The Cowgirl Companion: Big Skies, Buckaroos, Honky Tonks, Lonesome Blues, and Other Glories of the True West

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Yahoo for the Cowgirl in all of us!.......2002-07-07

From the cover: "The irrepressible spirit of the cowgirl is alive & kicking-around the country & in this celebration of women of the Wild West. Introduced by . . . Dale Evans, [book] is an extravagantly entertaining compilation of pictures & prose. The narrative includes tributes, profiles, & anecdotes of frontier females in the Old West & the New West and showcases everything from fashion, food, and fame to music, matchmaking, & much more - cowgirl style." [Pardon the editing.] The book is informative & a hoot!

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The big lonesome
Will Bryant
Manufacturer: DoubleDay
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006BZD78

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Excellent Story Collection
Damn, this is good!
witty and wild literary fiction
A fine, original, and uniquely American collection
Second Best

Big Lonesome
Jim Ruland
Manufacturer: Gorsky Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0975396439

Book Description

Wildly imaginative tales of America's past and present. Understanding that history is nothing but a fable purged of grit and grime, Ruland transforms historical fiction into something slick, brutal and weird. Whether he's spinning a lurid yarn about the previous adventures of Popeye, imagining Dick Tracy as a San Fernando Valley police detective, or retelling the story of Little Red Riding Hood in Nazi Germany, Ruland's tales are full of crime and punishment. He isn't afraid to set a teenage mob story in St. Petersburg, Florida, or tell the story of an unlucky pair of pants in the style of a catechism--and every line resonates with the truth of lessons learned the hard way.

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Excellent Story Collection.......2007-06-18

This is a wonderful collection, full of barreling energy and vitality. A brave and precise writer, Ruland explores violence without flinching, and even locates the genuine humor sometimes latent in it. A range of styles keeps this collection fresh and witty. "Kessler Has No Lucky Pants" uses a Q & A format to marvelous effect, while the concise "The Hitman's Handbook" features a mob rub-out from several different points of view. Several stories take "genre" material--mobsters, fairy tales, Western desperadoes--and spin literature out of it. The most striking example is "Red Cap," a pitiless descent into a young girl's experience of war. The writing is inspiring; Ruland never commits a cliché.

Pamela Erens, author: The Understory

Damn, this is good!.......2006-08-08

Jim Ruland is an incredible writer; his short fiction not only entertains, but provides a blueprint for how short stories really should be written. The problem is, I found it nearly impossible to dissect them and analyze them, because he trapped me; I couldn't step away to take the long view. Each of these 13 tales is compact, unique, surprising. For instance, The Previous Adventures of Popeye the Sailor is a droll take on a pop-culture icon; Red Cap also springs from literary pop--Little Red Riding Hood--but twists the heart and leaves a chill in the stomach. And A Terrible Thing in a Place Like This should be declared a classic for its elegance, visceral impact and masterful, harrowing blend of reality and dreaminess. Wonderful stuff; well worth reading.

Susan O'Neill, author: Don't Mean Nothing: Short stories of Viet Nam

witty and wild literary fiction.......2005-12-21

Jim Ruland arises from L.A. like a new John Fante for the post-McSweeney's generation. The diverse stories here are whip-smart, weird, and Imaginative with a capital I. One bad-ass debut collection, Big Lonesome will be beating up and taking the lunch money of lesser collections for years to come. Ruland's genre-twisting genius returns us to the days when reading short stories was fun---Remember? In a book full of innovative characters and circumstances, one highlight is the brilliant title story, a Pynchon-meets-Old-West tale like none you've read before, where even a robot Indian can find love and a mad scientist can try his hand at bounty hunting. I don't know about lonesome, but this collection is big fun.

A fine, original, and uniquely American collection.......2005-12-21

I enjoyed Big Lonesome, Jim Ruland's debut collection of short stories, immensely. His writing is clean and spare and original; his stories funny and unsettling. Among the faves: Kessler Has No Lucky Pants, a bittersweet comic tale told in interview format; the touching Night Soul Man, one of several of Ruland's stories featuring the charged interplay between man and nature; and Brains for Bengo, the most disturbing story in the bunch. To me, Ruland's writing evokes a distinctly American landscape of love and death, good luck and bad, metal and muscle, the ugly, the wild, the old and the young. He takes contemporary fiction readers out of their comfort zones, but he does it in a generous, human, seemingly effortless way, and delivers on the rewards.

