Napoleon/Ludwig von Beethoven/The Eleanor Roosevelt Story/Black Boy/Elizabeth and Her German Garden (Reader's Digest Family Treasury of Great Biographies, Volume 4)

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Napoleon/Ludwig von Beethoven/The Eleanor Roosevelt Story/Black Boy/Elizabeth and Her German Garden (Reader's Digest Family Treasury of Great Biographies, Volume 4)
Emil Ludwig , Alan Pryce-Jones , Archibald MacLeish , Richard Wright , and Countess Elizabeth von Arnim Russell
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Family Treasure of Great Biographies Eleanor Roosevelt /napoleon / Richard Wright / Elizabeth Countess Russell VOL. 4
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Five Famous Writers (Hello Reader Level 4)
Lynda Jones
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Napoleon/Ludwig von Beethoven/The Eleanor Roosevelt Story/Black Boy/Elizabeth and Her German Garden (Reader's Digest Family Treasury of Great Biographies, Volume 4)
Emil Ludwig , Alan Pryce-Jones , Archibald MacLeish , Richard Wright , and Countess Elizabeth von Arnim Russell
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Emil Ludwig , Alan Pryce-Jones , Archibald MacLeish , Richard Wright , and Countess Elizabeth von Arnim Russell
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Napoleon/Ludwig von Beethoven/The Eleanor Roosevelt Story/Black Boy/Elizabeth and Her German Garden (Reader's Digest Family Treasury of Great Biographies, Volume 4)
Emil Ludwig , Alan Pryce-Jones , Archibald MacLeish , Richard Wright , and Countess Elizabeth von Arnim Russell
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The Elenor Roosevelt Story, Napoleon Black Boy, Beethoven, Elizabeth and Her German Garden

Richard II (The Tragedy of Richard the Second) (The Folger Library General Reader's Shakespeare)

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Richard II (The Tragedy of Richard the Second) (The Folger Library General Reader's Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare
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Richard the Third By William Shakespeare - The Folger Library General Reader
Louis B. Edited by Wright
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Richard Wright Reader
Richard Wright
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Richard Wright Reader
Richard Wright , and Michel Fabre
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The Dentist and The Toothfairy is a captivating book about love and obsession. A story about a dentists journey; his struggle between the man he once was and the man he wants to be, the decisions that force him to face his past, and his duel with love. At initial glance The Dentist and The Toothfairy gives the appearance of a childrens fairytale but once the reader starts turning the pages an emotionally stirring book for the sophisticated adult is revealed. This modern tale is a collaborative effort of literature and artwork; the first in a series between author Dorota Skrzypek and artist Jerome Prieur.

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A GREAT discovery! A true revelation! .......2006-12-04

Much of this story remains burned into my mind even months after I first read it. So, guess what? I read it again! The characters feel like people I've known or could know. The setting seems like someplace dangerous, yet romantic (in a fantastic not syrupy sense of the word). Author Dorota Skrzypek's imaginative storytelling goes deep, far and wide in only 128 pages. I've read novels five times as long, that don't accomplish nearly as much. And certainly, the beautiful accompanying artwork by Jerome Prieur possesses great depth and beauty. It's like the visual engine pushes the narrative steaming forward. If Skrzypek's and Prieur's purpose was to create an epic, adult fairytale, then mission accomplished. Even better, they've walked that fine line between fantasy and realism without being exhaustingly esoteric and coy. Now, one question: Who's going to be smart enough to turn The Dentist and The Toothfairy into a movie?

Great Fairy Tale!.......2006-09-02

I really enjoyed this book. The artwork was AMAZING, but you would expect that since it was a painting by the artist that inspired the book. The story was a sweet yet dark fairy tale that I would have enjoyed as a child as much as I enjoyed it now as an adult. I believe anyone can relate to the theme of changing as we grow older and how decisions made when we were younger affect our adult lives, even if on a much less dramatic scale. Also I'm a sucker for a love story! I'm impatiently awaiting the next book!

