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My favorite book of all time........2004-06-18
Why do you ask? Because of all the other works of literature out there, this one is among the very few which commands my attention with its dizzying abstract imagery and depth. Zelda Fitzgerald was known chiefly as being Mrs. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, which was something she tried to overthrow by becoming a dancer, an artist, and a writer. For those who are interested in reading Zelda's work, this is the only book you need to buy, as it includes her novel "Save Me the Waltz", her play "Scandalabra", as well as her many short stories and articles.
"Save Me the Waltz" is a gorgeous book which Zelda modelled after her own life. Scott and Scottie Fitzgerald are David and Bonnie Knight, Judge Austin and Millie Beggs are Judge Anthony and Minnie Sayre (Zelda's parents), Joan Beggs is Clothilde Sayre (one of Zelda's sisters), Jacques Chevre-Feuille is Edouard Jozan, etc etc. The parallels are impossible to miss if you already know about Zelda's life. It is interesting to read Zelda's many descriptions, for you can actually imagine in your mind what she actually saw.
"Scandalabra" is a light comedic play which, if given a decent production and cast, would be a huge stage hit. Sadly, as far as I know there have only been a couple of productions and each of them were dismal failures. In order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune, a young, naive and happily married man must evolve into a scoundrel and paint his wife as an adulteress. All of the characters are careless beings trying to live in a serious world, and therefore it is hard to capture this strange balance on the stage.
Her short stories are all short and sweet vignettes, many of them were published under Scott's byline so they would earn more money rather than if they were only under Zelda's name. Among the best: "A Couple of Nuts", "Our Own Movie Queen" and "Miss Ella". Her articles were mostly done from the perspective of a celebrity's wife, and so naturally they are light pieces of fluff meant to build on the Fitzgerald myth.
If asked to describe this book in just one word, I would have to refuse. There is no single word that can do this collection justice.
a beautiful, surreal book.......1999-06-15
Zelda Fitzgerald spent much of her life trying to struggle out of the shadow of her famous husband. For many years she was both a literal and figurative inspiration for his work, often helping him with his stories. This book of her writings allows her to finally take her own place in the fiction world. Her novel, Save Me the Waltz, is an incredible book in which language becomes surrealistic art. There are two sides to every story, and it is interesting to hear Zelda's interpretation of her life with Fitzgerald. The novel itself is a gradual emotional and physical breakdown as it documents a woman on her voyage of self discovery and artistic fulfillment. It has been said that Zelda was a true original and, once encountered, was never forgotten. The same can be said about her work. Though she will unfortunately always be paired and compared with Fizgerald, her voice and style is all her own.
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Bleak Seasons.......2003-07-11
Murgen has seizures in which he experiences memories of the horrible siege of Dejagore. In addition, he uses the comatose wizard Smoke as a source of clairvoyant information.
Whoa. Trippy.
I've heard some readers suggest that this was where they felt the series started to degenerate, but I liked this volume better than any others since the first one. It was dramatic and character-driven. Although much of it recaps the events of the book immediately before it in the series, it's from a very different point of view. When we finally get to the "now" moment, it's powerful. The inventive structure even includes some direct-address second person exposition-- and it works wonderfully.
It is, admittedly, confusing and disjointed at times.
I'm not sure how I feel about what Cook has done with cultures in this series. He's got his pseudo-cult of Kali, and now the Nyeung Bao, a pseudo-Vietnamese ethniticy. On one hand I like his use of non-Western images and ideas, but on the other hand I think there's a bit of exoticism going on, and I'm not sure I wouldn't prefer completely invented societies.
Overall, I think this book, in its different structure and emphasis, gives the series a new spark of life. It deepens our understanding of several characters, while maintaining the straightforward tone and grey morality that are the series' hallmarks.
It opened my eyes........1999-07-03
The characters were so funny and interesting. I have read about 30 TSR books, but The Black Company are something else! I have grown tired of shallow characters and bad plots. These books are like fantasy books should be, funny and adventourous, not just bad wizards hurling battlespells. Read them!!!!!!
