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Louis de Bernières's sardonic pen has concocted a spicy olla podrida of a novel, set in a fictitious Latin American country, with all the tragedy, ribaldry, and humor Bernières can muster from a debauched military, a clueless oligarchy, and an unconventional band of guerrillas. There's a plague of laughing, a flood of magical cats, and a torture-happy colonel. The cities, villages, politics, and discourse are an inspired amalgam of Latin Americana, but the comedy, horror, adventure, and vibrant individuals are pure de Bernières. This masterpiece, the first of a trilogy, is followed by Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman.
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This rambunctious first novel by the author of the bestselling Corelli's Mandolin is set in an impoverished, violent, yet ravishingly beautiful country somewhere in South America. When the haughty Dona Constanza decides to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, the consequences are at once tragic, heroic, and outrageously funny. "Walks a precarious edge between slapstick and pathos, never once losing its balance."--Washington Post Book World.
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Jealousy for the reader.......2007-06-21
Anyone who wishes to write fiction should read this book but prepared to be disappointed - in your own abilities in comparison with de Bernieres, who has swiftly become one of my favorite English writers. His style, plot, humor and candor make him irresistible, as does his subject matter, in this case, the impoverished campesinos of a mythical South American country. De Bernieres is like an English Marquez, crafting a land of magical realism with all the ugliness of the real world. De Bernieres' wide pallette of characters and archetypes comes to extraordinary life in this fine first novel, the beginning of a trilogy on the people of Chiriguana and, later, Cochadebajo de los Gatos. The novel is a roller-coaster ride of revolution, genocide, spiritual love, heresy and diaspora. If you're looking for a great book to enthrall you for a weekend at the beach or a few afternoons at the pool, look no further.
Louis De Bernieres lover.......2006-02-28
I love this writer. Another book about a dark subject, but infused with humor and incredible descriptive detail. I highly recommend it.
brilliant!.......2006-01-31
a fabulous pick for garcia-marquez and magical realism lovers. it is a colorful and whimsical depiction of an andean country, and like garcia-marquez, de berniers tells us stories that encompass the magic that results from the political, social, and cultural contexts of a place like colombia.
The war for don emmanuels parts.......2005-09-14
All of Louis De Berniers stories merit ten stars in their ability to rivet you to your reading spot until ffinished and you recover from the loss of the company of his characters.
Am I alone?.......2005-08-24
Wow, as I read the other reviews I wondered if I had read the same book. Having come to Bernieres through Corelli - which I loved (and again that puts me at odds with many others), I had high hopes for this book, but I thought it overdone and contrived. Maybe I was in the wrong mood? Whereas Corelli had kept me entranced, with smooth easy flowing prose simply wafting me from page to page, Don Emmanuel just grated on me. Corelli was made into an awful movie. I suspect someone will make a movie of Don Emmanuel too, and I'd probably enjoy it - as a flimsy distraction. But the book didn't do it for me.
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Two Times The Charm ..........2006-12-01
Book Description: He's something of a catch you know. Eloise was told about the handsome Dr. Timon van Zeilst. "But no one's caught him yet." Eloise felt quite sure that it wouldn't be her. Why should he look twice at a plain English nurse with the beautiful Liske around? And Liske had claimed she was destined to be his wife. It was no good telling herself not to care, because she did -- even if he was the most infuriating man she'd ever met!
This Neel story involves a Plain Kind Hardworking British Nurse and a Rich Handsome Dutch Doctor with the mean, spiteful girlfriend to add drama; the illness dealt with is cancer. I passed on this book after reading the reviews; purchased and read it with an over-critical view, but liked it. I re-read it later, liked it much more, and found it to be an enjoyable Neels read.
The plot is well written, but the ending...............2004-11-20
When I finished, I reread the ending to see if I was missing something. The story fell through a hole into the ending. I am thinking: "what happened? wasn't she...? isn't he...? what about....? " and all I have is THE END.
Don't get me wrong, a person can really relate with her and her problem, but they seem unsolved.
