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The short-stroy form continues to be a rich and fertile vein of literary expression. Collected in this remarkable volume are twenty renowned writers of the modern age who brilliantly mastered the distinctive power and beauty of the form--each bringing his or her own unique vision to the page. This powerful collection includes the work of: Sherwood Anderson, Anton Chekov, Joseph Conrad, Shirley Jackson, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Lionel Trilling, and many more.
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For the money, it really packs a punch.......2003-12-10
This is a great buy if you want a good sampling of great short stories from popular writers, but don't want to go out and buy an entire anthology. Among the authors included are Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Faulkner, D. H. Lawrence, and Shirley Jackson.
One of my favorites in the book was "The Lottery", by Shirley Jackson. Jackson has a great knack for bringing out the bizarre when a small town gets together annually to hold a lottery. Each citizen gets to draw a slip of paper. However, there is a twist to this lottery.
Another great story was "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Poe. Poe is able to bring forth the truly dark and gothic style in his writing. This story tells of a man who is obsessed and enraged by an old man's eye. This tale examines the inner mind of an "unreliable" narrator, so we percieve the true story based on what he has told us.
Other notable stories include Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-lighted Place", Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily", and part of Kafka's novel "Metamorphosis."
This book is great for leisurely type reading and also serves as a sampling from some of the more prominent recent literary figures. Recommended for those who enjoy the modern writer. Because it is a paperback it is resourceful and easy to carry around.
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Best Short Stories Modern Age
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Got to love those hunky McGraw brothers.......2006-01-30
Tomboy Deanie Codge is determined to find her inner vixen at E.D.E.N. a lush, tropical resort catering to learning how to be sexy. With over-protective older brothers, Deanie is determined to go from mechanic to diva in just a few days. But her brothers send Rance McGraw, the very man on whom she had a crush to watch over her. Rance figures it's an easy assignment, until he gets a view of the new and improved Deanie Codge. Now, he's thinking somebody ought to protect him from her!
I was thrilled to finally get to read Rance's story. A fan of all three McGraw brothers from Romeo, Texas, Ms. Raye delivers a one-two-three knockout punch of scorching hot men and the women strong enough to stand up to them. Although Deanie doesn't make it to the resort, she gets quite the education in Rance's arms, and the two of them come to terms with their past in what is a very emotional read.
The book is part of the 24 hours: Island Fling series, and writing a book that takes place in only 24 hours is no small feat. With a microscope on all aspects of these characters' lives, including their emotions, the book is one great roller coaster ride. The chemistry, which first sparked between these characters long before the book begins, is awesome, and neither one of these strong individuals is willing to give an inch.
I loved reading this novel and heartily recommend it. It's a great story in which we watch two well-drawn characters learn the truth about themselves and love. Bravo! Well done!
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Tall, Tanned & Texan / When She Was Bad ... (Harlequin 2-in-1 Paperback).......2006-09-14
Sizzle ... sizzle ... sizzle. Harlequin calls the Temptation line sexy, sassy and seductive, and these two stories definitely fit the bill! What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon ...
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Tall, Tanned & Texan by Kimberly Raye (24 Hours):
As a small-town mechanic, men have never given tomboy Deanie Codge a second look. So she's signing up for two weeks at Camp E.D.E.N. - a notorious island retreat - to discover her inner sex kitten ... Cowboy Rance McGraw never dreamt he would find his childhood nemesis had turned into a gorgeous woman. A woman he doesn't want fooling around with anyone but him! He does everything he can to sabotage her plans but soon discovers that a tough Texas cowboy is no match for a sex kitten unleashed!
When She Was Bad ... by Cara Summers:
One minute struggling private investigator Pepper Rossi and ex-CIA agent Cole Buchanan are sharing a spontaneous kiss. The next, rough-edge Cole wants her to spend the next 24 hours exploring all the sensual pleasures of the tropical island they're on ... with each other. She would say no, except she'll never prove her worth as a P.I. if Cole muscles in on all the action of the case they're on. Here's the deal: he promises to back off - if she promises her body for one full day.