This series should be bigger than the Wheel Of Time!.......1997-08-07
An excellent read, though it might be confusing if you haven't read the rest of the Black Company series. No all-powerful characters. Characters you can relate to on some level. This isn't some flowery fantasy ala Eddings. It can be brutal. There is no definite line between Good and Evil...just like in our reality.An excellent series...get them all: The Black Company / Shadows Linger / The White Rose / The Silver Spike / Shadow Games / Dreams Of Steel / Bleak Seasons / She Is The Darkness (to be released Fall 1997)
An excellent book for those who have read its predecessors........1996-10-20
For fans of Glen Cook's "Black Company" books, "Bleak Seasons" will be a treat. As he did previously in his "Dread Empire" saga, Mr. Cook spends an entire book giving the reader an alternate view of events already related earlier in the series. This means, however, that anyone not familiar with the history of the plot will be completely, utterly and hopelessly lost. If this is the reader's first exposure to Glen Cook, the best advice is for them to gently return the book to its place, to be sought out later when it will make more sense. The previous books of the Black Company, all noted in Amazon.com's catalog, should be read first. At the very least, the first two Books of the South ("Shadow Games" and "Dreams of Steel") are required in order to make sense of this book. For those who have read and enjoyed those, however, this book can be highly recommended
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"Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive......I am Murgen, Standard bearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead., One-Eye won't, and hardly anyone else can read or write. I will be your guide for however long it takes the Shadowlanders to force our present predicament to its inevitable end...."So writes Murgen, seasoned veteran of the Black Company. The Company has taken the fortress of Stormgard from the evil Shadowlanders, lords of darkness from the far reaches of the earth. Now the waiting begins.Exhausted from the siege, beset by sorcery, and vastly outnumbered, the Company have risked their souls as well as their lives to hold their prize. But this is the end of an age, and great forces are at work. The ancient race known as the Nyueng Bao swear that ancient gods are stirring. the Company's commander has gone mad and flirts with the forces of darkness. Only Murgen, touched by a spell that has set his soul adrift in time, begins at last to comprehend the dark design that has made pawns of men and god alike.
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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03
One of the weakest Black Company novels. If you like the others though, this is still good enough to read, as the whole sordid saga continues. Sordid from the point of view of the Company, anyway, and the conditions they have to endure to survive. That seems to have always been the case. Here, they do have one or two small advantages that keep them going, however.
Worth a read, but start with The Black Company.......2007-04-04
By far the weakest of the series, and it still gets 3 stars. The others are all 4 or 5s. Start at the beginning of the series, with "The Black Company." By the time you get to this book, you'll be caught up with the characters, and you'll be more willing to give the book a chance. It's unfortunate that this book is a disappointment compared to the fantastic reading of the other books, but I think it's still worth reading.
There is a story, and you'll start to see it about half way through, but it's really difficult to find at first. With the unreliable narrator and the temporal skipping, things come at you in bits and pieces, and it takes some time before you can starting putting them together so they make sense. It is an interesting method of conveying the confusion and uncertainty of the narrator, but a real struggle to read.
The rest of the series is great, and it gets better again after this, so if you've had any doubts, read the rest of the books, even if this one proves too much of a challenge. I stuck with it, and though it was daunting at first, I felt vindicated by the end.
Honestly though, I don't think you'd be too ill served by skipping this one and simply reading the other books in the series. They're all wonderful, and you won't have any fleeting thoughts about forgetting the following books simply because this one is hard to follow at first.
worst black company novel to date, 1 star added for series continuity.......2006-08-17
This novel, after a 6-year hiatus from publishing black company stories after 'dreams of steel,' is a distinct change of style for Glen Cook. Told from the viewpoint of Murgen, this novel features externally forced temporal dislocations of murgen which obviously will serve some plot goal as murgen sees things in a couple of different time frames. Unlike some of cook's novels where there are 2 timelines (present, past background) told in intervals, this does not work nearly as well, being of the same character in what to us are fairly closely related events (4 years in story-time, but you cannot tell). It is clear that after 6 years mr. cook has some different ideas on how to approach the cliffhanger he left in the previous novel.
The italicized prophetic mumbo-jumbo without context and murgen's seizure/travel glimpses of third areas are sufficiently vague to add little or nothing to the story.