Excellent romance with strong heroine.......2004-09-03
I think this is one of the best stories Betty Neel ever wrote. Particularly good is a scene near the end of the book where Eloise is serving as school nurse/matron at a boys' school and saves a small, bullied boy from attempting to jump from a ledge. The hero, Timon, turns up in time to help them both, but I got the impression that Eloise could have saved the boy even without the hero's timely appearance. (The school staff eventually handles the bullying problem in an intelligent way.)
Eloise is a strong-minded heroine who takes no nonsense from anyone, yet is properly compassionate to those who need it. She doesn't really need the hero to make her life complete. But how wonderful for her that he showed up anyway! I would definitely recommend this book!
Edgy.......2002-10-28
Back Cover description: "He's something of a catch you know". Eloise was told about the handsome Dr. Timon van Zeilst. "But no one's caught him yet." Eloise felt quite sure that it wouldn't be her. Why should he look twice at a plain English nurse with the beautiful Liske around? And Liske had claimed she was destined to be his wife. It was no good telling herself not to care, because she did--even if he was the most infuriating man she'd ever met!
This was somewhat typical of Ms. Neels plots; doctor, plain nurse, female villain and misunderstandings. In this story however, there seemed to me to be a little more tension/edginess to the story than I usually get with Ms. Neels books. I liked it, just can't put my finger on what was different.
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From the author of Rocket Ship Galileo comes this classic tale featuring the Grand Master of Science Fiction's most remarkable heroine.
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Back to the Future.......2007-05-10
I remember enjoying this book 45 years ago. But now the funnest thing about this old copy of Podkayne of Mars (Ace Science Fiction) is the misdirectional blurb on the back cover: "An interplanetary bombshell who rocked the constellations when she invaded the Venus Hilton and attacked the mighty mechanical men with a strange, overpowering blast of Sex Appeal."
A good rule of thumb is never to re-read adolescent fiction. Leave it alone with your subconscious. But because of that blurb I had to re-read this volume to make sure it's safe for my eleven-year-old.
Not to worry. In this 1963 novella, Robert Heinlein sticks to the classic formula of a sweet adolescent girl and her troublesome, precocious younger brother caught up in an interplanetary intrigue.
The interesting aspect of the book is Heinlein's attempt to portray the first-person female persona and identify an essential difference between man and woman. Although Podkayne is not very successful in this regard, you can tell that Heinlein is really interested. A few years later he revisited this theme in I Will Fear No Evil. But as a psychological study that ambitious and "adult" novel was no more successful than the chaste Podkayne.
One of Heinlein's "juvenile" novels, but contains some sharp human observations.......2006-07-24
Robert Heinlein never could get over the charge that he was a misogynist - because he espoused the "different but equal" theory of gender relations, rather than the "exactly the same as each other" interpretation. With this book, on the cusp between Heinlein's mainly juvenile stories and his much deeper adult fiction, we see one of the most obvious examples of Heinlein's "different but equal" characters in the titular Podkayne.
Obviously it's a stretch for a middle-aged man to write a 1st-person account as a 15-year-old (in Earth years!) girl. Podkayne's goal in life is to become an explorer pilot, even though it's a male-dominated profession, even though she will not be educated in the top schools, and even though she is of questionable anscestry (born on the former penal colony of Mars). She gets the chance to see first-hand what space travel is like when her uncle (a senator for the Martian Republic, and ex-transported convict) agrees to take her to Venus and then Earth. A 3-planet conference is taking place on the Moon that he will attend. Unknown to Podkayne at the time of departure: radical elements do not want the Senator to make it to the conference, and others want to use him to push their own agendas contrary to the Senator's beliefs.
If this sounds complex for a "juvenile novel," I think it is. The reason it's classified as such is that the main characters are young (Podkayne and her even younger brother), and the dialogue is relatively simple, even when the ideas are complex. In comparison to, say, Between Planets or Rocket Ship Galileo, the plot is much darker and more subtle. Unfortunately, the plot doesn't really sustain itself - Podkayne is too much of a Pollyanna to really understand her situation, and it's difficult for the reader to take her seriously, especially in the closing 1/3 of the book when her brother takes control.