Second Best.......2005-12-21

After Sam Lipsyte's HomeLand, Big Lonesome is my second favorite paperback of 2005. Just when it seems language has lost its edge, Ruland comes along and fornicates the hell out of it. Most of these stories will rot your mind faster than a cloud of white phosphorous, and the rest sound great cranked to eleven. I mean it. Ruland's got esprit out the rear. He honors our founding fathers. He knows what to cut and what to kick. And he does not repeat himself, Madame, he does not.

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The Big Lonesome
Will Bryant
Manufacturer: Doubleday
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NQMA72

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Big Lonesome
Norford Scott
Manufacturer: Lenox Hill Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PBO5JQ

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Big Lonesome Radio
Mark Cdydr 1038 Lemhouse
Manufacturer: YELLOW DOG RECORDS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: 6307560975

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FIRE ON BIG LONESOME
LUCILLE MULCAHY
Manufacturer: ELK GROVE PRESS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O9GROA

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Fire on Big Lonesome
Lucille Mulcahy
Manufacturer: Elk Grove Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

LONESOME (Traveller) TRAVELER: Piers of the Homeless Night; Mexico Fellaheen; The Railroad Earth; Slobs of the Kitchen Sea; New York Scenes; Alone on a Mountaintop; Big Trip to Europe; The Vanishing American Hobo

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LONESOME (Traveller) TRAVELER: Piers of the Homeless Night; Mexico Fellaheen; The Railroad Earth; Slobs of the Kitchen Sea; New York Scenes; Alone on a Mountaintop; Big Trip to Europe; The Vanishing American Hobo
Jack Kerouac
Manufacturer: Grove Press - Evergreen Black Cat
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UX6U7O

Muggsy Spanier, the lonesome road: A biography and discography

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Muggsy Spanier, the lonesome road: A biography and discography
Bert Whyatt
Manufacturer: Jazzology Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 0963889028

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Biography of jazz cornet player, Muggsy Spanier's life and career. Includes 11 track CD.

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At long last, the missing All-Star stories added for completeness!

Grand Begining
All Star Comics - Archives, Volume 0 (Archive Editions (Graphic Novels))
Gardner Fox
Manufacturer: DC Comics
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 140120791X

Book Description

The All Star Archives are now complete with this volume collecting the first two issues from the Golden Age of comics. Virtually every founding member of the original JSA lineup minus Superman and Batmanis represented in individual adventures and most stories are also written and drawn by their original creators.

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At long last, the missing All-Star stories added for completeness!.......2006-04-01

I can't describe how excited I was when I heard this volume announced. It's something I've wanted for a long time (ever since "All-Star Comics Archives Volume 1" came out and started with issue # 3 instead of # 1). If the archives series had been called "Justice Society Archives", this volume would be unnecessary, but it's not. It's called "All-Star Comics Archives", so presenting the first two issues of the series is a must. As early as 2000, I was lobbying for this on DC's message boards and by email, as were other All-Star fans. This book showed up for years on unofficial fan polls concerning the Archives line. Kudos to DC for listening to this segment of the market!

I had never seen any of these stories before, so the book was as much a treat as I expected it to be. Highlights include an early "Ultra-Man" story (featuring DC's almost forgotten futuristic action hero, a character cool enough that you wonder why he didn't survive as well as many of his DC/All-American peers), a lot of classically representative pre-JSA stories, and an introduction by Roy Thomas that is chocked full of information! Who ELSE but Roy Thomas could have written the intro to a book like this?

As an extra bonus, this book serves as a cheaper introduction to DC's golden age. The book is much cheaper than the average archive edition due to the lower page count. So even if you're not a regular to golden age comics, here's one you can take a chance on!

Recommended!

