Getting Mother's Body: A Novel

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Like a country quilt, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks's spellbinding first novel, Getting Mother's Body, is pieced together from rags: short and slanted scraps of narrative recounted by various friends and members of the hard-luck Beede clan of Ector County, Texas. These sad, wily, bickering voices tell the story of Billy Beede--poor, unmarried, and pregnant--and her dead mother, the "hot and wild" blues singer, Willa Mae Beede, who may or may not have been laid to rest with a fortune of diamonds and pearls in her coffin. When a letter arrives announcing that a supermarket is being built on the ground where Willa Mae was buried, Billy determines to dig her up and get the jewels. But Willa Mae's embittered female lover, Dill Smiles, is just as intent on keeping the corpse in the ground. Deeper and richer than a typical quest novel, Getting Mother's Body is also the story of an African-American family, of beauty winding like bright thread through long-held grudges, hopelessness, and greed. --Regina Marler

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Billy Beede, the teenage daughter of the fast-running, no-account, and six-years-dead Willa Mae, comes home one day to find a fateful letter waiting for her: Willa Mae’s burial spot in LaJunta, Arizona, is about to be plowed up to make way for a supermarket.

As Willa Mae’s only daughter, Billy is heiress to her mother’s substantial but unconfirmed fortune—a cache of jewels that Willa Mae’s lover, Dill Smiles, is said to have buried with her. Dirt poor, living in a trailer with her Aunt June and Uncle Roosevelt behind a gas station in a tumbleweedy Texas town, and pregnant with an illegitimate child, Billy knows that treasure could mean salvation. So she steals Dill’s pickup truck and, with her aunt and uncle in tow, heads for Arizona with Dill in hot pursuit. While everyone agrees it’s only polite to speak of getting mother’s body and moving her to a proper resting place, it’s well understood that digging up Willa Mae’s diamonds and pearls will make the whole trip a lot more worthwhile.

The enormously accomplished fiction debut from Suzan-Lori Parks, the 2002 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Getting Mother’s Body takes its place in the company of the classic works of Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker. But when it comes to an ingenious, uproarious knack for depicting the trifling, hard-luck, down-and-out souls who need a little singing and laughing and lying and praying to get through the day, Suzan-Lori Parks shares the stage with no one.

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Billy Beede, the teenage daughter of the fast-running, no-account, and six-years-dead Willa Mae, comes home one day to find a fateful letter waiting for her: Willa Mae's burial spot in LaJunta, Arizona, is about to be plowed up to make way for a supermarket.

As Willa Mae's only daughter, Billy is heiress to her mother's substantial but unconfirmed fortune -- a cache of jewels that Willa Mae's lover, Dill Smiles, is said to have buried with her. Dirt poor, living in a trailer with her Aunt June and Uncle Roosevelt behind a gas station in a tumbleweedy Texas town, and pregnant with an illegitimate child, Billy knows that treasure could mean salvation. So she steals Dill's pickup truck and, with her aunt and uncle in tow, heads for Arizona with Dill in hot pursuit. While everyone agrees it's only polite to speak of getting mother's body and moving her to a proper resting place, it's well understood that digging up Willa Mae's diamonds and pearls will make the whole trip a lot more worthwhile.

The enormously accomplished fiction debut from Suzan-Lori Parks, the 2002 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Getting Mother's Body takes its place in the company of the classic works of Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker. But when it comes to an ingenious, uproarious knack for depicting the trifling, hard-luck, down-and-out souls who need a little singing and laughing and lying and praying to get through the day, Suzan-Lori Parks shares the stage with no one.

"Suzan-Lori Parks is a terrific writer whose characters don't so much talk to us as sing, full-throated, of their joys and miseries."
   RICHARD RUSSO, AUTHOR OF EMPIRE FALLS

"With a playwright's ear, a novelist's eye, and a passionate appreciation for the complex magic of everyday women, Suzan-Lori Parks spins a story whose characters are as mysterious and sexy as lace curtains billowing at the bedroom window."
    PEARL CLEAGE, AUTHOR OF WHAT LOOKS LIKE CRAZY ON AN ORDINARY DAY

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A compressed nod to Faulkner?.......2007-03-25

Suzan-Lori Parks, better known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, came out with her first novel, Getting Mother's Body, a few years ago. In a Seattle Post-Intelligencer interview of May 26, 2003, she called the work "a deep and reverent bow to William Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying,' which also has characters on a journey dealing with a dead relative."

