun, steamy, and festive Christmas present from these very talented authors. There are six short stories in this book so keep in mind that "short" is the key word in that sentence. Still all six authors managed to flesh out fun stories under 100 pages each that were fun to read!
Lori Fosters story "He Sees You When You're Sleeping" is a fun story about two neighbors that feel something for each other but one is involved in a relationship. Or is he? What happens when a Christmas wish comes true and your neighbor and friend becomes a lot more? This was one of my favorites in this book!
Janelle Denison's story "All She Wants for Christmas" was my favorite in this collection. Matthew Carlton has it all, money, looks, and he's a sucessful pediatrician. What he can't find is love. What happens when the one person he desires finally whispers a naughty request in Santa's ear (Matthew)? Perhaps Christmas wishes are fulfilled all over!
Susan Donovan's "Turning Up the Heat" is a fun story and I can't tell you much about it without giving away the ending. Suffice to say that Christmas Eve is not going to be as lonely as Valerie think's it's going to be.
Donna Kauffman's "Baby, It's Cold Outside" reunites childhood sweethearts and gives these two people a chance to "fix" what went wrong the first time. This time love might actually win!
Alison Kent's "A Blue Christmas" is another story that reunites a man with the one person he thought he had a chance with. This is Blue's chance to show Jessie what she missed the first time around!
Nancy Warren's story "The Nutcracker Sweet" brings together two co-workers together that on the outside appear to hate each other. When a "naughty" comment is overheard by Tara she reacts in a totally different way then you would think she would. Instead of getting mad, she gets even...and by doing so gets a little more then she thought she ever would!
These were fun stories, and again were real short. As a result character development might not be what you expect or seen from these authors past titles which have been longer. Still...they managed to add a little "spice" to this Christmas season.
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This fifteenth installment in the Alice Nestleton series finds the amateur sleuth hired by a charity to find their anonymous benefactor, whose annual contribution has yet to arrive. And with good reason...he's been murdered! With numerous suspects fuming with motives, Alice draws closer to finding the killer, only to find herself the target of a murderous grinch. But with the help of a pair of Siamese cats named Tiny and Tim, she'll wrap up this Christmas case!
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If I were this cat, I'd be embarrassed!.......2003-10-27
Wooden characters, absurd plot (what there is of it!), pretty bad writing....this book makes even the last few dreadful books in "The Cat Who..." series seem preferable!
Pretty good.......1998-12-29
I love to read Lydia Adamson's books because of the cats. This book's story line surprised me. As usual, "Swede" and Tony run around in circles, not trying to make any kind of commitment. "Swede" also hooks up with an old friend and talk about the old days. "Swede" makes a wrong accusation and makes a total fool of herself. She isn't perfect after all! Overall, I enjoyed the book, finishing it in a couple of hours like the rest.
A fun breezy read: a delightful pick-me-up.......1997-08-19
. Unemployed actress and cat sitter Alice Nestleton thinks that her prayers have been answered when she receives a call from Jack Rugow, producer and director of the last legitimate repertory company in New York City. To her mind, it could only mean the great man wants her to perform in one of his plays. When she meets Jack, Alice is disappointed to learn that he wants to employ her detective skills rather than her acting skills. A charity that he is involved in is in financial trouble because an anonymous donor who sent a donation every year for twelve years to Sustenance House has not made a contribution this year.
Rugow and the other board of directors want Alice to track down the anonymous benefactor to ascertain whether the contribution was lost in the mail. Alice has very little to go on, but quickly discovers the identity of the mysterious patron. When Alice and her friends go to check out just what the situation is, they discover that the donor is dead, apparently a victim of murder by a street gang. Alice, who cannot drop the case, digs deeper for the truth. This brings her to the attention of someone, who does not want the intrepid sleuth to upset the status quo.