Grand Begining.......2006-03-08

This book charts the early adventures of the Spectre, the Sandman, Hourman, The Golden Age Green Lantern, & the Golden Age Flash, as well as other, minor Golden Age characters. Pre-Justice Society, they establish the basics of these characters.

I've been in fandom since the 60's. And these comics, they're still Golden, after all these years.

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Slightly dated science fiction about the near future can be fun, especially when it evokes a strange, chaotic, and dangerous world that's uncomfortably close to our present one. Bruce Sterling's 1988 book, Islands in the Net, is a thrilling blend of high tech and low humanity. The glue that binds together this world of data pirates, mercenaries, nanotechnology, weaponry, and post-millennial voodoo is the global electronic net. You'll find jarring references to pre-Microsoft Windows computer technology, the Soviet Union, and that fancy new wonder machine--the fax. But this book has enough cool stuff to keep even a jaded cyberpunk interested. The characters are far more than mere constructs used to show off the technology, and the plot is fast, complicated, and mysterious. Veteran Sterling fans will enjoy this taste of his pre-fame style.

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With respect to the other reviewers..........2004-11-13

...I found value in this work by Sterling. I don't remember a whit of the plot machinations or the characters ten years after reading it. I do remember, however, the author's gift for thoughtfulness about the mechanisms of the future--the "sunglasses" in particular are something I think about often, being used to confer with "board members" all over the globe.

I think Islands in the Net is a valuable read in that the author put a lot of thought into the technology itself of his "future." It's regretful that the book itself is turgid, but an awful lot of cyberpunk at the time was plot- or "feeling"- heavy, with the technology needed by the plot just "there," and little thought given to how and if it would work and be used.

This book was very interesting at the time I originally read it if you were thinking about how to build the future, and what to build and how it could actually be used in practical fashion, rather than say, the kevlar dusters and mirrorshades.

I'm really surprised at this book........2003-07-31

I have read most of Sterlings other works of fiction and loved all them (The Difference Engine, Heavy Weather, Global Head, Holy Fire, Good old fashioned future, Zeitgeist).

This book surprised me. The title has nothing to do with the book. I had to force myself to read the whole thing and I only did that because it was hard to get (I know now why was out of print).

The main character, Laura, and those that surround her are probably the most annoyingly self-righteous cast of characters I've seen. They live in the future, think they know everything, have genetic engineering, yet they still do natural child birth. The criminal element in this book is way more interesting and believable.

I re-read my favorite science fiction when I either see it on my self and forget what it was about or every couple of years. Islands in the net is a laborous read that I wouldn't repeat.

Boring.......2002-08-24

The headline isn't entirely fair as the last third of the book gets pretty good. Sadly most of the book just drags along with characters that you don't like, political philosophies that should have died with Communism and a worldview firmly rooted in the 80s.

Maybe it's just because I've read Bruce Sterling short stories and I know that he can write. Maybe it's because I've read Neal Stephenson and compared to Snowcrash, other books in the cyberpunk genre are plodding. But mostly it's just not a very good book.

Set in the 2030 this book concerns a democratic corporation and the information pirates that it's trying to bring to heel. Instead of focusing on the pirates, as Gibson would do, this book concerns itself with the corporate types that are trying to figure out what's going on in the assassinations.

The world set-up in this opening is dull. Most of the characters are talking heads to spout philosophical mumbo-jumbo. A church of goddess worshipping prostitutes was probably innovative in its time but Starhawk's fifteen minutes are up, and paganism has moved away from the hippie garbage finally.

Halfway through the book it becomes a travelogue of the various places in this world. Here's where it begins to get good. Zelazny compares it to Candide. Sadly it's nowhere near as funny as Candide - which could be the fault of the main character whose nowhere near as innocent or cynical as she would need to be to pull off a Candide. Instead she's simply morally outraged.

When the book gets to Africa it begins to pick up, but then the protagonist is rescued by a Noam Chomsky type reporter whose running a guerrila army. This is where the book again falls flat on its face - by presupposing that Noam Chomsky would actually be able to run a workable system - rather than criticize the unworkabiility of current systems.

There are moments, but mostly this book is a lifeless remnant of the cyberpunk explosion.