Croaker is marginalized as a character, and Lady is nearly absent in this novel. Most major characters (barring the circus sorcerers) in even the previous 2 books are marginalized in this novel.
To the extent a reader of this series wants to know the rest of the story and reads this novel with that goal in mind, it gets better later in the book, but it is arguably the most mundane glen cook book i have read to date.
Crows Always Watch.......2006-07-23
Glittering Plain marks the turning point in the Black Company's quest to return to Khatovar. A new narrator - Murgen - steps in to permanently take the place of Croaker, who has disappeared in battle and is presumed dead. Dejagore has fallen to the Company, but now is under siege by the Shadowmasters. Lady, who filled in for one volume is outside the city seeking a way to free it, but the real story is within, in the desperate struggle of the members of the Black Company and their cohorts to survive both the battles and the betrayals of their own kind. Murgen is a weaker narrator than either Croaker or Lady, and will take a bit of getting used to. As his character develops over this volume and the next the weakness plays an important role. But, at first, you may get the feeling that Glen Cook has slipped up a bit.
Much of Murgen's weakness is the result of several disasters he is trying to deal with at the same time he is plagued by a continual series of fugue states that have the narrative darting over both time and place. Cook always liked to tell more than one story at a time, but in the Glittering Plain series the literary device becomes the mainstay of the narrative. As much as I liked the book, I found this a confusing approach, with much of the story being told passively. But the story has its own strengths as well as Cook brings the reader further into the cultures of the South and tells a more realistic story of life under siege than a fantasy story normally gets.
Bleak Seasons is an unsettling rather than a dramatic book, told from a less than heroic viewpoint. It sets the stage for the volumes to come and introduces the new themes that Cook has chosen to develop. Most important, we meet the Nyueng Bao, a people on a sacred pilgrimage who were caught up in the war with the Shadowmasters. This strange people, reminiscent of the indigenous Vietnamese who played similar roles in that war, must hang their hopes on Murgen and his fellows despite vast differences. Murgen himself is drawn into a Nyueng Bao family and much of the volume and those that follow will explore the story of a proud people forced by circumstance to assisted people they would otherwise consider hopeless barbarians.
It's rather difficult to talk about this book without strewing spoilers all over, so you will have to forgive me for staying away from the plot. This is an intricate novel that labors under a sense of impending doom. It is an intimate, often confusing novel that is often more intensely personal than its predecessors. Cook is trying to shift gears and I think he succeeds, although he will leave some readers behind in the process. If you stick with it, I think you will find the result is satisfying, but if you are looking for more pure military fantasy you may be a bit perplexed.
A good writer gone bad.......2005-12-16
I love Cook's other Black Company books, but this one is atrocious. Bleak Seasons is possibly the worst book I have ever read. Confusing, convoluted, and a real chore to get through. I hope the final three in the series are better. What a stinker.
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- The Greg Bear story was good
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- Somewhat different from the first three books in the series.
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The Greg Bear story was good.......2006-01-14
This one was pretty good because it's the one with 'The Man Who Would Be Kzin', written in part by Greg Bear, which was one of the more interesting premises. I'd say if you only read 3 stories from the series, it should be the stuff from Dean Ing from books 1 and 2, which are combined in the 'houses of the kzinti', and this one. If you read one more, it should be 'The Survivor' and the continuation 2 books later, also starting in book 4.
However, there are some dubious attributes of this book which really should be made open. First, like at least a FEW others (so they didn't even just make this mistake once), the so-called Kzin on the cover does appear to have 5 fingers in his gloved hand. I mean, what's the deal? Do they keep going back to the same artists who don't even bother to get enough of the picture to know they're supposed to have 4 fingers on each hand?
Even more dubious is the introduction at the beginning of this book by Niven himself, which is basically a warning and a threat to any readers who want to produce any fiction within the universe he established - he expresses his unwillingness to allow ANYone to embed the Kzinti in the star trek universe, but this is ridiculous, because he HIMSELF was responsible for 'The Slaver Weapon', an episode of the original Star Trek animated series, if actually you're old enough to remember the show. To refresh your memory, that animated cartoon is a ludicrous adaptation of 'The Soft Weapon', ludicrous because the man and his wife are verbatim replaced by Sulu and Ohura, and even worse, the puppeteer, supposedly a 2-headed, 3 legged monstrosity of a grazing animal is played by, who else, Spock. In spite of how ridiculous it sounds, it was pulled off, and apparently Niven was pulling the strings, as it attributes itself to him at the beginning. So, since he himself already established the Kzinti into the Star Trek universe, I think it's downright hypocritical for him to chastize anyone for continuing what he started.