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A coming-of-age tale for adults.
Expected a lot more.
The Tooth Fairy is a Good One to Cut Your Teeth On...
Really disappointing
A very strange relationship

The Tooth Fairy: A Novel
Graham Joyce
Manufacturer: Tor Books
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The disquietude in Graham Joyce's coming-of-age tale is that of having too much power as a child--the kind of power that turns your slightest wishes into mayhem. This power is granted to the rather ordinary and fearful member (neither the smartest nor the strongest) of a trio of friends growing up in small-town England by his stinky and enigmatic night visitor, the Tooth Fairy. The charm of this British Fantasy Award-winning novel is in his subtle and unsentimental portrait of a supernaturally benighted childhood. As Ellen Datlow writes in Omni, "Joyce immediately hooks his readers from the very first page with a small sharp shock and holds the reader with engaging characters and an air of menace. This tooth fairy is ... mischievous and destructive, representing our own worst aspects." --Fiona Webster

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Sam and his friends are like any normal gang of normal young boys. Roaming wild around the outskirts of their car-factory town. Daring adults to challenge their freedom.Until the day Sam wakes to find the Tooth Fairy sitting on the edge of his bed. Not the benign figure of childhood myth, but an enigmatic presence that both torments and seduces him, changing his life forever.

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A coming-of-age tale for adults........2007-06-26

Graham Joyce, The Tooth Fairy (Tor, 1998)

I had a rough time getting into The Tooth Fairy, for reasons I don't quite understand. It's really the kind of book that should have grabbed me from the opening lines and not let go, but I spent almost two months wandering aimlessly through it before it got interesting. (I did manage to pinpoint the moment when it did get interesting, though--when the tooth fairy's character gains some real depth, which happens on page 166 of the first-edition American hardback. Yes, I'm that obsessive.)

For all that, though, it's certainly not a bad little book, chronicling the trials and tribulations of the infamous Redstone Moodies, aka the Heads-Looked-At Boys, aka any number of epithets hurled at them by elders, peers, passing strangers, and anyone else who gets near them. Sam, Terry, and Clive are the town misfits, growing up together almost by default, as no one else will have them. They're pretty much guaranteed to be bad seeds, and they fulfill all expectations, though none of them is quite sure why they're doing so. Intelligence and crushing boredom do not mix well. We see glimpses of their lives from their very young days (the boys are still prepubescent as the book opens) to the summer before college.

Sam, however, is slightly different than the others: on the night he lost his first tooth, as the tooth fairy came to collect it, he woke up, and the two of them became inextricably bound. No one else around him, of course, can see the tooth fairy; this is a burden he must shoulder on his own. And a burden it is, given that the tooth fairy is a particularly nasty individual at times, cursing those around Sam in inventive, and rather ugly, ways. Sam quickly comes to recognize the power this holds, and the dark consequences of abusing that power.

Definitely not your normal coming-of-age tale, and it's certainly nice to see one that's not immediately sent off to the young adult market just because it's a coming-of-age tale. Certainly worth checking out. ***

Expected a lot more........2007-05-09

After reading the "good" reviews for this book, I waited with high anticipation to read it for myself. However, I was really disappointed with the entire outcome. This book would have been better off as a short story, say 1/3 the pages. The entire middle section is bland, boring, and drawn out. It isn't until the last several chapters where it really starts to pick up. The ending did bring back feeling of my own childhood, but other than that, I felt I was kept waiting and waiting for something to REALLY happen, anything to happen. I guess I'm also not used to an english writer. I'm much more used to writing styles of Orson Scott Card, and his Ender's series. If there were half stars, I would really make this book a 2 and 1/2 star review and not even three.

The Tooth Fairy is a Good One to Cut Your Teeth On..........2006-02-10

There are few novels that multitask elements of the truly strange, coming of age, humor, and horror...this one manages quite nicely. The easiest way to put this is that the Tooth Fairy is for novels what Donnie Darko was for film.

Really disappointing.......2005-11-18

This is the first review that I have done on Amazon and I have been a long time customer. I just felt very mislead by the other reviews of this book. It was honestly one of the worst books I have ever read. The story was poorly written and was just disappointing on the whole. I actually threw the book away, because I don't want to pass this on for others to read.

