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EFICTIONS is a unique anthology that provides a creative solution for the Introductory Fiction or Introductory Literature course. Instructors can adopt the core text--an engaging collection of the best-loved and most-taught short stories in English--or, they can use the EFICTIONS Web Site to build a customized anthology of traditional and innovative stories that matches their teaching style and literary interests. The core text contains: an introduction that covers the reading, writing, and research process; "Paired Stories," a short anthology of 10 stories that enables students to compare how two authors develop one of the major fictional elements; "A Collection of Stories," a longer anthology of 59 stories arranged alphabetically, but accompanied by a thematic table of contents; and a glossary of critical terms. The Web site contains all 70 stories from the core text, as well as 130 additional stories--traditional favorites, new voices, and international stories written in or translated into English--that give instructors unprecedented flexibility in designing an anthology for their course. All customized versions of EFICTIONS automatically contain the Introduction and "Paired Stories" sections from the core text. In addition, instructors have the option of including their own course materials in their customized anthology. For additional information, visit www.textchoice.com, or contact your sales representative. (Customized anthologies require a minimum order of 25 books.)
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Efictions
Manufacturer: Heile & Heinle Publishers
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eFictions
Manufacturer: Heinle & Heinle Publishing
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ASIN: 0838473989 |
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Paperback book in excellent condition. Looks like new. No writing, highlights, inside. Binding is tight and cover is clean as new.
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no writting, no highlighting condition good. 2 business days to ship out
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A good start..............2006-08-08
I prefer the books penned under her pseudonym Gaston (or is it vice versa) In any regards if this is a first novel then I am willing to say that that this is a great effort, for I've read far worse from seasoned authors.
Other reviewers have already related the plot so I will forgo the rundown of it.
I'm happy I started with her more recent novels (The mysterious Miss M, A reputable Rake and The wagering Widow) all of which were EXCELLENTLY written and showed exciting promise of what to expect from this great author.
The storyline in this case was great, the plot realistic, but it fell flat along the way.
Again this was a new novel from her earlier work and I'm too aware of that fact to give this novel lower than three stars. It is an awesome effort, and Ms Gaston/Perkins is one of those authors I'm guaranteed to get my money's worth out of.
I'm therefore looking forward to reading more of her work.
An unexpected way to start, to say the least........2006-05-03
I simply love the characters. They have depth and all the complexities that make people interesting, and not just the main characters but the secondary characters as well. They all seem so real, and I want to know more about them. The children captured my heart! And there are scenes that are simply priceless throughout. The story was rich with details, like the still room, where flowers are dried, and the nitty gritty of running an estate. I'm looking forward to more books from Diane Perkins/Diane Gaston.
A Strong Debut Effort!.......2005-12-09
Ms. Perkins' debut effort is a strong start to her writing career. She has taken and created some very likeable characters the readers will truly care about and more importantly want to read.
Maggie Delaney knocks on the door of Captain John Grayson only moments before she delivers their son. She is quite shocked when she realizes the man who has just helped her deliver her baby is not the father of the child but rather someone else calling himself Grayson. Sooner rather than later she realizes the man she thought she married is not the one who's helped her and she now finds herself in a very tenuous position. What is she going to do?
John Grayson is back from the war trying his best to drink his memories away. So when a very pregnant woman shows up on his doorstep, he's unsure what he should do. It doesn't take long for his long buried honor surfaces long enough to help the lady. When he hears her story he's not prepared to step in but he does get his cousin to help her out. John plans on returning to his regiment and can now do so without any guilty. So when he returns years later, and finds Maggie his "wife" happily installed at Summerton. His first instinct is to move her on so he can resume his life...he's not counting on forming any attachments to her but you just can't choose where the heart is going to settle. Will these two people find a happy ending or will the past finally get in the way?
John and Maggie are very engaging characters. Some may find fault with Maggie but if they continue with the read they will eventually come to understand her motivation. This was a strong debut effort and Ms. Perkins' is a voice we should keep on our radar screens.
