The Hill of the Ravens

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Epitome of the action thriller...

Great read!

The Hill of the Ravens
H. A. Covington
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
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ASIN: 1410765601

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Epitome of the action thriller..........2006-02-09

If you are looking for a book with a trully happy ending, which is lead to with an action packed plot line. Much like its insperation, 'Turner Diaries', it provides a cold and gimmous view of America in the not too distant future, and the choices that must be made by its citizens.

Great read!.......2004-02-23

Lots of great writing! This is a book filled with action, adventure, hope - and characters you'll care about. Buy it today!

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An exciting book

Dead End (Raven Hill Mysteries)
Emily Rodda
Manufacturer: Scholastic Paperbacks
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ASIN: 0439795729

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Hide your valuables and don't walk the streets alone. Six young troublemakers are on the loose in Raven Hill. Witnesses say the culprits look surprisingly familiar -- just like the Help-for-Hire gang! If the real Help-for-Hire gang doesn't figure out who's trying to set them up, it could mean the end of their friendship forever. And once the kids begin disappearing one by one, Nick discovers that it could mean the end of a whole lot more.

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An exciting book .......2007-01-02

This is a very exciting and thrilling story. Nick shows that Mr. Cool can also be Mr. Smart and he shows bravery by willing to give up himself for his friends. I hope everyone enjoys this book as much as I did.

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Deep Secrets (Raven Hill Mysteries)
Emily Rodda
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ASIN: 043978249X

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The Help-for-Hire team departs Raven Hill for what they think is going to be a relaxing vacation at Aunt Vivien's luxurious mansion. But there's nothing relaxing or luxurious about the two nasty old caretakers who greet them with a list of backbreaking chores. Why is Elmo's aunt nowhere to be seen? The mystery leads from the highest rooftops of Mistfall Mansion to the bottom of a pitch-black old well--a site that could prove to be a terrifying trap!

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The most informative fishing book of the area,GREATinfo.

Fishing Central Oregon
Geoff Hill , Brooke Snavely , and Raven Wing
Manufacturer: Far West Book Service
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ASIN: 188208408X

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The most informative fishing book of the area,GREATinfo........1998-12-17

My husband and I love the area for fishing . After looking for a good fishing book on the area, we found this to be the very best. We use it on every lake and area that we fish. WE have Sent it to our friends and family. WE Need another one for our selves as a friend had to have our copy.

Raven Hill Mysteries 1-2 (Raven Hill Mysteries)

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Raven Hill Mysteries 1-2 (Raven Hill Mysteries)
Emily Rodda
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ASIN: 0439779154

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When Liz and her friends begin helping out around the neighborhood, all they want to do is earn a little extra pocket change. Nobody said anything about risking their weekends--and their lives--on some of Raven Hill's most mysterious secrets. But trouble has a funny way of sneaking up on Liz, Tom, Sunny, Elmo, Richelle, and Nick. . . .In their first adventure, the team accepts a job at a struggling newspaper. Can they figure out who--or what--is out to destroy it?Soon after, a terrible crime spree means working at the local novelty shop won't be all fun and games.Two books in one!

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Plot Summary.......2006-08-17

The Raven Hill Mysteries series is an exciting about a group of six teenagers who form an odd job company and often end up uncovering a crime. Each book is by one of the six different characters, the first is from the point of view of the team member Liz. The group, "Teen Power Inc" is established by Liz as a way for the characters to make some money and are hired by the owner of Raven Hill's local newspaper, "The Pen". However they quickly become involved in uncovering whose behind a spate of attacks on the struggling newspaper including an arson attack, forgery and possibly a murder. Despite my poor description the book is gripping, the situations and characters are likable and realistic and the book is one of the many examples of Emily Rodda's brilliance and creativity. Although marketed at 9 - 12 year old's this book can be enjoyed by many and I heartily recommend it to all readers.

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Dirty Tricks (Raven Hill Mysteries)
Emily Rodda
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The Help-for-Hire gang's toughest challenge yet begins when a new teacher assigns too much homework. The local library seems like the best place for them to hit the books . . . until the books start hitting back! It turns out the Phantom of the Library is playing practical jokes on innocent readers, and Richelle's not laughing. As the tricks become more and more treacherous, Richelle and her five loyal friends must unmask the prankster soon, or else the library will be destroyed forever. . . .

Raven Hill Mysteries #3: Beware The Gingerbread House (Raven Hill Mysteries)

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Raven Hill Mysteries #3: Beware The Gingerbread House (Raven Hill Mysteries)
Emily Rodda
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ASIN: 0439782481

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Sunny has always been terrified of the Gingerbread House, a peculiar pastry shop with a giant cage for trapping naughty children. Now she's been asked to lend the place a helping hand!The rest of the Help-for-Hire crew quickly agrees with Sunny, as soon as they discover a not-so-sweet surprise: Somebody's putting dead things in the tasty treats. And the team's fractured fairy tale is only just beginning. . . .Sunny and her friends have to act fast. Nobody wants the Gingerbread House to crumble - not if Help-for-Hire will take the blame.