However, I think an adult reader will still find a lot here worth reading, especially the Heinlein fan. Besides the obvious gender observations that are still relevant today (e.g. that most men cannot bear to date a smarter woman), he adds some class and race undertones that became more important as Heinlein matured as a writer. Finally, the violence of the last part of the book may put off some readers, although if the child has watched a few episodes of "24" or "ER" on TV, they'll have seen worse.
Pre-feminist. Contains one superb insight........2006-07-19
This book was written just before the feminist
movement's 2nd-half-of-20th-century phase got
underway. Heinlein had not yet broken free of
traditional gender roles (as he certainly did
shortly thereafter), although it is perfectly
obvious that he not only values, but always enjoys,
intelligence as a personality trait in women. So
you have to forgive him for certain things in order
to enjoy this book.
I love the playful style of language in which this
book is written -- it is unique among Heinlein's many
books.
When the seemingly amiable and undistinguished old
Mrs. Grew turns out to be in reality a mercenary
terrorist, the protagonist's brilliant but anti-social
younger brother Clark is unsurprised, because once,
when she hadn't known he was watching, he had seen
her cheating at solitaire!! How do you like that!
(A similar insight occurs elsewhere in Heinlein's
fiction, in the short story _Gulf_, when Kettle-Belly
Baldwin says "Evil is essentially stupid.")
The country girl visits the big city.......2006-06-17
This is the last of the string of 'juvenile' (young adult) novels that Heinlein wrote in the late fifties and early sixties before he began his series of best selling adult noveles (Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress etc). When Heinlein first submitted it to his publisher the ending was deemed too harsh and he was forced to change it.
The story is told, for the most part, by Podkayne Fries, a 16 year old girl, who lives with her family on Mars. Poddy is an intelligent, ambitious young woman whose chief interests are coping with her bratty younger brother Clark, planning her future career as a starship captain and looking forward to a family trip to Earth. The unexpected arrival of triplet younger siblings change her plans, however, and Poddy and Clark find themselves taking the trip with their uncle instead of their parents. Poddy and Clark discover that there is a bit more to their uncle than the kind card playing layabout they thought him to be and find themselves embroiled in interplanetary politics.
As always with Heinlein's work it is the background bits that he just tosses out as much as the main plot that is the appeal. We get a glimpse of Poddy's life on Mars, see what life on an interplantetary luxury liner would be like and experience what an entire colony run Las Vegas style would be like. Heinlein was often criticized, particularly in his earlier works, as being sexist. In this novel he begins to change this, the story is told mostly from a girl's point of view, her mother is the main breadwinner - a highly sought after engineer, and Podkayne has dreams of piloting through space. On the downside Heinlein abandons his feminist stance, Podkayne who began the story as bright and determined by mid novel begins to waver and be overwhelmed by circumstances ultimately surrendering to Heinlein's theme of a woman's place is in the home. RAH would handle female charcters better in later works.
For Heinlein fans this is a pivotal work, in Poddy we see the beginnings of the more independent women characters that will appear in his later novels, in Clark there is more than a passing similarity to a young Lazarus Long, the futility of racism theme that will return in later novels is a major point here. This is a must read for Heinlein fans, and would also be a good place to begin reading his works.