It may be, but don't expect the complex southern saunter of language. Ms. Parks spares the page unneeded words with a beautiful economy, possibly the result of being accustomed to showing stories on stage through dialog and action. In this case, the use of shifting narrative points of view drives the action and yet circles back on it, like advancing the plot and character development through a spiral instead of a straight line. You keep coming back to previous point, stripping back layer after layer and showing the complexity not only of character, but of life. Other than saying that this journey is a quest for something valuable that may or may not be sequestered in a given place, I won't go much into the plot. What is important is not the arrival at the destination or even the destination itself, but the process of traveling. Perhaps that's what made it resound for me. Our final destination is, after all, physical death, so we have is the traveling. I also liked the use of dialect as a leveling factor. No matter how high and mighty some people might be in the social era of the time, the expression of thought and feeling was generally the same, showing more of a kinship than perhaps many of the people would have wanted to admit.

You'll fall in love with the ways of The Beedes!.......2007-02-05

Bravo and Kudo's to Ms.Parks! This story will have all your emotions working, you'll laugh,cry and get mad at some of the character's! Most of all you'll get sucked into this wonderful story. This is one of those reads where you won't stop reading until you reach the end. I reccomend this great read to all!

Finding a family forturne.......2006-12-18

This is an exceptionally uplifting and enjoyable novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist, Suzan-Lori Parks. The main character, Billy Beade, is a sixteen year-old who is pregnant and struggling to find her way in a small town in eastern Texas in 1963. Billy never knew her father; her blues-singing, hard-living mother died six years earlier. Billy is living with her Uncle Roosevelt, a down-on-his-luck preacher who has lost both his church and his faith, and his disabled wife, June. Billy's late mother's girlfriend, Dill Smiles, steps in when needed as a quasi father figure.

Her baby's father, Snipes, hands Billy $63 with which to buy a wedding dress, and instructs Billy to meet him in his hometown on the following Friday so they can get married. Unbeknownst to Billy, Snipes is already married with 6 children and a seventh on the way, not counting Billy's unborn child. By the time Billy learns the truth about Snipes, she has already spent every last cent she has on wedding preparations. Wanting to remove Snipes out of her life completely, Billy quickly raises a few dollars and goes to see a doctor who she believes can help her. The sympathetic doctor quotes a reduced fee but makes it clear to Billy that she has to get back to him quickly -- a week or so longer, and her pregnancy will be too far along to do anything about.

Billy returns home, announces that she's not getting married after all and that she needs money for the doctor's fee. No one has a cent to spare. Billy has heard rumors that her mother took some very valuable jewelry to the grave with her. Billy's mother is buried in Arizona. Billy is determined to somehow get all the way across Texas and New Mexico, dig up her mother and get the fortune she should have inherited long ago.

What follows is the hilarious story of how one determined, frightened and angry teenager takes charge of her life, enlists the help of everyone and his brother and endears herself to all along the way. The story is told from the perspectives of many characters. We even get to hear from Billy's dead mother. The ending, where Billy discovers the real meaning of family fortune, is a truly happy one.

Getting Mother's Body.......2005-11-26

Getting Mother's Body tells the story of Billy Beade and her family and friends on a road trip to dig up the treasure buried with Billy's mother Willa Mae. Each is equally desperate for the money from the treasure, but all for different reasons. The story was exciting, hardly ever predictable, and intelligent.

Lately, I've been tired of picking up novels that seemed interesting, only to find wooden characters, well-worn plot devices, and cliched dialogue. Not here. Ms. Parks has created a stunning cast of characters, each beautifully developed to the perfect degree to fit the plot, no more, no less. The story is written from Mulitple view points, each providing a small glimpse at the larger picture of the story. For this novel, however, the whole is greater than the some of it's parts - each point of view provides enough of the plot that the reader can synthesize them into a whole. This is a novel for a reader who doesn't want everything handed to them on the page, who enjoys synthesizing information to come to thier own conclusions. I have recommended this novel to many friends and family with much success. highly recommended.

Some authors should not read their own work. .......2005-11-01

There are very few authors who can both write and give a good performance on the audio of their books. Ms. Parks is not one of them. She may be a gifted playwrite and novelist, but she's not a narrator. You'd think someone who works in theater would understand the concept of voice talent, and make her publisher hire some to read her book for the audio version. Alas, Ms. Parks undertook the job herself, and the effect leaves a lot to be desired. For example, if you're going to have your characters speak in a regional patois, you can't then read it as though it's beneath you to speak that way, hesitating just slightly before each mispronunciation or grammatical error as though to disassociate yourself and make it clear that you don't speak that way. I've heard electronically read books with more feeling. Stick with the printed page for this one.