Superior debut novel.......2005-04-20
I agree with the blot on Maggie's character, that she never really tried to "do the right thing" by letting Gray off the hook and admitting her own mistakes. But otherwise, she's a decent heroine, and Gray's a good hero. They play well off each other, and their interactions with secondary characters reveal a lot about these two.
While this is not the best romance I've read, it has some very good qualities and is exceptional for a first novel. The true identity of Maggie's "husband" is obvious early on, but how it's all revealed to the characters is deliciously done. Richly emotional, although I wish the stuff with Gray's father had been resolved somehow. Still, a worthy read, and I'll be looking for more of her books.
AWESOME ! Emotionally Sensitive and Stunningly Romantic.......2005-02-16
Setting - London, 1816 --- Very pregnant, alone, and nearly penniless Maggie Delaney was at the end of her rope when she discovered that she had not killed the husband she'd accidentally pushed into the river. From a newspaper she learned that her husband Captain John Grayson was alive and living in London. Maggie discovered his direction, marched up to the door and asked the handsome but scruffy looking man who answered the door if these were the rooms of Captain John Grayson, who answered in the affirmative. Then she asked when he would be returning. John Grayson insisted he was the man in question and that these were HIS rooms. Maggie, quickly realizing how she'd been duped was overcome with both shock and contractions and before you knew it, John was assisting her in the delivery of her child in that very room!
When Maggie realized she'd no idea who the man was she'd given herself to in marriage and impregnated her, one would imagine her breaking down - but only a mother would recognize the strength of purpose and love that was born the moment she embraced the miracle that was her son. John was in awe of that bond and the pure essence of the love she showered onto her babe. While John didn't want to be involved and anxious to get back to his regiment, he was not immune to her needs and arranged for his cousins to come and take her to their home. Leaving funds with his cousin for her care and feeling he had done more than was his duty, John happily left only to return two years later to discover that his `helpful' cousins had installed his `wife' in his boyhood home of Summerton. In those two years, Maggie had ingratiated herself in the good graces of his family. Gray's first instinct was to get rid of the baggage but the more time spent with her, the more he was convinced that this very `improper' wife of his should be a real wife in truth!
*** Diane Perkins has created a beautifully written, emotionally sensitive and totally awesome romantic read devising a most original and cleverly plotted second chance at love. Maggie was a very strong heroine and while some would reason that she was manipulative, others can totally empathize that she was motivated solely with, and for the sake of love for Sean, her young son. While John suspected her motives as calculating and manipulative he soon realized that she had brought joy and love back to a home that had been sorely lacking for years. The story gently evolves into a sensual dance that the readers will find themselves fully basking in its rhythm and grace. The addition of an endearing cast of secondary characters, particularly the child Sean and his cousin Rodney, only make this dance more memorable with gentle humor and a gracious warmth.
---- Marilyn, for www.romancedesigns.com ---
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An Improper Proposal: Reluctant Wife
Tiffany Bond
Manufacturer: Scarlet Books
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"Excellent".......1999-08-23
"Must Read" I could not put this one down before I finished...no dinner for my family!
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The Improper Wife
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The Marriage Bargain
Manufacturer: Warner Books
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ASIN: 0739459473 |
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The WifeI, Emma Chambers, have only myself to blame. To avoid an unwanted marriage, I agreed tobe wed in name only to Spenser Keenan, a dashing, devilishy handsome soldier. Buthe fled to war and adventure, leaving me to care for his crumbling estate. Now my so-called husband is home. and however attentive his behavior, I will not be fooled twice. The HusbandI, Spenser Keenan, cannot believe it. The timid girl I married is now a beautiful, captivating woman who has kept her part of our marriage bargain through the most trying circumstances. Worse, she believes I ignored her pleas for help. But I intended to set things right, not only because it is my duty, but because Emma's fiery spirit is seducing me in ways I never thought possible. More than anything, I long to take her to my bed tonight--and make her mine forever.
Book Description
In the year 2000, two Maceyville, Alabama police officers respond to a 911 and discover a rift in time.
