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Margot Livesey's Banishing Verona is the story of two people who enjoy an enchanted evening together, and then spend the next few weeks chasing each other across continents in order to decide if it's the real thing. Zeke Cafarelli is an endearingly timid, rather obsessive-compulsive housepainter who dismantles clocks, "laying out the springs and coils in careful sequence and putting them back together," in order to gain the courage to leave his house. Verona MacIntyre is a seven-months-pregnant radio talk show host who goes back and forth between wanting to rescue her wayward brother and simply wanting to rescue herself. The backdrop for this ethereal novel is London and Boston, and Livesey does a masterful job of creating characters out of the cities and places that house her protagonists.
Banishing Verona is a love story at its core; however, Zeke and Verona are seen together in only a few scenes. Instead, Livesey tells the story from each character's perspective, overlapping time and place yet creating entirely unique situations. Each event is described with such precision that even the most mundane tasks take on a sense of importance that feels almost palpable. ("Then he noticed the red light on the phone, blinking ... He raised the receiver and heard only the usual high-pitched note; he had no idea what to do next.")
While her attention to detail may seem a bit excessive at times, Livesey is undeniably adept at creating a vivid, colorful world whose only purpose is to exist as a backdrop for Zeke and Verona's search for self, and for each other. Even secondary characters, like Zeke's employee Emmanuel and Verona's brother Henry, are only there to accentuate the good (and the bad) in our hero and heroine. Still, the underlying message here is that no one ever really knows anyone else, or as Zeke says, "Only years later ... did he grasp that even at their most vivid ... his thoughts were invisible, not only to teachers and tyrants, but to everyone..." What keeps us reading this dreamy novel until the very last page is the hope that people exist who are willing to take a chance on what can never truly be a sure thing. --Gisele Toueg
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Zeke is twenty-nine and working as a carpenter and painter in London. Verona is thirty-seven, headstrong, and seven months pregnant. When the two meet in a house that Zeke is renovating, they fall in love, only to be separated less than 24 hours later when Verona mysteriously disappears. After much searching, Zeke discovers that Verona has travelled to Boston to help Henry, her brother, disentangle himself from some shady financial matters. As impulsively as he fell for Verona, Zeke decides to follow her to Boston. It is here that both lovers take on further and more desperate searches of their own, and Liveseys sophisticated novel evolves into the most surprising and suspenseful of modern love stories.
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(3.5) "Wanting things that pulled him in opposite directions was at the heart of his condition.".......2006-05-05
Asperger's Syndrome meets love-at-first-sight in this unusual novel of eccentric English characters. House painter Zeke struggles to contain his disability in the rigid parameters of a structured daily routine, managing quite well despite an overpowering mother and ill father. That is, until Verona shows up at the house he is painting with his usual careful attention to detail. Seven months pregnant, Verona claims to be the niece of the owners, suitcase in hand. Zeke experiences one of those rare moments of instant attraction, reciprocated by Verona, the two drawn into a relationship that both desperately need, an unexpected source of comfort. When Verona disappears, with only a note left behind, Zeke attempts to locate her, only to learn that she is an imposter, not the niece of the homeowners at all.
Fate intervenes on Zeke's behalf and he learns that Verona is the host of a radio show, but has taken a leave for personal reasons. Resigned to life without her, Zeke is shocked when she calls to request he meet her in America, where she has gone to resolve a family emergency regarding her brother, Henry. In spite of his limitations, Zeke makes the trans-Atlantic trip. Meanwhile, Verona is fighting her own demons, her errant brother on the run, in trouble with some shady characters in pursuit. Verona looks forward to Zeke's arrival as an island of emotional respite amidst the chaos, only to have their plans further complicated. Verona is a challenging character, thirty-seven to Zeke's twenty-nine, and pregnant, hopelessly entangled with a brother who proves his unreliability over and over in the course of their visit to America; her codependence with Henry is so entrenched as to be almost automatic.