This is the best work in the Alice Nestleton series to date due in large part to the antics of the endearing and special cats, Tiny and Tim, and the line drawings that turn this welcome mystery into a holiday gift. Lydia Adamson has infused the spirit of the holiday season into the story line, a device that demonstrates how special her female protagonist is. While A CAT ON JUNGLE BELL ROCK is not complex novel, it is a fun cozy that should garner Ms. Adamson a lot of new friends.
Harriet Klausner ------
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A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock : An Alice Nestleton Mystery (Alice Nestleton Mysteries)
Lydia Adamson
Manufacturer: Books on Tape
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ASIN: 0736643362 |
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3 90 minute cassettes.
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9 easy arrangements of Christmas favorites: My Favorite Things * Feliz Navidad * Frosty the Snow Man * Home for the Holidays * I'll Be Home for Christmas * Jingle-Bell Rock * Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! * Santa, Bring My Baby Back * Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
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This valuable publication features three easy a cappella vocal jazz arrangements from the pen of jazz educator Michele Weir: "Let it Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!," "I'll Be Home for Christmas," and "Jingle Bell Rock." Three holiday classics for the price of one, all arranged perfectly in a light jazz style for today's singers.
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Unstated edition hard cover. Six tempting tales of romance filled with the naughty-but-nice men who make the season so bright.
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- Helms is a man who lived in the shadow of his own success
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Jingle Bell Rock
Lisa E. Brown , and
David Ward Davis
Manufacturer: Aalida Book Publishers
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ASIN: 1892642492 |
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The amazing story behind the song, the tragedy of the original artist, a story that will touch your very soul. He was there during the birth of Rock N' Roll. His records were burned, his songs were considered more of that "New York Jungle Beat" that was sweeping the planet and destroying America's teens. Merely mentioning the word "Rock" in a Christmas song was considered blasphemy. A story about success, heartbreak, love and despair it touches all who read it.
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great!.......2001-04-08
A truly fascinating account from firsthand experience. Well worth the read and hard to put down!
Helms is a man who lived in the shadow of his own success.......1999-02-16
Though I truly doubt that Davis and Brown will win any literary awards for this book, it is truly a fascinating look at the life of this legend. Living in Martinsville, I grew up knowing that the great Bobby Helms was a local, and later I found out it seemed a great secret to many people who he was. This book sets about looking at the sudden rise of Bobby Helms - and the many tumbles he took after. Where did his country music friends go? Why did every crooked manager seem to find him? How in the world could anyone live through so many tragic circumstances? Truly we see a man of great spirit, pride, and humanity. This book is a good read if you believe in the perserverence of the human soul.
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on December 17, 2004. The length of the article is 480 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: Jingle Bell Rock.(música popular navideña)
Author: Emilio J. González
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In this debut novel, acclaimed short-story author Tim Pratt delivers an exciting heroine with a hidden talent–and a secret duty. Witty and suspenseful, here is a contemporary love song to the West that was won and the myths that shape us….
As night manager of Santa Cruz’s quirkiest coffeehouse, Marzi McCarty makes a mean espresso, but her first love is making comics. Her claim to fame: The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, a cowpunk neo-western yarn. Striding through an urban frontier peopled by Marzi’s wild imagination, Rangergirl doles out her own brand of justice. But lately Marzi’s imagination seems to be altering her reality. She’s seeing the world through Rangergirl’s eyes–literally--complete with her deadly nemesis, the Outlaw.
It all started when Marzi opened a hidden door in the coffeehouse storage room. There, imprisoned among
the supplies, she saw the face of something unknown…and dangerous. And she unwittingly became its guard. But some primal darkness must’ve escaped, because Marzi hasn’t been the same since. And neither have her customers, who are acting downright apocalyptic.
Now it’s up to Marzi to stop this supervillainous superforce that’s swaggered its way into her world. For Marzi, it’s the
showdown of her life. For Rangergirl, it’s just another day....
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Tim Pratt has been nominated for the Nebula award and for the Campbell Best New Writer award, and his fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. He lives in Oakland, California, where he co-edits a literary 'zine, Flytrap, with his fiancee, Heather Shaw.