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Getting Mother's Body: A Novel
Suzan-Lori Parks
Manufacturer: RB Large Print
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VVCNVM

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From Publishers Weekly Parks, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for her play Topdog/Underdog, puts her dramatic skills to good use in this fluid, assured debut novel, the story of a sweaty road trip from Texas to Arizona in July 1963. When stubborn 16-year-old Billy Beede gets knocked up and jilted by her sweet-talking, coffin-salesman lover, she needs money for an abortion. Her wild mother, Willa Mae, died when Billy was 10, and Billy lives with her "childless churchless minister Uncle and one-legged church-hopping Aunt" in a mobile home behind their rural Texas gas station. Billy's only hope for serious cash is to dig up her mother's body from its grave in LaJunta, Ariz., where Willa Mae was buried wearing a diamond ring and a pearl necklace. That, at least, is the story told by Willa Mae's one-time lover, Dill, a six-foot-tall "bulldagger, dyke, lezzy, what-have-you." Billy steals Dill's truck and, together with her aunt and uncle, embarks on a trip to Arizona to find her mother's body, her mother's treasure and her mother's memory. With disgruntled Dill in hot pursuit (chauffeured by Billy's dogged suitor, Laz, misfit son of the local funeral parlor owner), the three travel through the racist Southwest, meeting up with relatives, friends and foes. Parks narrates her brief chapters from the point of view of different characters, giving each a distinctive voice; blues songs are interwoven with the text. Parks's influences are evident-among them Zora Neale Hurston and Faulkner's As I Lay Dying-but the novel's easy grace and infectious rhythms are all her own. Fueled by irresistible, infectious talk and prose that swings like speech, this novel begs (no surprise) to be read aloud. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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THESE BOOKS ARE VERY COOL, DEVON IS MY MAN!!.......2007-05-22

ALL THESE GUYS SOUND SOO CUTE. EXCEPT THE JERK BF, BUT THE FRIENDS ARE CUTIES. LOL. IF YOU DREAM ABOUT GOING TO ANOTHER COUNTRY, LIKE ENGLAND, AND MEETING HOTTIES, THIS BOOK IS LIKE THE TOPPING ON UR DREAM CAKE!!!!! READ IT, EVEN IF U CANT BUY IT FROM HERE, GET IT SOMEWHERE ELSE.. SOOO CUTE!!

Huh .......2006-10-15

I read this book, super excited because I, like the character, had moved with my parents from Seattle, WA to England. My experience was completely different than hers.

Anyways, it was a very entertaining read. Not very realistic, but entertaining.

hilarious brit lit.......2006-08-14

Emily Williams is not pleased about having to move to England for a year so her father can teach Medieval History to victims on the other side of the pond. It's not just that she is now a resident of Piddlington-on-the-Weld instead of Seattle. The maroon and teal school uniform, the lack of malls and good coffee, and her haunted underwear drawer might also contribute to her dislike of her new (and temporary) home. But after meeting Aidan, Devon, and Fang-- the nummiest guys anywhere-- and Holly, the (second) coolest girl in a school of drab losers, things start looking up, and Emily just might survive the year. Emily will have you laughing (and cringing) at all of her escapades.

so funny!.......2005-11-27

i really liked this book! emily is a very funny and sweet charcter. this book is funny in a laugh out loud sort of way. try it you will LOVE it!

Review Of "The Year My Life Went Down the Loo".......2005-10-16

I really liked this book becuase the main character (Emily) seems very realistic, and faces problems that are actually possible. Emily seems like a girl you would want to have as one of your friends. Katie Maxwell did a very good job with the backgrounds of her characters. This book is ficticious, but not in a fantasy-land sort of way. There are no dragons or fairies, but this is still a book that will catch the attention of teen and preteen girls. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a humorous, easy-read novel. This book is written as an email chain between two friends. Emily, (stuck in Piddlington-On-The-Weld England with her family), and Drew (who is at home in Seattle with a broken leg). The book is not too long, so it will take about a week or two to read. I hope you like this book.
-Allie

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Take one monster lurking in the depths of a mysterious lake. Add one glowing figure with powers to summon the creature to the shore. Stir in one Wally McDoogle, who reluctantly stumbles upon the truth:

And you have the recipe for another. . .