Zeke and Verona have complicated family ties in common, both struggling to survive the demands of the expectations of others, not always with success, but Zeke's character remains the central focus of the novel. A mild form of autism, Asperger's leaves the young man incapable of duplicity, a man without facades, part of the charm that so attracts Verona and a refreshing change from the other characters; hopefully, the distraught Verona has the capacity to appreciate Zeke for his endearing qualities. While family pulls determinedly at each of them, Zeke and Verona struggle against the odds to capture the one constant in their lives: love. Luan Gaines /2006.
So Charming.......2006-03-08
I loved this book. It's beautifully written, easy to read, charming, sweet, and has some neat British slang in it as well. It's really a pleasant read. I love "Zeek" - the dysfunctional strange love-stricken painter who can't recognize faces, but who has no trouble visualizing Verona's. So romantic. I really like the way Margot Livesey "illustrates" the scenery with her words. I felt like this book really took me on a trip, but also felt like I could relate to the romantic plot: Two people so in love but who can't quite seem to make their lives come together. Whether they make it happen or not is something you will find out if you read it. :)
So very Livesey.......2005-09-15
Opening a Livesey novel is always an adventure -- she never takes a predictable direction. There is no such thing as a Livesey set of characters or circumstances; no one Livesey book prepares you for the next. She reminds of Anne Tyler in her ability to distill humanity into one reading experience. That said, this one is a star short of her very best, but still compelling and wise. Does it suffice to say that at least three times the combination of the writer's character development and language stopped this reader in his tracks? The equivalent of a concert show-stopper on the page.
Asperger's Syndrome.......2005-07-12
Everyone writes that Banishing Verona is a love story between an English painter and a pregnant woman. But it's really a novel about Asperper's Syndrome. Livesy mentions it in a note at the end of the book but it's really what the book is all about because the main character, Zeke, suffers from it and it comes into play throughout the book in the way Zeke talks and acts. His fear of flying on a plane and what he does when he's actually on one are symptomatic of his psychological illness, which is the driving point of the book. Of course the other character, Verona, is interesting, too. Or rather her grandfather, Jigger, is interesting, and his story is as important as hers. The love story between Zeke and Verona is really just a plot device to tell the story of Asperger's syndrome, which is a good story to tell because the syndrome was only recognized recently.
Has its good points........2005-06-15
I found this novel somewhat lacking: the plot is rather contrived, and the only well developed secondary character is Zeke's mother. Yet the novel most definitely has its redeeming features. Livesey writes well, so there are many nicely written scenes. Zeke, the main character, is wonderfully likable, and different. He suffers from Asperger syndrome (a mild form of autism), which requires him to be analytical about social skills that most master intuitively (such as interpreting expressions). Yet the Asperger does not define him, so one does not feel he is some kind of archetype. He is honest and caring, but also able to balance his needs against those of other people. "Banishing Verona" is a nice read, but if you have not read Livesey before, my recommendation would be to start with "The Missing World".
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No Place For A LadyA dark family secret and a dangerous destiny hold Ann McCastle to the unforgiving western frontier. A beautiful and tempestuous saloon keeper, she has dreams of vengeance to keep her strong -- until Ian McShane ride into town. An enigmatic half-Sioux ex-cavalryman, he brazenly claims her as his bride -- igniing Ann's anger, her desire . . . and a firestorm of passion and peril that threatens to consume them both.
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A super Western!!.......2002-04-05
I am not a big fan of Westerns, preferring my settings to remain in the British Isles, but this one was one really super read.
I mean, with a lead character named Ian McShane (???LOL) how can you go wrong???
Ann is out to find revenge for death of her parents and willing to go to any length to achieve this goal. And that includes marriage to a half-Sioux, former cavalryman, McShane. They both, as children, survived the same Indian attack, though are unaware of this and now find themselves in a marriage of convenience that is not so convenient!!
Graham/Drake give you strong, well developed characters that will stay with you long after you finish the book and put it down.