And nothing short of outrageous that he should start this book with an self-gratifying essay reproving anyone so wicked as to put the Kzinti into the Star Trek universe, and conveniently forgetting he already set the standard.
So skip Niven's introduction. Or laugh at the lunacy of it all. But I say, this book is a good read other than that. At least it doesn't have any of those terrible, anesthetic (they will put you to sleep) Poul Anderson stories that appear in more than 2 books of the series. Oh man, those are awful.
Excellent!.......2004-11-09
If you like Sci-Fi and you like Space, then You've GOT to read Larry Niven's Man Kzin books. He's gotten together with scientists and over 20 writers and created a so-fi world unlike any that's ever been created.
His sci-fi world will continue perpetuating itself long after he's gone because many young writers have bought into his sci-fi version of space as well as MANY older well established ones.
Somewhat different from the first three books in the series........2002-01-15
In each of the first three books of this series, the book was made up of two or three stories of relatively equal length. This book varies somewhat from that format; there are two stories, the first a small novel in and of itself, taking up about 75% of the book (240 pages out of 310). The remaining 70 pages are a story more similar to the others we've seen in the series, perhaps a bit shorter.
Both of the stories in this book are excellent, particularly the longer first story ("Survivor", by Donald Kingsbury). I wouldn't recommend the book to anyone not familiar with the basic concept of Kzinti, a race of spacefaring carnivorous cats, constantly at war with us omnivorous monkeys and constantly losing in the long run because we monkeys are capable of THINKING about the long run, whereas Kzinti consider it shameful to be so cautious as to excercise forethought and planning. (Okay, that's an exaggeration, but it conveys the spirit of the situation.) Still, it isn't necessary to have read all of the previous three collections to appreciate this one; granted, the first story refers back to some events in a story in volume three, but if you didn't know that, you would probably simply assume that the events glossed over were events of tangential importance to this story, and you'd be correct.
This is my favorite of the series so far, even if the ending to the second story was somewhat less than satisfying.
One of the more interesting among the M-K Wars.......1999-07-27
How the hell could this book be out of print? Anyway, I really liked the character Grass Eater, because it shows a whole new side of the Kzinti, and gives insight into who they really are. You see that even the mightiest warriors among them are not fearless, but are basically brutalized from birth into constant fights for survival that is the basis for their entire society. I liked it.
Kzinti "cats" at all-out war with human "monkey-boys".......1997-07-31
Similar to Man-Kzin Wars I through VI: many excellent stories about Kzinti and humans at war across interstellar space. Did I mention that Kzinti telepaths go mad interrogating human vegetarians? Or that human prisoners are considered additions to the meat larder? Or that Kzinti women are not even sentient? This is _not_ for kiddies. Ironically, Niven goes far out of his way in the introduction to Man-Kzin Wars IV to criticize a parody of his work and claim ownership of "his" fictional universe. "The Only Fair Game" (an explicit work involving S&M and homosexuality) may be found at http://www.halcyon.com/elf/other/
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Shaeffer at war?.......2006-10-10
Some of the stories were kind of weak, but then this odd crashlander guy
shows up. Finding out what happens to Beowulf Shaeffer post the Crashlander
book made the book completly worthwhile. If you're not a Beowulf Shaeffer fan, you might not enjoy it as much.
Excellent!.......2004-11-09
If you like Sci-Fi and you like Space, then You've GOT to read Larry Niven's Man Kzin books. He's gotten together with scientists and over 20 writers and created a so-fi world unlike any that's ever been created.
His sci-fi world will continue perpetuating itself long after he's gone because many young writers have bought into his sci-fi version of space as well as MANY older well established ones.