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Customer Reviews:
not what i expected.......2007-08-02
certainly, as the other reviewers state, there were obvious inconsistencies in the actions and reactions, and memories, but for me this is part of what made it work -- this was magic, without straight rules, and unpredictable. it was very funny and i enjoyed it without having to feel committed to it.
Fine first novel: an urban fantasy with Old West elements.......2006-05-07
About The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl I think I can say: "this is a very promising first novel, and well worth reading, but also quite clearly a first novel." This book is Urban Fantasy, despite not being set in Seattle or Minneapolis or Newford. That said, it has an original flavor: the fantastical elements have an Old West manifestation.
The protagonist is Marzi (short for Marzipan: hippie parents), night manager of a coffee shop in Santa Cruz called Genius Loci. Marzi is an artist, having dropped out of UC Santa Cruz after a nervous breakdown a couple years previously. She draws a fairly successful underground comic called The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, about a woman who travels to a fantasy Old West and confronts weird villains. Her best friend is Lindsay, a talented bisexual artist still at UCSC. Lindsay keeps trying to set her up with men, but Marzi is skittish just now, after the breakdown. Then a new young man moves in above the coffee shop. Jonathan is studying Garamond Ray, a modestly famous artist who painted the walls of the coffee shop before disappearing during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Lindsay pounces immediately, and perhaps surprisingly has a bit of success pushing Marzi at him.
But at the same time the very strange artist Beej seems to go completely nuts, and starts talking about the Earthquake god. And another couple of artists, Dennis and his ex-girlfriend Jane, act oddly too. In particular Jane seems suddenly to be made of mud, and she seems to want to kill Marzi. All this seems perhaps connected with a locked storeroom, entering which precipitated Marzi's breakdown a couple years previously. That storeroom has an unknown Garamond Ray mural ... which means Jonathan is very interested.
So: Jonathan wants to get into the storeroom. Marzi is afraid, and especially afraid to let anyone else in. Dennis and Jane and Beej are starting to act very strange indeed ... Of course, Marzi will go in, and find a door -- a door that leads inevitably to a version of the Old West that is all too much like her comic. In particular, it holds a chaotic "god" called the Outlaw, who desperately wants to escape back to the real world, and do what he does best: destroy. So when Jonathan lets his curiosity get the best of him (with a little help ...) things go pear-shaped.
And it's up to Marzi to confront her fears, and to learn how to confront the Outlaw in the appropriate manner. Which of course she does, though not without some personal and general cost.
My main problem here was an ending that seemed abrupt and just a bit pat. Yet at the same time several innocent people are killed -- but somehow we are spared emotional involvement with any of the killings -- the characters who die are essentially redshirts, and I felt this a distinct failing. I also felt that the characterization of the villains -- well, Dennis in particular -- was rather lazy. Dennis is a cliche, and not a very interesting cliche.
But as ever when I cite what's wrong with a book I feel I'm overstating things. (Well, not "as ever", but in this case anyway.) The novel is a very engaging read. The good guys, Marzi and Lindsay in particular, are very well portrayed. It's well-written, and the magical elements are well-imagined. It's a good book -- a good first novel, and certainly promising good things to come.
not a "must read" but definately worth reading.......2006-02-28
i wouldn't say "go out now and buy this book right now!!!", however, if you are looking for a good sci-fi/fantasy type of book, with a straight up plot that is pretty straight forward, this book is worth your time. the characters are interesting, not stereotypical, and are fleshed out enough so you know them but you are not overburdened with smothering details.
for me, the story moved a bit slow at first, and seemed thin and plodding in spots, but the book reads smoothly enough to where the short comings didn't kill the book completely.
i like the statement it makes (in my opinion, this is how i took it) about art and how artists see the world around them. i like how the author includes the santa cruz earthquake and the way he describes some of the scenes are just perfect.
the writing is good, not pretentious, and pretty smooth. the story is good, basic plot, pretty straight forward. worth it.