Laugh-filled McDoogle disaster.

Being a hero is the last thing on Wally's mind, but the fate of his entire town is at stake. Now he must race against the clock, his own fears, and his world renown klutziness - and learn to trust God - before he has any chance of saving the day,

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Polluted Pond Scum.......2000-11-04

I enjoyed My Life as Polluted Pond Scum because of its humor and adventure. I didn't want to put this book down.There's also a message and an action packed superhero story. The message in this one is, "bloom where your planted". If you enjoy all these things I suggest you pick it up and read it.

It is just Wally and that ghost and the sea-monster.......1998-09-26

Have you ever seen a ghost summoning up a sea monster? Well, Wally Mcdoogle notices a ghost summoning up one in Knox Lake (the most polluted lake in Middletown) on a Water Management Facility screen. Wally goes through more funny disasters than you can ever think of in this book trying to catch who is draining Knox Lake with Middletown right below it! I think this book is great because it's funny and cool! I would recommend this book to 4th through 5th graders. It has 111 pages of super funny Mcdoogle disasters This book is very cool!

Pond Scum and Vultures: America's Sportswriters Talk About Their Glamorous Profession

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Pond Scum and Vultures: America's Sportswriters Talk About Their Glamorous Profession
Gene Wojciechowski
Manufacturer: Macmillan Pub Co
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Great anectdotes.......1999-05-27

Wojciehowski just lays it all out there in this book - story after story involving players and reporters. I first read this book about 6 years ago when I was an aspiring sports journalist. I followed a different career path, but I still read this book all the time for laughs. Truly an awesome book.

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Pond Scum Floats to the Top!
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FANASTIC CHILDREN'S BOOK! AUTHOR HAS A "WAY WITH WORMS."
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Pond Scum
Alan Silberberg
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ASIN: 0786856343

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Oliver is the type of kid who enjoys pulling the wings off flies just to hear the little "snap." Needless to say, he's more friendly with his television than with other kids. Oliver's life takes a turn, though, when his mom gets a new job and moves the family to a small town. Worse, his mom has fallen in love with a rundown old house near a pond. But there's something weird about the house. It seems to be guarded by creatures from the pond-creatures who decidedly don't want the family move in.

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Pond Scum Floats to the Top!.......2007-06-16

I am a fifth grade teacher on Long Island. My lunchtime book club just read, and met to discuss Alan Silberberg's "Pond Scum". The book was a big hit with all the kids, who greatly enjoyed the plot and the characters. The other teachers and I also enjoyed the book, and the discussions it lead to. We would definitely recommend it to teachers from grades four and up as a read aloud, book club book, or class novel. All of us, students and teachers alike, are eagerly awaiting a sequel!!!

Pond Scum Review.......2007-04-26

I absolutely love this book! I picked up this book thinking it was another one of those strange books impossible to actually like, but think twice before rejecting this book.

This is about a boy named Oliver who is satisfied living in the city, but his divorced mom comes home one day and tells Oliver and his sister Rachel that she got a new job and that they'd be moving. Little did they know, there is an Alliance of animals at the pond near the house whose only goal is to keep the humans away: humans have created too much harm to Pond. Despite the Alliance's efforts, Oliver's family moves in to the old and run-down house anyway.

The interesting part comes when television-obsessed Oliver can't get the channels he wants on his TV. He climbs onto the roof to install an anntena, but a crow tries to chase him away from the house. Oliver falls through the roof and lands on this shiny gem in the attic. He later learns that this gem posseses a secret power that will change Oliver's life forever...

I can't tell you any more...it would give it away. But take my word for it. This book is one of the most fun books you'll ever read, it has a great story and interesting characters, and you'll never want to put it down. Read Pond Scum today!!!

Pond Scum Grows on You.......2006-04-03

This weekend I read Pond Scum, by Alan Silberberg. I was a bit put off by this book at the beginning. Specifically, I took exception to the introduction of Oliver, a boy who pulls the wings off of flies. What bothered me wasn't so much that Oliver was a boy pulling the wings off of flies (though this is hardly a pleasant attribute). No, what bothered me was this sentence: "He wasn't a bad kid -- just a lonely boy who felt compelled to snatch the flies that kept him company." I mean, shouldn't the author show this, instead of telling us that Oliver isn't a bad kid? Perhaps because I was irritated by this, it took me a while to get into this book.