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A Place of Ravens
Pamela Hill
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Automatic Control Engineering (Mcgraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering)

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This is an excellent text for an understanding of controls
This book is one of the greatest ever written.

Automatic Control Engineering (Mcgraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering)
Francis H. Raven
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
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ASIN: 0070513414

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Automatic Control Engineering includes conventional topics within a traditional organization. It includes sample problems and plenty of end-of-chapter homework problems. This edition features new "real-life" problems and examples and more attention to controls design. This will make it more appealing to instructors teaching average students, and at the same time, Raven retains attention to detail, strong development of modeling and technical accuracy.

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This is an excellent text for an understanding of controls.......1999-05-26

The book is clearly written. The developmental approach and lucid style of the text reinforces the readers confidence and understanding at every stage. The text is a motivator for acquiring and applying the tools of controls engineering.

This book is one of the greatest ever written........1998-04-06

This is the best controls book for engineers who are first learning controls. The author has a great step-by-step approach that really simplifies controls for the average student and makes a very complicated subject much easier to learn. The pictures are great too! Especially Figure 1.2!

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The Complete Stalky & Co.
Rudyard Kipling
Manufacturer: Doubleday, Doran & Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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The further adventures of Green Lantern Hal Jordan -- theSilver Age's science fiction-influenced hero! This time, the EmeraldGladiator squares off against foes such as Dr. Light, Hector Hammond, EvilStar and many more! This Archive reprints nine classic tales from GREENLANTERN #30-38 with an intro by Geoff Johns!

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Great creative team gets its going :).......2007-09-21

This is one of the very best creative team to ever tackle Green Lantern. This book is delightful. Some great Silver Age moments here. This is a warm up for the next volume which is even better. I certainly hope DC continues this series; I'd love to see them reprint all the stories up to the Neil Adams run.

Green Lantern is the best!.......2006-04-14

He could easily use his power ring to beat up Superman. All he'd have to do is will some Kryptonite into existence and watch Superman crumble like the alien wimp he really is!

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Here are masterpieces by a New York Times bestselling author, a past and present master of the short forms in fantasy, science fiction, and horror. This collection includes original unpublished stories, "The Elephants of Posnan" and "Feed the Baby of Love;" classics like "Unaccompanied Sonata" and "Fat Farm;" as well as the original short versions of "The Lost Boys" and "Ender's Game" -- rated, in its longer version, one of the best-loved books of all time.

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Great Stories From Orson Scott Card.......2004-04-12

Listening to this work by Orson Scott Card is wonderful... you get a great Card tale several times a day. The stories are short, great, to the point, and excellently read. It was interesting to hear the short version of "Ender's Game" from its originally printed form. There were some other favorites that I had picked up in there, like "The Porcelain Salamander," which is a fascinating story I had read in another collection of his.

I found these stories interesting. Sure, there was one or two I didn't care for all that much (or, possibly, didn't understand) but on the whole I'm glad I picked this series up. But this does seem to span several different genres, not just science fiction which is Orson Scott Card's main forte.

I would highly recommend this to anybody who loves a good audio book. And, remember in life's battles: "The Enemy Gate is Down!!"

Card is incredible!.......2002-05-18

I don't know what it is about Orson Scott Card -- Before I ever read him, I was prepared to not like him. I'd heard that he was a science fiction writer and that genre isn't a favorite of mine. However, my opinion now is that Card ranks as one of the absolute best and most skillful authors alive today. He has an amazing ability to get inside the person or circumstance he is writing about and make it into something that anyone could understand and be proundly moved by.

In addition, he comes up with some of the most fascinating ideas for a story. The title piece, 'The Elephants of Posnan', is one example. Although there is no doubt that Card wasn't suggesting that the premise of this story is truth, it still left me mulling the entire piece over and over again. He makes such a moving and brilliant case for something entirely bizarre, and insightfully comments on the nature of man in the process. 'The Elephants of Posnan' was positively spellbinding, beginning to end.

I love this collection. Orson Scott Card is a true master of his craft.

A master storyteller at work........2002-03-29

In this collection not only are you exposed to Orson Scott's Card's mastery of fiction, but you gain some insight into his creative process as well, thanks to the author's commentary on certain pieces.
The various storys are a joy to listen to and range from science fiction to fantasy, from psychological thriller to love story.
Whether you're a die hard Ender Series fan, a general fan of Card's, or a first time listener to the whole audiobook genre, there's something here you'll cherish.

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A note on translations

Panikkar's sometimes-"obscurity" comes from deep multicultural clarity

An erudite plea for a new Christian mysticism.