School Review.......2006-05-05
Podkayne had always wanted to go to Earth, but I don't think this is how she planned her trip. Podkayne of Mars starts off with Podkayne, her younger brother Clark, and their Uncle Tom taking a trip from Mars to Earth. Podkayne had never left Mars before and was extremely excited to be aboard the Tricorn, a luxury space ship. Podkayne has a dream of becoming a famous space pilot. So she entertained herself by getting to know the crew and learning about the controls and how the ship works. She even helped out when the ship was hit with a radiation storm. But things take a bad turn when Podkayne finds out that Clark was paid to smuggle a bomb onto the ship. Someone wanted to stop the Tricorn from reaching Venus, the one stop they had to make on their way to earth. Clark gladly took the money, but then Clark disassembled the bomb and they got to Venus safely. Podkayne and Clark were excited that the ship would have a long stop on Venus and that there was plenty of time to explore. After a while on Venus, Clark went missing. While people continued to look for him into the next day, Podkayne found a note left by Clark. It said that he had gone to rescue their friend Girdie, a lady that they had met on the Tricorn. Clark had left instructions for Podkayne as to what to do if she found the note. She was to go to a certain news stand and ask for everlites. She was told to ask for two and say that it was dark where she was going. She later found out that this was all a trap, and the next thing she knew, she was waking up in a strange place. She figured that she had been kidnapped. She looked around and saw Mrs. Grew, another one of their friends from the Tricorn. At first she was excited to see her but then Mrs. grew put Podkayne in a chair and did something to the back of her neck so Podkayne couldn't move from the neck down. Podkayne could look around, though, and she saw her Uncle Tom and Clark sitting there too. Uncle Tom was a senator and was gong to represent Mars at the Three Planet Conference. He was the one that people didn't want to get to the Venus. Mrs. Grew was trying to persuade him to represent her ideas at the conference by threatening Podkayne and Clark. Uncle Tom was released to go to the conference but to make sure that Uncle Tom cooperated; Podkayne and Clark were held captive in a room guarded by a carnivorous fairy and her baby. Clark knew that they would be killed once Uncle Tom did what he was supposed to do so he developed a plan to get them out. That night Clark had to kill the fairy and they were able to escape. Clark had kept the bomb that he had smuggled and set it to blow the house up after they left. Their plan was to get out and find Uncle Tom. Once out of the house they split up and Clark got lost. Clark was in the middle of the swamp when he felt the bomb go off. Clark was rescued and then he found out that Podkayne had gone back to the house to save the baby fairy from getting blown up. She got lost and didn't get far enough away from the house. She was caught in the bomb's blast. Podkayne saved the baby fairy but was almost killed herself. She will live but it will take a while for her to recover. Her act of kindness could change her life forever. This book is extremely interesting and funny.
This book has a lot of funny scenes that could only happen in a science fiction book. For example, when the ship was gong through a radiation storm, Podkayne helped out by helping Girdie take care of the babies on board. The babies wouldn't stop crying and Podkayne had nothing else to do so she helped. Just as they got all of the babies calmed down and asleep, the ship went into freefall. All of the babies started crying and to make it worse all of the gravity was gone. Babies started floating out of their cribs. On top of that, the motion made a lot of babies sick so they started throwing up. The vomit just floated around in the air and sometimes hit the people trying to catch the floating babies. She made a mental note that babies don't like free fall. Another funny scene is when Podkayne was being held captive by Mrs. Grew. The only thing that was keeping Podkayne from just walking out was a fairy, who Podkayne called Titania, perched above the door. Podkayne didn't think this was much of a threat because it looked really cute. But when Podkayne got close to the door, Titania attacked her. She found out that fairies can be very vicious because they have sharp teeth and claws, and Podkayne has a cut on her arm to prove it. Another funny thing about this book was a room that Podkayne wandered into while her uncle was taking care of other business in the building. On Mars they have a form of baby care that lets parents sign a six-month withdrawal contract. It's a place where you can send your baby until it is six months old for others to take care of. They figure that the babies don't care who takes care of them for the first few months and it takes a lot of stress off the mother in the early months.
Although Clark is very smart, it is funny to see how many times he gets into trouble through out the book. For example, when Clark was paid to smuggle a bomb onto the ship, he met a guy at the station when they were waiting to check in their bags. He took the bomb and hid it in one of Podkayne's bags. When the check-in guy asks if they had any illegal items they `wanted to declare' no one said anything. Buy when the guy was about to look through the bag that had the bomb in it, Clark distracted them by saying that he had some Happy Dust. This substance was illegal and would turn any Venusman into a murderous monster. Clark had to go through many hours of intense searches and questioning just so they wouldn't find what he really had. Another example is when Clark dyed the faces of two ladies on the Tricorn. They didn't respect the marsmen and thought they were lower class. This upset Podkayne and Clark a lot. So Clark decided to do something about it. He took color pigments from a camera that only shows up if they're in a light. He put that on their towels, so when they rubbed their faces with the towels the color got on them. The whole time they tried to get it off (in the light) it just kept getting darker and darker. One other time that Clark got into trouble was when they were practicing taking cover in the shelter for a radiation storm. Clark was very slow and the last one that they rounded up. The captain of the ship wasn't very happy with this and scolded Clark in front of all the passengers. He said that if Clark wasn't the first one in the shelter when the alarm sounded, that he would spend the rest of the trip confined inside the shelter. The next time the alarm sounded, Clark was the very first person in that shelter.