Lots of chemistry........2000-04-28
Ian and Ann are survivors of an attack when they were young, but they don't know it. Throw in some sexual tension, engaging secondary characters and a villian who wants Ann and her saloon, and you've got one heck of a western. I like Ian and the way Ann tries to "manage" him. Read and find out how.
Well Done!.......1999-12-31
It has a great feel of the Old West, romance, intrigue, and poignant scenes with a shocking secret that involves the two main characters. It's worth the read!
If you like Shannon Drake then you'll love this book !.......1998-11-10
Shannon Drake was one of the very first romance authors that I have read. I am 16 years old and am beginng my own collection of books and you can be sure that I have Shanon Drake among them. This story was very well written and I read it on during a vacation I had. It is a very good thing that I didn't have school because I don't think anything would have gotten done before I finished it. It has a great plot and it keeps you on the edge all of the time. I love Ann's character and how strong she is despite all that has happened to her. The characters are wonderful, as well as the mix of characters from background to attitude. I definately recommend this book to anyone who has not read it.
A GREAT BOOK! I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN!!.......1997-12-04
I never read a romance novel before, always thinking that they had no point, but from the moment that I picked this book up at the airport I've been hooked ever since. It was a good thing that the plane ride was a relatively long one, because I'm sure that if we landed I couldn't have put the book down long enough to get my baggage. The plot was enticing, the characters charming, and the surprises around every corner kept me on the edge of my seat. I loved the way that Ann could shoot and ride with the best of them, and the chemistry and passion between Ian and Ann was wonderful. I definately recommend reading this book. You won't want to put it down!
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Branded Heart
Brenda Bailey
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Jennifer Foster is a very beautiful young woman with a family history that she knows nothing of until the death of her father, of whom she does not know the identity. She finds that out suddenly, along with the fact that she has some very unhappy relatives that have been left penniless, and at her mercy. Jennifer has greedy living relatives that would stop at nothing, maybe even murder, to have her out of their lives and out of the family name. She was left a fortune in money and property. She is the richest woman in the world. She is cold to the eye of everyone around her. A beautiful model with a face that anyone would kill for. She has the body of an exquisite sea-maiden. Yet she alone has to go to a deserted island and become the Mistress of the Janhu estate and fortune, with a family that is out for blood. She alone does not know the conquest she will have to make. Falling in love with Niko, a handsome man of whom she will never know if he wants her for her money or for love, or for sexual desires he cannot control when he comes near her. Their desires are like flames ignited by a never-ending fuel..
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An Unjust Inheritance?.......2001-09-03
Imagine an island paradise off in the Caribbean and a man named William Janhu worth hundreds of billions of dollars. He suddenly dies and there's an incredible inheritance up for grabs. Who inherits? His illegitimate daughter, Jennifer. She gets EVERYTHING. No one else gets a cent. Jennifer is a drop dead gorgeous super-model and they all envy her. Not only is she beautiful, but she's now extremely rich. She can hardly believe it. She grew up among orphans. Now she's a billionairess. William's stepchildren, Bob and Cassandra, are especially outraged. THEY want the inheritance. Sara, who had been William's executive secretary, wants to completely take over the huge and prestigious Janhu Organization. But even THAT is handed over to Jennifer thru the will; she of course knows nothing about running such an organization. This angers Sara to no end.
Then there's Marjorie, William's former girlfriend, who gave him 20 years of her life, only to be completely forgotten in his will as well.
Jennifer falls for Niko, a sexually appealing Spanish playboy, who shatters the prude in her and draws out her sensual side. Then a shocking revelation--Jennifer isn't William's biological daughter! William was sterile; she was really his sister, Frances's, baby. But that doesn't change the fact that Jenny is still the sole legal benefitiary of the will, and the others can cry all they want. A heartwarming meeting between Frances and Jenny (mother and daughter) comcludes this captivating story, as Jenny goes to meet up with the man who genuinely loves her for herself and not her money, Niko.
If you want an easy, strongly plotted, and compelling read about a big inheritance, give this book a try.