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The Labyrinth Key
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The new millennium has brought a flood of exciting thrillers about interrelated secrets: cryptic codes, religious mysteries, clandestine conspiracies, and secret histories. These include Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code; Jane Jensen's Dante's Equation; and Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. To their impressive ranks add Howard Hendrix's idea-packed novel The Labyrinth Key, which explores the relationships between cryptography and the Inquisition, cybertech and the Kabbalah, and quantum physics and life after death.
Brilliant researcher Jaron Kwok is working to develop a quantum computer, which could crack any cryptographic code, while creating code uncrackable by all other computers. Whoever invents the first quantum computer will permanently win the twenty-first-century Cold War between China and the U.S. Then Kwok, an American, disappears from his Hong Kong hotel room, leaving behind only ashes and melted computer equipment. Has Kwok been killed, or kidnapped? Or has he succeeded in creating the quantum computer, and disappeared with it into another universe? The Cold War heats up as another brilliant American researcher, Benjamin Cho, and a relentless Chinese police detective, Marilyn Lu, race to solve the mystery, though its solution may destroy not only the world, but the universe--and, perhaps, an infinitude of alternative universes. --Cynthia Ward
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In a secret war waged in worlds both virtual and real, the fates of nations depend on the definitive weapon. And that weapon is knowledge—knowledge to die for. . . .
The race is heating up between the U.S. and China to develop a quantum computer with infinite capabilities to crack any enemy’s codes, yet keep secure its own secrets. The government that achieves this goal will win a crucial prize. No other computer system will be safe from the reach of this master machine.
Dr. Jaron Kwok was working for the U.S. government to build such a computer. But in a posh hotel in Hong Kong, a Chinese policewoman sifts through the bizarre, ashlike remains of what’s left of the doctor. With the clock ticking, alliances will be forged—and there are those who will stop at nothing to discover what the doctor knew. As the search for answers intensifies, it becomes chillingly clear that the quantum computer both sides so desperately want will be more powerful, more dangerous than anyone could have ever imagined.
For in the twenty-first century, machines become gods, gods become machines, and the once-impossible now lies within reach. The key to unlimited knowledge will create the ultimate weapon of mass destruction—or humanity’s last chance to save itself. . . .
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The annual Pilot’s Festival was well underway at Don Sturm’s and Karuna Drang’s place, though their “place” was a DIVE— a deep-immersion virtual environment—and their DIVE wasn’t a place at all. Sturm and Drang weren’t their legal names, either, and they hadn’t physically cohabited for months.
Not that it mattered much. At the moment Karuna Drang was discarnately embodying herself as spritely Sally Hemmings, slave and mistress. Though her portrayal was relatively accurate, Don Sturm’s morbidly thoughtful and conflicted Thomas Jefferson was quite different from the historical founding father, and his halo of neon blue hair wasn’t exactly “period.” But blue hair was one of Don’s personal signatures in meatlife, and he hadn’t been able to resist.
All around them, virtual party people—likewise electronically embodied in eighteenth-century drag—danced and cavorted about the grounds of a mimetic Monticello. Alternating between the forms of an aggressively ambiguous nymph and its counterpart satyr-o- maniac, Medea ?rate chased bewigged men in breeches, then pursued women who proved surprisingly light-footed, given their voluminous dresses and titanic coiffures.
Normally Don’s default virtualscape was Easter Island, so his Jeffersonian estate boasted moai, the great-headed statues, as lawn and garden sculptures around which the laughing would-be orgiasts darted, disappearing from view—only to reappear as a tangled ball of licking, sucking, nibbling, stroking, rutting sexual gymnasts, Medea lodged in their midst.
Don/Thomas shook his head.
“I know that’s how they pull off their grand data exchanges,” he said to Karuna/Sally. “And I’m sure what they’re doing in virtual space is only a metaphor, but I still wish they’d make use of a more subtle metaphor.”