Christophany: The Fullness Of Man (Faith Meets Faith Series)
Raimon Panikkar
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A note on translations.......2006-04-26

One reason for the "obscurity" noted by the reviewer below is that the English text of this treatise is a translation from the original Italian. As those familiar with Dr. Panikkar know, he writes and publishes in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian (not to mention various Indian languages). With all due respect to the translater, as a long time Panikkar devotee (from 1971 at UCSB) I was not altogether pleased with the result. A "translation" of an "interpretation" of an "experience" sometimes ends up as stilted prose.

Here's hoping that "The Experience of God: Icons of Mystery" to be published in June 2006 does not suffer from this defect, minor though it may be.

Panikkar's sometimes-"obscurity" comes from deep multicultural clarity.......2005-12-10

I basically agree with the previous review already posted here.
I just want to add that the reason that words and phrases from "other" traditions appear fairly often in Panikkar's writing, is that those traditions often have words that EXACTLY say or evoke a topic Panikkar is talking about. To translate the "foreign" term sufficiently into English/Western-framework would take, sometimes, an extra page or 2 or 3 -- and would REALLY slow down Panikkar's own exposition.
I had the privilege of doing my PhD work with Panikkar, studying with him for 5 years in the early 1980's. His is the only body of thought I've ever encountered that truly, I believe, holds a (the?) key to human dialog -- and survival -- in the 21st Century. I've long been frustrated, too, that his work is widely "inaccessible" precisely because it is so deeply conversant with multiple human traditions. But that frustration does not reflect on Panikkar himself -- his own life-work is to Say it all in its deeply open-ended completeness. It remains for others of us, I think, to attempt the humble tasks of absorbing the work and reflecting facets of it as best we can for specific audiences.

An erudite plea for a new Christian mysticism........2005-11-22

Christology is the effort of the Christian churches to define the nature and mission of Jesus. In this difficult new book, Raimon Pannikar proposes not so much a new Christology as a renewed effort to penetrate into a lived experience of the mystery of Christ, what Pannikar calls a "Chistophany," the mystery of God-in-man and man-in God. What Christianity needs is not new or modernized dogmas, but rather a lived experience of the mystical reality that lurks behind or beneath the dogmas that have already been proclaimed. Pannikar boldly suggests that we must strive for - somehow, someway - an experience of God's presence within us, and us in God, that approximates the experience of Jesus himself.

Christian mysticism has always been hidden, so to speak, in plain sight: the letters of Paul and the Gospel of John are nothing if not mystical, but for most of Christian history this mysticism was downplayed or even suppressed in favor of a mere verbal adherence to a set of dogmas or beliefs ABOUT Jesus. It is time, says Pannikar, for Christian renewal to take place at the level of mystical awareness.

Pannikar brings enormous erudition and scholarship to this effort, even to a fault: the flow of his argument is often slowed down by the plethora of quotes from sources ancient and modern, from the East and from the West. Virtually every page is replete with quotes in Greek, Sanskrit, Latin, Spanish, German, Aramaic, Hebrew, and French (fortunately, translations are provided in most, if not all, cases). The scholarship is impressive, but I wondered sometimes if it was overdone, obscuring rather than clarifying.

And much in this book is indeed obscure, as befits its subject matter. Mystical experience is notoriously difficult to put into words, and Pannikar struggles mightily to do so, as in the following passage: "Thou discoverest the I by being thyself, by being thy self, by being the thou of the I. It is the I and the I alone that can say ahambrahmasmi (I am brahman), Yahwe ("I am who I am") . . . " There are entire paragraphs full of this sort of thing, so be warned; if this seems like verbal sleight-of-hand, you will not enjoy this book. Indeed, you will probably not finish it.

In closing, two more things need to be said. Although Pannikar insists that Christians explore the depths of mystical awareness, this cannot be done at the expense of the social Gospel, cannot be an excuse to turn away from the problems of the world. Pannikar is quite clear that any such mysticism would be a false mysticism and a betrayal of the Trinitarian communalism that lies at the basis of all Christian experience.

Nor is mysticism to be used merely as a tool of evangelism or missionary efforts, as a way to "sell" Jesus to people in non-Christian traditions. Pannikar opposes a universalizing impulse which would attempt to create a universal Christian theology or culture applicable to all times, places, and peoples. Mysticism will enable Christians to experience the depths of their own identity in God, not to convert the whole world to Christianity.

One does indeed get the impression that Pannikar put everything into this, a work which will perhaps be his last major work, his magnum opus, even his last will and testament. So, despite its difficulty and obscurity, I give this book four stars. It is a sincere and important effort to express the inexpressible, to point Christianity back towards its depths, and to return a sense of Being to the center of our lives.

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CHRISTOPHANY: THE FULLNESS OF MAN
Raimon Panikkar
Manufacturer: Orbis Books Maryknoll, NY
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ASIN: B000IWZW5I

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