A very strange relationship.......2005-10-28

Seven-year-old Sam Southall awakens the night he loses his first tooth and encounters a strange visitor. He surprises the odd little creature, who, after recovering its composure, reveals itself as the Tooth Fairy of legend. Thus begins a relationship which endures until Sam leaves for college, a strange, touching, sometimes dangerous association that adds spice and terror to Sam's otherwise normal existence. The Tooth Fairy, whose appearance, demeanor and sex change constantly, accompanies Sam on his journey through adolescence, sharing his triumphs and tragedies, even ushering him into manhood with his first sexual experience. Along the way, the he/she/it protects Sam, but also exposes him to a variety of dangers; the mercurial creature is by turns adversarial and supportive, giving the novel a certain edginess.

From the outset, Joyce stresses the uncertainty of life. One of the more horrifying events in the novel takes place well before the Tooth Fairy appears. In the book's opening scene, one of Sam's friends is attacked by a pike as he dangles his feet in a stream. The boy loses a toe, and is destined to walk with a limp for the rest of his life. The attack, frightening because of its suddenness and harshness, is a stunning reminder of how quickly lives can change. One minute you are safe, shooting the breeze with your friends, the next you are being hurried off to the emergency room. It also points out that no one is in control -- neither children nor their parents.

Joyce's point is that the only sure thing in life is change--he expresses this sentiment perfectly, using Sam as a prism. Who better to portray the ambiguity of life than a teenager, whose perceptions change along with his body? Joyce uses his innate understanding of childhood to great advantage, creating a story that can be taken as a supernatural tale or as a psychological study of a troubled adolescent grappling with impending adulthood.

Joyce returns to the theme of ambiguity again and again. Consider, for example, the Tooth Fairy's gender or lack thereof -- its form varies with Sam's age and mood. Besides its physical malleability, it also assumes a striking variety of roles, acting in turn as friend, foe, prophet, protector, lover, and conscience. While it often taunts and threatens him, it also helps him handle bullies, protects him from crazy adults, and initiates him into the wonders of sex. In short, it is whatever Sam needs it to be.

There is also the question of whether the Tooth Fairy exists at all -- the book permits either interpretation. Interestingly, the Tooth Fairy appears to Sam soon after a traumatic event at school. One might say that it appeared in response to the event, perhaps as Sam's coping mechanism. Thereafter, its visits coincide with the turbulent events in Sam's life, suggesting that it may all be in his mind. Cunningly, Joyce has Sam visit a psychiatrist, to whom he confesses all about the Tooth Fairy. The psychiatrist, bent on fulfilling his own expectations, blithely ignores Sam, choosing instead to pepper him with inane questions about his sexual urges.

It's hard to predict what the talented Joyce will come up with next. Based on prior experience, however, it promises to be strange, compelling and original.

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In 23rd-century Russia, where the "Net" is at once a source of freedom and a means of control, Maya Andreyeva is the perfect reporter. The chips hardwired into her brain allow her to detail not only what she sees but what she hears, tastes, smells, and feels, all in resonant virtual reality. When clues turn up pointing to a massacre and a cover-up, Maya, the ultimate journalist, is compelled find the truth. Along the way she discovers answers not only to the puzzle she has set out to solve, but to secrets about her own life. At the same time, author Raphael Carter provides a compelling and chilling story that also raises serious questions about such issues as homophobia and censorship.

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So little. but so good...........2002-05-07

Raphael Carter shows incredible potential in his debut novel, published in 1996, but where is the sequel or prequel!

An enormous dark world springs into life on the pages of "The Fortunate Fall", leaving this reader wanting much more, I first read this book (not much more then a novellete) 3 - 4 years ago, and like all great sci-fi does, it stuck with me, but after re-reading, and finding it just as good (I think the third time) as the 1st, I was much disappointed to find that there is no follow up work.

I too felt that the geekness of this dark and forbidding place was much better technically then Gibson, but then again Gibson himself has stated often that he was not much into tech when wrote his seminal work Neourmancer. I especiallly like the plugs and sockets described in this book, and you need no go further then recent headlines news (May, 2002) describing how rats brains have been hardwired (cabled!) in experiments aimed at creating remote "camera's" how prophetic can you be?