I really wanted to like this .......2005-12-05
I really wanted to love this novel. I like Pratt's short fiction. I love the cover: the image, the title, and the tagline: "If primal evil wants California, it's going to have to go through her first. . . ." It looks like great fun, sort of H.P. Lovecraft by way of Aaron Allston's GALATEA IN 2-D, and has nice cover quote from another couple authors I like. But, while I didn't particularly dislike the book, I didn't find it all that interesting, either. It was rather dull and will, I suspect, be quickly forgotten. The characters were pleasant enough but not particularly captivating or memorable, and the story seemed too thin for its four hundred pages -- it probably would've made a better novella than full-length novel. The villain is disappointingly weak, and inconsistencies abound: in one scene, the villain's incidental touch hurts a character, while later he slaps that character with no ill effect. At one point several police officers are slaughtered, and then for the rest of the novel the police do . . . nothing. They just take it in hand. In one chapter a character interacts with another, and several chapters later seems to have no recollection of it. And too often our heroes get out of their trouble a little *too* easily and conveniently; there's rarely any sense of danger. This book is a reasonably well-written, reasonably amusing read, but it never achieves the energy or excitement that it promises. If you want to like it, you probably will. It's mildly enjoyable, but not particularly recommended.
fantastic classic good vs. evil confrontation .......2005-11-30
Marzipan "Marzi" McCarty is the night manager at the coffeehouse Genius Loci, the place where famous artist Garmond Ray painted seven murals in seven different rooms before vanishing without a trace. Marzi thinks of her work at the coffeehouse as a job but her vocation is writing the comic strip Rangergirl, a heroine fighting Evil in the contemporary west.
Strange things start happening in and around the coffeehouse. A regular customer wants to free the earthquake god trapped in Genius Loci. Jane, another patron, wants to free the imprisoned "dark goddess of the earth godess. Jane is killed and her doppelganger, made of mud with extraordinary powers tries to kill Marzi. Jonathan who has come to study the muralist's work wants to see the Desert Room which Marzi has closed off. She has repressed memories of the Evil that is behind the closed door holding the mural and she has become the guardian charged with keeping the evil which manifests himself as the Outlaw, the evil sorcerer in her comic strip, from busting free and destroying Santa Crux and then the rest of California and maybe the world. The malevolent being who has opened his prison a millimeter has influenced people to try to free him but he hasn't factored in Marzi and her friends who try to stop him.
The setting in the real world is the modern day west but evil lives in a realm where the old west is given form in another plane but occupying identical space as Santa Cruz where the book takes place. This is a fantastic classic good vs. evil confrontation where both sides have powers in the final battle that will decide what happens to the rest of the planet. Dealing with the evil one has forced the heroine to repress those memories and only lets them out through her comic book. The spunky heroine will need everything she has and more to triumph against overwhelming odds.
Harriet Klausner
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500 Questions and Answers on the Black Presence in the Bible is one of the most remarkable books in modern-day literature. It is a master collection of critical questions and answers that expose some of the world's best-kept secrets about the Bible's account of Africa and people of color.
Customer Reviews:
GOOD.......2007-01-16
This book is very informative, and should be a must read for all those who are interested in black biblical facts.
Excellent!.......2006-07-16
Every African American who reads the bible should read this book. This book is an easy read. For many years, I wanted to know the history of black presence in the Bible. Many African American churches and African American religious groups are really scared to rock the boat when it comes to the black presence in the Bible. I do understand that there are other cultures that also play a presence in the bible, I firmly believe, if many young men knew that there was a deep presence of blacks in the bible, and the churches would elaborate on this I believe that there would be many more African American male presence in the church. I believe that you still can learn God's word, but you can also include this also.
I would like to thank Dr. Johnson for a very enlightening book that gives me a more understanding of my heritage.
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