Incredibly underrated, though not for everyone.......2002-04-30

This is one of the gutsiest SF novels I know of. Bruce Sterling has set his novel in one of the most incredibly detailed, well thought out futures ever developed. He's thought about his world geopolitically, economically, ideologically, and on a host of other levels, including how people live on a day to day basis. His people have internalized genuinely different ideas because of the world that has shaped them. In this sense it is most like some of the best Heinlein novels.

The world Sterling creates alone would make this worthwhile reading, but his characterization is strong and unconventional, and he tells an extremely interesting story that travels all over the world. This isn't really a fast-paced pageturner, and it isn't immersed in hard-science details about how things work in the future--it's more like real life for most of us, where technology is part of the background, and just works. So if those are the kinds of things you value in a SF novel, this may not be your book. But the traditional virtues of plot, characterization, and setting make this an outstanding novel.

Not Sterling's Best.......2001-07-29

Having read and liked The Difference Engine, I wanted to try something else by Sterling (writing solo). While I didn't find the book to be as bad as some earlier reviewers, I do have to say sheer stubbornness is what got me to the end. This book, by the way, is not cyberpunk or even science fiction, it is more political thriller ficton or whatever. In spite of the title, the few oblique references to the "Net" in the book seem to refer generally to modern communication technology including television and the phone. I was pretty bored until the main character got out of Texas, and even though you want to care about her, there is nothing about her that really grabs you. Some of the minor characters are a lot more interesting. Some intriguing socio-political ideas are hazily touched on, but this was NOT one of those books that are hard to put down, which may help explain why it is out of print as of this writing.

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Islands in the Net
Bruce Sterling
Manufacturer: The Easton Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000O7IWR2

ISLAND, THE: Nijmegen to Arnhem (Battleground Europe. Operation Market Garden)

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Wargamers Gem/Market Garden
Good Summary
Fills in Many Gaps in Market-Garden Story

ISLAND, THE: Nijmegen to Arnhem (Battleground Europe. Operation Market Garden)
Tim Saunders
Manufacturer: Pen and Sword
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Binding: Paperback

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Having fought their way up fifty miles of Hell's Highway and through Nijmegen, XXX Corps was just ten miles from Arnhem and the 1st British Airborne Division. Here it found itself on an island of flat land between the Waal at Nijmegen and the Rhine at Arnhem. The situation was increasingly bad with the remainder of II SS Panzer Corps in the area and German counter attacks on Hell's Highway preventing the Allies applying their material superiority. The Guards Armoured and then 43rd Wessex Infantry Division took turns to lead before reaching the Rhine opposite the paratroopers in the Oosterbeek Perimeter.

Attempts to cross the Rhine by the Polish Paras and the Dorset Regiment had little success, but meanwhile, the guns of XXX Corps ensured the survival of the Perimeter. After some desperate fighting on the island, 43rd Wessex Division evacuated just two thousand members of the elite Airborne Division who had landed eight days earlier.

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Wargamers Gem/Market Garden.......2007-05-18

One of my favorites this book provides Maps Photos showing the routes of
attack and defensive positions, for British and German units locked in a death embrace for the "Island".The writing puts you in the front lines up close . So close that you begin to imagine you hear that dry unemotional British Narative cracking with fear and the bone tiredness that only the walking dead infantry know,Yet rising in defiant waves and carrying the lads to final victory. Filled with comments of Participents BUY IT.

Good Summary.......2004-03-15

The book is a quick read that provides a good summary of the battle. However, the editing and grammatical errors detract from the rating as they present too frequent distractions to enjoying the book.

Fills in Many Gaps in Market-Garden Story.......2003-01-19

Even readers familiar with the tragic events of Operation Market-Garden in September 1944 can learn quite a bit from this thin Battleground Europe volume entitled The Island. Betwe Island was located between the Rhine and Waal Rivers in Holland and had the final stretch of highway that led from Nijmegen to Arnhem. The island was the scene of intense fighting in the final stages of Market-Garden as the British XXX Corps frantically tried to batter its way through the German units that were threatening to overwhelm the British 1st Airborne Division located on the north bank of the Rhine. Tim Saunders, a veteran Battleground Europe author, brings his usual flair for battle narrative and military analysis to this account. The strength of this volume lies in its coverage of many important but oft-neglected facets of actions that contributed to the Allied failure in Market-Garden. Since Saunders covers events on the island between 21 September and 7 October 1944, it also demonstrates that the fighting in this area did not cease with the evacuation of the British 1st Airborne.