Wonderful Read.......2001-08-22
Wonderful book, rate it up there among the great writers such as Steel, Roberts, Delinsky, and Michaels.Great storytelling and Jennifer Foster, is a character all women have dreamed of. The Janhu's were at their best in this story of wealth and power. A must read and highly recommended. Brenda Bailey, talented author, giving art and creativity of life to the pages of this book, Branded Heart. Outstanding!!
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Branded Hearts (Harlequin Historical, No. 482)
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Great!.......2000-02-21
Branded hearts was an excellent book and I think you should go out and buy it or rent it at your local library.
Boring and not well written.......1999-12-06
I did not like this book at all. It was really boring and not that imaginative. The typical over bearing fater and the headstrong young girl who defies her father to find her brother......Don't waste your time or money.
This is very well written.......1999-10-22
The prologue made think, hmmmm, is this going to be corny (by just a few paragraphs). Then the first chapter got me hooked. It is very well written with great depth to the characters.I really liked the small twists of surprises. Kit was a woman that was very interesting and believable for a historical romance. Meaning she had spunk but was not an irritating heroine which many romance writers do regularily and a reader is sure that the heroine has 20th century tendancies.
The support characters were very good. Cade was a good "little brother" learning the ropes of life. The reader felt the pain that Hawk was experiencing. I liked how he treated his sister. They had a great relationship.
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Branded Hearts
Diana Hall
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Set in 2040, the Mars Diaries feature 14-year-old Tyce Sanders, the only child ever born on Mars. He lives under a dome on the red planet with 200 scientists and techies, including his mother, Kristy Sanders, a biologist and a believer. Tyce is confined to a wheelchair, but virtual reality and robotics allow him to experience life beyond his physical boundaries. Kids ages 10-14 will love the cool, high-tech gadgets, space travel, and great plot twists in this exciting series.
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My Cool Reveiw.......2002-09-05
I Tink that Mars Diaries:Missoin 7 Countdown is a very good book.It was one of the best books in the series.This book was intriging.I want people to know that the Mars Diaries series were some of the books that got me interested in reading.This book was compeling a very ,once agian intreging book.This Sci-Fi
book is completely clean.A bit of mystery is in this book,as well as the other books.In conclusion I think this book is worth your while.
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Australian aboriginal people have lived in harmony with the earth for perhaps as long as 100,000 years; in their words, since the First Day. In this absorbing work, Lawlor explores the essence of their culture as a source of and guide to transforming our own world view. While not romanticizing the past or suggesting a return to the life of the hunter/gatherer, Voices of the First Day enables us to enter into the mentality of the oldest continuous culture on earth and gain insight into our own relationship with the earth and to each other.
This book offers an opportunity to suspend our values, prejudices, and Eurocentrism and step into the Dreaming to discover:
• A people who rejected agriculture, architecture, writing, clothing, and the subjugation of animals
• A lifestyle of hunting and gathering that provided abundant food of unsurpassed nutritional value
• Initiatic and ritual practices that hold the origins of all esoteric, yogic, magical, and shamanistic traditions
• A sexual and emotional life that afforded diversity and fluidity as well as marital and social stability
• A people who valued kinship, community, and the law of the Dreamtime as their greatest "possessions."
• Language whose richness of structure and vocabulary reveals new worlds of perception and comprehension.
• A people balanced between the Dreaming and the perceivable world, in harmony with all species and living each day as the First Day.
Voices of the First Day is illustrated throughout with more than 100 extraordinary photographs, bark paintings, line drawings and engravings. Many of these photographs are among the earliest ever made of the Aboriginal people and are shown here for the first time.