I love grand epics, like Julian Mays classic series, but this was is a great little book.

Very disappointing.......2001-06-19

I agree with one of the other reviewers 'ambivalent' is what I feel about this book. I was left confused and wanting to know (and understand) more about the background/social/political/cultural aspects of Earth in the 23rd century. I felt like I was reading a sequel and I was just supposed to know all about it already.

There's really no action and the last 30-40 pages are a long dialogue explaining the motives of all the characters and the basic plot. Then it cuts off dramatically with not even an epilogue.

It was interesting at times, the writing was good and the plot fairly original but it just didn't do anything for me.

Brilliant Post-Cyberbunk Debut Novel.......2000-08-08

This is really, really, good. Set in the 23rd century, the Russian narrator (Maya) is a telepresence "camera": she "witnesses" news events, or anything which could be a story, and her total impressions (sensorium, plus memories: the latter including implanted memories of research on the subject) are transmitted over the net to her audience, although the output is "screened" by another individual (a "screener") who is totally linked with the camera, and who apparently filters sensitive or personal material, and makes sure that the sensorium output comes through OK (red looks red, stuff like that). We slowly learn that Maya has a "past" which she cannot remember, because memories of it have been suppressed, and that that past is related to her love life. We also learn that her world has emerged in recent decades from the domination of a group called the Guardians, and that it is now bifurcated into the technologically advanced, but isolated, African continent, and to something called the Fusion of Historical Nations, which seems to be a shaky reestablishment of roughly 20th century political boundaries.

Maya's latest story is about some of the key events in the liberation of Russia from the Guardians. As she begins her story, her old screener quits and she gets a new one. This new screener is revealed to have quite remarkable abilities, and also seems to quickly fall in love with Maya, which is difficult for Maya to handle because her sexual emotions are suppressed. Maya and Keishi (the new screener) begin to investigate some details of the defeat of the Guardians, details which are for some reason potentially embarrassing to the "new world order". Staying one step ahead of the law, Maya travels across Russia and through the net in search of an interview with a man who has some secrets about the Guardians, their successors, and the nature of the world and the net.

Carter pulls off a number of exciting, brilliant things. The nature of this new world and its history are carefully and slowly revealed, along with Maya's own past, and the resolution is well integrated, the tragic ending is both a surprise and not a surprise, and is "earned".

The technological and social details of life in the FHN are wonderfully well realized. In many ways, this book is reminiscent of Bruce Sterling in the way future tech and future society are densely integrated with the narrative, and seem so possible. The terminology (Postcops, Weavers, greyspace, etc.) is intriguing, and is introduced in such a way as to seem natural (there are very few lectures), but also be part of the mysteries which are slowly revealed. The realization of the how "mindlink" technology might really affect the world, and also the images of cyberspace, are believable and original.

The prose is very good, mostly clean and elegant, not showy, but occasionally erupting in apt and memorable images. In addition, the story has true momentum: it makes you want to keep reading. This is a gift that not all good writers have, and it's a great plus.

The book falls slightly short in a couple of areas (mere quibbles, really). Much of the second half of the book is a long narrative by the interview subject, and this method of telling the story seemed to me to create a bit of disconnectness. The story really has two protagonists, Maya and Voskrosenye (the interviewee), and their stories are well integrated, but still there is a slight slackening in that the two stories (Maya's personal one, and the story of the nature of Maya's world, which is mostly told through Voskrosenye) don't quite end in synch. Also, the Guardians are a bit stock as villains (though to be sure they are not the only villains). And I thought Maya's original crime was, well, not likely to be such a crime in the 23rd century. But I could be wrong about that.

This book really provokes thought. One virtue is that much is implied and never told, and we have a sense of a whole fascinating underpinning to this world (such as what the African culture is really like) which is hinted at but not explained. Also, the main themes of guilt and personal responsibility are well handled, and there is some very good stuff about the nature of love, and the nature of love on the net, or in Cyberspace, or whatever.

A Remarkable Debut.......2000-02-27

I don't think I've seen a first novel written with this sort of authority in the past 10 years. Mr. Carter seems to have mastered the art of wrapping hypothetical technology into storytelling without ever having done it before.