In pursuit of an arsonist, Kathleen "Kat" Templeton, the department's first black officer, and her partner Sergeant James "Mitch" Mitchell, find themselves in 1963 Maceyville.
For Kat, this is an opportunity to save an aunt that died in 1963. However, she is unprepared for the segregated, racist time period. No longer in uniform, armed or carrying police identification, she quickly discovers the reality of her new world.
Her white Yankee partner, Mitch, soon learns "the way it is." As he and Kat are drawn deeper into the violent 1960s, he must work through his emotions regarding black-white friendships and loyalty.
In their quest to alter past events, they are faced with new threats to family and friends--as well as their own lives.
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Beyond This Time .......2007-05-25
I felt the story was an interesting concept in the education of racism in the deep South during the early 60's,but as far as time travel novels go ,this has to be the rated low on my scale .
Do you like time-travel stories?.......2007-05-23
Normally I love time-travel stories, but this one just does not hold my interest. The text is not as well-written as it might be, and the storyline is not very believable.
I love Time Travel Books!.......2006-02-24
I love Time Travel books and so I was intrigued when I saw this one available. When I first started reading it, I thought it might be kind of hokey, but as I continued, I got so into it, I could not put it down. It was great. The relationship between the two lead characters is so honest, so believeable, I really felt as if I knew them myself.
My other favorite Time Travel books are Replay, The Mirror, Time Traveler's Wife and 2150 AD, though some of these are not considered Time Travel books, they are real grabbers!
The Best "Time Travel Book" I Ever Read.......2005-06-06
I have read alot of Time Travel books and this the BEST one I've every read! You can read the snyopsis of the book elsewhere, I won't bore you with repeating it. It's almost like Time Travel is an "aside" to the wonderful plot Banchi builds and the fabulous characters she creates. Banchi covers two different time periods and controversial racial subject matter, with style and great care. Banchi's people are memorable and so very human. I had tears in my eyes when I finished the book.
Get this and read it as soon as you can.
MOSTLYFICTION.COM REVIEW.......2005-05-21
Dear Ms. Banchi...
I reviewed your book, Beyond This Time, for Mostly Fiction. Thank you so much for sending it to me! This, like your last book, was fabulous! I hope you have a wonderful holiday season...
Cindy
Beyond This Time
Charlotte A. Banchi
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"It took several seconds for Kat to process the visual input. Her car was softening, almost melting into the early morning gloom. Suddenly, an unseen hand drew the miasma drapery across the deserted street. And the car was gone."
Kathleen Templeton and her partner James Mitchell have been through a lot together. Even in the year 2000, Maceyville Alabama still has a slight bit of bigotry, and an African American female has to go a long distance to prove herself before she can find acceptance, but that she has. Well, until she and her partner keep getting called away to different crime scenes, only to find that the crime...a fire, fighting...never occurred. In one case, the house at the address no longer existed. What's worse is that things turn kind of surreal at these scenes...time acts funny. While doing some desk work as punishment, Kat notices a correlation to these seeming prank calls and a list of actual incidents that happened in 1963. Her own Aunt, Lettie Ruth, disappeared mysteriously that same year, and she realizes after an experiment that she can actually go back into time and save her Aunt. She prepares herself and goes, leaving Mitch, frustrated because he's sure this can't end well, behind. It won't be long before he follows her.
One of the most tense parts of this book is the fact that this young woman, who, despite her convictions that she'll be able to handle herself fine, can't be fully prepared for the full reality of this situation. She gets a reality check of the worst kind only moments into her adventure, and how she has to deal with it...more vulnerable than ever...is one of the strongest parts of the book. Mitch also has a reality check...he was raised in the north, so he's less than prepared to act like a white guy from this time period. The first thing he does is walk into a colored only bar and sit down, much to the discomfort of his patrons. We knew going into the book that we'd have to face the evils of racism right along with our heroine, but it never occurred to me that Mitch would have to face different kinds of racism, as well as the fact that he, just by being this big, red headed white guy, has the ability to make people extremely uncomfortable. How horrible would that be, to have the ability to take people from happy and comfortable in their surroundings to miserable, maybe even terrified, in a second? Also, he finds racism against himself in an unlikely place, racism that he has to fight against if he's going to save Kat and help her in her plans.