The Island consists of ten narrative chapters, beginning with a short background to the Operation Market-Garden plan. Chapter two covers the failed effort by the Irish Guards to reach Arnhem on 21 September. Chapter three covers the Polish parachute drop near Driel and XXX Corps fire support to the 1st Airborne on 21 September. Chapter four covers the 43rd Wessex Division attack on Oosterhout and the "dash to Driel" on 22 September. Chapter five covers the various efforts on 23-24 September to reinforce 1st Airborne across the Rhine, including the disastrous crossing of the 4th Dorsets. The evacuation of the 1st Airborne is covered in the sixth chapter. Chapter seven covers the "high water mark" of XXX Corps, with the final attacks on Elst on 23-24 September. Chapter eight covers the German bridgehead on the island at Randwijk and subsequent British counterattacks during 27 September - 10 October. Chapter nine covers the Battle of Aam-Bemmel, the final British 50th Division attacks on 4-5 October. The final chapter covers the activities of the US 101st Airborne Division on the island during the period 4-7 October, including the Battle of Opheusden. A short section on touring the battlefield follows the campaign narrative. Saunders provides an order of battle for the British XXX Corps and the US 101st Airborne, but not for the Germans.

Saunders does a great job showing how the British were unable to exploit the spectacular American capture of the Nijmegen Bridge on 21 September and sprint the final distance to Arnhem. The British spearhead - the Guards Armored Division - had become a very blunt instrument by this phase of the operation due to logistic problems and the diversion of forces to deal with German counterattacks on the exposed flanks of the salient. In modern terms, XXX Corps culminated at Nijmegen and had insufficient combat power remaining to accomplish its mission. Nor was the Allied failure only the fault of the ground forces; it was the collapse of Allied air support and artillery support at the critical point that doomed the breakthrough to Arnhem. Indeed, Allied air superiority had so deteriorated that the Germans were able to ferry 20 tanks on to the island and Saunders notes that, "it is a measure of the loss of air superiority, which the Allies had enjoyed since D-Day, that the Germans were able to move in daylight without being attacked by fighter-bombers." However, the Allies did get one lucky break in an operation otherwise plagued by chronic misfortune: the 1st Airborne fire support officers were able to contact and direct XXX Corps artillery despite the lack of proper code books. It was this artillery support that helped to discourage German attacks on the encircled 1st Airborne and probably prevented a massacre of that unit.

After a deliberate attack on a German blocking position at Oosterhout, the British were finally able to slip some units around the German flank and reach the south bank of the Rhine opposite the 1st Airborne. One interesting action rarely covered in other books is the German armored counterattack against the 5th Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry on the evening of 22 September. Five German Tiger tanks were knocked out by a combination of mines and light anti-tank weapons and Saunders notes that, "this incident reveals how a few determined infantry can destroy what would be during full daylight, an overwhelmingly powerful force." However, by the time that XXX Corps reached the Rhine, the position of the 1st Airborne was so precarious that evacuation was the only viable course of action.

Most accounts of Market-Garden stop once the British 1st Airborne is evacuated, but the fact that Saunder's account continues for two more weeks adds great value to this volume. Yet the fighting was not over and Saunders shows that both sides committed new resources to attempt to gain full control over the island. Indeed, flushed with victory at Arnhem, the Germans hoped to launch a major counterattack that would push the Allies all the way back across the Waal River. American readers should also note that the chapter on US 101st Airborne operations on the island highlights the lack of research in Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers. In BoB, Ambrose claims that the efforts of E Company, 506th PIR were decisive in stopping the German counterattack on 5 October, but this version is an insult to the men of the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 506th PIR who did the bulk of the fighting (with British tank support). Overall, The Island does an admirable job filling in many of the important details usually omitted from standard Market-Garden accounts. The author's skillful narrative, combined with excellent maps, makes this volume a first-rate piece of military history writing.