One interesting thing in this book was that some of the issues that we deal with today, still existed and Podkayne had to deal with them in her time. For example, in the future, it is still harder for girls to do things, simply because they are girls. Podkayne wants to become a famous space pilot when she is older. But this is pretty much a male profession. So even if she's really smart, she would have to do extra work because she is a girl. This makes her rethink her plans a little. Another issue is people still being prejudiced against others. People from other planets don't really respect people from Mars. Mars was originally a penal colony and Podkayne has convicts as her ancestors, but she's never been ashamed of it. So when she overheard a conversation between Mrs. Royer and Mrs. Garcia, she got angry. They said that all marsmen were criminals and that they didn't know how to act around `their betters." Podkayne was upset because she considered herself an equal. Another issue in the book was parents spending too much time at work and not enough with their kids. After the accident with Podkayne and the bomb, Uncle Tom called her parents. He was mad at them. He said that people who won't take care of their children shouldn't have them. He said that with them always going off on work business, between them Podkayne was almost killed. She will get better but no thanks to them. He said he had doubts about Clark, and it might be too late to do anything about him. But they needed to try and hurry.
This is a great book that I would recommend to anyone ages 10 and up.
C. Chapman
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Podkayne of Mars
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Not great sf but a lot of fun . . ........2004-09-01
I started reading Heinlein's juveniles in the mid-1950s, when he was still producing them. I have read enormous amounts of science fiction ever since, but I still go back and re-read one of his adolescent adventure yarns now and then. They're good for what ails you. Some, admittedly, are overwritten and too sweet, but this story of a very bright girl in her early teens and her younger, brilliant brother is actually pretty well done. Podkayne is a native of Mars, the descendant of intellectuals and others shipped off to a prison colony for their political opinions, on the Australian model. Her mother's an engineer, her father's a historian, and her Uncle Tom is a hero of the Revolution and a Senator-at-Large of the Martian Republic. Uncle is going (very quietly) to a triplanetary conference on Luna, by way of Venus, and Poddy and her brother, Clark, are along for the ride -- and to provide protective coloration, though they don't realize it at first. She learns how to manipulate the younger officers on the star-liner, Clark smuggles aboard a bomb (we're never quite sure why), and nefarious doings are afoot by the political opposition. Heinlein had a knack for projecting likely technical advances of the future (even though Clark still carries a slide rule), but his grip on social change is far less sure. In her attitudes, and those of society, it's as though the Feminist 1960s and '70s never happened. And Poddy at (I think) fifteen is much less sophisticated than the average American twelve-year-old today. Ah, well. Heinlein was incapable of writing anything, even a kid's novel, without including his own social and political opinions, but they're less obtrusive here than in some of his other books. For that matter, Heinlein actually was an ethical and social relativist who loved to contradict himself from book to book, so don't be too sure you know what he actually thought!
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Created to be read as an overview of the spiritual path, this book explores the world's great religions, Great Masters, spiritual psychology and the Ascended Masters' teachings with specific steps to accelerate our process of ascension.
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Another steaming pile of New Agey road apples........2005-12-28
You could use this book as a plan to make up your own fantasies and then sell a book of them to the New Agey people. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY.
an introduction to the spiritual path like you've never read before!.......2005-12-21
This is a very excellent book to start with if you feel any resonance with the work of Dr. Stone. Being I believe his first book, it is not quite as focused and elegant as his later books, but it does set the framework for the rest of his massive collection of "the easy to read encyclopedia of the spiritual path." I made the mistake of starting with his book COSMIC ASCENSION first, and I found it very difficult to understand, since I had not laid the framework for, say, what is meant by 'level of initiation' and 'light quotient'--- so, I do recommend people start with The Complete Ascension Manual, Soul Psychology, and Beyond Ascension first!