The main bad guys are absolutely disgusting. They are the worst, vilest creatures ever born, and it makes it extra worrisome, because they are all powerful, just because they are white. It makes it extra horrible when you discover one of them is none other than Mitch's own father...and the revelations he discovers will force him to make a heartbreaking decision.
Just like Banchi's last book, The Whole Enchilada, this book has a lot to offer. It is a very well done, different story, and a particularly brave one. Racism is never a comfortable topic, and especially hard to live with as a focus of a book, but Banchi handles it all with confidence as well as style, creating an exciting page turner with a strong spirit.
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Beyond This Darkness
Linn Creighton
Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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This digital document is an article from Transport Technology Today, published by Maple Communications on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 718 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: Beyond (just-in-) time: In this industry, when the economy is down, competition heats up and the fleet that "delivers"--succeeds. (Editorial).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Author: Carol Birkland
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Transport Technology Today (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: Maple Communications
Page: 5(1)
Article Type: Brief Article, Statistical Data Included
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This digital document is an article from Automotive Design & Production, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1007 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: Ford: the way beyond 2000; Ford is changing--again. But this time, things are different.(FEATURE)
Author: Gary S. Vasilash
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Automotive Design & Production (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 119
Issue: 3
Page: 58(2)
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This digital document is an article from Techniques, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1857 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: Move beyond "seat time" and narrowly defined knowledge and skills: part of a yearlong series, this article more closely examines the last recommendation made in ACTE's high school reform position statement and highlights best practices for implementing this recommendation.(Association of Corporate Travel Executives)
Author: Jason Kiker
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Techniques (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 82
Issue: 5
Page: 38(3)
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"Everyone dies, but no one is dead," goes the Tibetan saying. It is with these words that Advice on Dying takes flight. Using a seventeenth-century poem written by a prominent scholar-practitioner, His Holiness the Dalai Lama draws from a wide range of traditions and beliefs to explore the stages we all go through when we die, which are the very same stages we experience in life when we go to sleep, faint, or reach orgasm (Shakespeare's "little death").
The stages are described so vividly that we can imagine the process of traveling deeper into the mind, on the ultimate journey of transformation. In this way, His Holiness shows us how to prepare for that time and, in doing so, how to enrich our time on earth, die without fear or upset, and influence the stage between this life and the next so that we may gain the best possible incarnation. As always, the ultimate goal is to advance along the path to enlightenment. Advice on Dying is an essential tool for attaining that eternal bliss.
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Amazing Technical Manual on Physical and Spiritual Reality of Death and Living a Better Life.......2007-02-10
Did you know that Tibetan Buddhism is tantric? That is just one of the revelations of this book. It is obvious that, through the ages, the meditation masters have been observing the physical symptons of death and dying. This book explains the physical symptoms one experiences at each stage of the process of dying, described in a thick context of a metaphor of energies and levels of mind. (If you are a spiritual mystic, you'll love this! I must admit, I have had to read it a couple of times to get my Western mind to surrender -- but the journey is worth the concentration.) When I get to my death bead, instead of allowing the people around me to mourn, I have written instructions for my family to have someone read this book to me (over and over if I last that long) -- whether I'm apparently conscious or not (and I will invite the others to read Hesse's Siddhartha and go home and forgive someone they hate). Along with physical symptons of dying, this book details the journey of the mind and consciousness as the traveler experiences the only event we are all born to experience. Many thanks to the Dalai Lama and his teachers.
Fizzles out.......2005-04-10
This book can be divided up into smaller parts. The first part is a forward by Jeffrey Hopkins which discusses in part the Panchen Lama and also the Dalai Lama. He talks about the identification of these figures and how the Chinese who supposedly have "liberated" Tibet have started their own identification processes. Hopkins is very critical of Chinese politics and their involvement in Tibet. The second part of the book deals with a 17 stanza poem written by the first Panchen Lama of Tibet. The present Dalai Lama goes on to break down this poem and comment on certain aspects of it.