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A Net to Catch Time
Sara Harrell Banks
Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers
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ASIN: 0679866736
Release Date: 1996-12-09

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Cuffy wants to buy a boat someday and become a fisherman like his father. In order to earn money, he'll have to do a good business selling his grandma's deviled crabs. From the Gullah culture of Georgia's beautiful Sea Islands comes A Net to Catch Time, a warm family story that recounts a day in the life of a spirited little boy. Follow Cuffy from FIRST FOWL CROW (5:30 in the morning) when he catches the crabs, to SUN LAY OVER (2:30 in the afternoon) as Cuffy watches his grandmother prepare them, to CANDLE LIGHT TIME (twilight) when the island is quiet and the stars come out. Each dazzling spread shows a new time of day, and each time of day has its own lyrical Gullah name. Scott Cook's pastels create even more warmth and flavor in lively island hues. A glossary of Gullah expressions is included.

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Islands in the Net

Manufacturer: Easton Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000DZEPK8

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Islands in the Net
Bruce Sterling
Manufacturer: Ace
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000HL4MTM

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Islands in the Net
Bruce STERLING
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Binding: Hardcover
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Islands in the Net - Masterpieces of Science Fiction

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Islands in the Net - Masterpieces of Science Fiction

Manufacturer: Easton Press
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Binding: Leather Bound

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Brand new LEATHER BOUND book accented in 22kt gold.

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Islands in the Net Collector's Edition
ruce Sterling
Manufacturer: Easton Press
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Masterpieces of Science Fiction, bound geniune leather; Collectors Notes by author

Casting their net: its trade relationships span the globe, but fresh island fish remains rooted in Hawaii. (Best of the Rest).(Fresh Island Fish Co. reports ... Included) : An article from: Hawaii Business

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Casting their net: its trade relationships span the globe, but fresh island fish remains rooted in Hawaii. (Best of the Rest).(Fresh Island Fish Co. reports ... Included) : An article from: Hawaii Business
Ronna Bolante
Manufacturer: Hawaii Business Publishing Co.
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This digital document is an article from Hawaii Business, published by Hawaii Business Publishing Co. on August 1, 2002. The length of the article is 675 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: Casting their net: its trade relationships span the globe, but fresh island fish remains rooted in Hawaii. (Best of the Rest).(Fresh Island Fish Co. reports 2001 figures)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Author: Ronna Bolante
Publication: Hawaii Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2002
Publisher: Hawaii Business Publishing Co.
Volume: 48 Issue: 2 Page: 57(1)

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Bob Cornuke, A Spirit Led Explorer!

Very hard to put down!

CAP'N BOB IS LED TO THE SEA TO SEE THE LEAD.

The Lost Shipwreck of Paul
Robert Cornuke
Manufacturer: Global Publishing Services
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ASIN: 0971410038

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This bibically historic book takes a look at documented specific find of all four, thirteen foot Alexandrian Roman Anchors discussed in Acts 27:29 of the Holy Bible.

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More comfirmation.......2006-03-20

The bible is the authoritative word of God and it is amazing to be living in a time of so much discoveries because of the amount of knowledge that is being given to us. The bible states that the Earth will be filled with the fullness of the knowledge of God, which means that those who reject God will do so knowing the truth, but because of their rebellious hearts will fail to acknowledge it. This knowledge and their rebellious acts against God will be presented to them in the Judgement of the Great White Throne and with the question that follows it "Why You did not believed?"

REJECT THIS.......2006-01-20

Anything having to do with Ron Wyatt, Bob Cornuke, Michael Rood etc. Reject! These are "Headline Indiana Jones" Wannabee's. There are many fine Bible Believing Archaeologists but they are rarely interviewed or acknowledged.

My List of Credible Organizations...

- The Near East Archaeological Society

- The Associates for Biblical Research

- The Institute for Biblical Archaeology

- World of the Bible Ministries

Bob Cornuke, A Spirit Led Explorer!.......2005-12-24

Bravo, Bob, Barvo!