A fine col;lection by four great authors.......2004-07-13
This has one of the great Poul Anderson's last stories in it, which wopuld alone be a sufficient reason to buy it, plus one by Niven himself. The others are by tried-and-tested favourite Man-Kzin authors Paul Chafe and Hal Colebatch. Between them they add up to a fine portrait of the complex human-Kzin interaction after the Kzinti have to try to come to terms with the fact that they can lose wars.
In Anderson's Pele, they must acknowledge human superiority in space-craft. But can they? Like most of Anderson's stories, has a strong science as well as human element.
In Hal Colebatch's "His Sergeant's Honour", the collection's strongest story, a battered old Kzin sergeant holds the last Kzin fort on Wunderland, a planet long occupied by the Kzinti but now re-conquered by humans, charged with guarding, among others, a human collaborator and a Royal kitten - Vaemar-Riit, last son of the great Chuut-Riit, who is destined to play a big part in "Music-Box" in Man-Kzin 10, "The Wunder War," and, I hope, in adventures to come. He is too good a charater to waste.
In the meantime, old Raargh-Sergeant must choose between death and dishonour. Or Has it become dishonourable to choose death in this strange new time of Monkey victories?
Windows of the Soul, also set in post-occupation Alpha Centauri, is a rather dark detective story in the Raymond Chandler Tradition. Best not say too much for fear of revealing the plot.
Larry Niven's "Fly-by-Night" is a follow-on from Hal Colebatch's "Telepath's Dance" in Man-Kzin VIII - what happened ot the dewscendents of the first rogue telepath when he turned against the Patriarchy and threw in his lot with Selina Guthlac and the humans of the "Angel's Pencil"?
All these stories are taut, pacy and well-written. The Kzinti, or somne of them. show they are more than just dumb killing-machines and are capable of thoughtfulness.
A correction to the previous reviewer's ethics!.......2004-04-03
I have reviewed this book previously but am having a second bite because I am annoyed by the conduct of the previous reviewer. He claims, apparently trying to dam the dialogue, there is a phrase: "As you known, Raargh Sergeant, we Wunderkzin ..." No such phrase occurs in the book. A human says to a Kzin born on Wunderland "We sometimes call you Wunderkzin ..." I suggest that if the reviewer wishes to pick holes in the style of a particular story he quote the actual words he complains of and not something he has invented. I believe this is related to a thing called ethics, you know, like honesty and truthfulness.
And all thes stories in the book are teriffic! Scream and Leap!
Worth a look for two good stories........2004-01-20
(...)This addition to the long-running Man-Kzin sharecrop series is
worth your attention for two stories: Niven's Own "Fly-by-Night", which
is pretty good, but had an uncredited earlier appearance in (IB)
Asimov's. And newish author Paul Chafe, whose "Windows of the Soul" is
the best of the book, and the one that makes MK-IX worth looking for,
even if you've already seen the Niven. "Windows" starts out as an ARM
police-procedural on Tiamat station, after the brutal murder and
dismemberment of Miranda Holtzman, a 19 year-old student engineer. ARM
Captain Joel Allson develops a hot romance during the investigation --
which veers off into a disturbing political-terrorist operation, and
finishes with a truly nasty twist. Nice. Chafe's had a couple of
previous (unmemorable) appearances (in MK-VII & VIII).
The other two stories are a Poul Anderson novella ("Pele"), set aside
after a slow, dull start, and "His Sergeant's Honor" by Hal Colebatch,
which reads like a novel outline. For a bad, dull novel: "As you know,
Raargh-Sergeant, we Wunderkzin..." [note 1]
Did I mention the Lurid Baen Cover...? It's Howling Time!
Conclusion: one of the weaker of the Man-Kzin books, but the Chafe is
first-rate entertainment.
Happy reading!
Pete Tillman
Note 1) I see that the old saw "As you know, Bob...", used to lampoon lumpy exposition,
may not be as widely known as I thought.
So: this wasn't a real quote, folks, it was parody.
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The media has temporarily turned its large but constantly blinking eye away from cult-of-the-day reportage after the Waco conflagration, but such organizations continue to collect adherents. Martin Gardner, best known as mathematical-games-meister for Scientific American, turns his refreshingly unblinking gaze on the origin and continuing growth of the Urantian cult. It is a marvellous study of the ways in which ideas can be propagated through society.