I enjoyed the first half of this book because of its historical and practical information. The Dalai Lama gives practical advice on how we all need to practice daily and how it's best to have an awareness of death. When we are aware of reality we can conquer any fears we may have about life or the death process. He elaborates on the advantages and the disadvantages of being mindful during the time of death. However, the latter part of the book in my opinion got bogged down in mysticism and myth and was a lot less interesting. It seemed as if I was reading about blind ritual with no practical advice but instead endless comments about esoteric subjects. I found my eyes glossing over more than once. Therefore, the book was okay for some simple wisdom and inspirational advice but it's a chore to keep yourself motivated all the way thru.
A Book About Life.......2005-03-30
After having received this book along with another book by The Dalai Lama, How to Practice:The Way to a Meaningful Life, I read the other one first since based on the titles alone I thought that it would have more application to little ol secular me than a very narrow book about death. After having read both of them though I am shocked to see that I was wrong - despite what I had initially though I got more out of this book as a non-Buddhist that I got out of the first one.
While I have long been familiar with the idea that the specter of death can give one their driving force in life - when tomorrow isn't promised to you today is all that you have - I have never heard it more eloquently expressed than here.
Certainly there were parts of this book that I did not find applicable except from an academic standpoint since I myself am not Buddhist but on the whole I was surprised by just how much of this book could be seen as important for the Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike. And as with the earlier book I had read by him one of the main treats of this one was to get to experience what a remarkable man The Dalai Lama comes across as through his writings - not only as a sincerely religious man but also a truly modern man embracing science as another way to probe the divine rather than shunning it.
The only thing that really stands out in my mind as something that I didn't like in this book was the translator, Jeffrey Hopkins. I don't remember his forward in the previous book I read as being notable but his one in this book seems to serve no other purpose than to express his deep contempt for the Chinese government - naturally there is a reason for this but it can't help but put a bad taste in your mouth when you read something like that before starting a book about Buddhism. The forward did contain interesting information about how the Panchen Lama and Dalai Lama are selected but I still think the reading experience would be better off without it.
All in all though I must say that The Dalai Lama, as an author and as a person, has greatly exceeded any initial expectations that I came to his books with. No doubt his other works would prove as enjoyable and I am sure I will make my way to them before too long.
Much concentrated wisdom here.......2003-07-07
The Buddhist preoccupation with death almost borders on the morbid. In fact the awareness of your impermanence and the inevitability of your own death is the cornerstone of the whole religion. There is almost no concept of an omipotent, omnipresent God and the focus is really on attaining an ever present, compassionate and wisdom filled state of mind. This is what draws me to Buddhism.
This book by Jeffrey Hopkins is a translation of the Dalai Lama's interpretation of a poem by the first Panchen Lama. The poem is quite cryptic by itself but the Dalai Lama's interpretation and Hopkins's skillful translation draw out the many gems of knowledge embedded in its seventeen stanzas. Iam convinced after reading this book that the Tibetans knew more about death and rebirth than anyone else.
In an age of self help books to fix every problem of your life in isolation, this book addresses the fundamental source of all our anxieties, fears and unhappiness. The Dalai Lama states boldly and simply that the only good way to live life to its fullest is to meditate on our own impermanence and impending mortality until we can accept it fully and be prepared to utilize our deaths to propel us and other sentient beings in the path of enlightenment.
We have no way of verifying the correctness of the descriptions of the several stages of death, the intermediate state and rebirth but this book is filled with so much compassion and wisdom that all that is said there can only be true.
Practical.......2002-12-23
His Holiness, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama has done it again! He has given us a statement of simple spirituality, efficacious for both the practicing Buddhist and the non-Buddhist, alike. Although many of his concepts may seem mysterious, or even ineffable, to the non-Buddhist, his basic advice is sound. His Holiness calls upon all of us to meditate upon our inevitable deaths, and thereby to more fully appreciate this life, and facilitate our passage into the next. That's good counsel no matter what your religion!
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