Karuna/Sally laughed
“ ‘To hack is to explore and manipulate’,” she said, imitating Medea’s lyrical-as-Pan, shrill-as-Bacchante manner of speaking. “ ‘To enter and be entered. Like foreplay and sex, like parasite and host, n’est-ce pas?’ ”
Don frowned. Music sounded around them. The Jed Astaires, a retro-urbane bluegrass group, played danceable new arrangements of works by Revolutionary War–era tunesmith William Billings. In the sky above them, sunset’s salmon-colored clouds flickered and transformed into shoals of swimming salmon, then morphed back to clouds again.
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“Just looking over what we’ve wrought,” Don/Tom said, gazing out at their Colonial Williamsburg-meets-Polynesia surroundings. On their personal channel, he turned down the volume of the Astaires’ musical variations. “Not to say that it’s overwrought, mind you. Just that the nature of this event is somewhat paradoxical.”
“How so?”
“Well, it feels as if I’ve usurped a public event just to celebrate a personal success, and either way the celebrants don’t know what they’re celebrating.”
“Don, you have every right to celebrate! Prime Privacy Protocol is a winner. It’s on its way to becoming the most popular encryption software in the infosphere.”
“Even if no one associates my name with it. . . .”
“Yes, but you, ‘Mister Obololos,’ you’re the one who made it happen.”
“Maybe that anonymity’s a good thing. The law enforcement types are getting really shrill in condemning it. Today there was an op-ed piece in the New York Times that accused P-Cubed of
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Travels in the Labyrinth: Mexican Art in the Pollak Collection
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Travels in the Labyrinth: Mexican Art in the Pollak Collection is the catalogue of a private collection of representative works from a century of Mexican art by 46 painters and sculptors born between 1871 and 1940. A major portion of the collection will be exhibited in a show opening at the University of Pennsylvania's Arthur Ross Gallery. The exhibition will travel to other venues, including the Naples Museum of Art, Florida, and the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University.
The volume's 87 contemporary paintings, drawings, and sculpture include works by Los Tres Grandes, the three great Mexican artists of the twentieth century: Diego de Rivera, David Alfa Squires, and Joss Clement Oroszco. Also reproduced in full color are 19 ex votos--naïve works painted in oils on wood and dedicated to the patron saint responsible for delivering the subject from danger.
Distributed for the Arthur Ross Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania.
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La Clave Del Laberinto/ Labyrinth's Key
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Rediscovering Wen Tingyun: A Historical Key to a Poetic Labyrinth (Chinese Philosophy and Culture)
Huaichuan Mou
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A new look at the life, times, and work of the great Tang dynasty poet, Wen Tingyun, that rebuts the negative aspects of his reputation. Translations of a number of his works are included.
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A must read for anyone raising children........2007-07-30
I read this book for the first time in the 1980s when my children were very small. I found the information to be practical, useable and above all, extremely wise. With the influx of false information, eroneously attributing violence, anger and emotional problems with spanking, a factual book on the subject is desperately needed. One quick look around the world and more specifically, American society, and it is easy to see who's correct. It is virtually a guarantee that if you consistently apply the principles in this book, your children will grow up better adjusted, creative, successful and positive. The methods outlined here have the bulk of history and innumerable successes behind them while the modern child raising methods can only cite a couple of decades of dismal failure to their credit. If you're a parent, you need to read this book!
Excellent.......2007-04-11
This book is biblical. Every point he makes is backed by scripture. Those who say it isn't I believe are too wrapped up in the world to see the truth. Sheparding a Child's heart is also a great book but doesn't go as indepth as this book.
This book does not teach you to beat your child. It teaches you to lovingly discipline them. If you are using the rod in anger you are wrong and are sinning.
Get Dr. Spocks mumbojumbo out of your brain. That book came out in the 1940's and look what sort of generation it produced? The 60s was the beginning of the loss of respect for the parent and autority.
Greatest book on the subject in existence!!!.......2007-03-23
This is the greatest book that my family and I have ever found on the subject of child training! My parents raised me with it and I hope to do the same with my own children. I hope that this book will bring as much blessing to everyone who reads it as it has to my own family.