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Voices of Bulldust.......2007-10-08
One of Australia's greatest anthropologists, William Stanner, urged people who are inspired by indigenous cultures to "...avoid banal projection and subjectivism. ("White Man Got No Dreaming", 1979). Lawlor does both and more. He is an armchair anthropologist who has never lived among indigenous Australians and spins a tale that has little bearing on the real world of indigenous culture. "Bulldust" is the Australian epithet for such radical departures from the truth. If you want to really grapple with indigenous Australian spirituality there are better texts by scholars who have actually lived with aborigines. Amazon readers should try Zohl De Istar's "Holding Yawalwu" as a case in point. It provides an account of her subject that combines insights into the "law" (spirituality) with the mostly rugged and raw day-to-day lives of indigenous Australians.
flawed, but informative.......2006-08-08
I'm in debate as to the true value of this book. On one hand, it discusses in a some depth the culture and issues of the Australian Aboriginal people. It's quite well researched and informative.
On the other hand, mixed throughout is a lot of distracting pseudoscience and adhesion to some minority theories of first peoples. The author also clearly doesn't understand human evolution - or choses not to. He writes very intelligently until he delves into some of these arenas. This really spoiles the book and will surely confuse a less knowledgable reader.
Additionally, the author preaches a bit much against modern civilization. These points have merit, of course, but he dwells far too long on them and becomes a bit preachy. Again, he makes good points and a solid arguement for the failings of modern civilization that are, for the most part, well respected stances/criticisms, but... this book really isn't the place for that pulpit IMHO. Make the point, but in less of a preachy way, and then move on. That would be my editorial advice to the author.
Once you pull out the pseudo-science, flawed evolutionary descriptions/criticisms, and preachiness, you are left with a book that should be 1/2 (or maybe even 1/3rd) the length - but filled with extremely valuable material that treats the Aboriginal culture(s) with great respect and understanding.
So, in summary: this book has tons of great incite and valuable information, but if you are not well versed on evolutionary biology, economics, anthropology and physics, I would steer clear. You need that background/education to pull the good from the bad information contained within. Which is unfortunate since the good information is very good.
I recommend a different book.
Twaddle!.......2005-10-28
Early on (p.137 is a good example) Lawlor clearly unveils his "extreme Green" biases. Obviously, he'd like several BILLION human beings to just evaporate (and take their cultural artifacts with them, thank you very much) so that his "dream of regeneration" could come to pass ... with Humanity reverting to "spiritually connected" neo-stone-age hunter-gatherer bands. It's hard to take an anthropological essay seriously if the author repeatedly throws Luddite tantrums, which are a notable "feature" of this book!
At Least it Gets You in the Door.......2004-07-08
Mr. Lawlor did a lot of research in preparing his book. He manages to extract a lot of anthropological data and present it in an interesting, readable fashion, particularly in the second section of his book on Aboriginal folkways. Perhaps the data is out of date, as some other reviewers have indicated; I really can't say, but the parts of the book dealing with this at least seem reasonable.
Unfortunately, once Mr. Lawlor departs from the straight and narrow you'll find yourself in a world of truly bizarre speculations on the nature of dreamtime, Aboriginal sensitivity to the magnetic field of the earth, the continent of Mu and all other sorts of lunatic New Age stuff, all of which pull the rug out on whatever parts of this book are arguably informative.
At best, one can say that books like this serve some purpose in that they inspire a new generation to go into anthropological research, rather like the old "Flash Gordon" serial no doubt inspired some people to go into nuclear physics. For this reason I'll give the book two stars. It could've been worse, as readers of "Mutant Message" would know.
Voices still haunting me..........2004-01-01
This is the single finest book, leading to a slew of other great books (biblio) one could ask for regarding humanity on this earth. I was surprised to read the negative reviews above, but thats typical of the Humanist dogma we've all been steeped in for so long - people don't even have the patience or capacity to try and understand anything beyond their McMac and what FOX tells them: 10,000 Years of Progess and Civilization Good; naked humans living on earth for 2 Million years Bad. (and by the way...Mutant Message was formed almost entirely after Lawlor's work, not the other way around, not to mention that M.M. did not ring true to me). Lawlor takes the modern ego to the hoop and 360 dunks it.