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A book of LIES, Half Truths and Anger To keep you AFRAID.......2007-09-15
Martin Gardener's book about the URANTIA Revelation is typical of what has kept mankind from reaching his full spirital potential for its entire history. FEAR! Using LIES and Half Truths, and twisted conclusions he's doing what the "Church" has always done keep in CONTROLL and YOU from understanding TRUE spirituality and KNOWING for themselves what it means to follow Christ's teachings.
We are in the Apocalypse people! Thats why these TRUTHs are coming out now! And what is REALLY meant by 'The Truth Shall Set You Free!' I finally can see why, when it comes to TRUTH and INDIVIDUAL SPIRITUALITY - all the nasty, negative, hateful, closed minded, judgmental and ANTI-Christ like noise, comes from so called "Christians" whenever they have anything to say about.... well ANYTHING!!
You WONT find anything Nasty, Hateful, or wrong in the Urantia Book because when reading it, it will 'ring true' like it has for almost everyone with the courage to read it for themselvs. So if your one of those people that cant see REAL TRUTH for themselves because of FEAR they learned in "CHURCH" about a Judgmental, vengeful, Retalitating and Punishing God - Then You WONT like the URANTIA book.
The Urantia book can stand on its own merits and should be read by ANYONE who yearns to fully understand what the Bible fails to do. Understand and make sense of our history as humans and to KNOW GOD/JESUS and the UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, TRUTH, COMPASSION, and the true - I repeat - TRUE CHRISTIANITY of JESUS.
Revealing.......2007-05-27
For those who are seeking truth, Martin Gardner has done us a great service. He covers the history of those people who brought us the Utantia book. He makes a convincing case that this giant tome was conceived in deception. For those who believe that the Bible is true, will perceive that this possible channeled fantasy contradicts the Bible. For those who don't believe the Bible, they need to know that the creators of the Urantia book sprung forth or evolved from the Seventh day Adventist Church. A denomination with a false prophet and a history full of fanaticism. I highly recommend Martin Gardner's book, for anyone who has looked at the Urantia book or thinking of buying that ultimate grand cosmic fantasy.
EXPOSED.......2007-01-09
While looking for some alternative to a lot of confusing biblical jargon I got into the Urantia Book and found it to be EUGENICS and NAZISM in DISGUISE! I was thoroughly refreshed to find out that others were intelligent enough not to be bling faith sheep and believe that pack of fabrications. Though many of the stories in the Urantia book are partially true, The Great Cult Mystery points out how they were twisted to fill the agendas of Nazi supportes like William Kellogg, Charles Russell (of the infamous Jehovah's Witnesses, and Bill Sanders (one of the writers of the Urantia Book) into "cleansing the human race" through preferred breeding and ethnic cleansing. For all you peole that believe the Urantia Book, I suggest you read the history of its creators first before you believe the so-called sleeping brother in law subject's view on the universe.
The First Page is Wrong Wrong Wrong.......2005-09-19
There is no Father just Mother it is female look around blind men and see for the first time. If you really want answers to why, when, were and how. Nature is female not male. There is no male in the mix, creation is not male. It will be too late, but we'll just start over again like we've done many, many times before.
Learn to Hate God.......2004-07-31
Reading this book will make the indwelling spirit of God very distressed. But the rant and rave author gives a perfect lesson on how a person sounds when losing an augument in a debate. The book is mostly hate talk and insults. He could have distilled the main concept he presents to 30 pages of science. The Urantia Book mentions how they would treat science and anyone who gave it any thought would see this offering has not a leg to stand on. Spare God the trouble and do not waste your time or money on this so called refutation.
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- The Incomparable Atuk (New Canadian Library)
- The Seven Whispers: A Spiritual Practice for Times Like These
- The Stolen Child: A Novel
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- Napoleon's Pyramids
- Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics, Third Edition
- More Wildlife Painting: Techniques of Modern Masters
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- Intellectual Capital: How to Build It, Enhance It, Use It
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Zelda: A Biography
The Romantic Egoists: A Pictorial Autobiography from the Scrapbooks and Albums of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda: An Illustrated Life: The Private World of Zelda Fitzgerald