But Pond Scum grew on me (so to speak). It's a quirky story about a family that moves into an isolated, long-abandoned house, located next to a small pond. The pond and surrounding wood are positively teeming with wildlife. The various birds, animals, and insects make up much of the cast of the book. There are various conflicts occurring between different interest groups: between Oliver and his father; between Oliver and kids at school; between the pond creatures and the humans (especially the real estate agent); between the "kid" pond creatures and the adults; and between the "adult" leaders of the affiliation of creatures. These conflicts swirl about and intersect throughout the book.

But where things really get out of hand (and this is not much of a spoiler, because it's on the back of the book) is when Oliver discovers a way to turn himself into one of the creatures, and interacts with them directly.

On the one hand, this is a fairly simple story, about animals relating to one another, and a boy who has trouble fitting in. But Silberberg manages to address a remarkable number of larger issues, as well as environmental concerns, all with a very light hand. Oh, I still have a few quibbles over some of the writing (show, don't tell, and all that). But overall, I think that kids will find it an enjoyable read, somewhat reminiscent of Hoot. And it might make them think twice about stepping on insects, and certainly about pulling the wings off of flies. (This review is reprinted here, after being initially published on my blog)

FANASTIC CHILDREN'S BOOK! AUTHOR HAS A "WAY WITH WORMS.".......2006-03-14

I bought this book for my 9 year old son. It is very difficult finding books that engage him. He'd rather be playing baseball or tennis. But from the moment we started reading "POND SCUM" and meeting all the buggy characters like Mooch and Willy, he was totally into it. In fact, he loves reading it out loud, because he wants to share with us all the funny things that happen.

The author obviously has spent time researching insects, birds and fish. (Oh, yeah and real estate agents, too.) It is this substantial knowledge that supports the story and creates characters that feel real. (You'll think twice about stepping on an ant or swatting a fly after reading this book.)

As I read along with my son, I can "see" this story and have no doubt we will find it on the big screen soon.(Jack Black as the hungry salamander?)

I bought a few more copies for gifts.

Bravo for "Pond Scum."

Pond Scum review.......2006-03-08

Have you ever thought, "If I could turn into any animal I wanted too, what would it be?" Well, even if you never have, after you read Alan Silberberg's Pond Scum you may. One day Oliver, an 11 year old boy, finds out about his horrid future; he has to move! Oliver moves into a house by a beautiful pond: however, it's the animals that live by the pond that aren't so pretty. The animals hate humans and will do anything to make sure they are not around. One dull day Oliver is just sitting around his room, boared because Oliver's new house didn't have cable. Oliver has to do something, so he finds junk lying around and climbs up to the roof to find his own way to get cable. Antoine, a crow, in one of his crazy plans to get rid of humans, suicide bombs Oliver. he hits Oliver right in the chest, they both fell through the roof. They find themselves sprawled about the attic. Oliver is fine, but Antoine has broken his wing. As Oliver stands up he sees something gleaming out of the corner of his eye. He looks around and finds a glowing stone. Oliver puts the stone in his pocket and decides he would take care of the crow. One day while he was exploring the pond he finds a salamander, he decides to keep it. Later during one of his classes he catches a fly, ans snaps the wings off. Then he remembers he needs to feed his salamander, so he slips the fly into his pocket. All of a sudden the room starts spinning, Oliver quickly runs to the bathroom. When everything stopps spinning Oliver looks into the mirror. He doesn't see himself. He sees a fly! He was a fly! Oliver can't find a way to become himself again; he starts to cry, the only words he can say are, "I wish I was a kid again." When Oliver says those words everything starts spinning again. When it stops, Oliver is a boy again. He reaches into his pocket to get out the fly, but he accidentally pulls out the stone. Oliver soon finds out what that stone really does, transforms you into any animal it touches. Oliver tries it on his crow and salamander and soon has two new friends. Oliver explores the pond and makes new friends, and new enemies. This is a great book, and I would recommend it to people of all ages. I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did.