Simply the best.......2007-03-18
I'm a 43 year old father of four young ones, and was not raised with disciplined training or self-control. Consequently, my opinion of and confidence in my parenting abilities have always been poor; being evidence with poor fruit.
I'm well familiar with the famous/infamous "Pearls" - Michael and Debbi - of Nogreaterjoy notoriety. We got involved with their writings when my children were very young - and had extremely poor results with them. So much so that I basically kicked Michael and Debbi out of my house, and turned my back on the whole corrective/chastisement process of child training. (And for this reason, I do not recommend their writings to young parents just starting out. Both Michael and Debbi do not present Biblical chastisement clearly enough to prevent many well-intentioned parents from making dreadful mistakes; akin to giving a loaded weapon to an untrained 4 year old.)
But just because the Pearls have communication issues doesn't mean corrective child training can be ignored. The problem for so many - myself front and center - is the improper application of it. If a person doesn't understand or have a good heart about using a rod or stick to physically switch or "correct" their child, it would be best if they used something else - as ineffective as it may be. As important, essential, and vitally necessary corrective child-training is, it will make a situation much much worse if misapplied. (And very few of these child-training writers stress that enough, IMHO.)
But don't be misled: children *must have* pressure applied to their wills in order to guide their behavior into accepted channels. The person who thinks their child can be self-trained, or that a child is trained simply by being around a kind and gentle person is vastly fooling him/her self. Unless a child is forcefully corrected, his/her sin nature will plot a invariably self-destructive course.
Here is what God actually says about corrective training:
Psalms 89:30-33, "If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail."
(Please understand: God's ways are eternal. He does not change His mind like we do.)
Proverbs 13:24, "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes."
Proverbs 22:15, "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him."
Proverbs 23:13-14, "Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell."
Proverbs 29:15, "The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame."
The Apostle Paul warns erring Christians: 1 Corinthians 4:21, "What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?"
For some to conclude that God does not advocate physical chastisement in His Word are most surely deceived. The teaching is clear, unequivocal, and without apology. ONLY in the last century has their been any serious challenge to this, (and we are all seeing its resultant fruits.) Its amazing that so many professed Christians are so completely in rebellion about what the Bible VERY plainly teaches.
Mr. Fugate not only explains the necessity of parental authority, but he also lays out the reality of what a child is, what child training is and is not, and how essential it is that every child be absolutely under the rule and authority of his/her parents in every respect. *Any deviation* from parental rules and standards is defiance and open rebellion. If it is not corrected, not only will the child suffer a willful and self-pleasing lifestyle, his soul is at risk of eternal damnation, (Profession of Christian salvation or no.) It surely is that serious.
Here is my advice to young parents: if you were raised foolishly and you have major self-centered problems, don't expect them to go away overnight. You yourself need major training yourself. Parenting requires a lot of patience, and its easy to not know how much discipline is necessary to successfully train a child. My experience is that God's mercy is tremendous, and a lot of mistakes can be made without permanent damage to the young child. (Contrary to pop-psychological beliefs, a child is not "permanently scarred" by a bad experience or two. God has designed us to be amazingly resilient.)
There are hundreds of child-training books out there, and while I have not read all of them, (nor do I intend to,) I know a good one when I see it. This book is a winner. I wholeheartedly endorse Mr. Fugate and his ability to clarify both the importance and means of successful Biblical child-training. Physical chastisement is only one facet of the whole. Without genuine love and interest for your children, all the chastisement in the world won't produce a happy soul.
And for those wise in their own conceits, rejecting God's command to chasten with a rod; their children may yet curse them to their face for not having loved them enough to deliver their souls from hell. (Proverbs 23:13-14, Proverbs 13:24) Fare thee well, friend.
A self-controlled child = an overcoming Adult.
We live by this book.......2007-03-16
I would also like to say that this book is biblical truth. My husband and I are training our children this way and we know it leads to a peaceful home with happy children. Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Fugate for being bold and keep printing it for future generations. Also, I would like to recommend the other titles by Virgina and Richard Fugate .
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