Some of the material in this book has become outdated, simply because there have been changes in the planetary hierarchy, and changes in how ascension works, especially in the last 5 to 10 years. For instance, Sanat Kumara is no longer our planetary logos, but Lord Buddha is (this is borne out in future books by Dr. Stone), and there is a much greater emphasis on "integrated ascension" than there ever was before.
The idea and practice of "Integrated Ascension" is one of Dr. Stone's greatest contributions to our world, as there are a great many spiritual paths that have one or the other emphasis, but do not lay such a broad-based framework for total mastery. For instance, I am a reiki master, and there are many in my community who believe that by "taking attunements" they are doing their spiritual work. However, as Dr. Stone points out, spiritual initiations are more about increasing your light quotient (the amount of light you hold) than anything else. A person (a psychic, healer, reiki master, yogi, etc.) may be very highly developed in their light body, but may still be totally run by their negative egos, lower self desires, physical appetites, etc.
In regard to the earlier reviewer who said that Dr. Stone could be more discerning--I think that is a misunderstanding of what Dr. Stone is trying to do. He is not trying to come up with a new "system" where you work with this particular angel, or this particular ascended master, or where you just take spiritual initiations in order to raise your vibration. His mission is much more comprehensive than that, and hence that is why he calls upon so many masters and angels in his meditations. I have had the most incredible, positive experiences from doing the ascension meditation as found in this book, and I assure you, whether you initially "feel" it or not, the work is being done simply by your intention. Over time you will see incredible changes in your life---just keep up the good work!
I recommend that anyone who has either read this book, or is thinking about it, to visit Dr. Stone's website www.iamuniversity.org to get a sense of excitement about what this work is all about!!! :-)
Could use a little more discernment........2002-12-20
Stone certainly achieved what he set out to do- he synthesized and distilled he contents of a small new age library into a single, easy to read book. However, he could have used a bit more critical thinking. His pages are populated by an extraordinarily varied "zoo" of spiritual entities and higher agencies, all of whom can perform miraculous feats for us if we just ask. The "ascension mediation" at the end of the book, for example, appeals to about 60 spiritual agencies in its opening.
Where does all this information come from? The answer, in most cases, is: channeled information. It seems like Stone worked every entity ever mentioned by some channel into his tapestry, and still, he makes no mention of what many people consider the most reliable material in this field- Jane Roberts' Seth works.
Using cranio-sacral testing, I have investigated just how much of Stone's material is accurate. The answer I received was: about 30%. That's in line with my experience with many of Stone's suggestions to ask particular agencies for help: they don't work. Or at least, they didn't work for me. Maybe I'm just too spiritually unevolved to this kind of stuff.
That's not to say that this book is bad. On the contrary, much of Stone's advice for spiritual growth (as contained in the "147 golden keys for ascension") seems solid. But the reader would be well advised to not take any particular piece of information at face value.
Excellent & Comprehensive Book on the Path of Ascension.......2002-10-12
This book is a must read for any spiritual seeker and those that are consciously on path of ascension or spiritual evolution! I imagine anyone who considers themselves spiritually minded and open-minded will benefit greatly from this book.
The Complete Ascension: How to achieve Ascension.......2002-10-06
For those of us on this path Dr. Stone's books resonate with our soul. I have been guided since I was a child of 9 and now in my late forties I am still learning about this process. I read Dr. Stone's book eight years ago and it put everything I knew already in my soul into perspective. He showed me the actual process. My spirit already knew so when I read it I knew he was on the up and up. In other words this book is not for everyone you have to be ready to achieve ascension in this lifetime because that is your mission...I have always know it was mine. Thank you Dr. Stone for your courage and dedication! May God Bless all those who know their mission and are willing to take the steps to achieve it!
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- The Whistling Season
- The Whole World Over: A Novel
- Their Fathers' God
- This Bitter Earth
- To Cut a Long Story Short
- Trespassing: A Novel
- Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
- Trumpet: A Novel
- Tuff: A Novel
- Understood Betsy
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