A prime reason you know this work is great (not perfect) is that Lawlor essentially destroys the idealism he wrote naively of in his grossly idealised "Sacred Geometry" - Though containing truths about Egypt, it's as soaked in the fallacy that Egypt was little more than sacred, peaceful people living fully with nature, floating from temple to temple in robes with all the knowledge of the universe - as if the Egyptians did not cut all the timber, drain all the wetlands, overgraze all the grasslands, put 1000's of plants and animals into extinction, mine out all the precious minerals, enslave all known peoples, and blast a desert out of what was once a lush subtropical region. He dumps much of this with "Voices" in finding the earth and its peoples who never - and still don't - do such nonsense.
Not a single day has passed since 1991 when I read this book, that I've not been influenced by the ideas of this book - it has completely altered the course of my and my wife's life in a way that has allowed us both greater capacity to live in an with nature (and she's a skeptical anthropologist / socialist type - now incorporatse Lawlors work in her classes). My botanical / wildlife background was great and fulfilling, but this book helped me blow the conceptual lid off of my relationship with the natural world,as well as liberate most of the conceptual fallacies about teh greatness of modern life I'd been suckled on (which you'd likely be suspect of to even finish this book.)
He makes clear that people who live in nature are truly the masters in it and not a bunch of 'savages'. He does seem to idealize the aborigines a bit much though, but still makes clear that the concepts he presents about would equally apply to others around the world.
And to all you hard hearted skeptics out there, consider how soft we all are in this wimpy modern world where we continue to yank the rug out from under ourselves daily, replacing with an All New, Improved, Better Than Ever Wonder-Rug - Guaranteed to be better than the last!!! Lawlor challenges us on the fact that as individuals, none of us are capable of designing, creating, and maintaining any of the technologies that surround and sustain us (not to mention, be able to do anything from the past)- were we to do so, I'd bow down and swear that we were actually advanced peoples. The H/G's individually can provide all their food, water, shelter, and needs period - without need for such silly, globally complex and life destroying actions we don't even seem to know or care about that result from our way of life. I think he shows well that they are the masters of this earth, internally and externally. We're mostly just adolescents.
Lawlor blows us to bits with the fact that not 99% but 100% of human existence includes hunter / gatherers - they were here 2M, 1M, 500K, 100K, 50K, 10K years ago, 100 years ago and nearly extinct as you read this - BUT STILL HERE. Our pathetic, cancerous mess has been around in the form of agriculture of various forms for less than 10K years - and its impacts are clear. Certainly, a people who can live in Nature are stronger, smarter, and more stable than the plastic people we've become. To most people in this society - that something or someone has not changed means it has not progressed; of course, their culture is always changing, its just that we don't understand any of it to observe the changes. But the fact that they're still living much as their ancestors did even 50K years ago is evidence of a solid, stable way of life rather than the 30 second commercial zip/zap changing we come to expect and label as progress.
Lawlor has given me faith that the past 10K years will peak and be done and those humans - the meek that will inherit the earth (and I ain't one of them) - are the hunter / gatherers and that they will resume after this lame party of civility is over.
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Australian Studies, published by University of Queensland Press on September 1, 2000. The length of the article is 6156 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: Robert Lawlor Tells a `White' Lie.
Author: Mitchell Rolls
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Journal of Australian Studies (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2000
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Page: 211
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Boring.......2006-09-14
I do believe I must stifle a huge yawn before continuing. One moment, please ...
There are any number of reviews appearing in any number of magazines about any number of books. One has to wonder why Amazon chose to sell this particular one. Amazon has a responsibility to its customers, I think, to avoid such blatant displays of doing anything to make a buck. 6 bucks in this case.
This is no more than an incredibly boring article, one which should be selling for 0.99, if that. The author goes on and on, making his case to what will continue to be, undoubtedly, a non-existent audience.
If you wish to determine the relevance of Robert Lawlor's book, buy that instead. Or, take a trip to your public library. I was able to find Lawlor's book in mine.
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