Pond Scum and Agnes Pflumm (The Third Book in Agnes Pflumm Trilogy)

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Pond Scum and Agnes Pflumm (The Third Book in Agnes Pflumm Trilogy)
Merrie Koester Southgate
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Structures of Life: Cells Divide to Multiply, Pond Scum Lives!, Do All Kingdoms Have Royal Leaders? And More... (Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Science)

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Structures of Life: Cells Divide to Multiply, Pond Scum Lives!, Do All Kingdoms Have Royal Leaders? And More... (Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Science)
Mary Atwater
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P Soup: It's green, but it's not good for you. That benign-looking pond scum signifies a far-reaching shift in the global phosphorus cycle.: An article from: World Watch

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P Soup: It's green, but it's not good for you. That benign-looking pond scum signifies a far-reaching shift in the global phosphorus cycle.: An article from: World Watch
Elena Bennett , and Steve R. Carpenter
Manufacturer: Worldwatch Institute
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008EWN4E
Release Date: 2005-07-29

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Title: P Soup: It's green, but it's not good for you. That benign-looking pond scum signifies a far-reaching shift in the global phosphorus cycle.
Author: Elena Bennett
Publication: World Watch (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: Worldwatch Institute
Volume: 15 Issue: 2 Page: 24(9)

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Pond Scum Pumps Out Fuel.: An article from: Battery & EV Technology

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Pond Scum Pumps Out Fuel.: An article from: Battery & EV Technology

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This digital document is an article from Battery & EV Technology, published by Business Communications Company, Inc. on March 1, 2000. The length of the article is 840 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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Pond Scum Pumps Out Fuel.(Brief Article): An article from: Fuel Cell Technology News

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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Fuel Cell Technology News, published by Business Communications Company, Inc. on March 1, 2000. The length of the article is 844 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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Swimming with sharks: don't let buying PCBs direct from Asia turn you into pond scum.(Global Sourcing): An article from: Circuits Assembly

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Swimming with sharks: don't let buying PCBs direct from Asia turn you into pond scum.(Global Sourcing): An article from: Circuits Assembly
Greg Papandrew
Manufacturer: UP Media Group, Inc.
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Release Date: 2006-07-14

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This digital document is an article from Circuits Assembly, published by UP Media Group, Inc. on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 787 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: Swimming with sharks: don't let buying PCBs direct from Asia turn you into pond scum.(Global Sourcing)
Author: Greg Papandrew
Publication: Circuits Assembly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: UP Media Group, Inc.
Volume: 16 Issue: 4 Page: 16(1)

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Pond Scum and Vultures: America's Sportswriters Talk About Their Glamorous Profession
Gene Wojciechowski
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OA1X02

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I didn't look for that book, that book looked for me........2005-08-08

One day, I woke up from a dream only remembering the name "Bartholomew", that didn't mean anything to me. Later I was reading in another book and as I reached a chapter, the author mentioned/referred us to read the book "I come as a brother" by Bartholomew, it is at that moment that the dream and the name I remember made sense to me.

This book is so inspirational. Bartholomew, came just when I needed, to talk to me about the things I was passing through, emphasizing the power of unconditional love and the illusion of separation.

He goes on explaining what love is not, how we perceive life, how we keep on blocking ourselves either consciously or subconsciously.

A chapter was dedicated to the story of St. Francis, to inspire us to look no more outside rather than inside, for the divine has already been expressed by what we call "me" or "myself".

I recommend this book to anyone who is looking to enhance the quality of his life, relationships with others, or get in touch with the deep wisdom of Bartholomew.

Another winner from Bartholomew.......2003-09-03

Like his other books, this one is full of love, simple practices and advice, and a spirit that permeates your being.

Awesome book! It will transform your life, if you use it........2003-02-14

This is an awesome book. If you read this book, and apply what you learn in it, your life it will improve dramatically! This is a fact. Do you realize that there are many people living, right now, on this planet who live what some would call a magical and miraculous life? I do, I know many others who do, and so can you! It is about learning life-skills that work. This book will teach you those life-skills.

Ramana meets Seth.......2003-01-31

This book has IT. Bartholomew doesn't want to show you how to rearrange your mental furniture but to show you that you misidentify yourself with that furniture.

A couple of quotes:

"Every moment of the day, for as much as you can, remember who you are."

"You need to quiet your mind. And that is all you need to do! The best way to quiet the mind is to be in the moment. Your mind cannot be agitated if you are present in the moment. If you are alive to this moment, alive to everything going on in it, you can't be ruminating over the past. "

This book fits well with the teaching of Maharshi, Nisargadatta, Robert Adams, Advaita Vedanta, etc.

Simple and accessible.......2003-01-12

What strikes me about Bartholomew is the simplicity with which he patiently and with great compassion explodes our myths about the nature of reality.

If you have read Jane Roberts' Seth books but still need a little help in grasping some of the material - I can recommend Bartholomew in this and any of his other books. However, these books stand in their own right as signposts on the spiritual road each of us has to take, sooner or later.

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