What I especially like about Bob is that he's not restrained by "traditions." He reviews the sciptures as historical accounts, then tracks alternative locations for Biblical events.

His alternative site for Paul's shipwreck... complete with the discovery of anchor stones, will leave you convinced.

Bob! I'm waiting for other explorations... where have you gone??

Jeff Messenger, author of the novel "the Shroud of Torrington."

Very hard to put down!.......2004-10-24

A fascinating recreation of Cornuke's detective work on Malta. He writes with a light touch. You see Cornuke interacting with the evidence as it emerges, and you are confident that Cornuke will not oversell his case. Indeed, the book ends with an open-ended sense that further facts can still come to light.

I also enjoyed his recreation of conversations with the Maltese divers. You see Cornuke's respect for this hardy and self-reliant group of explorers ... and are amazed that he can secure their cooperation.

I agree with another reviewer that the 9/11 part of the book seems like a diversion. No doubt it was important to Cornuke, but it doesn't seem relevant to the story. Still, I give the book an enthusiastic 5 stars! I can't imagine anyone interested in the Bible or archaeology who wouldn't enjoy it!

CAP'N BOB IS LED TO THE SEA TO SEE THE LEAD........2004-09-10

All hands on deck for the reading of Robert Cornuke's, THE LOST SHIPWRECK OF PAUL, a seaworthy tale of Biblical proportions! This book should appeal to you if : A) You are a crusty, old, armchair sea dog. B) A Christian interested in Biblical archaeology. Or, C) Simply a reader looking for a good story. But you will especially love the book if you happen to be all three : A crusty, old, Christian, armchair sea dog looking for a good story related to Biblical archaeology. Now we're talkin'!

This latest installment in Robert Cornuke's series of adventures that take him in search of evidence to support the Bible's historicity, sets sail for the island of Malta, seeking the ancient lead anchors from the shipwreck of Saint Paul. Using the words of Luke recorded in Acts, chapter 27, as his first mate, Cornuke calculates where these long lost lead treasures are apt to be found. It turns out that the objects of our hero's quest had already been located and raised from the sea floor by Maltese divers in the late 1960s and early 1970s. (Although the island natives had no inkling of the tremendous importance of their discoveries since the traditional site of Paul's wreck is a cove considerably further north.) Unfortunately, this fact tends to let the wind out of the sails in Cap'n Bob's adventure just a little bit.

Nevertheless, it's a slightly padded, but worthwhile story that proves beyond all reasonable doubt that these recovered artifacts, which meet all of the demanding criteria, are indeed remnants of Saint Paul's misadventure at sea. And once again we come face to face with the prospect that, despite the hysterical ranting to the contrary by society's willfully ignorant atheistic and unthinking agnostic bilge rats, the Bible is a reliable historical document! So there! Let 'em stick this in their dinghy and smoke it!

This title is certainly superior to Cornuke's disappointing, IN SEARCH OF THE LOST MOUNTAINS OF NOAH, but not nearly as suspenseful as his most important book, IN SEARCH OF THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD (THE DISCOVERY OF THE REAL MOUNT SINAI.) But all in all, THE LOST SHIPWRECK OF PAUL manages to stay afloat while both enlightening and entertaining. It's a quick read, making it an ideal companion on a plane flight, or for a weekend at the beach. Although I doubt that I would pack it along on a pleasure cruise, if you catch my "drift."

Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures: Great Lakes: Legends and Lore, Pirates and More!

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A good read

Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures: Great Lakes: Legends and Lore, Pirates and More!
Michael J. Varhola
Manufacturer: Globe Pequot
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Twenty-one riveting stories and illustrations about ships that met their end in the treacherous waters of the Great Lakes, such as: British gunboat H.M.S. Speedy in 1804, American Navy brig U.S.S. Niagara in 1820, Civil War steamer Island Queen in 1864, the infamous freighter Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, and many more!

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A good read.......2007-10-01

A really good read about an area where most people don't think of pirates and long lost booty: the great lakes!

Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures: Outer Banks: Legends and Lore, Pirates and More!

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Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures: Outer Banks: Legends and Lore, Pirates and More!
Bob Brooke
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