Still, it's not a perfect book. The price is obscene for a paperback. The writer has perhaps too much confidence in himself, and in the reader's willingness to trust him for some tens of pages while very little happens, although that very little happens very entertainingly.

I foresee too possible pals for Mr. Carter: either he will be one of the most promising writers to emerge from the last decade, or he will listen to hard to the plaudits of the letter writing who do not care whether a story is told as long as it is told with the sort of sentence-by sentence-artistry that Mr. Carter appears to have been born having mastered.

Brilliant post-cyberpunk.......1999-11-24

The Fortunate Fall is almost, but not quite, cyberpunk. It's got the nifty technologies, sure; but in place of cyberpunk's shallow, tragically hip veneer, Fall gives us three dimensional characters and emotional depth. The setting is a near future that is both plausible and startlingly different than anything I've seen before; the characters are superbly well-drawn; and the plot is unpredictable and engaging. The Fortunate Fall is an excellent debut novel, and I look forward to Carter's future output.

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The Fortunate Fall of Sir Gawain
Victor Yelverton Haines
Manufacturer: University Press of America
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Binding: Hardcover

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Achieves a synthesis of two tendencies in "Gawain" criticism: the culpa school, which emphasizes Gawain's sin without being able to explain the final laughter at Camelot, and the felix school, which sees the comedy without being able to face the fact of Gawain's pernicious sin. Students of medieval literature, theologians interested in typology and the paradox of the felix culpa, and art historians interested in medieval iconography will all find much of value in this excellent study.

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The Fortunate Fall: A Play in One Act
David Bloom
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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Aidin and Ana have recently relocated to New York from Los Angeles much to Ana's argument. Events in the city and Aidin's past cause much conflict in their relationship. Aidin's past is uncovered forcing Ana to deal with a situation so terrible, she may never recover.

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The Fortunate Fall
Raphael Carter
Manufacturer: Tor
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The Fortunate Fall
Raphael Carter
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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The Fortunate Fall
Raphael Carter
Manufacturer: Tor Books
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Fortunate Fall 1ST Edition
Raphael Carter
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Cookbook

Great cookbook

New Cook Book, "Pink Plaid" Better Homes & Garden

Great Cookbook!

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New Cook Book, Limited Edition "Pink Plaid" : For Breast Cancer Awareness (Better Homes & Gardens)
Better Homes and Gardens
Manufacturer: Better Homes and Gardens
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Ring-bound

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Release Date: 2005-08-09

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The complete 12th edition New Cook Book with all the goodness and reliability that's made the Red Plaid a trusted kitchen resource for millions of families.

Inspiration at its finest, with more than 1,200 delicious recipes and 700 full-color photos.
Hundreds of hints and tips.
Easy-to-read cooking charts.
Complete nutrition and exchange information for every recipe.
Plus all the "best-loved" recipes found in the Red Plaid version.

All new remarkable 64-page "pink" section that includes:

Healthful dietary and lifestyle suggestions.
More than 60 delicious recipes containing wholesome "super foods" associated with a reduced risk of cancer.

Triple gift impact: a sought-after limited edition cookbook, meaningful cancer-fighting information, and a significant contribution to a highly-visible, respected foundation.

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Cookbook.......2007-09-23

Many, many new recipes and a great way to help with cancer awareness. Excellant book

Great cookbook.......2007-05-16

This is one of my standby cookbooks. Great "from scratch" recipes and good food.

New Cook Book, "Pink Plaid" Better Homes & Garden.......2007-05-14

This is my favorite cookbook this year. I am a Registered Dietitian and I bought one for all my dietary supervisor friends.

Great Cookbook!.......2007-03-11

This is my absolute favorite cookbook. All of the recipes are fairly simple and have easy to follow instructions. I also love the section in the back with healthier recipes. I haven't made anything in this cookbook that wasn't delicious!

Lovely.......2007-03-08

Very nice, wish I have purchased the Hard Cover...gave as a gift and the
lady just loves it..the new heart care recipes are great. THe spiral binding is a little hard to keep open.

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